New-York tribune., 1874-07-08
GENERAL NOTES.

hOnldnllC bCHOOi BlIls HOW rpCil J'HJ "i'h
a final ie."
Second Adventists now say Jan. 1, 1901.
This is comfortable
Paper flour barrels are now made in large
numbers at Decorah. Iowa.
Portland, Me-, Is to have new Far Grounds
and a TrOtting Park, costing s25,OOO
Forty pounds of tallow were lately taken
from one sheep in Grayson County, Texas.
The fine new big hotel is to be built at
once in Providence, r. l.. and is to cost 100000.
A Lebanon (Ky) gentleman so ardently
greeted ongabsent wife that he broke one of her ribs
Denver, Col, is advancing in civilization
for complaint OF dirty streets there is long and loud
A rattlesnake ten feet or more Ill length and
thick a mans arm has been seen near Ffenchto"h'
Mrs. LovejOy, age 6s, residing near Baldwin
CITY, Kansas gave birth a bouncing boy few days
since.
Female convicts are made to blast and pound
rocks St. Louis. Tue rights Of woman are being grad
ually recognized everywhere
A Connecticut editor announces that he has
bought $500 dog and meet the most rascible
caller with smile OF calm content
1t is shrewdly observed that sawdust pills
would cure a great many diseases If the patient
would ouly make his own saWuust.
Girls are scarce and proportionately precious
in Lac qui Parle Mum, there being only one gir to
"Would you like to smoke upon your death
beds" is the last argument addressed by an anti
tobacco man to consumers of the weed.
Rochester has coroner named Harder,
wherefore some desperate humoris observes that 1t is
hard enough TO be set on by an ordinary coroner
Miss Anna Berger of Flint City plays the
coret great and velocity ana therefore she
has been elected honorary leader of Gardners CITY
Band.
Keoluk, Iowa, has had a visit from flour
ishiug haud-orsan man who owns farm IN Wisconsin
worth 700 1t isn't stated whether he was military
OF ltaIidn.
A trout weighing 14f pounds was hooked in
Lake George the other day by q Mr.. Buel. but 1t
found necessary him in the head before he could
be landed.
mnumerable frogs have lately appeared at
Lone Tree Nebraska. Hundreds crushed by wagons
Streets aud people cannot step without treddIIg
on them.
There are various ways of estimating wealth
Down IN Dixie. for instance, man is looked upon rs
millionaire if his fortune is only half As large as Gov.
M0ses's debts.
An Iowa justice has tried to improve busi-
ness by Offering marry at the low price of two sh-
ngs "A couple but spite OF this, he complains that
business continues very bad
A matchmaker of POughkeepse gets the
correct time once in every "a hours IRON the VassaF
College Observatory and transmits II 10 the Town coch
ON the Post-Ofce by electricity.
Frank Devine, at Portsmouth, \. H., being
day last week very hot placed his head beneath
pump spout, and let the water run upon 1t. lie was
carried home put To bed and died the next morning
A young lady III Wheeling, Va, has dis
carded because OF his snoring propensities
chair when tue discovery fatal TO his hopes was made.
The largest steamboat ever built on Saginaw
River was lancbed the 1911 of June. The Bay CHy
(AIlch) Tribune gives her dimensions as follows
Length keel 226b feet; length over ali, 2n feet
breadth or beam, 31t feet measurement l4CI TONS
The latest joke about Tupper's Proverbial
Philosophy" is that it has been dramatzed by Mr Dion
Boucicault for the Queens Thea;er We think mono
graph upon the wonderful work. containing all that mas
been and written about IT, would DC al entertaining
volume
People who are weary of the dull safety of
civilization aud who pine for the excitements OF savage
life should move to Bancroft, Me-, where there IL a
plenty bears walk unOushngy up TO the hOuses'
kill young cattle and even dog the footsteps OF pedes
, ,
A lady walking on the street at Portland,
Me-, lately found herself on fire. She screamed (ot
courseJ. and running neighbOrng shop, bucket
Of water extngushed the flames Her clothing was
badly burned but she was hardly Injured at all LIE
origin Of this cOnfagratl0n remains u mystery
Maiden, Mass boasts the sharpcst boy IN the
United States He Is only IS years old. Last year he
took the Job Of cleaning his fathers dOorseps for so
cent, and subet il to three boys for cents each
His latest speculation was to hire boys to pick 100
punches of yioets at one cent bunch, which he sod
The Fish Commissioners of California con-
gtuate the people OF State the bright prospect
OF eating shad for breakfast They feel confident that
the shad imported three years have returned 10 the
sacramento River, spawned, and LEFT again for the
ocean. Several young shad nave Deeh ciuHhi III the
Vallejo aud McCOud Rivers aud some places along the
coast.
An amorous young gentleman in Thomson,
Ga undor the impression that the sweet voice OF his
beloved was calling him, lately walked Ia the night out
Of his second story bedroom window. When he struck
the ground and broke ankle aud pain and anguish
were wrnging his whole leg, lie was forced 10 get along
without auy uniserng angel Tor theFe was none 10 oe
We believe that we have given no account
OF the Unlucky Locomotive No 7C-the Passalc-on
which John Williams was lately Killed IL was oahl at
tbe Rogers shops in Patterson. When finished IL
hauled up tested. when 1t fell down ana ked Two
mon When IL had entered upon active career, one
of the first Thing, which did fail through the
saddle River Bridge Rochelle Park Then IL engaged
in two VIGOROUS sniashups one at the West bnd ana tue
other up the road there any fouOc on the
rad there No 10 Is sure be found and II II goes on
or rather goes much at this rate, No iOs chaHce
OF being sold for old iron seens 10 DC particularly eoVu
1t must be pleasant to be arrested Tor muI-
der especially when you are as Innocent as "a whoie
flock OF lambs A man named John johnson having
been killed IN Dss M0ines, and "a washerwoman having
received bloody shirt aud coat 20 wash that Intelligent
woman so described the person who brought her these
Garments that the police forthwith arrested MI san
clin The washer identified him, ana the police JOyfuly
locked him up lie might have been Tled convicted,
and xecuted only Mr.. Eldrdge reading oi siucln
arrest informed the police that tue DiODdy sIt was s'
ana thai he attained that garment after toothdrawng
foIIowad by copious bleeding. 30 both men were
honorably discharged, and the police are pursuing eS"