New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-31
GENERAL NOTES.

A Monticello Qowa) jury has recently rem
dered written verdict the beautiful specimen Of
phonographc spelling yet soen. It was Kno COS OF
aXcl0u."
There is a female Caleb Quotem in Vienna
whose newspaper announcement is as follows: "Anna
Agriko sick nurse watches dead bodies, repairs straw
chairs, applies leeches ana MAKES pastries ueseeIS'
and delicacl.s."
That eccentric artist, the late J. w. NJ.
Turner always persi5enty refused TO have his portrait
taken; but many surreptitions sketches were made OF
him, and among them one by the elder Linnel which has
now been engraved and published
The Howard AthenGum in Boston has n
"poorbox" Whenever any Of the performers are fined
for infringement of the rules OF the heaer the money
eXacted put into this box the contents OF which are at
advantageOusy used.
The reader will remember the ostler spoken
Of by sam Weller who his last will and testament
upon o stable door, A Tennessee man has published and
declared his testimentary intentions upon paper col
found little unhandy Tor ming.
An odd accident happened to London
artist this season. Mr. Orchardson at the last moment
previous 10 tho exhibition Of the Royal Academy was
tanning paraIne. His cloth caught the flames, and
blazing up burned out boat which lay IN the fore
ground OF tho picture.
The eighteenth annual Convention of the
NewYork State sunday-school Teachers Association
will be held IN Bnghamton, June g. 4, and s. Country
and town associations and schools throughout the State
are requested to send delegates Nearly All the prnc-
pal railroad and steamboat lines IN the state nave prom
iSed reduced fare.
A Juvenile marriage has just taken place in
Galveston, Texas, which reminds Que OK the runaway
children in Dir Dckenss pretty story The Texas bride
was only 19 years Old and the bridegroom but a. What
is curious ana embarrass ing the husband must
phsOry Education law OF Texas
Ii ia rather suspicious when lady in Boston
sends letter written on baekbordered paper ncosed
in a mourning envelope, 70 a newspaper, asking the
names OF the old Board OF Health 1t suggests actions
law especially as the aforesaid Oh Board is san lDC
10 nave been the most efficient one IN the world and the
recent ravagGs OF the smallpox III Boston are party As
cribed 20 its negligence
The British husband Ito speak within bOunds)
is sometimes brute. At BUston, Eng the other day
a woman told the stipendary magistrate that she had
been married 20 years amt had been beaten by her h
band every day since-lA6O distinct ana separate peat
ing Sho didn't say wheJner she had enjoyed her mar
red life not; Out. a5 any rate, her daily discipline
doesn't seem TO have shortened H. ....
Lovers of good eating in Paris have fresh
blessing in the shape Of q new kind Of game. THIS is
the marmot little creature carried about Europe by
the Piedmontese showmen Il is stated that the marmot
has long been eaten in Italy The meat Is said 20 have
the flavor Of wild boar rather strong and demanding
highly splced sauce
The new Italy does MT like pilgrims and
pilgrimages 70 ASSIST Del Monte, and other sacred
snrines and the mob told beats any ilstaryed
creature who may caught upon his journey in scOop
shells and big hat. ono wayfarer was recently
scOnrged cruelty az FOltgnO and anotber at Rome The
sooner hberalty which IS thus intOerant finds out It's
Inconsistency ana reforms It's ways altogether the better
Tor the cause OF real regeneration
A new way of raising the wind. A Detroit
woman called upon famiy in that city the other day,
and Introducing herself began conversation. Suddenly
she was taken dreadfully ill., She said that she had
money aud could not 20 TO the hospital and they would
have TO keep her through run or FEVER They gave her
TO crawl and reach tue hospital after which
she recovered with astonishing rapidly and bought
new blue sash.
A very learned family this is in Des Moines,
Iowa The father is a Clergyman, and can do all the
spiritual duty Of the house the mother is physician
ana 40 the domestic circle be physcked for nothing
the daughter is studying law, and viii be able TO make
her Ogu wrts for breach OF prOmsea most dangerous
maiden 20 tribe with All these people said 10 be OF
the quiet SORT industrousy working IN their several
Vacations aud never making any fuss about anything
a family residing in Detroit the other day
TO replace marble mantel crate aud hearth
which had been put into the house when was built In
lsls on taking up the hearth-stone IL found 10
have been once designed % marx the grave OF Sarah
who died IN 1881 Now the mistress of the house temenl
hers she had mysterious feelings while SIT
ting with her feet upon that hearthstJne and Is at no
loss 20 account for them.
Mr. Nathan Hosier of Davies County, Ind,
had boeu lucky or prudent enough to accumulae Sol
Nathan doubted the soyoney Of hanks and the strength
VI vaults SO &c put his surplus revenue into paror
stove for sa,ekcepng. But Mis-. losler had occasion
kudled % ice ia that stove. Whah llN heatu rom MI
Nathan n standing ~ the ieRee iaNlug IN the
widest aai swtHrluc M most improper manner,
aud uarinS bIs VvI wake 10 cone dhtl