The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-02
Passing Events.

A capital description. of a theatre ia
that given in Julian Hawthorne's For
tunes Fool" BY little girl to a boy who
has never heard of one:
"Oh, it's where everything is the way
it ought to be, aud people DO things that
make you laugh and cry; and they seem
to live all their lives, and yet it is over
in two or three hours. And
everything they say means something,
instead Of being only "How do you feel?''
and .:Its fine day" as real people DO;
and they tell you all they mean to do,
Then, when it's over, great
green curtain comes down, and you go
out, and there are people going up and
down the streets just as if nothing had
happened, and it is so common and stu.
pid you can hardly bear it. It makes
you wish there were no real people
alive"
The s aw locomotive; which attracted
much attention at the recent Exposition
Of Railway Appliances ip Chicago be:
cause Of its promise of furnishing here
tofore unequalled speed for railway
travel, made run over the Chicaao and
Northwestern railroad a few weeks ago.
A despatch to the Chicago Tribune says:
s"The verdict of engineers and experts
was that it would serve to draw light
trains at Tremendous rate of speed ;
but that for the. :,;?sliary uses and pur-
poses of railway WIZ the lack OF power
in the locomotive, as at present con-
structed, was more than an offset for its
capacity for speed"
A St.: Louis restauranteur tells the
Post Dispatch: 1--WE have great
many more customers in the summer
than in winter, and our profits are al
most double in the same amount of
checks: There 1s less profit in meat
dish than any other kind. The num-
beS Of customers in July and August is
fully twice as largB dis Ia February and
March; February Is the. smallest month
for ott business, as we'll as the shortest
month: There are several REASONS for
this, one, is that the families, Of many
are absent in the summer; and another
that more are on the streets"
IN 1876 there were but twenty -four
cotton-seed oil mills in the country.
During the past season about 301, 600
tons of seed were crushed, the product
u dill DolllS e6tluldleu ~ OVoE ooV,VoV
barrels. AS the product of seed for the
year was 3 500, 600 tons, it may readily be
conjectured that the stock of raw mater.
ial will allow a considerable expansion
of oil production. About $40, 900, 00Q, 900
is already invested in the mills, which
now form one of the most important in
dustries of the South.
There are persons who make money
by getting rancid country butter at ten
cents pound, doctoring it so that it
will taste good for twelve hours, and
then selling it at fifteen or twenty cents
to housekeepers who are prejudiced
against oleomargarine.~~~v -. $3.50.
A Vermonter writes to the New Eng
land Farmer that this is the time when
the city cousins think they will visit
their farming relatives where the child
reii tail have fresh milk and eggs and all
hands can enjoy the fruits and products
Of the farm while having nothing to do
but to get up when called to break
fast. The farmer says this is becoming a
serious Question with farmers, in whose
houses, In the hot and busy days of the
summer; their wives and daughters have
more work than they ought to do' and
should not be called upon to wait upon
company who simply make them dead
head convenience,