Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Like the Jog IN inc manger, the
nose is above kissing, and is always
ready to interfere with the kissing of
others.
"A man over seventy years of age is
said to be in jail at Penn Yam because
his son, to whom he gave fortune of
$40, 900, can't afford to pay few hun
dred dollars for his release.-1roy IN.
~ Times.
Oscar Wilde told a Liverpool audi
ence that while off the Pacific coast of
the United States he saw a seal basking
on rock on whose back was painted
the announcement Of a manufacturer of
tooth powder.-M y Graphic. ia'i ,i'i
Headlines in the Louisville Courier
Journal: "Murderous-A tornado steals
out OF the quiet of spring day and
sweeps from Chattanooga nearly to the
Gulf a path of death and devastation I'M
equalled in the history of that section"
Recently occurred in New York the
annual distribution of $4,000 appro-
priated for distribution among the des-
titute blind of the city. Each beneli-
ciary receives this year thirty-eight
dollars. The object of the gift is to
keep the recipients out of the public
institutions. N. Y. Herald.
The steamship Great Eastern has
never been success financially, but is
to be employed in carrying coal from
the Forth to the Thames in Great
Britain. She will be able to carry about
10000 tons on each voyage, and from
this fact the owners are led to hope that
the scheme will be remunerative. Chi
cGgo inter- Ocean.
AT barbecue given at Satartia by
the citizens of Yazoo County, Miss, a
Mr.. Warrington objected to the way
his son was cutting up sheep. This
enraged the son and he attacked his
father with the knife, cutting his body
almost in two. The elder Warrington
died in few minutes. The son escaped.
st. Louis Globe.
I "A family in Craftsbury, VT, is
terribly afflicted. The father has a
cancer on his forehead; two daughters
are rapidly running down with the con-
sumption; son, on syhom the family
has largely depended for supper is in
very poor health, probably in consump-
ton, and the mother, worn out with
labor and anxiety, is raving crazy
Rutland Herald.
Not especially handsome married
women make the most elaborate expo
sition of finery and jewels at Saratoga
this season. They seem to have gomez
there for the express purpose of ex-
hibiting their wardrobe, and if you do
not stare at them and make remarks
off cd ic 40
the social wind is blowing just now
N. y. Mail.
The London Lancet stoutly opposes
the practice of putting binders on horses.
1t says 'It seems to us that they are
useless, ugly, and, to some extent, in
furious TO the eyesight. The most beau
tiful feature of the horse is the eye. If
it were not hid from our gaze it would
serve to denote sickness, pain or pleas
ure. Many time would the driver
spare the whip on seeing the animals
imploring eye"
Although it might be reasonably
expected that any husband would know
his own wife, yet, strange to say, Joseph
Millen, of Baltimore, whose wife went
on the excursion which ended in the re-
cent frightful accident, recognized her
features at a glance among the victims
on the wharf, further identified the
body by a close inspection, and wen;
home crushed with grief and horror
There he found Mrs. Millen in perfeci
health, to the utter bewilderment of his
senses. She had returned to the city
by an early boat and was at homn
when the accident ccurrcd. -Bdltinlor :
american.
"A writer in the Portland Oregon
NeWs, describing recent journey, says
in the exaggerated language of the greai
West: From New York to ST. Pau
the ride was commonplace, unmarked
by special incident save few days.
stop at Chicago, that busy city where
men go on the run from eight o'clock in
the morning till four in the afternoon,
whether they have anything to do OF
not The day l arrived everybody was
rich; next day they were all poor but
the Armours, McGeoch q Co. had failed
for many millions, and break in lard
threw fortunes into confusion. Such is
Chcago-always to be the great cen
trail city of this country"