New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Grenada, the youngest town in Colorado.
| has. according TO late census SIS dogs.
| A human skull was lately found near Usage
| Mission. Kansas, bedded In a solid rock.
| Five thousand small trout have been placed
| ia the Twin Lakes, Little Cottonwood, Utah
| John Revolver is the name of one OF tho
| most peaceably disposed citizens OF Natchez
| Two Atlanta professors, who recently tried
| a mule steak, pronounce it finer than real beef
Gov. Furnas of Nehama County, Neb., raised
| 5000 bushels Of peaches In his orchards this year
| The hair of a lady in Montpelier, VT, turned
white in single night She fell into -four barrel.
| Great sensation in NOrristown, Penn. Elope-
| nent Wealthy citizens daughter. Coored coachman
| The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided
that rafting violation OF the statute against gaming
| Some mischievous miscreant recently spoiled
well IN st. Louis by pouring into II large quantity Of
| A locomotive ran into and knocked to pieces
street in Burlington, Iowa Sheer Jealousy or con
| tempt probably.
| An apple said to be the largest ever ripened
in the United States been pic ked in Nebraska II
weighs 29i ounces.
| Nevada wants State University partly that
her future great may be taught to manufacture
their own speeches.
The grave of the Poet Perciyal, we are now
informed at Hazel Green. Wis., and Is marked only "
single evergreen tree.
| The biggest locomotive in the world IL
claimed by the Pennsylyania R,road Co. II mas twe'vo
duving wheels. and weighs Is tons
| A colOred Savannah politician now Yields q
hammer in blacksmith shop and finds it more prohta
| Die than the uncertaint ties OF publicfe.
| Eight hundred paper mills in the United
states give employ to 10000 people, and produce
| S70,0O0e0 worth or paper per annum
| A Dubuque man offers his services to pray
with the sick at 50 day He is also willing to drive
| team, break colts, and run a cider mill
| "As never pay my own debts it isn't
likely shall pay hers" This Is tho frank way In which
| a Tacoma man adverti5es his Grant WHO
A novel explosion was that OF cider keg
| in Washington Iowa. knocking out two teeth OF by
| stander and bruising several other persons
California newspaper tells rather leath-
cry story Of striped squirrel which was seen leading
| blind rattlesnake to his mole IN the ground
| A lion escaped from menagerie is madly
meandering through the woods OF Benton Co. Ind and
| helping himself to the poor domestic animals
| Justiniano Roxas, aged 122 years, the vener-
able Mission Indian still alive and ENJOYING the hos
| pitalty of the Sisters Hospital in santa Cruz
| Baptismal names of a girl in Griffin, Ca.
| Ieye Aun Estelavie Caledonia Desalouda Lucrezia
| Borgla Neal. Colored, but no relation u Lucy
! Kansas girl wouldn't be married without
yellow ribbon around waist. aud a boy rode eight
| niles to get it while the wedding guests waited.
| In Sedgwick County, Kan, one Fritz Snltz-
Ter hauled 1000 barrels of water TO make hs cabbaSes
! grow; and the grasshoppers got them after all
If you have tears, prepare to shed them
| A
reis onions for the East Profit o. 60 per barrel
| The Champion Father lives in Carbon County,
Pa. German. 73 years old and is parent OF 20
| children. the youngest being only four months old
| Of onions, 10000 bushels have been harvested .
this year In Cornwall VT 1t is no trouble nor much ex
pense to behave properly at funeral In that town.
A wild negro boy has been captured in tho
woods in Tanner County, Texas They have dressed
him 10 Oicloth aprou ana are trying to tame him
A lOw-sDirited horse committed suicide In
,vc bia intn the MI
holding it there until he was smotherei 10 DEATH
The people of Omaha complain with lit
tie show Of Justice that they are n@ BY Outsider"
Awoman in West Chester, Penn, recently tes-
tilted that during professional career OF 10 years she
had prepared for the tomb not fewer than 5000 bodies
A nice young gentleman has attracted attcn-
in the streets OF ST. Paul He 10 IS years old feet
high feet the shoulders and weighs 500 pounds
The refusal of the indianapolis Common
Council to provide the Of that city with white
kid gloves created great indignation in the engine
houses
1t is stated curious circumstance that
there are just vessels of all descriptions owned in
Canada They ought to buy and hni sh up the
cool 1000.
| There is man who has lived within 20
of Gordonsve. Va. for 60 years and has never
visited that town. An attractive place Gordonsviie
Va, must be.
| An Atlanta newspaper eXclaims +" The sur
face OF printed matter Sundays will
greater than the whole City of Atlanta Ad-
| vertise in 1t J"
| That Sitlka may one day be one Of tho
greatest pbudiug cities in the Western territory oc
the United States is what cheers and encourages Tho
| Alaska Herald.
man and his wife, he 81 years old and
she o. fued for drunkenness ia Oakland. CAL. the
other day. Such people should he cared for until they
| come TO years OF discretion
| Fairfield, VT, gOries in an elm tree whose
branches measure lO5 fee. across the trunk One OF
the limbs feet long, and four feet from the ground
| the tree is four feet through.
| A woman laboring under the misfortune of
| being named Mrs. Humbug runs dairy at Trinidad,
| Col Her works are good way on but New Workers
| must have eaten some OF her butter.
| The merry marriage bell will not be rung at
Des Moines certain pair because the ardent young
man bought IL of pills auction aud sent half Of
them to his intended as a birthday gift
| The strongest man in Cincinnati is q doctor
| who can hold Of equal weight with himself 1t
arms length in either hand: He can also. with his
| fingers twist "a ten penny nail into a screw.
| Women, it is said, are no longer scarce in
Nevada as is evident from the fact that q crosseyed
female with her front teeth out recently allowed TO
| shoulder her trunk and carry IL to the hotel
! From the stomach of Capt. Otis Rogers OF
| Marshfeld Mass, has been extracted animal five
inches long which he thinks he swallowed while drink
| ing from a pool in South Carolina during the war
| The man out West who put mucilage into
his empty hair oil bottle is regarded with feelings Of
hatred by the servant girl. whose locks Ia such
| state of Stiffness that sue cannot shut her mouth
| A dentist in Wisconsin who found II neces-
sary TO kiss young lady while filling her teeth,
called upon by her papa with shot gun. He paid tho
parent $500 not to fire. beiug exceedingly ayerse 20
| noise.
| A st. Louis woman, who appeared against
her husband court recently, follows: since
he married me he has never given penny and I've
| mad mi m n.