The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-06-08
Pitly Paragraphs.

The democratic mayor of Cincinnati
has sententious way of expressing his
ideas. Speaking Of enforcing the laws
upon the statutes he says: Zone of the
first duties of community is to protect
the young; protect the boys first, and
they will protect the girls"
A hungry rat deyoured fifteen canary
birds in. Cleveland, Ohio, in one night
recently, and in consequence grew so
corpulent. that he couldn't escape from
the cage. The rat was killed with much
promptness.
The Yale association Of Colorado have
raised a considerable fund to aid studious
youths from that state in acquiring an
education at Yale college. The boys in
the Denver high school have been told
that the association will gladly pay the
tuition of any of them who may 60 to
needing it some other assistance may be
given.
In closing his message to the Louisiana
legislature, Gov. McEnery says: *"The
late special message of the president to
congress, his patriotic and statesmanlike
views and liberal ideas, have given new
life to our people. Checrfulness and hope
have taken the place Of gloom and
dependency, in the well-founded belief
that congress will assume control of the
levees, and that, inconsequence, no such
calamity as the present will ever again
occur"
The Golden club is a free trade institu
ton, and London newspaper states that
since January, 1881, it has circulated
73O, 900 publications, chiefly in support of
its free trade principles, and that since
it was founded, in 1866, the number of
documents issued by it has. reached L.
100000. These publications consist of
books, pamphlets, circulars and address
CS.
Inthe good old times boys got their
physical training OH the farm or in other
useful employments, and went to college
for mental development. Now the col
leges seem to have been converted into
Institutions for athletic culture. CorneQ
University, in addition to her Eagnifi-
cent gymnasium, now proposes to erecta
$4,000 hall for the drill of the students.
Philadelphia has school building
which dates back to colonial times.
During the revolutionary war it was
used as hospital, and in 1898 both the
congress of the United States and the
general assembly of Pennsylvania made
application for its use as hall, in which
those bodies could sit. The boys are
summoned to their studies by bell
which was brought from England in the
ship whose cargo of tea was thrown over
board in Boston Harbor. On the steeple
survives tho wooden image Of royal
crown which the juvenile rebels of
Germantown during the revolution used
to pelt with arrows. It is located at the
corner of School lane and Green street.
Senatorial absenteeism in Washington
is serious obstruction to the dispatch of
public business, it being the custom to
refrain from acting on any measure in
which an absent senator may have an in
terest. Malone, of Virginia., has not
been in his seat above forty-eight hours
all told during the session. Cameron
has been out of his seat nearly all the
time. Lamar is at home with his sick
wife, Logan is at the Hot Springs with
his lame back, Edmunds has been away
with sick daughter, and Garland has
been much in his own state. Hill has q
sore mouth, and his colleague, Brown, is
very ill.
There is a curious story about the re-
fusal of a wealthy New Yorker to pay for
certain bridal presents ordered by his
wife. It seems that the wife ordered Of
asilverware establishment 81 900 worth
of presents, which were received and
duly admired by the bride. But when
the giver's husband received the bill he
called at the jewelers. and said that the
money must be collected, if at all, from
the bridegroom. The silversmiths ap-
piled to the bride for the return of the
presents, but she refused to restore
them and the purchaser has been sued
for the value of the goods. The strang-
est part of the affair Is the husband 9 rea-
son for refusing to pay his wife's bill. 1t
has leaked out that he was once Tilted
by the bride upon whose table he de-
c1ines to pile a thousand dollars worth
Of precious metal.