The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-08
Miscellaneous.

OF the greatest cities of Europe, book.
producing Leipsic furnishes by far the
argest proportion of self-murderers. Be.
ween the years 1875 and 1878 London
egistered an annual average of only eighty
five suicides for every million of inhabit.
ants; Berlin, 289; Vienna. 285; Paris, 200
and Leipsic the enormous fig"re of $50, al
the same rate. It will be further interest.
ing to note what effect the more rigorous
application Of the socialists law will have
on this startling habit.
1t seems odd to read this, in the Ciucin.
natl Gazette, from Northern man in the
south: with the negro, the time by day
is employed in lolling IN the shade, and by
stealing melons. and attending distracted
meetin,' and the air of these soft, still
nights is filed with the triumphant tones
of 'Brer Washington and 'Brer Battles rs
they rustic in prah;' while ever and anon
without sound of warning, without hi
ia the 'rastle,' the weird negro melodies
float out
'tDe big Bethel Church, hits bound to win:
Oh Lawd! grab de mo'nersl"
There is bill pending before the Geor.
gin legislature to punish Mormon mission.
aries for preaching their belief in that state
1t seems that these missionaries have made
O number of converts in the northern par
of Gee rgia, where there are regularly CT:
ganized Mormon churches, with polygamy
omitted. In as much that the Georgis
Mormons neither teach nor practice thai
offensive doctrine, the bill meets with Op.
position on the ground that it would inter.
fere with religious freedom.
The superintendent of mails at Chicago
has adopted with good effect practice
which should become general throughout
the department.. In all cases where com.
plant is made by regular subscribers of de.
lay or failure to receive newspapers, that
officer pastes upon the next paper mailed
t., that address the following notice: "Com.
plant ia made that newspapers to this *d.
dress do not reach destination promptly
All employees handling this package vii
please see that the same is properly for
warded." In this way the evil is traced tt
it's source and remedied.,
Concerning a very disagreeable old per.
son who may have done his best to be 6
Christian, but who does not seem to have
made a browning success of it, the Con-
0reQati0nalist remarks: ''He was cross
and fretful at home. He was terror tc
his wife and children; still he was deacon
md pillar in: the church. Yet he was by
no means wholly bad. On the other hand,
he was very good everywhere except al
Monochrome, Of all the places in the world
the very place which should be little
heaven below. And, worst of a1l. ho waf
typical to certain extent, Of a great many
men who, though not as bad as he, never
theless stand in great mead of reform in
this particular" i
A person of an inquiring mind and fai,
literary style might produce an entertain.
ing brochure, if his taste SO inclined him,
upon the birth, development and decay of
the masculine bow. In former days the
pig-tailed and silver-sdoo, buckled gallant
swept the earth with his hat in his obeis-
ance to woman, and by the endorsement OF
his dorsal curves expressed the profound
est difference and adoration. Since that
time,s however, this pleasing fashion has
degenerated, though succession of mods,
jerks and other galvauic actions, uatil to-
day, when bravery meets beauty, he
snatches off his hat and looks into it, and
goes his way in the belief that he has paid
the whole tribute of polite salution which
modern society demands Of its slave s.