Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-04-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

shakes after all, and the losses very
slight.
James Atchison, of Edinburgh, will
exhibit 100000 set of jewelry at Phil
adelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs Marsh have been sum-
monel to appear before the Senate and
testify in the Belknap case.
There is hunchback bartender in a
Chicago saloon. He makes 10 secret of
being crooked whisky man.
The sheriff of Laramie City has cap
tured two women there who are believed
to be members of the Bender family.
The Patent Office, at Washington, dur
ing its business hours last year, granted
patents at the rate Of one every twelve
minutes.
The Postofficc Appropriation bill is
completed in committee. 1t requires
$4,000, 900, $3,50O,OOo less than that of
last year.
A resolution was introduced into the
House of Representatives last Tuesday
for conducting all the Investigations with
open doors.
Wisconsin will send nearly 700 stone
and copper tools, relics and prehistoric
Indians found on her soil. to the Cen,en-
nial exhibition.
Exposition hall. i'm Cincinnati. where
the Republican. National convention is
to be held. is being arranged to accom-
modate $500 persons.
At Milwaukee the wives of the skip
pers have begun the work of bouncing
the female cooks Two OF them have
been obliged to walk the plank.
The Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph CON-
pany will at once build new line from
Washington to New Orleans and Mobile,
taking in several cities on the way.
1t is said by some of the state press
that ''our Michigan" will excel all her
sisters in the variety and extent of for
est products shown at The exhibition.
Some mean fellow. after saying there
is one physician to every 500 inhabitants,
adds that they begin this way, but that
after while there ale not so many iI-
habitants.
A man in Wilton. Iowa, asks if ;
brass ban can attain fair degree O
proficiency without an Instructor? Ger.
tainly not. Every brass band must have
Il tootc;.
~ don't want no lawyer Ise gwine
to tell lie troot dis time," is what a regu-
lar customer told the justice when that
tunctionary inquired if he had any legal
assistance.
A child can pick UP good deal of in
formation if it will keep its ear, open
while its mother is convcrsing through /.
knOt-hole i'm the fence with the woman
next door.
The glsss dome of the Centennial art
gallery will be lighted by 1000 gas-jets.
The dome is 256 ieet above the level of
the Schuylkill and will be visible at night
all over Philadelphia.
Exports of iron plates for shipbuild
ing have lately been made from this
country to Glasgow, Scotland. The IRON
is said to be an excellent cold-blast char.
coal, branded with star.
An Erie firm has just built nice little
bar of toilet soap 40 feet long aud feet
square. 1t really begins to look as though
some reckless old Pennsylvania Bourbon
was going to take Centennial wash.
Oven 100 grain laden vessels were lying
at Ch cago and Milwaukee, waiting for
positive news as to the opening of the
straits. AS soon as they can, the whole
fleet will spread its wings and SET sail.
The subcommittee who have been in
vestigating the navy yards for several
months past have their report now ready.
The testimony covers LOO pages, and is
said to contain things that will startle
the country.
A telegram from Lisbon, to the Lon
don Daily News, of April 2, announces
that the steam transport India has sailed
from the Tagus with cargo of articles
for exhibition at Philadelphia. She will
touch at the Azores for additional con-
tributions.
What is fame? A gentleman entered
a barber-shop, when the following COLO
guy took place: Barber-Any news {?
Gent.-Mr. Stewart is dead, l hear.
Barber-Which Mr.. Stewart? Gent
A. L. Stewart. Barber (thoughtfully)-
Guess he don't shave here.
Dean Swift has found an i'm
tator. An advocate OF Colmar has left
100000 francs to the local madhouse. 81
got this money! says the candid lawyer
in his will, tout of hose who pass their
lives in litigation; i'm bequeathing it for
the use OF lunatics | only make restitu-
tiOn."
Ills teeth began to chatter over the
Ice cream. He buttoned up his jacket
and swallowed another mouthfiil. That
settled it. lie jumped up from the ta-
bic and started to where the sun could
shine on him, exeIaiming: "Whoopec!
Plenty damn cold grub! No cook 'nuff.
Fleece belly all same like icc,waeon ~