The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-11-23
] Tkfnes in General.

A peculiar feature OF the Dl-centennl4l
celebration in Philadelphia was the mu-
sic contributed by eighteen hundred
singers of Welsh birth or origin. Tho
state, especially in the coal mining dis
districts, has large population Of Cam
brian descent, and music, particularly
choral music, is carried among them to
high degree of finish, SO far as execu-
ton is concerned. r. =.
The last dog story is told by Georgia
paper, the American Republican" It is
to the effect that family in that town,
having false crate in one of the rooms
of the house, placed some red paper be-
hind it to give it the effect Of FIRE. One
cold day last winter the house dog came
in from out of doors, and seeing the pa
per in the CRATE, lay down before it to re-
ceive the heat as it came from the fire.
Feeling no warmth he raised his head,
looked over his shoulder at the grate;.
feeling no heat, Ire applied his nose to
the CRATE and sm.lt of it. It Was cold as
ice. With. his tail curled between his
legs the dog trotted out of the room, not
even casting a look at the party in the
room, evincing supreme disgust.
The destruction of timber in the Puget
Sound lumber region is said to be inl-
rmense In the production of lumber
by the sawmiils six times as much is
wasted as is prepared for market. This
is the estimate of practical men. Much
more is wantonly destroy ID every year
by farmers. clearing forest fires, etc.
Whole timber areas perish annually.
The present season has been unusually
disastrous on account Of the absence Of
Lo nd
flamnable, they have been th:nned by
most destructive fires.
One day last week thirteen married
couples on their wedding tours stood ,sf
gether in silence before the tomb O.
Washington at Mount Vernon, and every
pair seemed to be utterly obvious to the
presence Of the rest The decorous as
sembiage would probably have dispersed
without giving utterance to an audible
sound except for slender young bride,
with merry face, who at last took in
the humor Of the situation and laughed
aloud. Then one after mother they took
up the line of march for the house.
1t seems as if tobacco were destined to
universal empire. The latest sign OF the
times was furnished fortnight ago in
England when a Croydon evangelist in
vited the people to attend his services
in their working clothes and smoke their
pipes if they pleased. This example
would probably have proved more con-
tagious if the experiment had not been
cut short by the evanyellst's arrest and
sentence to paya fine Of forty, st4llinge
and costs for using abusive language to
woman. - :
OF the frequency of divorce in New
England the Interior says that lit prob
ably comes of an over-supply of literary
culture and an under supply OF domestic.
ity-they are too literary and too stingy.
There is not enough variety among
theln-too much sarneness Of novels in
library and of boiled beans ia the kitch-
en- 1t is no. in human nature to stand
so much of George Eliot along with SO
little to eat Who ever heard Of d man
getting divorce from a PENNSYLVANIA
girl-one who knows the mystery Of
fried chicken and wafHes??: or from an
understands the true inwardness OF hot
corn-bread and fresh butter? or from
any of their daughters in Missouri, iowa.
or anywhere in the northwvst?'
The Troy Times says that the appari
emily harmless chestnut is really very
indigestible, and oft N causes serious
sickness. An instance .of their indiges,
tibility, it says, recently occurred at the
village of Schaghticoke. C. NJ. Beecroft,
of that village, was taken seriously i'll
after having eaten quantity of chest
nuts. He continued to grow worse, and
physicians decided that he was suffering
from bilious collie. Every effort was
made to relieve him, but the indigesti-
BILE nuts had become compact mass in
his intestines and could not be dislotlged.
1t became question Of speedy reliet or
inevitable death within a few hours.
Finally the obstruction was removed,
and the patient Immediately began to i'm
prove and was soon convalescent.