The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-02
Personal Items.

Judge Lambert Tree, who is worth about
$4,0oO,00O, is said to be Chicago's wealth.
est man.
G. C. Waite, son of the chief Justice,
has received from his uncle, President
Jewett, an appointment as his assistant in
the management of the Erie road, at a sala-
~ of $4,000 per annum. He is now SUI
perintendent Of division of the Pan Han
die road.
Socrates, at an extreme old age, learned
to play on musical instruments. Cato at
80 years of age, learned the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between 60 and 20, began
to study latin. DR.. johnson applied him
self to the Dutch language but few years
before his death. Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham
was nearly SO years of age when she discov-
cred her Vegetable Compound. By these
facts we see that it is never to late to learn.
Mr.. Henry Chisholm, who died in Cleve-
land a few days ago, was mainly instrument
tal in establishing five Of that city's rolling
mills, which now employ eight thousand
men and do an aggregate business of $685.
OO0, 900 annuity. All is the outgrowth of a
small mill located in Cleveland in 1857, and
in all Mr.. Chisholms was the guiding
hand.
General Turner Ashby and his brother
Captain Richard Ashby, both Of whom were
killed in battle, will be honored with q
memorial monument by the ladies of VIM
chester, Va. The monument will be I'M
yelled June 6.
Miss Julia jackson, TIE daughter of
"Stonowall" jackson, has just received
from the Stonewall Grenadiers, of New
Orleans, the gift of silk banneret set in a
silver base. The presentation was made
by the company in person, and in an en-
thusiastic speech Miss jackson was told
that as she stood there, lowered with
goodness, grace and beauty, thousands of
knightly men offered her their homage and
tendersd her their devotion with a courtesy
and chivalry born of honor, faith and truth.
Elizabeth Hardin, who has just died at
the house of her youngest son in Troy, N.
Y, is said to have been born in Africa in
1777, the daughter of Paschall Passover an
African ch;eftain. At the age Of about 10
years she was captured, brought to America,
and sold as slave at Charleston, S. c.. In
Watertown, N. Y, where she married JOS
hua Hardee, a half brother of Gan. Hardee,
author of Hardee's Tactics" who took the
name of Hardin. He had distinguished
himself for bravery at Sackett's Harbor in
he war of 1912.
The elder Booth was short, spare, mus
cular man with splendid chest, a
Symmetrical Greek head, pale countenance,
a voice of wonderful compass and thrilling
power, dark hair, and blue eyes. Edwin s
resemblance to him is chiefly obvious in
the shape Of the head and face, the. arch
and the twist of. the heavy eyebrows, the
radiant and constantly shifting light of ex-
preston which animates the countenanee,
the1natural grace Of carriage, and the celer-
ity of movement. In range of facial ex-
pressiveness his countenance is thus fully
equal to what his fathers was, and to all
that tradition tells us of the countenance of
Garrick.-Harper's for June.
Mrs. Bell, wife of the inventor of the
telephone, is deaf mute. It is frequently
the subject of remark that it is most singu-
lar coincidence that the inventor of the tele-
graph and the inventor of the telephone,
Professor Bell, should each have had a
deaf mute for wife. An interesting story
is told in regard to what influenced the
wealthy and charitable Amos Kendall to
give so much toward founding deaf mute
college in Washington. When Morse was
epdeavoring to introduce his patent, Amos
Kendall became 80 much interested in him
and his wife, and felt such sympathy for
her affection, that he determined to do all
that he could to found college in Wash
ington for those who suffer from similar
misfOrtuneB.