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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

The vast space allowed in what are
called metropolitan papers to base ball
and other athletic amusements is one of
the curious features of modern journal
ism. Where one or two columns is
grudgingly given to the farm, which in
the foundation of material prosperity,
or to the vast interests embraced in the
education of the youth of the country,
or to other matters of vital Importance,
outside of politics, dozen columns are
filed with accounts of entertainments
that present little if any variety, and are
of no Importance whatever in the great
economy of life and human progress.
Base ball may be well enough in its
place but that place is not what it
is represented in some of the daily
papers.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

The Detroit Free Press must have
stretched the long-bow" when it as
sert that in Michigan alone there are
$50 "Maidens Rocks" places where
beautiful Indian maidens, with their
sylph-like legs and graceful shoulders
and beautiful faces, preferred to leap
from the rocks to be welded to horse
thief whom they could not love, and
that the total Of this rock in the United
States is 1862, with several territories
to be heard from. Wisconsin has 300
Maiden Rocks, Iowa 1870, Illinois 1877,
Indiana $50, Vermont SGT, Minnesota,
which claims to have the only original
and genuine Maiden Rock, is strangely
omitted.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
Bradstreets- able and conserva-

Bradstreets-th able and conserva-
tive business paper is not entirely salts
fed with the situation, and does not
pretend that everything is all right, or
anything like it. It says the country
merchant who is about to seek the CEN
ters of production and distribution for
his autumn purchases is wisely hesitat-
ing before giving heavy orders, lest the
farmers needs be smaller than custom
airy. twill be time enough for ventur-
ing predictions as to the return of in
dustrial and trade activity in the United
States when the failure score is at the
minimum rather than at the full. And
it might have added when the prices of
produce come so very near the cost of
production
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

A brave attempt is made to show that
something valuable has been accom-
plished by the Greedy expedition; but
it all comes down to the fact that two of
its members reached point four or five
miles farther north than any previous
explorer ever set foot. that a few new
theories as to the conformation of the
land and water Whereabouts are preached,
and that few old ones are discredited.
This does not pay for the loss of nine
teen lives and the frightful suffering OK
perienced by the h alf-dozen survivors
who would have been past relief if the
rescuers had been forty eight hours
later.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES.
Reunion OF the First 1Gdnnesota Raaimsu1

Reunion Of the First Minnesota Ra9imsnt.
The veterans of the First Regiment Minnesota
Volunteers held their annual reunion at Min
neapolis on the ed There were over three
hundred in line when the march was made to
the train that conveyed the jubilant throng to
the Lyndale, which was the scene Of the festiv
ities The following Of the field and staff were
present Col William Colville Of Red Wing,
Maj W: a. Dyke Of Faribault
adjutant W. B. Leach of Iowa, quartermaster,
Francis Bacon, Of New Ulm; chaplain, Rev. E.
D. Neal, St. Paul; surgeon, j. f. Murphy, St
Paul; surgeon, D. w. Hand, st. Paul While
Lake Calhoun, the veterans got together and
reviewed old times amid great hilarity Over
three hundred men were counted in the line,
and pleasing sight was several young girls
marching beside their fathers. Nearly two
hours intervened before the banquet, and the
discussion Of matters Of common interest. Els
Pecially interesting was the group that gathered
around the old flag g., what is left Of it It
is precious relic, which the First regiment
would not part with for the
Tord bote The or dinner a.r q bo vt the
were appropriately decorated with martial en-
blems Large banners, each bearing the name
of one of the battles in which the First regiment
figured, were arranged around the walls at IN
tervals. h. L Gordon, who provided intro
auced Mayor Pillsbury, who gave the vets. a
In response to loasts and calls speeches were
made BY Senator Window, Gen. j. H, Baker,
Hon. J. B. Gilfllan, Gen. Logan, ex-Gov. Pills
bury, Capt o c. Merriman,. W. D. Washburn,
Col W. L. King, Gen. Kegley, Gen.
Rosser, ex-confederate, etc. After dinner
came business meeting. A number of old
soldiers were made honorary members, among
whom were Maj Haskell, Of the Nineteenth
Maine A subscription was started for Mr..
johnson, of Company A, of the First Minneso-
ia battalion, who lost his leg on Monday after
noon, in this city by being run over by street
car. few minutes elapsed, and the collec-
tor reported $97, and Mr.: William Lochren was
delegated to convey to Mr. johnson the money
and the deep sympathy of his comrades The
election Of officers resulted as follows:
President-Capt Baasen, New Ulm.
Vice PresidentF. Casey, New Ulm.
Treasurer-James Cannon, Mankato.
Secretary-Col. s F. Hansdorf, St Paul
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
Beer Drinking and Heart Dis ease

SOSS@
The habitual consumption of bea in
excessive quantities tends to hyper
trophy by the direct action of alcohol
udon the heart, by the enormous amount
of fluid introduced into the body, and
by the easily assimilated nutritive con-
stituents of the beer itself. Further
more such habits are often associated
with great bodily activity and at least
relatively luxurious manner of life.
The average weight of the normal heart
in men is relatively greater in Munich
than elsewhere, fact, without doubt,
dependent upon the excessive con-
sumption of beer in that city. The
characteristic changes in the form of
under consideration con-
sist in the participation of both sides of
the heart and in an enormous increase in
the volume of the primitive muscular
elements, with an enlargement of the
nuclei. Whether Or not actual numeri-
cal increase in the Muscular fbres takes
place is not known. Many individuals
addicted to such excuses attain an ad-
vanced age, Notwithstanding cardiac
hypertrophy, by reason Unconstitutional
peculiarities, an active open-air life, or
an enforced moderation, but the greater
number perish after brief illness with
symptoms of cardiac failure. At the !
post mortem examination are discovered
moderate dropsy, pulmonary edema, ,
brown induration of the lungs, bron- I,
chitis, congestion of the lungs, liver, !
spleen, kidneys and other organs. Fat !
ty degeneration of the muscular wall of :,
the heart is absent in most q these !,
cases, and death must in the absence Of :
adequate anatomical LESSONS be looked !
upon as due to paralysis of the cardiac
nerves and ganglia. The condition of
such subjects not rarely amounts to a /
true plethora of the most typical kind, (
such as is seen among the drivers of beer (
wagons and workers in breweries in i,
this country. The excuses in beer
common in some parts of Germany are |
rare in the New World, but that sucb,ex !
cesses are attended by direct and !
grave danger, hitherto little suspected,
should be generally understood. --Phila-
delphia Medical News.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

Waltham, Mass, noted for its great
watch factory emp Toying $500 skilled
laborers, has become city. It re-
manned under simple and inexpensive
township government until it had pop
ulation of over IA 1000, when it became
the twenty-third city in the common
wealth. 1t will have seven wards,
each electing three aldermen, and will
get along without any common council
in which it is lucky. This method of
conducting municipal affairs by one
branch in connection with the mayor
will be found more effective and less
expensive than the system which in
cludes second organization.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
The people all over Europe are set

The people all over Europe are set
ting down to the conviction that they
are to have visitation of cholera which
will permit no place to escape, and are
putting their houses in order for the
scourge. The English have fondly
hoped that their insular position would
protect them from an invasion of the
plague, but this pleasing idea has been
rudely dispelled by the earnest remind
er of the leading physicians that any
ship sailing into these harbors from a
Mediterranean port may infect the whole
island.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
CUBANsW0HEEN.
kansuad Beauties Whose Only Exercise II
TO Pan Themselves:

$, 10 Pan Themselves:
Every Cuban city resolves itself into
a beauty show every afternoon, says q
Havana correspondent. When the hot
suns rays slant SO as to fill the streets
with shade, the pretty girls; dressed in
their thin, light costumes, pose them
selves in picturesque attitudes in the
windows, and enjoy looking out on the
street scenes, and being looked at in re-
turn. The windows are as big as sta
BILE doors, and the stills, which are as
wide as an ordinary sofa, and composed
of cool marble squares or china tiles,
are only foot, or, at the most, two
feet above the sidewalks: On these
broad stills the pretty, big orbed; Ian
guild beauties seat themselves in tailor
fashion, or lie at half length, resting
their backs against the window frames
and displaying their small high arched
heeled shoes, and sometimes an inch of
gay silk hose. I never saw one reading
in fact, never saw anybody reading in
Cuba. Every club has library, but
the collections of volumes are very slen-
der, and seem to be usually dusty and
abandoned looking. The women and
girls sometimes hum a pretty Cuban
tune, sometimes chat or comment on
the passers-by, but oftener are content
to lie in dreamy Incidence, tanning
themselves with the easy, graceful mas
terry of their huge fans peculiar to Span
ish and semi Spanish women.
They lack vivacity. They are mac
tive. I saw every sort of them, and the
only one who in my presence exhibited
energy enough to run from mouse was
ballet dancer in theatre. In par
lor in Santiago six or eight we're enter
tanning company. The night was cool,
as all nights are in that land of promise,
and company of healthy American
girls would have shown at their best.
Some would have romped, some would
have laughed outright at the mental ef-
forts of others; not so the Cuban misses.
Each girl came languidly in, dropped
into rocking chair, opened huge
fan, and took light part in a very
light conversation. 10 be sure, they
were proportionately as active in COM
parison with the men as American wom-
en- are, for the heat subdues energy to
such degree that one never sees a
man hurry, or allowed himself to be
disturbed by work. A few hours of
GOODNESS in the evenings will not suffice
to overthrow the results of every day
heat. On board the Wards steamer
Newport, coming from Havana early
in May, when the ocean atmosphere was
refreshingly cool, a number of New
York men endeavored to arouse the
ladies, all Cubans or Spaniards, but
they would not walk or dance or even
talk very much. The most that could
be coaxed from them was an occasional
Spanish or Creole ballad, sung so
sweetly and with such unlocked for
spirit every time and by every lady,
that all the passengers crowded the
social hall, and even struggled for room
in the gallery overhead.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
Charlie Mitchell's little essay on fight

Charlie Mitcheu's little essay on fight
ing: ''The first thing man must have,
if he wants to make good fight, is con-
fdence in himself. I'd sooner fight
terror, if knew he was afraid, than
greeney that thought he could whip the
earth. You see it surprises these fell
lows so much when they begin to get
the worst of it that they think something
must be wrong and they fight all the
harder; but when fellow that's afraid
gets hit in the ear Or eye he says: "Just
as I expected" and drops. OF course,
q man doesn't need to think he's prai-
RE fire looking for dry grass, but he
wants to think he can win, and then
he's likely to do il. Whether win Oh
not, Iwont drop with fright like mos
Of the men that face Sullivan.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
Cause Of Pneumonia.
Pneumonia, with rare exceptions, OK

Pneumonia, with rare exceptions, OK
tends from the lungs to the lining mem
brane of the chest pleura), and hence
is really pleuro-pneumonia. Its seat is
not the mucous membrane of the bron-
chial tubes, as is that of bronchitis; nor
the general substance of the lungs, as is
that of lung fever, but the air cells and
the neighboring minute tubes (bronchi-
oles), which are wholly destitute of
mucous membrane. Sometimes it is al
most an epidemic. 1t often attacks
more than one member of the family.
Pleuro-pneumonia among horses is
very contagious disease, and has some
times gone through the land, bringing
ordinary business to stand still.
What is the cause Of pneumonia?
One medical writer says that "neither
colds, bronchitis, pleurisy, asthma, nor
any other lung affection induces it;
that, in a large proportion of cases. is
not referable to any obvious causative
agency, that, when it appears to follow
exposure to cold, it is probable that
this acts only as AL exciting cause, CO.
operating with the action of special
cause"
What is this special cause? This
question has received no answer until
recently. German Investigators of the
highest character believe they have at
length found it in microscopic para
site, thus placing pneumonia among 'ehe
germ diseases. The parasites are oval,
generally go in pairs, and, unlike all
others, enclose themselves-seperal to-
gether-in capsule.
On cultivating them out of the body,
insulating them in a fluid, and injecting
little of the fluid into thirty two mice,
all of the mice died, in from eighteen
to forty hours, of pneumonia, while the
blood showed the peculiar parasites
with their characteristic capsules. Elk
periments by means of inhalation exhib-
tied the same results Different inves-
tigators seem to have confirmed the
discovery.
Later experiments show that bhe
lungs of animals which have died of
pleurozpneumonia contain the same
parasites in large numbers, and that
the disease is necessarily the same with
pneumonia in man.-Youth's Compan'
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

outcast. He was in quest of employ
ment on Tom Gould's stage, and he>was
willing to accept whisky In full payment
for his services, but they wouldn't have
him even on those terms. subsequent
~ saw him draining stale beer from kegs
into a tomato can in front Of a saloon,
which, I believe, is resort for members
of his profession.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31

One thing to the credit Of Kansas
City is that she is the only city in this
country Of 100, 900 population that = has
no professional base ball. club. The
grown people of this metropolis are too.
busy to sit in the sun and listen to eigh-:
teen mon quarreling with an umpire. -
Kansas City Journal. z
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
Wallace and the Turkish Siren.

"Where is the lovely Turkish maiden
which the Sultan presented to you"
was asked recently of large, handsome,
ol1ve-complexioned man who stood in
the rotunda of one of the leading hotels
in Washington. The question, being a
somewhat singular one, attracted the
attention of several gentlemen in the
vicinity. The questioner was report
err, and the gentleman addressed was
Hon. Lew Wallace, of Indiana, the
present United States Minister to Tur-
key. Wallace's name is more frequent
~ in the newspapers probably than any
man in the public service abroad. The
explanation of this is that Wallace is
one of the few foreign ministers who
earn their. salary by hard work in mat
tiers affecting the interest Of citizens of
the United States, He is warm
personal friend of the Sultan of Tur-
key. He gives that nabob the benefit
of his advice in conducting the affairs
of the Empire. In other words Wal
lace and his Royal Highness are
"chums." Hence the story of "The
Lovely Turkish Maiden" As told by
Wallace, it was quite interesting. It
seems that while discussing bottle of
Turkish wine at the Sultan's palace
one day, the gallant Wallace admired
the picture of beautiful sun Drowned
siren hanging on the wall.
''You shall have it!' impu1sively
cried his Majesty.
ooh mol" said the diplomat. my
country will not allow her representa-
tives to accept gifts from foreign po-
tentates.
"Then I shall loan you the charming
beauty" was the prompt reply.
When Wallace arrived home he
found four sturdy natives bearing the
gentle maiden on their broad shout
ders and he gave her corner in
his tasteful residence. His wife
hearing that her spouse had been
presented with girl of SURPRISING
charms, fastened home with fire in her
eye only to find that it was but a picture.
Then some enterprising newspaper pub
ished the story and clothed the fair be-
ing with flesh and blood. Since then
Wallace has been besieged with letters
and kilograms in reference to his harem.
He says one object of his visit to this
country now is to explode the rumor
that he had accepted as gift fair
daughter of the Sun. Wallace's life in
Turkey must be pleasant one. The
doors of the Sultan's palace are always
open to him. The United States has
pleasant relations with that country.
The skies are clear. The air is pure.
Living is cheap. His salary is ample
and the women are beautiful.
Who wouldn't 20 there?
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
The World q Thousand Years ago.

Countries of the World.-A thousand |
years ago, and for long after; the world !
was not all the geologized, botanized,
zoologized and mapped out earthly ball
it is now. There it lay, according to
the imagination Of the men and women
of those days-or rather, according ts !
the monks; for the men, and far less |
the women, of those distant times |
troubled themselves very little about |
matters of this kind, but left it to the !
churchmen to NEEDLE with such danger !.
ous book learning-a fiat plain, full OF
things mysterious and unknown and out /
of the four corners, through the gaps of /
four mountain ranges, which were !
placed there to keep it steady, blew !.
the four winds of Heaven!
OF course, the center of it all was the !,
little town, and county, parish, manor, |,
barony or kingdom where they dwelt;
but outside of that was no mans land. !
1t was looked upon by our remote fore !
fathers in much the same light as it is |
by the Chinese, who, while making
maps of the Flowery Land on scale !
SO large as to show the ground plain of .
every town and village, mark all the I
countries outside of that magic bound |
airy of theirs as inhabited by barbar- I
ians." It was the land of the infdel," !
the people said, as they piously crossed /
themselves at the thought. All was
mysterious to the travellers at that age |
The unknown lands were full of dragons .
and giants, rocs, ores, witchwhales, /
grffins, chimaras, enchanters, Paynims,
Saracens, Emirs and Sultans, Kaisers
of Constantinople, of Ind and Cathay
and Cipango. E
What choice was there for a young
traveller, good knight and proper
man withal. If he had mind he could !
steer his way to Lapland, where (as all
the world knew dwarfs forged chain
armor of magic links, and where which :
whales and ice moutains roamed about !
the chilly sea, or go south and join the
Varangian Guard in Constantino4le, :
or beard the Turk in PALESTINE; or in .
to Egypt and win the Princes daughter
by killing great dragon, as did St.
George; or down to Cordova, where
there We're dire magicians; or into the i
forests of Brittany, where beauteous |
fairies sported- kindly immortals, who
loved to be welded to mortality-whc
emptied his water Jars at night, "and !
filed them with good Rhine wine ere
dawn of day He might even marry
one, as did Sir Thomas: and pass few |
days in Fairyland
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-31
The Cholera.

From the Boston Traveller.
A noted German physician predicts
that the cholera, which started in the
south of Europe, will extend over both
continents. Thirty years ago the same
prediction was made, but little heed
was taken to it. The Spring of 1854
was similar to the spring of 1884-late
and cold. The cholera reached New
Orleans some time in June, swept up
the Mississippi river to Cairo, divided
there and swept on in the direction up
the Ohio river to the Wabash, then fol-
lowed the Wabash river and the Wabash
canal through Indiana and Ohio till it
reached Lake Erie. From this point
it swept onward to Buffalo, Niagara
Falls and Detroit, decimating many of
the cities and towns along its march,
causing business to be suspended and
putting an entire stop to work on the
great railroads then in pro-
cess OF construction. At Ogdens-
burg, on Lake Ontario, or
rather at it's outlet, the St., Lawrence,
it received check. The seaboard cit
les which suffered SO seriously in 1882
and 1849 escaped. The cause and
the course of the cholera are alike
mysterious-no satisfactory explanation
has yet been given. That it exists is
sufficient. But that it can be stayed
in it's course and checked in it's progress
by timely precautions is equally true.
August and September are the months
which in this latitude it finds it's great
est feeder, and too much care and pre-
caution on the part of those who control
the sanitary department. in our great
cities can not be taken. An unobstruct-
ed flow through the sewers and drains
is one important measure for prevention;
the constant cleanliness of the streets
another, and compulsory cleanliness en-
forced in quarters where the population
is dense and ventelation poor, still an
other. It would be surprising to those
not familiar with the subject to know
what foulness can arise from small 10
cality in a large city to spread disease
and death through all it's territory.