The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-04-03
Items Cleaned Here and There.

Probably the only persons in this
country who attended Napoleon's funeral
at St. Helena, are two men now living
within one hundred miles of each other,
in Undergraduates Martin, of Detroit,
and William J. Palmer, of Battle Greek.
General Robert Toombs, Of Georgia,
owns large tracts of land in Texas. He
refused $40 an acre for one tract of a..
600 acres. A writer in the Atlanta
Constitution says: II suppose it was
this land General Toombs referred to
when he replied to the inquiry of the
Yankee in Paris. It was Just after the
war and the General was living there in
easy style. Tell him. replied the
General, that T am eating an acre Of
dirt day. He was selling Texas lands
at SIS an acre, which was about his daily
expenses"
Mr.. Edison says that in fifty years at
the furthest we shall reach the electri-
cal millennium. All the town-boy, who
would fly his kite secure from those
vexatious wires, has to do is to wait.
The London Athenaum reviews two
current English editions of Emerson in
an article which announces that the
| practical task now offered to English
literature is the Education of the Amer
lean people! The main bulk of this ed
vocational work is to be done by English
authors. Two Americans, however,
rise above the mediocrity -Longfellow
and Emerson. Then, after the admis-
sion that Emerson is one Of the most
| valuable personalities in the modern
world, follows an elaborate disparage-
ment and his qualities as writer, NOR
alist and philosopher in which the COM
plant was made that he was never suf
fciently pessimistic.
The Early Closing Association OF
New York smashes the plate glass win
| dows of dry goods stores that do not
close early. They want more time to
improve their minds.
DIR. Francis NJ. Gunnell, Medical di-
rector of the navy, who has been NOM
mated by the president to be surgeon
general and chief of the Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery, is a native of Wash
ington, and has always made that place
his home. He is the son of the late DR..
James S. Gunnell, and was born in a
| house which stood on lot where now
stands the Department Of Justice build
ing. Educated at Georgetown univer.
sity, he received from that ancient Col
lege the degree of bachelor of arts in
1916 and the degree of master of arts in
1849. During the thirty-five years in
the medical corps he has had more sea
service than any other officer in the
corps. The register shows that he has
been at sea sixteen years and seven
months.
If John Adams had taken Benjamin
Franklin by the arm some fine after
noon about the year 1884, and had said,
"Ben, within hundred years they will
stretch wire from New York to George
town, and will talk over it, /" in all prob
ability Benjamin would have said to
John, eco away; you are a visionary ="
but this is what they have been doing
every day the past week.
Somebody thus feelingly writes of a
well-known gentleman Of leisure: "A
tramp may be Q very bad man, but a
trampis life is bad enough for any bad
man. No house, no home, no friends,
no money, no food, no fire, no regular
meals, no warm room or blankets at
! zero, no smiles from his fellow-man:
his food picked out Of the gutter and
ash barrels when: begging and stealing
] fail him. a bird has nest and ia i'll
lite sonnet hing Ike regular habits, z