The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-01
Things In (iGneral.

A New York paper speaks of nan who
quietly submitted to arrest after he had
received several blows across the head
with the policemans club" The club in
the hands of the finest police in the world
lays over choral, morphine and all the
other .anodynes put Together.
The latest fish story comes from Hol-
land. It relates that about month ago
Cornelius de Boer, fishing in the Zuyder
Zee, found tangled in his net large stony
mass covered with mussels. 1t proved to
be an aggregate of coins, mostly silver
pieces, $50 in number, chiefly ducatoons,
with few Spanish and other gold pieces,
all dated between 1850 and 1880. .
The valuation of property in Boston this
year is reported by the assessor at $685.
513, 900, an increase of 1926, 1854, 400 over
1880. Real estate, 1856, 1888, 600; personal
property, 1910, l30, 800. This amount to be
raised by taxation on the assessment is
$1,000, 329, requiring rate of $l3 80 per
$1,000. Last year it was SIS 20.
A gentleman who has recently made
trip to Prince Arthru's Landing on Lake
Superior states that the Keccabecca falls
on the river about fifteen miles in the nte-
rior is one of the grakdest sights in this
country. of surprising natural scenes. He
describes it as 200 feet broad aud IT'S feet
perpendicular fall, and the volume of wa
ter as immense. They are very difficult of
access and but few tourists visit them, but
roads are being constructed that will enable
visiotrs to make the trip there by rail instead
of employing guides, and tramping through
the densely wooded and uneven approach
es as they do now. A resident of Niagara,
in speaking of. them, said: ''Their grand
eur is greater than that of Niagara.
Never in the history of the country has
the; demand for labor been greater than it
is at present. Farmers, manufacturers,
machine shops and railroad contractors are
all complaining of a lack of laborers. 1t is
said that there are no less than 80 men at
Castle Garden, New York, for the purpose
Of engaging laborers as fast as they arrive,
and shipping them at once to points where
theiI 4aexEices ara :naeded. ,ssO One western
railroad company gives the superintendent
of immigration at New York standing
offer for an unlimited number Of able bod=
led men for $3.50 a day, with permanent
employments No able bedied man in the
Bnited States. who is. willing to work, need
7 Do Idle .AI,,diaaapoHs Times } !;
The exemptions from taxation in Mon
treal are some thng enormous. The churches
benevolent Institutions and parsonages be-
longing to different denominations all of
which are exempt, are valued at S., zoo, 600,
according to the last annual report of the
city treasurer. The assessed value of
Protestant is greater than that of Catholic
churches, the figures being 81, 1854 900 for
the Protestant and 81, 307 200 for Catholics.
The benevolent institutions belonging to
the Catholics are assessed S., 100000. and
those of the Pedestrians only at $500. 900.
Opposition to these exemptions is becom-
ing greater every day. Included under the
head of benevolent institutions belonging
to Catholics is an immense amount Of real
estate belonging to nunneries, to the church
Of Notre Dame and to the Sulpicians, from
which vast revenue is derived.