Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-08-26


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"Stove-lid currency" is the undignified
name California paper bestows upon
the new silver dollars.
The Atlantic mills, at Lawrence, Mass,
will start up on September 18th, giving
employment to 1000 operators.
The next general meeting of the Amer
lean Social Science association will be
held at Saratoga from the 9Th to the Sth
of September.
1t is period of great emptiness of
pocketbOOk. One can scarcely look into
one of those articles without thinking he
has opened an evening paper.
Gov. Hayes declines to interfere i'm the
case of Murphy, sentenced to be hung
Friday OF this week, at Dayton, O.. for
the murder of Col. Dawson, last Septem-
bcr.
The flags on tine buildings in New
YORK and Brooklyn were displayed at
half-mast, Monday, out of respect to the
memory of the late Speaker OF the House
Mr.. Kerr.
The unfeeling New York World talks
as one hav NJ had eXIe ience, and IN Id
" asks: '.As between a hiShwayman
and Il grass-widow, which is the more to
be feared 2"
When you can buy dozen clothes-pins
for three cents, and have them sent home
by twO-horse team for nothing, why
wait longer for the return of those '.good
old times?"
"Wherever | go. "said an elderly traveller
the other day, IL find men wearing out
their old clothes and hats; but the ladies,
almost without exception, have new and
expensive dresses"
| Indignant husband-"I suppose have
the liberty Of speaking my mind p
Truthful wife-"Yes, John but if you
hid nothing but your mind to speak,
you'd be always dumb"
Senator Jones, of Nevada, has suggest
ed that the only way to prevent the
shooting of Negroes is to pass colored
game law, restricting the killing to GER
tain seasons of the year.
A ''twelve and half cents" note of the
Phoenix bank of Hartford, dated Febru.
AIRY ], 1915, payable 1.-TWO years after the
war;" was offered i'm payment at the Hart
ford COurant office lastweek.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a
bin taxing all dogs over three years OF
age two dollars each. Dogs refusing to
give their ages to the census enumera-
tors will be dealt with summarily.
A schoOlmaster whose wife was one OF
his pupils had OCCASION to punish hcr
one day. The next day the school house
door bore this inscription: ''School
closed for one week schoolmaster ILL.,"
This is the season of the year to get of
the Old joke about the city girl who goes
up to the cow-yard fence, and, drawing
the muslin dress up and about, says coy
| ly, 20. cousin John. which is the cow
that gives the buttcrmilk p
A traveller staying over night with a
Texan farmer, whose estate was miles i'm
extent. said to him: sYou must have
begun life very young to accumulate such
an estate as this" YES" replied the
farmer, 81 began life when was mere
baby - 4sgoiseinaloa AIT y
The firm of At Stewart & Co. have
lately made $l,OOOOO0 by rise in the
value of raw silk. Before the death Il
Mr.. Stewart he was induced to buy up
large quantities of silk in anticipation OF
a rise, and the wisdom of his pulc'E. ses
is now approved. sJ f
1 A secretary commissioned to report as
TO the manner in which certain theatre
was managed in France replied: ''The
conductor of the orchestra has not played
a note since his arrival. If he content.
himself with making gestures, sugges
that he be discharged"
"Where's the bar ?" asked dirty-look
ling stranger of bell-boy of hotel tn,
other day. ''IVhat kind of a bar ?" asked
the latter. ''Why, saloon bar, of course
what do you suppose mean z" Well
drawled the boy..I didn't know but yol
might mean bar Of soap - ann
Avery mean storekeeper of Eddystoue
Ont, recently charged one of his femaI,
clerks. who had ridden into Cobourg will
him, 30 cents for the use of the buggy
and so cents for lost time, but the youn.
lady had him fined $40 and costs for car
rying passengers without a license.
!. 1t is officially stated. as the result O
700 soundings, that there is a channel q
feet deep in the South Pass jetties of til.
Mississippi. with width of 40 feet
When the width of the channel reachc,
200 feet the company will be entitled Il
the first payment from the government
They are taking evidence in divorce
case for cruelty, the husband Is under
examination; his wife, prostated with
grief, is weeping bitterly, covering her
face with her handkerchief. Now says
the Judge. ssare you not ashamed to have
thus brutally treated your woman of 2o!
The wife sadsienly laised her he'd. Il
: -Ibcg yors pardon" "Ishe sobs, "24 only.
J .,ri she again gives way to her grief.