The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-07-16
Personalities.

Some idea of the extent of Queen Vic
;oria's private correspondence may be
gathered, it is stated, from the fact
that the account for kilograms des-
patched on her private affairs alone
during her stay at AK and Darmstadt
| amounted to 1856.
The death is announced OF Rev. H.
A. Stern, D. D., at the age ofsixty-four.
Mr.. Stern, who had been for more than
forty years a missionary among the
Jews, and was one Of the Abyssinian
captlves, who, after years ofprotracted
and cruel imprisonment, was delivered
by Lord Napier, of Magdala, in the year
1868.
Marriage on the installment plan is
an ingenious scheme, for the invention
OF which Massachusetts town claims
the honor. A Weymouth couple that
didn't have enough money for thepar.
sons fee agreed to pay installments OF
81 a week for five weeks. Under this
agreement the knot was tied.
A country correspondent writes Of
how the average farmer spends the
summer Sabbath. The good man
walks out after breakfast, looks over
the stock and his broad acres, and
then comes in and lands himself on the
couch with the caution to his wife to
keep the children quiet while he
sleeps
Mr.. Hamilton Cole, the well-known
New York Lawyer, who bought acopy
OF the Gutenberg Bible in 1881 at the
Brinley sale for$8, 900, sold it recent
ly for $4,000.
A man named Bowen died in Brook
I'm thirty-two years ago, leaving an
ftt7tatc valued at 81 100000, to be di-
vided between three heirs by two trus-
tees. 1t has been IN the courts ever
since, and now all of the heirs, two OF
the lawyers and one of the trustees
are dead, the surviving trustee beng
more than ninety years Of age. An Eng
lish Chancery Court could hardly have
done better.
B. P. Cheney, Of Boston, who will
present a statue of Daniel Webster to
the state of New Hampshire, has been
consulting the trustees, and tine foun-
dation work will soon be commenced.
The statue will cost $4,000 and The
base 81 900, I'LL of which will be given
by Mr.. Cheney.
The poet Whittier once lent a volume
of Plato to one of the ncighboring
farmers, and when the book was re-
turned asked: ''Wcll, friend, how did
thee like Plato?" "First-rate," said
the farmer; II see he's got some of my
idees."
Captain Ephraim D. Ellsworth and
wife, the parents Of Colonel E. E. Els
worth, who lost his life in that famous
staircase at Alexandria, at the out
break OF the war, are living at Mechan.
icsvillc, n. Y. III q comfortable little
cottage, adorned with numerous me.
mentocs sacred to the memory of their
son, whose monument can be seen from
one Of the windows,
The Russian soldier in the field is
man OF many virtues. At home in
peace, indeed, he has but one vice to
speak of. He will get drunk when he
can, and keep drunk as long as he can.
He is docile by nature, and he obeys
his officer, whom, indeed, he addresses
as "little father" as if he were child.
Heis contented in hardship, heat takes
no effect on him, and he has become
we'll Injured to cold. His weakest
point in campaigning is his suscepti-
bility to inconsistencies, of which NAL
ady thousands ofsoldiers actually died
while the Russian army was lying be-
fore Constantinople waiting for the
ratification of the treaty of Berlin.
The versatile Ellen Terry, the famous
English actress, first married Mr..
Watts, the artist. That gentleman,
having obtained a divorce, was sue.
ceede,l by Mr.. Wardell Not satisfied
with her second choice, Miss Terry di-
vorced him, and setting her affections
upon Charles Kelly, became his wife.
Incompatibility soon separated them,
and now death by the removal of Mr..
Kelly, has severed all entangling al
liances. The London papers are say
ing that Mr.. Irving will marry Miss
Terry now that she is free again. He
will prove himself a venturesome man
if he does.