The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-12-20
Personalities.

An amusing incident that occurred to
the Rev. Frederick Baylis Allln, assistant
rector of Trinity church, Boston, Is
called to mind by the number Of we'd
dings that have taken place there OF
late. A young couple called at MS resi-
dence to be united in wedlock and alter
the ceremony had been pronounced tEe
groom, taking a coin from his vest pock-
ct, handed it to Mr.. Alin and departed:
When they had gone Mr.. Allin looked
at his fee and found it vas five cent
piece.
Sojourner Truths most remarkable
speeches are being recalled now that she
is dead. In 1851, at Akron, o., when
she was eighty years old, in the course
of. woman's rights convention, she
shouted: "Den dev talks bout dis ting
in de head-what dis dey call il?' Gin
tellect," whispered some one near)
"Dat's it, honey. What's dat got to DO
viii women's rights or nigger's rights?
Ii my cup won't hold but pint, and
ycurn holds a quart, wouldn't you be
mean not to let me have my little half
measure full? Den dat little man i'll
black, dar--he says womin can't have as
much rights as men. because Ch'ist
want woman! Whar did your Christ
come from? Whar did your Chris: come
from? From God and woman! Man
had nothin' to do wild him."
Perhaps more extraordinary suicide
was never heard of than that which i5
reported from Venice. Three young Ia
dies went out, took their passage to the
Lido, were observed to be very mean-
choly during the journey, and ended by
drowning themselves. They appear to
have taken their own lives, two out Of
mere melancholy and from tedinm vif:c,
the third out Of sym patfy and for the
sake of company They had !osi their
mother, one Of them had weak sight,
another was subject TO fits, and they had
all been reading 81 Promessi Sposi," the
one Italian book which most English
schoolgirls have read. The least at
hicted Of the sisters WAS girl Of great
beauty.
One of the latest incidents of the Paris
duel is thus mentioned: For trifling
matter G. found himself drawn into
duel, and lie chose for a witness one Of
those ferocious creatures who make d
reputation at the expense Of the skin of
friend. During the negotiations G.
waited at a rendezvous the decision of
the witnesses. At last his friend ar
rived, radiant with JOY. lie looked as
if he ha1.. ai>tured town: GOOD news.
Your affair is arranged. You will fight
in one hour-With the pistol-at three
PAGES. l had good deal of trouble to
get consent to the three PAGES. They
would not believe that you are near
sighted" Fortunately, however, the
quarrel was amicably settled.
Lord S,ckville, brother ofthe British
Minister at Washington, owns magni-
ficent old house (whose roof covers FIVE
acres) and park called Knole, near Sew:
enoaks, small town in Kent. Rail-
| roads have of late years brought it with
| in half an hour Of London, and multi
piled teE-fold the crowds who wen. to
| see the house. The thing has become
such nuisance that Lord S. will no
| longer allow it to be seen, and all the
| sevenoaks hotel keepers and publicans,
who have mainly lived on it, and DEEM
| theirs, arc furious. A letter has appear
| ed in which the writer says that if Knole
| catches fire he doubts if men would be
| got in Sevenoaks to man the engines.
Governor Terrazas, of Chihuahua,
| having commissioned the frontiersnen
| of the foothills OF the Sierra Madres to
come for breech-loading rifles and one
| thousand cartridges each for the pur-
pose of crushing, if not discriminating,
the Apaches and all other hostile In
dams of the mountains. orders that
word be sent to all the froutiersnen of
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico to join the mountalneers Of that
State, declaring that they can share in
the $3.50 premium offered on each scalp,
and the plumber and animals, arms, and
captured ammunition.
When Senator Beck visited his old
home in Scotland, in 1875, while stroll
ling through the fields lie met an old
schoolmate, you don't remember me,
Donald?' he said to him. "No," said
Donald, II don't know your face. BIZ
l caught six-pound salmon today in
the firth, and whenever | have done
that before something has happened.
don't know ,ou by sight, but you're
either John MCPHERSON: who left us
thirty wears agone, or you're jim Beck.
Now which is it?" ''Sure enough"
cried the senator, otis Jim Beck"
"Weel, Jimmie, they tell me that the
Americans are going to elevate you to
the House of Peers. Is it SO? Come
tong il,ui5 tueu and Wen tie nSu.
An American lord is good enough for a
! Scotch salmon"