The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-24
GENERALITIEs.


Yale College was founded in 100 and
has had ten Presidents.
More new offices established in June
than during any month for years.
California complacently talks of ex-t
porting 100000 tons of flour this year.
One of the largest landowners in Cal
ifornia is a lady, who owns l73, 3,O55 acres.
The breweries of Great Britain con-
sumo nearly 6O,OOO,OOO pounds of sugar
annually.
No fewer than five different lives OF
the late Charles Sumner are in course of
publication.
The great bridge at st. Louis, Mo-,
cost nearly 100000 It's total length
is 4,O94 feet.
In Scotland, the salaries of eertifeated
teachers are, for men, $3.50 year, and
$3.50 for women.
In1s72, Paris had 5, ls9 lunaties. Now
the number in Asylums is Co.'S. In
crease attributable to politics.
The issue of postage stamps from the
Post-office Department for the year end
ing June 3Oth, was 682, 773, ,42O.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of the Chicago
Legal Ne,Cs, is a Viee-President of the
Illinois State Press Association.
The United States have about seven
ty-five thousand miles Of telegraph
wires, or double that OF any other
nation.
The Boston courts have permitted
Mrs. Charles Sumner TO resume her
maiden name; she is once more free
Mason.
Senator Flanagan, Of Texas, announces
himself as a new convert to Woman Suf-
frage by the glorious efforts of the wOm-
en- temperance crusaders.
Mrs. ]. b. Carson, of Toledo, Ohio, is
the first lady railroad superintendent,
filling that position on the Toledo,
Wabash and Western railroad.
The idea of famine doesn't trouble
an Iowa Clergyman since recent dona-
tion party supplied him with beans suf-
| ficent to last thirty-seven years.
Reason is progressive; instinct sta
tionary. Five thousand years have
added no improvement to the hive Of
the bee nor the house of the beaver.
Editing paper is like carrying an
umbrella on a windy day. Everybody
thinks he could manage it better than
the one who has hold of the handle.
The University Of Vermont decided
that nothing in its charter or history
would justify it in excluding ladies
from any of its advantages enjoyed by
men.
A lot, having an area of 2,2lO square
feet, in the midst of the business por-
tion of London, was recently sold at the
rate of S72 80 gold per foot, or 100000
for the lot.
About G0,0OO,0O0 bushels of grain of all
kinds, corn, rye, and barley, were used
in the manufacture of whisky, ale, beer,
etc, last year. The total product was
about 800, 100000 bushels.
The Louisiana flood has, it is ealcu-
lated, caused direct suffering to not less
than 10000 people; and overfiowed about
L, ,565, 600 acres in the States of Louis
lana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
The more people DO, the more they
can do. He who does nothing renders
himself incapable OF doing anything.
While we are executing one work, we
are preparing to undertake another.
Miss Annie NJ. Morrill,, of Maine, who
graduated recently at the Gannett In
stitute in Boston, read an essay on ''The
Women of the Had" reported to be
thoughtful, tasteful and discriminating.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake delivered
/ the oration at the grand celebration at
East Orange, y. J., on July 4th, the
first time i'm the history of the country
that woman was ever Fourth of July
orator
During the first four months of this
year, 452 ships, with an aggregate tom
mage Of S24,06s tons, passed through the
Suez canal. In the same period last
year the number of ships was 453, max
ing 729,9O7 tons.
New Orleans contributed $4,000 to
Chicago when the fire rendered thous-
ands of people homeless. Up to the 9th
instant, Chicago had contributed to
Louisiana S6,O29 so for the inundated
parishes. The figures don't balance
well.
Postmaster General Cresswell, in his
report for the year just ended, estimates
that the revenues of the Post-of1ice De-
partment will exceed S26, 900, 900, which
will fall short of expenses about S5, ,OOO,-
600, which is S3, 100000 less than the
expenses were before the abolition of the
franking privilege.
y farmer in Assyria, Michigan, while
ploughing through a mound recently,
took off in one furrow the heads of seven
buried skeletons. On excavating, the
remains OF twenty-five individuals were
found buried in a sitting posture, with
numerous silver ornaments bearing in
scripti0ns in unknown characters.
A Philadelphia paper states that
twenty-three years ago 10000 packages
of dried apples were shipped from PhiIa-
delphia to San Francisco by Tustin &
Shewell, which sold there at p cents;