The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-12-21
THE race is not to the swift.
Personal Gossip.

jewett Adams, who is elected govern
or of Nevada on the democratic ticket,
is native of South Hero, VT, and re-
sided there until he was Fl years old.
A Michigan adventurer raised $4,000
by mortgaging farm which belonged to
a man whom he happened to res enble,
closely, and whom he personated so we'll
that the money lender was deceived.
Chauncey Morse of Canandaigua is
said to be the oldest printer in New York
state since Thurlow Weeds deatr:, and
seems to have been 80 before, for he was
born in 1894 and Mr.. Weed in 1897. Mr..
Morse was an apprentice in the Office of
the Ontario Repository in 1871.
"Never has she turned anyone from
her door. during the eighty-one years
she has spent, in Bowdoinham without a
full stomach, is W hat a local paper said
centennial in Maine last week.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says that
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, in a pri-
vate letter to gentleman in that city
expresses the most decided opposition
to any movement intending to bring
him before the people as a candidate for
the presidency.
II met Oscar Wilde in London once y
said Nine Christine Nilsson Rouzeaud
the other day, where we were both
guests, and he was to take me down to
dinner He commenced to talk his non
sense and pose to me as we were going
to the dining room | said to him ::
"Look here, Mr.. Wilde, Mime. Christine
Nilsson will put up with no such stuff
This is all put on, and there is nothing
in it but nonsense" Mr.. Wilde said:
''Thank you. You are the first sensible
woman and true friend that I've met.
After that he acted as man should
and talked sensibly."
Miss Gypsie Gilbert is a young Ne
wark, New Jersey, lady who has been
prominent figure ofthe Garfield Mem
orial Fund Fair at Washington. The
report got abroad that she set up for a
professional beauty and she was stared
at, spoken to, and treated to such inso.
lent comments upon her face, dress and
person that she was soon in a state Of
raging Indignation. Some one asked
her: care you the New Jersey Lily?"
NO." she said, holly, "Tm a Tiger
Lily"
Mr.. William A. B anister, of New
York, has given to his native town of
Brook6eld, Mass, $4,000 for public
library building, a library having preyi-
ously been given to the town by Judge
Merrick.
Ex-Congressman Lewis d. Campbell,
who died recently at his home in Ohio,
said, few yeas ago, that he had writ
ten the true history of the Burlingame
duel of 1854, which would be published
after his death.
A Frenchman who was introduced to a
brandy punch in Richmond the other
evening by an American friend, appeared
Ct the same bar early the next morning
in quest of a duplicate Unfortunately,
he could not recall the name of the in
spiration which he had absorbed the
night before, but the barkeeper found
the following description sufficient: 81
will take one grand contradiction. what
you call it7 wis very much lemon for
make him sour, very much soogare for
make him sweet, plenty of brandy for
make him strong. and a great deal of
wassar for make him weak"
John E. Lamb, elect from
the Terre Haute Qndiana) District, is but
80 years of age. Graduating from the
Terre Haute free schools about ten years
| ago, he selected the law as his profession
md soon won the high position in the
bar of hich such distinguished lawyers
| is Senator Voorhees,, ex-senator Thomp-
son, and General T. II. Nelson are mem