Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-09
The NEWS.


100000 wall-eyed pixies eggs.
There are 100000 Catholics in Spain
and 10000 magnificent churches.
In Strobeck. Germany. chess forms
regular course of study in the schools.
Last Saturday Jay Eye See, five-year-
old. made record of 2:l64, at Cleye-
land.
Secretary LiacOln as a presidential
candidate, is growing in favor in New
England.
In recent speech the Prince of Wales
said London now had about 100000 in
habitants.
Moody the preacher, is going to spend
the summer among his schools, at home,
in North6eld, Mass.
1t does rather stir up the bile of
college president to speak of him as run
ming dude factory.
Judge Folk. of Brownsville, Tenn, has
invented spiral windmill, which will
run street and railway cars.
A frghtful rainstorm doing great
damage visited Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Friday. night of last week.
Mormon missionaries are successfully
gaining converts in North Carolina.
among the Ignorant classes.
1t makes no difference with EsrOm
Morse, of BuckspOrt, Me-, whether YOU
spell his name backwards or forwards.
Roscoe COnkling is defending OleO-
margarine manufacturers in the United
States Circuit court at Kansas City. Mo.
Sixteen thousand rejected models Of
unpatentable inventions were sold at
the patent office Friday or last week, for
| $762.
Massachusetts, authorities last SLnl lay
| stopped the running of trains on the
| HOusatOnic railroad for u violation OF
the state Sunday laws.
The Boston Herald tells its Democratic
brethren that they will stultify them
selves if they fail to take fighting
position against protection.
The Illinois senate refuses to confirm
| five of the Governors nominees for CHI
cagO justices because they are all the
associates of thieves and gamblers.
The state geolOgst of Pennsy lvania
tells them to make the most OF the OH
they have, as there is none in the state
outside of the territory already worked.
The Lord Chief Justice and a party of
prominent members OF the English bar,
| who are to make tour of the United
States, will leave London about Aug. 10.
One of the front pews of Plymouth
Church. Brooklyn, was occupied Sunday
by All Yang Ming, the new Chinese
Consul accompanied by members of his
suite.
The only surviving granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson, Mrs. Mickleham, is in
| Washington, destitute and aged, and
| charitable contributions for her benefit
are in course of collection.
| There was such falling Off in the Pc
ter-pence contributions for the Pope in
BrOOklyn,.N. Y, last Sunday, owing to
his recent Irish circular, that the Bish-
Op of Brooklyn refuses to publish the fig
ures.
Henry Ward Beecher's SEVENTEEN
birthday will occur on June "a, and it
is suggested that some public recogni-
tiOn of it be made by the city of Brook
Ign, in which he has lived thirty-siX
years.
There is great movement of cattle
from Mexico into Texas. During March
and April the Custom House at Laredo
passed 100000 worth of cattle and
horses, and the figures for May promise
| W De larger Sllll.
The largest sailing vessel ever con-
structed is the four masted steel ship
PinafOre, which was built at Glasgow
last year, is $40 feet long 43 feet beam,
and "a feet hold, and she sailed from
Liverpool to San Francisco in 113 days.
A Massachusetts, Yankee has invented
a patented whiffle-tree which can be
easily detached from carriage or
wagon i'm case the horses run away, and
it is said it acts admirably. the horses
becoming separated instantly from the
wagon.
The Psha of Persia has become howl
ing maniac, and the question of success
sion is under discussion in his realm.
His oldest son had peasant woman for
mother, and this is against his claim;
but he is exceedingly popular, ana this
may win the prize.
In looking up his ancestral forces, the
present Gar finds one barbarian, four
idiots, one epileptic, several mistresses,
and about dozen drunkards. In this
pure channel the blue blood of the RO.
manOffs came down to the present auto
crat of all the Russians.
Henry Ward Beecher says disreputable
papers sell because people buy them,
and that if people refused to buy them,
nobody would be disreputable enough to
print them. Hence he argues that those
who buy the papers, and tell how the
infamous matter in those sheets shock
them, are as guilty as those who print
them.
In speech before the Kentucky Re-
publican convention the other day,
Lewis Clark, the George Harris of
Uncle Toms Cabin, likened the Repub-