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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30
REMARKABLY PRECOCITy
u Girl Thirteen Years Of Age Bc
comes a Mother.
From the Pittsbure Leader.

Some members of the medical fra
ternlty IN Lawrensville are scratching
their heads over a case of birth which
recently occurred at humble home on
Forty third and a half street. The
mother of the child is daughter of a
Woodworking German. She is only 10
years and 10 months old, and is consid-
cred small in size for her age. On the
2Sth Of last month she became the
mother of a large male child, and it is
alleged that the father Of the prattling
stranger is a locomotive engineer who
runs on the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
The attending physician was hunted up
and interviewed this morning. He
didn't want to be interviewed, but
finally said it was all exceptional case
III the annals of obstetrics. He had
never attended mother so young. He
had read in the books about such rare
occurrences, and had heard the profess
sors in Germany and medical schools
in this country which he attended, talk
about them, but had never met one be-
fore. The child is very large, he said,
and the mother is delicate and slender.
The child is very healthy and has no
notion of dying. The mother is recov-
ering and will soon regain her health.
A Pennsylvania avenue physician was
interviewed, too, but preferred not to
have his name in print in connection
with the story. Such cases, he said,
were rare indeed. However, the story
of medicine shows that girls of only II
years have given birth to children.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30
SPLlNTS FROM THE RAIL
The Queerest Locomotive Ever Turn
ed Out at the Patterson Shops
Port Jeryis Gazette,

The Queerest locomotive ever turned
out of Patterson is being commenced at
the Grant Works. 1t will look like an
ordinary engine turned upside down.
The machinery will be on top of the
boiler, instead of under it, as usual, and
the boiler will hang very low on the
wheels. There will be two pail of
driving wheels; but instead of having
them follow each other, one pair will
be on top Of the other. The real driv-
ing wheels will be the upper pair, and
they will turn in the opposite direction
from that in which the engine is going.
They will rest upon the rims of the
other pair, which will in turn rest upon
the track.
| The revolution of the upper part, by
friction, is expected to drive the lower
part, the tires of the latter serving as
tracks for the upper ones. It's thought
that a good deal greater speed can be
got out of the machinery by this con-
struction, and it is expected by the in
ventOr that it will be the fastest loco
motive ever made. Practical workm en-,
however think it won't 20 at all. 1t
will look very funny as it is running
through the country, with the upper
pair of driving wheels, five feet in
diameter revolving up in the air in the
wrong direction at tremendous speed,
and eccentrics, rocking barry, link mo-
ton and pistons on the top Of the
boiler.
There is also singular locomotive
building at the works in Concord, n.
II. The boiler is fiat and the tubes
run horizontally. The boiler rests
over fire box and in the middle of the
locomotive. The engineers position is
in a little cab, similar to the wheel
house on a steamer, at the forward
end, while the freman's position is at
the opposite end, as now. The whole
locomotive is considerable longer than
the largest used at present. It is
thought that the locomotive will re-
quire considerably less coal than the
ordinary locomotive.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30
Important Items

A Nod Fellow-He who can't keep
awake in church.
Postmaster General MAYNARD often
drops in among his clerks during office
hours, and they like him.
At Courneuve, Paris, Gen. Schramm,
aged 81, was robbed Of 100000 while
asleep.
Ten per cent. of the population of
Vienna are Jews, and they own Is per
cent. of the home property.
The King and Queen of Greece are
fond of going about together as plain
common people.
Rev. DR.. Chaplin, by his large earn
ings and good investments, has become
one of the wealthiest clergymen in New
York city.
Baron Ernest Mayr, Austrian minis
ter to the United States. and Max
Outray, French minister to the Uni
ted States, have arrived at Niagara
Falls.
Rebecca Rothschild, Il young Jewess
of indianapolis, sues Thomas M. Dickin-
son a wealthy christian for $4,000
damages for breach of promise.
The London pilgrimage to Lourdes
is postponed. Cardinal Manning has
expressed an opinion that it would be
liable to a political Interpretation.
Jamrach, the wild animal dealer of
London, has imported the biggest
orang- outang ever seen in Europe.
These creatures when imported almost
invariably die of lung disease.
The high honors received by the
crown prince of Austria at Berlin, the
emperor personally decorating him
with the insignia of major general,
cause much remark.
Archibald Thomson, commander Of
the steamship England, of the Nation
al Line, fell overheard when in mid
ocean and was drowned. The steamer
arrived at New York with flags at half
mast.
The prince of Wales carefully pro-
vlded for his family soon after his mar
riage by affecting insurance on his life
for $20O, 900, on which the annual pre-
MUM is about $4,000.
At dinner recently given by Mrs.
John Jacob Aston to Mr.. and Mrs. Cav
endish. Bentinck, the bills of fare were
verltable objects of art, being beautiful
little paintings in water colors on white
satin.
DR.. Samuel Elliott, Superintendent of
the Boston public schools, and who is
now in Europe on account of i'll health,
has resigned his position.
Viii elmia Helena Pauina Maria is
the very long name of the infant daught-
er of the King and Queen of the Meth
erlands. She is to be called Princess
Wilhelmina, and being a girl can have
no pretentions to the throne of Holland.
NJ. Waddington, the French states
man, has asked the German govern
ment to deny the assertions Of Herr
Won BUTLER that Waddington had
divulged state secrets. At Paris it is
believed duel will result between the
two disputants. .-.--
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30

The gentleman who is about to be
married to Leila Cameron, the eldest
daughter of the Pennsylvania senator,
is MIR. William III. Bradley, a clever
young Newark lawyer, and the son OF
Justice Bradley, Of the United States
Supreme Court. Miss Cameron is a
tall and graceful young lady, reserved
in manner, and of much administrative
ability, and has been admirably de-
voted to her motherless brothers and
sisters.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30

In England, funerals are not allowed
on Sunday, Good Friday nor Christmas,
and they are trying to have the absurd
prohibition rescinded. People persist
in dying on those days.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-30

Down on the moist sands of the sea-
shore Marion and Lionel are walking.
On the summit of a steep crag, far
above them, CLEANS through the
slowl gathering twilight, white stone.
1t was strange place to make a
grave; but on the high bluff: in a Sc
pulcher hewn in the solid rock, was
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13


The bill abolishing slavery in Cuba
finally passed the Spanish Courts on
the 2l,i of this month. II was ordered
to be Immediately published in Havana,
and is to go into effect in April. That
is, of course, as il mpy be. cts " long
DRY" from Madrid to Havana, and all
former acts Of emancipation have had
tho ill-Mck to die out by the way. One,
tho Moret law, which WINS passed just
nine years ago, has never yet been pro.
mulgnted in Cuba. # fell u dead letter,
40 fierce was tho opposition Of tho slave.
holding propriotors, although It's terms
were much more favorable to the
masters than those Of the present bill,
as by it the unborn children of slaves
only were declared absolutely free. The
living slaves were omancipatcd ut the
age OF 90, when, rs one may he sure
all tho work had peen got out Of them
of which they were capable.
Tho net Just passed emancipates the
slaves in from six to eight years from
the present time. No other compensn-
ton is allowed to the masters than such
profit rs they can make from the labor
of their chattels in these ensuing six OF
eight years. There il little doubt that
1t will be tho largest possible. The ex
pertinent of gradual emancipation was
tried in tho English Colonies, with what
results we all know; the English plant
ers then, Just as the Spanish planters
would do now. drove tho slaves 70 death
in the little space Of time left to them.
Whatever restrictions policy had hither-
To imposed on their cruelty toward
their human chattos were removed by
the net OF emancipation. II no longer
WAS to their interest 10 keep the Negro
alive and healthy; and tho restrictions
of humanity did not prove strong
enough to affect their eagerness to ge,
what they could out of him while yet
in their clutches. In the other West
Indian islands, too. an almost complete
stagnation Of production and trade fol
lowed freedom. The condition Of af
fairs WAS duplicate In miniature oI
tina. of our own Southern States. The
masters never lost the secret belief that
tho negroes were still their own prop
erty, of which the law had robbed them
and this conviction justified to them al
kinds of trickery and opposition by
which they cheated the blacks Of theil
wages and labor. The negroes retail
atcd by idlencss and (not having 4
Kansas TO escape tol by murder anc
instruction.
We sec no reason to anticipate an,
more easy deliverauce into freedom TO
Cuba than for Jamaica. or Mississippi
With the intolerance, rage, and uncon
querablo prejudice ON tine one side. ant
ignorance on the other, the separation
OF slave and master never has been &C
oomplished without hloodshed, and
wrench injurious for some time 70 III
prosperity If the country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13

marriage and in meddling in affairs
that do not concern them.
There are reasons why a married
woman should teach school. the Board
of Education is not called upon to in.
quire into those reasons or to canvass
her motives. The members NAV ask
with propriety if she is a GOOD teacher
and woman of good Character THO
| fact that she wants to teach school i
not necessarily to her discredit. She
may have liking for the business. she
may need the money; she may think
she can do more good than a teacher
of less experience; she may yield to the
requests OF young people who have an
affection for her. The patrons of the
school may have passing interest in
all these points, but the main interest
will center in the question, Is she or is
she not a good teacher?
If good teacher marries she is her
own judge of the propriety of withdraw
ing. If her capacity as teacher is not
called in question, the marriage is an
incident that the people will not care to
consider as has having any relation to
the schools. And at best the members
of the Board of Education are only the
representatives of the people.
Young women who become teachers
leave the profession, as rule, when
they find husbands. This is matter of
taste and inclination with them and
there is little danger of a woman's taste
or judgment being wrong on such
question. Certainly there is not such
danger Of women forgetting their duties
and the proprieties as to call for this ad-
monitory action OF the school author
tiles in Chicago. There is flavor of
the dogmatic intermeddling Of the Of
ficious committeeman ola past age,
and suspicion of the puffed-up i'm,
portance of the upstart school examiner
of later day in all such action.
The Board of Education of Chicago
cannot afford to exhibit the spirit and
descend to the level of the consequential
directors ofthe ordinary cour try school.
Something more than traditional bull
medicines and common disregard of
sensibilties is required at their hands.
If a city with 10000 children in school
cannot escape from narrow prejudices,
and cannot treat intelligently and at the
same time considerably all minor
questions, we are little better than the
backwoods regions, where the lordly
bumkins consider it reflection on their
manhood for the school trustees to en-
ploy a lady teacher, and where incipi-
ent rowdies are complimented for their
smartness in driving such a teacher
from the district by rudeness.
The spirit of this age is to treat wo.
man in business as fairly as a man, and
any rule that opens the way for
unfair discrimination of any kind, or
that intimates that reputable
and capable woman is not COM
petent to decide for herself in any Civ
en- case, must be offensive to majority
of people.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
Marriageable SchOolma'nms.
Inter Ocean

The traditional schoolma'am, if we
trust the recollection of our Oldest in.
habitants and the legendary productions
of the average novelist, was and old
maid. The Yankee schoolma'am that
terrified the South in the ante-bellum
days was always described rs vinegar
ish maiden lady of uncertain age. The
presence of married woman in the
school-room is contrary to tradition,
and is against ancient historical prece-
dent, and, very naturally, those who
look upon tradition as a guiding star
have some superstitious notions on this
question.
We have the evidence Of All exceed
ingly combative and brilliant orator,
who was switched to the full extent of
the law i'll his youth, to the effect that
fifty years ago traditional prediudices
were whipped into certain natures with
u vehemence and enthusiasm that made
their growth II matter Of course. II is
the duty of the men who were put
through this interesting process in
their youth to cling to old ideas, If the
schoolma' ans OF all ages must be un-
married This short cut to conclusions
has nothing to do with modern progress
or with the theory and practice of the
present day.
Careful study of any English or
Frenc novel will show that in the old
time, boarding schools were, asa rule,
managed by maiden ladies and grass
widows. Tue American novel deals
with sweet little schoolma ANS Of an
other class; makes heroin,s of young
girls who begin the work oflfe by teach
ing the district school and struggle to-
ward happy and prosperous marriages.
The Caicago Board of Education de.
sires 10 maintain this ideal st ndard of
teachers progress, and hence the
adoption Of the rule that the marriage
Of a female teacher shall be equivalent
to a formal notice Of her resignation.
The gentleman Of the board hope, no
doubt for 4 gradu.l return the plane of
action Of tiity Years 40. The impress.
sion that has been growing into con-
viction that the gentlemen at the head
OF our school af'drs dislike to lose
good teacher and were interested in en-
couraging Efficient ones, seems te have
no foundation in fact. they are more
interested, apparently, IN discourag.ng
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
IIerrings.

From statistics of the Scottish herring
fisheries, furnished by writer in Cham
bers' Journal, we may get partial idea
of the enormous producti0eness and
abundance of that species of fish. Du-
ring a recent year the behring's taken in
Scottish waters and cured were sufii-
cient to fill 100000 barrels, each bar
rel containing an average of ZOO fish.
This quantity, it must be observed, rep
resents cured fish only, and only those
which are caught in Scotland under the
superintendent of the fishery board.
1t is pretty certain that as many her
rings are captured and offered for sale
as fresh fish and ''reds" 10 are cured for
the market in Scotland and offered for
sale az salt behring's: which gives us the
prodigi)us total offourteen hundred mil
lions withdrawn annually from the sea;
and even this number, vast as tits, does
not include what are used in the form
of white bait, or those which arc sold rs
sprats.
After draining the sea to such an ex-
tent, it might almost be supposed that
there would be scarcely behring's enough
left to suffice for breeding stock; but
the demands of man are a mere frac-
ton of what are taken out of the shoals.
All that are captured, as we'll as all hat
are wasted during the capture, and das.
troyed in the process of curing, sink
into insignificance when compared with
the vastness of the quantities which are
devoured by other enemies of the fish.
Cod and ling are known to prey extern
sively on the herring; and calculation,
based on the number of cod and ling
annually caught under the auspices of
the Scottish board of fisheries e 100000
600 were taken in 1870, assumes that
there is capital stock of these fish in
the Scottish firths and seas of 20 100000
individuals; and that each individual
consumes 420 herrings per annum,
which at the rate Of two herrinss every
day for seven months ia the year shows
a consumption Of % 400 COO 600 individ-
ual herrngs. Nor does the account stop
at this point. The commissioners who
recently collected information on the
Scottish herring fisheries assume that
in Scotland alone the gannet Ia sea-
bird) annually draws on the shoals TO
the amount of 100000 behring's.
In addition to dogfsh, cod, gannct and
ether sea.birds, the herring has many
other enemies; porpoises, seals, coal
fish, and other predaceous fishes are
constantly y ing i'll wait to fall upon and
devour them. A female herring we
know yields over 10000 eggs; but at the
shoaling time myriads of these eggs are
devoured by variety of enemies; be-
sides which hundreds OF thousands of
the eggs are never touched by the fruc.
tlfying milt of the male fish, and 80 per
ish in the waters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
An Acre In Onions.
Boston Advertiser.

Few farmers seem 70 realize the fact
that rs much money may be obtained
from All acre of land in onions as from
y forty.aore farm devoted to the USUAL
crops. At present prime onions are
worth 81 per barrel by the carload, and
two hundred ana fitty barrels may be,
and not unGrtquently are, produced
from an acre of land. Let no one,
however. expect 10 realize y thousand
dollars from An acre in onions who does
not pay the best attention 10 the crop
III begin with, land naturally adapted
10 producing the crop should oe select
ed. Experiments made in the eastern
states, where large quantities OF onlonS
are raised for the southern market
snow that there is no better soil fel
onions than that Of . reclaimed bog
OF course the land must be we'll drained
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
Black Eyes.
gan rn,nclsco Chronicle.

1t is not an extraordinary event in
the life II the average man to become,
by some q the numerous ?ccidents
which are constantly occurring, The un.
cnvi,d possessor Of discolored optic
1t oi,imes happens that the undesired
AGO uisition OF this chameleon.h like char.
acterislic Of ones eyes il superindnced
hy misapprehension Of ones strength
or mis- Knowledge Of the manly art OF
selfdeiense. The perversity with which
door hinges swing their incumhranoe
ajar, alter the suns rays and the lights
OF night have disappeared, and the total
absence of any regular system W. to the
velocity and direction assumed 10y tlS.
Ing chips, have no doubt caused many
IAN unforQiving eye and dlsinheriting
countenace.' To remove this stain Of
battle, or to whatever exterior causes
the "hard and revengeh,l eye may owe
tia origin, has for q long number u
years occupied the attention and
science Of tho medical profession. M.
ture has often deluded suffering and
disfgured man with what the uninitiat
ed have fondly believed 70 be eihcaeious
remedies
The mulluscous bivalve has otter
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
Playing for High Stakes ut Deadwood.

A very characteristic incident of life
in the wild and reckless west occurred
in one of the popular saloons of Dead
wood the other afternoon. A party of
four were playing poker, and the bets
were running high. A couple of the
boys got to bucking at one another, and
huge pile Of chips and greenbacks
was soon piled between them. AT last
one called the other, and he showed
three queens. The other quietly
turned over three kings.
Take the money" said the patron OF
ladi,s. as quietly as though asking the
other to drink.
The man OF many kings reached over
to take ia the pot, when one of the
other players interferred and claimed
that one Of the kings in the hand Of the
winner belonged 10 him, unless they
were five in the pack, ~ he laid down
two of them when the heavy betting
began. He of the queens rose up,
quietly pulled out n mulderous.looking
bulldog revolver, which he placed IN un
pleasant proximity:
"Drop i'll"
He dropped it, you bet; and then,
without another word, the game went
on as though nothing had happened.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-02-13
Tie Latest Corset.
London Letter to New York Times.

Luuuon Letter 70 New 4 Ork lines
By the way, as a privileged person, l
was one day this week, in a famous
store, shown the latest corset from
Paris. 1t was most acknowledgements
pair of stays, made to exaegerate
narrow waist by the ad ition of artificial
bust. English ladies will wear this a
great deal during the coming season."
said the artist who presided over my
private view of the new invention, "but
my Paris correspondent tells me they
expect to send more Of them to America
than to England" The truth il. the
United States is quicker to adopt the
French fashions than England; and in
contradistinction to this bad sign OF the
further promotion OF tight.lacipg, there
is the good one of an artistical revival in
LoIdon society of the baby. waists and
loose robes Of the esrly days.