The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-01-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Miss West. the daughter Of the British min
lister in Washington, takes to American society
enthusiastically: The Thorntons, the prede-
cessors Of Minister West, were "dreadfully
bored" during their stay at the national CAPT.
tai
Mr.: F,uerty, Of Chicago, member Of con-
gress- elect has made an appeal to the Hish-
men Of the Northwest to raise Z fund for the
relief of Mr.. Parnell, whose estate is encum-
bered with debt Of $4,000
Dr. FELTON,, ex-congressman. q prominent
Georgia politician, has recently turned his At
tention to farming and stock raising, and now
owns one of the finest herds Of Jersey cattle in
that State.
Gen. John Payne Of Warsaw, Ky, probably
is the oldest pensioner on the United Safes
pension rolls He is eighty-seven years old,
and has been drawing > pension for the loss
sixty years.
In 1881 the late Henry W. Longfellow wrote
letter from Portland, Me-, to James Berdan,
then resident Of New York, in which he spoke
Of Maine as land of barbarians, this miser-
able down cas-" and urged Berdan to pay him
exile here, and it will be deed Of charity in
you to come and make long visit as soon a.
you can ind leisure"
A. Y. W. Van vechter of New York, gradu-
ate Of Williams college, entertained the resi-
the Wlndsor hotel, New York Two hundred
guests attended the reception, and the most in
teresting feature Of the affair to outsiders was
the announcement that James B. Jermain Of
Albany had given $50, 600 to the college as =
sum will be used to endow the professorship
Of natural theology, instruction in which is
given by the president
Joaquin Miller, tho poet Of the sierras, has
become prosy worker in New York. He
walks Broadway with hair and collar SO COM
. crowd. Miller married into the hotel keeping
family Of Leland, two years ago. after getting
divorce from his Pacific coast wife. He had
accumulated moderate fortune, bat has lost
it, and finds hard work . necessity.
Miss Margaret Blaine, daughter Of the
''plumed knight" at Maine, has just achieyed
quite triumph in the Paris Convent of the
sacre Occur, where she is being educated. She
has been in Paris about year perfectinR her
self in the French language. and quite recently
entered the school She was at once admitted
to the highest class distinction rarely at-
tanned even by French girls, a. the preliminary
examination is quite difficult -
Miss Harriet N. Morris, an Ohio girl, daugh-
ter Of . woman farmer, and a graduate Of
Marietta college, who supported herself while.
passing through that institution, is making .
reputation for herself in Brooklyn and doing
good to $500 children. She hi. twenty six
year for his services-about 81. 600 less than
male principals are paid in the surrounding
schoo1A Her institution 10 . sort of modified
kindergarten. 49, ~
It is esld Of Jim Keens, the millionaire, who
once edited : weekly newspaper in California,
that 20 greatly did the petty annoyances Of IN
editorial room impress themselves upon his
memory that years affair, in theswild clamor OF
the stock board, whom fortunes were being
made and lost in minute. Keene has said fre-
qusntiy that shove ali that din be could vt
hear hts old foErmAn's howl for copy"