The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-12
BREvITIES.

GERMANY is now overrun with beg
gars.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx has laid up $4,000
from lecturing.
ILLINOIS unimproved lands are big
ger than MASSACHUSETTS, and Connecticut
put together.
Mrs. ROBERTS, now living in Henry
county, Tenn, claims to be the first
white woman who crossed the Tennes-
dee river.
NEXT year will see the great cathedral
at Cologne completed. The first stone
of this immense church was laid on the
14th of August, l24S.
PROF. SARGENT, of Harvard College,
is to have charge of the investigation
of the forest wealth of the United
States for the next census.
DALLAS, Tex, has the deepest arte-
sian we'll in the State. Water was
struck at 615 feet, and flows fifteen
gallons per minute.
MRS. AMY HARRIS, of Syracuse, the
widow of an English officer, has become
the heiress of 100000 by the death
of her former guardian in Quebec.
Mr.. w. P. COLE, of Limington, Me-,
found six coOns in one tree, and sue
ceeded in capturing them ell. Their
united weight was seventy pounds.
In 171S the Cowthorpe oak, in York
shire, covered half an acre. 1t had
girth almost equal (sixty feet) to the
base of the late Eddystone lighthouse
IT is estimated that the fashionable
society of New York-that is, the per-
sons who habitually entertain and go to
parties-do not number more than
1000 persons.
HENRY LAVA SELwYN, a full-blooded
Sioux Indian, and a son of leading
chief of the Yankton tribe, has been
ordained pastor of the church at Yank-
ton Agency.
In Paris kitchen utensils used by all
hotels, restaurants, confectioners, ETC.,
are periodically inspected by pablo
officers, with view to saving the public
from poisoned pies, etc.
The Vesuvius railway is finished
from the station at the foot Of the
mount to the observatory at the her.
mitage, half way up; the remainder of
the road to the entrance of the crater is
in progress.
GEN. BIDwELL is one of the
richest men in California. In his plan
tation are forty miles of drives, lined
on either side with trees, either fruit or
nut bearing. His place is a Spanish
grant of 40 miles.
IT is marvellous what awful shocks the
British constitution has survived. MY
Lords" said Lord Chancellor Eldon,
4" if you abolish the ancient pastime of
cockfghting you will sap the foundation
of the constitution and endanger the
stability of the throne"
ERASMUS WILSON, the great English
authority on skin diseases, who paid the
cost Of erecting Cleopatras Needle in
London, is about to spend 100000 on
a sea-bathing inhrmary for the scrofu-
lous. A much better way this of spend
ing money than the other.
ITALIAN trade returns for 1879 compare
well with those of 1878, but the enor-
nous taxation keeps the people deplor-
ably poor. A united Italy has Keen
found to be a terribly costly luxury,
and the abourdly expensive army and
navy now maintained aggravate greatly
the situation.
PRINCE BISMARCK gets low, and says
that not all his great doings have made
himself and others any the happier; and
old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,
who is gorged with gold and weighted
down with honors, recently wrote of
herself to Lady Mary Wortley Mont
ague as q most miserable being.
ExTRAvAGANCE in language is one of
the peculiarities of people in Southern
countries. CASTELAR,, on hearing the
long-winded tendency OF his country
men commented upon severely, replied:
"You are perfectly right, gentlemen,
but you don't know how difficult it is
TO hold ones tOnpue i'm Spanisb -