The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-23
Miscellaneous Matter.

A case known rs the Bender spike case
has now been in litigation over forty years.
Last week it was brought fresh to the men,
DRY by motion made before Judge WAL
lace, in the United States court at SYRIA
cuse. The motion is intended to compel
the payment of additional fees to the estate
of the late Chancellor Waldworth, who was
referee in the case. The amount asked is
about $4,000 or $17, 900. The referee re-
received about $4,000 for his services.
Funeral expenses are getting so steep in
New York that dying is one of the Injuries
in which only the very wealthy can indulge
without their relatives making assignments
afterward. AS if present charges were not
bad enough, the livery stable keepers have
combined to put up the prices of their car
present rates.
The assurance with which some news
paper editors declare off hand that changes
scholars made only after years of delibera-
ton ''enfeeble and sometimes vitiate the
version without gaining anything in fidelity,
or so little that it does not afford an excuse
for departing from the familiar wording"
would be- amusing if it were not indecent.
The Rev. A. D. Mayo, of Vicksburg, Miss,
who has been looking over New Orleans
and Louisiana, writes to the Christian Reg
lister that within five years the progressive
white men of all parties will unite with the
coiOred voters to rescue the state and CITY
from the clique of imbecile political impla-
cables that now controls it, and establish
government under which free labor, free
suffrage, and the free schools will be de-
Tended against all their foes"
The Philadelphia Ledger is reminded of
one of Mr.. Lincolns little stories: A city
merchant, who had formerly been resi-
dent Of a country town, was in the habit of
making annual visits to his native place.
On one of these occasions he missed
minister who had preached there for many
years, and on asking for him one of the
deacons said: Oh, you mean Mr.. Chancel;
yes, we sent him his resignation last fall"
w. F. Norris, in his novel "SIatrimony,"
says: CTS it only old women who spread
scandles and whisper away characters, and
find means of laying an extra coat of black
paint on the darkest regulations? think I
whose bald heads cover brains as small and
as active. whose eyes peer through their
spectacles at quite as many wonderful
sights, and whose tongues wag no less
pleasantly behind their false teeth. And
If any one is of opinion that those who lis
ten to backbiting are themselves in some
sort backbiters, beg to reply that am
student Of human nature, in which capaci-
ty I am compelled to put up with much
that is disagreeab o, and further, thatI
never believe word that one man or wo-
man tells me about another"
A Washington man had three photographs
of himself taken. In one he appeared
as woman; in another as well-to-do or
| chitect; in the third as specialized profess
! sor. Then he sent the photographer to
Fowler, for chronological description. He
! received in few days three charts. The
architect" was described rs an impulsive
person, of strong lung power etc.; the
'twoman" seemed to have less lung power
than the: architect, and appeared able to
convert nutritious materials into healthy
nukiment rapidly and abundanly." The
two were well adapted to marriage. As to
the professor" he was described as unfit
to marry being of uncongenial temperament,
etc. TIE joke is considered large one on
phrenology.