The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-31
miscellaneous Ne,vs Notes.

The value of babies has been fixed. A
child less than one year old is worth s14; be-
tween one aud two years, $40; two to three
years S28; four years $3l five, years, $685. six
years, $40; seven years, $50; eight years, $50;
nine years, $40: ten years. 500; eleven years,
S123. These are the valuations made by q
baby insurance company of Cincinnati.
The parents pay five cents a week for the
insurance of their child. The rates for
colored children are twice as much, owing to
the darkey's two-fold ability for contracting
contagious disease.
The.commonly accepted idea that colored
soldiers show greater endurance in hot
climates than their white comrades is re-.
tuted by statistics furnished by the medical
department of the British army. From
these it appears that the mortality among
co4ored troops in the West Indies, last year,
was more than twice as great as among the
white soldiery.
Henry Harris, aged forty-two, has created
q sensation at Decatur, ILL.,, by marrying
Oracle Madison, aged fourteen. The giddy
things threatened to elope unless the girls
mother consented to allow them to be mar
ried.
Agent McGillicuddy admits that there may
yet be trouble with the Sioux at Pine Ridge.
He thinks of resigning for the sake of his
scalp, which he desires to preserve without
having it cured on a tepee pole.
The Baltimore & Ohio express company
paid $40, 900 for the horses, wagons and har-
ness of A. T. Stewart & Co., together with a
lease of the stables.
The Texas cattle fever has struck Auburn
n. Y, and struck her so bad that all beef is
sold under certificate from the board of
health.
At Newport, R. l., upwards of $4,000 has
been subscribed to fund being raised for
he family of the late Gen. G. K. Warren.
The forty-third convention of the Beta
Theta Pi college fraternity will be held in
Cincinnati, August 20, 30 and 81.
A new Jewish temple, which cost $4,000
was dedicated at St. Paul last week.
From FO7ei0,, Lands.
Trevelyan, chief secretary for Ireland ar
rived in Belfast Wednesday. The mayor
presented him an address of welcome and ex-
pressed desire Of the residents to strength
en- his hands in his onerous duties. Treyel.
yam in reply said it would be idle to deny
the existence of personal danger in the task
ofgoverning Ireland. The remedy against
outrages was to have tribunal which could
be trusted to do justice without fear. When
the Irish people are convinced that thew
have tribunal which will give a verdict &C.
cOrding to evidence it will have an import
ant effect. Those who expected agrarian
murders to suddenly cease, he said, were
expecting an impossibility The fixed pol
icy of the government is to distinguish be-
tween criminal and political acts. They did
not care to concern themselves with politi-
ica' meetings, but upon outrages they were
determined to wage.
The most intimate friend OF Queen Vic
toria for the last thirty years is an American
lady, Mrs. Van der Weyer; Lady Randolph
Churchill, Lady Vaudeville, Lady Anglesey,
Lady Harcourt, Lady John Lister Kaye,
Lady Fermor-H esketh, and Lady Colin
Campbell are all Americans; the Princess de
Lynar, of Berlin, came from Columbus, Ohio;
the Princess de NOer, cousin of Victoria by
marriage, and sister-in-law of the dowager
queen OF Denmark, was Miss Lee of New
York; the Duchess Laute Della Novere was a
Miss Davis; the Princess Louise de Bourbon
the Duchess de Praslin; and the Roman
Princess Cecci, Brancaccic, and Giustiniani
are also Americans; while the crown of
Holland, in the person of the late Prince of
orange, was refused five years ago by an
American Lady in Paris. ,.-
On TIE eve of "a Yorkshire election Mrs.
Wentworth Beaumont, "a great coal own
er.) an aged lady, drove in her chariot-and
four to Downing Street, and sought an inter.
view with the then prime minister, with
whom she was well acquainted. "Well, nv
lord, are yon quite determined to make