The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-02-15
Personal G0Ssill.

Personal Gossip.
The Washington correspondent o the
Charleston Is. CO. News telegraphed on
Tuesday night: "When the Senate met
to-day Senator Butler was the only SEN
ator present. The vice President rap.
ped with his gavel and gravely said:
The Senator from South Carolina will
come to order The Chaplain then be-
gan to pray for the Senator from South
Carolina and the others struggled IN"
Mr.. George H. White, in Harper's Ma
eazine, Gays: 'The poet Whittier is
much above the average height of men,
and few of the pictures that | have seen
resemble him. His hair and heard arc
quite white; he wears no mustacie, and
his lips are set with an expression of
much decision and energy, which i,
emphasized by short, utterance.'
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Richtor, who
has just been appointed first Bishop Of
the ncwtRoman Catholic) see of Grand
Rapids, Mich, is at present pastor of St.
Lawrence's Church, Cincinnati. He is
about Sc years of age, and will, there
this country. He is a native of Germany
and was educated at Cincinnati and
Rome.
Commodore English of the navy says:
III have dined with Queen Victoria, with
high officials in various parts of Europe
and in the East, and lave never seen
SO handsome a table as that at Mr..
Morse's dinner to Senator Hoar at
Wormley's last Saturday night"
A granddaughter of Charles Dickens
IS about to make her appearance on the
London stage as professional. She is
tie daughter of Charles the younger.
Mrs. Bancroft maria Wilton), who has
been consulted by Mr.. Dickens on the
subject of his daug hers determination,
is sanguine of the girls future. She will
start fairly enough. There is not man
ager of a tbcater, not a member of the
press, who will not, for the fathers and
grandfather's sake, deem it a privilege
to be allowed to lend Mary Dickens
helping hand.
The late (P. E.) Bishop Talbot, of III
dianapolis, left a characteristic will,
consisting principally of vigorous re-
affirmation Of his faith. He bequeathed
his fine theological library, some works
fart and the bonds given him for ar
rears of salary, amounting about 49,
OO0, to bis successor in the episcopacy.
DR.. Atwood Crosby of WatervlIle, Me-,
who recently went to Mexico for his
health, died soon after his arrival. In
1861 he left Waterville college as one OF
the first of that in -t,tution to Join the
army. He was taken prisoner and pa
rolled in 1862, after which he was dis
charged for disability. He then studied
medicine, graduating from the Maine
Medical School in 1864, after which he
served yea: as assistant surgeon III the
navy. In 1867 he began the practice of
medicine in WateIvillc.
The story is told of the late William A.
Seaver, who was the iitor of the Drawer
of Harper's Magazine. On going to see
the passion Play" at Oebraum ergan he
found two rows Of seats reserved for
the nobility. On being told that they
were for the Electors, as the small
princes of the country are called, he
said: Precisely, am an elector.' 'Ah!
said the obsequious manager, pardon
Elector of what, may l askY 'Elector OF
the state of New York, sir was the wor-
thy response, which secured hi IN a
place among the other mobiles.
A Russian Jew who recently settled in
the town of Petersburg, KY, the other
morning gave his wife and her sister
terrible thrashing because his breakfast
was not prepared to suit him, was picked
up by a party of his nelghbors in the
evening, hustled down to the river and
pitched in head first. After being thor
oughly soused he was taken out, treated
to a partial coat of tar and feathers, and
allowed to return to his domicile with
he admonition that if the offence was re-
peated hewould hang as high as Haman.
Il curious trial, in Kentucky, il
lustrated the advance ofculture and taste
in that state. Charges had been brought
against Mr.. D. Norris, school trustee OF
Jefferson county, to the effect that he
has acted with objectionable indffer.
ence to the conventions of society with
respect to dress to such an extent that
he is accused of "wearing ragged
breeches," of"not wearing stockings
of "going without coat" and with
only one suspender." Something fur.
Their is said about ''getting drunk" ana
other misconduct, but these are evil
IDENTITY minor matters of the indict.
ment.
Robert J. Burdette, writing fro m Or.
densburg, N. Y, to the Hawkeye, says:
by the way, there was i good joke on
Lieutenant Danenhower here. He was
to have preceded me in the lecture
course, bnt got showed in on the railway
and couldn't get through. Now, other
lecturers have been showed in, and the
disappointed audie noes have CRASHED
their teeth and said, oh, nonsense; he
could have got here if he had tried
But when a man who has fought the
eternal ice and snow of the Arctic zone
for three years gets into snowdrift in
New York state that he can't possibly
get through, the American people begin
to understand what terrible labor this
lecture business is"