The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-09-25
GENERALITIES.

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Sixty per cent. of all the school teach
ers in the country are women.
Virginia has woman ID years old.
They are keeping her for the centennial
exhibition.
Lyndon vermont boasts of an old
French couple, man and wife aged re-
spectively lOS and 80.
a lady at Saratoga wears a Roman
breast-plate of emeralds and diamonds,
purchased at London for $4,000.
Miss Harriet Upton has bequeathed
$1,000 to the City of Salem, Mass, the
interest to be devoted to the poor every
Thanksgiving Day.
Beecher and Tilton nave each received
an offer of $4,000 for fifty lectures, to
be delivered during the season at the
Chicago Exposition.
The whole number of horses in the
United States is estimated at nearly
100000, representing the value of $780,
oOOi'DO VI S-opOioOUJOUU.
During July there was a total of sixty
four railroad accidents, whereby twenty
persons were killed and an hundred and
four suffered serious injury.
The reason why Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.,
confines himself to writing for the peri
Odicals is because the legitimate func-
tiOn of Cobb is to produce a cereal.
The water in the hot springs near the
Geysers visited by the newspaper CORE
spondents in Iceland was found to be
exactly the temperature for making hot
Scotch whisky.
a party of six surveyors, from Law
renee, Kansas, were massacred and
scalPed by Indians on Wednesday, the
10th inst, near Lone Tree, forty miles
south of Fort Dodge.
The motheT-in-law of a Brooklyn mil
lionaire sells newspapers for q living.
For social, literary, political and finan-
cial anomalies, of all sorts, commend US
TO the City of Churches.
The silk manufacture in New jersey
gives employment to 3,4O5 persons
whose wages annually amount to 81, IS9,.
4S5. The capital employed is So, 497, ,4I6
and the annual product is S5,6l5,9S3
About 1890 letters were posted il
England last year without any address
whatever, and nearly 500 of the letter
contained cash, checks, or bills of ex
change TO the value of more than SI3,OOO
Miss Mitchell, Professor of Astronom,
in Nassar College, is going to give
course of lectures on her favorite sci
ence, at Gothic Hall Boarding School
in Stamford, Conn, during the comm.
school year.
For pure grit and long-continued pa
thence you want to go to Toledo. :
young lady in that town has sent Is
pieces of poetry to n newspaper, an,
though all have been rejected, she i
struggling with another.
In Chicago library there was booI
on self-culture which never obtained 4;
reader, and in order to give it a new
chance the librarian had it rebound, an,
called it "a Young Man on His Muscle. ,
Now that book is always out.
Mrs. Mary c. WILDER, widow Of tn,
first President of the Cincinnati Femal,
College, was honored by receiving th,
degree of \. NJ. from that institution, a
its recent Commencement. Mrs. WilbeI
is one of the Board of Instruction i'm th,
college.
Mrs. Martha Magee, thirty-five year,
old, of Cynthiana county, Kentucky
owns 400 acres of land in the blue gras:
region, and raises cattle and takes them
to market like other drovers. She is q
smart woman, and is respected by the
other drovers.
Virginia Boasts of woman, named
Nancy Dougherty, seventy years old,
who, during the past season, has with
her own hands built a cabin, cleared
and fenced twelve acres of land, and
raised a crop of corn which will proba-
bly, yield 80 bushels.
Miss Ingelow has a nephew, Edward
Ingelow Pitman, 10 whom she is giving
collegiate education at the college in
New Brunswick, n. J. This young gen.
tleman, fifteen years of age, came to
this country alone and unattended, TO
satisfy an earnest desire to see America
and be educated here.
Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen (Florence
Percy, the author of Crock Me to Sleep
Mother" is at present editorially con-
nected with the Portland AdUeTtiSeT.
The poem was written by her while
factory girl in Maine, upon the sheet oi
coarse, brown wrapping-paper in wnic"
she had brought her noon-time Ilncn'
and while waiting for the hour 10 It
commence her labor.
The women of New Jersey were en-
francbisad from 1776 until 1907, period