The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-17
Miscellaneous Matters.

lne discovery mas Deen MAZE tlat
eight oleomargarine factories are run
ming at night i'll the lower part of New
York city,, where butter and fat are
mixed and sent west in tubs marked
"Pure Orange County Butter" It is al
legged that the resulting mixture sells
better than the unalloyed, and presents
more attractive appearance.
Another charming romance is demol-
ished by the inconoclastic hand of truth.
4 great many good people have felt a
thrill Of intense satisfacti!on at the story
that Queen Victoria, while at Mentone,
recently refused to accept a bouquet
sent to her from the Monte Carlo gam
bling house. 1t appears now, however,
on the authority Of Sir Henry Ponsonby,
that she did not refuse the bouquet for
such was ever sent to her.
A lady correspondent says of her sex:
"There is nothing new in the costumes
at Saratoga; but if it had nothing else to
boast of, the wealth of beautiful female
arms gathered there is simply bewilder-
ing, and the art of the dresslnaker in
displaying them beneath what is meant
to be covering cannot fail to enrapture
even modern aesthetic. Feet may be,
and in fact are, frequently large, and
faces plain; but if the life schools Of
academies of art wish to obtain models
of brachial loveliness they had better
depart to the springs in a body.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad COM
pany is arranging to lay the long-talked-
of independent cable between Europe
and this country. The American end
will he landed either on the Maryland
shore or at New York. It is probable
that this cable at least can not be alb
sorbed 10y the Anglo American company,
but will he permanently kept as an in
dependent line. About $4,000, 900 has
already been subscribed, largely 10y
London capitalists. The tariff is to he
fixed at twenty-five cents word, with
out the rigid rules as to length, etc,
which obtain under the present cable
management Will, the increase of
business it is proposed to decrease this
rate.
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Is city
only years old, and not yet incorpoa-
ted-but it has two first class daily news
papers, two lines of street cars, twenty
five miles oftelephone, gas works, hotels,
union depot, and nearly all the Metro
politan conveniences of a thll-grOWn
Western city.
The great diversity of our country is
shown in the various levels at which our
people live: 1908 live between7 900 and
5000 feet above sea level, "a ,947 live be-
tween 5000 and 5000 feet, 2640O live
over 10000 feet, .26,S46, live between
5000 and 10000 feet, 1889 live between
5000 and 1000 feet, 12S, 34S live between
5000, and 4 1000 feet, 1GG, 5i5 live between
1000 and 5000 feet, 27l 1921 live between
5000 and 5000 feet, G94 ,S57 live between
1900 and 3 900 feet, l 1916 1856 live between
800 and 1900 feet, 47,9G3,Sl1 live be-
tween 1000 and 1900 feet, 1880
live 100 feet above the level of the sea,
and lO,775,2 $50 live between 100 and 500
feet, and 1902, 617 live between 500 and
l 600 feet above the level Of the sea.
The average height ofall is 700 feet above
sea level Nearly half million of our
people live mile high and over.
With the assistance Of Enoch J. Smith
ers, United States consul at Chinkiang,
the Presbyterian missionaries in China
have obtained from Tso Tsung Tang, vic
eroy of three important provinces, the
right to purchase land where they please,
privilege which has been denied them
for eight years by the local authorities.
The viceroy, (says a letter in the New
York Post) addressing his deputies dur
ing an interview with the consul, said
1.-THE people (Chinese? must have good
reasons for wishing missionaries to leave
one place, which they have selected,
oo1 fol- nr1fh1r Tf <h1V, IN
side in more than one place they have
the right to do so, just the same as any
Chinese subject.