The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Miss Elizabeth Thompson of New York.
who has given for benevolent purposes
5000. 600 in the past sixteen years, said late
IL: sThe most Of this money has been used
to encourage idleness and crime; am now
determined to assist Gods worthy people,
! who are striving to make mankind ncher
| and better, morally, intellectually, sclen-
| tifically or mechanically.
The Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle reports the
finding in the gravel Of Sequah Creek, that
State. of "a large, deep-blue sapphire, per-
| fectly transparent, in size an inch square,
but wedge shaped, and weighing 81 ~
carats, p" and claims that, according TO fro1.
J. D. Dana's method of determining the
| value of precious stones it Is worth $ol ,zVo:
| Some scamp sprinkled red pepper ana
snuff over the floral decorations at a we'd
| ding reception in New York, the other
| evening, and everybody who smelled of
them began sneezing and coughing violent
| ~. Rascality of this kind is regarded by
| some idiots as excessively funny.
Brazil covers nearly half the surface Of
South America, and yet its population rs
| less than IL, 600, 900. OF these over 1,OOO,-
| 600 are slaves and 1900, 600 are wild abo-
rhymes. By law of 1871 no more slaves
are to be born in that country, SO that this
| curse will III time disappear. Under .tne
enlightened rule of Emperor Dom Pedro
all religions are tolerated.
It is said that the proprietor of what Was,
in 1910 and previous years, the largest re-
| tail dry goods store in Boston, behind whose
| counters graduated number of young men
who subsequently became prominent m
business circles, is now penniless Old
| man, trying to earn subsistence by ped
ding few petty motions" His character
| and habits, it is asserted, have always been
good, yet ILL., fortune has for years pursued
him with relentless persistency.
The workmen on new road near Yankee
Forks, Nevada, recently made curious dis
covery. They found mountain rams head
deeply imbedded in pine tree, abolt six
feet from the ground. The right Lorn is
outside and curls partly around the tree,
while the front of the left horn is covered
with the grnwth of wood, The tree is
thrifty pine, fifteen inches in diameter.
One of the attractions of large Baptist
fair now going on in Trenton, N. j., is a
huge pitcher capable Of holding eleven gal
Ions. 1t was manufactured and decorated
in Trenton and is to be sent to President
and Mrs. Hayes, with the compliments of
the Trenton Baptists. The body of the
pitcher is pale shade of green, relieved by
gold on the lip and dark stripe on the
base. Around the body is network of
roses and leaves, exquisitely painted. Just
under the lip of the pitcher is robin red
breast, sitting upon twig.
MIR. John Bright has become very out
spoken champion of Republics. In his
great speech at Birmingham, on November
Is, he said: "For my share do not learn
from history that everything has been wise
" done that has been done by monarchs
and statesmen. On the contrary, almost
all the greatest crimes of history have been
committed and all the greatest calamities in
history have . been brought upon mankind in;
strumentality nonarchs and of states
men. would rather have the judgement
of an intelligent and a moral people in
formed as to their interests and their duty"