The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-10-02
Choice Miscellany.

n picturesque SISuG Was soeu III Jig
streets of Richmond, Va, few weeks.
ago. In large chariot, gilded like a
circus wagon and provided with brass
band, sat handsome woman a gypsy
appearance, dressed in Spanish cos
tune. Her husband Cor some other
mani was selling patent medicine in
the back part of the chariot, while she,
on the front seat, was extracting teeth
for nothing. Her principle customers
were negroes, and it was amusing to
see the celebrity with which she per-
formed an operation, and the energy
with which she showed the patient aside,
either to make room for another or else
to prevent her dress from being soiled
by the ruby flow.
There are so many suicides at Monte
Carlo that it has become the custom to
fill the pockets of the victims with bank
notes, so that it may not seem that they
did not kill themselves on account of
losses. A shrewd Irishman availed
himself of this fact to enrich himself
short time ago. After losing small
sum at the gambling tables he sudden
ly jumped up, exclaimed, II am
ruined!'' and rushed into the gardens.
Almost Immediately afterward the guards
heard pistol shot and then a cry of
pain, and rushing to the spot found the
Irishman dead. It was dark, with no
one around, so they filled his pockets
with money and left him to be dis
covered in the morning. They had
scarcely gone out of sight, however, be-
fore the Irishman was on his feet again,
and skipping away in the most lively
style.
DR.. Crichton Browne, in arecent lee
ture, called attention to what typhoid
fever really means in England, and the
amount of death, disability, and ex-
pense for which it is responsible. 1t
caused $500 deaths in the United King
dom last year. The number of cases
reported was q 900; their average dura-
ton was three weeks for the illness, and
three more for convalescence, creating
loss Of productive energy which should
have been expended in sanitary meas
ures. He furthermore said that a man
cannot be said to have fully recovered
from the effects of typhoid fever for
five years, and he enumerated it's many
severe results. The fact that typhoid
is the effect of negligence and dirt, and
is easily preventable, was shown to be
indisputable.
'It is true," says the London Stan
dard, "that the number ofpersons inter-
ested in horse racing is very large. Not
one in hundred of them, however cares
anything whatever for racing as q sport,
but solely as channel for betting.
Vast numbers of persons assemble on
the banks of the river to see the Uni
versity boat race, but the love of rowing
has nothing to do with the assemblage,
for the metropolitan regatta passes I'M
noticed, and Henley attracts few Lon
doners unconnected with the clubs which
complete, although at both those regat-
tas the rowing is greatly superior to that
shown by the University Fights, and the
contests generally are much closer and
more exciting"
The riots in Cincinnati, growing out
of the tax administration of justice, de-
plorable as they were, have resulted in
some good. The courts are disposing
of murderers with rapidity hitherto
unknown. Judges are less lenient and
jurors seem to have better conception
| IS J,,As 0f %1,o
sanctity of their oaths, while perjury is
at discount. Reasonable doubts" of
which criminals are entitled to the adj
vantage, are not construed to mean pos
sibilities of innocence, which would &C
quit almost anybody. So the riots after
Ill, like the French revolution, will rot
an unmixed evil.
English companies are buying vast
tracts of land in Mexico as we'll as in the
United States. An English and Scotch
syndicate has recently bought six con-
tiguous haciendas and ranches in the
Mexican States of Chihuahua and Du-
range. The entire tract embraces ,612
miles, and was purchased at the low
price of 81 900, 900. The purchase en-
braced IS. 900 head of sheep, 1900 head
of unbroken horses, 300 saddle horses,
80 mules, 800 head of working oxen,
200 hogs, and a quantity of grain, to-
gether with furniture, farming tools,
saddles, harness, etc. There are thou
sand tenants living on the land, all Oh
whom are engaged in growing corn,
wheat, and coffee, and grazing cattle
and sheep.
A New York dispatch from Havana
shows that while the sugar crop-the
most important crop of Cuba-will at
the outside not exceed $25, 900, 900 in
value, the estimates for expenditures
for the next fiscal year are about $40, 600,
600; consequently the entire sugar crop
will be insufficient to pay the taxes.
The state of New York, with popula-
ton four times as large as that of Cuba,
and incolnparably more wealth, has tax,
including state and all local taxation,
only twice and half as creator about
SIC, 200, OOO-and New York is not a
state whose taxes are reckoned light, eth
er. Peahaps it is not so strange, after all,
that there is almost always q revolution
just breaking out, or in progress, OF
only recently put down. in Cubs,