Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-10-13
October was the SD birthday Of
President Arthur.
Thursday night of last week ice form
ed half an inch thick at Port Jarvis, N.
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ed half an inch thick at Port Jarvis, N.
Y.
Iowa has 1857 more school-boys than
schoolgirls; but walt till the girls grow
up,
No pOstoffice will be made money
order Office until the pOstmaster's salary
reaches $3.50.
The testimony taken at the Rose Am
bier inquest will make, when tran
scribed, more than 5000 foliOs.
The largest sailing ship ever built in
America, except the Great Republic, has
just been launched at Bath, Maine.
Mrs. Langtry is on her way to Ameri-
ca on the steamship Oregon. She Is ac-
cOmpanied by her mother, Mrs. LIE Bre-
| ton.
The new comet will be most brilliant
the naked eye until about New Years
day.
There has been but one rain in YazoO
County, Miss, since last spring, and the
people depend upon the Mississippi Riy-
er for water.
America is the light of the world.
Last week frem the port of New York
was shipped to Europe 8,500,009 gallons
of petroleum.
Trinket trOtted at Albany Saturday to
beat Jay-Eye-See's 2:l7 record of last
Thursday. She made the mile without
a skip in 2:l6.
Louisiana appears to be relapsing in
to barbarism. With nearly 100000
children to educate, her school fund for
the ensuing year amounts to less than
$4,000.
American companies have built over
$30,000,000 worth of railroads in Mexico,
and completed over 800 miles of track.
The English lines consists of. 1853 miles,
and the Mexican roads 635 miles.
The Secretary of War, in his annual
report, will recommend that the apprO-
priation for militia be increased from
100000 to 100000, and that the app0r-
tiOnment be made on the basis of 600
militia for each congressional district.
The secret service branch of the Uni
ted States Treasury Department has in
one room over $1.000,0OO in counterfeit
bonds and bank notes. EACH piece has
the word dad" punched out of it, and
the makers are nearly all in the peni-
Tertiary.
Charles f. Ritchell, of Bridgeport, Ct,
has invented ship designed to sail
through the air. Mr.. Ritchell claims
that it can be made to rise or fall as de-
sired, without throwing over the ballast
or losing gas, as in balloons, and will al
ways float right side up.
The Supreme court of Ohio has decided
that divorced wife can testify against
her former husband concerning facts
which occurred during marriage, prOvi-
ded such knowledge was not acquired by
her in conjugal confidence nor by reas
on of the marital relations.
Lord ROsberry and gang Of other
foreigners have formed company and
purchased large tract of Pennsylvania
intending to control every available
acre of coal land in the district, and
thus convert the entire coke industry
into monopoly more compact and ex-
elusive than the Standard oil company.
ChOng Non was refused naturalization
by Judge Yerkes at Philadelphia Friday.
The court bases his decision on the act
restricting Chinese immigr. ton, the
fourteenth section of which DEGREES that
no court shall admit Chinese to citizen
ship. On this decision, Judge Arnold
revoked papers which he had granted to
another Chinaman.
A new religious sect has been started
and has obtained considerable growth
i'm portion of western Massachusetts,
calling themselves Abeians, Their
most peculiar tenet is said to be be-
lief that il Is sinful to have children,
They hold that the number OF children
should be limited; to bring into the
world more children than can be proper
" provided for is wicked; the world is
Over-p0pulated.
In 1856 Miss Mary Hickman disap-
peared from her fathers home ut Ira
derspOint, Ind, and man with whom
J she was supposed to have eloped, was
suppOsed to have murdered her as she
, cOilid not be found. She has recently
J put i'm her appearance. claiming her
, share of her fathers estate. and trial
: to establish her identity is now in pro-
gress at Indianapolis. She says she
J went to Lafayette, married, and has
: lived there ever since.
Statisticians have pronounced the
United States to be not only potentially,
but actually, richer than the United
Kingdom. Counting the houses, furni-
ture. manufactures, railways, shipping,
J bullion. lands. cattle, crops, investments
and roads, it is estimated that there is a
: grand total in the United States of $49,-
no 100000. Great Britain Is credited
7 with something less than 0,000, OO0, 900,
J or nearly $100O0,OO0,O00 less than the
United States. The wealth per inhabi-
tant in Great Britain is estimated at 81
100. and in the United States at 1906.
With regard to the remuneration OF la
Dor. assuming the produce Of labor to be
, 100. i'm Great Britain 56 parts 90 to the
laborer, 81 to capital, and % to Govern