The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-05-05


Where all shall have their child hearts back
one day. Chambers Journal
Gossip about People.
Missouri's Methuselah is 103 years old,
and lives near st Louis. He does his own
counting.
Miss Kate Claxton, the actress, is still
pursued by the fire fiend. It occurred at a
Denver hotel this time fully insured;
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary."
Joen Buckner, formerly waiter in Chi
cago, but who recently lost his place and
was reduced to begg::;ary, has, by the death
Of {. relative in Milwaukee, come into pos
session Of a fortune Of $4,000.
Lord Lorne has $4,000 year, and a
furnished house as Governor General of
Canada. His wife has $780, 600 year from
parliament, and also had dot of $3.50, ZOO
whice may be presumed to add $4,000
year more to their income, so that if the
Duke of A1glye adds $l4,000 year they
have $1O0,OOO.
One of the crew of the wrecked tug
boat James Blakemore, on the Ohio river,
exclaimed, Immediately on being resusci
tated: MY mother dreamed of all this and
begged me not to go on the boat. The
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer-
ciot on the spot sagely remarks: ut is
not likely, however, that the mothers
dream had any agency in producing the
wreck"
DR.. R. J. Calling, the inventor of the
famous gun bearing his name, was reared
in roug h little log cabin in the heart of
North Carolina backwoods. What in the
time became the Gatling gun is said to have
sprung from a boyish attempt to make
corn planter.
Sophie Pieoffsky, the nihilist executed
last week for the assassination of the car,
was not pretty woman after all. She was
a blonde, slight, rather short, with high,
massive forehead, straight hair turned away
from her face, firm mouth and a pointed
chin.
Postmaster Tyler, Of Baltimore, is to lose
his position on account of his treatment of
Miss Murray, who recovered $4,000 dam
ages for his insults.
Those who know Randolph Rogers's
studio in Rome will appreciate this from
the drawer in the May Harper: Rogers was
showing some Westerners through his
studio. They at last came to his statue OF
Nydia, the blind girl of Pompeii. Has 1t
lately been excavated? asked one of the
PAA Va yV6, ooAN AsOSCA0, L LOU II UCSy
out myself"
Longfellow recently remarked of Haw-
thorne: He was a shy man, and exceed
ingly refined. If any one thought he wrote
with ease, he should have seen him as I
before him, perfectly still, not writing a
been sitting so for hours waiting for an in
SEPARATION to write, meanwhile filed with
gloom, and an almost apathetic despair"
Carlyle bequeathed his watch to nephew
Thomas in these words: Il give my watch
to my nephew Thomas, the son of my bro
Their Alexander, 'Aick's Tom, as memorial
of the affection I have for him and of my
thankful (and also hopefully approval of all
that have ever got to know or surmise
about him. He can understand that of all
my outward possessions, this watch is be-
come the dearest to me. It was giving me
on my wedding by one who was herself in
valuable to me; it had been her fathers,
made to her fathers order; and had measur-
ed out into still more perfect punctuality
his noble years of well-spent time; and how
it has measured out always punctually. it,
nearly AZ yearP Of mine, and still measures,
as with an everloving solemnity, till time
quite end with me; and may the new
Thomas Carlyle fare not worse with it than
his two predecessors have DONE"
The gift Of 5000, 900 by Silas Bronson to
the city of Waterbury, Conn, for library,
$175. 1000 of which must pc kept as per-
manent fund now amounts to 1926, 900,
leaving $500 with which to put up "a
building and buy land. The sum is deem-
ed sufficient for suitable building, but not
for the land also, and so the legislature
has just passed a resolution authorizing the
city to purchase suitable lot of land, not
exceeding an acre, and present it to the
1ibrarv