The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-30
Personal Points;


| reader who appeared in this country
last winter, has recently given an ex-
hibition at the Ocean House, Newport.
The most notable performance was to
| tell the date of a coin which F. w. Van
| derbilt took from his pocket. Mr.. Cum
| berland fixed piece of paper on the
| wall and asked the holder Of the coin to
concentrate his mind firmly on the date,
and then Mr.. Cumberland traced out
the date on the blank sheet of paper,
and it was correct.
In private letter, addressed to the
! editor of Paris newspaper, Nine. de
la Grange, tho well-known instructor in
singing, makes this mention of that un.
fortunate young American, the late Miss
Marie titta: "She was favorite pupil of
mine, and always so studiots and atten-
tive, and so anxious to develop hef great
musical talent, that most brilliant
future was certainly before her., l. set
her up as a model for all young ladies
to copy from, and were she still among
us, and in full enjoyment of health, she
would now be one of the brightest orna-
ments of the lyric stage"
Simon Ferguson, an illiterate negro
coal miner at the Campbell Greek mines,
West Virginia, told Mrs. Williams that
she was possessed of deyils and that he
was the only man in the country who
could Cast them out. AS she had been
"daunsy' for some time, she believed
him. He then prescribed pokeroot,
smart weed, and ironweed, to which he
added grasshoppers, ngle-worms, grub
being mixed, was placed In quart bot
tie. set in hot water, and stepped for
some time. The quantity taken WIS a
wineglassful every four hours. She was
to- have teaspoOntul Of tobacco snuff
blown UP hef nose With q pipe three
times a day, while her diet was to he
nothing but raw salt ,lmackerel fresh
from the brine and unwashed. She
took several doses of the mixture, which
stirred the devils up to such an extent
that she had to send for another doctor
to settle them.
1t was the old story at Americus. Ga.
of a beautiful daughter infatuated with
young drunkard, who wanted to marry
her for drlnk-money. They met near a
graveyard few nights and were arrang-
Ing an elopement. Suddenly. while the
fellow was in the midst of an eloquent
plea, a hollow groan came from among
the graves, and a white figure moved
slowly, toward them, the eyes blazed and
glistening bones clanking as it,advanced
"Begone,"4 it warned the YOUTH. "you
would ruin this girls happiness after
getting her money" The trembling
wretch knelt, prayed for mercy and then
ran away. Meanwhile the girl had
tainted. Her father, throwing aside a
sheet rubbed with PHOSPHORUS and
some cow-bones, carried his daughter
home, where she remains as quiet as
dove. He never told her his masquer-
ade and she has never mentioned her
fright.
Tom Thumb died comparatively young
for a dwarf. Richard Gibson, miniature
painter and court dwarf to Charles l.,
lived to be seventy. five. and his dwarf
Sir Geofery Hudson dwarf aud di-
plomatist to Charles IT,, expired at sixty
three, and the little ,gentleman's span Of
life was shortened by his incarceration
on suspicion of conniNance in the Popish
plot, in the gate-house at Westminster
where he died. The tar-famed Polish
dwarf, Count Borulawski, for whom
George Nv, provided, died also at an ad.
vanced age. Dwarfs ARE better consti.
tuted than giants, both mentally and
physically.
Justice Bowen. who accompanies the
Lord Chief justice of England, now en-
| route for America,is the youngest Judge
on the English Bench. He was educa:
ted at the Blackheath proprietary school
~ o.o \ ,ooo +o tho fnn nf tho aivfh
form. From Blackheath he went to
Rugby; where he took the first prize in
mathematics and in football. There
we're two brothers, "Big BoWen' (the
judge) and "Baby" Bowen, his brother,
who afterward went into the church.
Their only sister died early and was bu-
ried in Lee Churchyard. Both the judge
and his brother owe much Of their sue.
cess in life to the careful training they
received from their father, an evangel-
ical clergyman Of high character.