The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-09
Personal Talk.

book filled with authors autographs
and specimens of their MSS. Her faith
er's ''copy" was all written on paper
about the size of commercial note,"
and averaged twenty-four words to the
line and eighty-three lines to the page.
President George R. Roberts, of the
Pennsylvania railroad company, lives in
house near Merrion, Montgomery
county, Pa, which has been occupied
by his own family for nearly 200 years.
The 20Oth anniversary is to be celebra-
ted in September. Mr.. Roberts is OF
Welsh descent, and his ancestors were
among the first settlers in Montgomery
county.
The late Duke yf Marlborough was q
great admirer of his son, Lord Randolph
Churchill. He was accustomed to sit
for honrs andIhours in the Peers, gallery
of the House of Commons, listening with
rapturous admiration to the speeches,
points of order, and interpretations OF
the leader of the fourth party.
w. w. Corcoran, the banker and
philanthroPist, has received letter
from a resident of Fredericktown, Nd,
asking if he cannot give his aid and
name to movement for the erection Of
| a statue, or other enduring memorial,
for Francis Scott Key, author of the
''Star Spangled Banner" The writer
says the grave of Key occupies an OBJ
scure corner in the graveyard at Fred
ericktown, and is in a shady neglected
condition, being nearly hid by noxious
weeds and overgrown bushes. Nothing
| but a headstone twenty-four inches
broad marks the poets resting place.
The bodies of his wife and child lay be-
side him.
The dignity and modesty of the young
lady walters at the White Mountain
hotels is very charming. Five Harvard
students who were travelling up in that
region stopped at Fabyan s the other day
and selected table at supper time over
which presided very pretty young
school teacher from one of the large
manufacturing towns of Massachusetts,;
They piled her with compliments ana
INDUCED so loudly in their expresslons
of admiration that the girl. unused to
this bar-maid sort of treatment, her face
suffused with bushes; left her post at
The table and sought out the proprietor,
who came into the dining-hall and pub
licly reprimanded the young men, over
whom a male waiter presided during
the remainder of their stay at the
hotel.
The women of Capri are famous for
their beauty, and they frequently cap
tivate foreign gentlemen who visit the
island. Prince Caracciolo (who is hard
J ly foreigner, thought married bare
footed lass, and lives at Capri, Lord
Grantley, son of the Hon. Mrs. Norton,
the poetess, married another. Mrs.
Norton tried to give her daughter-in- law
few notions of history once by telling
her of the horrid cruelties exercised by
patience, and then asked lfTlberlus and
bis disagreeab]e associates were still
alive! The fiery poetess desisted from
her efforts after that. The number Of
artists-English, French, American, Ger
man, &c.,-Who have welded pretty
Capriot girls is quite considerable.
An unusual sensation was caused at the
Olympic Theatre, London, the other
night, by the appearance among the
audience of Miss Mary Anderson. She
was gazed at more than the actors on
the stage. The Court Journal goes in
raptures over her beauty. "Her face"
it SAYS, sis of the soft creole whiteness
} which gives such immense value to dark
eyes, her hair of the brightest gold, and
the expression of the countenance that
of the purest and most childlike in
nocence Never was the realization of
the poets ideal in the 'Dream of Fair
Women" so completely illustrated as by
this new beauty"
| When the Prince of Wales was in this
country he refused to dine in party of
which a prominent hotel-keeper and
member of Gov. Morgan's staff was one,
and tn, indignant Boniface was exclu-
ded. Royalty in England has long dis
dained to associate with tradespeop!e,
!; and the daughters Of men engaged in
barter are denied presentation to the
queen. But the Princess of Wales sold
flowers at bazaar in London on Wednes-
day evening, the Duchess of Connaught
and Princess Christian took charge of q
! light refreshment counter, and the
Duchess of Albany, Princess Teck and
Warehouses Tseng presided over fancy
Chinese tea house. So insignificant a
, fact may indicate so great change as
the abandonment of absurd notions as
to the degradation of trade.