Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1881-08-06

worthy.
THE United States dollar Of 1904 is sold
for $500. If the government officials had
known how highly these coins were to
be valued, they might have made grand
speculation by turning out a few million
of them. As it was, they thought eight
would meet the business wants of the
country" and eight they made.
COMMANDER Wadleigh of the steamer
Alliance reports his arrival at Reikiavik,
Iceland, July -, and that after coaling
he would leave for the Arctic region.
There was no ice on the coast. The
parliament of Iceland was in session and
he had furnished the members with a
description Of the jeanette with an offer
of reward for information Of that vessel.
THE expenses of the public land de-
partment were for the year ending June
30, 100000 in excess of the receipts from
the sales Of public lands in any fiscal
year since 1S43. 1t has for 10 years cost
a good deal more to keep up the public
lands establishment than the total re-
ceipts from sales in that time, has
amounted to.
A. d. WHITE, minister to Berlin, has
rendered his resignation, to take effect
August 10, at which time he will return
to the United States. No appointment
of successor can be made while the
President remains in his present con-
dition, and it is not probably that an
appointment will be made until con-
gress meets.
ACCORDING to the German railroad
laws, tariffs must be conspicuously pub
lished, and no change indicating in
creased rates can go into effect until six
weeks after publication. Discrimina-
ton is prohibited, and when the profits
of railway exceed 10 per centum upon
the actual cost, the tariff must be re-
duced. The latter provision has, how
ever, always been evaded.
NEW York city, strange to say, now
presents notable instance of civil SER
vice permanence in its departments.
Seven or eight years ago the legislature
passed an act making it an offence at
Jaw to remove either head of depart
ment or regular clerk in a department
of the city of New York. The law was
dead letter for long time, but Mayor
Grace has found its application a con-
venient method of heading off the horde
Of applicants for position, and obeys it
literally.
AN aggravated case of Little Butter
cup is disclosed at Oakland, Tenn. Two
sisters, both married, and living in the
the same house, had infant daughters,
nearly of the same age. A nurse at
tempted to battle both together one
morning, and after removing their
clothing she forgot which was which,
and no other marks of identiv could be
discovered. One of the mothers declares
she has the wrong baby. The other de-
clares she has not, and bad feeling has
been developed about it.
THERE has been considerable canvass
ing going on at Washington as to the
organization of the next house, and its
probable loss to the Republicans, owing
to the failure of the New York legisla-
ture to pass law for special election
to fill the seats vacated by Morton, Miller,
and Lapham, and by the death Of Wood.
The New York state canvassing board
cannot meet under the law until De-
cember, after the time for organization
of the house. Investigation, however,
shows that the members elected to ell
these vacancies can be admitted to their
seats without election returns being
canvassed by the state board, on the re-
turns of local inspectors of New York
who can and will give certificate that
will entitle them to admission. Waldo
Hutchins who was elected to ill va
cancy in New York caused by the death
of member elect on the night of the
election, was admitted on the same sort
of certificate to the last house, as in the
case Of successor to Miller, Lapham,
Morton and Wood. The state canvassing
board would not legally meet in time to
certify his election by the meeting Of
congress, and he was admitted on GER
tifcate based on the return of local in
spectOrs. A Democratic house estab-
lished this precedent.