The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-02
Miscellaneous Matters.


Truly, one ought to consider the ways Of
the Ohio man and be wise. Some weeks
ago girl in Cincinnati murdered her baby
by stabbing it thirteen times with knife,
and the only witness to the deed was her
lover upon whose testimony it was thought
she would be convicted. In Ohio the law
is 10 the effect that husband cannot be
compelled to testify against his wife, so the
sharp lawyer for the defense set to work
and after great trouble got the pair married.
and as the husband was the Only witness a
nolle prosequi will be entered against his
wife.
MIR. N. G. Mulhall sends to the London
Nature the following note: Although
Shakespeare is supposed to have taken the
idea of Hamlet from the Danish histor-
ian, Saxo- Grammaticus, there are such
points of resemblance with the Arabic
chronicle of Nigiaristan respecting Montas-
ser, tenth Caliph- of Bagdad. that I venture
to call your attention to the same. The
points of analogy are as follows: 1. That
Montasser is murdered by putting poison
in his ear. 2. The ghost scene, in which
his father appears to him. 3. The display
ing of tapestry before the Caliph aud his
court, in which the tapestry represents a
tragedy identical with the late Caliph's
murder.
Whenever a public speaker wishes to be
unusually lavish of his praise upon a dead
man, he begins by saying that the deceased
was famous for his modesty, and that moth
ing was more obnoxious to him than un-
stinted eulogy. Having thus prepared the
way, he lays it on in slabs with a shovel of
rhetoric. Canon Farrer, did that service
for BeaconsGeld, which reminds the London
Truth of woman who went to buy dress.
None of your gaudy colors for me" she
said: give me plain red and yaller."
The wealthiest of the theological schools
in this country are thePresbyterian. Prince
ton has buildings valued at $274, 900 and
funds amounting to nearly 100000. The
Union Seminary of New York holds real
estate worth $3.50, 900 and funds worth
100000. The seminary at Auburn, N.Y.,
possesses $500, 0OO-$2O0, 600 in real es-
tate, 100000 in funds. Of these two
kinds of property the seminary at Chicago
has, respectively, $30000O and $15O,0O0.
The Western Theological Seminary at
Allegheny City, Pens, has funds slightly
exceeding $4,000 The Lane Seminary
possesses property aggregating 100000.
These six institutions hold one-fourth Of
the entire amount of property owned by
the 1874 seminaries in the United States.
The palace Of the Boy Of Tunis is mar
vel of Moorish architecture. The exterior
walls are white and FURNISHED like & mir
ror, and the upper part ef the building is
a mass of embattled towers, green and
yellow cupalos, and vanished roofs. The
central gate gives entry to the Escalier dcs
Lyons, whence the visitor passes into the
vestibule with its covered walls, arabesqued
ceilings, and rainbow colored columns
In the center is an inner court, in the midst
of which playes a fountain casting an agree
able and cooling spray over the surround
ing apartments. Round this court lie the
Beys private rooms.
Says a wrathful Washington correspon-
dent: "These cabinet ladies need not be
so exercised about the calls they make or
do not make. The world won't 90 out in
fire and smoke if they make none at ALL
Let them sleep quietly; the stamp they put
upon the face Of society here will last only
a few years at most. 1t will fade out as
other stamps have faded; be forgo ten as
others have been forgotten. Five years
hence, when the despised eight hundred
are living, and laughing: and enjoying the
growing beauty Of our city, and there chill
dren are bright avenues, and parks, and
evening parties with their fair young faces,
these political creatures of day Will have
vanished into nothingness with their bung-
ling discussions and petty enxietics, have
hardly memory enough to supply an hour 8
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