The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
Miscellaneous Matters.

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The Rev. Ovid Miner gives as the first
form of rules for health: ''Plaln ana SUB
| stantial food, and not too much OF 1t.
It is said that 5O,OOO,000 of the country
are invested in finger rings.
The act of congress authorizing the issue
| of .postal cards was passed June :, 1872,and
i they were issued by the Post Office De-
partment in May. 1873. ....-....s,.
The southern states, taken together, are
said to have a school attendance of 2, $780,
a: 1884, and public school funds to the amount
of $l1 1874, JOG. The school population
including white and colored children, is 81
487 1866.
In Great Britain there has been no in
stance during the past 100 years OF any
three consecutive Januarys having SO low
i mean temperature as those OF 1919 81, me
; mean for these last three being only 31.z
| degrees.
The California vintage for 1880 is esti-
J mated at over ten and a half million gallons
by the state viticultural comlssloners. VI
! this product 9,5OO,OOO were dry wines,
| zoo, 900 sweet wines, and $50, 900 brandy.
The total value of the grape culture was $3,-
! 500, 900.
In case of the removal, death, reslgna-
! ton or inability of the president and vice.
president of the United States, the presl-
| dent of the senate, or if there is none, then
! the speaker of the house of representatives,
! for the time being, shall act as president
until the disability is removed or apresldent
elected.
! The word 'rotgut is not an American
ism, according to the Retailer, but was used
! by Addison q hundred years before the
! American drink SO called was pnt in the
market in certain parts of this republic.
SIN England the word was applied to bad
beer or wine,' says this authority, but in
! this country it is used to point out kind OF
viii XIV, one drop of which would poison
healthy stomach if fired at it from dis
lance Of $50 yards, Dolly mount rules to
; govern"
Sometime since Miss Buruett- Coutts, the
head of an English banking house, married
London Fact Of late date states that Mrs.
! Victoria G. Woodruff who for years con-
Quoted large bankinS business in New
! York and was known as the "Burdett-
| Coutts of America" is about to marry an
English gentleman. It is pleasant to con-
! template that all the banking accomoda-
i tons are not on one side of the ocean.
81 would have you to know" says Gail
Hamilton in letter, what vainly try to
impress upon the Washington public, that
am not poor relation, but have house
of my own, sir, and am landowner and
pay taxes, and support the minister, and
put my name down on subscription papers,
and do the marketing and grumble over ex-
penses just like man and brother, and
you better call this way and see me do it"
E. B. Harper, of Kentucky, has lately
he'd his stallion, Ter Brock, at $75, 00o,b I
the offer not having been accepted,
he has withdrawn it. The horse is nine
yeals DID, and the Kentucky Stock Record
says of him: "He has done what no other
horse ever did, and retired from the turf
| without flaw or blemish, and is to- day as
sound as dollar. He has the fastest mile
1:25 1-39 "A; the fastest two miles, 1927 10;
the fastest three miles, 5:26 Ia: and the
fastest four miles, 7:15 3-4-the latter "a
seconds faster than any horse has everrun
four miles"
The will left by the late Patrick Power,
ex-M. p. for Halifax was a very peculiar
one. He left some $40, 900 to his son, Sen.
L. G.. Power, in such way that he is only
to get few hundred dollars year. This
was done to compel him to work at his pro-
fession for living, and not to rely on his
fortune. It now transpires that the senator
is to be disinherited should he ever become
candidate for the Provincial Legislature
or House of Commons, and the money go
t. the Jesuits.
People have queer ideas as to the power
of the president. A colored man called on
President Garfield the other day and insist
ed on an interview. He was very indignant
because they wouldn't let him in. His
wife had run off with another man, ho said.
He came to see the president to appeal for
advice in the premises and assistance in
carrying that advice in effect. A small
sized boy from Georgia, who listened to
his story as told the doorkeeper, advised
him to shoot the other man, and he finally