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Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
DIRECTORY.
FIRST M. T.. CHURCU.

FIRST NJ. E. CHURCH.
Cor. Huron and Pine streets. Rev. Fl. G..
NOrthrup, pastor. Preaching 1917 A. NJ, IL p.
M. Sabbath school, II m. Young Peoples
meeting Tuesday evenings at 7:40. Prayer
meeting, Thursday, at tx p. M.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Preaching 1920 A. M, 80 P. M. Sabbath
school, IL M. Prayer meeting Wednesday, &c
2. N. A. w. Westgate, Pastor.
ST. MARY's CHURCH.
Cor. 9TH and Church streets. Low mass A,
M, daily. High mass 1016 A. M. Sunday Yes
pers $3.50 P. M. Sunday Rev. Peter j. De Smedt,
Rector.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Division street, near Dresser. Preaching 1016
A M, IN M. Sunday school 2 P. M. Prayer
meeting Tuesday evening at 500. j. w, Clark,
pastor.
ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Huron street. Services every Sunday morn
ing at 1920; ev ening at O'Clock; Sunday
school Up. M. j. M. Curtis, Rector.
CHEBOYGAN LODGE, NO. 2S3 F. AND A. M.
Regular meeting, at Masonic Hall, Wednes-
day evening, on or before the full of the moon.
E. 0. Penney. w, M. p. Sutton, Sec'y.
TEMPLE LODGE NO. 331, O.O.F.
Meet every Tuesday evening, at Odd Fellows
Hall. A. G. Boggs, N. g. John Mclaughlin,
R. S.
BENTON LODGE, NO. 10S, A. O. wv.
Meet first and third Monday evenings Of the
month at O'Clock. N. w. Lyon, M w. Geo.
N. Case, Recorder
CHEBOYGAN CHAPTER, No. 100, OF R. A. M.
Meets in Masonic Hall, on the Friday on or
after the full OF the moon. A. j. Paddock, H.
T. O Wooster, Sec'y.
RUDDOCK POST, NO. 224. AR.
At Oddfellows Hall; meets first Thursday in
each month. Commander, H. Fl. Blake Ad-
jutapt j. G. Wooster.
CHEBOYGAN COUNTY.
Judge Of Probate-E Perkins.
Sheriff-Luke Cross.
Prosecuting Attorney-George K. Frost.
Clerk-Chas. j. Hunt.
Register-H. w. Macarthur.
Treasurer-Geo. w. Bell.
Circuit Court COm.-Frank Shepherd.
CHEBOYGAN VILLAGE.
President George X Frost.
Trustees-Wm. G. Hayes, Chas. j. Kitchen,
Geo. G. Wharton, j. f. Moloney, Il. A. Perrin,
ThOs. McGinu.
Clerk-F. j. Todd.
Treasurer u Cueny.
Attorney-GeO w Bell.
Marshal-Howard Lynn.
BENTON TOWNSHIP.
Supervisory A Gallagher.
Clerk-N Lyons,
Treasurer-JOhn Reid.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Arrive-Fr0m south at 1926 p M, From the
North at 9.35 A M.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
BOY OF THE BURNING DECK.
Facts About Casabianca, q Hero Whom
All Folks Feel Sorry For.

Facts About Casabianca, Hero Whom
All Folks Feel Sorry For.
Few but know the very pretty piece
of poetry by Mrs. Hemans, "Casabi-
anca." commencing ''The boy stood on
the burning deck" The poetess states
that the lad was the son of the admiral
commanding the flagship L'Orient,
which took fire and exploded; that
young Casabianca persisted in the ex-
plosion, refusing to quit the position
allotted him by his father, pending the
battle of the Nile. have been looking
into the Official account of the incident.
The admiral was Brueys, who was
wounded in the head and hand early in
the action. He continued to give or
ders until cut in two by a cannon ball;
he uttered the request to be allowed to
expire on deck, which he did in the
course of some minutes.
Citoyen Casabianca, the father of the
poetic hero, then took command; his
son was MILDLY, but only aged ten, not
thirteen. At that period lads entered the
navy very young. .Casabaianca was al
SO deputy. Pending the action his
son was by his side; the father was
MORALLY wounded in the head by a
splinter and became insensble; he gave
no injunctions to Ills son, but the latter
would not the less quit his wounded
parent. BY this time the ship was on
fire. Several of the sailors had left and
saved themselves on spars till picked
up by the English boats. Aided by the
purser young Casabianca and his father
were lowered down by piece of a
mast floating by, but they had only got
a short distance from the 120-gun ORR
ent when she blew up, and nothing
more was seen of the Casabiancas.
But the noblest thing that persisted there
Was that young, faithful heart"
-Paris Cor. Ne,oark en- J) Advcr-
user.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21

AS an illustration of the depression
in land values in England, it is stated
that an estate in Devonshire, of APO
.cres, for which flS,000 was refused Q
few years ago, has just been sold for
fS.000.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
The Queer Origin of"Oueer.'

anu &ueor origin OF '0ueef.
From the Cardiff Mail.
Queer is word without meaning
and has its counterpart in no other Ian
guags. 1t had its origin in the brain Of
Quin, the actor. He one evening made
. bet with n0bleman Of 91OO that by
breakfast time the next morning there
should be in the mouths of LOnd Onsrs a
word that was never before heard. The
bet was accepted, and when the theatre
was closed that night the irrepressibls
actor furnished each Of the "supsrs" and
others whom he had hired with a good
lump OF chalk, and instructed one and
all to 20 through the principal streets
OF the Metropolis and chalk on the flags
the word Queer The task was accom-
plished, and next morning the people
were startled by seeing such an unusual
sight. Some believed it a Specification
OF danger, that a secret enemy was near
and this was his watchwOrd. So the
word went the rounds in a most amaz-
ing way. Quin. OF course. won the wa
ger. and the world won new word.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
Blinds and Grass Widows.
Said at New York Amatuer Minstrel Show

Blinds and Grass Widows.
Said at New York Amatuer Minstrel Show.
Mr.. J. STANLEY JOYCE's JOKE,
81 see q man a drivin' a wagon down
South Fifth-aye, dis ysrs morning. when
= shutter few off OBJ q buildin' and
knocked dc wagon speechlsss."
"lntsrloeutOr-Oh, no, you don't mean
the wagon. You mean the shutter knock
% the driver Of the wagon speschlsss.
You couldn't knock wagon speechlsss.
well, it knocked the tongue out OBJ DO
wagon. l seen it do it. And de shutter
war tried for 1t in de court"
lnterl0cuter-What did they do with
the shutter in the court?
"Dey hung it-dat's what they done
wild it,"
Intsrlocutor-What for?
"Jis for q blind"
ANOTHER OF MR.. 'JOYCE'S JOKES.
Use been boardin' wild grass wild
der lately"
INSTRUMENTATION do you know she is
q grass widow?
Cause her husband died wild hay
fsvsr-'sposs Use foOl?"
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21

"A farmer on Russian River, Cali
fornia, ten years ago owned one hun
dred acres of wheat land from which he
derived an annual profit OF 81 900. He
cut it into five-acre tracts and sold it to
hop and fruit growers. Now the same
one hundred acres supports eleven
families and yielded this year profit
of $32, 900, single acre producing 5000
in plumbs. - San Francisco Chronicle.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
TASTE AND ETIQUETTE.


Entirely Different Meanings to the
Words Constituting the Caption Hereof.
Different persons have entirely differ
ent opinions in regard to taste and
etiquette. Some are sticklers for GER
tain manifestations of good breeding,
while others lay stress upon other and
quite dissimilar rules of behavior. For
instance:
There are men who would be
ashamed to eat with their knives, even
In private, but who will talk at the top
of their voices in the public reading.
room.
And men who, though they would
scorn to remain seated in horse-car
while pretty girl is standing, will
throw a banana skin on the sidewalk,
regardless of the inevitable conse-
quence.
And women who are scrupulously
neat as to their hands and fingers, bat
who will, nevertheless, persist in wear
ing the biggest hat at the theater that
they can get hold OF.
And women who sing like serapbs,
and vet will they keep the car window
wide open though they know that it
means pneumonia to one-half of their
fellow-p passengers, and catarrh and sore
throat to the other half.
And women whose conversation 10 q
liberal education and perennial delight
to the listener, and yet their hair pre-
sents first-class presumptive evidence
that it has had no acquaintance with
comb and brush for month, at least.
And men who never forget to Int
their hats to lady, but who can not be
trusted with impunity for dollar.
And men who would die rather than
eat their soup from the end of their
spoon, but. who will lie like Ananias
upon the slightest provOcation
And men who are scrupulousiy care-
full to give a lady the inside of the
walk, and yet think nothing of calling
upon you at your busiest hour and bor-
ing you until you wish they were dead.
And women who would never pre-
sumo to help themselves at table until
everybody else is supplied, who will
nevertheless say the spitefulest things
imaginable about their dear friend be-
hind her back.
And boys who never forget to say
Eyes, sir" and "Yes'm," but who are
taken with sudden sickness the mo-
ment they are asked to do an errand
for their mothers.
And girls who do not have to be
coaxed to play upon the piano before
company, but who will turn around
and giggle when a strange man makes
remarks about them in the street.
And men who would not clean their
nails in public, but who will shove q
pewter quarter on to blind man.
And meu who always say ''beg par
don" before telling you you lie, ana
who nevertheless will inevitably fail to
remember to pay their butcher bills.
And men who would never interrupt
another while he is speaking, but who
will advise their best friend to invest in
worthless stock, simply because they
have some of that stock which they
wish to dispose Of
And men who are too polite to look
over your shoulder when you are writ
ing, who think nothing of registering
false oaths at the custom-house almost
daily.
Many more instances might be ad-
duced, but the above will suffice to
show that we do not all think alike up
on these little matters of etiquette. Dos
ton Transcript.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
SOME SMOKE.
A Calculation Which Exhibits Startling
Conclusions.


Few people ever stop to count the
cost of luxuries. If they should they
might sometimes hesitate in their ex.
penditures. A wealthy octogenarian OF
Hartford, who has INDUCED in smoking
during all his life, or at least during all
his manhood years, has made an est.
mate. based upon data kept, as to the
cost of his cigars for sixty-seven years.
He knows the amount he has expended,
and calculating the sum invested in
cigars every six months, and placing it
at compound interest at eight per cent,
on the basis of the savings bank calcu-
lations, he finds that the total sum now
amounts to 100000.
If all smokers of the weed would
keep an account of the cost of this lux
ury, and calculate their investments in
cigars and tobacco, with compound in
terest added, they would be astonished
at the sums wasted by them in smoke.
The large sum found by the gentleman
who had smoked for sixty-sevcn years
was Of course greatly increased in the
last twenty, and especially in the lass
ten years, as money compounded every
six months at the rate of six per cent
doubles in little over ten years.
We frequently hear Of intemperats
persons drinking up the value of farm
Or other property. But IL is not often
that such q fortune as 100000 is con-
,umed in smoke by one person. If thu
Hartford gentleman Is not an exception
sf smoker, then the aggregate cost OF
smoking is simply enormous.-Bu6dIo
Times.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21

No. leaves Macklnaw City daily, except
Sunday. No. s except Saturdays. No. Q has
chair car Traverse City and Walton Junction
to Grand Rapids and parlor 81 eepinR car Gran
Rapids to Cincinatti. No. has Woodruff
sleeping car Mackinaw City to Grand Rapids
l.. T.. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger Agent
w VI. CARPENTER, Agent. Maokinaw Oftv.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21
Mrs. John w. Mackey il accus

toned to receiving begging letters Of
various descriptions, but the funniest
,ne is request for any diamonds or
rubies for which she has no use, the
beggar desiring them for her daughters
trOusseau.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21

AN ambitious Boston lady paid q
publisher $40, 900 to bring out her novel.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1885-05-21

"A boys school out West has onH
TWO attendants. The mumps has re-
sently swelled that numbor somowhst
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10

"IIe has read everything" is re-
mark frequently made when scholar
ly man is under discussion. How
absurd such statement is will appear
when the fact is mentioned that in
the Congressional library at Washing
ton there are over 100000 volumes.
If they were placed side by side they
would fill shelf fifty miles long. If
a man started to read this collection at
the rate of one volume day, it would
take him 1850 years to get through.
And while the man would be at work
on this vast library the printers would
be turning out more than $1,000 new
books a year. From these figures it
will be seen that it is idle to think
of reading everything, or even to read
all the best books. The greatest read
ers among our distinguished men have
had their favorite books, which they
read and reread. Certain books in our
language are called classics They are
models of style and full of ideas and
illustrations Modern writers 90 to
these old authors and get Jumps of
solid gold which they proceed to beat
out very thin. Why should we take
the gold leaf article when we can 90
to the original mines and get solid
nuggets? The old novels are the best.
The old poets have not been equalled.
Too many of our new books are writ.
ten hastily to sell. They are of an in.
ferior quality and cannot profit us in
any way. A man, therefore. need not
be ashamed to say that he has not read
the last new book. When forty new
books appear every day it is impossible
to read them all.-Atlanta ConStitu
! ton.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10
Andrew JacksOn's Tenderness.

people have little idea of the ten
derness of President Jackson's heart"
said General Brinkerhotf. "Even on
his deathbed, when his body was rack
ed with the pains of fast-approaching
dissolution, his kindness Of heart was
shown in nearly every act, one of his
daughters stories well illustrating this.
Mrs. Jackson, jr, had some rare and
tropical plants which she priced very
highly and tended with great deal of
care. But few days before he died,
when he knew his end was near, Gen
Jackson called his adopted son Andrew
to his bedside, and pointing to the
plants which were standing on the
front veranda said Andrew, | can't
live but few days, and when my
funeral takes place there will doubtless
be a great many people here, Unless
you take some way to protect those
plants they will be broken off or de-
stroyed or taken away. Now Sarah is
very proud of them, and think that
when the time comes you should have
those plants carried to the upper yer
anda and lock the windows and thep
they will be safe"
"ae died a few days afterward. His
directions in this respect were not OBJ
served, and Mrs. Jackson's plants
were destroyed or carried away in
pieces or as a whole, az. .mementos ol
! tho occasion. "--Clepeland Leader.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10
A Great Organ.

The organ made by the Roosevelts
for the cathedral built by the widow OF
A. T. Stewart at Garden City, L. l., il
the most extensive instrument of the
kind in the world. 1t has lis stops
and 1882 pipes, and cost 100000
Most of it is set in an octagonal cham
Der made by the angle where the tran
sept and chancel walls join, fifteer
feet in diameter, and extending from
the basement floor upward to a dis
tance of forty feet. a remarkable
feature is it's construction so as to dis.
tribute the sounds in four different
parts of the cathedral at once, all re-
naming under control of the player at
the main organ. The four divisions
are classified as follows: Chancel,
flfty-four stops tower, thirty eight
stops chapel, fifteen stops echo
eight stops.
Steam power is employed in intlat
ing the bellows. There are double en-.
gines of ten horse power beneath the
chancel division to supply it with com.
pressed air, and the speed is governed
as far as possible, by the rise and fall
of the bellows. In the room beneath
the vestibule, directly under the tower
division, is single engine of ten horse
power. This greatest novelty is the
electric chime action, by which thir
teen bells in the organ tower are
played from the solo manual. The
bells are rung with the same force and
precision as Though struck in usual
manner, and may be rung in connec'
ton with the music that is played on
the organ. The organ cases, made in
Philadelphia, are magnificent speci.
mems of carving in decorated English
Gothic, profusely enriched. - Boston
Transcript
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10

1t would seem very strange, and
perhaps not very pleasant, to my young
eaders to hear tallow candle or the
,hin-bone of a reindeer called candy.
And yet these things may really be
considered as Eskimo candy, because
hey would delight the children of the
old in precisely the same way that
>ox of bon would delight you.
There is certain kind of water
owl in Arctic countries known as the
iovekie. 1t is about the size of
luck, is quite black, has a prominent
white stripe on its wings, and its
Hebbed feet are Of a brilliant red.
When sitting in rows on the edge OF
yreensh rocks, these little red feet
ire very conspicuous. Sometimes,
when the men have killed a number
If dovekies, the Eskimo women cut
)ff the bright red feet, draw out the
bones, and, blowing into the skins,
listend them as much as possible so
Is to form pouches. When these
pouches are thoroughly dried they are
illed with reindeer tallow, and the
bright red packages, which assure
iou look much nicer than they taste
are little Boreas's candy. In very cold
weather the Eskimo children eat great
Quantities of fat and blubber; and
his fatty food, which seems to us so
lninviting, helps to keep them warm
and we'll
The only other kind Of candy that
,he Eskimo children have, is the mar
low from the long leg or shin bone of
The slaughtered reindeer Of this,
also, they are very fond. Whenever a
reindeer is killed aud the meat has
oeen stripped from the bones of the
egs, these bones are placed Oh the
door of the iglOo and cracked with
latchet until the marrow is exposed.
The bones are then forced apart with
,he hands, and the marrow is dug out
If the ends with a long, sharp, and
narrow spoon made from a warlus's
usk l have eaten this reindeer mar.
,ow frozen and cooked; and after one
becomes accustomed to eating frozeu
neat raw, it is really an acceptable
id-bit; while cooked and nicely served
would be delicacy anywhere -,
Lie,tt. SchaU0thQ in st. Nicholas.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10
The Nest in the Wellington Statue.


Wellington was famous man, and
;here have been many portraits of him
painted and many statues of him made.
One statue of him on horseback stood
Tor long time at Hyde Park Corner,
london.
In 1884 this statue was taken down
20 be placed elsewhere. The head was
irst taken down, and what do you
think they found inside the Dukes
cooked hat, and resting on his head /
Surely, you would never guess it was;
starlings nest! but it was "a perfec'
little nest Of twigs. Mother Starting
mad come in and out through an open,
ing under the great iron plumes of ths
nat.
The next thing to come down was
the body of the Duke. This weighed
six tons, and had been fastened to the
iron horse with screws. In the big
elbow of the left arm was found an
other starling's nest with a family of
full-hedged birds in it. They flew
away that very night, In the right
arm was a sparrow's nest with one
iny bird and several eggs, So you see
,hese birds had managed to make a
Jery good bird house out of the iron
Duke.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10

That birds are initiative creatures
las long been known, Many species
will simulate the notes and calls Of
others with such accuracy as to defy
detection, while some will initiate th'
loises made by animals, or even tn,
auman voice. Hitherto, however, tn,
mutations have been supposed to be
purely vocal each species retaining its
OWN manners, flight and walk. regard
less Of those of its fellows. Many Of
these are distinctive and peculiai
enough, none more so than the flight,
Of the tumbler pigeon. No naturalist
mas, so far as we are aware, hitherto
sentured to grapple with the problem
Of why this kind of pigeon should have
taken to throwing somersaults in the
air. Other varieties of pigeons have
apparently equally failed in under
standing the matter. They may often
De observed watching the performance
with an attention and gravity SAVIOR.
Ing of reprObation, but they arc never
seen to attempt an imitation Of it. II
appears, however, that other birds are
;aking the matter in hand, and theirs
is prospect, if the fashion spreads.
chat tumbling may in time become
generally popular among the winged
race, and that even the sparrow. as he
1escends from the housetop to the road,
may deem it necessary to throw him
self head over heels half dozen times.
,Se jackdaw has been the first bird to
follow the fashion set by the tumblers.
A correspondent of the Field has seen
a pair of these birds near Sherborne
following some tumblcr pigeons and
initiating their flight so accurately
that at short distance they might be
mistaken for them. The news will be
most welcome to the fair sex, who
have hitherto been supposed to stand
alone in creation in their willingness
TO make themselves uncomfortable or
ridiculous simply because others sct
'he fashlon,-London Standard.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-06-10
Night.

The day with oil its toll and care Is DER,
And night, sweet night, hath come to us once
more;
The day may pass with weariness and woe,
But, when the wings of night together draw,
And all tired earth is wrapped in Natures
shroud,
We can escape from Tolls unnumbered crowd,
For, in the clasp Of sleep, the cares Of day
Flap their strong wings and swiftly fly away.
But there are eyes which through the hours OF
night
Peer at their work in Pickering candlo-lighti
And there are fingers which find little rest
Till clasped forever on the silent breast;
And there are hearts which beat with pain un.
spoken
Till from It's cage the tired soul hath broken,
Till meath the sod, in Deaths all-watchlul
might,
Their only rest is found in endless Night.
Richard X. Bean in the Current.