New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-02
GENERAL NOTES.

Ie W The lists and the race is TO of Saturday.
the 18th inst.
Railroad companies in the New-England
states complain OF much less haste toward the Summer
rorts than usua this season. The travel seems to com
prse only the legitimate business, with but Few OF the
largo parties and the immense quantities OF baggage
commonly met with at this season. Ihere are o"cVcI
many woInen aud children out among the farm-hOuses
At n recent inspection of the Montreal Fire
Department an alarm was struck without warning 10
tho fremen and the hose reels arrived on the spot
designated in the following times after turning the crank
handle OF the alarm box: No. J. min. 80 sec; NO s.
min a sec: No 2 min 90 sec No. G, min. So sec.
In two minutes and fOrtyeight seconds from the turning
OF the crank handle stream Of water was playing from
a hydrant
A correspondent of Boston newspaper says
OF Long Lake. in the Adirondack region Fancy vii
lage whose inmates had passed through the anslave
agitation the war OF the rebellion and the suffrage cam
pagns and known OF the great apple OF dlscOrd the ne
gro, only by hcarsay family brought co9red nurse
years ago. TO Long Lake. and the people from miles
around the hotel to her. looking for the hrst
time III their lives on black face"
Mr. Mcdowell, a matchmaker of Lanesboro,
MINI commenced repairing watch one day recently,
and having time to finish IT. left tho parts on bis
bench over night In the morning he found his tools and
and some Of the smaller wheels missing AS no trace OF
them could be found elsewhere was decided to search
pet chicken that had been left in the shop All hgh
and dssecng the bird the missing wheels were iouhd
in its gizLard.
There is healthy emulation among the fire
men OF Nevada. A dispatch from Virginia City states
that squirting match for 5000 side has been made
between Young America Engine Co. No. and Eagle
Engine No D. The latter COMPANY Wo S ae "a Ho
by about hye feet and the latter wants satisfaction"
and Monumental No. g. which was beaten IN nose
trumpet has challenged that company to another
run for $500 "a side"
A Philadelphia swindler pretending to be
blind has discovered way OF picking pockets. He
walks the streets with the sad, upturned visage OF
ru1.a ha
gives every token of being afraid to He appeals 70
the passengers 10 take pity on him and hep MN IN ms
leads him He Is thanked by the poor pima man
he on his way feeling that he has done KIND deco
aud the time he puts his hand into his pocket for his
watch he iuds that 1t Is gone.
There is nothing more vexatiOus to a ship
master than to have his vessel becalmed To relieve
sailing vessels from this disagreeable contingency
Scotch inventor has contrycd apparatus which is
being applied to ship at Dundee II consists Of
Ourbladed screw, four feet in diameter which, when
the vessel Is oyeraken by calm. is to be hXed TO the
rudder and is propelled by skfu adaptation OF pull
which used in the loading aud dischaTging The pro.
peller can DO shipped ana unshpped win great ease s
three knots per hour.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that the anthra-
cite coal trade largely increases with each successive
week. The tunnage by the Reading Railroad FOR the
ending the 2d inst reached the enormous total Of
49, i96 tuns swelling the tunnage by that road for the
year 10 20Cs9 tuns against l9l6Go7 tuns TO
I'm 1868 The Schuylkll Navigation Company also
creased ITS nnage having brought down for the week
tuns and for the season 3s tuns against 479 $3.50
corresponding time last season. The total receipts
OF all the companies for the year amounted to 6i63JO
tuns, which less than last year In the
ensuing four weeks II nothing occurs in the trade the
increase In the supply will equal at least 100000 uns
the supply OF last for the same period AN the col
cept the two companies in the Scranton region.
They have wonderful kites in Mississippi
One OF the local journals responsible for the following
"A young Lad 40 Lake Station had very large and beau
tful kite about six feet by four IN size, which he
attempted to raise day recently Just the wind
increasing and storm threatening. The wind drew the
kite heavily drag the boy along also. To prevent
losing the avOrc he wound the cord around his body
At last the gust bore kite and boy along In the rapid air
currents The boy seemed to be about 100 feet above the
earth and the kite i've times that distance. At last the
young kite ner caught in the top OF tree and sus-
sackcning the line abating the wind, and allowing the
little sufferer to be rescued He was found 10 be uncon
scou and bruised and marred To be scarcely reeOg
nized but was restored the same evening" aud is now
dong we'll"
The greatest depth to which a diver can de
scend about Ice feet and for this bunch OF hundred
weights must be disposed about his person The average
depth at which no work comfortably s about 90 feet
which the depth at which the operations upon
the Royal George were conducted In the from
coming up for ten minutes rest and doing days work
Of six or seven hours An English diver went down in
the Mediterranean depth OF l65 feet and remained
there for 25 minutes; and Green inspected wreck in
OF the great lakes at depth OF 10 feet but his expert
enough 20 convince him that he could work
without danger Of life Al this depth the pressure
OF tue water on the hands so great TO force the blood
volume OF air inside the dress resist the outward pres
fnre Of the water 80 great that 1t would speedily sufo
cate.
A new self-Capceling postage stamp has re-
Gently been invented. The paper on which the stamp
head printed first wet in cheap chemical solution
The stamp Is then gummed and perforated formerly
When purchased, the stamp ia mostened as usual and
attached 70 the letter But when the Postofice clerk
takes up the letter to sort II from others for different
states on his right hand thumb is small cot on which
Is sponge with feeder, which Is soaked in another
chemical solution kept for governmental reasons
As the clerk takes hold OF the letter TO throw aside his
thumb comes IN contact with the stamp; an instanane
Gus combination takes place. and DETACHMENT comes
out much superior to the present INK THIS cancellation
can only affect the stamp which is prepared; for N the
thumbsponge wet the envelope, u dries off without any
marx ny similar process revenue stamps are prepared
Tue STpp presents the same appearance the present
one having been only soaked in the prepared water ne
yious to printing then, when dry, coating OF gum Is
Cancelled" ~ g." or any OF their equivalents When
he stamp Is run through the peiorator II also passes
through two buffers, where powdered preparation is
rolled In When wanted for use by wettug the STAMP
ny formerly the saliva acts as an agent combines the
chemical preparations, and Immediately black bar, or
the words paid u. s." come out permanently can
ceiling the stamp and doing away with the tedous and
annoying practice now enforced Of putting ones initials
on the stamp
The Rev. J. d. Fulton of Boston preached n
sermon In Springfield Mass, recently, on the Woman
Question. Having made argument IN favor OF the an
thoy VI the bloe ana urged the study OF the Scrip
lures as defining womans position he said: The ar
tempt 10 now being made 10 prove that woman is suffer
ing from despotism more intolerable than human
slavery that God is the author Of It, and that ia code Of
laws Is contained In the Bible The attitude of 40 called
philanthrOpists Is runous He stood firmly on the anti
Slavery platform because he stood with God and stands
opposed TO the modern woman movement because me so
stands with God. His first impulse was 10 advocate In
but research mad shown the very fate that could
DelaIl women. we shall have no new women; but the
dear old woman have loved and reycrenced from In
fancy as COD made her The Methodist Rerter saws there
IS no such word IN The Bible ne hepmeet should like 10
such word there az hepmeet, and l thank him that