The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-05-29
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, The hard fact, recently SO often
brought to the notice of scientific socie-
ties that, two millions of bodies have been
inferred during the last Is years within
the limits of London postal circle, has
very greatly changed the popular view
of cremation. Two years ago three of
the scientific papers sold that cremation
was unnatural" and against human
feeling" but they now think that self
preservation is the first and strongest
of laws. :. - - : 49,. =
The annual crop of human hair
bought and sold amounts to fully 100
tons. Folr ounces is an average clip
ping from a human head: SO that 100
tons represent the product of from 800,
600 to 100000 heads. In Europe the
heads of female criminals are shorn, and
they supply large market; but the
greater part is bought by. travelling ped.
lers: Between the ages of Is and 40 a
woman can grow about seven crops Of
hair. $50 '~' -
market gardeners, says the Balti-
more American, Should know that in
Paris bonnets are adorned with vegeta-
sbles, instead of flowers and BIRDS. Ar
tichokes are just now more favored,
but there is no reason why a "decollete
cabbage or, a daihty5spring onion may
not be- a stunning success" ...a ,.
j. The Island of Formosa is the only
part of the Chinese Empire where fore
eigners are allowed to go into the inter-
ior and superinteded the preparation of
tea. In other places the European mer-
chant can only buy his teas at the port
in a form ready for shipment, the ma
tive grower going on year after year in
the same groove but there, by the ap-
plication of q little scientific knowledge,
a superior class of teas is produced.
Tea drinkers should be grateful for
the interest the government is showing
in them There have been $4,000, 900
pounds of tea imported to New York
since the law requiring inspection went
into effect a year ago. In that time
$50, 900 pounds of: adulterated tea have
been condemned. These have been
mostly green teas, and, as a result their
importation has fallen off over 6,000,-
900 pounds from the previous year
The narrowest house in New York is
PSI William street, near New Chambers
street. It is three stories high and not
quite six feet wide. It is of red brick
A shoemaker occupies the lower floor,
and has to seat himself exactly equidis-
tant from the sides to prevent the rasp-
ing of his elbows by the walls whenever
he makes stitch. There is; of course,
no room for a staircase, and persons
entering the house must either go
through the shoe.shop or by doors lead
ing in from the adjoining houses.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, of New York,
says: Living Christianity would end
denominations. Denominations come
because they are conferred on something
other than Christ. If Paul was stirred
up because there were four denomina-
lions in Corinth, what would that lion
hearted Apostle say if he could come to
New York to-day and talk to twenty
seven? Denomi nations are like the is
plated pools which the outgoing tide has
left behind. Oh, let the tide come in !"
The introduction of steam pipes into
enclosed spaces for the purpose Of ex-
tinguishing fires has been successfully
tried in Berlin, The owner of steel
pen factory in that city, in consequence
Of the repeated outbreak of fire in the
dining room, had steam pipes placed in
three of the rooms, this appliance being
shut off by short, soldered pipes of an
easily flowing alloy of lead and tin, or
ranged to- work automatically. One
day kissing noise made the foreman
aware that one of these appliances had
been called into action. tt was found,
on investigation, that the contents Of the
drying-roonl had become ignited, but
that the steam thus set free had extin-
gHshed the fire before it could spread.
In six years Henry M. Stanley has
succeeded in establishing a chain Of
international stations across the African
continent. In 1880 he founded Viva,
the first of the series of stations in
Western. Africa. Before the end Of
the third year Leopoldyille, a station
oil Stanley Pool, at the head. Of the
lower, cataracts, and the key Of Upper
Congo, was founded, and four steamers
were launched on: the great river. In
1883 the station of Stanley Falls, 1000
miles up the yiver, was founded. About
1900 miles Of river transit of the Congo
and it's tributaries are open to commerce
by this chain Of stations. The imports
to the West Coast of, Africa last year
were over $4,000, 900, while the ex-
ports were over $27, ooo, 900. j..
British Fertility 49, -.
John Burroughs, in the Century. -.
Thirty millions of people within the
srea of one of our largest states, and
who shall say that high-water mark is
yet reached? :, Everything betokens a
race still in it's vorlth. still on the road