The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-11-25
Picked IN Particles.


John Bright loves to fish for salmon.
Quadrillcs are rogaining popularity.
Cato learned Greek when he was so
years old.
Rev. Charles r. Weld, of Baltimore,
is is Boston.
Sara Bernhardt's gloves are clumsy
and ill-titting.
Bees are avaricious; they sell all
their honey.
The handsomest baby at the Boston
show was boy.
'Sarah Heart Burn is what they call
her IN the theatre.
IT'S easier to set an example than a
speckled hen.
Flowing locks-thosc of Il canal
when they're opened.
The actor who cannot draw is worse
than a blister.
Sarah Bernhard brought with her
$50 pairs of stockings.
Garfield will be the twentieth presi-
dent of the United States.
The ponderous Richelieu hat is
growing in popularity.
"Swans sing before they die" They
have to if they sing at all.
From Paris TO San Francisco heavy
plush is the fashion.
Moody and Sankev are at work on
the sinners of San Francisco.
Mrs. J. NJ. Lander, well known in
Washington: d. c., is in Dresden.
Rowell, the Englishman, retains the
champion pedestrian belt.
Wendell Phillips is the executor of the
estate of the late Lydia Marie Child.
The Rev. DR.. Hougton, of the "Little
Church Around the Corner is 81.
Every time a child is born in St.
Louis cry goes up for IL new census.
A seat in the New York Stock Ex-
change has just been sold for 1000.
Theodore Tilton has returned from
Europe and soon will commence lect-
uring tour,
A French woman cannot bring suit
for divorce without the consent of her
husband
Sara Bernhardt is taking lessons in
English, and has already made good
progress.
DIR. Tanner, the faster, is expected to
lecture in London some time during
next month.
A New York house has just sold two
Sevres vases to a California millionaire
for $4,000.
Mile. Bernhard sports purse totally
of keeping with herself. It is fat while
she is thin.
y. S. Grant, Jr., is a popular and
well-behaved young man among his
associates in New York.
New York is preparing for an unusu-
ally gay winter, an extra tier of cells
having been placed in the Tombs.
A wise writer says: ''Bustle is not
industry" Perhaps he will declare
that the hoop skirt is not business.
Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian
statesmand an diplomat, is reported as
seriously i'll and not likely to recover
If Jacobs ladder were reality, and
it offered free way to heaven, how
many persons there are who would
wildly demand an elevator.
The base-drum player makes more
noise than anybody else, but he doesn't
lead the band. There is q moral to
this.
Sir Robert Peel, not Il very great
man, but nevertheless "the son Of his
father" and leader in British politics,
is about to visit the United States.
If intelligent clergymen will dispute
with each other over the way Of going
to Heaven, they must expect ordinary
.nortals to become little mixed at the
crossroads.
The princess of Wales wears on her
swanlike neck, as the new fashion,
ruc]tes of lace and velvet collars orna-
mented with silver carvings.
When the shopman seizes you
warmly by the hand as you enter his
establishment you readily understand
what is meant by pressure of bust
ness.
Some Indians use scalping- knives of
tortoise-shell, probably on account of
the old fable in which the tortoise is al
legged to have got away with the hare.
1t is reported that Henry Probasco,
of Cincinnati, intends giving $500. 900
to the proposed Art Museum in that
city.
Mrs. Lockwood, the lawyer-like lady
OF Washington, says she has been mar
rled twice, and has never asked her
husband for dollar of money.
Wayne Mac Veagh, it is reported,
has bought "Brookfeld," beautiful
farm near Philadelphia, and will pass
his summers there.
One hundred and thirty young ladies