Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-10-06

All lIOu SJedulDOdt IOr Un6 T6Venu6
service was built in sixty days in Buff
falO.
Aband of gypsies made $500 out of the
young ladies of Muscatine, Iowa, by for
tune-telling. .-vvvs a .,s
Two Ostriches in California haye kick
ed their mates to death. The mules in
that country have discouraged look.
Tho latest refrain of the Salvation
Army is said to be: IF you can't get in
&C the Golden Gate, get over the garden
wall"
We will enter into no eulogium upon
Massachusetts,. There she stands-with
Ben Butler on tOp.-St. Louis Post Dis
patch.
ut was hard thing to build church,
a harder thing to pay for it, and hard
er thing still to fill it," is the disheart-
ening remark of a wOrnOut preacher at
Cheyenne, Wy. T.
David Moses, aged 90, weight 1875
pounds, employed at museum in New
York, has married Blanche Gray, aged
l6, weight 517 pounds, who poses as the
fat woman in the same institution.
Bob Hart, the reformed drunkard and
ex-marshal says people seem to think
that preachers can live on air and get
fat by chewing daylight. He knows
they can't, anu he will try to raise the
wind by publishing book.
The New York Clipper and the Clipper
Almanac are to be sold at auction Oct.
II. Frank Queen, the late owner Of the
paper, who died Oct. IS, 1882, left no
will, and the sale is to be made to settle
up the estate.
Duns Commercial Agency reports
business throughout the country gener-
ally healthy, and remarks that the re-
cent heavy failures in the dry goods
trade are the result more of speculation
than any stagnatiOn in the trade.
The fact that Union and Princeton
Theological Seminaries each begins this
year with larger entering class than
for many years past, looks as though the
lack of candidates for the ministry is
likely to be supplied.
There is curious case now pending
before Philadelphia court in which
George Scott seeks an injunction to pre-
vent his wife from burylng Rebecca, his
daughter, in Roman Catholic cemetery
and by the funeral rites of that church.
Mr.. Scott is Protestant and his wife
Catholic.
A physician says: "In buying cloth
ing care should be taken to inv ,stigate
the hygrOscOpicity Of the CLOTH We
always do; but, as singular as it may
appear, many persons buy q coat and
never give thought to its hygrosc0pici
ty. This is great mistake. Norris
tom Herald.
Mr.. Kelley cannot fill that engage
ment with his mOter because of mis-
calculation in the ''chrOmatc relation
ship Of the vibrator" ard it is not in
his power to say when he will have IL
fixed. The chromatic relationship Of
Mr.. Kelley and his financial hackers S
becoming interesting.
If General Butler is defeated for the
gOvernOrship of Massachusetts, he pro-
poses to follow the example Of Blaine.
Alexander IL. Stephens, jeff Davis,
Thomas II. Benton, and other ST. tesmen,
by writing a book. This is a good reason
why he should be defeated Anything
the governor might write would be- as
interesting as lola and as realistic as
BalZac.
The editor of the Evansville Qnd)
Journal, who is grandfather, one day
when off his guard kissed widow. For
this he has been compelled to withdraw
from his church, resign the Office of
postmaster, sell his paper and other
property, and move away from the town.
Town lots i'm Evansville are sure to
depreciate, and the Journal editor sells
out none too soon.
Three masked men entered the ex-
press car Of passenger train between
Roam and LaketOn, Ind, Thursday of
last week, bound the messenger, and
took from the safe some $4,000 in cur
rency and coin. The robbers quilted
the train at Roam. and the crime was
not discovered until Peru was reached,
where the messenger was found insensi-
BILE in his car.
There are eighty-seven counties in
Georgia where man cannot buy. beg,
or steal a dring of whisky, and none can
be purchased in the state excepting In
some of the larger towns. The people
are fanatical on the subject, and in
Mississippi they have gone to such an
extreme that they tax billiard tables
$1,000 apiece, under the belief that they
are a device for the encouragement of
drinking.
Advocates of taking the internal rev.
enue tax off from alcohol uused in the
arts and industries quote Gen. Raum's
report to the committee on ways and
means showing that, In 1882, there were
used in the arts 4,269,97S gallons of alcO-
hol: and that he thinks there would
have been used 1855 gallons if there
were no tax.
The articles which the Tammany del
egates set out to take to the Buffalo con-
vention with them in order to make life
endurable were. according to the Sun,
100 broied chickens, 10 boiled hams, 80