The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-17
Some Condensations.

If among the long winters accumula-
tons about your premises there should
happen to be some filthy lucre, you
have chance to invest it in suburban
real estate. This kind of property
seems to be fast advancing IN price.
"Into the Tilt of loves blithe measure
there crepta curious jar and halt" sings
Ella Wheeler. It appears that Elias
pa, too, comes down to the gate some
times in his largest pair of boots.
Tony circles in New York are terribly
shocked at the appearance of the cards
announcing the marriage of a lady, who
has been widow less than year, to a
young man 20 years her junior. It is a
love match.
Two Boston society girls are credited
with taking the veil, having both found
the world hollow in falling in love with
the same actor, who turns out to be an
already married man.
A new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the gov
eminent Of Brazil. She is named the
Riachuelo, and is steel-armored tur-
ret ship, 305 feet long, having dis
placement of $500 tons. She has fifty
eight water-tight compartments and
belt of steel armor eleven inches in
thickness.
There are two unhappy persons when
castor oil is going down. One is the
man who has bought it at a higher fig.
ule. and the other is the small boy who
Is taking tablespoonful of it.
The Irish population of the earth is
as follows: At home, 7,50O,00O; in
England, 100000; in Scotland, g.
100000; in Canada, 1000 900; in Aus
tralia, 100000; in America, 12,500,-
600; elsewhere, 100000. A total in
round numbers of 81 100000.
II have heard" says London Truth,
''of golden, of silver, and even of
iron weddings, but a diamond we'd
ding has hitherto been unknown
known to me. In order to justify the
celebration of snch an event it seems
that the husband and wife must have
successfully endured the bends of mat
rimony for no less period than sixty
years. AtCampbelltown, in Scotland,
last week, ex-Baile Greenlees and his
wife celebrated such wedding day the
husband being eighty eight and the
wife eighty three years of age"
Gen. Gordon's Forthcoming theolog-
ical work does not, it is said, PROFOUND
any new views. The writer reminds us
of the time of the Puritans, when the
love of parallelism between the Old and
New Testaments was at its height. when
the soldiers of Cromwell prayed aloud
to be delivered from the old Adam. For
every incident connected with the fall
of man, Gen. Gordon traces in the New
Testament not onlya counter balancing
remedy to enable the fallen to recover
the lost ground, but an identity of the
means of recovery with the cause Of the
original transgression. Thus he recog-
nizes in the act Of partaking of the sacra-
mental elements the meet and fitting
remedy against sin introduced into the
world by the act of eating the fruit Of
the tree of life.
The vapor of tobacco juice has been
tested in France, with great success, as
an insect destroyer in hot houses. In
stead of burning or smoking the tobac-
co, it is soaked or boiled, the juice is
then placed over a chatting dish, fire
or the fame of an ordinary lamp, and
deposited in the greenhouse or conserv
atory Delicate plants which are very
sensitive to smoke are not injured by
this vapor, and it leaves no off esive
atmosphere. while it effectually dis
poses of thrips, scales, insects and slugs.
One quart of tobacco juice vaporized in
house containing $50 cubic feet is an
ample amount.
A facetious gentleman who has suf-
fered thinks the modern recipe for q
party is the following: "Take all the
ladies and gentlemen you can get, put
them into a room with small fire and
stew them we'll; have ready piano,
handful of prints and drawings, and
throw them in from time to time; as the
mixture thickens, sweeten with polite
ness and season with wit, if you have
any, if not, fiattery will do as well and
is very cheap; when all have stewed for
an hour add ices, jellies, cakes, lemon
AIDES and wines. THE Beacon.
A strange dish, but one that has found
favor with the epicure himself Che in
no case being told how it il made) is
called bacon short-cake. Make crust
just as you do for the biscuit served with
fricassed chicken; roll it out in one large
cake to be baked in long tin ;cut little
slashes in the dough, and through these
slip slices of bacon in. The bacon
should be cut in thin slices or strips
about five inches long, and not half that
width. Have these slices about three
inches apart. Bake, the same as any
short-cake, and serve hot. As an en-
tree, with game, this is considered
especially appetizing.