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The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27

dressing, and gives that sense of perfect
harmony that some we'll dressed people al
ways suggest.
For example, lady with a long oval face
and neck should wear her hair low in. the
neck, not hig on the forehead, but full on
the temples. A lady with round face and
short neck can wear to advantage her hair
high at back and front, and degage on the
temples. This is matter in which fashion
should be quite secondary to natural fea-
lures: The brunette may wear in her hair
camelias, roses, red or yellow, diamonds or
pearls, while the blonde should keep to
smaller flowers, the forgetmenot rosebuds.
Following that law of taste which permits
to the brunette everything more solid and
more massive than to the blonde, to whom
all light and flowing textures go by divine
right.
Let us hop these suggestions will
sink deep into the hearts of our readers who
violate the laws Of color and outline deter
mined by nature for them, for no better
reason than pique to have gown just like
Mrs. Hautton, and an insane desire to do
their hair like Mrs. Lowbred.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.

Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
A loan and building association has been or
gained at Mankato, and large amount of
stock subscribed for
The president nominated as postmaster Sam
uel G. 1verson at Rushford, Mimi, and VIM. B.
Fish at Anamosa, la.
The frame flour mill of F. Harkin of St
Peter, was burned to the ground on Saturday
last 1t was insuredfor about Sc, 900.
Edward Lawler, on trial at Winona for the
murder of James Malone in July, 1879, was
convicted of manslaughter in the second de-
gree.
The Winona County Sunday School associa-
ton will hold it's next annual convention in the
Baptist church, ST. Charles, on the 25th and
Goth inst.
one-half pounds, was lately found Embedded in
the ground, in the town of mount pleasant,
near Lake City.
Mr. Franklin J. Rice, an old resident of Still
water, died suddenly of what his friends think
was rheumatism of the heart. He leaves q
widow and six children
Justus G. Ramsey, Esq, brother of the
secretary of war, and an old resident of st.
Paul was found dead in his bed on Monday
morning last, having committed snicide.
The residence of E. J. Noyt in the town of
Clifford, Wabasha county, took fire from q de-
fective chimney few days ago and, with por-
ton of it's contents, was consumed. The loss is
about 81 900.
The dwelling house of Thomas Riddle, in
the town of Forestville, Fillmore county, was
burned with most of it's contents one day last
week. The fire was caused by some defect
bout the chimney.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota State
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27
Secret Of Effective Dressing.

The beautiful combination of colors is
the secret of effective dressing. The art of
combining, harmonizing and contrasting
them with discrimination, while taking care
to draw attention to the person rather than
the dress itself, is to possess the secret of
beauty. Some people possess this faculty
instinctively: to others the feeling for col
Or is, if we may be excused very weak
pun, the veriest cropping in the dark. If
you are determined to follow fashion closely
in it's colors, in defiance Of your natural col
oring, at leas tlet the trimmings you choose
contrast we'll with, or else suit, your COM
plexion. The florid may not wear pale pink;
the sallow are forbidden brilliant white, OF
pale tints generally.
10 assist the doubtful, we append certain
suggestions derived from an artist in such
matters. To set off fair or blonde COM
plexion to the greatest advantage always
choose either very pale colors, such as pale
pink, rose, lilac, or white, or else very dark
colors, such as dark green, dark purple,
violet Or caroubier. The light colors will
improve the complexion by comparison, the
dark by contrast. For ornaments, pearls or
turquoises suit BEST
The color which most enhances the BEAU
ty of brunette is decidedly yellow; bright
red or green are also becoming-as indeed
are all bright colors. Diamonds OF amber
jewelry suit best these dark, clear faces.
A lady with a tiorid complexion should
choose bright red, violet, or other colors
which will out-shine the high tone Of the
complexion; for Jewels, diamonds, corals,
garnets: A diamond pendant of band Of
ruby velvet will put,a ford face in eclipse
at once: A lady of pale complexion will
dress with advantage by choosing g1ays of
all shades, with bows of pale yellow; or
black, with relief of pink garnets, lava, and
some tints of purple and red, suit a sallow
complexion. Emeralds as jewels are the
most appropriate. -
A lady's couture and the shape of her hats
and bonnets must conform to the shape of
her head, and be suited to her face, if she
would be seen at her best. Nice attention
to these matters is the secret of artistic
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27
MinnesOtas Population.
The census Office has published the popula-
RAILROAD NOTES.

Sensational 1umors that the Milwaukee
and St. Paul had absorbed the Chicago,
St. Paul and Omaha line, and that the St.
Paul and Manitoba contemplated building
line from st. Paul to Chicago are pro-
nounced without foundation.
The snow drifts on the Winona l. St.
Peter division of the Chicago & Northwest
ern extend a distance of 100 miles, between
Sleepy Eye and Lake Benton. Gangs of
men are shoveling out the cuts.
Hon. Charles L. Colby, President of the
Wisconsin Central has been arrested at Mil
waukee on charges preferred by Judge
George Reed of Manitowoc. The warrant
charges Colby with falsely, wickedly, cor
ruptly and wilfully committing perjury in
swearing that Reed had embezzled or mis-
appropriated funds of the road to the ex-
tent of $21, 900 in recent litigation between
the two, Judge Reed and the projectors of
the Central. Colby was it's first President.
He has been in the State senate four times
and is very prominent man.
John G. Gault, general manager of the
Wabash railway, whose health has been
much impaired for few months past has
left this morning for Florida, where he will
spend several weeks. Joseph F. Howe,
secretary of the company, will perform the
duties of general manager during Mr.. Gault's
absence.
A Des Moines letter says that Russell
Sage is negotiating consolidation Of the
Central Iowa with the Wabash combination,
which, it successful, will give the Wabash
a big boost toward it's connection with the
Northern Pacific and Chicago & St. Paul
cut off
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27
''Gath'' Talks with Secretary Ramsey
Dispatch to Cincinnati ENQUIRER

Dispatch to Cincinnati Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-I called on Sec
rotary of War Ramsey to-day, and condoled
with him on McMillan's election to the SEN
ate. "Why," said Ramsey, II never was a
candidate. My name was brought out bv
some of my friends only few weeks ago,
and I wrote to them explicitly declining,
though perhaps did not make it peremptory
enough. The fact is, said Ramsey, "that
cannot afford to stay here in Washington.
My private business is suffering from my alb
senee, I have had all the public occupation
I want OF deserve, and I am pretty old
man" He introduced me to gentleman
present, who he said had the largest mill
tary Jail in the country, at Fort Leaven-
worth, with about 400 prisoners in it. There
is another at Alcatras, in the Bay of San
Francisco, with about 100. Under the terms
of the law the secretary had seen every pris-
oner, to hear if there was any complaint.
Most of them were in for desertion but 9TH
ers for higher crimes. Said I: Mr.. Sec
retary, do you think the regular army wants
to be made larger? "That is the opinion of
the general of the army" said Ramsey, and
I have no means of disputing it. When
I was at Fort Townsend, the ex-
IRENE northwestern post of the United
States, on Puget sound, the Indians
had committed some havoc, and there were
only two companies at the post; and while
one company went out to fight then the
other had to guard the post. A piece of
the road passed over was attacked by In
dams few weeks afterward, and the occu
pants of the stage coach seized, tied to the
coach and burned alive. They must have
thought we had not enough of an army"
Mr.. Ramsey said that his home in st. Paul
was now a town of $4,000 people, somewhat
smaller than Minneapolis, and that the two
cities were approaching leach other, and
would one day be continuous town with
$50, 900 to 800, 900 population.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27

A mortgage involving colossal amount
of capital was fled for record in the record
er's Office at Chicago. It is the largest doc
ument of it's character ever filed in this
country. By it's terms the Wabash, St.
Louis and Pacific railroad pledges it's entire
property for the payment of mortgage
$50, ZOO, 900 to the Central Trust company
Of New York and James Cheney of Indiana.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-01-27
TO ChQirs and Musical Societies.

GETS of standard books at halfprice, almost
Zundels mtroit SO, worth $18 new; fourteen copies
Bakers Short Anthems and Sentences, $1,000, worth
Book, $40 worth $3.50; thirteen copies Bakers
cantata, Burning Ship Sc. 80, worth $16.25. Ad-
dress "a, care Pioneer Press, st. Paul.
n. n. q. No. 4.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
The Man in the Moon,

'llN lilll'l 'NlNUUlNlNl'
The disk of the moon, as is very ap-
parent, is not of uniform brightness,
but is diversified by dark areas here
and there. These dark areas are SO
arranged us to represent the eyes, nose,
and mouth of a human being, and the
whole disk represents passably well a
human face. Not all people, however,
can see this resemblance. Some who
can not see the face can see a man and
Il woman carrying between them a
bucket of water. The man stands on
the left side of the disk, the woman on
the right. TO some the dark spaces
appear to have the same shape of North
and South America, as if the western
continent was reflected in the moon.
The Tartars see none of these, but
their "man in the moon" is a wood
cuttcr, bearing on his back huge bun
die of wood and supporting himself
with a staff. The Japanese see the
form of Il rabbit in a sitting posture.
His long ears stand erect, and before
him is large mortar. In his forepaws
he holds a pestle, with which he is
grinding rice after the manner of the
japanese.
The Emperor Rodolph, who often
observed the moon with the astronomer,
Keplcr, saw upon it the image of Italy.
The ancients recognized the resemblance
of the moon to the human face, for the
historian Plutarch wrote a treatise con-
tradicting the vulgar idea. "Great
fools" said he, "are they who think
that they see Il face on the moon. That
which they think they seeis an illusion.
1t is caused by fatigue of the eye,
which makes light and shade where
there is only uniformity"
How greatly he was mistaken was
shown afterwards, when the telescope
was invented. Under the powerful
eye of this instrument the surface of
the moon exhibits anything but uni
formity. 1t equals in roughness the
toughest portion of the earth's surface.
Huge mountain craters are scattered
over the disk, and within many of these
are smaller mountains. Deep chasms
and high ridges are abundant From
some of the mountains long rays ex-
tend in every direction like streams of
lava.
The telescope dispels all those resem-
blances which are so apparent to the
naked eye, but even with this aid not
all people see alike. One likens the
moon TO a green cheese, while another
thinks it resembles body of water
frozen over with the rifles on its sur
face, and the craters are air-holes in
the ice. Another simile, perhaps the
most ridiculous of all, is that of a pot
of boiling mush, the craters being the
bubbles of air as they come up and
burst on the surface. Some see only Q
cold, desolate, dead planet, incapable OF
supporting life of any kind, while
Others see valleys, streams, canals and
other characteristics Of mother earth
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
Oisinfectant.

Dissolve half drachm of nitrate of
lead in a pint of boiling water, now
dissolve two drachms of common
salt in a bucket of water, when both
are dissolved pour the two mixtures to-
gether, and when the sediment has set
tied you have Il pailful of fluid, which
is a saturated solution Of the chloride
of lead. A cloth saturated with the
liquid and hung up in room will at
once sHeeten a fetid atmosphere.
Poured down Il sink, water closet, or
drain, or on any decayed mass, it will
produce the same results. The nitrate
of lead is very cheap, and pound of
it would make several barrels of the
disinfectant.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
French Society and Etiquette.

Iaris Letter.
"But it is very difficult thing to
get into French society" commented II
gentleman friend who sat next us.
Your readers may judge how difficult
by the testimony of a France American
lady who has lived in Paris for twenty
years. | give her own words:
at is not the custom To introduce
people TO one another here" she said.
"YOu may meet the same person aScorc
of times ut the house of a mutual
friend, and talk with her with the
freedom of an old acquaintance. In
deed, this is the proper thing to do for
there is no stiffness or reserve Of
manner among the French, and yet
this person is not your friend, or even
your acquaintance. She belongs 10
you in no sense. You have no title
either to visit or invite her. You may
he the bosom friend of her bosom
friend, your tastes may prove congcnial,
your natures sympathetic, your con-
versation may be confidential, yet this
is no passport to closer relations be-
tween you beyond these meetings upon
neutral ground. To achieve Il real in
tercOurse it is not only necessary to
solicit a special and formal prcscnta-
tiOn, with all accompanying indoIsc-
ment, but to do much more. The lets
and binJrpnpns nf frinuI slim .ra nm .
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
THE ISLE OF HOME,

Little low Star winging under the Moon,
DrOpt like a pearl in the white breast OF
Lean from the puppies of twilight, and
Your beautiful pinions of sapphire and
gold;
All! stay, for a moment, your radicnt
flight,
Let the wonderful Underworld wait for
your light;
am lonely and sad, though round me, the
while,
The glory and gladness of summertime
smile.
In the sweet flush of dawn, in the azure OF
eve,
When Beauty and Silence their sorccry
weave,
Dost thou Gid, while the sunshine is fold,
ed in Night,
Yon lone little Eden of love and delight
Keeping ward where it lies in the blue
waste asleep,
While down the still ether thy soft piniOnS
sweep?
The Home OF my chidhood-thc haven OF
Rest
That shines like star at the gates of the
West.
All! sweet were the roses, uncIoudcd the
skies,
The winds were the breath of some far
Paradise;
And the love that kept holy those shadow
less years,
Was nurscd at the fountain Of innocent
tears
But the years that were sladOwcd have
driItCd apart
The barquc Of my life and the isle Of my
heart:
And only ~ dreams Of the Byg0u" hold
The loved and the lost with the rapture of
Old.
Float ON with the twilight, and dawn on
the world
OF my passionate dreams, where tn blue
waves are curlrd,
And drop. when your last rays are kissing
the foam,
This garland Of love on the altar of Home
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09

shop and put huge chair across the
door. He was going out indefinitely. |
went toward the stonebreaker's yard.
His shaft was still, and Il thin bit of
steam arose from a damp stone on
which the hot sun steamed.
A boy near by rigging line ocatch
tad-poles said that Beccord, the mason,
had gone to stop the coping in the third
story of Tyler's mill, where the rocks
had started it. 1t was u dangerous
steep place, and Beccord was the only
fellow who could climb and carry NOR
tar. He had been a sailor once in
French waters. l had wcll-nigh for.
gotten my own affairs in this time,
but my game was safely housed in Il
little resort ont of Bloomsbury.
At & o'clock all the bells in the
place rang sharply, and housewives
put on fresh aprons. met Jansen at
the end of the street leading to the
mill.
His looks frightened me. lie told
illC Dlltll JlldU Ht lldu lulluNtu Itt-
cord, who, looking down from his mar
row parapet, saw terrible knife
waiting him. Whether with intent or
from fright his foot slipped, and with
a fearful cry the mason went down in
to the brawling race below. dropped
into the cottage after supper. ! found
Jansen and his wife sitting hand in
hand in the porch.
"She be my wifenow," he said proud
ly. "She won't leave me, but | know
| am not fit for her. | am black
smith,"
She got up and left Il kiss on his
forhcad. "And do you think, my
friend Ugel, that am 50 base or m-
grateful as to leave you? Besides, !
have nothing else. You forget that
your goodness has made me love you
Then he held her in his arms I'M
Til the pinks were wet with dew. Jane
was sCandali2cd.
| have never known a happier pair
than Jansen and Adelaide.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09

"She insists that it is of more Importance,
that her family shall be kept in full health,
than that she should have all the fashiOna-
Bile dresses and styles of the times. She
therefore sees to 1t, that each member of
her family is supplied with enough. Hop
Bitters, at the first appearance of any
symptoms Of Ill health, to prevent fit of
sickness with Its attendant expense, care
and anxiety, All women should exercise
their wisdom in this way,"~Netg I'ape'.
Palladium NJ
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
Most Marvellous Shooting on Record.


Chicago News Letter.
They had been talking about the re-
markable performances of BOgardus,
the marksman who shoots with rifle
glass balls which are sent i'll the air as
fast as a man can throw them. Pres
emily, d. b. Hodges, the evangelical
promoter of the Society for the Proven
tion of Lying, who was sitting by,
said:
THAT'S nothing"
whats nothing?"
"Nhy, that shooting. Did you ever
know Tom POtter?'
"Well, Potter was the best hand
with Il rifle | ever saw; beat this
man Bogardus, all hollow. I'll tell
you what I've seen this man Potter do.
You know, maybe, along there in the
cherry season, Mrs. Potter would want
to preserve some cherries; so Tom
would pick 'em for her, and how do
you think he'd stone themY'
81 don't know. llOwW
"Why, he'd fill his gun with bird
shot and get Il boy to drop Il half Il
bushel Of cherries ut one time from the
roof of the house. As they came down
he'd fire and take the stone clean
out of every cherry in the lot, It's Il
positive fact lie might occasionally
miss one, but not often. But he did
bigger shooting than that when he
wanted to-
"What did he dO?'
"Why, Jim Miller-did you know
him.
"NO."
"WclI, Tom made bet with Jim
that he could shoot the button off his
own coat.tail by aiming in the opposite
direction, and Jim took him up"
"Did he do it,"
"DO il? lie fixed himself in position
and aimed at tree in front of him.
The ball hit the tree, Caromed, hit the
corner Of Il house, carOmed, struck Il
lamp-post, "arOmcd, and flew behind
Tom and nipped the button off as slick
as Il whistle. You bet he did it,"
"lhat was fine shooting"
"Yes, but have seen Tom Potter
beat it. I've seen him stand under a
flock of wild pigeons, billions of them,
coming like the wind, and kill them so
fast that the front Of the flock never
passed Il given line, but turned over
and fell down, SO that it looked like Il
brown and fcathcry Niagara. Tom
did ii by having twcntythrec brccch-
loading rifles and a boy to load 'em.
lie always shot with that kind"
"lou say you saw him do this shoot
ing"
"Ycs, sir; and better than that, too.
Why, I'll tell You what | have seen
Tom Potter do saw him once set
up an India rubber target at three
hundred feet and hit the bulls eye
twcnty-sCyen times a minute with the
same ball, He would hit the target,
the ball would bounce right back into
the rifle barrel Just as Tom had clapped
in Il fresh charge of powder, and 50
kept her going backward and forward,
until at last he happened to miss the
muzzlc of the gun. 1t was the biggest
thing ever saw-thc biggest except
one
"Wlat was that?'
"Now what do you think that man
IiI tn ,knnn Irv y"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09

Charles Nelson, Esq, Proprietor
Nelson House, speaking to us recently,
observed: | suffered 50 much with
rheumatism that my arm withered, and
physicians could not help me. | was
in despair of my life, when some one
advised me to try st. Jacobs Oil. |
did so, and as if by magic, was in
stantly relieved, and, by the continued
use of the Oil entirely cured. | thank
heaven for having used this wonderful
remedy, for it saved my life. 1t also
cured my wife,-Port Huron Com
meyCidl.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09

When about twelve years old said
Mr.. Geisman, of the Globe Chop House,
to our representative, l met with an
accident with a horse, by which my
skull was fractured, and ever since |
have suffered with the most excruciat-
ing rheumatic pains. OF late | appli-
ed st. Jacobs Oil which has given me
almost total relief.-Fort Wayne (thd)
Sentinel
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09

That day all the creaking hinges of the
door had been oiled, and when night came
o chirping cricket on the hearth kept little
Annie from going to sleep. Tired out, she
exclaimed: "MOther, why don't you oil
that thing TO keep it from creaking so
loud ?"
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-09
Woman's Wisdom.

The veal of wealth breaks the flower
which hourishes.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-22
The Trades Parade.

We al expect Richmond TO get up a
creditable show next Wednesday, when
her various establishments will have an OPP
portunity TO make themselves known. 1t
Is peculiarly gratifying to hear, as we do,
that more than five hundred teams 1"e
already engaged. Fall in line, you manu-
facturers who have not already done so.
This Is to be grand success. Everybody
who manufactures anything is expected
TO show TO the visitors from all over
the United States what Richmond has
learned to de in the past sixteen years.
Many people OF the North and West think
we don't know bow to make anything.
Show them what we can do. Make no ex-
cuses. A little time and very little money
viii get up a fine show. The tobacco man.
uiacturers are particularly expected to do
the handsome thing, as RichmonPs repu-
tation for manufactured tobacco is known
the world over. 1t is the duty, as it is the
interest, OF every one Of US TO let his handi.
work be seen.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-22
Our Gneste.

II is peculiarly appropriate that Rich
mond should honor the French and Ger
man guests OF the United States Govern
ment. II seems to us Virginians thai the
French Of hundred years ago came over
to fight the battles Of our own State; and
as TO the German guests, we have so many
excellent German citizens in our city that
II is due 10 them that their distinguished
countrymen should be honored here.
There are not SO many French citizens
here; but some excellent ones. We well
visitors. Our city Is clad in holiday attire,
and osr hearts and hands are open 10 vel,
come the countrymen OF LAFAYETTE snd
YoN STEUBEN.