The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-31
Things in General.

Germany discovers the fact that
tradesmen. manufacturers and tavern or
restaurant keepers are the most usual
matrimonial candidates. Both Sexes k
most about money, next about intelli-~
gence, and least about religious belief.
An oleander at Spanish Town, Fla,
covers a space ofground Sc feet in diam
eter. It is divided into 20 or Is sepa-
rate stems, the longest Of which is rs feet
high. The group Is at least five feet
Through and one single stem is IA inches
thick.
The Philadelphia Bulletin makes this
frank admission: "Newspapers can
make and unmake presidents. they can
overturn corruption, they can forward
great enterprises, but they are helpless
to convince single woman that decol-
lete dresses, or high-heeled shoes, or
wasp'waists are ruinous to health and
deleterious to morals" 1t is but fair to
explain that the Bulletin, in using the
term, "a single woman" does not ex-
cept married women.
A New York correspondent writes:
can inquiry at the Christian association
brought the reply that SIS per week is
the highest pay any woman can hope
for either as teacher or book-keeper.
The best pay is earned by few expert
enced hCusekeepers, who are in the
service of the rich families, and receive
81 900 per year and board. Some artif-
cial flower makers earn SIS per week at
this season OF the year, and there are
hundreds of well-trained women who
would be glad to earn from IS to $40
week, while there are thousands whose
earnings are from So to S."
Somebody has been unearthing a lot
of old dispositions in Kentucky clerks
office, and taking notes Of the bad SPELL
ing Of some of the great men of the past.
A deposition in the handwriting Ct An.
drew Jackson contains such spelling as
f baance valu 1sP9 and dicut ?3' od
markable. Such words as ''Dollar" and
money" he capitalized, while he also
wrote "almightY God"
The capitalist who sits down and lends
his money for the highest rate Of inter.
est that he can get is drone in the So
cial hive compared with the active man
Of business who builds mills, factories
and furnaces, and gives remunerative
employment to hundreds of needy peo-
pie.
Millionaire is the name of a new GER
cal which has been introduced into
South Carolina from Columbia, South
America. It is allied to sorghum and
Guinea corn, and has the merit of an al
most unlimited capacity to endure
drouth.,, Cakes made from the meal
have been described as better than corn
cakes, and the grain has been pronoun-
ced by the chemist of the Savannah
Guane Company superior in food quail
ties to wheat.
According to DR.. Sach, of Buenos
Ayres, there is no danger of an exhaus-
ton of the Quinine SUPPLY. The expert
mental plantations in Java and the Is
land of Reunion have been very success
full; and, besides these nurseries, the
trees have been cultivated in Bolivia by
the million for ten years. At three
places in the last-named country, taken
as they come, the number of trees grow
ing is given, severally, at 100000, 200,-
600, and 3,5C,00O.
The past season has again been very
discouraging to oyster cuitivators in
England and the conviction has been
forced upon them that further expert
ments will be only waste of money.
From one end of the southern coast oil
England to the other, thousands Of
pounds have been expended in endeav-
oring to protect the spawn at spawning
time, but without the least sign Of sue
cess. The cause of tie failure is the
want of temperature. Only native oys-
ters will breed in the estuares of the
Thames, but Of late years the summers
have been go short and cold that there
has been very little spat, and this ia the
reason of the scarcity and the conse'
Quent drearness Of the ''native" which
the English esteem as the best of all
oysters. Artificial breeding in England
has been failure. The only real success
in the artificial breeding of oysters has
been achieved at Areachon, in the south
of France, but even there, during the
last two or three wet summers, the
crop of spat has been only about one
fourt. of what it has usually been.