The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-02-26

mlsdemeanOf 10 pelmlt WlIQ mustard 10 go 10
seed; for the taxation of policies Of insurance
companies not authorized TO do business in
this state; to provide for the destruction If
burdock; to legalize defective organizations
of corporations. relating to inmates of the deaf,
dumb and blind institute; amending game laws.
The house has had Cos bills thus far intro
dpoed in that branch; This is more than q
hundred in EXCESS of the number at any pre-
vious session. The senate has 497 bills intro
duced, making total of 1,1U2
6ENATE-Nearly the whole day was absorbed
in discussion over the high license BILL and
deadlock in tho afternoon, which lasted three
hours, and was caused by those in favor Of the
bill refusing to vote, was finally broken by the
decision OF Chairman Morrisoh that a quoru1d
was reported present by the sergeant at arms,
and the bill was defeated-21 to 2. Adjourned
The senators present and refusing to vote
Billson. Clement, Comstock, Craig Gilallan J.
B.. Greenleaf, Hall. Hickman. Houlton, johnson.
Knudson. Pillsbury, Severance Van Hoesen,
Ward, Wells, Wilkins, Wilson-total; 49, The
6haleen, Sergeant and Wheat.
With the eighteen refusers and the two
AHes tTruax aid Hoodrich) total of TWENTY
left four Of the absentees necessary to pass
the bill 1t is not likely that number could
have been secured
HoUsE-The committee on public accounts
reported the accounts of the state all correct The
contested election Of Wyncoop vs.. McKusick was
indefinitely postponed. Bills were introduced:
Relating to chattel mortgages; to provide lien
for mutual fire insurance companies; making
Decoration day a legal holiday; to create fourth
judgeship in the Second judicial district; to pro-
vide for stenographers in all the state courts:
to provide for the regulation of mutual building
and savings associations; to provide central
weather observation and crop statistic bureau
at Northfeld. House bills passed: For a consti-
tutional amendment repeating the pres
emit sixty-day limit TO legislative sessions;
st. Paul Honors the Legislators.
The reception rendered to the members Of
the legislature by the common council of St.
Paul. at the state house last evening, was a
brilliant success in point of attendance
fnorc of success than was anticipated, un-
less the committee of arrangements overesti-
mated the capacity of the state house
to accommodate the large number
who were invited to. participate. some-
thing over three thousand invitations
estimate places the attendance at fully 1000
people. The number was estimated even az
high as 5000, and some Of the number who
were caught I'D che crush at one place OF
smother are prepared to believe that the num-
Der WAS even greater. -.
The company was q democratic. as it wa,
large, and % classes jostied each other in Ito
crowd which Was found everywhere -in the
corridors, the halls, in tile galleries, in the
sacred precincts of the supreme court room,
the committee room, and the galleries, from
which und1minishing crowds watched with
interest and more or less amusement the
throng of dancers
Despite the discomforts attendant
upon the presence of so large number
there was evident enjoyment of the whole
seeing those who did, and not the least of
the interesting features of the evening was
the study of the vast com;'an and its very
varied and differing c.oAte5.s
A memoir by NJ. f. +. LIE Koux oD
In experimental demonstration of the
inversion of the electromotor force
produced by the contact of iron and
copper at high temperature, has
been submitted to the Academy of
Sciences, Paris. From the results of
several experiments. conducted under
varying conditions, NJ LIE Roux con-
cludes that at about the temperature
of 1000 deg. Centrigrade an electric
current passing from the. copper to
the iron heats the point of contact,
while cooling it at the ordinary tenn
perature. A knowledge of this fact,
now for the first time demonstrated.
may, it has been anticipated, affect
not only the theory of thermo-electric-
ity, but also that of certain chemical
phenomena.
Glass has been in use from so re-
mote period of antiquity and has so
intimately associated itself with the
progress of civilization, that it is not
surprising to find improvements in
it's manufacture as often as the neces-
sity for them has arisen. From the
paintings found by Wilkinson at
Beni-Hassan it appears that the art
of glass-blowing was known at least
5000 years ago. Sometimes new pro-
cessaf in dealing with the raw mate
rails have produced desirable and
sometimes startling results. 1t is said
that some Anglo-German manufact.
urers have recently turned out glass
as hard and tough as cast iron, and
that they intend to make of this hard
and comparatively light crystal stairs,
street lamp posts and gas and water
pipes. It is thought that they can
make these and similar articles of
glass thirty per cent cheaper than
they can make them of cast iron.
A paper on the Acknowledging
rocks of South America has been con-
tributed by Prof. H. E. Roscoe to the
Philosophical Society, Manchester. Of
two shafts sunk in the Kimberley Mine,
the one in the ''pipe" passed through
three feet of red sand, fifteen feet of
tufaceous limestone, thirty feet of soft
earthly diamond rock, and 2S2 feet of
soft blue diamond rock. The other
shaft in the shale near the ''pipe' pen
etrated three feet of red sand, five feet
of tufaceous limestone, twenty feet of
yellow shale, ten feet of black carbon
aceous shale, one foot of two thin
bands of black dust in shale, 236 feet
of black shale, and two feet of dolerite.
The diamonds were found in the yell
low and blue ''stuff," along with gar
nets, mica, bronzite, ilmenite, pyrite,
ETC., and were separated by washing
the broken up earth in sluices similar
to those used in gold mining. Dia-
monds from Kimberley are said to
reach an annual value of. $18, 100000,
and the total quantity raised since
1870 is reported 20 have attained the
enormous sum of S2O0.00O.O00.
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Potomac. Formerly almost unlimited
credit was extended on the part Of
Southern publishers, and as a conse-
auence the papers languished. Under
the cash system there has been Il marked