New-York tribune., 1874-03-14
GENERAL NOTES.

A cork leg found in the street is advertised
ip a Vermont newspaper
A shark weighing 100 pounds was latoly
captured IN the port Of Mszallap.
This has been a good Winter for sliding
down hill III Portland Me. 10 broken arms and legs
attest.
There is an inebriate in Chicago who has
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Three tons of baseball bats have been
shipped nv single Vermont manufacturer to the Boston
II was in Collinsyille Conn., that a mighty
economical old gcutcuan wrote q lines js words on
q sin lie postal card.
The leader of great revival of religion i'll
DE Kalb County Tl, is boy OF H. described as "a
.uo~ fluent cNhOrtcr.'
In Rice County. Mimi, cattle have been
lately killed NV eating barley straw, the boards Of which
rene rate the throat ana cause inflammation
The Governor of Virginia has pardoned
convict upon novel condition that he shall abstain
from Intoxicating fluids for the next three years.
That is a smart boy baby in Oak Harsor,
Ohio He can walk, talk. speak French and English,
whistle and sing and ali ut the tender age OF Is months
The name of the Chinese plant which changes
It's color three times day is the Hibiscus Atadis. and
q specimen has been sent to the Garden OF Accimaon
Brussels.
Mrs. Carrie ,Jessup is the New-Haven lady
who has invented compartment pot In which potatoes,
corned beef Goldfish and plum pudding be sImulta
Deously boiled
In Bennington, VT. two sisters residing
within six miles each other have not met for about
thirty years. There is no ilfeeng between them-it
Gust happened sO.'
One regularity of the WOmen's Temperance
Movement st the West the tong Of Ibells when they
make the whisky seller visit THIS Is like going hack
TO the Middle Ages, when bells were often runs to dis
perse evil spirits
The Perryville, Madison County, Cemetery
hold its
whereupon the local newspaper sarcastically quotes
scripture az II as follows: Let US eau drihE, ana DC
merry, for tomorrow we die"
Mention is made of a strange kind of gull
which has appeared in considerable numbers near Sal
mon River Oswego County 1t ressts attempts to can
ture IT, having a large. sharp beak and great grit lt
measures feet inches from up TO tip.
The most astonishing case OF spontaneous
nuptals has occurred in Hardin County, Iowa. where
couple recently married. and after the ceremony
the bride obliged 10 ask her husband what her new
name The parties had been acquainted only few
hours.
Joseph Harrod formerly of Portland, Me-.
but now OF this State, claims that he introduced the
tomato In this country raising the first plant In 1916
from seeds given him by friend who brought them
nom CUBA. lie expected nothins moro tudh ah orha-
mental plant.
The fossil Saurian lately unearthed IN Da-
kota at Fort Randall IS feet in length, and If
pe rfeet would % feet It Is miscelaneously
made up, with paddles like the whale, crocodlle's
II was probably deyOurer Oi fish and reptiles.
There is pond on the top of mountain
ia Glastonbury. VT. which has a remarkable way OF
getting lost and account Of this facility chfstened
Lost Pond Recently three sportsm"n in search OF
eume happened upon this piece of water aud loaded
themselves with front. The next dav with party OF
friends, they searched ~ hours IN vain 10 mud that pOnd
and. tired and hungry they went home, nuch hshter
IN every respect than the night before.
A Richmond, Va, newspaper notices an ex-
taorGnsry work Of exhibited In shop In that city.
The subject jacobs Dream" Angels, all having
yellow hair and blue WINGS going 10 ana down the
ladder. while JtcOb slumbers III fuli Continental uni
form, excopt Ills boots which Of the COME ierato
cavsIry fashion and close at hand. resting rock is
q hunting t1ss.
! The young folk in Newark. Ohio, have had
dance FOO The benefit Of church. and cleared The
church decliacd tue money because Of the dancing
Then the benevolent Terpsicborcans ttei give the
money % another church but rcpllsed In
rs 80 bard 20 get rid OF In additional festivy-nay
/ bc, an oyster supper.
! Here is IA tale which may encourage those
vino III search OF lost hidden tr.asuro and NAV
aso have reyiyiug effect upon the American heirs of
estates D England valued Ut from 00CO to BOO
oCO coo lee the same less In the township of King
so miles north of Toronto IL ago, lady died
making uuintelligible signs toward immense Ghost
lew days ago her sold out and the buyer OF that
chest found therein 500 tes Hut gold IN old stock
ings. Tae claimed the money aud had Gs lDim
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