Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-02-19
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1885.
WIDE WIDE WORLD.


The letters posted annually in the
world are 5,200,000,000.
There are issued from the Patent Of
ice at Washington on an average 400
patents every week.
Old Liberty bell was cracked in 1928,
while ringing in honor OF visit OF Heh-
nv Clay to Philadelphia.
Samuel J. Tilden's writings and
speeches are about to be published by the
Harpers.
Australia has cave larger than tho
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. 1t is called
tho Glsnvian.
There are S3.779 organized militia in
the United States, and 6,58O,0O6 men
available for military duty.
The Wisconsin Agricultural Society
decided to exclude beer from the grounds
in which tho state fair is held.
The British brewers last year paid $i5,-
100000 in taxes and exported more than
%7,500000 worth of beer.
Queen Victoria leaves Windsor for
Germany on March 30. and will remain
on the continent three weeks.
The Toronto Presbytery, by vote of
81 to IL, has decided that man may
lawfully marry his deceased wife's sis.
ter
An eagle has just died at Vienna
which has been kept in confinement for
ia years, and its ago is supposed to have
bean about 12O years.
Three hundred wooden images of
saints, stolen from churches by Mexicans.
were among the fuel purchases reported
recently by a Mexican railway manager.
He bought them for so cents apiece.
The south side of Alaska has climate
as mild as Kentucky, while the north
side has a climate as cold and rugged as
that found in the Arctic Ocean, twenty
FIVE to fifty below zero for three months.
The sales of leaf tobacco at Lynehburg
in January were 100000 pounds,
over double the amount for the same
month last year.
white robin was killed in South Car
DINA the other day. 1t had the usual red
breast, but the rest Of the feathers were
white.
A white bear charged On funeral
procession near Ashland, Pa, recently,
and made the pall-bsarers drop the
corpse and run.
luO OOluuIUlNu OuiVOlblty VI W Goh
ingtOn has decided to admit women to
the study Of medicine, with the same
privileges accorded to men.
Mgr. Capel says the fight in this coun-
try Is to DO between agnOsticism and
Catholicism. The Protestant Church
will 60 Gle way or the other.
Mr.. Clevsland's inaugural will be eel
bratsd by New York Democrats with a
grand ball in Irving Hall, New York, the
tickets to which will be $40 each.
A Kentucky editor reports that during
the past five years he has recorded 1,34O
murders and homicidss in that state,
and thers have been less than twenty
executions.
The statement is made, said to be on
the authority of General Dram. that dur
ing yhs last five years 10,901 soldiers
have deserted from the regular army, or
nearly every other man.
The iron in the dome of tho United
States capitol weighs 8,009,200 pounds,
10 30715 feet high, and compared with
other large domss in the world, ranks
fifth in height and fourth in diameter.
Texas is paying $4,000 year in pen
si0ns to 600 alleged survivors of Sam
HoustOn's command in the war of 1886
z. New applications are coming in all
the time; fourteen were received in enc
day recently. and the Legislature is try
ing to repeal the law on the ground that
one-half or twO-thirds Of the claims now
being paid are fraudulent,
The following is the number Of Union
soldiers, with their respective states
who died in the Andsrsonville Prison
during the war: Alabama, Is; COnnec-
ticut, 290; Delaware, So; District of Col
umbla. ID; Illinois, $50; Indiana, 593; 10
wa, ia; Kansas, 5; Kentucky, 436; Lou
isiana, 1; Maine, 233; Maryland, 1874
Massachusetts,. 768; Michigan, 63S; Min.
pesOta, 70; New Hampshire. IA; New
Jersey, 470; New York, 2,571; YOrth Caro-
lima, II; Ohio, 1,031; Pennsylvania. 1908
Rhode Island, "a; Tennessee, 1856; Yer
mont, 240; Virginia, 2S8; Wisconsin, 244
Regulars States army, 399
United States navy, 80. Miscellaneous,
1870