The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-17
GENERALITIES.


June S2, $50, 1877.
1t is said that Massachusetts has two
hundred thousand old maids.
London had 762 periodicals printed
within its limits in February.
Two thousand Hostile Indians are on
the war-path in Southwest Kansas.
There are seven insane asylums with
5000 insane persons in Massachusetts.
1t was Goethe who said that nothing
is more terrible than active ignorance.
The Sioux Indians have broken out
and begun numbering whites in Mime
sofa.
More than $4,000 persons in Maine
over ten years old can neither read nor
write.
1t is said that every county in Ohio is
now represented in the Order Of Patrons
of Husbandry.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been decided
to be the legal eastern terminus OF the
Union Pacific Road.
Miss Augusta Chaplin preached her
first sermon to her new charge in San
Francisco, on last Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. Stratton, formerly OF Oregon,
lectured at Bingham, Utah, on the Sd,
on ''The Signs of the Times"
st. Paul, Minnesota, has over S3,0O0,-
900 invested in manufactures, giving
employment to over 1900 persons.
The net proceeds of the Ladies' Fair,
held at Platt's Hall in aid of the Louisi-
ana sufferers, amounted to $l2,044 10.
American female newspaper reporters
are now found in all parts of the world.
Sixteen attended the Vienna ExpOsl-
tion.
! A rope thirteen miles in length has
been manufactured at the Alameda,
Cal, rope factory, for deep sea sound
ings.
A Detroit paper, noting the fact that
a man fell down dead while combing his
hair, says: "And yet there are people
who will persist in that dangerous
habit"
The deepest water in the Northern
Pacific is near the Asiatic coast, instead
of the American, as has long been be-
lieved.
During the last ten years $4,000, 900
of property have been destroyed, and 30,-
600 persons killed or injured, by the use
of unsafe oils.
This year the first coIored student will
graduate from the Theological School at
Yale College, and also from the Academ-
ieal Department.
Since the beginning of ocean naviga-
ton by steam, thirty-three years ago,
fifty-one steamers have found the bot
tom of the ocean.
In Paterson, \. J., there are twenty
capital of S4,OOOOOO engaged in the
manufacture OF silk.
The coinage of trade dollars at the
Mint in San Francisco, during the year,
was -, l22, 900, with Sll,O of the same
denomination on hand
A large petrifed rattlesnake was re-
Gently found in a block of marble in
) Vermont Its six rattles were as per-
feet as they were in life.
An editor who was asked to respond to
the toast of "Woman," declined on the
grounds that woman was abundantly
able to SPEAK for herself.
, In the new Ohio constitution, trial by
jury is so far modified as to allow a Jury
of six men when the amount in contro-
versy does not exceed 500.
Collins Graves, who rode so fast down
the Mill River Valley to warn the peo-
pie of approaching danger, is said to be
the first milkman to ride away from
water.
Jersey City, Chicago, Cleveland and
San Francisco are growing more rapidly
than any other cities of the Union. San
Francisco has quadrupled her popula-
tion in fifteen years.
The project of making type metal
statue of Horace Greeley, by aid of con-
tributions, has been revived. The
amount as yet contributed is about one
half the quantity required.
The wheat crop is suffering severely
in the central counties of Illinois from
the ravages of the chinch bug, and all
the growing crops are said to be unfa-
v0rably affected by the drought.
The continuous dry weather is seri-
ously damaging the crops in Eastern
and Southern Ohio, and causing many
fires along the railroad routes. The
woods are on fire In various places, and
great damage is threatened.
If ever there was . mean, false, hypo-
critical deIicacy, it is that which en-
courages women to work under false
colors, and to earn money, while pre-
tending in elegant idleness to make
fancy work for their friends.
During the month of June there were
S43 deaths in san Francisco. or this
number Isl were natives Of the Pacific
States, 42 of the Atlantic states and I4s
of foreign countries. The males num-
bered $50 and the females lI3.
Tho k;,dast fortune to leave to sons or
Ido,ot,.rs is the knowledge of work, the
- m, art training, the profession or
hnsin,..s that fathers give to all their
sons, but mercilessly withhold from