The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-11-09
Personalities.

The late Edward CLARK, president OF
the Singer Manufacturing company, was
college graduate and started out in
life as a lawyer, but he would hardly
nave died worth $25, ,0OO, 900 had he stuck
to his profession instead Of going into
business with old Isaac Singer.
The Vicomte de la Panouse, the hus-
band of the well-known actress, Mad
anne Hebron, who lost vast sums in the
taris financial panic of 1881, is now at
Kimberley, Africa, working hard in
diamond mine from sunrise to sunset.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer says that he has
been a good deal annoyed by statements
which have been made IN the newspa-
pers concerning him, and declares that
he never expressed any opinion whatev-
er concerning Oscar Wilde. He does
not believe in interviewing" and re-
cards the American appetite for person
,lit:es as the blamable cause Of incor-
rect statements regarding individuals.
Mr.. Daviscn, photographer of Santa
Anna, CAL, Miss Day of Gospel Swamp,
Ado]phus Falkner of Santa Anna and
Miss Harwood of Grange went to po-
iitical meeting, and then returned to
Davison's gallery where the girls donned
male attire and all started for drive to.
wards Orange. On the way they passed
two houses occupied by Cinnamon, at
which all hands opened fire with pistols
Killing one man and wounding others
The Territorial Enterprise says the a
found sensation in the community, as all
are members of the most respectable
families in that section.
In Phoenix Park, Dublin, where Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke fell
stabbed by the assassins, there are now
two CHASTITY holes in the ground filed
with dirty mud and water, and these
puddles are pointed out to the hundreds
of people who daily passed to see them
as the places where the blood of the VIC
tins stained the gravel. Morbid lovers
of relics have made the holes in the path
way. They have scraped up the gravel
and carried it away with them as memo
rails of the deed of blood, and the cavl-
ties are daily growing from this cause.
General Custer presented to New York
city buffalo calf which he captured at
Smoky Hill in 1868. 1t grew to be an
enormous animal, and was called "Big
Ben." Several years ago Ward, the
sculptor, used him as model, and pro-
nounced him the finest specimen he ever
saw. "Big Ben," died on Tuesday night
in Central Park.
In Sir Garnet Wolseley's little manual
entitled "The Soldiers Pocket Book"
this extraordinary pass ,ge occurs: "As
a nation we are brought up to feel it a
disgrace even to succeed by falsehood.
The word spy conveys in it something
as repulsive as the word slave. We will
keep hammering along with the convic-
ton that honesty is the best policy, and
that truth always wins in the long run"
These pretty little sentences do we'll for
Child's copy book, but the man who
acts upon them in war had better sheathe
his sword forever.
The Drexel fountain. to be placed in
the Drexel boulevard, in Chicago, as a
memorial to the late Francis NJ. Drexel,
has been finished at the foundry of aPhil-
adelphia contractor: 1t is thirty-six feet
high and entirely of bronze, with base
fifteen feet in diameter, on the sides of
which are represented 'ocean, "''lake }"
'river," and "spring." The base is sur
sounded by vase, on the top of which
is the figure of Mr.. Drexel. The whole
structure will cost $4,000 and weighs
nearly nine tons.
CONSERVATION was caused at q Phila-
delphia theater the other day by the
appearance of two men, who went into
the cellar and Carried off the qas meter
just before performance was to begin.
AS no bills were unpaid and nothing was
out of order, employees Of the theater
rushed frantically around to the gas Of
fee, and after some difficulty, succeeded
in getting the meter back, not a mo-
ment too soon. It was learned that some
unknown man left instructions for the
repair Of the meter, probably with the
idea of breaking up the afternoon per-
formance.