The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-05
Miscellaneous Natter.

A new Haven firm sends thousands Of
the red American fox skins, to Russia every
year. These skins, which are used in the
Muscovite country to line costly garments,
are contributed, to a considerable extent,
by Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire
That We should send furs to Russia is az
odd as that we should send wines to France;
and yet both these things are done.
Boston Globe: Jay Gould writes checks
for 81, 400, 600 on old scraps of letter paper.
and the banks pay them; but if we should
write check for 1914 en- a sheet of vellum
and plaster it all over with revenue stamps
and gilt seals, the man who presented it
would be handed over to the police: There
is something wrong in our civilization.
Where are our bombs?
The number Of cigars smoked in Ger
many in year is estimated at about 6, 5O4-,
0OO, 900, representing a constant and daily
consumption of two cigars per head for
Germans smoke during the same period
more than 60, 900 tons of tobacco which has
undergone more or less preparation, besides
using 5000 tons of snuff and 700 tons Of
tobacco for chewing.
A lady graduate of medicine in Washing
ton has been rendered the position of resi-
dent physician on one of the largest Indian
reservations in the west We hope she will
accept and proceed there at once. We
know of no cheaper or more certain method
of satisfactory solving the Indian problem
than by placing all the reservations under
the medical charge of lady graduates. In
about 10 years live Indian would be
genuine curiosity.
London Truth; There are many highly
respectable people who firmly believe that
so long as a man avoids games Of chance,
and sticks firmly to whist, he cannot loose
money in the long run, aad their is an anal
ogous delusion that if an owner of race
horses does not bet he can not, with aver
age luck, be largely out Of pocket by his
stud"
Henry Ward Beecher's regiment, the
Thirteenth. Of Brooklyn, expected to go to
the Yorktown Centennial as the escort Of
Governor Cornell; but, finding that the
regiment expected the state to pay their
transportation, Cornell Informed item that
he would veto a bill to that effect, and he
finally declined their services altogether.
In Nevada there is wonderful wood
known as mountain mahogany. The trees
do not grow large. A tree with a trunk q
foot in diameter is much above the average.
When dry the wood is about as hard as box
wood, and being very fine grain might, no
doubt, be used for the same purpose. It
is Of a rich red color and very heavy.
There is now in the vaults of the treasury
department larger amount of gold than
was ever known to be in one place in the
history of modern times, and probably
more than could be authenticated as exist
ing in single treasury at any time before
in the world. There is now about $173,-
100000, Of gold coin and bullion, exclusive
of some $55, OOO, 600, in silver, while the
bank of England has only about S75,00O,-
900, in gold. What is more singular is,
that it stays in the vaults, no matter what
the demand recently, for as fast as it is
paid out it returns, showing that as long as
confidence is maintained it is not favorite
currency.