Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-07-17
PAPERS, MEN AND THINGS.

lately, worth $4,000. He was only a
bull.
| Commodore Vanderbilt goes to the
New York hippodrome every evening at
tsunset, to hear Gilmorc's band.
Theodore Iilton has had more invita-.
tins to lecture next winter than at this
time at any former season.
A Boston man has run for office nine
teen times,anb as he has never been elecs
ted he talks of withdrawing his name.
| A certain young lady is so modest that
she will not allow the Christian Observer
to remain in her room over night.
| New Jersey makes vagabonds earn
their lodgings by saving wood and
pounding stone.
An Alabama man has been trying to
lead church and manufacture lead
nickles at the same time.
Senator Sargent, of California, predicts
that Senator Frelinghuysen will be the
Republican candidate for the Presidency.
1t is stated that while Robert Bonner
refuses to publish any more of Beecher's
articles in the Ledger, he continues to-
pay for them.
Queen Victoria expects to live to see
her great-grand children. She is now on
| ly Be, and her eldest grand child, the SON
of the German crown prince, is 16.
The police of Lafayette, Indiana, are
not uniformed, and they trail each other
around and think they have soft thing
on burglar.
A country paper says: " Persons wish
ing their death notices published must
hand them in early on Thursday, accom-
panied by ST."
1t is said that fully two-thirds of the
letters which reach the dead-letter office
get there because women have an insane
desire to write beautiful fine hand.
Some oI the st. Louis stills are still being
run dilrii he still hours ofnight. The
ways Of :. sky makers arc crooked ways,
sometimes
f. Donald cKay, the chief of the Warm
| Spiings J .dians, who exhibited such
grea' braYery and skill in fighting the
Mo- cs at the lava-beds, is now an inmate
of !! Boston poor-house.
a Indiana naturalist has tried it abun-
dret times this year, and he finds that
SNAKES cannot charm birds. There has
been a fearful amount of lying about this
thing
Cir innati Times answer to a CORES
Bondeat: ''Minnie, Hillsdale, O., You
can't learn to play croquet well unless
nature has fitted YOU for it, but striped
l.st~ K. 5 -3J-G-At Ateriiy.
,J.nr ssy md five cent fsces. .
the .,no-a3 49, = Z q-e tfusL, but our
wa-eanty ess,s s,iece rs not. When a
iman sets stay ne don't propose to
ffrust abs yeu know.
! - Iuv ciers n the Treasury Department
have been forbidden to hang around free
lunch saloon,any more, and they are tell
ing each that the Treasury Department
is the worst managed under the sun.
There are 1000 clerks working in New
York City on salaries avering $1,000 per
| week, but they couldn't part their hair
in the middle if they were working on
farms or in shops and making twice the
money.
OfcOurse it was crusty old bachelor
who made a will leauing his entire for
tune to be divided among the girls who
had refused him. ssFOr to them" he added
feelingly Il owe all my earthly happi-
ness"
Anegro expounding the Beecher scan
dal said he believed Mr.. Beecher was in
nocent, but he was afraid that when.
Beecher wrote the ragged edge letter he
was himself under. the delusion that he
twas guilty.
The young man who offers to. stop
drinking and chewing if his girl will.
marry him, will in less than a year after
marriage tell her that he sold himself
for fifty cents on the dollar, and she Will
reply that she paid twenty-five per cent.
to high. for him.
"Stone walls do not prison make, nor
iron bars cage" dreamily murmured
lyoung lady of Cleveland as she unlocked
the door of the Jail at indianapolis few
days Since. "The girl 1 left behind me,'
gaily Manned the nineteen prisoners as
| they filed passed her and struck out for
the country. ''ssSssna.a-ss.
Col. Ward HI. Lamon, who will be re-
called as the friend and law partner OF
President Lincoln, and y who is now a.
resident of Martinsburg, w. Va, is.
coming into prominence as candidate
for the Republican nomination of. Cow
ernor of that state. HE voted. for Gree
tley in 1872.
David Dudley Field, counsel for Boss;
Tweed, said it was an unheard of thing
to TX a bail bond at the enormous figure
of &OOO,OOO. :" Yes,'s retorted Mr..
Peckap, counsel for the people, s.and
the stealing of s6,oOO,OOO was an unheard
thing unH the defendant committed the
theft"
In the ci1F of Mexico, recently, tho
Hon. William Walter Phelps felt rather
Iindisposed, am Thought he would not
rise early. When he did leave his
bed he found pinned to his dressing
table a piece of PAPER, ON which his host
/ had written: Ydu were s1eepino so