The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-11-15
Personalities.

Ostrich farmi ;g, which is increasing
in this country, requires experienced
management before yielding profit. It
needs also fearless farmer, for the o.
tricn is apparently the worst tempered
bird in existence, and has the most fatal
sick known. When they can't kick
their Object, they lie in the dust and
drum" or beat their bodies with their
head.
Joseph Foster and wife of Cairo,
Greene county, N. Y, have recently
celebrated tine seventy-ffth anniversary
oftheir wedding. He is SO years and 7
months old. His wife is So years 5 IL
months of age. Mr.. Fosters father is
said to ave died at the age of lUO years,
anu Mrs. Fosters mother lived to be
nearly lOO years old.
Professor Huxley maintains that in
fishing districts an acre OF sea was more
profuse in food production than an acre
OF land. Salmon riv,rs requires protec-
/ ton, but the cod, herring, pilchard and
similar fisheries, he says, are inexhaust.
able and are entirely beyond the control
Of man, either to diminish the number
of fish OF to increase their cultivation.
1t is stated Of Charles Hazewell, late
one Of the editors of the Boston Travel
Ter, that he knew the 5000 books in the
library as mother knows her child.
He could repeat the 'Scarlet Letter"
word for word, from lid to lid. But his
greatest feat of memory was to repeat
the sovereigns Of England from the old
Danish days to Victoria, giving the
number of children each had, the date
of their birth and death, and the entire
collateral connections.
General Sherman has received houses
and other presents worth $5r,U000 since
he became general Of the army, exclu.
sive of the $4,000 worth of diamonds
given by the khedive TO Mrs Fitch, and
since divided among the generals
lie las been paid $l7 $40 a year, and he
will draw the salary until his death.
| Moses G.. Harris, editor of the Morn
ing Horseshoe, of Hot Springs, Ark, is
writing his editorial articles in Jail, and
on Friday evening last large multitude
headed by brass band, assembled at
the jail and rendered him serenade.
lie made speech in which he said that
his Imprisonment was in violation of the
right of court in criticising the acts of
Judge Wood. In his spe ech to the SER
enaders Mr.. Harris reiterated all his
charges, and dared Judge Wood to give
him opportunity to prove them true.
The vicar Of Walzall, England, the
Rev. r. Hodgson, w. A., after profound
researches, has reconciled science and
Wv HI In
which he recently announced in pub
lie lecture the pre- Adamite remains are
nothing more nor less than fossil angels.
There is in the possessi on Of William
Ellery of Providence, R. l., a grandson
of the William Ellery who signed the
Declaration of Independence, silk bed
spread under which no one but a presi-
dent of the United States has ever slept.
1t was made to cover the bed of Wash
ington when he visited Rhode Island,
and ever since when a president stays
over night in that state it is sent to per-
form similar service.
Professor Newton, of Yale College
answered reporters question, "Why
was the seventy-dfth meridian chosen
on the Atlantic coast in the new time
system?" thus: "Because the Phila-
delphia meridian, the one to be convent
emily used, ran the closest to the centre
If tt population OF the country. l nave
reckoned it that, including the places
which are but from ten to fifteen minutes
distant from the seventy-ffth u r'.''an,
there is q population OF more than
twelve million people along it in the
United States"
A Chicago gentleman says that Senator
Logan has written two plays, and one Of
tLem has been produced in private with
some success. It is dramasof Washing
ton life, and was intended to be the SEN
atcr's masterpiece; but some who have
seen both consider the other the batter.
It. is military drama after the order of
The Spy" and the incidents are based
upon the generals own experience in
the war. One of the generals plays
was once produced in Washington
boarding house by amateurs, the author
himself taking the leading character