The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-06-30
Personal Matters.

MIS-. ke0patn, wealthy lazy OF MOnCre-
al, has given $50, 900 to endow a chair in
the Presbyterian college in that city.
MIR. h. W. Grady writes to the Atlanta
Constitution that the profits of Mr.. Davis
on his book from the first years sales un-
doubtedly will be as much rs 100000.
c. b. Bliss, who styles himself Travel
ing Elder of the church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, is meandering through
the south after Mormon converts.
The estate of the late Rev. William
Morley Punshon is valued at $4,000 The
only legacy LIE left to any benevolent insti-
tuition was $3.50 to the Wesleyan Mission
airy Society.
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens has been max
ing speech to an Augusta, Ca. hose COM
| pany named in his honor. He said he
never used spirits except as a medicine and
advised them not to.
Henry W. Hook bequeathed $15,0 900 to
Philadelphia charities, but the will has been
delared invalid. George X. Tryon, the heir
of the estate, voluntarily pays the money to
the institutions, declining to defeat the
wishes of the dead philanthropist.
-Ex- Governor Morgan, of New York, has
bought Chessbrough farm at Broadway
and One Hundred and Seventy eight street,
WHICH CONTAINS IIlTGy -uluo HCIcb AAl OK
tends toward the North river, for $3.50,
600.
/: The Princess of Wales has been pre-
scented with two shawls by the associated
chambers of agriculture, with memorial
home grown wool, in order thereby to as
Esist the depressed state of agriculture, es-
.pecially in Yorkshire.
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pair of horses that understands everything
the driver says to them. If one of the pair
fails to do its duty the driver simply calls him
by name, stating that when it gets to the
stable punishment will be inflicted. The
animal at once shows it's understanding of
the threat by trembling IN every limb, and
! is frightened nearly to death when the time
| arrives for the ohastisement.
| Mrs. Harriet Lain Johnson, who is now
/ at Wheathnds, the former home of the late
President Bucannan, her uncle, is nursing
| her only remaining child, q bright boy
eleven years old, of whose restoration to
| health his parents have little hope. Her
eldest son died last winter.
! = It is said to be an open secret in New
York theatrical circles that Mary Anderson
is engaged to Mr.. Riddle, the man who
| played the principal part in the Greek
drama at Harvard, and currency is again
given to the report that she was not only
! compelled to make desperate row before
she could induce Ham Griffin to relinquish
her property. but that she was even then
partially successful
In recent letter from the Arkansas Hot
! Springs to friend in Texas, ex-Gov.
! Throckmorton wrote: Last week 1 had
some fever and sore throat; was confined 10
| my bed for several days; yesterday I ven.
tured out; I was out an hour day. I
have improved very much indeed SO far as
my rheumatism is concerned, although I
think have lost at lea ten pounds in
flesh. But if you could see the boiling and
sweating enc goes through you would be
astonished. I think I shall contine the
boiling until have got all the old animal
out and start new lease"
Nine. Helene Petit Marais, the charming
young actress who took the part of Anne
when the "Danichetfs" was brought out in
Paris, has lately died from cold induce c
by the nightly drenching received in repre-.
senting Gervaise in the L'Assommoir'
The pail of water thrown at her in the
wash-room scene was usually warm, bu
one night, through some mistake, it was ic,
cold. and the young actress was so thorough.
ly chilled that she was Immediately seizet
with fever. 1t was while playing togethe
as the hero and heroine of the "Danicheffs'
that Madame Marais and her husband frs
met, and all Paris was interested in tn,
courtship of the handsome young pair AM
in the pretty wedding which lately unite,
them.