The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-08-26

hucklebeTles INTO tub, and dyed all
the fine dresses they could find in the
juice.
"AIarv Adams" is a mysterious fac
tory girl, in a mill at Winthrop, Mass.
She wears 4 thick veil while at work, or
going to and from the mill, and goes to
church regularly, but shakes hands
with no one. They say she is the
daughter of rich Boston parents, who
stopped giving her money because she
gave it all to the poor and labored as a
city missionary.
When Quinn was ats certain dinner
party there was a pudding on the table
of peculiarly attractive character.
one Of the guests helped himself to a
huge piece, when the host wishing to
have Quim's opinion, pushed the dish
toward him and invited him to 'staste
the pudding" "Pray,' said Quinn,
looking first at the gentlemans plate
and then at the dish, (which is the pud-
diEg?'
An Englishman says that no other
people in the world as far as he knows,
can equal the Arkansians in of-hand
cxaggeration "Do you see that spring
over there. stranger?" said one of them
to him. He said he did, whereupon the
settler added: "Well that's an iron
spring, that is, and it's so mighty pow
erful that the farmers horses about
here that drink the water of it never
have to be shod. The shoes just grow
on their feet nat'rally."
The following actors are among the
stars who appear ON the American
stage next season: Mile. Sara Bern
hardt, Miss Fanny Davenport, Nine.
Selma Dolaro, Miss Ada Cavendish,
! Mrs. Genevieve Ward, Miss Mary An
derson, Mrs. Scott-Siddons, Miss Emily
Soldene, Miss Dion Boucicault, Miss
Louise Pomeroy, Mr.. John McCul-
Tough, Mr. f. A. Sothern, Mr.. Joseph
Jefferson, Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, and
possibly Nine. Janauschek and Signoc
Salvini
One of the most remarked figures
now in London is the secretary of the
American legation, Mr.. Steinway. He
is a Kentuckian, six feet eight in height,
;.s straight us Il rush, thin, bony, mus
cular, 50 years of age, with the most
wonderful typical Yankee face and
general aspect it is possible to conceive
There is something almost ridiculous
in the realization that he is, though a
Kentuckian, the typical Yankee of
Pu7ch When he stands in room, a
full head and shoulders over everybody,
I'LL eyes are on him.
One of the fashions of the day is for
lady visitors to seaside resorts to carry
pet dogs with them. The custom is so
popular that leading hotels have been
compelled to give notice that guests ac-
companied by dogs will be charged $40
per week for board of the CANNES.
This is not an unreasonable charge if
the order for Il dogs breakfast sent by
a visitor at Cape May hotel to the
dining-room is a sample of the guests
demands. This person called for q
tendertoin steak, very rarely broiled,
cold chicken wing and pint of milk.
ior "dear little JUPITER which was 8
pug-nosed bull-pup.
A Woman at Carson, Nevada, is said
to have undertaken to refrain from
speaking for forty days. The report
runs us follows: "She began at 8 in the
morning, and at TO- her pulse was so
feeble from exhaustion that the ply
sicians feared she would die by noon
At II her heart beat but twenty-six a
minute, and her respirations were hard
ly noticeable. Her friends here urged
her to discontinue her terrible task, and
told her some gossip about a neigh
Dor. On hearing it she Immediately
rushed from the house. and going
across the street, met a lady friend and
talked to 6! that evening, and is now
fully restored