Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

For giving tobacco to q giraffe in
Central Park Now York man was fined
$500.
In a limestone quarry, near Salt
Lake, tremendous blast of 3,2O5
pounds OF powder was fired recently. 1t
dislodged about 30. 900 tons OF stone.
The Puget Sound Courier, published
at Olympia, Washington Territory, says
it is nothing unusual'there to see man
taking wheelbarrow load of silver
dollars to the land Office to pay for land.
The word "that'' is perhaps the
only word in the language that can be
used five successive times with absolute
correctness of grammatical construction.
For instance: He said that that that,
that that gentleman made use OF was
perfectly right. Seep
An Arabic MS, dated 1865, contains
the curious information that merchant
vessels trading in the Indian Ocean at
that time carried divers, whose duty it
was to discover and stop leaks in the
hull of the craft below the water line.
The pointof danger was indicated by the
sound of trickling water.
"A North Carolina woman, aged
fifty-three has just begun to learn to
read. Probably she was informed
by an enemy that her name was in one
OF the local papers. When a woman's
curiosity is once aroused there's no tell.
ing what she will do in order to crafty
tn. y Advertiser.
This is the way q German paper
translates an American paragraph: can
American publisher seeks on the way of
advertisement an assistant under follow
ing conditions: He must young and
muscular be and himself not fear knife
stabs to deal out or receive. He must at
his own expense horse, revolver and
bowie knife procure"
"A New Jersey man wrote to the
Postmaster of New York City as follows:
"Would you accommodate me by send
ing me the names of all the - family
which is on record at the Post Office or
in City Directory. am very anxious to
find out about my Posterity, which have
been absent from and parents had no
record of for Twenty-eight years. M Y.
Herald.
"A correspondent of the Western
RuraI recently sent sample of sugar
bought at country store for good cane
sugar. An analysis instituted by that
paper showed that fifty per cent. of it
was grape sugar (made from corn, and
worth about four cents pound,) and it
also contained large quantities of sui
phur. The chemist pronounces it vile
compound.
The great bridge over the East river,
to connect the cities of New York and
j, Brooklyn, will, within the course of a
few months, be finished and thrown
open to the public, and it has been de-
termined that it shall be free to foot pas
sengers; the fare in the cars for ride of
a mile and a-half being five cents, and
that the tolls for animals and vehicles
shall be so low as to reduce the ferriage
on the river boats as much as possible.
~ Y. Tribune.
The Charleston Is. c. Nevs again
calls for the enforcement of the repeal
of the law against dueling, being now
moved thereto by the publication of an
advertisement in the Barnwall Sentinel,
by lawy er, Major L. w. Youmans, in
which he denounces another lawyer, L.
B. OBryan, of Allendale, s. c., as liar
and a coward, the latter having refused
his challenge to fight a duel, growing
out Of a quarrel arising from petty case
in which they were opposing counsel.
1T appears that Bostonians wait
until they grow up before they allow the
local wave of culture to strike in. An
examination of the younger children of
the public schools of that city, made by
DR.. Stanley Hall, showed that eighteen
per cent. of the number had no knowl-
edge of COW further than they gained
from pictures; sixty-one per cent of
those examined had never seen an ant;
sixty-five per cent. had never seen corn
growing; ninety per cent did not know
where their ribs were nor exactly what
they were, while only sixty per cent.
were ignorant of the location of their
stomachs. Some of the children stated
that flour came from the grocer, who
gets it directly from God; others said
that meat is dug from the ground or
picked up from the meat-tree.-M Y.
Sun.