The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-13

| girls handled the ball in the same way
The right arm was doubled and the han
brought near the face, then sudden jerl
the girls held their hands out in front o
of them, with the palms up; and, ii the bal
was we'll directed, and came at nice curry
,hey caught it we'll enough, but ifit cam
| straight and fast their courage failed, an
! they got out of its way without delay
New York Times.
Personal Points.
Said Emory Storrs in q group Of ricl
men at Saratoga; "You fellows thinl
yourselves highly essential. Have yo
observed that there are only two ric
men of antiquity whose name survive
CaGsus, who served to turn q poet
| figure, and Dives, who was fortunatel
associated with a pauper2" Before tn
languor following this remark had sub
| sided Storrs added: ''How many a
well-known fellows as you were sitting il
Athens once, observing that that obscur
cuss, Phidias, was long time doing that
ornamental work up stairs!"
The late Judge Black is said to hav,
received the largest fee ever paid to ,
lawyer for success in suit. He defen
ed the New Almaden Quicksilver Com
pany of California in suit in the Unitet
States Supreme Court, the opposin,
counsel being Reverdy johnson, Charlie
O'Connor and Judah P. BENJAMIN.. Hi
fee was said at the time to have beer
$3.50, O,OOO. This is doubtless an exagger
alton, but it is known that he received {
very large fee.
As an illustration of Thaddeus Stew
ems delicacy of feeling, the following
story is related: Early one morning
during the legislative session of 1885
while walking to the capitol with DR.
Worthington of Chester, Pa, they over
took woman apparently in great dis
tress. Mr.. Stevens stopped and asked
her what was her trouble. She replied
that she was on hel way to market, and
had lost 81 bill, all the money she had
Putting his fingers into his vest pocket
and turning to his companion, he re.
marked, doctor, this is fortunate. That
So bill which picked up down by the
entrance belongs to this woman" Thus
he presented the money to her withou!
her knowing that he had made 8
gift.
It is related in the Cincinnati Enquir-
or that when Dean Richmond was con.
nected with prominent railroad 8
young man presented himself before
him and requested a pass. "Upon
what grounds dc you want a PASS" said
Mr.. Richmond. "Because I don't wan:
to pay my fare" replied the young man
Said Mr.. Richmond: "You shall have
it for your truthfulness," and turning tc
his secretary he said: "Give this young
man pass. He is the first applicant
that has told the truth for ages"
One thing which Lord Coleridge said
on his arrival in New York is worthy o1
especial note. In conversation with
some of the gentlemen who escorted
him up the bay on Friday morning, in
the yacht Pastime, he remarked on the
beauty of our national banner. ''In the
old church in Northamptonshire, where
George Washington's ancestors lie
buried" said Lord Coleridge, II found
some years ago, the Washington family
coat of arms, and was surprised to see
that it was identical with your national
flag. The stripes were fewer, ann the
stars also. but there, in the quiet gray
old church, was the origin of the emblem
which now flies in every part Of the
world" Is it possible that Washington
gave us our flag, and that we must give
up the poetic tradition about the hunter
who saw in the morning sky the com.
bination of colors and stripes which sug.
ges ed the ''Star Spangled Banner?"
President Seelye of Amherst College
evidently does not agree with Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., as to the advantages
to be derived from the study of Latin
and Greek. While the four years scien-
tifc course of that institution was so or
ganized that student could pursue it
with no knowledge of Greek and only q
slight knowledge of Latin, he has found
after an experience Of ten years that
the best scientific students have, in
every year, without a single exception,
been the classical Students, and the COL
lege has become so thoroughly convinced
that the best work in science is to be
done only on the basis Of a thorough
grounding in the classics that it has dis
continued it's scientific as separate from
it's classical course.
Mrs. May Croly Roper, wife of Lieu
tenant Jesse NJ. Roper, United States
navy, died at Portland Springs, Me-, last
Monday, at the early age of %. Mrs.
Roper was the daughter of Mr.. David G..
and Jennie G. Croly, (Jennie June) and
inherited much of the literary talent
and tastes of her parents. Her bright
young life was blighted by an affection
Of the spine, which was the immediate
cause of her death.
A London correspondent of the New
York World writes that it is the pre-
valing impression there. that Miss
Chamberlain, the American beauty
abroad, will get herself severely talked
about if she does not soon cut the soci-
ETY. of the prince of Wehs. "Prudent
here," writes the correspond
ent, would prefer that their daughters
should contract the small pox rather
than attract the favor of his royal high
ness. He is a deadly upas-tree, and
smites the poor girl who thinks to rest
under the spreading branches Of his ad-
miration with the poison of the vilest
scandal. Miss Chamberlain is beauti-
full girl, with all the wit and self-reli-
ance that characterize your fair maid
ems, but these will not protect her. This
is hard for a loyal Briton to say, but it
is the truth"