The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-07
Personal Gossip.

The late Mrs. Charlotte Plhet, who
kept famous TOULOUSE in New York,
bequeathed 5000 to the Typographical
Union of tLat city. The typos consider
it one of the "fattest'' Of fat takes.no
Mrs. Piffet also left 5000 to the News
boys Home s. 900 to the Jewish Wild
ows' aud Orphans Home, and s., 900 to
the Charity Hospital. Her estate isvalued
at $780, 200, and g1es to her descen-
dants: :,
Mr.. James Tissot has returned to Par
is, and is said to have definitely settled
there. His first work in his new or
rather old home has been to design ten
etchings to illustrate Goncourt's Renee
Maurperin.' 1t is said that the effect of
M. Tissot's stay and work in England
shows itself prominently in these new
designs.
A curious law suit is now awaiting
trial in New York. Some ten months
ago Miss Annie Petit, young girl of
unusually large proportions, was engaged
by dime museum manager to exhibit
herself as "the largest young lady in the
world" Miss Petit was given to under
stand that her position was life ene,
and it probably would have been hadn't
nature interfered and reduced her size
so much that she was no longer curioe-
ity. The management promptly dis
charged her and she now sues for rein
statement.
Yves Guyot. the Paris journalist, tells
how King Louis XVIII, when he re-
turned from exile, asked Fouche if<his
movements had been watched by spies.
Fouche admitted that the Duo de Blaxsa
had been so employed. "And how
much did you give bim?" asked Louis.
1.-TWO hundred thousand ivres." was the
reply. Good" said the monarch, II
find he did not cheat me. We went
halves"
"In France" says the Pail Mall Ga
zette, 'sthe monarch or chief of the exc
cutive ha4 always exercised the prefog-
alive of mercy independently of iis'inis-
terial control. M. Grevy finds it a pain
full privilege, and whenever male
factor is doomed to death he goes over
all the evidence on which he has been
condemned, and really in petto rear
CUES his case. He does it so we'll that
few murderers have lost their BEADS
SlIlCo llc UeCdue pTeSiOcAI.
Austin Blair, the war governor OF
Michigan, is at present in delicate
health, and his labors during the war
are beginning to tell on his naturally
strong physique. He IS paying strict
attention to his law practice, and takes
| only a passing interest in politics. He
| recently purchased six acres of land in
Orange county, Fla, where he intends
to reside hereafter in the cold wi
months, as he finds that, as he advance
in age, he suffers from cold weather.
Among the clerks in the treasury de-
partment, at Washington, is young
man who was found buried among. the
dead on the field of the second Bull
Run. When the burial SQUAD pulled
| him out from among the dead he was
found to have terrible wound in the
side aud his left hand was hanging by e
few tendons. These he bit off and
threw the hand away, gave his canteen
! to dying Confederate and crawled OH
towards the hospital, preferring to helI
himself 80 the squad c. uld search fol
others who might be in the same fix
The next day he received his comIhs.
SION as lieutenant. he married tu0 BIS
! ter of the "Johnnv" to whom he gave
the last drop of water he had, and live.
happily on Capitol Hill.
Sarah, tradition tells us, was so jeal
GUS of the preference shown by Abra
ham for Hagar that she took sSlem-
VOW that she would give herself no res
until she b ad mutilated the fair face
her rival and bondmaid. Abraham,wh
had knowledge of his wife's intentle.
did his utmost to pacify his embiteere
spouse, but long in vain. At engtl
| however, SIZE relented, and decided t
forego her plan of revenge. Rnth
| was she to fulill the terms of the
had entered into? After matu
ton she saw her way out of tho
ty, instead of disfguring the lovely
lures of her bondlnaid, she contels.
herself with bor1n~ hole in each
| rosy lobes Of her ears. Turkish We
all of whom wear earrings from.
seventh year, derive the use of
jewels from Hagar, who is held ~
Grafton as the mother of Ishmael /.
founder of tn cir race.