New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-10
GENERAL NOTES.

Somebody saws that One-legged soldiers
should be remembered. This is the only respectable
pun which we have for five years and as such we
reprint It,
The Green Bay CWis.) dentist who recently
stopped work young lady's teeth to perform deli
cate operation upon her lips, mas pad her tatner sOO
and all is serene
This is the neat toast given by a bachelor at
a banquet in Newcastle, England The women and coal
OF Durham County-O how desolate would the treside
be without them
I'm Fall River, Mass, all school teachers are
now required wait "a hours after the commission OF
the oense before they fog for IT, There will probably
he very little fogsng IN that town.
A Newburyport (Nass.) mother with her
ten children weigh together one ton. Even the baby
weighs 100 pounds and probably brought up to the
'materna font" by means or an elevator
I'm ColebroOk, n. H., two unnatural parents
tied child into bed and left it there TO DISTURB tn"
neighbors with its hideOs screaming while they went
TO church Very properly they have been arrested.
AT an election of officers of the Franklin
Lyeeum in Providence, r. L. the other night there were
IA tickets the field. The teapot must have been I'M
commonly strong il III accommodated such tclhpos'
without bursting.
The Berks County PENN Prison Inspectors
having allowed couple OF prisoners tobacco. it turns
that by state statute conyiets are not to be per
United chew smoke unless under the special dlrec
ton OF an attending PHYSICIAN
A smart boy i'm Whiting CHAM, VT, recently
removed from face of the earth barns carriage
house. 80 tons of hay, cow pig, calf and various
carriages He did IL with very little EFFORT, merely BY
dropping a lighted match in the hay.
An epicure in Vermont writes to his local
newspaper that having INDUCED freely in the eating Of
frogs his hands are now covered with what his doctor
calls humorous engagements OF the vascular paplll@
and nduraous OF the surrounding epldernls ls
warts.
Ii is in Glastonbury, Conn.,, that the two
Misses Smith, ancient single ladies', announce their de
termination paw more taxes until they are allowed
vote They Will submit TO seizure OF tner property
because they cannot help themselves, but pay they
will not
One of the most venerable quarrels now
going on in country regular chronic one, Is that
raging between the towns of Glastonbury and Wethers-
field Conn, about boundary line. Through recent
judicial decision, il has become exceedingly fresh ana
as lively as ever though II is 100 years old.
There is an old lady 100 years old in Louis
ynle-Mrs Ellen stanberry. She has been neither a
chewer nor a smoker nor snuder nor has she been an
imbiber Of the lifeprolonging whisky but upon the
occasion of her Onehundredth Christmas 1t was oh
Sved that she disposed much turkey as any sister
present.
The Somerset Club in Boston has fine
boung ALLEY attached to its premises on Beacon-s
nut the neghbors naturally object the
Of the roi.ing balls The city Government has author
ized the PLAYING OF nepns WIN the windows ana ven,
warm work for the rollers
Mention is made of book printed 200 years
ago aud published. II is edition Of the Ouo
r. v H. rntedpy the Plantins in 1917. and recently
discovered folded 10 sheets in an old house In Amster
dam It is spoken OF small, prety printed in red
and black with and fresh when II from
the press few copies have found their way 10 London.
There is an old lady in Portland, Me-, who
thinks most decidedly that she should have pension.
She is the widow OF Sewa Prince soldier OF the
OF 1872 During five generations, all but two OF the
members OF her family have served In the
navy from the Pequot war down 10 the close OF the
o,.Iltn a m has haan N
IN the Florida war, in which they have not been
counted IN.