The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-05
Curious Points.

The man who lost his balance was
out of his weigh.
Doctors, cheer up! The peach crop
is not a failure.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, is in
poor health
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild is
again very i'll.
Lettuce should not be dressed too
warmly in the summer.
A man at Salt Lake swallowed a
toad and was cured Of chills and fever.
The deaf mute teacher is always
ready to make a few of-hand remarks.
The cooks at Wellesley college are
men; the professors are women.
1t is said that Barry Sullivan intends
to revisit the United States next fall.
Sprays of yucca blossoms are pretty
for blends to wear with white gowns.
Spotted silk gloves have appeared
and they are not handsome
Boudoir sacques with ''angel" sleeves
have been brought into vogue.
A man at Brighton, Mass, lives on
sandwiches and soup, by his physicians
orders.
A couple were recently married at
Newport, r., Latter courtship of thir-
ty-tive years.
There are 1872 dressmakers in CHM
matt. No wonder Ohio men want good
offices.
Marshal Bazaine, Of Metz capitula-
ton notoriety,is reported to be dying at
Madrid.
When a lie is exploded there is always
enough people to 60 around and pick
up the pieces.
DR.. Tanner will ruin his health. He
persists in waking about on an empty
stomach.
The desire to go somewhere in hot
weather is only equalled by the desire
to get back again.
Cardinal satin belts with gold edge
are pretty when worn with either black
OF white gowns.
A new hairpin has a ball head of
Moorish enamel, which opens, disclos-
ing large Roman pearl.
Llama cloth with bordering of many
lines Of bright color, is made up into
pretty tennis dresses,
Fine lawns make better lining for
grenadines than cheap silks, and their
effect is quite as good.
The red parasol is now declared I'M
| fashionable, for which the world has
reason to be thankful
Plush coats are worn with muslin
dresses in Paris. The muslin and ones
pride are supposed to keep one cool.a
The washerwoman's overskirt is in
vogue at the French watering places.
1t is tied at the back by a large bow.
An Idaho woman who was caught by
an Indian broke away from him and
put two holes in him with a pitchfork.
A father and son are now in the Lam
caster county (Pa.) jail on seventeen
distinct charges for stealing chickens.
The trouble with the early peach is
that nature seems to have neglected to
put any flesh between the pit and the
down.
If you own an old house, mill-pond
and a side-hill with cherry tree on it,
now is the time to advertise as a sum-
| mer resort.
Roman aprons of unbleached cotton
are bordered by a row of slashings at
narrow intervals, and a tape-like bit of
cloth between the slashes tied in hard
knot.
In summer dresses the three deep
f1ounces, to waist, with or without over
skirt seems to be the favorite, as they
retain their freshness longer than the
plain skirts.
! The temperature of the Madison
Square theater in New York is kept
cool by an adroit use Of ice in the ven
tilating process.
| The following notice may OCCASION
ally be found posted upon the door of
a Partisan newspaper office: "Gone
to fight a duel, be back in half an
hour"
The '};eauty men" of London are
going to form club. Nobody will be
admitted without certificates from three
well-known ladies that they are alto
gether -ovely.
Re joseph Cook will sail for Ger
many in October. He, with his wife,
is now in western New York with his
father, who is out of health.
A tramp in West Virginia stole ride
on train, entering a refrigerator car,
where he was shortly after locked up
and nearly frozen to death.
Japanese and Turkish designs, show
ing the moon, fans, fishes, and dragons
peculiar to these styles, are seen this
season in lawns and percales, as we'll as
in foulard silks.
St. Louis had a cremation society,
and at recent meeting of it's members
a. committee was appointed for the pur-