New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-11
GENERAL NOTES

"Hopperdozed" is the latest contribution to
tae common speech.
Colorado the youngest of the States, con-
tans than double the number of square miles in
SewYork and Texas more than twice a. large as Colo
RADIO The figures are NewYOrk. 47OOO square miles !;
Colorado, 10000; Texas 247OOO.
Mr.. George W. Childs has pleasant way of
sending New Years greeting to each Of the hundred
thousand subscribers to his Philadelphia Ledger. He
up for them an admirable little local almanac Of
Be pages crammed with all manner OF statistical and
and Pennsylvania together with little about the Gen
sral Government The book Is only given away, never
At Cheektowaga. near Buffalo, the following
remarkable verdict was rendered by Coroners jury
last week: Victor Rehm and Conrad Smith came TO
their deaths the 22d day OF December 1875. on the
crossing Of the Erie Railway the Ely road in tho
town and that the deaths OF said Victor
trelessness negligence Of the Erie Railway or It's EN-
Poyes" The OF death left in some obscuTity,
but the zeal with which the corporation Is yindcaIed is
very handsome.
A Newport lady was shocked one morning
bys ragged urchin's Oaths and raising the window
offered him quarter If he would stop swearing and 20
away. he departed without saying word. The next
morning there detachment of men and boys under
her window and baSpheDy varied with extOruOnate
demands for subsidy. Tie Frordenee journal breaches
asensibe sermon from this little text Give work to
the aDebOded" IL says "give food and shelter TO the
mex give sympathy 10 the distressed ald consolation 10
We afflicted; but beware now you give aims 10 the
lazy The public cannot be cautioned too often against
stng premium upon vagrancy through indiscrlmlnate
shA1ty The eyes should Dc opened before the pocket
book
To thickly populated country like Holland
NE acquisition OF land not already occupied by man
must I've project calculated TO comfort the organs OF
respiration scheme IL foot IN that country for
Retaining 47sOJO OF the Zuyder lee, for which
The Dutch Parliament has voted R160O0.000 sterling.
his ciass Of work is enterprise Between the
Year, ls2S and $40 OF IL $40 acres, at the Zud
~ 10 Loot Of water, pumped dry by windmill power,
IN drainage Of tHe SO-called Scud Of Harle-an extent
" - go ceres lying under an equal depth OF water
wa nted. between $40 aud 1852 the cheaper rate
VI AS per acre by Of steam power, and Ia tis III
~ &c he reclaimed also sold at cost price
t hts has been profitable investment appears from
.o e that and IN both these districts is worth from
StVl" EoO an The estimate for the cost ~ the
-, ef h work rs about sle er acre. and the Govern
heh' expects 10 sell the lana for s35 per
Slice the return of Capt. Mares from his
AFede expedition aud the announcement Of his belief
1si IN open Polar does exist others who hereto
iofe heh we'd that such eOud be found discuss
ns he most economical and practicable mode OF c0nn
ens explorations More than $50 expeditions, at total
e"s Of NJ least SOS 900 and hundreds OF lives have
arraey been sent into tho Arctic waters. OF plans
eh nave lately been proposed The colonization scheme