The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-11
Personal Mention.

Whittier is in his rooms at the Hote
Winthrop, Boston, for the winter.
Bartholomew Tarney, of Bath, Steu.
ben county ,signalized his sone-hundredtt
| birthday the other day by walking three
! miles.
Madame Ristori has aged RAPIDLY O
late, but she will appear at Bath, Eng
land, shortly, and play in English.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House
| Observatory has been awarded the
! Warner prize of 5000 for his recent dis
covery of the comet of 1912.
Rev. Albert Donnell, of Berlin Falls
N. H.. has in his possession two seven
leav.d clovers, one eigh,-leaved and
one nine-leaved, all picked from the
same plant.
Spurgeon is we'll enough to sit in {
chair while preaching.
General Lees daughter, Miss Mildred
is to live in Washington next winter
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson will also be al
the national capital for some weeks.
The Duke of Argyll has been staying
for few days with Mr.. Tennyson a
Aldworth. Professors Tyndall and Hux.
ley were included in the party during
the Dukes visit.
Caleb Stockwell, of London, Ont, was
exceedingly surprised the other morn
ing when Mrs. Stockwell presented him
with two sons and two daughters, all
new. subsequently, when asked what
he'd got, he sorrowfully said, "Only
| two NOW - Tho 1iff1o oroc orr
thriving.
! 1t is gravely announced that Col. Mike
Sheridan will write book on the Vel
lowstone park excursion.
Mary Anderson has returned with
thanks play which Oscar Wilde wrote
for her. Wilde's career as playwright
seems to be not more successful than his
season as dude.
w. S. Chamberlain, father of the
young lady who is receiving so much at
tention from the Prince Of Wales and
other London society, appears in a card
denying that his daughter is engaged ia
Mr.. Cairns, the Wyoming cattle dealer
This is important, if true, but as Cairns
is a bad man from way back, and would
as soon rip IAN editor up the back as
twist a refractory steers tail, we prefer
to hear from him before having any thing
to say about his love affair with the
Cleveland belle.
Lieutenant-General Sheridan will as
sumo command of the United States
army on the first of November. Gener.
al john Pope will succeed Sheridan as
commander of the Military Division Of
| the Missouri.
Mr.. Jonathan Norcross, whose name
betrays his Yankee origin, but who has
resided in Atlanta, Ga., for the past ff-
! ty years-so long, he says, that he has
| become native-has writtena book en-
titled Democracy Regarded as Party
| Name and Organization, which the
! Putnams have now in press. Mr.. Nor
cross was the republican candidate for
| governor of Georgia in 1875, and has
had chance to learn something of de.
mocracy from experience, as we'll as by
long observation, and his book promises
to be as readable as "The FOOLS Errand.'
Judge Kelley will sail from Liverpool
for home on Oct. IA. He writes to q
friend in this city: ''The platform OF
no convention, nor the dictation of any
would-be leaders, will prevent me from
! promoting, by every means in my pow
er, the abolition of the internal tax sys-
| tenn, the demoralzing effects Of which
are evea more apparent in England
than in the United States. My motto
| for the campaign will be, "The internal
tax system must CO."
! The general committee of the British
Association for the Advancement O.
Science has elected Lord R leigh presi-
! dent of the association for 1874. Among
the vice presidents selected are the Mar
| quis of Lorne, the Marquis of Luns
downe, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir
| Charles Tupper, Sir Alexander Gait
the Right hon. Lyon Playfair, DR.. Chas
| William Siemens and Professor Hux.
| ley. The date ofthe next meeting, which
will be held at Montreal, has been fixed
for August 27, 1884. The programme
| will include free excursion to the
| Rocky Mountains and trips to Quebec
and Philadelphia.