The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-10
General Gatherings.

Chief Justice Waite, of the United States
supreme court, in Il recent letter, expresses
the o. lnion that there are no more good
law schools in this country than are neces-
sary. The time has gone BY" he says,
when an eminent lawyer in full practice
could take u class of students into his Of
fee aud become their teacher. Once that
was practicable, but now it is not. The
consequence is that law schools are now a
necessity"
The gigantic statue of Liberty, to be
placed on Bedloe's Island in New York
harbor, female form 12O feet high, from
whose brow an electric light will guide the
great ships safely to port, is so near co :
pletion that it is expected to be in posl;i N
in about eighteen months or two years herce
at most. 1t is made Of hammered copper,
the expense being borne by the people of
France. The statue will stand on a peaes-
al of masonry 100 feet in height, giving the
light cleaning from the diadem an altitude
OF $50 feet.
One curious phase of the Yorktown ce!e-
bration resulting from the meeting Of the
was general swapping of buttons among
tt en-. Nearly every man who went home
through Washington had on mis- coat but
tons of the militia of every state represent
ed at Yorktown. They did not look odd,
and conld not be noticed unless by close
inspection. The boys exchanged buttons
as mementoes of the meeting with fellow
soldiers of other states.
The Haskell multicharge cannon, weigh
ing IS ,OhO pounds, was successfully cast at
Reading, Pa, Oh the 24th. 1t is claiuled
that this enormous piece of ordnance will
carry a ball of $50 pounds weight a distance
of IL miles. 1t is undoubtedly great
work, and the distance it will cover in
throwing shot has never been equaled in
this or any other country. The gun is of
a rifed pattern, Deatly and strongly nodded
and is greatly admired by all who have had
an opportunity of seeing it.
The scare about punched silver coins
has started inquiry as to who does the
punching, and the singular statement is
made by Il government detective that nine
tenths of the work is by Cubans in New
together and hole drilled through the lot,
taking away about one twenty fifth of their
weight. The same Cubans also carry on
the business of sweating" gold coins by
shaking them in bag. It Is said that by
this operation 100 eagles will in three hours
yield $50 in dust without being obviously
injured.
A Partisan journal estimates the total
number of recognized medical men through
out the civilized world at 1S9, 900, of whom
it assigns 65 900 to the United States, 35,-
600 to Great Britain and her colonies, &c.
600 to France, 80 600 to Germany and Aus
tria, ,1O, 900 to Italy, and 5000 to Spain. OF
the whole number IL 900, it estimates, have
contributed to medical lliterature-28, 900 in
the United States, 26,O00 in France, 900
in Great Britain, $500 in Germany and
Austria, and only $40 in Spain.
Mr.. Ruskin, in his latest book, THE
Bible of Amisns," writing on the homage
paid to the Virgin Mary, says: Neither
Madonna worship. nor lady worship of any
sort, whether of dead ladies or living ones,
ever did any living creature any harm; but
that money. worship, Wig worship,
cooked nat and feather worship, plate wor-
ship, pot worship, and pipe worship, have
done and are Going great DEAL"
The religious earnestness and remarka-
BILE piety which is often claimed existed in
I'VE olden time, when long sermons were
the rule and homespun clothing preceded
billed shirts, had quite a commentary re-
Gently at church reunion, when one of
the speakers cited as among his reminis-
cences that on Christmas Eve most excel
lent Sunday school superintendent treat
ed" the school to three gallons of whisky.
The said speaker could remember when
his gran dfather left the church because the
minister "lined out two lines of the hymn
at oncs instead of one." Some how, when
one tries to strike balance between old
times and modern virtues, the old don't
seem to always have the advantage.