The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-14
!. Things in General. :.

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The coinage of the United States minis
during March was $13 ,058, SIG.
There are thirty four men in Buffalo
whose property respectively amounts to
from $25O,OO0 to S., SOC, 900.
When you go to Wisconsin, be sure and
do not invite friend to take smile.
The total recognized debt of Mexico is
$142, 18l, 546.59. The sister republic is oc-
casionally given to the practice of "readjust-
ing" her outstanding obligations.
John Ruskin is not in favor of universal
suffrage. On being asked to deliver an ad-
dress on woman suffrage, he replied that
he was not only opposed to extending the
franchise to women, but was in favor OF
! taking the right from most men.
There are now on file at the navy depart
men 1926 applications for the position Of as
sistant paymaster in the navy, and not a
single vacancy.
The San Francisco Journal Of Commerce,
analyzing our trade with foreign countries
during last year, emphasizes the fact that
I'VE export to the Sandwich Islands more
merchandise and produce than to any other
foreign country outside of Great Britain
and China, while the Society islands, un-
important as they are on the worlds map,
take from MS more than does the great Ger
man Empire, with its forty millions of peo~
ple."
The custodianship of the gold pantry at
Windsor Castle, just rendered vacant by
the death of MIR. Goring, is an Office OF
! great trust, as may be inferred from the fact
that when the queen entertained the En-
of the Duke of Edinburg, gold plate to the
value of some $40, 000, 900 was used. At a
rough guess, the royal gold and silver ser
vices at Windsor palace are probably worth
about $15, 100000.
The largest excess Of males over females
in our population is in Montana, where it
is 1853 per cent and the smallest excess is
in Mississippi, the per centage being four
tenths. Kentucky's male population is only
two per cent. larger than her female popu
lation. In Arizona it is 100 per cent. larger.
In Nevada 1913 per cent. larger. Girls are
needed badly in all the Western territories.
Fully seven thousand persons are report
cd to have visited the steamship Partisan at
Boston, to inspect her Accommodations for
the transportation of grain and fresh meat.
The huge refrigerator in which the meat
cargo is carried required in its construction
$4,000 feet Of lumber, ii kegs of nails,
and c, 1000 feet of three quarter inch hair
felt. 1t has capacity for l 200 quarters of
beef, and will require twenty five tons of
ice for the trip. The beef was slaughtered
in Chicago, and carried to Boston on a
train of twelve cold-blast refrigerator cars.
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at the
large amount Of ophthalmia and blindness
| prevalent among the inhabitants. Want of
cleanliness is the cause. An Egyptian
| mother, under the influence of widely
T.
child's eyes until eight days after birth. By
that time the organ is frequently ruined.
! The teachers in the American and British
mission schools Of Cairo say that Egyptian
mothers become invariably angry when
| urged to wash the eyes of their newly born
infants, and can rarely be persuaded to
comply with request of the kind.
! Cardinal Manning recently issued instruc-
tons in England that all the congregations
be requested to observe the customary three
days truce of St. Patrick" This is a
foreign idea not yet importedI into the United
ed States. It means that Irish Catholics
will voluntarily blind themselves to abstain
from all intoxicating drinks on the eve of
the national festival of Ireland's patron saint,
on the feast day itself and the succeeding
day, and that during this interval they will
not enter houses where such drinds are
: sold.
A history almost as sad and romantic as
that of Romeo and Juliet is attached to
Green Mount, the we'll known cemetery at
Baltimore, Md. The property was once
owned by John Oliver, wealthy English
merchant. His only child, beautiful girl
of twenty, was loved by young man whose
only unftness to become her husband lay
in the fact that personal feud existed be-
tween him and the girls stern father. They
met clandestinely and planned an elope-
ment. The father found it out, and gave
orders to his servants to patrol the grounds
by night and shoot all trespassers. Dis
guised in mans clothing the girl attempted
to escape, and was shot dead at the gate.
Grief stricken, her father erected mauso-
leum upon the spot, and decided the entire
property to the city for cemetery.
Ne " Orleans Wants to be Yankee City.
From the New Orleans Times DENY
New Orleans is the smallest in the first