The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-11-06
Personal Gossip.

Ine walkers ana runners OF the pres
ent age are p1gmies by the side of the
professional runners of the days before
railroads and telegraphs. Even fifty
years since we find that Ernest Meusen
was famed for his swift locomotion. He
once ran from Paris to Moscow, q dis
tauce of 1, 760 miles, in thirteen days
and eighteen hours. In 1886 he ran from
Calcutta to Constantinople, 5,615 miles:
in fifty nine days. He always outstrip.
ped mounted couriers. Invariably hi
took direct route, climbing noun.
tains, swimming rivers and running
through forests. His food was small
quantity or biscuit and raspberry sirup.
He died in 1858, while running through
Upper Egypt.
The English ladies who accompany
the British scientists in this country ap-
pear to better advantage than the men
Their chief physical characteristic is
their fine, healthy glow of color, betok-
ening good health and outdoor life.
They are, with few exceptions, taller
and larger than American women ordi-
narily, and have more vigorous look
and carriage. If their faces show less
delicacy of expression and fewer refine
ments of feature, and if their voices are
noticeably of greater volume, their
erect figures, strong coloring and Wig
orous gait are compromising advantages.
Their voices are seldom low and musi-
cal, and, although not pitched high,
are loud and strong They are good
walkers, taking pace Ill the streets
which would leave their American Sis
ters, at least those who are city-bred
far in the rear.
Those who have seen the ex-Empress
Eugenie within the past few weeks say
that she is rapidly breaking down, and
predict that she will not much longer
survive her husband and son, whose
memory she mourns constantly. She
was persuaded few weeks ago to leave
her home at Marlborough, England,
and try the effect OF secluded summer
residence in Switzerland. The change,
however, has not resulted in any benefit
to her health, and she IS now undis-
guisedly decrepit, broken old woman.
Some traces of her famous beauty still
remain, but there is no vestige of her
former vigor and spirit. She is bent,
withered and querulous, and when she
undertakes to walk, totters along pain
fully with the help of a stick.
On Sunday, the Goth Of next month,
Sir Moses Montetore, the great BE.
brew philanthropist, will be one hun
dred years old, and active preparations
are being made almost everywhere to
celebrate the day properly. The coun.
Gil of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations has issued q circular tc
the rabbls of the congregations belong
ing to the union, requesting them to
hold special service on that Sunday
for the purpose of celebrating Sir Mos
es's birthday, and to make collections
for fund to endow professorship,
thus combining the name with the on.
~ Hebrew collegiate institution in
America. The purpose of this college
is to train young men for the ministry.
A curious experiment has lately been
made at Acqui, Italy, by the proprietor
of some baths there. This gentleman
has at his disposal an inexhaustible
supply of hot water from natural
spring, the temperature being 167
degrees Fahrenheit. The surplus not
required for the baths has been divert
ed so as to flow through pipes to gar.
den on the outskirts of the town. Here
the warm liquid flows beneath mum.
Der of forcing frames containing melons,
tomatoes, asparagus, and other garden
produce. The result is that supply
of these del1cacies is ready for market
at a very early period of the year,
when, therefore, they fetch high prices.