The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-12-21
miscellaneous Matters.

The British possessions in Australia
cover 5,075 900 square miles. The popu-
lation, white and colored, numbers p
s35, 1854 by far the greater part being con-
centrated in few cities. The debt of
the colonies is already nearly $l0O, 0O0,-
600.
At a recent funeral in New Hampshire
or Whereabouts, doctor of divinity be-
sought the Almighty ''that our lives
may not be in a parabola, wandering
farther and farther from Thee, till they
are lost in the infinite darkness, but may
their orbits be in an eclipse, that we may
ever draw near to Thee.''
The effort to enforce the new penal
Sunday code in New York reminds the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser of the
sign board which for several wears stood
at the entrance to the Whirlpool Rapids
just below Niagara Falls. "The Whirl-
pool will be closed on Sundays" But the
Whirlpool whirled on all the same.
The Worcester and Nashua Railroad
have in daily service two veteran engines
which present striking contrast to the
modern 40 ton locomotive, with it's enor-
nous boiler, heavy steam pressure, big
cylinders, and other Improvements COM
bined to furnish power and speed. The
veterans are the Worcester and Har-
ward, the former having begun running
about 1S49, and the latter in 1858. Both
were original y wood burners, with the
cutoff and drop motion, but when
changed to coal burners the more mod
ern link motion was put on.
Thurlow Weeds death bed affidavit
does not seem to have settled the Nor
gan question, and Weed is as bitterly
denounced now as he was in the second
stage of the excitement. Morgan dis
appeared, but under what circumstances
will probably never be settled.
The Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad company has raised the wages
of its freight train employees, with view
to securing the best service possible and
| retaining that permanently. The pay o.
conductors has been increased from $7(
to SIS month, and brakemen, who
commence on SIS, after three month:
service receive $50, after six months, $5s
per month, with good prospects to con
ductorship to all reliable men.
Inc value OF OLD coins Is WnOlly arDl
trary, and depends upon the desire o.
some collector to possess them. There
is no market value for them, and fiat any
sale no person has a particular desire
| for any one, it has no more value than
| for the metal it contains or its actua
circulating value as money. Some per
! sons who are collecting coins for amuse.
ment give extravagant prices for rare
| specimens to complete series. AS ar
instance the following circumstance
| may be referred to: At a recent meeting
| of the American Numismatic society, F
G. rockingham exhibited a collection OF
! American copper cents from 1898 to 1857
This is said to be the finest collection in
| the country, and was collected at a cos
Of over 5000. For the cent of 1901. SIP;
was paid, and for that of 1906, $780,"
Victor Hugo has forwarded to the Re
lief Committee at Venice the sum of 500f
for the benefit Of the sufferers from the
recent italian foods. "Let us oppose
human unity" he writes in a letter &C
companying the gift, "to the violence O.
nature. Whenever the unknown power
breaks out and works evil let human
| unity rise and do good. Against inunda
tons, against fires, against local catastro
pies, let us organize subscriptions all
Che world over. With ten sous per head
millions can be realized. The sou of the
people Will prove it's might. and the fra
! ternity of people will become the frater'
| nifty of men.