The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-01-24
Personal Topics.

dFkIuE OFLOly ALIAS NdSLfO3 tll0 CldIll.
mt Of the Tichborne estates, now serv-
ing 14-yetf, imprisonment, is about to
be released, and many Of his faithful fol.
lowers, whose STUPID faith in his cause
makes curious chapter in the history
of impositions, propose to buy public
inn and set him to earning a living.
The denial of Miss Jennie Flood. the
daughter of the California millionaire,
that she is engaged to marry an English
peer; recalls the fact that she once re-
fused New Yorker because, as she con-
tempuously told him, he bad not energy
enough to spatter the mud on his trous-
ers in rainy weather.
List is now seventy-twe and vi.
vacious as he was at forty: He seldom
touches the piano, but at unexpected
moments, in the presence of some tinid
young girl overpowered with the hon.
or of an introduction, or alone with a
friend when old days are spoken OF, he
will sit down for afew minutes and
recall phrase of Chopin, or quaint
passage from Scaalatti, and then, for
getting himself, will wander on until a
flash of the old FIRE comes back to his
eyes,"
Queen Victoria and other members of
the royal family have been greatly an
hoyed of late by the persistent efforts of
':cranks" to get an audience with them
in order to secure their approval Oftheir
new Inventions. A mailman; who said
he had come from America, and had q
| wonderful invention for allaying storms,
tried to get into Windsor Castle the 9th
er day and was only busted after consid-
cradle talking between himself and the
guard. -,
Matthew Arnold" says reviewer in
the "English illustrated m 'gazine," "as
! poet, is rather singular; he takes bis
place among the most fortunate writer's
OF our day who have expressed them.
selves in verse, but his place is some.
what apart. He has an Imagination OF
his own, but he is less complete, less tn.
evitable, as he says In his essay on
Wordsworth that that poet said of Goe-
the, than the others. His form at mo-
ments is less rich than 1t might be, and
the Wo1dsworthian example may per-
haps be accused here and there Of hav'
ing sterilized him."
| A fortnight ago a man walked into a
German jewellers shop in London
whose wife only was at the counter, and
pocketed las he thought unseen by her)
| q couple of watches. Presently her hus.
band entered and while the thief stood
unconsciously ut the counter, thinking
of what he should steal next, she gave in
German description Of what had hap.
pened to her spouse. Whereupon, with
out the least fuss, or go much as an un.
pleasant word he beckoned police
man, and ave the one.languaged indi'
vidual into custody.
Albert E.. Kent, the San francisco
millionaire, has added 5000 to his re.
cent Gift of $4,000 to Yale College 70,
the purpose of erectinga chemical labor.
atory. for the academical department
Mr.. Kent was a member Of the class o.
SO. 3D.; ,....>.,e. p. ; :, 49, l-' -
&c. Stedman, the poet, who became
financially embarrassed some months
ago, has again returned to Wall Street.
Gen.: 7. B. Bunting, who recently re-
signed from the, Guatemalan army, il
now in Chicago. He denies that Presi
dent Barrios rules the people with {
"rod OF iron," as has been printed, bu
saws that in that country q man must
either ride or be ridden on, and Senol
Barrioa prefers. to ride. HE has done
more for Guatemala in the last eigh
years than all his predecessors hav'
done before him. When I first wen
there there were no schools to speak Of
now there are more than 1C, 600 lndiar
children being educated at government
expense. There are also higher schools
and colleges in the cities Of Guatemala
and Quezaitenango."
The St. Louis Post Dispatch is certain
" mistaken in Its ASSERTION that the. cza
of Russia is richer man than our Van
derbilt. The cars bank account j
small compared with Williams. He cal
help himself to whatever he sees, ait
he can execute and exile his subjects q
will, but in other respects he is poo
man., .E 49, sstE III e Ssf Es r$t