New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15
GENERAL NOTES.
Several horses have died of colo in Some

A baby IN Troy, N, l., Has tecth 8ro"-
Ing through It's nose
A lady in Georgia has made some excellent
silk from cocooDs raised In that State
Passengers in the Cleveland street cars have
the privilege OF purchasing reserved seats.
An economical negro in Wilmington, Del,
says he picks up. average 1900 pins in year.
Barnum secured valuable addition to his
department recently in Adrian, Mich
A Chicago Judge fined laxative swain $50
for telling OF his love too often She had him arrested
A member of baseball club in Baltimore
ran 100 yards against trottng horse aud won wager
A lofty minded and high-fying hen, in
Crockett County Tenn hatched brood OF chickens in
the top-mos branches Of tall tree. Several persons
Injured in trying TO remove the young ones nom
their per1ous position ..
The Chief Of tho Boston Fire Department
has signed the pledge and issued an order for every
man in the department to do the same resign Eyi
IDENTIFY the fremen take this mild Official joke, for
only il out OF I25 have signed the paper.
There is nothing like being definite in mat
ters of medicine We read In the advertisement ola
certain panacea that it cures cases o. %on ba equally
ing" The question Is whether ~ wouIe w equ"iV
good for cases OF 76 or Of Is years standinRi
The managers of the Ohio Reform School are
sending out invitations for reunion. TO members OF the
press cergymcn members Of the legislature Dc The
introduction 10 which reads, Long years nave eiapseu
since we were companions at the Reform School,"
East Haven, Conn, swore in squad OF spe-
cIal oonstables and on a Sunday evening captured
sixtynine melon thieves and locked them up. About
400 friends Of the captves, who sailed Iorn 70 reScue
them we're dspelled by the reading OF tine riot act
water spout on Lake Erie was recently
seen from the summit of Little Mountain Cleve.
land Three attempts at mounting were made; the
first broke before reaching tho ciouds tue secou1 W
the complete spout while the third broke up IN uehSe
mist j.
Texas paper chronicles the coming OF
tho winters stores in this MANNER over 800 barrels OF
whisky arrived Ivy the steamer from Brashear this morn
ing. This is last connecting INK Win tne Ouer
civilized world and Its arrival In our present sequeS
trated condition, Ia very cheering
committee has been appointed from the
Illinois State Board Of Equalization to investigate the
manner in which $1,000 Of land and 1000 CITY o
which appeared the assessment DOCKS OF loi nav
dropped out Of existence Perhaps they were Durneu
in the great fire.
Recently the figures were given or the
amount of chewing-gum or manufactured by
New. Jersey firm. and now Western paper chronicles
the poisoning and narrow escape from death OF tnree
little girls who had been chewing THIS concocuoh Oh
red oxide OF mercury and heeswax'
The alacrity of the Kingston, n. Y, small
boy is great for in less than Two minutes from the
bursting OF beer barrel in grocery wagon 30 repre-
sentaves of the rising generation were d9ang spGu a
that vehicle with all descriptions OF metallic anu chha
pots, catching the foaming beverage.
The City Solicitor of Philadelphia has de-
vered an opinion the request Of the Mayor to the
effect that street musicians Migrants being classed
In the act Of June 49, 1886 among those porsqns gois
or highways, other roads, to beg and gather aims
An aged negro woman, after riding several
times between La Grange and Memphis at the expense
alternately, of each Of those places the authorities
meanwhile trying to shirk the responsibility OF taxing
care OF her was finally lodged in the police staton IN
Memphis; all the charitable institutions refused her
Abundance
A second Methuselah has been discovered in
Brazil. He is hundred and seventy-ni years OF
age and speaks Of happenings century and half ago
He reads the news from Spain with great interest, and
urges some OF his children grandchildren and great
grandchidren twbom he has 29l TO so and enlist In
the Spanish army and honor their old sire.
A learned gentleman says that the muske-
toes are sent by Providence to preserve from the
effects OF malaria that musketo nets and such like
contriyances. selfish trick to cheat the little
creatures from their well earned subsistence May the
philosopher would hesitate , moment before cappns
A Warm Spring Indian recently sold to
man In Oregon several trnkets and ornaments formerly
the property OF Captain Jack and the Society OF Cali
forpia Pioneers have presented with the only drum
which was in the possession OF the Modocs during the
late campaign. The drum was made by knocking out
the head OF candle box and spreading fresh OK hide
over the sides.
Washington has white elephant on hand,
or strictly speaking the mammoth stone for the base OF
the SCOTT monument is so heavy that the difficulties OF
moving IL from the vessel 10 the grounds almost in
surmountable. The wharf IS not considered safe and
the pavement 1t said will not allow so heavy weight
TO pass over 1t without lnjuring or destroying the
concrete and wood.
An immense ladle, said to be over $50 years
old mentioned Of the relics to be exhibited at
the centennial exhibition. But because there few
worm-hoes eaten in It, a Pennsylvania paper casts
doubts It's claims TO be ade, and insidOusly hints
that il may have straner. To label strainer a
sdle, place it in national exhibition would cast
haze OF doubt about the many household goods OF
Washington, which doubtless will be there, and this
would be simply intoleraole
Portland, Oregon, newspaper, after emu
meratIng the various improvements going In the
burned district up the situation In the following
paragraph "In facthose who witnessed the scene Of
desoation that Overspread that part OF city less
than six weeks ago; are surprised at the rapidly with
which the waste is being restored. Although Of
and rather fail affairs the general character OF the i'm
pr0vements Is more substantial than that OF those
which destroyed by the fire."
Capt Clarke of the ship Sunrise, from New
York. who charged with cruel treatment OF seamen
has made statement. which is published In the San
Francisco papers, the effect that the three men, who
IL is alleged committed suicide, accldently washed
overheard; that tine man who makes the charges was
were kept on account Of his filthy habits and that ALL
hands were fed more than the Government allowance
with additional corn rice, salmon and fresh meat In
which statement he is sustained by the cook and
steward.
The seventh annual Convention of the Amer
lean Institute Of Architects will be opened the Grand
Pacific Hotel in Chicago the 18th inst when the an.
nual address will be delivered by yce-Presdent w. w.
Boyngton Of Chicago in the absence Of President Rich
ard Upiohn. The proceedings OF the Convention will
occupy three days time, during which officers
and standing committees will be elected Reports from
all the chapters and committees will be presented and
professional papers prepared by members will be read
for debate. The Convention will close with the custom
airy annual dinner and an address by prominent citizen
A rib Of fossil whale has been found in
Anne ARUNDEL County. Nd, imbedded 400 feet below the
average level of the surrounding country This curiosity
has been secured by DIR. John King Of Baltimore who
gives the following theory Of the "why and the where
fore" Of 1t happening there's This skeleton Deposited
when the continent was submerged. at q period when
the Allegheny Mountains were hidden by the sea and
ages before the Eastern Shore OF Maryland became dr
land In fact, when the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans