Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-25
WIDE WIDE WORLD

Minnie r. paced mile with running
mate at Milwaukee Thursday in 2:06.
Johnston made mile in 2:114, and
Richball in 2:151a.
The Ohio Valley is the most fully Oc-
cupied land, agriculturally speaking, in
the United States,
There is said to be 5000 OC0 invested
in hotels along the line OF Broadway,
New York.
Cincinnati man has discovered q
process by which corpse can be con-
verified Into marble, and an exchange
says it IS possible in time for every fam
lily to have house full of statuary.
The latest discoveries render insuIa-
tiOn so perfect that to-day there is less
loss Of electrical force between the
United States and England than there
formerly was between New York and
Brooklyn.
Alderman f. G. DenisOn, of Toronto,
has accepted the command of the expe-
dition of the Canadian vOyageurs to be
sent to the relief Of General Gordon at
KhartOum.
Professor A. H. Sayce has deciphered
an Assyrian tablet, which gives an ac-
count Of a transit of Venus 1900 years
B. q.
An Arkansas man thinks he has ex-
humed the petrified head of fairy. The
supposed fossil is about the size Of q
large walnut. The features of the
human face-eyes, nose, mouth, fore
head, cheeks aid chin-may all be dis
cerned.
Annie and Nellie Mutt, sisters Of
James Mutt, who shot N. L. Dukes at
Uniontown, Pa, died Thursday from the
effects of poison which had been placed
In the we'll, presumably by friends Of
Dukes. Other members of the family
were seriously i'll. and the excitement
in the town was intense.
Misc Louise 8. Baker, who has been
supplying the pulpit OF the North church
at Nantucket, Mass, for four years,
could not administer the ordinances Of
baptism or the Lords supper because
she was not ordained, it being contrary
| to Congregational usage. The church
has now taken the matter in hand and
given her the desired authority.
Montreal customs officers have seized
machinery, valued ut $24,0Co, imported
from the States three years ago by an
extensive w0elen mill there and entered
at naturalization.
A very extraordinary diamond, which
| is expected to prove the most marvellous
stone ever known. has been found in
South America and shipped to q Tendon
syndicate Of diamond merchants. Its
rough weight 10 457 carats, When cut
| it will weigh from 200 to 3Co carats, and
will exceed in size all the historic dia-
mOndS.
Thomas B. Reed, who has Just been
| reelected to Congress from Maine after
an exciting contest, was leading oars
man at BOwdOin College. He was grad
uated from that College in 1860. While
a student he was participant in many
a close race, and was a winner, as he
was this year.
Hadley, the reputed author of the MOrsy
| letter, attributed to General Garfield
while under examination in New York
court edited the question whether or not
he really wrote the letter. Chairman
| Barnum, of the National Democratic
Committee, admitted having furnished
| Hadley with considerable sums of money.
New York Sun Oem.): Perhaps Clevs.
land is really refOrmer, and, IL so, the
work has bean done in private and in 81.
| lence. So far az the unaided eye can
see, his chief act of reform has consisted
| in putting railroad man to rule the
canals, and bargaining for delegates to
support him in convention. We fear
that Cleveland is a sham,
Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep): Blaine
for thirty years has been man of ex.
| tensive and varied correspondence
| Cleveland, as letter writer, is compare
| lively unknown. So, while Blaine's
musty old letters are being disinterred
for political effect, the cemetery Of the
past Is stirred up in vain for any cores
pondsnce Of Cleveland.