Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-11-13
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1884
WIDE VIDE WORLD

rOuI tlOuSanu coal miners are OH
strike in Colorado.
This country used 100000 ounces of
quinine last year.
In New York there were 100000 bal
lots printed for the election.
Texas expects to make $l0,000,000 this
year In her cattle business.
The United States raises IA per cent of
the corn grown in the world.
The third largest river in the world is
in Australia. 1t is called the Darling.
OF the $4,000 Indians in the Territory
Of Dakota 10000 speak the Dakota Ian
,guage.
: There are about 5000 patent churns in
the market, and Inventors are not
through yet.
The south has been rolling up wealth
during the past four years at the rate of
$l6O,OOO,O00 year.
The railroads Of this country alone. it
Is said, are worth four times the amount
Of the National debt.
Experts have pronounced South Caro-
lima tea cured in fruit evaporation equal
to the imported article.
OThere are published in English 1880
publications; German, 1850; French, 3d.
$50; and Spanish, 1860.
Mary Garfield Larabee, sister Of
President Garfield, died at Scion, Ohio,
last week. at the age of 60.
The $4,000 tons of SCOT taken from Lon
don chimneys every year is sold for e41,-
GOO and used as fertilizer.
Since the cholera appeared in Europe
ah Con hno hax hAn
oyer 1900 deaths from the disease.
Mrs. Hendricks called upon Mrs. Lo-
gan at indianapolis it is said. 1t was
the first time the ladies had ever met.
Last November tidal wave in Cooks
inlet, Alaska, washed away 100 feet Of
bluff for distance of nearly 10 miles.
Wheat is SO cheap that the English
agricultural papers are filled with dis
cussi0n about its use as food for stock.
Over $4,000 has already been sub
scribed for the Montreal carnival of 1885.
1t promises to exceed any previously
held.
An apple tree that has borne four crops
this year and has prospects of fifth will
furnish fruit for Georgia Thanksgiv-
ing.
The New York Sun charges that Will
liam II. Vanderbilt contributed $4,000
to the fund for the election of Cleve-
land.
General Grant did not vote because he
happened to be out of town registration
day and did not get his name in the
lists.
Ex-senator "Zack" Chandeliers cid
home in Washington is being trans
formed into fashionable boarding
hOnse.
1t is said that the number Of brake
men accidentally killed while at their
calling is 1900 year, or more than one
an hour.
Daniel Gildersleeve, an old gentleman
of Brooklyn, insisted on going to the
polls, and fell dead just as he was about
to deposit his ballot.
The electric light is used more extern
sively in Mexico than in the United
States. Every small town has from three
to ten powerful lights.
There is a movement OF foot in Eng
land, participated in principally by the
scientists, locking to the abolition of
private insane asylums.
Ex-Priest Rey. Father Chiniquy was
stoned and derided into silence by mob
in Montreal while attempting to lecture
against the Catholic cause.
A vOts in company G.. 23d United States
infantry gave majority of six for
Blaine, and in company H., same regi.
ment, a majority Of three for Butler.
Whisky distillers think that at the
ceming session of Congress the bill for
the extension of the bonded period will
be passed by their Democratic friends.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor and Miss Cath
arine Wolf are cooperating in an effort
for the establishment of college in
Florence where American women can
pursue any branch of art.
General George B. Mcclellan, the Dem
ocratic candidate for President twenty
years ago. is said to be an almost youth
fully appearing man, without a gray
lair in his handsome military mustache
r1Explosion OF dynamite works al
EtOuchburg, Pa. killed three men in the
building and completely wrecked 1t. The
shock Frustrated furnace stack ten
miles away and killed six men there al.
30.
One of the most remarkable telegraph.
ic feats on record was the recent deliv-
cry of message from Melbourne, Aus.
tralia, to London in 90 minutes. 1t went
bv land and sea, over I3,308 miles OF
wire
In the case of Captain Dudley and
mate, of MigOnette. who murdered boy
named Parker to keep them from starv-
alton, the jury brought'in verdict &C.
cording to facts, coupled with an appeal
for mercy.
Incendiary fires among the cotton gins
oil over Soufh Carolina have hpcome or