The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-04-28
congressman from Oregon and two of the
Minnesota congressman.

congressman from Oregon and two of the
Minnesota congressman.
The long continuance of cold weather is
having bad effect on old people. An un-
usual number Of deaths of representatives
OF this class is reported from various parts
of the country. including several centenar-
ians.
While making excavations near the walls
OF Pompeii recently, to ascertain the nature
OF the surroundings of the city, workmen
ten of which were huddled together in one
room of small suburban villa. Bracelets,
earrings, necklaces and other articles were
found among and upon the bones.
The William Newton farm at Basin Har-
Dor, near Lake Champlain, comprising 200
acres, has been al owed to go on mort
gage of only1$4 900 held by Edward Sey-
mour, who has since offered it for the face
of the notes, without finding purchaser.
The property was at one time valued at
$4,000. This is another illustration of
the remarkable. e.depreciation which has been
going on in the price of Vermont real es-
tate during the last ten years.
Lord Bacon made capital estimate of
what sermon should be when he said:
wines which at first treading run gently,
are pleasanter than those which are forced
from the wine-press, for these taste of the
stone and of the husk Of the grape; so
those doctrines are exceedingly wholesome
and sweet which flow from the scriptures
gently pressed, are not wrested into contro-
versies and commonplaces.
This years anniversary meeting of the
American Home Missionary Society (Con-
gregationalists) will be held in Central
Music Hall, Chicago, on the 4th and 5th of
June. It will, says the Advance, be "a
great gathering of men and women of the
interior. thu Northwest and the Southwest,
interested in the evangelization of the
American continent.
American won en- suffer intensely from
the chilliness of Partisan winter, and
wear much more clothing, especially in
flannel, than in their own country. Mrs.
General Noyes and Mrs. Mackay always
wear fur-ined boots and wollen dresses
when riding or walking, and the Partisan
grip" orperpetual chill, which it is almost
impossible to shake off when once acquired
is bugbear to foreigners, who carefully
looks out for the sunny side of house
in choosing their apart tments.
Colored men are represented as having
handsome farms and valuable herds Of
cattle in Texas. Senator Burton of Fort
Bend county, is colored, and is estimated
to be worth $50, ,000. He is also IN educat-
ed man. While slave in Virginia he was
taught reading and writing by his mistress.
She was made very poor by the war, and
he then showed his appreciation of her in
struction in former days by supporting her
in her adversely until her death. On her
daughters wedding day he sent present
of 81 900 check. The whole of his pro-
perty mas been acquired in Texas.
The buying of old books would not seem
to be very profitable undertaking, but a
carefully collected library is sometimes as
good an investment as stocks, and not in
frequently safer and more certain. The
Brinley collection, three -fourths of which,
by the sale concluded in New York, has
realized $110, 1000, did not cost it's owner
anything like that sum, and the famous
Menzie's library sold about three years ago
and especially rich in Americana, brought
double what it cost. On the other hand,
however, the library of Richard Heher,
brother of the bishop, comorising 10000
volumes and filling eight houses, sold in
1884 for 1886, ,000-a little more than half
what they cost.