New-York tribune., 1876-09-07
GENERAL NOTES.

The shovelers along the docks in Buffalo
have struck for higher wages.
The California Changers expect to ship
100000 tons OF wheat to England this Fan.
Visitors to the Centennial Exhibition are said
TO carry home to show their friends enormous specimens
Of the Philadelphia mosquito
At the sale OF tickets for the opening night
OF Mr. Booths engagement in San Francisco, 800 pre-
MUM Was the highest price paid for box
In Napa Valley steps have been taken to
procure Chinese aborers 70 pick the grape crop the
wine market being depressed and greater than usual
economy being necessary
On Thursday, Sept. 2S, 1916, will be observed
the centennial anniversary of the adoption Of the first
Constitution of Pennsylvania. Benjamin Franklin was
the president Of the convention
The death rate in England, as well as in
America has been greatly increased by the intense heat
during Summer The whole OF the Increase oc
cent Of the increase referred 70 cases Of diarrhea
Great excitement has been created among
the people employed the Chicago Rock Island and Pa
cine Railroad ssentyve EpeEs have been dschaTge1 %
remen have struck and trains have oeen somewhat de-
layed
Well. this is an age of utilization. The
rasshopper Nebraska Is being put to practical pur-
posernade carrier dove Of In fact Ono Of these little
felovs was caught near Fillmore the oath Of August
and paper taken from his neck on which was inscribed
Fillmore, and the grassopper must have made excellent
time.
Reading, Penn, boasts bacchanalian bull
frog Is inches long capable of eaping six feet II has
for two years frequented restaurant where II was
brought TO be broed 1t has developed taste for beer
drinking the waste that drops from the spgot into pot
on the floor It often standS up against the pot and
leans over the with It's mouth in the beer When
the pot not very full jumps into the beer ana remains
there awhile.
An English coroner has made a careful in
qury as TO whether the murderers Fish 4pd thompson
lately executed 1T Liverpool met their deaths by trangu
ation disocation OF the vertebse He showed that
by the use Of the long drop" introduced by the present
execrtiOnor MarwOOd the neck OF the doomed Inan Is
Instantly broken BY the fall This ne contends Is not ~
accordance with the sentence to DO hanged p tne neck
until you are Dead" which 1c holds implies stranyu-
lation.
There is great qualification all along the line
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Ecw-Jersey division
Strict orders have been issued TO the engine drivers not
to whistle at night whie passing through towns unless
cases of actual danger; and depot masters have
eeved instructions 70 report any engineer OF fireman
udciOus aud moderate use of The bell aud the mooqu
toes will be little reasonable, sleep wlIl become once
more possible In Newark ana the neighboring towns
Four men, in 1776, who had been captured
board British vessel carved with their jackknires
In wndham Conn, jau. where they were confined, an
image supposed 70 the god Bacchus This they
gave to the widow Cary, who had showed them some
For 80 years the image served tavern sign on the
Green In 1850 t fell from the bis elm on which IL had
Iures received II was then transferred to eating
hoese In Wsimantic, and afterward 20 saloon In Hart
fod completing century VI service tavern sign
The American Free Dress League at its meet
0gn Pbiladeph op Thursday last made interesting
conservative people by unrestraned discussion over
Ne means OF carrying out reforms There WAS Dr. Pink