New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-13
GENERAL NOTES.

! A man in Iowa has applied for a patent for
| pIow to b. worked by wind power.
The experiment of carrying letters Oh the
| street is to be tried AZ Cleveland. Ohio.
The great fshway at HOlyOkc Dam, Mass,
built at an expense $50 900. il pronounced failure
sixteen cases Of buggy stealing in one day, in
Chicago lent interest the criminal phenomena OF that
Robbinstown, Me-, boasts that it is so healthy
that within years has actually starved out four
dOetofa
San Francisco is to have an enormous shirt
factory to employ 400 por0o0s-one-hhf Of them Mon
goiails.
A machine has been invented in England
for making hay ny heat cost Of eight shii
lings per ton.
Enoch Morris, 81 years old has cleared this
year With his own hands IL acres OF new ground In
faudIng County, Ga.
A Madison (Wis) newspaper complains that
burdocks feet high growing in the streets OF that
city. This must he .orsr than grass
One of Brigham Young's better fractional
parts has eIopcd with military but the Prophet
having few more left doesn't miss her.
A robin in Troy defended her young the
other day successfully from the attacks OF eat That
nrss retired whou, bird supper ard utterly discoa
hted.
A Kentucky court lately sent man for two
years u ieitcntsry for killing another man. and
second cupr four years 10 the Same place for steal
ing hogs
! A respectable young lady in BOwdoinlam
No has created excitement and distressed her friends
by clopng with lover who has served two terms III tho
state Prison FOR horsc-stcilipS.
| Mrs Jesse Durham of LadOga, Ind, was
bothered by the possession She dstrsted the
banks and mid her treasure D barrel of sand she now
offers $500 for the thief ana money
Mr. McGregor of San Francisco made money
fast enough when he bought the tottins horse Abe
Edgingon for Sl3ooo aud few hours after sold him
/ FOX 100000 IA Gen. Stanford
Mrs. Rachel Fisher, Il distinguished (colored)
soprano singer. died early in July in Philadelphia sac
formerly resided in Troy ANA was always star singer
! in concerts given by the colored people
In Uallowcll. Me-, the other day, during u
thunder STORM several fishermen. after some par!ey,
concluded not 10 take shelter in she'd they went on
and struck by lightning before they were out OF
sight.
II is said that the scholars in the Normal
School in Westled, Mass turned Solets green by dip
ping them in aud the botanical teacher eonSe-
lci;iy ecred upon the discovery Of anew and inter
cstng flower.
There WAS q Denver boy who pulled the
bung out OF barrel and stuck in his thumb the barrel
rolled over the thumb fractured aud then anIu-
tatcd And the parent. anxious to turn penny,
has sued the owner OF the barrel for $1,000 damages
Mrs Helen Stanbury. who died mt Louisville
Ky. short time since. was 100 years months ana
day old. She ouiliyed her husband 80 years had .
in the battle of Waterloo, Hd another caPturt
by pirate, in the West Indies "a century ago
AT "a meeting OF thc Union Medical Associa-
ton of Norh-East Ohio hold at Aewburgh lately, bliss
Helen L. Bates, II. d., read disser atom upon Con
sentative (yn.pcOogy." We have s0ngt our Webster
big volume which has often brought relief 10 oar ds
tracted mind but, though found gyneoerary ana
"pyuecisln and gynarchy and oiIei derivatives 81
the good old Greek "g'me," we couldn't NM gyh@co
ogy" Does it, mean the Science OF WOmenl or does
III an d,,hthcra Group ~ measiesf nrrc Ism the
IpnSt port Irlcns dissertation which doubtless
WA, very good but question arises whether theS
har words conducive To loNeiihrss oi the mouth
a, the old standard " prunes and prisns y
Extraordinary is u rooster now residing at
Grand Rapids Mich Generally these pugnseous birds
contend only with another hut this cock flies at higher
game First he wrcsed with thrre- year-od colt, hit
ting him with spurs and flying at bis and finally
compelling thai colt to retreat Then the victorious roos
tar tackled u She tOsscs him OH her horns hho
he variably mp slling ana roews
The rorb.t. Tis drawn hattie tiIs !ar, WIN Odd. IN
In favor OF the I,,stcr. The same proud bird Tears
nn Tie face OF any man. aud Eicy compelled one who
iterfcrcd with him ~ retreat III very dcnorsze con
dillon.
journalism has received another severe blow.
band of gypsics-the real Egyptian articie-being in
teryewed" at Denver by reporter the spokesman OF the
party person VI olive complexion and black piercing
eyes, informed the inquirer without the least regard for
hi feelings that h. didn't snap Of his fingers Tor
the new As he coupled this with statement
thai no despi,ed booileaIping. We arc Just little
con ,olrd This Gsregard OF literature Is tho more re-
markale as the family Of this tribe Is SAID bf Inc
reporter be- Boswell The biograper OF Dr. Johnson
like ali cutcnnen, fully believed III the antiquity OF is
family, bat We doubt IL lie with all his vanity
Counted back to Pharosh and The pyranlds