The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-09-01
Personal GOSSIP.


Mr.. J. E. Dltson, of the firm Of J. E.
Ditson & Co., of Philadelphia, who died in
the Adirondack region was the third son of
Oliver Ditson, the music publisher, of Bos-
ton. He was graduated from Harvard col
lege in 1874, and among his classmates
were u. S. Grant, Jr., and George Ripley,
the actor.
As to Lincoln. am surprised that l take
the interest in him l do. There is most
interesting mixture of traits in his charac-
ter. It is unequaled. find myself dra wn
fast to him. He was too humane, too kind
~. AS to his perspicacity. his diyining pow
er, I am not SO sure. He seems to have
bsen raised up by Providence, like the judges
of old, when the people of Israel had
no settled government, and, like them, he
had few advantages of early training. His
pathos was wonderful and his humor was
infinite. There is hardly character in
history more unique than his president
Woolsey.
Hon. John II. Adams, of Cedarville,
Stephenson county. ILL.,, the president of
the Second National bank of lreeport, who
was leading state senator in the Illinois
legislature from 1852 to 1868, and who has
been one of the most influential men in the
business and politics of Northern Illinois
for more than quarter of a century, died
at Green Bay, Wis, whittier he had gone
en- trip of rest and recreation.
Lord Colin Campbell, fifth son of the
Duke OF Argyll and brother of the Marquis
of Lorne, recently married to Miss Blood, a
young Irish lady of great beauty, has the
appearance of delicate young man, and is
much shorter than his bride, who is tall,
handsome young lady, with gray eyes and
very dark hair, and magnificent figure.
Her father, who gave her away, is very
fine man, and presented as complete con-
trast to the little red haired Duke of Argyll,
who was also present, as the bride and
bridegroom did to one another.
A French writer sends an account of
President Garfield o the Paris Figaro in
which he says: II have always kept the sons
of widows separated from my general COL
lection of portraits. They seem to be twice
the woman's son. for a particular sweetness
of life is impressed upon them, ard how
ever busy they may be, their characters
show the work of the gentler sex. A femi-
nine hand has modelled such statues, before
active life and great works have reproduced
them in marble. Such is President Gar
all the mild yet vigorous qualities of "a wild
ow's son."
The late Duke of Alba, brother-in law of
the ex-Empress Eugene, was one of the
most persistent gamblers of the time. He
once gambled away the sum of five million
francs in single nights play. After squan-
dering the immense fortune which he in
herited, he received pension Of sixty
thousand francs year. He was paid
monthly, but by the fifteenth day of every
month NOT g. franc WAS left Of his five fhOr
sand fraIcs, and he used to borrow FIVE OF
six louis dor in the clubs. At last, how
ever, tur: of fortune came. All his debts
were paid, and the Duke of Berwick and
Alba purchased one of the most splendid
palaces in Madrid, where he lived in prince
~ style, keeping hundred horses in lis
stables and open table every evening for
forty guests. Du1ing the latter part Of his
life he only played for very small sums,
having wholesome dread Of again riskirg
his fortune and position.