New-York tribune., 1874-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The Jenkins of The Siour City Journal de-
scribes one OF the bellies of bail room as "a graceful
little toad"
Georgetown Mass, has been scandalized by
the marriage OF consulate widower the day after his
Grsts funeral
Only nine families, it IS stated. are lett in
pitholo CITY, Penn. 1t once boasted population Of
1900. Sic transit!
cabinet-make in Michigan is making q
cabinet which shall exhibit the 53 varieties OF woods
that grow III that state
ioyial party of five Indian skeletons sitting
in one grave round succotash kettle has been disin
tered at Mantle. Conn.
grayestone in a New-H Hampshire grave
ward has bull engraved on IT, as follows sacred to
the memory OF three Twins
II is said that there are old people living in
the mountains OF Kentucky who have never tasted or
seen tea coffee in their liyes
Jeremiah Cox, s. years old, of Richmond,
Ind chopped cord OF wood and sent 1t as GIFT, last
week to the Home Of the Friendess
Thos. Dunston of Weathersfed, VT, is just
dead aged CT years eay9g widow ssT AcI years old
How many shoes are made in Massachusetts
may he conectured from the fact that North Bridge
water alone turns out 10000 pairs daily.
In Harrington, Me-, g. Il. Smith nearly lost
his life the otner day by fayng poisoned fox Milk
and the whites Of a dozen eggs saved lnn
A man bearing the wise and philosophical
belonging 20 the authoress OF his existence.
A locomotive at Oshkosh, Wis, lately exhib-
tied astonishing agility for it jumped from its track to
one which ran parallel feet of. and landed there
sQuarey Oh the rals
They say that in a Florida colored school
the boys are taught to sing this " am little
Radical-I glory ID the name would not be Demo
crat, Because 1t ~ a shame"
The champion pOtat0-grOwer Of the West
ia Joseph Long OF Mdrgaretta, Ohio. Twenyone OF his
Shaker russes make plump half bushel, and some OF
them individually weigh two pounds
Three prisoners escaped from Akron Jail.
Ohio last week. They cut of three bars with notched
caseknyes. denuded themselves soaDed their bodies
and slipped and wrlggled into freedom.
John COwdin of Boston offers to give
OOCO TO have old south Church and the land around
1t preserved as monument forever" The fate OF the
Paddock ems has doubtless alarmed him.
Style in which an oath was administered BY
n German Justice OF the Peace In Lncoln wis: "You
n, awnilly swear you will tell the truth. the whole
truth and nothing put the truth. the best what you
can't"
Somebody boasts in Western newspaper
OF being the happy possessor Of new, nrstcass orods
watch which rams an hour forty minutes. and with the
assstance OF hands mas gained enough to pay io'
itself in three weeks
Two smart Detroit damsels have been ar
rested for taking possession Of locomotive opening 'hs
throtte-valve. and starting the machine They lumpeS
on leaving the locomotive TO run into anu
do s7OO worth OF smash
Sharp Supervisors they have in Mscoup'n
County H. Being fined for contempt OF court IN r"i"s
ing 10 levy the taxes dispute IN that county, 'ey
mediately voted appropriation oui oi 'ho e'u"S
treasury 10 pay the nne.
They have been initiating Gilmore's gun
powder music in small way in Bethel. Bath County
Ky where at snging-sch several OF the yocahss
got 40 out OF tune each other that ~ lnuiser.S
nate pistol shooting WAS iouno necessary "f0''''
mony.
Dog killing sheep and goats are the lstess
novelty in the pastoral way John Jones OF Magnols
Ark is As rich as Job before his diculties he ns
500 Cashmere goats, 900 Mernos 800 Coeswold' an'
souhdowns all doing we'll Mr. Jones writes 10 ~" 80.
To,us RspubIiean that his sheep "Instneti'en nSe
dogs" do his goats love them any better, osl, .nS
docks" saws this patriarch. have bitten hookea, s
other wise killed more than thousand head ol uoss.
aud now sheepk dog will not CONS wltniu . .isS
OF them" aud their "long. sharp horns fsuehoo ~
tlsso much worried oreAtages has eeAssa' "s svpp'
In Ia a