The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-24
Things i'm General.


r. There arenabout one white and ten
thousand Chinesescigar makers in San
San Francisco, and the 'Friscoans are
seeking howf they may starye out the
monaghan workers Why don't they
quit smokinSp ~ -
There is a touching pathos in the ex-
clamation Of a little girl who was one of
an excursion of poor New York children.
Speaking ofa farmer she said, "IIe dug
the pertators ont of the ground, and
didn't pay lcent."s
A minister who supplied pulpit in
Auburn recently in a prayer invoked
the divine b}cssing "upon the lowest
class of people in society--the politi-
clans" There, would seem to be some
ling II of oanshs,e ~
"A write " oman's journal pro-
tests agains artions such as this:
"a woman Would rather look through a
kcy-hole any Sday,th han throughsthe big
gest telescope that was ever made.
The first Sunday law on record was
made by Constantine the Great in the
kIzIRTst quarter of the fourth century and
EeYersince that time Sunday has been
lOIl1llCu ito u il1ASS0teRtHE,
|aag in Christian counties by civil legisla-
One of the latest and most sensational
statements madesin5 the London police
courts was the declaration Of "a desc rted
wife, who complained that her husband
had eloped with his mother-in-law. A
stail English journal, commenting up
on the case, says: ''To our mind it re-
scmbles the American story Wnlcil' took
forty men to believe it, "
No marriage is legal in France except
with the consent Of the parents of both
parties, but a man or woman over IS
may respectfully cite" his or her par
cnts to show cause why they refuse con-
sent. If they fail.to show good cause,
the marriage may proceed in spite of
them. Such proceedings are rarely re-
sorted to.
The official reports show how seriously
the city of Quebec, Canada, has suffered
from SIX fires during the past 36 years
In May and June, 1912, two fires swept
RocE and St. jacques, destroying 81 Co.,
900 Of property; on the 18th of October,
1866, 81 800, 900 worth was destroyed in
the districts Of st. Roch and St. Sauveur;
Oh the 24th of May, 1870, a loss of $780,
900 occurred in St. Roch's; on the Both of
May, 1876, the district of St. Louis lost
ST 600, 900, and on the Sth of June, 1881,
s. 900, 900 were destroyed, making to-
tai of over Sl0,000,000.
In the California Supreme Court new
trial was granted a man convicted Of
murder, on the ground that the jury
draak SO much during the trial as to UNI
fit them for proper and serious delibera
ton Of the evidence. During the eight
Ialays Of the trial, four fve-gallon kegs of
claret, and considerable whisky were
leenspned by the Jury at their own OK
penae> and consumed by them without
1.-The klfoNlcdge of the Court. In many
Estates, The Court says, it is held that any
EdEnkingefa Intoxicating liquors by the
f1uE is sufficient to set aside a verdict,
Ib1tfhey hold Chat as long as there is not
sufficient drankto incapacitate the Jurors
1.-the verdict should stand.
New \ ork HAS sewing school, where
girls can learn, without any cost to them
selves, to make dresses, run sewing ma
chimes and to do washing. The establish
ment is a branch Of the Chi]dren's Aid
| H'tlCLf anu mas all average VI iDOul
.thirtytWo inmates. TO learn dress max
Ing they stay six months, and when
backward, 4 year If the inmates choose
t. pay six cents for meals and ten cents
for lodgings, they can 80 and como as
they please: otherwise they arc not at
liberty to go out without permission.
In several counties in Pennsylvania
the ''black-lcg fcver' Hungarians have
become public charges at the almshouses,
The question has been raised whether
they could be compelled to support these
clnigrant paupers. The matter will be
submitted to the courts for decision in
two or three counties.
The Red Cross, or Geneva Convention
society, whose wearers are all brethren
and sacred in the eyes Of belligcrents in
war time, has now been proclaimed by
the president to cover American men,
bers. 1t is a safe conduct to all Wearers
| III the. midst OF, war.
C:.'1iug guns have rivals now in rapid
shooting military rifles with skilled
markslnen to handle them. In recent
match at Creedmoor on the two-hun-
drcd yard range one Of the competitors
fired nineteen shots in one minute, and
with sufficient accuracy to make cOnsid-
crably more than half of a perfect score.