Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-05-27
STRAY WAITS.

reckon that they can lodge 1885 per-
sons.
One of the damsels at the Danbury
May party lost fur cap and pair of
rubbers.
The man who makes himself ridicu-
lous prevents many others from becom-
ing so.
The sweet girl graduate this season
will wear calico, and her admirers will
say that she looks like print-sis.
Beecher advises his parishioners to ''eat
well and plentifu:ly." Yet Plymouth
Church indulges i'm too much feud
The supposed reason why they call a
sensational report "canard'' is because
one canard-ly believe it. you know.
1t is "a fact of much significance that
Japan has adopted the first day of the
wcek-tle Christian SUNDAYS day of
rest.
The Philadelphia booiblacks think of
striking for 10 cent. "a >hi lc, on account
of the prevailing Centennial magnitude
of feet.
n young Phila,lclphia.l threatened
with Il breach Of-prornisc suits SAYS: Sue
way. Contracts made or Sunday ain't
legal
Smokers shoultlbewarc of tile Austrian
department of the exposition unless t:.cy
are flush. Some OF the .meerscllillins
cost 800.
Every Slst person in France is Il sol
dier; and yet the tax payers there don't
write communications to the papers
about the expense.
n Paris fashion Journal declares that in
less than five years kiec-brcrclics and
six-irch skirts will be the fashionable
street dress for ladies.
An Old laly. over IA hundred years old,
came into Troy the other day. ami skip
ped pl ,yfully around tliro .gh the milli-
ner shops, examining the new styles in
spring bonnets.
The tirelnen Oh several IiIss I'm Buffalo
harbOr struck for all advance of So per
month, did not get il, and in a ;ew hours
We're all back asking for work.
''The blessed man that preached for IL,
last Sunday" says Mrs. Darlington,
'scrved the Lord for 80 years-first AS a
circus rider. then us a locust preacher,
and at last as an exhauster." i-
The widow Of President Polk has had
special car placed at her disposal by
Colonel Scott. Of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, for the purpose of visiting the Cen
tennial
Mrs. A. L. Stewart will build church
at Garden City in memory. of her hus-
band. The body of the late A. Il. Stew
art will be taken from its present tomb
and buried in the new church as soon as
it Is completed.
''Ma, does pa kiss the cat 2" "Why,
no, my son. What in the name of good
ness put that in your head? ?" ''Cos when
pa came down stairs this morning he
kissed Sarah in the hallway, and said,
That's better than kissing that old cat
up stairs, amt ii, Sarah -
The Senate has several bills providing
for a restoration of many features of the
franking privilege, and it is believed the
committee will report favorably OH one
providing for the free transmission of
official business and the abolition of the
present expensive system of official
stamps.
Here is bit of characteristic news
from Genoa paper: miss Anna Dick
insOn, who. a year ago, caused the con-
demnation of an English colonel for i'm
proper gallantries in railway car, wish
ing to profit by the notoriety thus gain
ed, went to America to lecture, and after
ward embracing the dramatic career, IS
about to make her debut in America"
A Maine sea captain has just returned,
after having followed the sea for 81
years. He made III voyages to the West
In1ies, and never lost man.
A would-be fashionable woman in the
west, under sentence for murder, has on
ly one request to make. She wants the
shade of her dress to match the rope. A
corded" silk would be appropriate.
There's good deal of rivalry among
the state buildings at the Centennial. but
after al it has been said the pine tree
state must beal away the palm, for the
main building is certainly the finest of
all.
Adams, the clerk. is said to be the next
man to have trouble. A member of
Congress claims to have in his possession
facts which he will make public soon, to
show that the clerk has been selling his
at sums ranging from 800
to $500.
The Raleigh. N. c., Sentinel still flies
the rebel flag. 1t says: cit strikes us
that it is time for southern men i'm Con-
gress to stop making cringing speeches.
They are the peer of those who hail
from Massachusetts,, Maine. Vermont, or
any other puritanical latitude. In the
slang of the day, give us a rest from
these outgush"s of loyalty. these .tnbs
Of humanity that are constau.ly thrown
10 the Yankee whalc..,