The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-12
Chit Chat.

1t was Tanners fame that induced
Sarah Bernhardt to come here.
A Bronson Alcott has not touched
animal food for fifty years.
Henry Irving wants $1,000 per night
for limited season in this country.
Little pelerines of jet are worn by
very young ladies.
Ladies on all occasions adorn them
selves with flowers.
Kerchief gowns are :,s popular us
ever this summer.
Red mitts give brilliant effect to a
black costume.
Paris theatre toilets are always adj
orned with bouquet.
The fashionable collar at the moment
the Dauphin.
1.-THE Empty Wonder" is the latest
New York name for Tanner.
Rev. Robert Collyer is preaching in
Nantucket to crowded houses,
A Chicago doctor says that if female
clerks in stores would abolish corscts
they could stand all day and not feel
tired.
Louisville brings to the front a wo-
man us years old who is still doing her
own housework. Old age makes lying
easy.
One Of the Campbell girls who came
out with their father, the Duke of
Argyll, to this country, has just been
married
A large beaver dam has formed
lake on Stubble creek, Casio county
Idaho, and it is literally full of speckled
trout.
Some people arc born with the cor
ners of their mouth turned down. That
is why they never laugh.-New Ha,vn
Register.
One O. two inches of snake and a
couple of ,tttles ought to be taken from
that 14-foot and 4S-rattle snake killed
in Texas.
Every persons objection to the round
dance holds good until he or she learns
how to dance it. Tt is then very pleas
ant dance.
There arc 400 musicians at Coney
Island, and the ocean has no chance to
get its work in through the music of
the sad sea waves.
More than one half of the steamboats,
running out of New York avoid the law
regarding life-presevers, and malicious
ly avoid it.
4 parish in New England has Il par
son who rings the bell, plays the organ,
leads the singing and in winter cuts the
wood.
Tom Scott will ruralize in the White
Mountains after his yachting trip is
over. He wants to get where he can
not hear railroad whistle.
Mr.. Evarts' professional income is
estimated at from $4,000 to $500, 900 a
year.
The Baltimore thermometers have
been singing ''Ninety and Nine' in the
shade.
Modieskas brother is lame from
shot in the knee fired by her husband
in a duel.
Senator Lamar is so i'll that he has
been forbidden to make any speeches
at present.
Coachmen and house servants 1T
Newport are wearing the livery of En-
gland to serve Americans in.
The man who spends all his money
on diamond shirt-stlld carries every
thing before him.
Marshall G. Thompson: a young man
10 Sandersville, Ca, died from the bite
of 4 mocassin snake.
4 quantity of sea shells were bored
up from a well twenty-seven feet deep,
in Sumter county, South Carolina.
Mrs. Pho Santine, the recently mar
ried daughter Of the sculptor Rogers,
will live near the old home.
The Empress Eugene is about to visit
Queen Victoria at Osborne, The ALL
tumn she will spend at Arenenburg.
Give a New England man a chance
to guess at the weight of q live hog and
you make him happy for q whole day.
Il court dress Worn by Marie Antoinette.
It is of purple satin. and is still in good
condition.
DR.. Sternberg, of Denver, COL, Of
fers to fast forty days if SOM body will
pay him IS. 900 for the time and
trouble.
John Bright says that for every
heather converted in Africa there is
opportunity to convert five in England.
An Ohio girl was struck by lightning
while splitting wood in a thunder
storm, but her father, who sat read
ing novel, scarcely felt the shock.
Anthony Comstock has accomplished
some good things, but he is man who
can't see the dividing line between going
far enough and not too far.
Delaware peach-growers can sit on
their verandas and make chalk marks
to show that state will this year ship
+ 1000. 600 baskets of peaches.