The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-09-23
Personal and ImpersOnal.


A fire at St. Paul, MIMI, August %,
destroyed property valued at over
100000.
Hon. Horace Maynard entered upon
his duties of postmaster general last
week.
The army of the Cumberland will
hold it's reunion in Toledo on Sept. %
and 90
Neil Burgess, alias Widow Bedott,
was married recently to Miss Stod-
dart.
A half uncle of Lord Vaudeville has
been appointed to the British legation
at Washington.
Marshall o. Roberts, one Of the New
York millionaires, was stricken with
apoplexy at Saratoga.
Lord Lytton brought home from In
dia Il fine cream-cOlored Arab horse and
three buffalo COWS.
There is religious excitement at Shei-
dahl, Iowa, because a Methodist pastor
| drank beer ut a public bar.
John c.. Hamilton, the son of Alexan-
der Hamilton, is over so years of age,
and if he lives will vote for Garfield
Mrs. Sarah Doolittle, mother of ex-
Senator J. r. Doolittlc, died at Racine,
Wis, on Tuesday night, aged So years.
The Iowa republicans have renomi-
mated j. A. T. Hall for secretary of
state, and named w. Y. Lucas for
auditor
A convention Of deaf mutes of the
United States was held at Cincinnati
last week. All the proceedings were
carried on by signs.
James P. Voorhees,, son of Senator
Voorhees, has been received into the
Roman Catholic church 1T Terre
Haute
The Princess OF Wales wore at the
Goodwood dress of dark blue,
trimmed with cream-colored lace, and
4 bonnet to match.
The Cars treasury has in year
given five million roubles for the sup
port of the orthodox churches of the
empire.
Frank Lord, of New York, who is
SO sl<illflll with his pistol that he cut il
twain a card thrown up edgewise, is !,
lion in Paris
Among other risks of investment OF,
change is the one that the fellow you
bet against may not be able to pay
more than % certs Oh a dollar.
! In the making and distributing of
clothing in this country New York
ranks first: Chicago second and Boston
third.
Mr.. Vennor, the Canadian weather
prophet, is an ornithologist and the
author of a book called Our Birds of
Prey"
The Massachusetts society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals, re-
commends that all kittens that cannot
be provided for be killed at birth.
London Truth has seen ladies who
array themselves in what appears to be
bed-ticking, and what, it thinks, makes
them look like " skipping mattresses.
! General Ewing, of Ohio, and U. S.
Grant, Jr., are visiting the mines OF
Arizona, IN company with Hon. A. +.
X. Stafford, ex-governor Of that terri
tory.
A hut on Mount Grammont, in the
Valley Of the Aosta, 300 feet above
the sea level, built at the instance of
the italian Alpine club, has been form
ally opened.
James O'Neill, an actor, has been
photographed in San Francisco in the
character of Our Saviour, which he as
stunned in the passion Play" Both
actor and photographer were severely
censured by the clergy of that city.
The London m edical journals report
the case of the daughter of the mayor
of Grambke, near Bremen, who has
slept almost uninterrupted]y for six
m onths.
The observatory on Etna will soon
be an accomplished fact. The object is
the study of vulcanology. and therefore
it has been built at the base Of the GEN.
trail cone
The Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon, taking ad-
vantage of the great success Of his
"John Ploughman's Talk" has issued
another volume called "John Plough
mans Pictures"
A little girl was arrested at Holyoke,
Mass, for cutting the cushions of a fine
carriage. She explained that she
wanted to get hair to stuff her doll
anew.
1t is the current talk in San Francisco
that Miss Flood, having seen U. S.
Grant, Jr., in company with young
woman "not over NICE" as she has it,
will not marry the young man, after
all. 1t is one of a paragrapher's staple
properties " to complain of the cost
OF taking out young girls. The cost in
this instance is $2,50O,OOO.
Prince Bismarck, at Kissingen, fol.
lowing the advice of his physicians, in
dulges in afternoon maps. The prince
is great eater and worker, though
poor sleeper.