The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
Items Of General Interest.

Items Of General Interest.
Leading citizens of Keokuk, Ia, in
tend to remove the remains of Keokuk,
the Indian chief, to point near that
city, and erect suitable monument to
[ his memory.
At Vicksburg, Miss, wells sunk a Gu,
abundance of excellent water, with fine
sand and sea shells, is found.
Andrew H. Smith of Rohrersville,
Md, while searching for potatoes in bis
garden, noticinga hole of peculiar shape,
| thrust his hand into it and was bitten.
Acute pain was followed by copious
flow of blood. H. had been bitten by a
arge copperhead.
Frederick Haas, confined in the Nor
ristown, Pa, asylum for the insane, was
sane, the physicians for the institution
acknowledging his sanity, hut il re-
Quired writ of habeas corpus to ret
him out.
The monuments of Luther to be un-
| yelled at Madgeburg celebration on Nov.
10, represents the great refor ner as
looking up to heaven, his head uncov.
cred, his left hand pressing against his
heart, IN the right. the Bible. At his
feet lies the papal bull.
The English papers state that Mr..
Arthur st. George, the inventor OF tel
ephone, has perfected a contrivance
which is supplemental to the telephone,
and will enable every description of
(
stru:nent to be not only recorded but
reproduced at any future time.
The English sparrows, which are eat
en- in Philadelphia for reed birds, are
considered great delicacy. The flesh
of ths sparrow is darker than tn It of the
reed bird, but the Philadelphia cooks
say that only those who have never eat
en- any thing but reed birds can tell the
difference
It is said that the cochineal trade has
been nearly ruined py the discovery OF
anime dyes. Until very recently this
trade was the mainstay Of the island OF
Teneriffe, the cochineal depending upon
the cultivation OF the cactus plant, which.
since the suppression of the trade Nv
aniline, is no longer the remunerative
business that it formerly was. The fail
ure of the trade has affected all classes
of society, the rich as we'll as the
poor.
The secretary of the Williamsburg IN.
~ gas company has received contri-
button to the conscience fund from
boy who writes as follows: "When I
was small boy used for the fun of it
break the glasses in your street lamps.
l should have known better, and l did,
put anyhow l broke them. | have since
been converted to the religion OF Jesus
Christ, the Son Of God, and his spirit
tells me to pay for those panes of glass.
80 most c;heerfully send You SIS. which.
think, will cover everything"
Gen. John Hodglon, one ofthe wealth.
lest and most respected citizens of Du-
buque, died, aged SO. He was one of
the nesotiators of the Ashburton treaty.
A brother and sister, who belong to
the Danish 1ace, are living near Sioux
Rapids as man and wife. They have
family of deformed children in conse-
quence.
An attempt to introduce silk culture
into Scott county has failed, owing to in
ability of the projectors to pay more
careful attention to the raising of the
worms.
It is claimed that vault to be con-
structed for safe deposit company in
Cincinnati will be the largest burglar
proof vault in the United States. 1t is
to be II feet inches long, 2l feet l inch
wide, and 8 'eet in height, inside meas
urenent: In addition to the other locks
there will be time lock connected with
two separate movements to work
an ingenious contrivance, if both move
ments should stop. the time lock would
then present no obstacle to opening the
vault alter properly setting the other
locks. It is claimed that this does
away with the chief objection to time
locks.
A Berlin journal speaks of the injuri-
GUS effect OF greasy water on steam boil
ers in south Germany, where the water
frequently contains magnesia, which
substance is also contained to a much
slighter extent in the waters of the
Rhine. Bhe fatty acids form with the
magnesia totally insoluble soap. By
making the experiment on small scale,
a white pow der viii! be seen floating on
the water, and on putting the finger into
the water this powder envelopes the
finger and protects it from being wetted.
Even when the water is not greasy.
magnesia has an injurious effect, as ex-
perlence has proved in the case of wa.
ters containing much carbonate Of mag
nesia.
The river Witham in England has
just been the scene Of novel contest.
More than 500 anglers entered the lists
to compete for valuable prizes, the
fisherman who caught the largest fish
Wilhelm certain time to obtain. the first
prize. At given signal all the anglers
cast their lines into the water, and the
keenest rivalry was shown by the con-
tingents of fishermen from different
towns. Several of the contestants pre-
sented abnormally large fish, on which
they based q claim for the prize, but it
was easily shown that they had resorted
to the old trick of buying them, and they
were ignomininiously debarred from
the contest.
In the British Cabinet there are three
regular total abstainers-Sir William
Harcour,, Sir Charles Dixie and Mr.,
Chamberlain. Sir w. Harcourt is a
member of the Red Ribbon Order. Mr..
Gladstone tastes little wine, Russian tea
being his favorite beverage. Mr.. La
bouchere is total abstainer and Mr..
Parnell very rarely touches wine. Lord
Derby is the only member of the minis
try who, like Pitt, Fox, Canning and the
old heroes, loves good bottle.
BRAVE WOMAN.
Concealing Her Own Agony 10 Save