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

There was such an extraordinary rush
for tickets to recent Sunday bull fight
in Madrid that a riot was nearly caused,
and the presence of several hundred
horse and foot police was required to
preserve order. About ten thousand
persons of all ranks besieged the doors,
some of them remaining all night at the
approaches to the bull-ring, where tick
cts realized fabulous prices. The Gag
erness to gain admittance was occasioned
by the appearance of new bullfghter,
who is said to surpass all the most ia
nous heroes of the bull ring since the
days of Ell Tato and Cuchares.
During the last sixteen years there
have been ten divisions in the house of
commons on tho question of the en-
reimbursement of women. The follow
ing record of the results will be inter-
esting at the present time: In 1867,
for woman's suffrage, 81 against 2O2;
1870, 119 against 244; 1871, l59 against
228; 1879, 1853 against 242; 1873, 172
against 239; 1875, ITO against 2O5;
1876, 161 against 248; 1878, 155 against
235; 1879, 1874 against 245; 1883, 1853
against 179; 1884, 1875 against 271.
The professors of the university of
Jena, who have been Investigating the
effect of tobacco upon the human sys-
tenn, report that moderate quantities of
the weed may be used without injuri
Gus effects. They say that in the Ger
man army soldiers in active service are
very properly furnished with smoking
tobacco, because smoking enables them
to endure severer fatigue upon smaller
nutrition and with greater alacrity and
confidence than would other wise be the
case.
The Alps contain two peaks about
IL, 900 feet, six or seven about $4,000
feet, and in all about thirty which are
called first-class peaks. The Himalay-
as, on the other hand, or rather the
limited part of them with which we are
familiar, contain peaks from 20, 900 feet
downward. More than LOO have
been measured exceeding 10000 feet,
and it is computed that at least 1900
exceed this height.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania say
that their bitter opposition to the en-
ployment of Hungarians in the mines is
not due to the matter of wages. ave
don't care" they say, whether they pay
these men more wages than they do us
or not. It is not question of wages.
We might as we'll commit suicide as 90
into the mine with them. since they do
not understand the manner of handling
the safety lamp and may set off the gas
at any time and burn us all to death.
They don't know how to read, they can
not tell the danger signs when they see
them" The business men of the Sec
ton, it is said, dislike the Magyars
quite as strongly as the miners.
Thepeculiar sect known as the "shak.
ing Quakers" deserve: credit for many
of the useful inventions of the present.
More than b af q century ago they first
originated the drying of sweet corn for
food, and they first raised, papered and
vended garden seeds in the present
styles From their first methods of
preparing medicinal roots and herbs for
market sprung the immense patent
medicine trade. They began the broom
corn business The first ;buzz-saw was
made by the Shakers at New Lebanon.
This is now in the. Albany Geological
Hall. The Shakers invented metallic
pens, first made of brass and silver.
All distilled liquors were abandoned as
beverage by the Shakers sixty years
ago, and ducing the past forty years no
fermented liquors Of any sort has been
used, except as medicine. Pork and
tobacco are also numbered among the.
forbidden articles. IS. IS e