The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-06-07
General Mention,

"In the culture of flowers" says
Dickens, "there cannot, by there very
nature, be anything solitary or exclusive.
The wind that blows over the cottage
porch sweeps over the grounds of the
nobleman, and as tae rain descends
over the just and the unjust, so it COM
municates to all gardens, both rich and
Enjoyment, and the gardener Of the the
rich man, is developing or enhancing
a fruitful flavor or delightful scent, is,
in some sort, the gardener of every
body else."
A new bonanza has been struck in
southwestern Missouri. It is a pigeon
roost, occupied by thousands of pigeons.
A piece of densely timbered wood, be-
tween five and six miles in length. is
full of these interesting birds, of which
thousands are caught daily and shipped
to distant cities. One day $500 pounds
formed the shipment of these birds.
The stay of the pigeons is made even
more desirable to the locality, because
they do no damage, seeking their food
at distance.
According to the Syracuse N. Y, Her.
aid, a pine floor laid in gold workers
shop in ten years becomes worth $3.50
per foot. A Syracuse jeweler once bought
for less than $50 some sweepings that
gave $SOS worth of gold. A tub in his
cellar, into which is blown the dust from
a polishing lathe, accumulates $50 a
year. A workingman in his shop car
ried off on the tips of his moistened fin
ger $50 of filings in few weeks. Work
at;v al Ho;
their fingers through it, leaving a depos-
wards wash out.
Tai Mahal in India, in some respects
the most majestic building on earth.
Twenty thousand men We're twenty
years in building it. It costs about $l6,-
100000. The walls are of marble, inlaid
with cornelian from Bagdad, and tur-
quoise from Thibet, and jasper from
Punjab, and amethyst from Persia, and
all manner of precious stones. There is
around it garden of tamrind, and ban
yam, and palm, and all theforal glories of
the ransacked earth. But that is only a
tomb of dead Empress.
During the past month the American
Episcopal church in Paris, of which the
Rev. Mr.. Morgan is rector. has been the
recipient of two valuable gifts from two
members of the congregation. One of
them is a parish building which will con-
tain chapel, rooms for the Sunday
school and parish societies, and stuiy
for the rector. The other is mortuary
chapel which will be Of stone. hand
somely fitted up inside. As temporary
resting place for the bodies of those
whose friends may wish to bring them
to this country, this mortuary chapel
will! prove to be great accommo-
dation.
This little incident is given by the
writer to show that some travellers have
not sense enough to diagnose family
party when they see one: A traveller
saw woman take man by the collar,
yank him up the steps into railway
car, jam him down into the hot seat
next the stove. pile up valise and two
brown baskets with loose covers and
long handles at his feet, shove a baby
into his lap and say: ''Now, sit there
until I help Mary Jane on the car,
and don't you move until
come back" When the woman
reached the car door the traveller said to
her, els that man your husband?"
"Now-w-w!" roared the woman; she's
my daughters husband, and she hasn't
spirit enough to say her soul is her own!'
A man offering violence to woman
might we'll be shot down by the nearest
friend of the girl or wife, but when per-
sons in middle life and by deliberate
steps turn away from home and wander
off into the outside world, remedy il not
a pistol. but divorce. What fool Rus
kin would have been had he shot any
body! What an inf mite blockhead
would the Rev. Newman Hall have made
of himself had he attempted to keep his
domestic affairs all right by means of a
few murders! In this city, when a wife
recently ran off with another man, the
deserted mortal requested the new hus-
band to treat we'll the stolen wife. Good
idea! No bloodshed! No noise and
confusion! If AS wife prefer 3, she is
not worth the powder that would kill B.
Professor Swing in Weekly Magazine.