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

spliced.
Colorado has many men of many
mines.
A factory in Erie makes ], 200 mouse
traps daily.
Leadville is 10000 feet above the lev
Ell of the sea.
R me!' said the oyster; "ny holi-
day is nearly over.'
Governor Cullom is campaignin
down in Egypt
A young lady resembles ammunition
because the powder is needed before
the ball.
Ex-Govenor Horato Seymour has
arrived at Saratoga He appears to be
in the best Of health.
The Pope is weak and depressed. He
had an attack of Vertigo after Fridays
Consistory.
Sanford r. Clifford and F. E. Church,
two well-known New York artists are
sick with malaria.
Mr.. Walter Blaine, a son of the
"plumed knight" is making speeches
in Maine.
It's a poor rule that wont work both
ways. Hartford has IL COW that is afraid
of women.
1t generally takes two to make a
quarrel, but very often one mother-in-
law is sufficient.
Carlyle and Ruskin are to have
statues. The crankiest people in the
world can stand that sort of thing.
The wife Of Postmaster General Key
is large and MISUNDERSTANDING, and re-
joices in a family of ten children.
Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D. D., IL. D.,
has accepted the presidency of Middle
bury College, Vermont.
Japanese nurses are all the rage in
fashionable circles 1T the east, and they
are said to give entire satisfaction.
A man out west was offered plate
Of macaroni soup, but declined it, de-
claring that they "couldn't play off any
billed pipe-stems on him."
The Chinese are the best cigar
makers in the world, because they can
use one-third oal<um where white
man can't use any.
Bismarck will not patronize the sea-
side resorts Of England, because he is
afraid of reporters and turf-hunters.
Our friend Jones frequently tells of
ideas fitting through his mind. Ideas
find nothing in Jones's mind to obstruct
their fits.
Hon. Franklin B. Gowen, president
and receiver of the Philadelphia and
Reading roads, is ill at Saratoga, from
oyerwork.
The death of James Allan, of the
Allan Line, brother of Sir Hugh and
Andrew Allen. Of Montreal, is an
nounced from Glasgow.
Bob Ingersol still sticks to his phrase:
Treat a woman like a splendid flower"
But does she want to be sprinkled with
hellebore to keep off the bugs.
Adelaine Nelson frequently COM
planned of a pain at the heart after
playing Juliet. She was the victim of
a cancerous malady.
By the recent death of Mrs. Helen
A. Brown, of Erie, Pa, $13, 900 is left to
charitable institutions in the city.
The "band" at some of the watering
place hotels consists of q man who
plays the piano whenever the crowd is
green enough to stand it.
A woman near Cairo dressed up as a
man to see how much bluff her old hus-
band would take from a stranger. She
- l.. ,,I c1>
Of her body.
A Deadwood mob chased a man
three miles into the Indian country be-
cause he said baseball and not poker
was the national game.
A young Scotchman, Robert Donald
son, jumped from the center of High
Bird &c, New York city, distance of
12S feet, the other evening, and landed
i'll the Harlem river in safety. He
complained of severe pains in the
chest and side after reaching the shore.
After all the other varieties of fish
were created Nature had two quarts OF
bones left, and in order to make use
of them she built the shad and told him
to 60 it.
A Deadwood miner played base ball
with can of nitro-glycerine just to
show his companions that he wasn't
afraid Of the stuff. The only trace of
him was q hole in the ground.
The London Truth thinks the ladies
should stand on both feet at once, and
not shift from one to the other. He
says that not one woman in fifty can
stand at ease.
People are reluctantly coming HON e
from the watering places. We who
have stayed home all summer are saved
that trouble.
1t is said that Mr.. Lorillard, of New
York, has purchased his two years ex-
perience on the English turf at g cost
of about 100000.