The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-02-17
Miscellaneous Matters.

The six cities of Rhode Island, Bristol,
Newport, Pawtucket, Providence, warren
and Wolensocket, have total population of
1915 The assessed value of property In
these six cities aggregates $3.50, 284 log, be-
ing an average per capita of the population
of 1898.
The new constitution of California has
hardly proved so great hindrance to the
commercial prosperity of that State as was
anticipated, leastwise there were incorpo-
| rated in San Francisco last year companies
with capital of more than $500. o0o. oOo,
and in the state enough more, probably, TO
make grand total Of 81 ,O0O, 100000.
A Chicago newspaper tells Of man who
was complaining that he had invested
large sum of money in Wall street and lost
tall A sympathizing friend asked him
| whether he had been bull or bear. He
replied: Neither, was a jackass."
The qualities that make great orator are
thus stated by Wendell Phillips: "a man
may be stammerer and yet great orator,
man may have poor voice and yet De q
great orator, man may speak incorrectly
and ungrammatically, and still be very
great crater; all that is needed is to have all
earnest cause thoroughly at heart, and have
heat aud cause 50 truly welded that they
are one with his innermost nature, SO that
when he speaks he pours out his own
self, exalted by that with which he is filled"
The Jesuits in England have just had =
handsome windfall. Count Eyre, mil
Gonai1e and almost a miser, who died re-
Gently, left ESQ, 900 to his son, Father Eyre.
who is Jesuit. To another son. the
| Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow, he be-
queathed g10O,O0O. There is one son who
is not in priests orders married to the
daughter of the Countess of Wicklow, who
also receives 100000. Count Eyre was
made Count by the Pope in the days Of
the temporal power.
1t is remarkable that the working classes
Of Germany have taken little part in the
anti Jewish agitation. At a stormy meet
ing in Berlin the other day, in which the
Jews were denounced as people unfit to
mix with other races, F" a workman had the
courage to state that latter seventeen years
hard work in Berlin, although a Christian
himself, his experience was that Jewish
employers had as rule, treated him far
better than his co-religionists. He &C.
cordingly proposed a resolution Gin favor
the meeting Kissed him and turned him
out.
Says Professor Phelps of Andover, Mass.
Theological Seminary: "We are not half
awake to the fact that by our laws of divorce
and our liberation Of the social evil we are
doing more to corrupt the nations heart
than Mormonism tenfold. Vice, avowed
and blatant and organized to large extent
nullifies itself, so far as self diffusion is
concerned. But vice, lurking and still,
trickles into all the crevices of society. A
nation of Mormons is impossible-not so
nation Of ibertines."
This is the way "a Massachusetts, cler-
gyman" addresses Wendell Phillips: when
water runs up hill and refuses to seek it's
level; when matter exists without weight,
and men see with their lungs and breathe
with their eyes; when two and two are some
thing else than four, and human reason,
knocking itself, refuses to be itself and de-
thrones God to bring in chaos for king
then you will succeed, maybe, in making
this world total-abstinence heaven. But
not one hour before