The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-01-18
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.

Butfew people appreciate the force Of the
wind when it blows 1t the rate Of IA miles an
hour, as reported from Mount Washington. In
hurricane, it was impossible to say what veloc-
ity the wind attained, for the thermometers
at the observatory were rendered useless
before the severest gusts came, and the
highest rate they showed was 144.4 miles an
damage During the storm it was utterly I'M
possible to walk in the streets, owing to the
force Of tho wind, which rolled heavy obstacles
along like playthings and kept sheets Of iron
roofing floating in the air like pieces Of paper.
The annual report Of the board Of directors
Of city trusts and the superintendent Of the
Girard estate, in Philadelphia, shows that the
estate is in = prosperous condition. The estate
comprises the grounds and buildings occupied
by the Girard college. valued at So. 888, 974.88;
banking houses, dwellinRs, stores. wharves and
estate in schuylkill and Columbia counties, as
whole valued at So, 629, 2O4 so. These com
pose the residuary fund. In addition to this,
there is legacy fund from the estate Of Law
amounting to $40, 064. o. The financial re-,
port Of the estate shows that the receipts
estate, $500, 295 As, and Of college $467,-
100. As, leaving balance in the treasury Dec
81, 1852, Of $2s. 7l2.9 SO. The college now
The following list of the aborigines Of North
| available: Apaches, Arrapahoes, Arricarees,
Blackfeet, Bloods, Brules, Camanches, Cayu-
gas, se1eces, cherokees, cheyennes. ohicka-
choctaws, Munses. Creeks, Crows, Dela,
| wares, Gros Ventres, Iowas. Kaws,
Kaskaskies, Weas Peories, Weas Mi.
amies, Plan Keshaws, Kickapoos,
Kiaways. Mandane. Menomonees, M,amias,
Missouris, Ottoes, Minnecongoux, Muhuache,
Utahs, Navajoes, Moquis, Omahas, Onondagas,
Oneidas, stockbridge. Oregon tribes, Osages,
Pawnees, Prlmos, Mescaleros, Poncas, Pueblos,
Quaraws, sacs, Foxes, Sans Arcs. seminoles,
Shawnees, Sioux. Tuscaroras, Two Kettles,
Uncopapas, Winnebagoes, Wyandots, and
Yanctonnais
Joaquin Miller writes from New York to the
Cincinnati Commercial: ''Truly it is the car
nival of Rome without the confete, the badin-
age, and the vulgarity. Every mal, woman and
child is not only richly, but elegantly aud taste
who promenade Fifth avenue. The
less pretentious or poorly clad keep to the
other streets. Elegance alone and wealth and
beauty take their airing here, and here only.
You meet hundred men, the most noble and
kiugly on earth, 1t every square, better dressed
than Oscar Wilde, and my gentle friend Oscar
dresses well, and is youth Of fine presence,
indeed"
The Australiasian public debt is $780,
600, 600. the white population about 2, $780,
600, and these colonies are continuing to Dor
row on the score Of making reproductive
works and developing the country.
London fogs are vastly greater evil than
the perennial jokes Of those who have to en-
dure them Indicate Official statistics show
that during the week ending Dec IL no fewer
than 637 persons died in London from diseases
Of the respiratory organs, ''under the influence
of the almost continuous fog." And on Dec.
20 the Pail Mall Gazette said: 1T is quite pos
sible, judging from past experience, that to-
days fog may cost us as many lives as Tel-el-
Kebir, and that the fogs Of December may be
fatal to as many subjects Of the queen az the
whole Of the Egyptian campaign"
It appears from the German Imperial Budget
that Prince Bismarck, as chancellor Of the en-
pire, receives an annual salary of $4,000,
with the free use of his official residence and
SIS, 600 = year for maintaining 1t The ambasea-
doris in London and St Petersburg receive
and Constantinople, $40, 900 each, and the
ambassador in Rome. $25, 900; and every
ambassador has free house The largest
salary paid to any state functionary is $45.-
600, which the governor Of Alsaoe-Lorraine