New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-07-03
GENERAL NOTES.
Washington.

| Yale will graduate, on the 18th proxlmo, lO3
students This little higher than the average OF tc
last 20 years-lOO 7l0-and somewhat lower IMAM 'no
| average Of the last 10 years, 1861
Major Hearne of The Raleigh Telegram and
Captain Biggs OF The Tdrboro o. c. SOuheer pretend
cd they wanted to fight duel the other day They were
promptly on the grounds but the police were there Dc
lore them, and prevented the cuItOIs HUN in"Anh '
| selves any moro ridiculous
Gov. Walker undertook to solve the bound
ary middle which has for century puzzled the WISE
acres of Maryland and Virginia, and the better 10 sette
the dispute sent emissary 10 London TO LOOK uP o
ORIGINAL grants Greatly 10 his Exceencys delight, the
| records make plain work on the q9eSuoi' auu " s
| speck of internal war Is mus dlspeLeu. ..
| Connecticut has q superior class oil dogs IL
| we NAV nudge from q canine specimen owned by j. g.
| Trowbrdge OF Canaan. Trowbridge made journey on
horseback one day. and missed his dog The next day no
missed his wallet containing $780, and the second day.
bo faithful beast was found IA the road watching the
money which was entirely safe such d0g "ouu ho'
| live long here unless bullet aud poison proof
If stone and dead cat are found lying IN
tbe road together It ia impossible to avoid the impress
sion that care did not kill that particular cat SO when
newspaper francaly resists protective duties on Pig
Iron aud Lead while I'm another column II comedies that
Its most ST m it is dcat to resist think
ing that dsinerested motives are not atosetner tne pl
and ndocity combined might raise the price Of Its lead
Ing commodities beyond Its present limited grasp
Mr.. Barnum is most respectfully informed
that the minutest maniln Of baby has been born III
Manchester VT 1t weighed upon entering this great
world only a ounces its face may be covered by an
oldfashioned cent and adys gerring can be slipped
on its arm 1t is little baby and mistake and what
Me- NJ %9 ne6af e Yet oh hnes 60 by dompar
ison for the Vermont midget would have been monster
in Ihiput.
When musicians in Massachusetts, want to
give concert on Sunday evening, they call 1t sacred"
and then sing fiddle what they please The brass
band Of Haverhi gave Of these sacred" perform
ances last Sunday with great deal OF drum and from
bone and triangle much TO the scanaa OF tLe soDsif
he arranged o sacred" programme; . take an od
glec" he said; for instance, Tell me, Shepherds tel
me. pray, Have you seen my Chl0rs pass this way
strike ont shepherds and Put IN brethren suDsti-
tute David for Choris; and 1t goes beautifully"
The story of 0riana in her matrimonial puT-
suit Of young Mrabe, represented in the comedy Of
1.-THE nconsant" to have been reproduced in the
West The new Orlana is Ellen Tbbetts Of Pittsburgh,
who followed William Holden from city to city and town
TO town. insisting upon the fplhnent o. MS promise Of
Cincinnati by causing him to be committed 10 jail and
lease she reached home with hor captured lord, when
no suddenly disappeared; and now to crown her Woe
another woman claims him her connabial property.
This one of the instances in which perseverance fails
to meet with ultimate success.
President Woolsey of Yale has related to
many classes how France TO Connecticut for
aid in silkworm culture disease had broken out in
France among the worms for which no remedy could be
found, aud a grower, having heard in way that
slkwOrms grown in Connecticut and in some other
unexplained manner, that there such rs PreSi
dent WOOlsey, wrote asking him 20 send out some Con-
nccticut eggs, IL thought that American
might escape the disease. The President inquiry
learned that in obscure town in his State slkwo1ns
were cultivated, procured eggs and sent them
directed. lie received in due time check for the
pcnse incurred, but learned the success OF the
experiment.
Mr.. Ruskin thus cOgently shows how the
laborer is worthy of his hire "How it has cost me 20
years Of thought and Of hard reading TO learn what
have to tell you these pamphlets and you will find. if
you choose TO ind, It is true and may prove, II you
choose TO prove that it ia useul and am not in the
least minded compete for your audience with the
Opinions in your damp Journals morning and evening
the black of them coming off on your fingers, and' De
yond all washing, into your brains. II is no AFFAIR OF
mine whether YOU attend to or not but yours wholly;
nv hand is weary Of penhOlding-ny heart is SICK OF
thinking; for my part would not write you tnenc
pamphlets though you would give me barrel OF Deer,
instead OF two pints for them; write them wholly Tor
your sake choose that you shall have them decenty
printed on creancOOrcd paper, and with margin I'M
dprncnth which YOU write on II you Ike. Ihat Il
also for yCur sake; IL is proper form OF DOCK io any
man to have who keep his books clean ana II ne
cannot he has no business with books at all II costs me
ten pounds TO print thousand copies and hye more 10
give Won a pcture and penny Oh my seycnpence 10
scud Won the bOok-a thousand siXpenCes twenty
five pounds; when You have bought thousand f0fS OF
me- shall therefore have five pounds for my trouble
and my single shOpmau, Mr. Allen, hve pounds Tor ms;
we won't work for less either OF u.s. not that VIC WOu
not good for YOU but it would he by no means
| good"