The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-03
Pressed Bricks.

Oberlin College has lately received
two bequests-one of 5000 from Hart
ford, Conn.,, and the other of 1924, 1000
from the late Mr.. j. F. Clark of Cleve-
land Ohio.
A Dakota farmer in 1881 planted
single grain of wheat in one of his oat
fields. From it grew % stocks each
bearing full head. These yielded $50
grains, 76O of which were planted the
next year, producing one-fifth of bush
ell of splendid wheat. This was plant
ed last spring, yielding II bushels, max
ing 1920 pounds of wheat from one
grain in three years..
The use of the telephone has rapidly
increased in London. January l, 1881,
there were 81 subscribers to the Lon
don Exchange; in 1882, 1888; the next
year, 1886; and this year, 1896. In the
last quarter of last year there were
1867 ,447 messages sent through the
London wires. The proportion of tele-
phonic to Geographic messages is as
thirteen to twelve.
The modern railroad brakeman is not
the gentleman in neat uniform who
helps ladies and children on and off the
train, and rides in comfortable seat in
the parlor car. The real brakeman is
on top of freight car, whether it be
covered with ice or not, who is only at
the place he calls home long enough to
catch three or four hours sleep, fill his
dinner pail and then go off for another
night.
The Pennsylvania railroad maintains
at Philadelphia aschool for persons who
want to become conductors. Candi-
dates are tested as to their ability to
write, their knowledge of mathematics,
etc., and are then instructed as to the
rights Of passengers, the uses of differ
ent kinds of tickets, the situation Of sta
tons, etc.
A singular coincidence in connection
with the late cyclone in Alabama is that
one occurred twenty two years ago in
the same month and on the same date,
and very nearly at the same hour, in a
part Of the recently afflicted section. It
was much more severe this time, how
ever.
An ''anxious" father writes in the
London Times that instruction in geo.
graphy is gradually dying out in the
English schools. We have for some
time noticed lack of geographical
knowledge among Englishmen who
write on American topics. When a
man refers to the Mississippi river as
being a Rocky Mountain trout stream,
and Indiana as a suburb of Philadelphia,
you may take it for granted that there
is something wrong with his geography.
A snowshoer took a slide after enc of
the Nevada billiards. had subsidized to
see what he could find. AS he approached
place where there was running
stream before the five or six feet OF
snow had been drifted, he thought he
heard ducks squawking. Making hole
in the snow with his pole he was SUI
prised to find large sized cave COM
pletely filled with fine canvassbacks.
They began coming out one at a time,
and he knocked them down until he had
more than a hundred in a single pile.
A debt of 500, 900 on the new Prosby-
terrain church at Stamford, Conn, was
liquidated by subscription within an
hour.
In Syracuse there is house occupied
by $50 Italians, each of whom pays s
cents a day, OR $1.50 a month, for his
lodging. All board themselves. At
the present time they live almost ex-
clusively on bread, single loaf day
usually suficing for man. They wrap
themselves in their blankets or shawls,
and lie down on the floor at night
huddled together like so many hogs.
The shores of the sleeping crowd sound
like the roar of Niagara. When they
are awake everybody is talking and
gesticulating, and the house seems tc
be pandemonium.
A Vermont man has been married
six times, and he's the citizen they al
ways get to go first in bear hunt
Boston Post.
AT recent meeting Of the St. Louis
Medical Society, Doctor Dean said
"When was small boy I ate a rose
bud and was very sick from it, and from
that time on for fifteen years could
not endurethe smell of rose without 8
tickling sensation over the whole body
Afterward I couldn't eat strawberries
and my mother also could not. Vege
tarians claim that any idiosyncrazy in
regard to vegetables could be over.
come, and although I have no faith in
their doctrines, I thought they ought
to know if any one did: and I have
tried, perhaps for seven or eight years, q
single strawberry, but it affects me az
badly as if I ate large dish have
been compelled to g0to bed on account
Of it several times. My face and eye
lids will SWELL"