New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-25
o GENERAL NOTES.

/ among the lnportauODh lIom aitoH it'
A Massachusetts newspaper announces
births" under this heading: "O1r Young Folks Tor
June
A Pittsburgh. Penn, newspaper announces
that the Legislature pasted the b over the Governors
/ mead"
Mrs. Jas. Keezer of COntocook, N. H., I'M
dertook hang herself. but Will recover because she
used an elastic cord.
The latest Joke is, that in Chicago a notorious
vagabond has been sentenced, said, to tue Common
Council FOR two wears.
Baraboo, Wis, advertises for a clergyman
who instruct the well dIspoe aud knock down and
! drag out disturbing sinners
| One man on the McMasters farm, near st.
Joseph picked quarts strawberries 10 seven days
His best days picking was $50 quarts.
Deputy United States Commissioner OF
Fisheries to lace 5000 shad IN the head-waters
OF the Brazos and Colorado rivers. in Texas.
There is no fruit in Florida that thrives so
well as the dg The orange uncertain and has ruined
many cultIyatOrs but the az Is neyer-failns.
The tin-bOxing of sardines has begun in
California These delicate fish abound from San Diego
10 Puget Sound, and the boxers so cents per bushe
for them.
The mOlar of a mastOdOl was recently ex-
humed near Waterloo, Ind. It weighs six pounds 10
eight inches long and has four prongs and four double
/ crowns.
A horse named Chunk walked in the Fourth
OF July procession NewBedford, Mass. He IL Is years
old and has been used oy tAe fire department for ouf
teen years
Colorado is a fine place for speculatlOns.
pauper recently escaped from the poorhouse there
and made 81 800 IN land specuiaons before he could be
recdptured.
What an amount of human (male) suffering
s included the fact that Old maid in Lowell Mass,
has had forty offers OF marriage, and can show docu-
mentary evidence TO prove H.
Mosquitoes are described in a certain part
OF Mnnesotaias thicker than the surrounding foliage
with wings ike ApOyons. 0eak like an Areslan
augur. ana voice like the sound OF many waters
Mrs. Mary Feely of st. Louis, travelling on
tho Vandala train, though she put her poeketDook IN
her stocking robbed OF IT, her hose being cut open
while she inn0centy slumOered.
Nasty old gray-headed devils" is what the
Rev. J. H. Magee, pastor OF a Cincinnati coored conSre-
CATION called several Of his most ancient deacons Con
sequeny shepherd Magee s IN trouble win MS sheep'
A rather unique wedding Occurredsat Camp
Brown, Wyoming. lately, young man named Gibson
marrying a squav u years old. The marriage was sol,
emnZ amid an extraordinary exuDerance OF spirits
The editor of The Pddacab Kentuckidn
having accepted nomination for the office Of coroner
,ays that years experience within the precincts
Cairo renders him an excellent Judge OF dead man
II was considered deed of magnanimity for
q san Francisco street crowd 20 allow Chinaman 60
dcrart with his life after having killed two immense
dogs that mad been set upon MIN by some OF It's mem
beers.
It's dreadful 10 Julnh OIL Il ctdbS AAoOu
corruptly managed. or the stronghold at Jefferson
CITY No II is said: 1.-THE thing smells 10 heaven.
Roitenuess unexamped begins to tester through the
entire management
Reason enough there was for his doing it
George Fakenstein, mean, who committed suicide
az Pittsburgh PENN the other day; for he il described
foreigner. unmarried, despoadelt, honeslcK' aAd
| full OF drink Poor feuOW
4 dead eagle was found near Detroit by boys
a few days snce-a very large one, winch had been
wounded by hunters bullet, and bad dropped
there die. Here Is opportunity, ladies', IOr neat
little poem-Only don't send II to US
4 Minnesota divine, in an unguarded moment
ana in the course his discourse. called 50 OF his 1Ock
empty heads" Empty or fu-headed. they have since
pertnacousy refused to pay their pew taxes and me
! fortunately being fuller than their heads.
It's ever thus, or at least frequently. AT
school picnic Mission Greek, No. lately the boys mad
| a lively time about a lovely girl One young had
fray with q saugunaTy prOOcScls. The thrd youth,
" who didn't care TO tight got the girl
A Post-Office agent, travelling in Texas, tells
of successful use Of the gIl Of rattlesuake
tidoe for the bite of that reptile. In the spoken
or relief almost instantaneous 10 the patient VINO
writing IN pdroxy SINS OF great PAM ana rapidly
swelling ana becoming purple.
There have been questions enough already
started which remain unanswered This is one objection
70 debating societies. They create interrOgatlve
spirit ana promote the unsettled For instance, why
did Vermont debating society unnecessarily ana wan
touy raise the question: Winch eat the most chickens
-nIuIsters or OwlsP
There is nothing more misleading than loose
statistics are. Here have a statement that the
number Of deaths resulting from the sale and use OF
,dulteraed coal OIL amounts 20 1850 annually all the
states and Territories The number Is undoubtedly
than 1t should be; but how does anybody know
thar IL j. Just 2,OOOi
A hydrOphObical wolf cannot be an agree
able creature 10 meet IN depths Of the wilderness. In
rpt~ al mo enm han
dogs one OF these mad creatures once got INTO mill
tary encampment ana on six dogs There were "a at
that tune the camp, and II wac deemed prudent TO
shoot every one OF them
II is bad to be bitten and not know what
bites you. Austin, Texas, is immensely annoyed by
gnat small be invisible 20 the naked eye an n-
sect with bill SO delicate and gentle mat The bitten
knows not his wound until he hnds himself pinply All
over Then he SENDS, greatly scared, Tor doctor, ana
thinks he mas the smallpox
Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Hayes of Delaware
County o. the proud parents Of boy who, though
but "A years OF age weighs 40J pOlnds-a strong we'll
proportioned and unusually intelligent LAD. They do
not however, always nave the same lnck' Tor one OF
m the opposite direction from his face
Mr. Thomas Chevies of Twiggs County, Ca,
aged Co. being very methodieal man and feeling that
the cay departure at hand went 70 an under
takers shop and bought beautiful coffia Then he
provided himself with burial snlt, ana attended 10 me
purchase OF lovely monument. Then ne went nome
ana died peacefully with the consoling conscou.aess
tnat IN the pOst-mOrtem ARRANGEMENTS there would be
nothing contrary " MS personal tastes
II is curious to consider how common lying
Is and how easy IL be. There 49, boys in the
Connecticut Reform hool and the official report
of the Superintendent makes the interesting statement
that lust ars Strange Is Mt II Where
could one look for yeracity OF the whtes aud most
scrupuOus with certainty Of finding II than
in A Reform ScnOUi There out little need OF
takug any sucn census The boys are there because
tney are iarS-there nothing wonderful about 1t.
The following seasOnable and touching ex-
tract is from The st. Joseph (Aio) Herald "Adophus
aud Angelina futer into the drug stores occasionally,