The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-05-03
P1th and Point,

Handringhams Hall, the country re.l
sidence of the Prince of Wales, Is real
English home, and not a grand castle
reserved for show. A tablet set above
the veatibule entrance bears the inscrip-
ton: "This house was built by Ebert
Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alex
andra, his wife, in the year OF our Lord
1870" The house is situated near the
Western coast of Norfolk. =
In some parts of Spain, where butter
is rare article of merchandise, it is sold
not by the pound, bat by the yard. It
is all brought from the mo 1ntain dis
tricts, like sausages tat are "ted OFF,
with strings in length as required by the
buyers. 70 traders, butter by the inch
seems rather curious bargaining: Ihe4
product is usually not very palatable nor
particularly clean.
Perhaps the deepest coal mine on this
continent is at Pottsville, Pa. The shaft
is 1,576 feet deep-nearly a third Of
mile. Every day during the busy sea-
son 200 cars, containing four tons each,
are sent from below to the upper world,
the time of each trip being little overa
minute.
New York has become the most i'm
portant center of the nut trade in this
country. the extent of which indicates
that people have either secured patent
stomachs or that indigestion has lost its
terrors. Africa used to supply peanuts
by the shipload, but now the southern
states cultivate so successfully this popu-
lar nut that we are independent, Vlr-
ginia producing the present season =
DOO, goo bushels. Tennessee $50, 600 BUSH
els, North Carolina 120, 900 carloads, and
invoices of one or two hundred barrels
of the Texas pecan are now used where
they were almost unknown short time
ago.
The Roman Catholic church has
trebled its churches in Great Britain
and increased its membership two and
q half fold in the last forty years. The
ing countries 1876 sees, IA, 444 priests, 49,
796 churches, and 15,9O6,0OO persons,
who are connected more or less closely
with the church. One-third of the
bishops, three.fourths of the priests, Al
per cent. of the membership is in the
United States, which has more than
one-half the English speaking popula-
ton of the world.
One of the best foreign criticisms ever
passed upon America was that of Her
bert Spencer, who said that every
American appeared to have been born
half an hour late, and to be trying to
make up for lost time.
Witha population of nearly 5000, OOOl
and with over 100000 houses, London
finds thatan allowance of two policemen
to every 1000 inhabitants, or fourteen
| to every 1000 houses, is sufficient to
maintain law and order.
The recently famous word ''dude" has
been in common use in the little town OF
Salem, N H. for the last twenty years.
The people there apply the word to
these bucolic swains who aspire to be
village tops. All such ,conceited and
brainless young men are spoken OF as
"dudes," the word being pronounced IN
two syllables. How the word became
TRANSPORTED to the metropolis, and why
it attained such sudden popularity are
questions that philologist alone perhaps
can fully solve.
On the anniversary of the Paris Com
mune, the people of Stuttgart were
amazed to see floating from tower in
the middle of the city a large red flag
bearing the inscriptions, "Liberty,
Ecu ,lity, fraternity" and "In memorZl
of the Paris Commune, 18th March,
1871" A. the entrance to the tower
was posted rlacard-"Beware OF dyna-
mitel" and about five pounds of gun
powder was found strewn about near the
inner gate. The mystery is how access
was gained to the tower, which had been
closely guarded.
The famous Walled Lake in the state
of Iowa, one hundred and fifty miles
west of Dubuque, has recently attracted
much attention. II is in the midst of
prairie land, and is two or three feet
above the earth's surface. 1t is inclosed
by wall of stones in some places ten
feet high, fifteen feet wide at the bot
tom and five feet wide at the top. The
stones vary in weight from three tons to
one hundred pounds. There are no
stones on the surface ofthe ground with
in ten miles of the lake. \ few years
ago the ice OIL the lake broke the wall IN
several places, and the farmers were
Obliged TO repair it TO prevent 'nunda-
ton.