The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-07-26
Miscellaneous Matter.

Selma, Ala. has over sixty artesial
wells, and the water from no two O
them is exactly alike.
More than half a million pounds ster
ling were spent by twenty three of tn,
British railway companies in law an(
parliamentary expenses last year. TIL,
Midland spent over G55. 900, the Great
Western, E45, 1000, the London and
Northwestern &4l 900, the Northwestern
e25, 900 and the Great Eastern G55, 900
And this money was mainly spent BY
the companies in fighting each other.
It is said that there are four firms il
Philadelphia which make business Of
collecting eggs that have lost their pris
tine purity-are, in f ct, bad eggs. They
are opened aud graded. The hopelesslj
demoralized are sent to tanneries for
polishing purposes. Those that are
merely too emphatic in tone for culin.
ary purposes, are separated, the whites
from the yolks, the latter being used by
morocco manufacturers, and the former
so says INSCRIPTIONS report-by con-
fectioners.
When Forepaugh's circus was I'M Port
land, Me-, twelve lumbermen started
from lodging camp in New Hampshire
to visit the show. They were accom-.
panied by the wives of two of their mum
ber, both with infants in their arms
They had to walk seven miles to take 8
railroad train that started at twenty min
utes of six in the morning, and rode one
hundred and two miles to the scene Of
action in Portland.
The Arkansaw Traveller: ''What'e
the value of your personal property, old
MANI" asked tax assessor of a negro.
"What's yer wanter know dat fur?" $50
Well know how much to ma Ike you pay.
''My stuff's done paid fer, sahp' Eyes
but you'll have to pay taxes on your
household. goods" ''Da taxed me
s sg%nd ter IN ps De n6 st mo esee a 4sn A
you don't you can't vote at the next
election!' "All right. ia don't count
my vote nohow. 60 off some whar and
tax man fer habin de rhematiz."
Robert Laird Collier writes from Ok.
ford, England. concerning that famous
university. Of three thousand students,
twenty. five hundred are the sons ofgen-
It0AAoA VIII dI0 HUI utIAuS GuSulSclV0b
to earn living, but only TO- ornament
done already at one of the great public
the boating, the football, the cricket,
the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse
with fellows" "scholars," lecturers
and professors, the acquaintance of the
young aristocracv, and the nameless air
of academic refinement, are the neces-
sary and finishing requisites of an Eng
lish gentleman. 10 be that is the am6i-
ton and aim of every well-b6rn and
Well-bred English youth.
Northwestern Colorado is reported to
be region Of great mineral wealth, but
its occupation, as the reservation of the
White River Utes, has prevented it's
exploration and development. No
white man could cross over into the
territory without risking his life at the
hands of the Utes, or being subject to
arrest by the Uuited States authorities:
The country remained practically uhoc-
cupied until the Legislature in Febl tiary
last opened it up by creating it cotin-
ty, which was named Garfield. A full
set of officers were appointed soon after,
and now the county government is fully
organized. The territory of which this
new county is composed is over 100
miles from east to west, and about eigh-
ty miles from north to south. Miners
are now f1ocking into the country, and
mountain almost on level with the top
of Pixies Peak, being about II 900 feet
above the sea lie vel. The shafts sunk
developed richsilver- bearing ore. The
Denver and Rio Grand railroad is ex-
tending In the direction of the camp.
Edmund Yates says in the London
World: every one knows that many
so-called Americanisms of speech are
not American at all. but survivals of
English words and phrases which have
gone out of use in the old country. l
have long been losing faith in the origi-
nality of ANYTHING American, but con-
TESS that did cling with the feverish
fervor of dying belief to the Transat-
lantic origin of the phrase, a bully boy
l have been compelled to let it 60. Last
week, in tut ming over the leaves of Mr..
W. J. Unions delightful volume, Rare
Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centurles,' | came across a sony entitled
three Poor Mariners which was pub
lished in 1909, and Of which the follow
ing are the concluding lines:
To them we dance the round, the round;
And he that IS bully boy
Come pledge me on this ground, around,
around.
It would seem as if there were nothing
genuinely American but the novels Of
Messrs. Howells and James, and Ameri-
ca is welcome TO them"