Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-03-05
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 1885.
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

Dots About prominent
Tennyson is an expert chess player.
ii Mahdi pays off his troops every Fri
day.
ri Mahdi was boat builder before he
became prophet.
A New York doctor says that smelling
salts cause red noses.
A nxtriisd forest has been discovered
in the Sweet Grass Hills. Montana.
General GOrdOn's letters and life will
DO edited aud published by his brother.
Webb Hayes, tho eldest SON of EXPIRES
ident Hayes, is practicing law In Toledo.
Ex-Governor Long, of MASSACHUSETTS,,
is said to be the best reader IN Congress.
A gentleman of Rockingham, n. c., has
a pair Of slks which he drives to a bug
gy.
Ernst Kunstler, of Lanesvllle, Ohio,
owns the original score of Mozarts "OX-
en-" waltz
Z General Hustled believes the woman
suffrage bill before the New York Legis-
laturs will pass.
The Marquis de Leuville. said to have
been the affianeed of Mrs. Frank Leslie,
has sailed for Europe without her.
Kate Greenway's father is fine wood
engrayer, who does good deal OF work
for the London Illustrated News.
The Board of Health Of Nashville,
Tenn, has ordered that all the mulberry
trees in the city be cut down.
It was SO cold at West Lucas, Iowa,
that a cat was frozen fast in the Ice
while taking drink from the watering
trough.
A colored man in Baltimore secured
$3.50 damages under tho clyil-rights law
for being denied admission to skating
rink.
Mrs. CYNTHIA Griffin, of Waycross, Ca.
is the mother Of twelty-six children, all
of whom she reared to manhood and
womanh00d.
Baron Willy ROthschild, of Frankfort
On-the-main, places his income at ST.
100000. His brother, Mysr Karl's in
come is $1,150OOO.
The Shah of Persia will make another
European tour the coming summer. Wis
iting England, France and the Antwerp
Exhibition.
Patrick Fister, President Arthur's
= Washington gardener, is in Florida seek
ing a location on which to start an Or
ange plantation.
Mining stock men are working up an
other boom for the C9ur dAlene mines,
and expect another grand exodus to that
country in the spring.
At Harrisonvills, Mo-, the medical fra
ternity are puzzled over their failure to
rouse young man from a sound sleep.
Drop medicine and try slipper.
Russia has arranged with Persia for
the construction Of military road south
of the Caspian Sea to Pendjah, where
the Russians will be allowed to quarter
troops.
M. Dallin, who was given $4,000 and
two years time to model the design for
the Paul Revere statue for the city Of
Boston, did the work in three weeks and
is shortly to 60 abroad.
James Montgomery, of Chicago, who
died some years ago, claimed to have
been the original inventor OF the tele-
phone, saying he constructed one in
Washington in 1850,
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, Of Milwau.
kse, president Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railroad system, is worth
$26.OOO,O0O. He went to Milwaukee
poor boy and got his start in life as q
brewer.
Prince Albert Victor, in speech to the
East London boOtblaeks the other day,
told them they appeared somewhat
crowded in the old part of the great city,
bat that there was plenty Of breathing
space across the sea.
A New York policeman who went down
to Guatemala to organize the police force
there is now the most powerful man in
the Republic next TO President BarrOis.
and gets salary of $4,000 year, an
immense sum in Guatamala. v.
A new penal code similar to that OF
New York state has been adopted by the
Minnesota Legislature. Hanging is
made the penalty for murder in the hrst
degree. The last hanging in Minnesota
was in 1855. The Legislature has also
passed a high license law, making $500
the minimum figure.
Pope Leo XIII celebrates the 50th an
niversary of his entrance to the priest
hood by league Of prayers for the tri-
umph of the Church and the pr0longa-
tien of his Holiness life; by an exhibit
ton at the Vatican of all the offerings
which will be made, specially OF objects
relating to public Worship; by an aims
for the Mass, made up OF offerings from
the entire Catholic world: and by pill
grimage to the Tomb of the Apostles.
Amount of water absorbed by trees,
Tn tba officiaI report If tho geological