New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-07
GENERAL NOTES.


A Memphis man, % years old, is six inches
shorter than Tom Thumb, and he IS proud OF III
Chicago recently opened newsboys' home
and lodging house. and 1t was jailed ITO overlooking the
FIRST night.
The Baltimore millionaires are invited 10
purchase the burned district and present 70 tue Guy
for a Central City Garden. r.
The Portland (Me) papers say that the fish
ing fleets are all doing very well, and in consequence
there is an active demand for salt
Milwaukee has over $4,000 invested III
steam fishing smacks." The average hauP Is ABOUT
one half ton OF FISH to each "smack.
At Oakland, Cal, there has just been cap
tured newspaper thievDg dog over 100 papers "ero
found behind large pile OF rubbish where the dos hau
secreted them.
California has another headless rooster
This one is provided with a silver tube through when
is fed and Is an object envy i'll the feathered HOOK o
which II is a member
The man George S. Parrish) who was sup
posed 70 be the person found drowned In the river near
Hartford, Conn, has turned up perfectly ai'o anu
ready TO make affidavit that he has MT been drowhcu az
all II is an affecting circumstance that IL was
mother-in-aw who recognized In the remains rn With
~eTfect freedom 10 their identity. Quilps mOthern
law il will be remembered, laDored under pieasan'
delusion somewhat similar.
There is a tame eagle in Pueblo, Colorado,
noble black fellow, belonging to the "gentlemanly'
clerk OF the Occidental Hotel. The proud bird nles
about the city and vicinity at WILL but with sagaclty
which does him honor. he always comes home Tor MS
meals In other respects he Is iowI Oh Iegu S ne
night HIS owner, who is very proud OF him. mas ionna
it necessary TO publish an ADVERTISEMENT enIrea'ink
spOrtsmen not to shoot MS pet
The recent tendency of things to take fire
in Boston is one of the phenomena OF the time On
Thursday last seemed to be sort of spontaneous
combustion OF feather beds. Two alarms were given
within twelve hours. both from the same box caused by
fires in the same and in each case there was burn
feather bed There nobody abed in either at the
time but sort OF thing is to go ou in the name OF
Morpheus II there no sconthe person VINO can
give US reasonably hreproof feather Deu'
There is at least one person in the world
who believes that earthly treasures may be taken into
another sphere diabolical Small Boy IN Detroit sent
lighted kite up into the air the other evening thereby
arousng the wild fears OF divers persons, who egarded
the phenomenon they could not explain as sign OF te
Immediate dissolution of the world. Some Of them
found praying ON their knees IN PACK YARDS Wne
the most frightened but prOyident OF all was an eIue
Hbernian cook who instantly began 10 PACK her uunK
in furious haste.
ais rum sold in Portland ~ is question
which has not only agtated the whole OF this country
but has also been warmly discussed by Englsh meet
ings and in English newspapers. correspondent OF
me Portland Advertiser thinks that he is justified in
belief which he bases upon his personal obServa
ton that now and then drop is either given or
sold IN the Down East metropolis He says that gong
into an clearinghouse for his breakfast at 8 o'clock
MOurnful TO relate, one or them was nas
sachusetts Quaker, the first inebT1ated fflehu
whom the writer encountered. This unique
specimen came very strong ID tne, lne
OF profanity which poured forth from under the SHADOW
of a broad brmmed hat. must have had an extremely
piGuant effect. Leaving the Quaker to swear anu 10
sing az his pleasure the writer went nome ana I0uhu
masons tender employed there exceedingly drunk anu
minus his wheelbarrow One OF these conYenences was
borrowed for him, he too much oDtuscated 10
use or even remember OF whom be borrowed III anu
the writer had to show him the place. The correspond
ent does MT like TO be rash, but he surmses that rum
sold in Portland and that the shops in which ~ Is SOFA
must either open very early or not shut up at ALL