The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-11-16
Personalities.


in this country, requires experienced
management before yielding profit. 1t
needs also fearless farmer, for the os-
trich is apparently the worst tempered
Dlrd III existence, and has the most fatal
aick known. When they can't kick
their object, they lie i'll the dust and
drum" or beat their bodies with their
head.
Joseph Foster and wife of Cairo,
Greene county, n. V, have recently
celebrated the se"enty.tifth anniversary
oftheir wedding. He il 80 years and !
months old. His wife is 95 years 5 10
months OF age. Mr.. Fosters father is
said to Lave died at the age of luO years,
and Mis-. Fosters mother lived 10 be
nearly lGu ycarstold.
fishing districts an acre Of sea was more
profuse i'll food production than All acre
OF land. Salmon riv.rs requires protec-
ton, but the cod, herring, pilchard and
similar fisheries, he says, are inexhaust.
able and are entirelybeyOnd the control
OF man, either to diminish the number
Of fish OF to increase their cultivation.
1t is stated of Charles Hazewell, late
ene of the editors of the Boston Travel.
Ter, that he knew the 1000 books in the
library us u mother knows her child.
He could repeat the "Scurlet letter"
word for word, from lid 10 lid. But his
greatest feat of memory was to repeat
the eoyereigns 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. $50
General Sherman las received houses
and other presents worth So, oOOO 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
daughters. For the past fifteen years
he has been paid $l7 $40 q year, and he
will draw the salary until his death.
Moses G. Harris. editor of tie Morn
ing Horseshoe, of Hot Springs, Ark, is
writing his editorial articles in Jail, and
on Friday evening last IL large multitude
headed by brass band, assembled ut
the Jail aud rendered him eerenade.
He made speech in which he said that
his imprisonment was in violation of the
right of court i'll criricising the acts of
Judge Wood. In his speech 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 Walznll, England, the
Rev. Il. Hodgson, w. A., after profound
researches, las reconciled science and
religion by the remarkable DISCOVERY.
which hc recently announced in a 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, Il. l., grandson
Of the William Ellery who sIs.ned the
Declaration of Independence, d silk bed
spread under which no one but 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 o president STAYS
over night in that state 1t is sent to per.
form similar service.
Professor Newton, of Yale College
answered Il reporters question, "Why
was the seventy.fifth 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 the population of the country. have
reckdhed it that, including the pluces
which are but from ten to fifteen minutes
distant from the seventy-iifth III ri,lian,
there ls q population OF more than
twelve million people along it in the
United States" al
| A Chicago gentleman says that Senator
Logan has written two plays, and enc Of
them has been produced in private with
some success. 1t is drama..cf Washing
ton life, and was intended to he the SEN
ator's masterpiece; but some who have
seen both consider the other the better.
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