New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-12
GENERAL NOTES.

| Ha-stones three inches in diameter fell in
sbawaao County, Wis, recently. and did considerable
damage 30 the crops knocked man of load OF hay
killed nuhofsds OF chickens. aud demolished any mum
Der OF umbrellas aud Spring bonnets at campmeeting
The inmates of the Pittsburgh, Pa, County
Jail presented silver gobe: to Ohio lady, which
the following inscription: Presented Mlss May
Campbell, by those unfortnnates whose suerings she
has alleyated by her Inspiring songs and unsesh kind
ness-lS73"
At the trial of Charleston, S. c., fire
compapys new steamer. the nozzle, which held by
several men, broke from their grasp, knocked two Of
them down. completely demolished tho drinking para.
phernaa OF liquor saloon and broke the brass end OIL
the pipe into several pieces.
The play of Hamlet was recently per-
formed in Paris by an English company to a beggarly
accoan OF empty boxes Even these were disappointed.
for some practical Joker in the Paris Journal had given
out f@st tho ENTERTAINMENT would be enlVened by the
performance OF jig" which or course 1t was not
Shayp birds, rocks and crows are. In Mu-
Mich, where several of cholera have occurred,
these birds. which before 0ew about the stecpes and
thronged the trees Of the public promenades, have all
during the cholera seasons OF 1885 and 1854 The fact-
it BIO q faet-may be gorth noting.
Two guides who conduct visitors through
the Cave of the Winds" at Niagara Falls have dseov
cred still another which they pronounce Zone OF
the wonders Of tEe world" In one portion OF Is the War
stand between two walls of falling water in
pitch darkness aud then only, ms 10 were in the yest
bue. To 90 forward would require other appara
tus not at hand, ana a means OF lighting the way.
Here is the classification Of babies pre-
miums at the Fair Of the New Hampshire Az
ricutural Society. For the finest baby under six
months old. gold necklace; for DO, between
the Of IL and 30 months. golden cup for the love
lest twins two golden mugs for the child with the red
dest hair, regardless OF temper, $40 In gold.
Well, this is very extraordinary. In White
hail. it Is said whenever the baby OF tho family put
to sleep large rat out and kindly vbisks the
flies with his tail from the sumbering cherubs face The
experiment has been tried several times and the rat
always ont. and always drives the flies away "a
aforesaid Evidently the snake stories to be sue
cceded by series the sagacity and usefulness OF
that intOlerable nuisance Mus decundnus
What seems rather bold experiment was
lately tried with success by London physician, DR..
squarey OF the Soho Hospital. lady had been sub
iected TO examination under the Influence OF an
anasthetlc II was desired to her to her home
in Norwood ~ possible. and the journey was
actually performed, occupying an hour ana a haf,
the effect OF cloroform. The lady, on arriving at
Norwood, taken out and carried up stairs TO her
own bed, without CONSCIOUSNESS she had been thus
insensible for about two hours.
Several hundred people in st. Louis recently
witnessed somnambulistic circus performance by
moonlight. conductor, who Lad been to Barnum's
circus eaped from his bedroom window to a roof below
turned all sorts OF summersauts and handsprngs went
through series OF exercises fire alarm telegraph
Wire and ended the show by taking lying leap through
the window again. His friends found him lying on the
floor with his hands and bleeding but he could give
no account Of how IL happened.