The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

There have been 5. 924 Az arrivals OF I'M
migrants in this country since 1854.
OF the population of New York city, 1877, .
743 are native born, and 478,834 foreign
born. There are Is, 053 more women and
girls than men and boys.
Mr.. Burchard, the director Of the United
States Mint, estimates that $15,00O,000
worth of gold and silver are annually used
in the arts and manufactures about S10,-
000,0 900 of gold and $5,0O0.0G0 of silver.
The cause of the Suez Canal was accord
ing to report on the Darien Canal by
Joseph Nimmo, Jr., Chief of the United
States Bureau Of Statistics $92. 1913, 907.
The receipts last year were S., 9O73, 49,, and
the expenditures including per cent. inter-
est upon the share capital as sinking fund,
S., AIS, $40, leaving balance of 1851, 645.
Two-6fths Of the population of New
York City according to the last census, are
foreigners, or to put the statement more ex-
actly, 478,000 are foreigners and 727, 600
are native born citizens. This proportion
is about the same as it was according to the
census of 1860 and 1870.
In the practice of economy there is un-
mixed satisfaction. When one has desire to
purchase what he can do without, and has
| not the ready money to spare for it, consid-
er whether there may not be more real
comfort without it than with it, when not
quite certain whence the money is coming
to pay the Indebtedness. In the end the
pleasure will be found on the side Of doing
! without the wished for thing. Doing this
| once and again for months, one will be sur
prised in seeing how much will be saved
Thus the poor man finds happiness in econ
omy, though it might be misery to the rich
man who thinks he can dispense with it.
Honorable and consistent economy is never
followed by regret.
The experience of the late Richard S.
Fay, of Lynn, Mass, in the matter of rails
ing wood on very poor soil would be an en-
couragement to those who doubt the sue
cess of tree planting. MIR. Fay planted less:
than thirty years ago sixteen thousand trees
or more, and now they have grown into
beautiful forest, out of which already from
time to time many valuable railroad ties.
have been cut. Mr.. J. S. Fay, brother to
Il: 5. Fay, planted the seeds Of many kinds
OF conifers, on q windswept hillside at
Woods Holl on Cape Cod, about twenty
i've years ago, and now has beautiful ev.,
ergreen forest. Il
The San Francisco Golden Era saws the
Chinese are the most prosperous class in that
community. They are Away at work and
their expenditures never exceed their earn
ings. They are industrious, frugal and
economical to the last degree. A, China
man always accommodates himself to circum
stances: He always lives within his means.
When times are hard he economies, and
when work is plenty and wages are good he
economies. When he earns 10 cents per
day he saves five cents of his wages. When
he makes $40 by lucky turn he does not
go on spree.
At Harvard College the students consume
great deal Of milk and of bread, with much
oatmeal and cracked wheat for breakfast.
There is comparatively little coffee for din
ner, requiring fourteen gallons of oysters
for seventy-tive gallons of soup. Celery.
too, is a favorite at dinner, nearly 900
punches being used daily. The boys also
like plenty Of ice cream and very many
apples and grapes. Beefsteak is largely
consumed at breakfastand roast beef at din.
ner. Scrambled eggs disappear rapidly at
breakfast time.
The estate of an English miser named
Rhodes was lately wound up. y. It realized
$39O, 900. The sale of his effects in his
residence resulted in $2,875. The propertv
goes totwo charities-the London Free Hos.
pital and the National Lifeboat Institution.