The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-23
GBNERALITIES.

Forgiven eSS is the Ordef Oh SWEET HO"
ers when trampled upon.
In California and Iowa all educational
offices are open to women.
There are over forty women preachers
in the country, most of whom are Metho-
dists and Quakers.
A prosperous merchant has for his
motto: "Early to bed and early to rise,
never get tight and advertise"
w. B. Astor is over eighty, and old
age is telling on him pretty rapidly. He
will leave little matter of S7O,OOO,OOO.
There is an orchard fifty years old in
Sonoma county, California, and some
of the trees are still producing good
crops.
1t is said that Miss Emily Faithful is
about to issue a weekly paper to be de-
voted to women and women's work in
England.
Never send off to man, woman or
child letter which you would not like
to read in a newspaper some morning at
breakfast.
Ann Eliza, who made her debut as
lecturess in Denver, is working her way
Pacific coastward, telling of Brigham's
infamies as she goes.
Henry w. Dodge, executive officer of
the Hayes Arctic expedition, died sud-
denly of apoplexy, in Brooklyn, on the
2Ist of September, aged forty-fve.
A party comprising some 800 Ice
landic emigrants is about to start for
Alaska, with a view to peOpling that
Territory with Icelandic and Norwegian
people.
Say no more about Europe. She is
taking care of Joaquin Miller, Josie
Mansfield, Genet and two American
baseball clubs; and if that isn't kind
ness what is &?
An editor at a dinner table, being
asked if he would take some pudding,
replied, in a fit of abstraction "Owing
to a crowd of other matter, we are una
ble to find room for it,"
The Chicago Public Library, founded
just after the great fire, has now 10000
volumes. 1t is supported by a tax of one
fifth of a mill, which already gives an
income of S65,OOO year.
The Little Rock Republic has kept
standing for two years an offer of 81, 900
reward for evidence of a single instance
where a southern white man has been
punished for killing a negro.
In New York City during the past
year diphtheria has prevailed to quite
an alarming extent. Since July, 1873,
the Times says, about one child in every
twenty in the city has been attacked by
the disease.
The canvass for Woman Suffrage in
Michigan has developed the fact that
10000 women of that State pay taxes
and have no representation. This argu-
ment, rightly enough, is operating upon
the voters with no little effect.
The total number of schools in Cali
fornia is 1000; the total receipts for
school purposes, s3,OOO,OOO. The average
monthly wages paid to male teachers is
Ss5; to female teachers, S65. Number
of persons between five and fifteen years,
/ 10000.
Susan B. Anthony has a course of en-
gagements for Western Michigan, COM
mencing at Grand Rapids next Satur-
day evening. Michigan would do we'll
to retain Miss Anthony in the State,
if possible, from now until after the
election.
a woman writes to the Traverse Bay
Eagle in favor of suffrage, and thus con-
cludes: cone word more and I have
done. By the Judge of all earth, woman
has been declared a help meet-the
very term implies equality-and who
shall gainsay the authority ?"
The Kansas Legislature met to devise
means for the relief of the sections Of the
State which have been devastated by
grasshoppers. The magnitude Of the in
jury those insects have inflicted can be
measured by the fact that fifteen thous-
and persons are said to be destitute, and
one hundred and twenty thousand
bushels of wheat are needed to furnish
seed for the next crop.