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

ldlng with hun escaped with n few
bruises.
"Mr. Smith," said Il lady to a fair.
"wont you please buy this bouquet to
present to the lady YOU love%'
"Twouldnt be right" said Mr.. Smith;
'Pm a married man."
In a few weeks the interesting mill.
tarry ceremony of Striking tents" will
take place at West Point. The event
always draws crowds of visitors to the
hotels, many of whom are the relatives
and friends of the cadets.
A Chinaman will bend all day over a
hot iron in little close room ironing
his clothes on q hot day and never
think of being warm; and vet he could
not fly kite in midwinter without fan
ming himself
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Hollenbeck. an
aged couple, died within a day of each
other at Ripon, Wis, last week. and
there was only one funeral for both.
The wife died on Friday night, and her
husband next morning. United in life.
death did not part them.
There was Il disgraceful scene at the
funeral Of Adelaide Nelson. An
enormous assemblage caused great con-
fusion around the grave. The circum-
stance arose from no disrespect for the
deceased actress, but from the impossi-
bility of the authorities to control the
crowd.
A genuine portrait of George Wash
ington is owned by DR.. Nicholas Curtis
Washington, ofSt. Louis. The picture.
which is attributed to the younger
Peale, is life-size and quarter-length,
showing Washington in the stiff black
dress coat with its broad collar. which
was fashionable in his day.
1t is reported that Lord Dupplin, who
is the prospective son-in-iaw of Will
liam H. Vanderbilt, will accompany
that gentleman and his family back to
this country this fall. There are var
ious dates fixed by Mrs. Grundy for the
wedding, but they cannot be regarded
as reliable.
The American professional beau
| ties" III London, whose movements are
now so closely followed by the $50
ciety' journals of that city, are Mrs.
Chopper, Mrs. Mahlon Sands. Miss Par
sons and Lady Vaudeville. A pitiful
ambition it is to be regarded as
professional" ~ in that line.
What Il monotonous life it must
have been in Eden without those cheer
ing aphorisms that now everywhere
brighten up the landscape, making
every rock, tree and fence to burgeon
out into such gratuitous advice as
"Purify your bloodw "Chew Spher-
ical Fine-cut" consumption can be
cured!,' etc.
Viscount de Lesseps was invited to
breakfast with the king of the Belgians
the other day, and the royal host sent
three court carriges to the station to
meet the Viscount and his suite. The
VlscOunts suite consisted of one of his
| little girls, whom he had in one hand,
and his luggage in a gripsack, which he
had in the other.
General Melikoff has been buying up
Nihilists, and has sent many of them
out of the country in secrecy, as politi-
cal agents, Roumelia, Servia, Greece
and Constantinople; while others have
been retained on stipends until an OPP
portunity for employment should offer
Russia will find this mode of getting
rid of the Nihilists far cheaper in the
end than shooting them.
Beecher alleges that he was at one
time offered $500, 900 for twelve months
of his time, including Sundays. The
syndicate which made the offer pro-
posed to pay down $4,000, and $12,-
500 monthly thereafter. Mr.. Beecher
told this to a newspaper man in the
whilom zenith city of unsalted SEAS"
Senator Eaton, on taking the chair at
| the Connecticut democratic state con-
vention, said: ''This is not time for
specch-making; it is the time for work.
Let speech-making come in hereafter"
He then proceeded to make speech
that fills a column and half Of the
New Haven Register.
A patent medicine advertisement
reads thus: "When lethargic feeling
pervades your sytem, when you have q
Discrimination to move about; when you
have an adherence to exercise; your
liver is inactive" This will be glad
tidings to many people who have al
ways thought they we're lazy when they
felt that way. Now they will know
that it was only their lver that was
lazy.
A lady at White Sulphur Springs,
when asked by a reporter for descrip-
ton other dress, said: II don't wear
q very handsome costume, but have
the incest husband and two of the
sweetest childreninthe room. " For sound
sense and happy fortune she deserves
to rank with the mother of the Grac-
chi.
"Gath' has got to Paris. He at once
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