The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-02
Midgets.

Miss Emily Faithful has postponed
her visit to America.
The Christiancy divorce case is post
poned until Autumn
List says his pen is tired, and that
ne will compose no more.
Miss Nelson's remains are being con-
veyed from Paris to England.
MIR. Rogers, private secretary of the
president, is reported dangerously ill.
The plate owned by the present Duke
Of Wellington is estimated to be worth
$1,50O,OO0.
A western paper tells of boy who
"peered fatally into the nuzzle ola shot
gum"
Sir Charles Dixie, British under sec
rotary for foreign affairs, is i'll with
rheumatic govt.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress,
will begin her new season September
Is, at Oswego, n. Y.
The Britishers are grumbling at the
unusual length of the present session of
parliament.
The late Miss Nelson first appeared
on the stage when she was Is years old
fifteen years ago.
Rev. Joseph Cook WAS robbed of his
gold watch while on his way to Chau-
tauqua from the east.
> The daughter of Anthony Trollope,
the English novelist, was married in
London, to Mr.. Stuart Wortley.
The New York Tribune says General
Grant has not accepted the offered pres
idency of a mining company.
Rev J. w. Wolcott who managed
Ripon College from 1858 until 1868,
died at Ripon, Wis, last week.
Two old women-one aged S. and
the other G0-werc arrested in New
York last week for sEop-lifting
1t is said that Carlyle neither reads
nor writes, but lies on sofa and longs
for death. He will be 50 in December.
Calvin Sykes, an eccentric character
of Suffield, Conn.,, refuses to shake
hands with any one, and has not done
so for years.
Herbert Spencer, the English philo-
sopher. begins next year tour of the
world, going from England to the Uni
ted States first.
NJ. Gustave Dore is painting colos-
sal picture in illustration of the text
"Come unto Me We that labor and are
heavy laden"
OF lis women observed on the street
cars, 113 stuck out their tongues when
they unclasped their pocketbooks.-
Aadrew's Queen.
Sir Garnet Wolseley has been select
ed by the British government to attend
the grand imperial military maneuvers
at Berlin in the Autumn.
Texas society is agitated over the
question of whether or not the groom
at a wedding should wear his revolver
belt outside or inside his dress coat.
The engagement is announced of Mr..
Arthur Clark Kennedy to Miss. APP
pleton, of Boston. Mr.. Kennedy is
son of the late General Kennedy.
The dog days are ended and so are
many of the dogs. Four thousand of
the superfluous CANNES were officially
drowned in New York city during the
season.
Hon. Fred Douglas is making his an
nual visit in Fall River, Mass. He will
stump one or more of the western states
in the fall for Garfield.
Mr.. Holman Hunt, the English art
list, will complete his painting of ''The
Flight Into Egypt" in about six months;
he has worked on it four years.
The Boston Globe says that a prom
Using young horse in South Boston has
been named DR.. Tanner, in hopes that
it will make him fast.
Ladies have become so prominent
in politics that no bachelor will receive
IL nomination for president for great
many years to come.
A London clergyman says that loung-
ers who attend fashionable weddings
smoke in the aisles and steal prayer
books to throw into the road after the
happy couple.
The Toronto Globe says that Colonel
Mcneil, Equerry to the Queen, who
accompanied Prince Leopold on his re-
cent visit, has been knighted by her
Majesty.
Autumn and winter dresses will be
magnificent in embroidery, and fash
ionable ladies will scintillate from head
to foot with perfect armor of jet and
colored beads.
President Grevy, of France, who is
now en- route to Jura in the Alps, was
enthusiastically greeted at Dion, where
an enormous crowd was present to
welcome him.
The Emperor of Austria is not in
good health; he is very pale and coughs
a great deal, and his physicians says
that the precarious state Of his chest re-
quires the greatest care.
A son of Jay Gould, recently from
college, is having a fine time in the
Rocky Mountains hunting and fishino