The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-07-15
Facts and FancieS.
A fathOm is six feet,

An acre contains + ,S4O yards.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
Two Of kine-A yoke of oxen.
Of absorbing interest-A sponge.
A square mile contains GAO acres.
Light moves 49,, 900 miles per second.
The average human life, is 81 years
A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
The first horse railroad was built in
1887.
Gold was discovered in California in
lS4S.
A mile is $3.50 fest OF 1850 yards in
length.
Ought baker to drive a thorough
bred horse?
When the moon gets full it keeps late
hours.
Electricity moves 23S, 900 miles per
second
The national dish of Portugal is dry
salt cod.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
an hour.
':Talk is cheap Is it? Just hire a
lawyer once.
Philadelphia contains 1900 pro-
{essional beggars.
The first use Of a locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
There is all old landlady of IS in Paris,
KY, who still manages q hotel.
The German army has now a war
strength Of 1000, 900 Of men.
An artist is not so strong as a horse,
but he ran draw a larger object.
Cats have no fixed political belief.
They are usually on the fence.
Unlike the flea, when you put your
finger on a hornet, he is there
When thing is once begun it is al
most half fnished-a kiss, for instance.
Belts are 50 wide nowadays that some
Of them are stiffened with whale-bone.
A woman in Portland, Me-, has dined
with every president except Lincoln.
A New York party has paid $31 900
for the lease of a Canadian salmon
river.
Measure POO feet on each side, and
inch.
The English consumed last year
1877 100000 pounds of American cheese,
as against 121, 100000 the previous
year.
The evil that men do lives after
them. Cows likewise do not give OLE
on1argarine until they are dead.
The Federal government has spent
over 100000 since the war in erect
ting government buildings all over the
country.
Kansas school teacher: ''Where does
our grain go to p Unto the hopper"
What hopper?'' "Grasshopper," tri-
unlphanly shouted a scholar
The passion for antiquities is on the
increase, but old ladies are not appreci-
ated more highly than ever. Neither
are mother-in-laws.
The army worm is multiplying rapid
" in the Eastern States and enlarging
its sphere of devastation.
Helmholtz has stated that every
twenty-five tons of sea-water holds 81
Of gold to-day, and that the ocean con-
tains 100000 times more gold than
ever was dug from the earth in all time
past.
New York city, has a solid founda-
ton; the drill in an uptown we'll has al
ready gone through nearly quarter of
a mile of gneisss, a rock SO hard that
granite cannot afford to give it odds.
Frances continued growth in wealth
&c 1oI no
history of nations, save in the case Of
the United States.
The proprietor of a Louisville bone
factory announces that persons leaving
their bones with him can have them
ground at short notice.
The other night, in Missouri town, a
thief, being caught in a mans cellar,
explained that he was there to get out
of the way of a cyclone.
AN ingenious woman has hit upon a
way to show off pair of paste shoe
buckles. She put one on her bonnet
and another on her ornamental muff.
A new novel that is bound to be a
success is entitled "a Proposal of Mar
rage" All the girls are bound to have
it,
Colonel Ingersoll says he believes in
the efficacy of baptism, when it is &C
companied with a little soap. Come
right into the fold, colonel; while there's
lyef there's soap.
The wife of General Hancock, the
Democratic nominee for President, is
q St. Louis lady. The St. Louis CORES
pondent IF the Cincinnati Gazette says
she is "a devoted Catholic"