The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-04-13
has crept 375 feet further up the beach, and

opposite Whale Pond the encroachment
reaches 525 feet at one point. Near Cape
NAV the encroaohments have been much
more marked. For mile and half north
OF New England Greek the sea has moved
inland 1O4O feet in the last 1877 years. AT
Cape Island the shore has worn away full
mile since the revolution. and many valus-
BILE islands have been submerged. Prof.
Cook thinks that this is not owing wholly
to the breaking Of the waves on the land,
but says there is evidence that the sea lev
81 is higher than formerly.
About Noted People.
Ex-Gov. Walter Hartman of New Hamp-
shire will sail from Boston in the Marathon
April /, on a long tour to the Holy Land.
He will be accompanied py VIM. D. Chand-
Ter, second son of Hon. w. E. Chandler.
man and subsequently 90 to Heidelberg as
astudent.
At Salem, Massachusetts, John Bertram,
IN old sea captain, died. after surviving
the War of 1912 and all the other troubles,
trials and fluctuations of this country for
eighty-six years. He leaves wife, three
daughters and five million dollars. In this
country an occasional man dies and leaves
nothing but family.
A Broadway publisher recently wrote to
Guiteau asking his signature, with permits
sion to sell Autographed copies, allowing
Guiteau royalty of twenty five per cent.
on the gro.s sales. In reply he received
this letter, Endorsed on the back: Send me
800, certified check or money order, and
will allow you to do it. G. G." The assas-
sin regarded his signature as too valuable
to be given.
The statement of General Robert E. Lees
friends that Mr.. Lincoln once offered him
the command of the armies of the United
Suites has been questioned repeatedly, but
the fact is reasserted in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times by Rev. DR.. William Jones,
secretary of the Southern Historical Socie-
ty. DR.. Jones produces copy If letter
written by General Lee, wherein the latter
explains how the comm nd was offered to
him.
The death is announced of Miss Eliza
beth Hamilton, the daughter of the Scot
fish metaphysician. Sil William Hamilton,
Of whose life and philosophy she furnished
an account in the new edition of the "Ency.
clop@,lia Britannica" Miss Hamilton is
one of the foremost promoters of the move
ment in Scotland for tho university educa-
ton of women. She went to Germany
about a year ago with view to preparing
work on the philosophy of Hermann
Lo.Ze.
Judge Jeremiah Black is quoted by
correspondent of the Providence Press as
saying, in regard to the rumors of MIR.
Arthurs marriage: Il do not doubt that
the president is the constant subject of
matrimonial overtures from all quarters,
some of them most automatically present
ed. Whsn was associated with President
Buchanan as cabinet officer from his own
state, was continually solicited to be tbs
medium Of these delicate approaches and
propositions.
Although it is little more than two
months since Mr.. Low of Brooklyn left his
business in Burling Slip for the mayors
chair, he is already looking careworn, and
his friends think his intense application to
his duties is injuring his health. Mayor
Low is only thirty-two years of age. He
married about two yeara ago the daughter of
Judge Curtis of Boston.
James Freeman Clarke is sevent7-two
years old. but he is the most industrious
corpse by will, as there can be no property
in the dead body of a human being. The
case was one in which a man directed that
his body should be cremated, and the d.
rection was fulfilled by his daughter at an
expense Of 81, 900. This the executors re-
fused to pay, and the daughter brought an
action to recover. The court decided that
her father had no power to
dispose of his body, and that the
executors were only bound to bury
it in manner BETTING the estate of the de-.
ceased.
One of the duties of the policeman on
guard on the Longfellows grounds on Fri
day was to turn away the players of hand
organs. For years it has been the custom
of the family to give six cents to each hand
organ man, the result being that few of the
peripatetic musicians who came into the
vicinity failed to take the house into their
circuit. Three appeared on Friday after
noon.
The fashion of mutilating statues, which
seems to be growing in Gotham, has result
ed in some one breaking bronze ornaments
from the statue erected in Central Park to
the memory of the members of the Seventh
regiment who fell in the civil war. There
is no evidence leading to the detection OF
the vandal, and the outrage must be as
cribed to some misguided iconoclist who
remembers that tho Seventh did not do
much real fighting, but forgets that the
regiment furnished about six hundred Of
fcers and several thousand soldiers to other
commands.
An article in an exchange is devoted to a
discussion of @The Decadence of Modem
Manners" No person Of sensitive feelings
will be likely to read beyond the headlines,
for while bitterly approaching the fact that
ancient manners have been deteriorized
sadly in reaching us moderns, one cannot
contemplate without shudder the thought
that the manners we see about US at pres
ent can be still further impaired. If they
are reported on good authority as really
about to undergo this process, we might as
we'll begin to habituate ourselves at once to
breech- clouts and diet of raw meat, and
get ready for the next stage in decadence.
In the cure of severe coughs, weak lungs,
splitting of blood, and the early stages Of
Consumption, DR.. Pierce's Golden Medic
al Discovery" has astonished the medical