New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-12
GENERAL NOTES.

.Ine memorial windows with which the Hon.
Robert C. Winthrop Enlightened the body of Trinity
Church, Boston, rich in color and elaborate IN
design Each measures six feet by four and contains
two designs executed in stained glass One represents
the Good samaritan and Dorcas the other Abraham pre-
pairing TO sacrifice Isaac, and in the second DIVISION
Fnnice Meanwhile the pewrent controversy RACES.
The good people who live in such beautiful glass mouse
ought not TO throw stones Mt one another
The Wesleyan University Club had its an
nua dinner in Boston Monday night, under the fol-
owing conditions OF scrvitude "A illusions to Greece
and Rome will be Kissed by the walters police reverse
Recent graduates may yrae the poex on the proboscs
Sealed proposals for the consulate in Liberia Will be re-
ceyed by an attending bishop recently from that diocese
The contribution boxes have been carefully nlsaid ana
mo subscription paper OF description VIII he clicu
lated ANY one aitemptng 70 ihcieaSs e
Bertha Won Hitler has a beautiful figure
She has a long and steady stride She has long step
and firm tread. She looks in perfect health She walks
with her shut, with painting and no hurry her
gown is short and blue her stockings are OF the heavenly
color her boots without heels her hat is small ana
gray Her face is frank intelligent, and pleasant Her
hair II. ght and massive. Round and round she goes
With the regularity of machine. she is very attractive
10 everybody who sees her In Boston shc mas just
walked 30 miles in trle over II hours
Daniel went down into the lions den In
San Francisco on April 2. While a cage containing Il
lion. loness, and a tiger was trundllng along the
streets in the rear of circus procession war broke out
within II was a proud moment for Daniel, the lion
tanner lie went down, serene and brave, not with the
traditional blue cotton umbrella III his hand, but win a
ru,ty iron crowbar and he conquered an honorable
peace The lion HIN il the leg and put his knee ont
81 Joint and when he emerged from the cage he scarcely
had strength to call for brandy and water.
Sims has been discovered in Nashville,
Tenn and a reporter OF The American has had chat
with him He has read the phippcs against the slave
hound Cabinet" and he bears Gen. Devens 10 malice
lint he cannot remember just how it happened. James
Potter MASTER was not cruel to him. but very
kind. The man who arrested him III Boston under the
marshal's orders Asa o. Butman Potter would
have preferred to have remain in Boston but the
camor in the south for bis return so great that he
WAS taken back Sims was sold man in Mississippi
and WAS not enfranchsed until 1868. This rambling
story Of Sims does not conflict seriously with the expia
nations given by Mrs. Lydia Maria Childs. VINO shows
that Mr. Deycns only offered to purchase the negrOs
iiberty but when she Informed him that the price was
high. replied by an order to draw upon nm lol
81 500. Before the arrangements were completed eau
non were fired in Charleston Harbor
Gen Spinner, in q charming letter to a
friend which The Erenug Express publishes. describes
the beautiful in Florida where he finds the best
fishing in world Quantities of bass weighing over
thirty pounds each, and sheepshead weighing from I'VE
10 eight pounds each be caught, he says, by the
boat-oad in few hours 1t seemed good sport Till he
found that these delicious fish, after supplying the hotel
table were fed TO the lean Florida hogs AT New
Smyrna the long canal cut in the rock by Dr. Tunbu
and his MinOrcan colony 40 years ago Inc runs OF
the surar-houses and indgO-vats still TO be seen
Gone stumbes" he writes, "upOn coquina we'll OF
rather well cut in perfectly circular form into the
rock Three coquna steps near one or these VOLS WIN
the angles Of the stones as well defned anu sharp az
they were when they came from the cutters hahus
against which now stand enormous live oaks ana mag
noia and surrounded by orange trees nulcate where
more than hundred years ago. was pernapS' h"pp'
home"
few wears ago many of the leading morn
ing newspapers Of the country used 10 puDsn evening
editions but Of them, finding both announcement
and improbable, determined TO cOnine themselves to
their main issue Even those newspapers that have con
tnued the evening edition dropping it one after the
other discovering by sad experience that the eds Occu
pied by morning and evening journals are SO separate
and distinct as not to be filed by them to advantage
The Erenin1 Republican OF ST. Louis is one OF the last
journals that has been discontinued 10 devote ls ehe
energies TO its morning edition. Even when morning
papers have called their evening edition py aholher
name and made distinct sheet IN everything lhe Gu
terprse has seldom succeeded The Chicago Times had
remarkable experience OF this sort 1t set up The Ere
ing T.egraph as a separate establishment. publishing
nothing that The Times contained, and made capital
paper OF It's sort for three cents while the morning Issue
still sold at five cents The Telegraph increased rapidly
all its readers liked it, and 1t rapidly becoming sue
cesu when it was discovered that what il had gained
The Times had lost. The shrewd ChicagOans. having
learned that they could two cents day by TAX
1hsIagrdh and stopping re ItSes, ae,eu d H
the prosperous telegraph in order 10 reenf0rce II not 10
save the waning Times. SO II appears tha an eteIIs
Ing proprietor hurt himself by bis enterprise When
ownership two Journals whose interests are so antaso
nstc that success ore can maintained only at
he expense of the other The lesson ought 10 be valuable
JOurhalsls generally though In the instance reierreu
w. II may nave been learned at considerable cost