The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06

e4ue8VO1Iu& % 6ueCS an O0ll0nC0 1uDp 6n6
house through 8 kitchen window. SPRING
ing from his horse, Miles, who is power
full man, flung himself upon Bell and ad-
has since been imping about in general
" demoralized condition.
innings in General. :
The birth rate in England is 80 per
1000, and the death rate 20 per 1000. At
this rate the natural growth of the popu-
lation would be nearly half a million q
year, but the real increase is much less,
owing to emigration and occasional epi-
denies.
Grant Allen. in the NORTH American
Review, makes this pretty contrast be-
tween allied plants of the European and
American continents. "The elder hem
isphere has had it's whole fora degraded
by the excessive prevalence of mead
ows, pastures and cornfelds; the bios
SONS of the newer hemisphere breathe
rather the native beauty of open prairie
or of primeval forest. In England, we
20 to look for flowers in the fields; in
America, You 60 to look for them in the
woods; and that one prime difference in
habit implies q thousand pretty minor
differences OF form and ASPECT"
The following curious sign is k ept be-
fore the eyes Of the public at the foot OF
q steamboat landing in Portland, Me-:
''No passes given to tramps". Do not
take the trouble to ask for them. In
those days were nc passes given. Search
the Scriptures. Thou shalt. not pass
Number Xxx, '18, Suffer not man te
pass. Judges ill.,, 2S. The wicked shall no
more pass.--Isaiah, xxxiv.. 10. This gen.
Grafton shall not pass.-Jeremiah ", a..
So Ae paid the fare thereof and vent
Jonah, j., g." ..
A religious agitation of very singu-
lar character is manifesting itself in
some counties of the grand duchy of
Finland. The new heretics call them
selves the "Pure of Excellence" and
profess the superiority and supremacy.
OF woman, who must control the family
In every house where the new doc
trines are practiced woman elected
by her companions, is invested with
sort OF directing power, which gives her
right to lnf1ict penance and even vigor-
GUS chastisement. The new creed re-
quires that all its disciples shall confess
their sins to certain women at least
once a week.
The blighting effects of King Kala-
kaua's visit to this country are shown by
the fact tnat he introduced brass bands
into the Sandwich Islands. Where
peace once reigned supreme is now
heard the toot of the cornet and the
bang of the big drum. The hardened
monarch is now going to cause our
chickens to come home to roost; by
sending the Royal Hawaiian band over
there to compete for prizes at the
knights Templar tournament. No can
nibal lunch is now considered complete
without slow music by brass band.
There is society for the Prevention
Of Blindness in England. It is calcula-
ted that blindness annually costs Europe
no less sum than $1,000, 900, and Eng
land alone eS0O, 1000; so that by remov-
ing the causes not only will a large
amo mt of acute suffering, as we'll as de-
privation from the pleasures of sight,
be prevented, but great financial gain
will result. AS yet, the operations OF
the society have been mainly confined
to London, but the offer of a substantial
price for the best essay on the causes of
blindness and the most practical means
of preventing it will doubtless lead to
the dissemination of much valuable in
formation on the subject.
Ruskin says "there is in every animals
eye dim image and CLEAN of humanity
flash of strange light, through which
their life looks up to our great mystery
of command over them, and claims the
fellowship of the creature if not of the
SOUL" That seems to be very true, and
yet sometimes man notices this dim
image and CLEAN in the eye: of a strange
dog in foreign orchard, where the
trees are too high to climb, or the fence
is too distant to reach; and the discour-
aging thought comes over him with
dull, sickening thud, that that dog has
just formulated new theory on the
great mystery of our command over him
and is going to prove it in just about two
minutes. Then all the fellowship that
man feels for the creature in the dog
you can put in your, eye, be the same
more or less, with all the appurtenancea
Hawkeye.
: West Virginia has settlement OF
semi. barbarians. Three miles from
Philippi is community of from three to
four hundred people who are described
as curious compound of negro and In
dian, exhibiting the marked character
istics of both races. They are inclined
to be nomadic in their habits, are good
hunters, experts with the rifle, quick
on the chase disinclined to any regular
manual labor, and seemingly content
with mere existence. They are immor-
al. Quarrelsome and vicious. The
women work in the fields, and in fact
do more manual labor than the men.
Some English officers who witnessed
a recent exhibition of the Nodenfeldt
"machine guns" at Dartfort were amazed
at the rapidlty with which they were
discharged, though familiar with
such devices. The estimated service
from the 12-barrel Gun, weighing about
25O pounds, is /, ,l50 rounds a minute, and
the test proved the estimate true, for
900 rounds were fred in less than 81
seconds. A single barrel for cavalry
service was discharged 81 times in 80
seconds, and all the shots hit the target
within circle of the diameter of two
feet.