The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ApELTNE PATTI is worth $3,OOO,OOO.
MINISTER WHITE will soon start for
Berlin.
TENNysoN gets s15 line for his
poetry.
JOAQUIN MILLER is very green and awk-
ward in society.
GEN. BURNSIDE is the best-dressed
man in the Senate.
MINISTER LOWELL is preparing to
leave for his American visit.
MINISTER KAssoN, of Vienna, will
visit his Iowa home this summer.
SENATOR TELLER, of Colorado, is q
feet in height and weighs 164 pounds.
AFTER six-weeks' vacation, Minister
Maynard is returning to Constantinopie.
GEN. BABcoCK has an orange grove
in Florida and naval Office In Balti-
more.
SENATOR SHARON. of Nevada, is B
feet inches in height and weighs l34
pounds.
SENATOR SALISBURY, of Delaware, is
feet inches in height and weighs 162
pounds.
SENATOR SAUNDERS, of Nebraska, is
feet inches in height and weighs 100
pounds.
SENATOR SARGENT, of California, is 5
feet 10t inches in height and weighs
100 pounds.
SENATOR RANSOM, of North Carolina,
is feet inch in height and weighs
$50 pounds.
The Greeley girls deny that Col
Nicholas Smith is going to squander
their money.
SENATOR ROLLINS, of New Harnp-
shire, is feet g. inches in height and
weighs 1873 pounds.
GEN. MILES, the Indian fighter, was,
at the outbreak of the Rebellion, hard
ware clerk in Boston.
SENATOR BECK is tall and large, with
black hair and dark eyes, and some
what fiery complexion.
MRS. CHRIsTIANcY, the wife of the
Minister to Peru, is Ill at the home of
her parents in Washington.
VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER is in Ma
lone, N. Y, and will not return to Wash
ington during the present session.
SENATOR HoAR is a gray-bearded
man, with an earnest face, bright blue
eyes, and a complexion of almost infan-
tine freshness.
EDWARD S. STOKES, the slayer of
Fisk, has taken up his abode in San
Francisco. He is now chief owner of a
valuable Navajo nina
The Regents of the State of New
York have conferred the honorary de-
gree of LII. d. on Tburlow Weed, the
Noster of the State press.
CORNELIUS Vanderbilt, the name
sake and favorite grandson of the late
Commodore, is President of the Young
Mems Christian Association of New
York.
FREDERICK THE GREAT was the only
member of the house of Hohenzollern
who ever celebrated the anniversary of
a golden wedding, for which the EN-
peror William is now preparing.
MARY PAUL, a granddaughter of the
famous privateer. John Paul Jones,
lately died in Scotland, at the age of
70. Her ancestors name was really
John Paul-when he entered the priva-
teering business he added the Jones"
HARRISON was 81 when he was sworn
as President, and died exactly one
month after, April 4, 1841. Taylor was
65 when he was sworn as President,
March 4, 1849, and died in fifteen
months, July 8, 1850. William R. King
was sworn in as Vice Presi-
dent March 4, 1853, and died on his
own plantation in Alabama in little
more than month afterward, April 7,
1853
SENATOR BOOTH, of California, whose
bachelorhood has withstood the wiles of
women for half century, has been cap
tured at last, so the Washington gossips
say, by demure little widow, with a
sweet young face and prematurely-
white hair, to the doors of whose mod
est lodging house fate led the Senator
in search of "rooms to let" A quiet
wedding in early autumn will be the
result.