Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-10-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

--Ex-President Hayes gives as, 0po
toward paying for the new Methodist
Episcopal Church at Fremont, q.
"A Boston lady, having moro than
once pestered New York friend with
her piliful surprise that he had never
yet visited Boston, was in a measure
satisfied with this explanation: "The
truth is, madam, have never felt that
was good enough to go to Boston. -
N. Y. Graphic.
"A scheme to construct a railway
through the Alps has been submitted
TO the Swiss Federal Council. The linz,
ii it is ever laid, will start from Aosta,
In Piedmont, run through Mont Blanc
rs far as Chamounix, and thence along
the river Arvo to Geneva. The Italian
Government is opposed to the scheme.
An observer ID Utah writes that one
OF the causes operating toward the
gradual ABOLITION of polygamy is the
inter-marriage of Gentiles and Nor
mons. In marriages of this kind that
have come under his observation, the
supremacy of the religious belief of the
Gentiles is apparent. Y. San.
A queer accident recently hap
pened at Huntsville, Conn.,, to Henry
Clark. workman. A flying splinter
OF steel from hammar cut through
live thlcknesses of cloth and imbedded
itself in his back, and, strange to say,
the splinter could not be found, al
though the pain was so great that twas
agony for him to move.
"A fellow working in Maine fac
tory where young women are employed
contrived practical Joke for the en-
itertainment of himself and his admi-
mirers. He killed an adder and left II
among some boxes that were to be as
sorted ~ the young women. Miss
stevens uncovered the reptile with her
hands. The shock made her insane.
and the physicians say that she will !
probably die, and in any event will be
a maniac for life.-Bost6n Herald.
One gets better idea of the real
Paris from reading that single festival
cleared a million francs for the benefit
OF the sufferers of Ischia. The Ameri-
cans OF the boulevard of the Rue de Ia
iaix are apt to think of Paris only as a
city o. Pleasure. 1t is in reality a CITY
OF le,rning, of art, of science, of char
lty and OF liberty-the worthy capital
or the void S second republican, Y
Ford.
Edward Brick, a tramp aged seven
~ was arrested in Lyons, N. T., in
september, 1851, and given the option
d gong to the workhouse or leaving
own lmmedia,c,y. He chose the lat.
AI, aad at once started for the depot,
'ut was struck by locomotive and had
me leg cut of. He survived the acct
lent, and has just secured verdict for
$1,000 damages against the Central by
!. decision of the special term at Ro-
hester. Rochester Express.
In the Island of Jamaica vessels
re loaded with bananas by negroes
narehing in single file, each with a
unch on his head. The lines often
lumber nearly hundred men and
As they go to and from the
essel negro with loud, melodious
dice, sits on deck and calls off tally in
singing, drawing tone, as follows:
Banana da one, one, one; banana dr.
wo, two, two; banana da free. free.
rec; marked me down foah. foah. fo:
i've aud tally, five, five; banana da five
i've, five; banana da five. five. FIVE
i've, and tally five, five." They can
count only up to five; SO white man o.
attainments sits near and
Keeps the tally by five while the negro
epeats his count. Y Sun.