The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
Glittering Generates.

OuCCer10S Geuef&s1t101'
The postal cards are made at Hol-
yoke, Mass, by forty men, who turn
out about 100000 daily. They have
diminished the consumption of writing
paper by from $4,000, 900 to SIS, COX, 600
a year.
Lord Duferin thinks he can keep the
peace in Egypt with 6,147 soldiers and
$3.50 gendarmes, differed with asprink-
ling Of Europeans, at a cost of s., 500, 900;
provided it is clearly understood Eng
land will interfere upon row arising
with her feet and batter down city or
two.
The last St. Louis story about the Chi.
cago girl is really too bad. 1t says that
she insisted upon throwing her shoe az
riage is total wreck, the bride is in the
hands of doctor, and the groom YVES
with difficulty dug out from under the
ruins.
"Eye peeping" is now the favorite
games for evenings. Two holes are
made in a screen, against which some
person hidden behind places his eyes,
and the audience in front have to guess
to whom the eyes belong.
Great distances have been cleared by
some of the English horses. Chandler
cleared thirty-nine feet over brook at
Warwick; Calverthorpe, thirty-three
feet over hurdles; King of the Valley,
thirty-five feet over the Wissedine brook
in Leicestershire; Lottery, thirty.four
feet at Liverpool; Peter Simple. thirty
seven feet.
Judge Gresham, the new postmaster
general, used a crutch for several years
after the close of the war, but now he
can get along with cane. A bullet
plowed a deep turrow in his leg at the
battle of Peach Tree Creek, before AT
lanta.
In the Practitioner, doctor relates a
history of the course of disease in fam
lily, which illustrates, if it does not de-
monstrate the trans,nissibil,ty of
Bright's disease. A woman, two of
whose brothers had died of this disease
in early manhood, who herself died of
it when sixty years of age, was the
mother of twelve children, seven of
whom also died from it, and grandchil-
dren of whom two at least are effected
with kidney disease.
Eleven thousand newspapers and pc
riodicals are published in the United
States. New York has the largest num-
Der of any state, viz: AL, and next
comes Illinois with 1917. Pelnsylva-
mia ranks third with 973, and afterward.
in order. are Ohio, Iowa and Missouri.
Six hundred and forty of these papers
are published in German, forty mine in
Danish and Scandinavian, and forty one
in French. There are five Welsh pa
pers, three Chinese, three Indian and
one in irish.
The Bath (Me.) Times tells this story
"a middle-aged gentleman an ev-
ening or two since was passing along
the street when he met young man
who TO: moment he thought was one
of his acquaintance, but on looking
more closely 1t proved to be some one
else. The diminutive youth was walk
ing with lady, and resenting what he
fancied was unWarranted staring, he
snapped out: well, hope you'll know
me the next time you see me- Don't
know replied the elderly man, Knight
know you now, if had my glasses on.
If you hadn't spoken I wouldn't have
known You we're there"
The proficiency attained by the COL
ored gentleman who have charge of the
hat room in large hotels is often sur
prislng. They will pass out two hundred
chapeaux without making single imis-
take. A young man from Buffalo says
the Commercial was SO impressed with
the performance at New York hotel
the other day that. in tone of respect.
full admiration he asked the phenome-
non how he knew it was his hat. "Weli,
sah," was the brisk response, I couldn't
swar de hat was yourn, sab. ] only
know it was de hat you gave me-" The
bystanders smiled and the youthful Buff
falonian stopped the invest ieation.
In all the royal palaces in England a
most careful distinction is made between
state property, which descends from one
sovereign to another, and private prop
erty. At present almost ev cry thing
at Balnoral and Osborne belongs to the
Queen herself, but, excepting few pic
! lures and statues, she has no personal
property at either Windsor or Bucking.
ham Palace.
The main building for the Southern
Exposition, which opens at Louisville
Ky., on the LIST of August, is now in q
sufficiently advanced state of construc-
ton to give some idea of it's proportions
1t will be one of the largest of the kind
ever built, covering an area of ST. 400
square feet, being inferior only to the
main buildings at the London Exposition
of 1851 and 1862, and the Centennial Ex-
position.