New-York tribune., 1871-05-04
GENERAL NOTES.

The editor Of Leaveayortb (Kapsas)
poper In tho last issue ho was able on account OF
Lack of ads to present TO unapprociatye public
has this brief and tonchnS vaedctory: May the 9sS
INV few readers each ALL to the devil without de-
lay. Amen .
There is O new specimen for the medical
museus OF Boston worth quarreliuz about though tB
only feather. II seems that lady residing at South
End had an annoyng tumor extracted from her face
Tbe onerati0n was successful; but the tuulOr wheh
opened was found TO contain fcather an InSn ioiS @
Inw Il got there neither tho lady nor the surgeon can
Imagine Among plausible explanations " IN sueHesee
that the lady has rubbed her cheek assihs. so
or other; that she herself ID a dear htuo duoA'
The variety of champions is inefeased oF
one Hudson, N Y, claims champion who debes com
petition, and nobody takes up the gage he is 'no
eater, and proud end anxious
to exhibit and test his powers, atieady fouce , ~
apaeworms What is worse be fiids the habit growing
upon him. and he requires an ose x the scien
tinc name for this new kind Of maniaf
It will afford great pleasure to the many
friends OF Franklin College, HewAthens, oiho' 70 10
Informed Of the accession Of Prof Andrew f. Ross WHO
was connected with the institution in its pamiest days.
to the Presidency Franklin is OF the oldest coegs
in Ohio, aud numbers many eminent men throa @ So
Union but especially in the North and West, among her
alumni With the present change she may DC Ia,,tS 40
pected to her youth ana take iresh st"iS III
long career Of prosperity.
Dorm Piatt tells droll story illustrative OF
the Senatorial incspacy for keeping secrets re-
porter" he writes "was returning from the Capitol n'
mediately after an Executive session, when he met
Senator q don't recolect. but believe it Senator
Nye) upon the avenue, who stopping, asked the pen
wiper II he bad been at the Capitol ana what had gone
on Executive session. The duck or reporter looked
uneasiy at the Senator. and then said would not
mind telling you, you personal friend OF nhe
the fact is you Senator'S are so leaky that you eau
be trusted Now, the laugh comes in on the fact hat
fact Individuals in the world without Joke about him.
and what he was feariug when ne maIe this hpsuIt
woud 90 into the OF the first newspaper man
that honorable gentleman happened TO meet"
If there be anything in this world which is
mournfuy laughable the spectacle of dead nser
lying in he epless inertia, and quite unable 10 protest.
though never family, against the undertaking ana
other sepuchra extravaganza 1t Is only then that we
begin to comprehend the metaphorica eymoogy Oh .ho
word: "Mser-miserable pitiful, woeful sorry aoec"
Here ia the Door capitalist with all his pinchings and
parngs his hoardngs and scrapngs his savings and Sc
cretngs come to this last The fact puts life into the
modest morality All isleft behind-the unmythoiogica
heirs will not much as place penny 10 pay Ona,o o
taIm which will itch no more There will he newspaper
paragraphs about tho queer creature IN the cVihl ing
the which we read concerning ih0 n rin1er
at the NayyYaTd dw6t seventy years alVn9 III ,aI
was worth eighty thousand dollars sated doWn III rci
property begged all the clothing which ne wore nun
The generous sailors aud whenever 1t was washed ne
washed IL himself With all hs wealth, there was nor
poorer creature in the city He attained tDe
H. ieefive-he was iser and he DfseTf1BuSlVlng
i'm such fearful f0rebOding OF penury tnaJ ne atDyeu
at one time to enlist common sailor at seventeen
dnIlars "a month Here as in all such cases, was pru
dence an excellent quality IN itseIf, run 10 seeI
II i always be So when the business OF money gethg
ia nnrsued for the sheer sake of getting nOneya crazy
hunt which nobody, net even the nuhIer i,hs ~
ahis 4onia is suDstanaliy no better than that OF the
spenhft-hat, in fact 1t is all things cohsidereo;
creditabo human nature-yet Sue seems ]" US W W