New-York tribune., 1876-10-23
GENERAL NOTES.

Another well-planned fraud has met with
susn failure The slab Of sandstone containing hu-
mso footprint and two bird tracks, which was recently
uDAhed at North Canton, Conn., has been submitted 10
Ps Marsh Of Yale College He says that the slab Is an
s-siecial stone in which the impressions were made
wiz II was soft II was fashioned with great skill. and
ki apparently been buried for some ne 20 S 10 nave
=. Nrient l9ok II il said that the owner has taken
psc:son Of tie stone to Chicago for sale there.
The experiments which Prof. A. Graham
b. PAS been recently making relative to the transmits
s st speech by wire have been quite successful Two
operators were stationed two miles apart one IN Boston
asi other in Cambridge. The battery Ordinarily usel
HIs replaced by one OF zen carbon eieul, n. az! IA
t youuds were indisnct but sOOr they grew clear ana
uslgible The operators carried on long c2NNest-
t and on subsequently, comparing their records sscer
tzsSei that the tones had been TRANSMITTED WIKI perfect
seszcacy.
Although misers are not a public-Spirited
&s- they treated with great Indulgence whenever
snsy ne and have very elaborate obituary notices in
lossy columns This seems to have been very trying
sson for them certain is that they are going OIL very
rp,say in all parts Of the country and their cccenric
t1s most faithfully chr0mcied III t1t newspapers
TIE money Is in nearly every instance sccIeted IN
srzage place. and the mOnOmanlac geneidy dcs WIN
Osi telling where It Is his thought being perhaps that
H. ,lOst can keep al eye II after dissolution An old
nHss who died about four months ago IN Maysvile Ky,
h 81 200 worth Of United states bonds u two mustard
bsrs and buried them IN pile OF scralr"o0d ID MS
ITB1ty The wood sold about ten days ago to rag
pi5@s7 for IS cents aud while he was gathering IL 10
gfTser bystander picked up the mustard boxes and
bond the bonds.
= Tie Burlington Hd,rkeye now has the reputa-
Eaa Of having funniest original paragraphs in the
Asiesn press The following extract IS fair lustra-
tz s humOr which is in nearly the same vein as the
ori1aal Dan6rry Ne0s paragraph The donation
psy season is opening rather early this aud tho
miaxters are Wishing they had put of their centennial
hr8says The other night they had donation party at
Ezaister's out North Hill. They brought him two
dChrs worth Of beans, four dollars worth Of wood, and
OFlars worth Of potatoes, and ate up i've dollars
Wts7A OF cake. one dollars worth OF cream, one
dc.hS's worth Of apples, two dollars worth Of nuts,
brsGs seven dollars worth OF furniture and knick-
knls ruined sixty dollar carpet by breaking lamp
and finally went away and left the gaze open, ana
siyy-fyo dollar got ont and hasn't been seen nor
heEF OF since The next day the sufferer went around
AM ried the cergymen Of the city, and they formed
'EsitdOnation society league They have sent on TO
ChBego for terrier dogs and shOtgns, which are eI-
pcsa1 10 arrive some time next week"
Tkt opening of an enormous grOttOat BurgOs, in
Bpss has been followed by the discovery Of mysterious
cgEfc7 in France. While wOrkmen were cutting Jura
limestone quarry Belfort, they noticed a small
hOif and after widening the opening with their pick
sxsS found themselves in vast cavern the floor OF
about six feet lower than the Orfco. Heaps
0f kEuan skulls and bones lying about, although
opening but the which the work
ma had made themselves could be discovered.
On E2e side were beautiful cOlumnar stalag-
nfsA without corresponding stalActte5 IRON
ia rsof they resembed marble mausOleums ar
BS name, for advancing further into the Interior
Tn explorers remarked certain systematic arrange
81 loose blocks IN the shape Of dOmcns In these
hAf atura, halfarthcial cavities whole skulls, thlgn
AMI S1Oulder bones seem some OF them half i'm
De45 the stAlagmites. Associated with these were
slOns implements, polished rings ana bracelets OF the
ann material, and three fine vessels IN the shape OF
EA sith nammilated handles, and designs on toe OUT