The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-01-26
Personal Gossip.

general.
Personal Gossip.
The people of Sommerville, Mass, pre-
sented to their venerable City Clerk, MIR.
Charles E. Gilman, a gold watch and chain
and a Seal on New Years day; and with
good reason, for they have annually elected
him by unanimous vots during period
of forty years to the position which he still
occupies. 1t is doubtful if any other man
in the. country can show as long a continue
ons term of public service in an elective
Office.
Mr.. Frederick Marquand has offered to
give $50, 900 toward the erection of per-
manent building for the use of the Young
Mems Christian Association of rooklyn,
provided $20o:0o0 more can be
secured beforeMarch 1, 1882. To.
institution he also agrees to give anoth-
er $5O, 900, provided a simila sum shall be
raised within the time specified for endow-
ment.
OF course this historical incident, related
by the Kingston IN. W Freeman, is truth.
full: "The Russell family Of this country
can run back in their family history hun
dreds of years, though no particular record
has been kept. The Russels formerly came
from Scotland, and an amusing fact re-
lated is that one of them brought with him
to the United States a horse that, when told
to hurrah for King George, would rear on
his hind legs and strike together three
times the hoofs of his fore feet in such 8
way that the sound would ring out full and
clear"
A little rural burial ground at Rockville
Centre, L. l., has one remarkable feature.
1t is row of sixteen little graves, in which
lie the bodies of sixteen brothers and sis
ters, the children of Furman and Margaret
Abrams, all of whom died in childhood.
The last child VINO died was buried few
days ago. Only one child of the family, a
boy seventeen years Of age, is living. A
family so large as this is an unusual thing
now-a- days.
George Patterson, an engineer on the
Northwestern road, fell in love with @
Swedish girl while on a visit to Boston, last
October, and she came west with him. In
November they went east again on pleas
ure trip, and both were arrested on charge
of stealing 81 500 from a Chinaman. The
woman was sentenced to two years in Jail,
but Patterson escaped on making full
confession. 1t seems the girl explained to
him that she was the daughter Of q wealthy
citizen long since dead, which accounted
for her lavish display of money.
While General Tom Thumb raclines in 7
wrinkle Of his loungs, tells his friends
about his travels and urges the claims of
spiritualism, to which he is a recent con-
vert, Captain Martin Van Buren, Bates and
his wife, at their farm house near Seville.
Ohio, go in and out Of doorways ten feet
high, ride in gigantic wagon drawn by six
stout Norman horses, and sleep in bed as
big as wheat-feld. In their sitting. room
is an ordinary piano, but it is mounted up
Oh blocks two feet high, so that person of
normal size, who perches before it, looks
as absurd as little Mozart did when he had
clambered up to play the big organ.
The lato Colonel Henry S. McComb,
whose name will naturally he remembered
chiefly in connection with the exposure of
the Credit Mobilier scheme, was the
wealthlest citizen of Delaware. His fortune
is estimated at from six to eight million
dollars. Before he turned to railroad en-
terprises he was prosperous currier in
Wilmington, and made great deal of
money BY furnishing knapsacks to the gov
eminent.
MIR. Hannibal Ham]in will doubtless
maintain at Madrid all the traditions of re-
publican simplicity. 4 friend who called
upon him in Bangor just before his depart
ure describes him as opening his own front
door to his visitors, and as being plainly,
even shaEbily, dressed evidently in the
same clothes in which he had worked in
his garden all day. The very boots Of q
dandy clerk in government Office would
cost as much as the entire outfit which the
American minister to Spain wore that even
ing.
The Womans Journal is unhappy be-
cause President Arthur has written letter
of thanks to an old lady down in New
Hampshire, who sent him box of butter
nut INDY, but has paid no attention to a
copy Of her Woman Suffrage History which
was sent to him Ky Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, although the volume was calf
bound and gilt-edged." The trouble is
there are a good many men-and President
Arthur is probably among the number
who are sensible on most subjects, but who
prefer butternut candy, gum drops, or some
other variety Of tatfy, to books on women's
rights.
The old proverb that cheating never
is by no means Invariably So. The late
Bernal Osborne, one of the most entertain-
ing takers and parliamentary debaters in
England, went with friend as "best man
to visit the bride few days before the
marriage was to take place. He improved
the occasion to displace his friend in the
affections of the young woman whose name
| was Osborne, and they were married one
! evening. His name. being then Bernal, he
assumed hers. But the marriage it is said
was never happy enc.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, Mp, who
| in his Young Ireland" ridjculed O'Con.
nell for supposed wooing of Miss Nc.
| Dowell at SO, she being SO, has himself
welded in his sixty seventh year beauti.
full and charming blonde of eighteen sum.
mers. This is the third time the x-editol
of the Young Ireland Nation, las ap.
preached the altar Of Hymen. His frs
spouse he married in Ireland, his secont
in Australia, and for the last few years hi
has been widower.
| Minister LowelPs personal popularity i!
reaching across the British channel. Th,
Paris correspondent of the London Trutl
| calls him rare talker under all circum
stances" but only seen at his best when h
has his pipe in his mouth and faces around
him which call up recol]ections of day.
that have long since passed away. He see'
through and through a great many things
which perhaps, is the reason why his phil
osophy is so genial In his careless, uu
studied talk he throws off beautiful wore
pictures. The United States minister has
sympathetic appreciation of English char
acte1 and intellect and sees much that il
picturesque in town and country in Eng
land. But the smoke Of London he dis
likes and-he is accordingly glad to escap
from it whenever he can.
How Attorney General B. H. Brewster
facial beauty was spoiled early in life is thu
explained by correspondent. 1T would be
under usual circumstances, an open, agree
able. yet somewhat combative face, with eye
wide apart, and light brown hair fallin
over its warm complexion. But tits fac
terribly scared by fire. When child, NJ,
Brewster's nurse, or some one of the fami
~, dropped him in the fire, and he is q
ha61v ccarra6 that ho oan offorG a. IN p