The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-06
INTERCHANGEABLE Matter g.

Besides being remarkable for its name
Bancome County, N. c., is celebrated for
its crops of cabbages, (single heads
weighing as much as 20 pounds, it is ale
legged, y watermelons, apples, and rattle
snakes. The vivid correspondent of
the Augusta Chronicle says its natives
seldom die, and that in travelling all over
it's mountains he saw but one grave
that of man who was accidentally killed
at the age of 20 years.
The Knights Tenplar from the east
''have been for many years reading tales
that seemed apocryphal of our prolific
soil and the immense size of our fruits
and vegetables" ".says the San Francisco
Chronicle. In order to satisfy eastern
visitors that the stories have not been
all false, the suggestion is made that an
exhibition be given of fruits. cereals,
vegetables, and wines while the Knights
are in the city.
The. following interesting figures, in
dicating the length of time the anthra-
cite coal supply of Pennsylvania may be
expected to last, have just been COM
piled. The total anthracite area before
mining commenced was 100000 square
miles. Allowing 1000 tons to the acre,
foot in depth would give 32O, ,OO0. 600
tons. Assuming that the depth averages
thirty feet, it gives a grand total of 9 co., :
OOO, 600 tons. At the present time the
consumption averages about 30, ,0OO, 900
tons asyear. So it will be seen that at
the commencement of mining Oper-
ations the supply was sufficient for 32O
years. About 508,v0O tons, or about
seventeen years supply, have been
mined leaving sufficient to supply the
demand for over 800 years to come
An after dinner orator was characters
lied in the following manner by aspeak-
er after dinner: He said he was remind
ed of the words of q Methodist clergy
man at a camp meeting upon the mira
Gle of Joshua. He began: my hearers,
there are three motions of the sun, the
first is the straightforward or direct
motion of the sun, the second is the re-
trograde or backward motion of the sun,
and the third is the motion mentioned
in our text-the sun stood STILL" Now,
gentlemen, do not know whether you
see the application of that story to after
dinner oratory. hope you do. The
atter-dinner orator at first begins and
goes straight1orward-thatis is the straight
forward motion of the sun. Next he
goes back and begins to repeat himself a
little, and that is the retrograde motion,
or the backward motion, Of the sun and
at last he has the good sense to bring
himself to All end, and that is the mo-
ton mentioned in our text of the sun
standing STILL"
The San Francisco Bulletin discusses
street slovenliness, and among other
pointed things says: "There is not the
least use for people to try to elbow their
way on the wrong side of q street. The
rule of keeping to the right will carry a
man along much more speedily and
comfortably. There may be an air of
breezy independence in splitting on the
sidewalk, but it is not nice. People who
have any sense Of personal propriety
will seek the curbstone. The chief of
fender in this respect is the tobacco
fend, but he has many imitators. Per-
baps the time will come when the shop
keeper will come to the conclusion that
he has not an inalienable right to sweep
out his store on the unlucky pedestrian
at any time of the day or night he may
select. There is apparently no hope of
SURPRISING the paper nuisance. Bits of
paper are thrust into peoples hands at
every turn, only Immediately thereafter
to be tossed in the wind"
One of the Harpers says that the Ba-
zar is one of the most successful period
ical publications in the world. He says
that the fashions of the world are set by
Berlin, whence the Parisians obtain
them. The Germans themselves a1e
not fond of dress, but their draughts-
men and manufacturers are skillful.
The Hon. Oh arles O'Conner has said:
"In my opinion, between June and
September, Nantucket:has no equal in the
world for cool and healthy summer re-
sort, and shall make it my home" In
SUPPORT of this assertion he has "salted
down." over sixty thousand dollars in a
cottage and library, and there the emf
nen, iurist lives with books for bis COM
panions. Visitors he will not tolerate,
and in this hermit home the childless
lawyer is spending his last years. He
only demands books and solitude and
has plenty Of both. He has willed his
library and house to the Catholic priests,
to be used by them as retreat. On an
other point of the island, some distance
from any habitation. is a prepossessing
cottage, only differing from it's neiy yh-
bors in having its grounds jealously
fenced in at every point. 10 this house
there cana a constant succession of
priests, seeking relaxation from toll in
heat-burdened cities. They keep apart
"from the maddening crowd" being
sufficient unto themselves, and are in
turn succeeded by other tonsured black
robed figures, who as quietly play their
part in the DIANA of life on this spot of
earth.