New-York tribune., 1876-08-18
GENERAL NOTES.

Millions of grasshOppers are prospecting III
the Black Hills.
Twenty-eight paintings have been lent to
the Yale Ant school for exhibition and 30 casts from
Grecian sculptures have been purchased abroad.
The ancient mariner no longer tells fish
sories even the sea-serpent has lost its b"d upon his
imagination he to potato bugs now The captain
OF New London vessel reports being bodcd al sea by
Colorado beetles They appeared IN snch over" he'is
force that the matches mad to be closed.
The Boston AdrertiSer respectfully requests
Senator Jones to sink shafts and build high bridge
from Bergen Hill to the City Hall, using the new Court
house or Muletts POstOice as a station. THIS IL says
wouid open up Babylon Jerusalem, and HCcLebeIIy
Swamp. aud send down the Senator 10 pOslerty III te
chariot OF fame
An engineer in San Francisco exhibited to
the Academy of Sciences week ago a fying-na-
chine which he hoped TO test practically within 10
days He calculated its of flight at fIOm 100 to $50
miles per hour and thought would be possible to cross
the continent in il IN day. Buoyancy Il derived rom
extended aerial plane sutIrT, Ji 3 NO ,cr ~ iar,
The prOpelers can ho operated wan either iclerse OF
forward movement, and with "a ruGCef ana tll-Peec'
Steam will be used as a motor
Lx-Controller Hopkins has been reading the
Buffalo Common Council lecture rctrenchment. He
began with the BiIdave. sewer, and passed by easy
stages the tax-loan fund and scrip band to the
municipal debt and ndiscriminatc modes OF local I'M
proyoments and taxation. The total city Gebt Is now
SS 504 ,S62 06. Buffalo has Tie nhest avenue III 'ne
Tinted atcs-save perhaps Eucld-aye., Ccycland its
park h a bcantifuI driveway and city buildings
are striking II not haudsOInc but clubhouse govern
ment is an expensive luxury and exContrcler Hopkins
i'm urging the necessity for retreDchment speaks the
words OF truth and soberness.
The tailor's bill of the shrewd tramp is paid
BY the county this wise one OF the dodgers in the
Cumberland station-house Maryland stripped himself
last week. rent his vermincoycred garments laid them
in pile in the center Of his cell and set h,e 10 them
Pgs of sayorcd smoke escaped from The window, and
tbe officers rushing found MIN cOaXng the cnbeTs
There a for pals but before water could De
brought the old clO reduced 10 ashes. The tramp
willing to do yting to obge the autl"lileS ne
would stay tine staton-house all SUMMER ana boa!d
al the count = expense; he would set out on ns
travels stark naked through TIE yiaSc or !d % %ould %
take st of clothes without reference 70 the cut
He cot the clothes.
Tie Indian Herald, small sheet published
10 the Indian Territory advocates the red mans cause
with considerable vigor. "The people of the United
States" says cannot afford to descend with closed
wings upon these heahens, and rapacious bird OF
prey snatch 2jOOOO souls from this continent for the
sake OF Withholding the few millions of money Dow Que
t ] a, ,te,ed " a. on y ISyti} R H,l' Rvrr cr worth
many times more than the multitude OF dcad-bcai5,
thieves gamblers and scoundres that compose about
nnC-tenths OF the white population 0i the blacA INNS
country"
A colOred gentleman from Philadelphia took
hi place last Saturday the line Of guests at of the
springs in Saratoga, and while quietly waiting Or his
turn 10 be served cOoy informed by one of the en-
ployes that niggeo could 60 down aud get water for
themselves lie did take the afrOnt kindly and Yc
fused with considerable warmth TO 20 down and take
water with the troop OF waters and servants IL was
stupid 0luner for when Saratoga was IN no wise icp'-
sbe No attempt made there to draw the color nc
coored gentlemen treated like gentlemen, aud there
is no occasion for Tie SGydtOg,ds reference, 10 the
Emancipation Proclamation and the Hamburg massacre,
nor for its assertion that this is tie hHcteen
century"
The Adraace having limited that the New
School element of the Presbyterian Church had assumed
the attitude Of terrified submission to the OLD School Ih'
Interior called for bill OF particulars. Reply Is made
that Presbyterian missionary, who was pastor of q
sesupporting church in Brazil was forced to resign be
cause he did accept the standards Of the Od school,
the head and front OF his offending being letter wIic
De wrote TO President Grant complaining tldt IN" Jlhcu
States and Brazil Steamship Company aided sayG-eal
In their illegal traffic hy carrying slaves Tor delivery
at Rio de JanerO sale further South. The Adcdncl
charges that the President Of the steamship luc, aei
giving the Presbyterian Board 5000, complained OIL
this letter and that the recall OF the missionary was
promptly ordered.