The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-28
Things in General.

Gov. St. John of Kansas, INDUCES in the
rose colored view that after May, 1881,
there will not be an open bar in that state.
Ohio county clerks receive from $1,000
a year down, three getting over 1000.
Judges of the supreme court receive So, 900.
The same discrepancy is to be seen else
where.
The barge rate for wheat from St. Louis
to New Orleans is three cents per bushel,
and to Liverpool it is said to be less than
by rail from Chicago to New York.
By strict party vote the Delaware
senate bill providing that all ballots shall
De upon White paper, SIX inches long ana
three inches wide. The bill also provides
that the state treasurer shall supply the
clerks of the peace with proper paper.
The circus manager who advertised a
prize Of $40, O00 for the hanasomest woman
in the United States is said to have hired a
lady in the variety line, fromthe Bowery,
who is attractive enough to suit his purpose,
at salary of about $50 week with board
and clothes.
Over $4,000 buffalo have been killed in
Montana within the past six months all but
some 10000 being slain for their hides
alone, which bring from 1925 to $2.72
each. Men in the fur business say that this
wholesale slaughter is rapidly making the
buffalo extinct and that SO many hides will
never again be secured in single season.
Ground will be broken for the new opera
house in New York on May l. The site
was purchased during the week, and in :.
cludes the block bounded by Broadway,
Seventh avenue, Thirty ninth and Fortieth
streets, having front of 200 feet on the
first two, and 245 on the last two streets.
The price paid was over $4,000 and the
cost of the building will be about $500, 900.
The auditorium will have seating capacity
of 3, 900 persons There will be two gal
leries above and 112 boxes. There will b.
thirty or forty we'll lighted dressing rooms,
each separated from the others.
A colored editor says: 1.-TWO Eastern jour
nalists are to we'd the daughters of two mil
ionaires. Newspaper men seldom have
good luck, but we now feel encouraged to
endure our present hardships, and live in
hope of catching some one of the stray
daughters of milionaires that are flying
around"
Such people as the promoters of ''Salva-
ton Army" work are pushing their evangel-
ical efforts in this style in London. Here
is one Of their hand bills:-' Important No.
tice-Express Trains from Earth to Heaven.
Tickets free; available at Providence Hall,
ISL Church street, Paddington Green, avery
Sunday at one and half pastsix o'clock and
every evening during the week. Pass on
through the Wicked Gate Of Repentance;
turn to the right. You cannot mistake, as
the carriages are all first class and not any
smoking Compartments. This kind of lit
erature is distributed in vast quantities. It
brings in the illiterate and uncultured.
DR.. Howard Crosby believes that the two
tables of the law received by Moses on
Mount Sinai will sometime be discovered in
Jerusalem. DR.. Crosby is personally inter-
ested in searches for Biblical relics, and in
1851 he searched through the monastery
near Mount Sinai for the complete manu-
script of the New Testament, which ITCH
endorf had then vainly tried to obtain, but
subsequently, secured through the influence
of Alexander II. of Russia.
The school law which recently passed
the North Carolina legislature is consider
ably IN advance of the statutes already IN
force. County Esuperintendents are tse-
vided; money is appropriated for teachers
Institutes; two normal schools for whites
and two for blacks are established; tho tax
is increased to IL IL cents on the 500, and
local school support is encouraged by re-
curing county boards to lay special tax to
meet Deficiencies in the school funds.