The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-03
Things In General.

Col. Richardson of Mississippi, the largest
planter and wealthiest man in the South,
and commissioner from his state to
the worlds fair of 1883, says the fair
will be success; that plenty Of money will
be provided. All the commissioners have
agreed to subscribe 81 900 each, if neces-
sary.
Michigan's pine lands are rapidly rising in
value, having gained from $40 to $50 IN
acre in the past year. Good pieces of tim
Der now range in value from $50 to 500 an
acre, and it is thought that the time is not
far distant when the Michigan numbering
interests will be controlled by few men.
In signing reports, the members of the
Texas legislature use no initials, and a page
of Legislative records takes On a decidedly
military aspect, with "Matlock, Chairman;
"Philpott, Chairman" King for the COM
mittee;" Haynes, Chairman; pro tenn, u
etc., scattered through it.
There mas been much complaint of adul-
teration of food in Paris lately. M. And
rieux, the Perfect, has adopted method
that will probably succeed in putting Sc
we're check on adulteration. He purposes
opening vast chemical laboratory in Gen.
trail part of the city, where the public can
take any artical of food and have it analyzed.
AS the French laws are very severe against
persons taken in adulteration, this plan
will frighten most of the offenders into hon
esty.
Col. CarrollD. Wright, who at the head
of the Bureau of Industrial Statistics for
the State of Massachusetts, says that in the
various strikes at Fall River, the sum
of one million four hundred thousand dol
lars has been lost to the operatives through
idleness, to say nothing of the large sums
contributed by the working classes in other
places, and this enormous sum was absO-
lutely wasted, inasmuch as in no in
stance was permanent advantage secured
to or by operatives.
The whole number of in door paupers in
England and Wales in 1879 was LIS, 345;
amount paid in actual relief Of the poor in
1878, $35, 200, 900; population, $4,000, 900,
other hand, the number Of Indoor paupers
in New York city in 1880 was $4,000, pay
ments for relief, So, 200, 600; population L.
zoe, 557, or $2.65 per head Of population.
In England and Wales there is one indoor
pauper to 143 of population; in New York
city one in door pauper to SIS Of population.
A romance in advanced life occurred re-
Gently in the mountain region adjoining
Kingston, n. I. LA tue uCClo udul1et Oh
Broadhead, situated far back in the noun
tains, two elderly people fell in love, and
an undutiful son Of the prospective bride
objecting, determined to elope and get
married despite all opposition: Noah Bush,
a stalwart mountain farmer of seventy five
years, thus takes unto himself wife in the
person of Mrs. Lockwood a blooming
widow of sixty-6ve. The opposing son has
been induced to give the fond couple his
blessing. =
According to the Lyons (France) Medi-
cole, the manageable age in Austria is IA for
both sexes; in Germany Is for men and II
for women; in Belgium, Is for men and Is
for women; in Spain, IA for men and IL for
women; in France, IS fer men and Is for
women; in Greece, IA for men and IL for
women; in Catholic Hungary, IA for men
and IL for women; in Protestant Hungary,
18for men and Is for women; in Italy, IS
for men and Is for women; in Portugal, IA
for men and II for women; in Russia, Ro-
mania and Saxony, 10 for men and 16 for
women.