Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1882-06-03
WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

of bankruptcy has been introduced by
Senator Hoar.
Thirty.six thousand of Ohio's three
million people are paupers, and cost the
state 100000 annually.
Lieutenant DanehOwer and his com
panions of the Jeanette crew reached
New York Sunday morning.
Holland has brass band the players
of which are children of from 4 to IA
years of age. They are said to play
finely.
Annual report of the Detroit, Grand
Haven & Milwaukee railroad for the
past year shows total income of ST.
l96,929.5O.
Japan has school population of
5,251 900 between the ages of and IA,
and it has 2,162.OOO pupils in its elemen-
tary schools.
The census gives us 7.699,2l2 men en-
gagged as farmers in this country. and
3,5l9,647 in mining, mechanical and
manufacturing operations.
Old postal cards cut into strips sOne-
sixteenth of an inch wide make excel
lent lamp lighters. They burn readily,
do not give off sparks, and leave scarce
ly trace of ashes.
Germany has school population of
100000 between Of and IA and has
100000 pupils in its elementary and
secondary schools, or 100000 in excess
of its school population.
The Financial Chronicle gives the
earnings of As railroads for April at
$19,17S,776, an increase of $685., 1882 ov-
er the figures for April, 1881. The mil
age showed an increase from 1856 to
1884.
There is both wit and pathos in the
suggestion of the Brooklyn Argus that
Shakespeare referred to the Artic regions
when he alluded to the undiscovered
country from whose bourne no traveller
returns.
At Springfield, o., man named Kintz-
miller, becoming enraged at his daugh-
ter for keeping company with man of
whom he disproved drew revolver and
shot her dead Monday. He narrowly es-
capped lynching at the hands of neigh
bOrs before he was taken to Jail.
The Garfield and Arthur twins, chill
dren of Henry Chaplin. of Gilbert's Mills,
N. Y, are now six months old. Each
weighs exactly nineteen pounds and
three ounces. They laugh and cry in
precisely the same style, and cannot be
told apart when the distinguishing rib
bons around their necks are removed.
The lumber trade of Canada is greatly
excitedIover the Quebecgoyernment's rail
way land grants, claiming they cannot
be reimbursed by the government for
erecting mills and improving streams,
ETC., if it takes their limits away and
gives them to the railway companies.
Banking men are also much exercised
over the matter, claiming if the govern
ment passes the bill there will be no Sc.
curity for the advances made on the
limits. The banks of Montreal and Quebec
have nearly two millions, and other
banks like sums.
The!black brOcade dress pattern to be
presented to Mrs. Garfield by the Wo-
mems Silk Culture Association of Amer
lea is now on exhibition in Philadelphia.
The silk in it was grown in fourteen diff
ferent states by twenty-six American
the venerable mother of Bay
ard Taylor being among the contribu-
tors. 1t was reeled by the Association,
woven at Paterson, N. j., and is the first
fine brocade ever produced in the United
States. The design is that Of immor-
telles lntertwined among irregular
pyramids of Spanish lace, the flowers
out in apparent relief.