New-York tribune., 1873-09-15
GENERAL NOTES.

It three parts. with cushions OF rubber between the
| seams.
A widow living at Cullen, Ken, recently
found s. o which buried beneath an old dhapida-
| TED cabin.
1t is said that the Louisville authorities find
st speedy send married drnnkards home
| instead OF TO the lookup.
A justice of the peace at Whitehall, n. Y,
discharged who had been arrested, because "it
| was q lghtnlng-ro man lie had Kicked"
An old man and his wife asked the price Of
ticket from Detroit TO Jackson, and when told wanted
to know If they would take on dollar If they rode
the platform.
Two baOIes were sent by express several
hundred miles through Oregon, recently and arrived
| all safe What an extraordinary species OF baggage
| master they must have In those parts!
Some books and pictures which Mrs. r. E.
Lee, bad just recovered from Arlington were almost de-
stroyed in OF the sinking OF the canal boat
| on which the property was part OF the cargo.
Two youths of Raleigh, \. c., on a wager.
respectively aud s0i words on postal card,
and telegraph operator Of the same place 20l6 but an
Augusta, Ca, man has surpassed them All " "ti'hs
| 3,Ol6.
A number of Italian emigrants are working
on the Ware River Railroad in Massachusetts, 1t IS i'm
possible write their as 70 distinguish ono
IRON another so they go about with leather numbered
checks on their nccks.
There Is a schOolmaster in Waterloo, Iowa,
who has been carrying bullet in his BRAIN put there by
schoolgirl ever since last Winter recent fa from
g wagon forced the pail near the a @Caasq WHICH haa
never healed and the physician eXtractedH
What's in a Dame9 Well, there may be a
perfect proprlety in Witness this paragraph from
| Pennsylvania newspaper: "The Rev. Ezekiel Light OF
Anuyille was in attendance at the camp+neeung IN
sermons" They should have been stirring and lucid
ones
A frightful example, after all, may have its
value. The managers of the Brown County Ohio Fair
evidently think 50. for they premium OF sa
to be gwen to the person exhibiting the meanest look
ing and shabbcst tumout-h0rse or other animal Ia
| the harness. Provided there SHAH he no cruelty To
ton. The county will find out what horse OF Ok obshl
not to be- ana Is 5o@etmpg e 70 fa9% "h'h O your
A new way to pay old debts has been de-
veloped in Dubuque. Mr. O'Se truly and Justly owed
Mr. smith the sum of s. Mr ONei proposed 70 settle
by single combat whether he should pay double or
nothing. Fifteen we-conte.ted rounds followet and
now, beside his doctors bill, Mr. ONel owes Mr smith
s6. This private, two-penny alIair but hauons
| falling out about money matters lave teqncndy
pounded each other Tor years with very macA Tue same
result upon both sides
| Advertisements may usually be commonplace
and prosac enough, but here Is nice little one which
we find in q Western newspaper Five Dollars Reward
For the return TO the undersigned OF plain Gold
Ring. Has the inscription, Charles to Mary. on the
inner side" These few Ords full OF the most delight
| ru suggestions. Who tell what words were spoken,
replce with tenderness aud laden with promises when
that ring was slipped time upon the appro
PIRATE fnger And how could Mary DE 50 careless as 70
|
take IS, or even 81 90 for finding and restoring H.
Instances of vitality sometimes occur which
Psychologists puzzled to explain. The Of Poole
who lived several days in this city with bullet in his
heart. was Of these The CiHmaroa New-Mexico)
Ners mentions another A in Onsof the free fights
incident to festivities Of that region lately received
ball the forehead just above the bridge Of his nose
the surgeon cannot nd it, though he has probed TO the
depth OF three inches The man with me bullet in his
brain Is doing well, and after the injury arose,
walked down the street, and bought him new hat.
Kittie Campbell is the name of rosy lass,
10 years of age, of Painfed, Mass. Her school term
has just ended and she has made enyiable record
She was neither absent nor ardy once the only ap
proach imperfect lesson during the term the
misspelng OF o single word" Poor Kittiel Mis,peed
| a single word did she Well ours IS, it must be con.
fesed OF tue most troublesome languages IN respect
Of forthOgaphy that ever was written II 1t would be
any consolation to Kitty 1t must be confessed that Older
heads than hers frequently msspel words, aud are by
| no means independent Of the Drs. W.
| One of those loose tales of longevity which
serve to fill odd of newspapers is is
travels 1t is of woman living Roanoke Island, de-
clared be CXXX years old, with eyesght perfect,
that she can with ease thread cambric needle Health
excellent faculties unimpaired, pedestrian power as
good The only popularity OF the old woman IL
| that she never saw George washington The cambrle
ing ability, and the not seeing George Washington
all credibe-the only point IN douOt Is that ot the Io
years.
1t is rather rough to commit sacrilege and
only get sixpence haltpenny for doing it, At Roman
Catholic chapel in Maryebone. London, lately, Joseph
Albert detected picking pOor-bOx on which
painted Our Lady Of the Sacred Heart" He used
instrument somewhat ike bo0k-knile, the end Of
which sticky substance strong enough TO hold
penny. Joseph had also stolen from the chapel rosary
but they took away from him the sacred utens, and
him prison at hard labor for eighteen months.
His case is mentioned so that eustodians OF poorboxes
here may be upon their guard against this method Of
r0guery.
In the agricultural districts of England, the
custom of selling wives is not wholly extinct but it
appears that when unhappy husband get nothing
for an uncomfortable piece Of property, he makes q
present OF it TO anybody who Will De good enough 20
accept of it, Sometimes the assigned Is touching.
peasant named Earle, charged with aiding aud
abettlng his wife to commit bigamy, not only made
donation OF her, but present acting her father
guilty. ana all he said in extenuatiOn Oh misucmeanor
was, very unhappy, aud SO giyed her away"
In these ingenious days that man may ask
for bread aud receive stone is proved by the discovery
Just made in Dublin that the supplies hour
for the troops which is adulterated in a way. In
Wales 1t appears thero are quarrles OF a white stone
easy puyerize This is brought to Dublin, ground
into the consistency OF -four and mixed with the geu
handsome appearance. and naturally enough people,
however hungry do not cat much OF It. Perhaps the
duce the dura lila proper for a soldier.
Mr. ROllin ID. Lane of COilinsville, Conn.,.
has a complication OF accidents, OF which any
man may we'll be proud. lie was descending into his
well on ladder when he attacked by swarm OF
bees that had nest the top While he TO the
best OF his ability defending himself, the rounds
OF the ladder broke and down went Mr. Lane, bringing
up doubled IN the place where the pfyerb says that
Truth resides. For time he IN great danger OF
drowning but he finally hshed only little
bruised. Such things these happen course every
day in Danbury, Conn, but this was In Consyille.
Things happen sometimes which make one
think just little better OF human nature Al CayertOn,
PENN is young woman, daughter Of a clergyman, and
she been afflicted by spine disease for eight a.
half years She had pleasant surprise the other day
Without her knowledge they fitted up d for her IN
her fathers house, hed n with ali manner Of cOmfoua