New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-03

..oogpzed the hands. 8nger-nails and feet The ar
shs - ths physician under such circumstances was a
bunasi, ne y0une ady was placed In painful and
oSsyrassing position when there was nothing TO be
ga moi allowed 20 prove the abb which his counsel
.,Toiesssd their ability 70 DO
A prize Of $4,000 awaits the man who
IN Invent steam wagon that viii satisfy the WiscOn-
sin Commissioners They have been sabjecting two
eons 10 rigid tests and have recently decided TO with
IA sue bounty Il appears from their report that
~ fbese wagons the Oshkosh made Of pol miles,
an common roads, passing grades Of at least 1.4O0
fe a. the ile IN thirty-three hours and twenty
minutes or Of six miles per hOur that IL
haued loads poughed aud answered every requirement
~ ebe law and that # mere capacity or ability do
.se things Is all that ought to 90 insisted upon Its pro
ietors arc clearly entitled the bounty offered by the
STATE The Commissioners, however, are not satisfied
mat even tins machine in the language OF the law.
ap and practical substitute for the Of horses and
ether animals the highway and farm" II may be
,,sed 10 great advantage for thrashing and hauhng
machines from farm to farm for heavy teamiug the
hghway and for many kinds OF work upon large FARMS
hut the Commissioners are not prepared to that
sron two TO six dollars can be considered a eheap
practical substitute for horses or mules or oxen upon
farms on highways
The ices sold in the streets of London
have been found 20 be distinctly poisonous physician
basrepored which brought under his per-
anna; observation In instance a child about seven
ars OF age was seized with alarming symptoms Of poi
soniug by some metallic irritant, which at time
threatened TO prove fatal In the second instance the
suffering infant displayed the symptoms, but not
40 strongly developed. Both children had previously
partaken Of eolOred ices street barrow. "A Paris
0rehin who had developed at the early OF Eve aud
half summers inOrdinate craving for peach pits
ereed the OF number Of peaches which had been
sent 10 his mother from country aud possessing him
self Of hammer when left alone broke them open indus
rionsy and then set 70 upon solid feast 70 which he
did complete justice. His PaneR on her return found
him WrhBg IN the agOuies OF poisoning by prussle or
hvdocvauiU acid In Liverpool, brighteyed little Wal
Sel IN and cut open his oeetionate little heart These
were The children of the poor But the innocens OF the
rich fare no better Does not the violet powder with
which their blessed little skins are polished strike in and
M 'em OF ike hesl When the defects OF his early
training and the premature period OF history IN Wch ne
moved borne IN mind, Herod was not so much OF
b.ule after al.
The tramps reputation as a gentleman of
leisure whose impulses good albeit his habits are
bad and who, like Joseph POOrgrass, feels his humble
ratitules FOR faYors received stands vindcated Four
years ago Dakota farmer-a brOther-n-law, by the
way Of Kellogg who fen beside General Custer the
Little Big HOrn--had finished his supper when dirty,
ragged fO0isOre tramp called at bis house and begged
for something eat, saying that he his way to
California but had had hard LUCK having been taken
sick after starting Mr. Stafford made him welcome, and
his wife went TO work and cooked supper for the
Stranger They not only allowed him TO stay over night
buf entertained him week until be had recovered
his health. Two months che stranger, who during
his four years absence in California had struok rlch
went back 10 Dakota and in disguise, again spent the
night under Mr. salOrds roof The next morning the
tramp departed without making himself known, and the
conversation incident had been forgotten, when tie
good people received through the Post Office sealed
package which contained the deed Of Of the finest
farms in their neghbOrhOOd, having good house, barn,
stock horses wagons, agricultural implements, and
mfnA Nr
pauaty letter. stating that she gyer wished them 10
accept the deed Of this farmt which be had purchased
especially for those divided with him when in need,
and treated him kindly hen fO0tsOre and poor He as
sured them he the tramp they had entertained
years before.