Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1875-11-13
PAPERS, MEN AND THINGS.


Phe New York Tribune thinks tina
''as Presidential candidate Gov. Tflden
is not dead yet"
Mrs. Lincoln, who is still stopping in
Springfield, Illinois, walks ont OCCASION
ally, and appears to have improved in
health.
Miss Brad6or, the novelist, will visit
this country fn short time, and will.
perhaps, give series Of reading during
her stay.
The new King of Italy doesn't believe
In assassinations, and of course ma
jority of the Italians don't believe in the
new King.
Mr.. Coos, a Galveston man, is declared
to have become, in his somewhat exten-
sive married life, the father of full sixty
little Gooses
A lady in Washington is said to ex-
hibit, as one of her choicest possessions,
the coat John Wilkes Booth wore on the
night Of the assassination.
| A few days since Pacific Mail steam
ship sunk on the Pacific coast. Of two
hundred passengers OH board only one
was saved.
The Rochester Chronicle defies Chris
tian to pick up hot poker and put IL
down again without referring to some
person. place or thing in u9complimeut-
ary terms.
Landis. who shot the Vineland editor,
has defense. He is going to try and
prove that the doctors killed Earruth in
stead of bullet. His lawyers are SAN
guine of success.
The inhabitants of the Cannibat Is
\ lands. are charged with having lately
eaten forty-two sailors. Forty-two sail.
ors to $4,000 cannibals is only onr.bifea
piece. There should have been more
sailors.
The Chorpening claim is about to-
make its appearance before the Court of
Claims; and it will be the prayer of the
people that the members of the court
may have the wisdom and the courage to
treat it as it deserves.
Brigham Young says that when Ann
Eliza gets hold of one dollar of his herd
earned ducats he wants to be there To
see. And she says she'll make him fork
over if she has to 60 without striped
stockings all her days.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, tells am
Augusta editor that the people Of the.
south have but faint conceptions of the.
distress at the north; tnat, i'm his opinion.
where one southern man is suffering
from poverty ten northern men are suf-
fering much more.
Victor Hugo keeps i'm his dining-room
an old Oaken chair which belonged to
Gen. Hugo, his father. and which no one
is allowed to occupy. The poet is said.
to imagine that the names of his ances--
tors are present and preside at the table
from the family chair.
The report that the grave of Foster,
the author of the 'sOld Folks at Home"
and many other popular ballads, is with
out stone 10 mark it, is incorrect His
friends have erected over it simple but
appropriate marble tombstone.
Badges of German silver for the use of
reporters at fires have been issued by the
Fire Department of Pittsburg. These
will be worn to warn the police to keep
out of the way and not be knocked
down for passing within the lines during
the progress of the conflagration.
Lady Dixie, whose body was cremated,
has been heard from through the spir-
itual mediums and declares that she ap-
proves of incarceration as a method of
disposing of corpses. 1t is gratifying to
know that the good lady is satisfied with
the disposition made of her body.
The noble and impartial provision made
by the late Isaac M. SINCE for his nu-
merous wives, by brevet and otherwise,
has not entirely turned aside the shafts
of malice. A gentleman writes to the
Cincinnati Gazette that whatever Mr..
Singer may have been in later years as a
husband and father, he was guilty Of en-
bezzlement and fraud I'm the early DAYS
when he was peddler. .s
The fees given to wliters In the hotels
of Antwerp must be larger than those
usually paid in this country. One of the
Antwerp walters has hanging up i'm his
room paintings worth, al the least valua-
ton, $l50,0OO. For one Holy Family he
has been offered 100000, and for an
other picture $4,000, but money has not
charms for him. He shows his pictures
with pleasure to visitors, but only after
formal introduction.
Mr., John Fishback, an indianapolis
journalist, belongs to life-saving family.
The story OF the bravery shown BY one
of them in fishing a lady out of the
briny pillows at Long Branch, is hardly
cold ere John Fishback reverses the op-
Grafton by plunging young lady into
the water to save her life. Miss Emma
Ovens, while out on fishing excursion,
sat so close to the fire that she soon re-.
sembled the fiery ovens mentioned in the
Scriptures. Mr.. Fishback saw her dan
ger, and catching up the young lady la
his arms he plunged her into the river.
when she was drawn out she had such
limited amount of clothing left uponher
that she looked like second clifton af
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