The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-08-21
GENERALITIEs.

Chemists say no matter is ever lost.
Printers deny it.
One Of the chandeliers in the new
opera house, Paris, cost $1,000.
The net loss 10 insurance companies
by the Chicago fire is 81, ,24i,97O.
About $1,000, 600 worth of sugar was
lost during the flood in Louisiana.
Rev. Miss Augusta Chaplin left San
for Boston on Saturday.
The Kentucky election has gone
Democratic by from $1,000 to $4,000 ma
iority.
Labor for the other life that awaits
thee, and consider the time it must
endure.
Jay Cookies country seat, near Phila-
is advertised for sale. 1t cost
$, 100000.
There are fifty-seven lodges OF Odd
Fellows in California, with total
membership of 3,Oi5.
A pure character is like polished steel
If dimmed by breath, it almost In
stantly reeovers its brightness.
1t is a criminal oneuse in France for
a young lady to have in her possession
a photograph Of the Prince Imperial.
The crops of Arkansas have been
greatly injured by the drought. Not
over one quarter of a crop is expected.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the distinguished
astronomer OF Nassar College, is spoken
of for Superintendent Of Schools in
Cambridge, Mass.
Words are things; and a small dropOf
ink falling like dew upon thought,
produces that which makes thousands,
perhaps millions, think.
ssEngland has adopted compulsory edu-
cation, and is enforcing It vigorously.
After. education, comes revolution,
peacefully or otherwise.
About ton Of ice is used every night
to cool the air that is pumped into the
House of Commons. The air Is filtered
and rendered absolutely pure.
The Ninth Industrial Exhibition, to
be held under the auspices Of the
Mechanical Institute lSan Francisco),
will open on the 18th of the present
month.
a farmer gives this bit of advice,
which contains good hint: ''If you
want the boys to stay on the farm, don't
bear on too hard when the boy is turn
ing the grindstone."
A grapeshot, probably fired during
the Revolution, was found the other day
in the heart OF tree twenty inches in
diameter, in Vermont, near the spot
where an old fort stood.
4 cloud-burst in salt Lake, q few
days since, inundated the streets and
private residences. The Catholic Church
in that city was also struck by light
ming and badly damaged.
The Savannah N-e1cs treats the Beecher
case with brevity. 1t says: ''Ff this had
been a Georgia affair, Beecher's obituary
wonld now he among the bound vol
umes of the Morning -Ne,rs."
Mrs +. W. Stickney was elected
School Director by the votes of San Joa-
quin District, Sacramento county, she
being the first lady elected to such q
position in that county, under the new
educational law.
1t is understood that number of lady
students are 70 enter the Boston Meth
dist School of Theology next fall, the
Trustees having assured candidates that
the doors OF the seminary are open to
all, without respect to sex.
Cruelty to dumb animals is one Of the
distinguishing vices Of the basest of the
people. Wherever it is found, it Is a
certain mark of ignorance and mean
ness; an intrinsic mark, which all the
external advantages Of wealth, splendor
and nobility cannot obliterate.
The wife Of the Rev Henry w. Hale
has taken with her husband the entire
course in the Baptist Theological Semi
nary at Newton, Mass, and received the
usual degree-the first ever conferred on
woman by that institution. Both are
under appointment as missionaries.