The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-05
BREyITIES.
RANT weighs 1864 pounds.

GRANT weighs 1864 pounds.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR is in his 10th year.
CoURrsHIP is draw game-marriage
is tie.
The White House at Washington is
70 years old.
The Shah has established the decimal
system of coinage.
TwENTYTwo-PoUND sweet potatoes
are raised i'll California.
The number of Christianized Jews in
England is set at 5000.
THERE are said to be 800 American
art students now in Paris.
MARTIN LUTHER was the hero of a
play lately produced in Paris.
A MONUMENT on the top of Lookout
Mountain to Fighting Joe Hooker is
talked of.
THEY have killed rattlesnake in
Kern county, California, that had forty
two rattles.
DURING her six years sojourn abroad,
CarlOtta Patti appeared in over 1900
concerts.
FLORIDA reports that some time it will
literally supply the North with straw
berries in midwinter.
The weather has been so favorable in
Oglethorpe county, Ga, that the third
crop of figs for 1879 is nearly ripe.
A wALNUT-TIMBER boom is going on
in Tennessee. Every saw-mll is saving
it fast. There is great demand for it
in London.
SCISSORS, which are still made in
Sheffield, England, by tedious hand
process are made at one stroke of die
IN Connecticut.
The matter of making straw hats was
started bya little girl in Dedham, Mass,
and from this has grown a widely-ex-
tended business.
The law passed at the late session of
the Alabama Legislature prohibiting the
purchase of cotton in seed has been de-
cided unconstitutional.
THE bulk of Prussian prisoners are
employed at cigar-making, because the
work takes little space and is so readily
learned by young and old alike.
A SINGLE hair from the head of
pretty woman brought $50 at rattle for
the benefit of Gen. Hoods children in
Lowndes county, Ala, the other day.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's kitchen is regularly
supplied with a $9-a-barrel fioul-red
winter wheat-from Americas great
West by order of the lady of the house.
MISS ROSE MEEKER, one of the sur
vivOrs of the Ute massacre, will lecture
in the Eastern States this season. She
will endeavor to enlghten the peace
policy people.
II is understood in railroad circles in
are forming combination for an Or
ganized and systematic effort to induce
European immigration.
A WHITE swan, measuring 56t inches
from the tip of the toes to the end of the
beak, and IS inches across the wings,
and weighing II ] pounds, was shot near
Washington, Pa, last week.
JOHN BRIGHT declares that if he was
teacher in school he would make it "a
very important part of his business" to
impress every boy and girl with the duty
of being kind to all animals.
THERE are stretches of country in
Arizona where, for distances of fifty
miles, water cannot be procured for
travellers without paying prices ranging
from 80 to IS per barrel.
OVER $4,500,000 has already been
spent by the Government in the pur-
chase of the lot and erection of the
Philadelphia postoffice, and another
$1,500,0O0 will complete it.
EIGHTEEN months since twenty-six
carp were placed in spring in Sono-
ma county, Cal. They have multiplied
until now there over 1000, the largest
about nine inches long.
The biggest area of oil lands ever dis
posed of in Pennsylvania at once was
the recent sale of the 700 acres CON-
prised in the Moody tract, near Brad
ford, to three companies, for $l05,OOO.
SUNDAY in Newark, N. j., where re-
Gently there was SO much excitement
about the Liquor law, has settled down
into quiet acceptance of the situation,
and the Germans get all the beer they
want.