The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-20
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Elk Gov. HENDRICKS, of Indiana, is
now entirely gray.
DIR. HOLLAND has received $4,000
for Bitter Sweet"
The elevated railroad of New York
has made S. j. Tilden and G. w. Field
richer by from 100000 to 100000
apiece.
ORvLLE GRANT, brother of the Gen
eral, has settled in Geneva, ILL.,, and is
restored to reason on all questions but
the one of finance.
Mr.. K. G. STEDMAN, the poet. has
sailed for Europe to spend his vacation
In Great Britain, beginning his sight
seeing in the lake regions of Ireland.
LEO XIII. is becoming noted in Rome
for the unostentatious way of his life.
A letter from Rome says he "is the
most simple in taste of all the Popes
known to history. His bedroom is
paved with common stones, and is never
warmed His reception-rooms are fitted
up with Injuries, but his private apart
ments are as cherries as a hermit's
cell"
COUNT BEUsT, who has just gone to
Paris as Austrian Minister, is said to be
the wittiest Ambassador in Europe.
de is said to have that happy faculty,
which the late Lord Palmerston pos
sessed, of parrying any direct inquiry
In way which means, Don't ask too
much. Count Beust is also a poet
and musical composer of more than
average merit, and the piano in his
working-room shows in which direction
his cultured hobby lies.
Gen. MOVES, American Minister at
Paris, recently gave dinner to a num-
Der OF American celebrities, which was
ightened up by the presence and genial
chat OF Mark Twain" In the course
OF the dinner he expressed his want of
admiration for the general run of
Frenchmen, and thought that, so far as
LOOKS were concerned, "most of them
would be improved by mutilation." The
elegant Twain is now at work on an
other book OF travels Baron Tauchnitz
has arranged to print German edition
OF The InnoceDts Abroad" and sent
Nj. L. handsome check for the honor.
Gov. DREW, of Florida, New Hamp-
shire man, owns 10000 acres of land.
de employs 400 men cutting logs and
saving them into lumber. All his men
i've IN neat cottages built by him, for
which he charges no rent. He is now
constructing tramway eight miles in
ength into the forest, and the trees of
access to it will be felled.
md the logs conveyed by it to his mill.
when the trees are exhausted on this
Inc the tramway will be run out in an
'ther direction, and the process of ex-
laustion repeated. The lumber is
AIKEN In cars to cksonville, Fla. and
here placed in schooners for New
FORK.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON is II years
ID. de lately gave very interesting
ecture on Memory" in Boston, for
ne benefit of the Old South Church.
lie begged that no report should be
,ade OF it. The Herald, of that city.
avs: Mr.. Emerson is now UNEQUAL
the effort to speak to large audi
nee. His form is still erect; his pierre
lg eye is as keen as ever; his smile
as lost none of it's inetfable sweetness:
ut still it is evident that old age is
'mlng upon him rapidly. He read his
cture at small desk, in a sitting
osture, his faithful daughter guiding
I'd prompting him whenever he lost
s place, with his audience of some
W persons so thoroughly touched with
notion by his infirmities that they did
1t mind what they lost, provided only
ey could look into his serene face and
atch its varying expression"