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

Within the past two years Detroit reporter
has shaken hands with thirteen Buffalo BILE. AL dis,
playing the bountifu supply OF shooting rOh7'
but every one with different phz'
An old iron chest containing some 500 III
coin was found recently in unexpored cave IN Ken
tucky The Inhabitants OF the neighb0rhoOd are now
searching the cave for Capt. kidd's treasure
The Southern FertiliziDg Company now mix
their various compounds in Libby Prison. whilo the
famous Castle Thunder used during the war as prison
for Southern deserters Is now the mandatory ana
warehouse OF a tobacco firm
According TO the California criminal code,
person who has been convicted OF larceny cannot
he sent to the Penitentary on second CONVICTION
man was proved guilty larceny in the San Francsco
Criminal Court and that he had been previously pm pm,
ished for that crime still more clearly proved buS
the jury. not wanting TO send the man 70 w "a
tary. actually acquitted nm OF the hrss oneo'o anu
brought In a verdict OF guilty in the second case
The everlasting school question is now
agtating Springfield Mass. The Roman Catholic
clergy have contemplated the establishment OF regular
schools but the lay said to oppose
this hestang to tell the clergy that their scnoos
can never be good the public schools There Is
Catholic school party however which has been nick
named the Ultramont anists" and there Il disagree
able prospect OF much russ and feud not 10 say ehS
all Of which IL extremely unWlse
The war upon dogs inaugurated by the Hon.
Caleb Cushing breaking out in all parts Of the country
The editor Of Pittston PENN newspaper had little
canine dear unto his SOUL but with passion for bark
Ing The neighbors resOrtng to stryohnine the pup
more; but be with the perpetrators OF inns
canicde the editor printed halfcolumn oDlluiTy no
ce OF his fayorite In his very next issue Most OF me
murderers being readers OF the newspaper the re'ense
IL Will he seen, was sure ana speedy
There is one superstition in France which Is
certainly harmless This is that the ringing OF bells
has the power TO scatter coming storm The con-
cussion produced by such ringing IN the air increases
the usual disposition Of seeple to attract lightning at
Clermont, two people were lately Killed D. hghtning
while ringing the church bell to drive II away mat
ignorant peasants should be guilty OF an absurdy IKE
this not strange but recorded that IN 1882 even
the Bishop Of Malta had the church bells rung to calm
storm.
There are more things in heaven and earth,
&c. Let say that there's nothing IN superstition
while man is man aud dreams are dreams. Massa-
chusets lady dreamed the other night that her absent
husband was dead As morning arrived, she
franIcay teegraphed, and found that he was entirety
the awful realization Of that dream. Ere the day was
done her pet poodle distracted her new bonnet and Tore
that lovely thing into countless peces In the lace ana
OF this story can anybody doubt that there Is
something in dreamsl
A country newspaper commences an article
with the following sage observation: d" Few persons
build story and half house who do not very soon re-
greet that they had not made 1t two story" There Is
great deal of morality and not little philosophy IN this
remark In the conduct Of life there Is nothing IKE
starting out for enough There Is great gO0d III trynH
for lust a little more than shall probably win. All
men who have been successful have done TINS human
achievement must always be something smaller imam
the best human aspiration. Try for two story house.
and You will at least get "A story and half perhaps with
a Mansard roof thrown III
A young man in q state of miserable in
ebriety few days applied to town clerk in New
Hampshire for a marriage license. The clerk told him
that he seemed hardly to be in condition to present
himself at the altar OF Hymen, upon which the young
hearessy retorted on it's all right; am gong
to begin hold out" This was honest, at least,
and the young bride couldn't that she hadn't had
fair warning. Possibly tho man was reluctant didn't
want be married at all, and took something To drown
his grief at the awful prospect before him In such
case though we must stu consider him censuraDe we
must not shut our eyes To the e4tehuths
Who would be testatore Who would care
for the privilege Of making a last will and testament
unless he could make it he pleasedi Isn't 1t hard,
considering the ways in which men make money that
they should MT be allowed to buy happiness possible
in the future state Leopold Schmucker, late OF St
Louis left friend for purposes understood by
the friend" 1t turned out that these purposes were
saying OF for the soul Of the deceased The heirs
ataw caring more for the money imam Tor poor Mr.
Schmucker's requiescat IN pace nave ulsputeu Ile
Unconstitutional. What the poor testator, II he be In
purgatory thinks Of Judge Jones law we may easily
imagine.
Angelina Brown is the name of young
Englishwoman who saw in the newspapers the adyer-
tisement OF a wel-knOwn firm OF hairdyers. Her own
locks were dark brown and she ardently desired them
TO be golden. She applied TO the transmutationists
who for Cd sold her the magic hd Which they sali
wonid change the tint Of her tresses she wished.
This she applied with scrupuOus regularity for week
and the consequence was that her mar came OUT 70 sc9
badness. Moreover her head (Which must have been
slightly soft to begin with became so tender that she
could not touch IL. She applied to the Clerkenwell
Police Court for advice and was told that she had better
consult respectable solicitor.
All the romance and poetry and such like
haynt departed out Of this prosaic age. There ia v
ing hermit or rather there isle in Moosehead
Lake Me. whether he visited by young
woman to whom he said, 'Turn, Angelina" we are
not told but we suspect not because the Kermit was
not romantic and before he began his eremitcal life he
followed the ignObe vocation OF tinker Ten years
aRo he went to the island and took up his residence In
dry-goods box in the Winter. and in the Summer In
hoeshead. which reminds OF the tue OF Diogenes.
and a great deal of patching. He sometimes visited
brother hermit who lived another island His friends
have persuaded the anchOre TO return 10 his home
and live like folks"