New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-22
GENERAL NOTES.

Southern and Western cities are complain
Ing Of the LARGE numbers OF expert thieves Probably
the effect OF HaDiIual Criminals act.
man in Kingston, n. Y, recently paid for
years subscription OF his paperSl years back pay
10 years IN advance and II years for his brother.
The old bell which was On the courthouse
al Barnstable Mass worn ont and another in its
place. The displaced bell bears the date OF 1873.
The Rockp0rt (Vt.) National Bank has been
in trouble Not that there has been any embczzle
ment the funds quite the contrary, for during two
days last week the bank was Obliged TO suspend pay
menr cOnd MT it, vault doors, and 30
could Mt get al Its money. IL would have been better
for some banks II such Az accident had happened to
them often.
What do condolences provcP For instance
a Mrs Geatry died at Sedalia the lltb OF August
Precisely one month her death. the day OF
the month. hour of the day and at tue same
minute of the hour, her mother died THIS Is one or
those things which always put into the newspapers
wonderful ald mysterious; and yet there Is no poss
bic fact or tru'h winch can be dedneed nom them
coincidence Is simply-a coincidence.
A music-scller in New-BcdsOrd, Mass, in
order his shop window attractive, placed there
in eertan casts from the works OF eminent sculpors
Among these was one said to be a Ndrcssusif il had
been Narcssa we should have better understood what
followed, whch that the Chief Of Police seized the
nude image AN Ofense against chastity, morality,
aud deccncy." The music man is feroclous, and has
brought trOver for his raylshed Narcissus.
The Patent Office is shy of spiritual inven-
tons. An inventor OF cambridge Mds-q uds utNlncu
a Psychic Stand" It's function is 4" to spell out
words and sentences usually called communications
through an alphabet not only invisible to the OPERATOR
but the worry location OF which he cannot know" THE
mode OF ta operation" he adds. excludes all possibility
of trick or inpOsure." The Examiner offers TO issue
letters patent for the machine Game Table," but
the inventor thus make or the spirits
IN l. the opinion of the Patent Office that spiritual
are largely mixed with ignorance, de-
ception and fraud" Wherefore IL will have nothing 10
DO with the machine, the great indignation OF the
inventor
The Sunday school Union of the Methodist
Episcopal Church organized on April p 1927. After
struggling for existence for nine years it ceased to exist
ia 1896 At the General Conference held in 1870 Ii was
northumberland In 1874 Editor was appointed,
solely aud exclusively for the sunday Depart
ment" Since that time it has hourished. From its
annual reDort 10 appears that the Society aided last year
100 schools had under It's supervision llJ3 sunday
schools containing 10000 officers and teachers anu
15g iGi scholars, of whom 575l5 children wete con-
yertrd during year; I'll 500 copies OF The IedceS
J0n,7dL were circulated beside 5I9S51O eOpes Of Inc
Bercan Lesson Lear 556Cs copies OF The Picture Les
son Pdper and 1921 800 copies Of The SHhddFSch00t
Adrocaie. The disbursements for he financial year
were slSS36 81. leaving III the treasury - balance OF
slI, 209 -.