The Northern Pacific farmer., 1885-04-23
USEFUL AND PLEASANT!

USEFUL AND PLEASANT!
An oil well has been struck at Dallas,
Wyoming.
In New York forty-six stenograph.
ers on the city pay roll draw $96, 12C
annual pay:
Druid Hill park, Baltimore, has q
baby camel, which was promptly
named Ell Mehdi.
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
farmer; chloroformed his diseased cat
tie before killing them.
Miss Weaver, of Kittanning; Pa;
has had twenty-four needles taken
from breast, side, and arms.
There are two thousand italian
slaves under the padrone system in
Philadelphia, says The Times, of that
city.
IA bill in preparation in the Penn
sylvania legislature proposed that
skating rinks be taxed 1 per cent of
their gross receipts.
Boston papers make rather light of
the dynamite explosions. Sullivan's
sprees have made the Hub regardless
of slight disturbances.
At Yale 70 per cent of the students
came from other states than Connecti
cut; at Harvard As per cent came from
other than Massachusetts.
A Boston clergyman is lecturing on
."A Business Mans Conscience.' For
obvious reasons no ''horrible exam
ple'' accompanies the lecture.
care you sure you are converted?"
asked Mr.. Spurgeon of devout house.
maid. "Deed, sir I think am, for I
sweeps under the beds and in dark
corners"
"This is good weather for the chol-
era," remarked a citizen on a zero
morning. eyes, but I haven't got
the cholera" gloomily replied the sec
ond citizen.
Tin and brass do not go we'll to-
gether, says a scientific paper: Mr..
Science, you're away off. It's always
the fellow with brass that gets the girl
with the tin.
Cincinnati has under discussion the
building of an elevated belt railroad
around the city, the length of which
will be seventeen miles, and the esti-
mated cost $5. 100000.
Wilkesbarre citizens told the school
principals that they did not want their
young girls to deliver declamations
In schools, as it has a tendency to
make them very bold.
A little girl with the mumps recently
explained her feelings to her Sunday
school teacher by saying that she felt
as though headache had slipped
down into her neck"
Neal Dow is now convinced that the
enmity to prohibition comes from the
moderate drinkers. Hard drinkers
are all anxious for the closing of the
grog-shop as relief from temptation.
Richmond, Va, according to pub
lished report, furnished gas from its
gas-works (owned by the city, at less
than 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet last
year, and had a net profit left of $94,-
300.
1t is said that Congressman Phil
Thompson, when a prosecuting attor
ney in Kentucky, once asked his twin
brother to try case for him. He did
so, and the court did not know the
difference.
The new literary venture-Editor to
contributor-Your story IS too long
for one issue. Contributor Well,
then, print it in two. Editor (rehect-
ing seriously)-My dear sir, there will
not be two issues.
a Washington eccentric female
genius has invented a machine to
lay ghost" A much more useful
contrivance in these days of business
stagnation and indolent hens would
be a machine to lay eggs.
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
is great geographer, and but for his
position and duties, would be a great
traveller. His palace is called the Ber-
lin African headquarters, and all ex-.
plorers are welcome guests there. =,
1t is said that the bobolinks, (which
are such dandylike, rollicking birds in
the summer, 60 south in the autumn,
take off their gaudy uniform, put on
suits of rusty black, change their name,
and become either reed or rice birds.
'Here is an advertisement that in
Lerests me good deal,' said Mrs.
Bascom, thoughtfully. "What is it?'
asked her husband. ''Why, It's the
advertisement of Z per cent. net, Sc
curity guaranteed I'm awfully both
cred lately about keeping my back hair
up, and I'll call in and look at it,
Proprietor of German restaurant to
new waiter: ''Dot letter for you, eh?
You was der Baron Won Schinkel-
berg?" New waiter (meekly): Eyes,
mein herr" Proprietor: ''Den you
wasn't no reckular waiter, eh? Veil
[ dake dollar week off your veags.'
A peculiar coincidence in connection
with Hira Bates and wife, of South
Hanover, Mass, who are now living
and SO years old, is that they were
both born on the same day, Aug. 5,
1896, and within few hours of each
other. Barry'~ history of Hanover
says that they were married Feb. "a,
The liquor dealers of Rome, Ga j.,
says The SavGranG1s NeeUs, are prepar-
ing to ''boycot'' large number of
men who continually drink to excess,
thus injuring themselves and not ben
eftting the saloons. When the list is
fully made out every saloon-keeper
will forfeit $50 if be evor sells to
man on the list.
A country editor in Missouri was
shot in the stomach by desperate
!he other day. 1t was the first thing,
except water, that the poor fellow had
had in his stomach for a week, and he
felt so grateful that he gave the vii
lain column ''puff" in the very next
issue of his paper.
According to the recent decision of
a Maine judge, all ponds in that state