The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-08-18


fiance to the world. That we shall be told,
is because of their increasing numbers; but
the facts would not be altered, now that
they have reached the level imperatively
required for the development of their pos
sessions, if they never increased man.
A great feet would make the Union more
potent in the world than another 20, OOo, 900
of wheat producers.
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For and About Women.
A husband who lately went to execute
few little commissions for his wife gives it
as bis experience that there are dozen Diff
ferent brands of lilac sewing silk so exactly
alike that no male eye can tell the difference,
and a wrong choice means ruin to a new
silk dress. and no pie in the house for
week.
Rice water, barley water, oat meal water,
with lemon and sugar, should be ready in
every house where children are. These
drinks are surely better than cold tea, which
is often given, or doubtful milk. However,
milk is better than anything, when 1t Is
sweet and pure.
"What are the noblest gifts which noble
women can bestOw upon men," an exchange
asks. Lord Beaconsfeld declares that all
his successes gave him full satisfaction
only in so far as he could lay his laurels at
are rarely aware of the supreme charm which
they exert, not only upon the imagination
and sentiment of men, but also upon their
intellectual talents and their reason. Schel-
ling, perhaps the most inspired writer in
Germany, began to write when he saw his
wife; when she died he ceased to be an
author.
It will surprise many to learn that rice
has nutritious percentage of ~, while beef
has but 26. Still civilized man will adhere
to the latter with the idea that it has the
most nourisbment. The difference between
pound of beef and pound of rice is very
marked, the latter being so per cent. cheap
| er and 100 per cent. more valuable to the
common laborer than the beef diet.
An excellent way of keeping winter
| clothing during the summer is to place 1t IN
| bags made of several thicknesses of news
papers, printers ink being one of the most
successful projections against moths. Gum
| camphor is also good. A pound of gum
| camphor sewed in little bags will last long
time. Before putting away WOODEN clothing,
fiannels, etc., they should be washed ana
shaken in order to get rid of any moths.
The Chicago Tribune gives the follow
ing formula by which any housekeeper can
| detect the presence of glucose in sugar:
Take handful of the mixture and drop it
into glass of cold water. Stir it few
| minutes, until you can notice that the cane
sugar is entirely dissolved, leaving the grape
sugar undissolved in the bottom OF the
| glass, in the form of a white sticky sub
| stance not at all unlike starch in its looks,
| and quite bitter to the taste. 1t won't do to
| use hot water in your test, however. tor If
you do the whole thing will dissolve.
Maiden and mirror There, Henrietta,
don't be forever gazing into that mirror. 1t
1o1
that it looked very good; and, besides, inclu-
ding father said should look on the bright
side. I suppose, the bright side of mir.
ror.-Boston Transcript.
Scientific.
The largest and most powerful pumping
engine ever built is employed in draining
some of the Comstock mining shafts I'D
Nevada. The engine occupies space Is
800 tons-increased by the underground
machinery to about 1000 tons in all. 1t
accommodates water at l 900 pounds pressure
to the square inch, In reservoir at the
surface sixty feet high, thence conducted
by pipe 400 feet to the bottom of the
shaft, there operating pump which raises
the seepage water 500 feet to the Sutro tun-
mel, in which it is discharged-the water
which does the work returning to the sur
face by another pipe. The system can be
extended to 5000 feet depth, or take water
from the mines lalf a mile away, simply by
extending the pipes.
Concrete blocks for building, ere now
made to present a fair and finished surface
on the exposed side, and thus gives to the
structure q smooth and attractive appear
| ance. The means by which this result is
| accomplished consists simply in having
smooth planed board for the face of the
mould, painted, previously to commencing
the work, with a mucilage of soap, and lin
ing inside with finer concrete or mortar
as the work proceeds; in this WHY the mix
ture placed close to the face boards is car
| RED up with that contained in the body OF
the block, the whole forming one hoDoo~
geneous mass, and insuring that the setting
process of the whole mass shall progress
simultaneously. The extra cost involved
in this method is but very slight, and the
facing is really, like the skin of cast iron,
the strongest portion of the block.
Aluminium is q finer and better material
for telegraph wires than iron, and as con-
ductor is twice as good. It is very expen-
sive, however, but it is lately found that q
better wire can be made of an alloy of al
minimum and iron, which does not cost 90
much and is better conducting medium.
Awell- known stage trick in the magic cabi-
net which represents simply small table
on which is head, apparently that of q
decapitated person, which moves its eyes
and talked. There are few persons who
whom the head belongs, is seated under
the table. His body is hidden by two YER
teal glass mirrors fitted between the legs Of
the table at an angle of Is degrees with the
two side walls, which coincide with that
portion of the wall visible in the rear of the
cabinet. The illusion is perfect and only
stone thrown between the legs Of the
table would unveil the mystery.
AHard Worked Prince.
| Letter from London.
Well, to the London season we may now
say au revoir. The Prince of Wales gave
| it the comp de grace yesterday and finished
| it by hurrying to Chichester to opon the
Goodwood races. Alas, poor prince! He
| is as hard. worked as an actor Of l-work at
Barnums museum, who, as Artemus ward
used to say, took his diuner pail after break
fast and was in for good fourteen hours OF
dramatic job work From morn to dewy
eve the illustrious first gentleman" has been
laboring to meet his engagements in the
world Of fashion and of famine, of eociality
and of charity. Do you suppose lusty
young man of thirty eight visits hospitals
and gees 10 funerals because he likes such
ceremonies? Not he warrant you. 1t is
part of the duty of royalty to act as figure
head on occasions of public importance. and
with an admirably good grace the present
Prince of Wales assumes these tasks, aided
by his gentle wife. OF late their three little
daughters have been going about with their
parents; and this element of royal juvenility
is immensely appreciated. The little girls
are the most soft-mannered, unaffected
creatures possible, and being now at the
bright period of life. it's rosy aurora. the
children no doubt really do, as they seem to
do, enjoy the novelty of visit to hospitals,
ward them as the martyrs of old may have
done when the angels appeared to them in
dreary prison cells.
! A CHASTITY MenentO.