Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-01-28
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY, JANUARY %, 1882.
WIDE. WIDE WORLD.

They have raised $4,000 for mOnu-
ment to Daniel Webster at Washington.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's new house, including
the decorations and furniture, cost 3d.
100000.
The peanut crop of Texas last year
amounted to Ov,r $2OO00O Who says
we are not a people Of luxuries?
The press from which the first edition
of Joe Smiths Mormon Bible was print
ed is now in use in printing the Ontario
Press.
The New York Star offers a reward of
$5 for the best answer to the question,
"Why is Samuel j. Tilden like Gui-
teau?"
In 1859 the tobacco crop of Pennsyl-
vania was $4,000 pounds, but last year
Lancaster county alone raised 23,946,OOO
pounds.
During the year ending December 81,
1881, the exports of domestic breadstuffs
were 51,SlS299 less than in the pre-
ceding year. 3't
syndicate of Minneapolis, Mimi,
capitalists has purchased fifteen of the
principal elevators there, having, an ag-
gregate capacity of $4,000 bushels.
An enterprising Pennsylvania pro-
poses to lay thirty miles of eight-inch
pipe from some natural gas wells in
Butler county to Pittsburg and ALLIE
gheny.
VerkOvansk, on the river Tana, near
Takutstick, is the coolest locality found
by man, its mean temperature in winter
being 1876 degrees below zero, cent?
grade.
Luther Holden, of South WallingfOrd,
VT, celebrated his Tooth birthday Jan.
8. He retains all his faculties to re-
markable degree, and has over seventy
living descendants.
OF the rescued members of the JEAN
nette crew, Melville and two others de-
sire to remain and prosecute the search
for their missing companions. Dane
hover and nine others will come home.
Judah P. Benjamin, the last Confeder-
ate Secretary Of State, now practicing
law in London, writes to a friend in
New York that the Confederate Govern
ment has not penny of assets in Great
Britain.
Detective Williams, of PinkertOn's
Agency, Chicago, discovered that the
fire at the Columbus, Ohio, Asylum for
Predetermined Youth, on Nov. IS last was
the work of two of the youthful inmates
The fire cost the State about 100000.
The conductor of one Of the palace
cars wrecked in the Spuyten Duyvil dis
aster says that the train was stopped in
the cut by some of the drunken members
of the legislature who were earOu sing
on the train, and applied the air-brakes
for joke, and that this caused the ac-
cident.
The Chicago Tribune announces that
perpetual motion has been discovered by
Prof. Joshua Garrett, who has been a
mechanic for many years and is in NO
respect cranky. His system consists OF
two cylinders working traYersely in a
vacuum upon third. The model works
until the bearings are worn out, thus
creating practically perpetual motion.
Sarah Smith, Quakeress took charge
Of the state prison female convicts Of In
diana, seven years ago, and 200 women
and girls are now under her care. She
has eight women to assist her, but her
proteges are not confined by any bolt, or
bar, or guard. 1t has been proved that
80 per cent. Of these cOnvicts, on release
from their pleasant durance, begin to
lead reputable lives.
It was the saying of an old acquaint-
ance of ours, when his attention was
called to anything that had smacking
of scandal in it, 81 have SO much to dc
that | cannot hear it. One-half Of my
tima ia takan nm with letting alone the