The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-03-23

all take her part" you see Jerusha
amt Democracy. lexplained to the
good old lady that it was not a wo.
mans name, but that polygamy con-
sisted Of a man having two or more
wives, or vice versa. The old girl
sank back into her chair, and in a
pitifully wailing voice she said, ''Oh,
10, one woman having two husbands,
and here have been trying for forty
years to get any kind of a man!' I
strokcl the ancient maiden's thin
gray locks and said, "Never mind,
Russia; I was reading of a bride "a
years old the other day. While there
is life there is hope.' With this
comforting thought to console her,
auntie smiled and the needles clicked
almost rs cheerily as they would had
they been knitting for lover. What
would the world be without the guild.
ing star of hope? 10 BOWERS.
Washington's Stately Etiquette.
President Washington never went
to congress on public business except
in u stage coach, drawn by six cream
colored horses. The coach was an OBJ
ject which would excite the admira-
ton Of the throng even now in the
streets of London. It was built in
the shape Of 4 hemisphere, and it's
panels were adorned with cupids: sur
rounded with flowers worthy of Flor
ida. and of fruit not to be equalled
out of California. The coachman and
postillions were arrayed in gorgeous
liveries of white and scarlet. The
Philadelphia Gazette, a government
organ, regularly gave supply Of
court news for the cdification of the
citizens. From that the people were
allowed to learn as much as it was
deemed proper for them to know
about the Presidents movements,
and fair amount of space was also
devoted to Mrs. Washington-who
was not referred to as MIS-. Washing
ton, but as ''the amiable consort Of
our beloved PRESIDENT When the
President made his appearance at a
ball or public reception, dais was
erected upon which he might stand
apart from the vulgar throng, and the
guests or visitors bowed to him in
solemn silence.
"Republican simplicity has only
come in later times. In our day the
hack-driver who takes a visitor to a
public reception at the White House,
is quite free to get off his box, walk
in side by side with his fare, and
shake hands with the President with
rs much familiarity as anybody else.
Very few persons presumed to shake
hands with General Washington. One
of his friends, Gouverneur Morris,
rashly undertook, for foolish wager,
to go up and slap him on the shout
der, saying, "My dear General, am
happy to see you look SO well.' The
moment fixed upon arrived, and Mr..
Morris, already half repenting of his
wager, went up to the President.
placed his hand upon his shoulder and
uttered the prescribed words. ''Wash-
ington,' as an eye. witness described
the scene, ''withdrew his hand, STEP
ped suddenly back, fixed his eye on
Morris for several minutes with sn
angry frown, until the latter retreated
abashed. and sought refuge in the
crowd" No one else ever tried a
similar experiment. 1t is recorded of
Washington that he wished the title
of the President to be ''High Mighti-
ness" and at one time it was propos-
ed to engrave his portrait upon the
national coinage. No royal levees
were more punctiliously arranged
than those of the first President
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