The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-07

Kate st1oM 68y6:.S Gf1tt60W Arnold
may talk about tie superiority Of
|.Amefican omen over men, and know
better. Don't quote q foreigner-man-
to me. Al 9 man. wants from woman
usually is receptivity. American women
are more sympathetic to him than men,
henceip his, estimation superior. Don't
talk to me of the .superiority Of my sex.
When women aressnpesi0f t6 men they
will demand the suffrage, and several
other things.oo ---.-.--------.------.- -
Hmefican women owe bow to The Pail
Mall Gazette, which says American
girls have deserved reputation for gen.
eral courage above all their sisters else.
A German doctor says: "Melt some
suspected butter, soak worsted or
wick in 1t. when cold light it like can
die, blow it out; if it is o)egmargarine, it
will smell like blown.out candle; if it
is butter, it will smell like butter
The total number of children of
'sschool age," which varies in each state
from four to sixteen, is estimated at 49,
052 1888; the school rolls for 1882 show
membership of 9, 7S1. 53l, however, and
daily average attendance of I, 705,342.
The furniture interest in this country
is enormous. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 800 families
and product of nearly $40 100000. Gin:
cinnati had 1l9 factories, with a profit of
81 ,500,O Chicago turned out above
Sc, O00, 900; Philadelphia, s., 000, 900, and
Boston, $4,000, 600.
According to the last statistics there
are in Paris, 1911 800 dwellings inhabited
by RIGA or well-to-do people, amounting
to 100000 individuals, and 472, 900 houses
for 500. 900 workmen or poor people.
About 200, 900 human beings are living
in II 1853 "garnis" or second-class tene-
ment houses.
The Baltimore Sun says: "Woman is
a luxury-loving and generous buyer,
and it is to Ter demand for beautiful
fabrics that the manufacturer, under the
new social conditions of the last two GEN.
turtles, has looked with most confidence
for bis reward. This demand did not
exist to anything like the same extent a
hnndred years ago. when woman, being
regarded in the ordinary walks of life as
somewhat inferior creature, was re-
stricted in her liberty, her expenditure
and her discretion as to number Of
things, dress in GUIDED, affecting her
happiness"
Queer old China is the only civilized
country in th2 world which has not re-
sorted to gas as means OF lighting, and
even among the rich the methods of H.
Illuminating are primitive in the extreme,
though kerosene oil is now rapidly COM
ing into use withina considerable radius
of the treaty ports.
A foolish man in San Francisco adj
vertised for 1920 red-headed girls; must
be good looking" and not one response
was received. At the suggestion of his
wife. who is red headed, he advertised
for 1920 golden.haired beauties" and be-
fore the paper was out two hours the
street in front of his office was crowded
with Just the style of beauty he desired.
The Mobile Register says if intelligent
northern people would visit the south
during political campaign and election,
they would ''no longer express surprise
that a race so ignorant and unframed as
the negro can not withstand the arts and
devices of superior race"
The New Orleans Picaynne says that
on Sunday mornings the French market
in that city is visited by an unusually
large crowd OF strangers who do the
market. taking coffee, etc., attend the
fine services at the Cathedral, and wind
up with breakfast at some quaint, out
of.the-w way little French restaurant.
The last census gave Texas total pop.
ulation of 1851 ,749, of which S37, $40
were males and 1885, 900 females. Native
born, 1,477,133; foreign-born, 114.6l6;
whites, 1897 ,2S7; colored 1894, 1872. The
area of the state includes 1853, %, 100
acres of which only 6,S41 ,705 acres are
under cultivation, and 46, 302, 800 are
covered With timber. In 1880 there
were under cultivation, in corn, 3,000;-
900 acres; in cotton, 2,810,113 acres; in
in wheat, 400, 900; in sugA cane, ISL 1892
acres. OF the religious sects the Roman
Catholics are the strongest, having q
membership of 1000 in the state; next
are the Methodists, s2,939; then the
Baptists, 1850.