New-York tribune., 1871-09-08
GENERAL NOTES.

A new and most astonishing insect has ap-
pcared at South sunapee, in New-Hampshire, as If
musketoes were not enough for human discipline This
NJ H. nuisance comes clouds its wings drop of while
1t in the air it drops itself to the ground digs mole
and disappears 1t Is something like an ant but has
larger abdomen ana to render 1t still more trouDcsoe
its bite is poisonous IL very strong anu h h
scpulcher will great vgor and rapidty Wnether II De
whether it is Injurious vegetation 1t doubtless serves
some purpose IN the economy Of NATURE ana 30 doeS
| the flea or the pnleb0tomlzlng Deu-Du9
| The first wife of ii. d. Newcombe, the Lou
| isyille millionaire who caused something Of futer
there some time ago by inducing the Kentucky Legsla
ture as alleged, to pass bill making 1t lawful Tor
man having insane wife to marry again. Is still an IN
mate of private asylum near Boston, without the least
hope of recovery She has been there for nearly twenty
years. and first revealed her madness IN LousvHe by
throwing her children one night fIom the httlc
window of her residence into the yaTd 9eloT TWo OF
almost macuOusly saved from destrucuon, tn0ugn
they suffered ior yeaIs from te seveie 2nd %, r %
dren the death of the eldest first deranged her nat
companicd by the morbid phantasy that God wanted
her offspring and that she sending them to Him by
destroying their lives.
A Eureka (Cal) paper relates remarkable
tale of love and constancy. young man in the East
wished to marry the daughter of prosperous merchant
but had money with which to back his suit He
therefore declined soninaw and so he went to tho
Pacific Coast to seek his fortune He sought gold every
and hardship determined to return to his old homc He
engaged his passage from San Francisco, when he
cOuniered his carly love- now near middle age, who,
er m parents ne and ali her had died her
companion. She was wealthy, and only too happy to
had struggled valianty and tailed to the need
East with the dream OF love bright and fresh to them
had been years before Even this practical age
cannot extinguish tue poetry OF Affection DEVOTION anu
| romance.
A Jury Of experts having been appointed by
Secretary Boutwell, to examine and consider the claims
OF the Seal Lock- with special reference to its
utility. as compared with other locks for bonded cars
upon various railways and for storehouses and pub
lie stores the ports Of entry various papers were laid
before them approving the lock and others con-
dcmning it, Tho Committee have made report to secre
tary Boutwell, fully sustaining tbs opinions previously
entertained that the American Seal Lock has superior
After enumeratng In detail all the advantages OF this
lock- tile Committee adds: 1t not against theft ldss
of goods that these locks are designed TO guard although
Bnt against the sreptitos deposit and subsequent re-
mOvaf goods on which 1t s sought to eyade the Gus
gated seals and tripcate Photographic copies OF the
attached to the manfests seems to us to give the
best if not the only means OF protection known to u.s.
Some of the medical schools in the United
States would do we'll to take lessons in fairness and
polteness say decency, Of institutions Of the
same sort in Europe. Mary Stafford, graduate Of one
Of the womcus medical colleges in this city who went
abroad to pursue her studies, writes to The Herald Of
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students are exceedingly polite to the sacrificing
Of seat for my benefit and yOu that 1t
pleasant memory that 1 take home with me-the uni
yersal kindness that have everywhere met with, from
the medical faculty, well as from students have
attended upon surgery, the only woman among
students witnessing not only all operations that were
made, but taking with class composed OF al nations
surgical operative where made upon the eaddrer
ali 0perationg. In anatomy have had like experience
| | have dissected with promscuous class and have
not only been present. but have assisted the professor In
making several operations in Es private practice upon
| both men and women and In all my experience have
| never encountered vulgarlty III speech nor act"
There may be probability in and parallels
for this astounding story but few on record James
T. Anderson Of Genwood, Iowa, in sportvo mood prac
tcing gymnasic exercise fell from the bars, while
pended by his feet and striking the back of his neck
was instantly struck with paralysis save in the head
where perfect consciousness remained. He was be-
wdered by the sudden pain and loss OF the use OF
rest of his body but bore up dauntlessly he expert
enced an expressbe nglng though his body seemed
to him mass OF Jelly; when touched 1t felt as though
broken into fragments The actual situation, discovered
by diagnosis was broken neck, and TO the amazement
OF everybody the only did not die but s living
and promises to live with dead body attached TO his
living head Still further, he accepts the situation un
murmuipely and begun to learn to write WI his
lips and indeed has attained some pronclency In tnat
angular method aud writing to friend faceuousy says
| that he now writes tolerably good mouth he mas
been sadly troubled by flies, against which ne Is totally
remedyins by keeping leaf In his mouth continually
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