New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-14
GENERAL NOTES.

GENEH1L NO1Eo.
Canadian clergyman has been convicted of
skatng on sunday He breaches Garden Island, and
instead of driving the ice or going on foot he
buckles on his skates and gets very comfortably
Now, is 1t right TO skate on Sunday
The river-bed of the Niagara was dry for
hundreds of yards toward the centre of the Horseshoe
or Canadian Falls during three days of last week, and
there icices cngng TO the high pTeeipce where
they had been before AT the ferry the level
of the river was below the usual water
mark This change Of level is attributed to prevailing
high winds from the northeast.
This Is free as well as glorious country,
and every man has right believe what he likes pu'
it is not always udicious 10 express that Deiel WIN
STARK naked candor Burgess Tor instance
has a low opinion of the political capacity oi WOMEN
According to The Columbia Spectator he used this snie
In a recent lectures "As the Republican party has
reached down and elevated the negro, so perhaps the
Democrats would in time find it to their advantage to
further and elevate TO the rights
of citizenship" If the Professor really believed that
American women little lower than ths negroes III
Intelligence, it was net necessary to say 50 ana set
the classroom in roar.
The Heather Chinee has been outdone by
ouek-wi;ted Western backwoodsman. At Oshkosh,
WIS., three gamblers laid plan TO beggar fourth at
poker The victim dealt four to induce him to
bet but given six cards so as to make msoeal'
But the amateur backed his four for all he was worth
and won. when his opponents charged him VITA having
another card secreted about his person search re-
vealed nothing and he departed with his winnings.
Ii afterwards discovered that he hGd snppea te
extra card into sandwich winch ne was ea'ins ""le
playing and had actually swallOwedh
Down in the Ophir Mine, underneath the
ground redshrted laborer toiled the whole day long,
and when evening he assembled to the mouth OF le
PIT to get breath of fresh air and supper III MS CABIN
But there had been tremendous storm curing
the afternoon and many house In virginia CITY had
been unroOfed and OF his CABIN at the head OF Car
sonst not vestge remained 1t had been blown down;
the boards had been scattered far and wide and not
Single remained to mark the spot where he had
smoked pipe fried his potatoes and played draw
poker with a dummy. After the fury OF the
Gale had come q heavy fall of snow and the miner,
rudging home in the evening, found all things changed
He reached the spot his cabin had stood when he
went to work the morning. but as he turned aside TO
walk toward the door, he missed the house Thinking
that he had made mistake. he went further up thc
sTet and not finding his house, concluded that he must
have passed it,, ana accordingly reraced ms steps,
Facing about and noticing the iamlnar outlines vi MS
negh6ors' cabins, he whstled and finally exclaimed,
what in the devil bias become OF my d cnnsoed @
~ say you'll find your house down In Sc yen,ile Canon
as 1t goin thar when ! last saw IT, Inc DUMMY
lost nothing " in the draw" that night.
The Cornell student whose schedule OF an
nua expenses aCornell surprisingly small ltota
s1s4 g. including 81 80 for washing and S34 O6 for
boarD, has looked over his cash book ana 1Ouhu no
reason to qualify his statements lie writes to THE
TRIBUNE with air of genuneness which carries con-
con that he is telling truth and declares that he
and his chum cOnrlved to reduce their eN penses Tor
food below a dollar a week. They had potatoes nut
TON cornmeal, graham -four. milk and moldsses as the
main elements Of diet. Their potatoes were either
baked or boiled and were served with MIX or n"ur
gravy; their cornmeal and graham -four with milk,
gave them corn mush graham mush their mutton
was boiled or roasted, and sometimes 1t was used III
pot-pe and they had every day either graham gems
corn bread or biscuit. The daily allowance for each
person was as follows pound mutton t39 eentsl;
one pound potatoes q cents one quart milk 70 cents,
one pound mushroom graham fiOur-(2 centsl I;
olasses SALT etc L cens total Ia cents per day. or
90 cents per week. $50 20 term OF forty weeks
They did not have than half the tIne as hey
coudno keept weather and hence they brought
down their board $34 06 Cook pound OF Indian
meal thoroughly says this Cornell graduate and one
man will find difficult to make place for 1t with PINT
quart OF milk at meal ne is 9onnIe NAV rIf i've NJ
yearly expense of less than 500 ana yet nave te n"a
and strength oYursue successfully the course OF studies
Well for the sake Of the argument grant that he can
but would II be for the young man TO stay out
farm to carry through the course comfortably with
more varied rations ana less domestic economyf
Mrs. Swisshems vigorous onslaught upon
Mrs Henry b. Stanton Mrs Victoria woodruff and
prominent FreeLove mObocrats," female lobbyists
and woman suffrage champions. has exasperated one
member OF the advanced slsterhood. Matilda Joslyn
Cages rage CLOVIS and flames in letter to The Cheaqo
Tribune This letter states that Mrs. Swisshem shows
the traits of Judas and Sapphira that less than
year ago she sat upon the same platform with those
whom she now denounces, herself fashOnably attired
in black silk trailing Princesse dress. made at Paris
and that talked long that lady, who was adj
vertsed speak, unable 10 address the meeting5
that she offered six eight resolutions which were so
weak as TO compel their entire rejection; and
that her recent letter written IN revenge
for that rejection; that she may be relating
her personal experience when she speaks OF
all the glory of elegant toilets and winning
smiles backed by fatery" and the display OF person
oil charms :" that she Is person unnt 70 ne nearu NY
the American press that She once boosted tnat se was
loco froun he m
but she bears very far-of resemblance 10 lnat
noble lady, famous for her leaning, her uncommon
sweetness OF disposition her truthiuness, ana Eer u
suited honor; that her blood must have become sady
changed in its utilization through intermediate chah
nes from the true lady down to the common defamer
All these and Goals that quite aS re0-Ot
doth Matilda JOslyn Gage from the furnaces OF her
wrath. Aack tant8 ne auimis ceestbus irn!
Whether the Sixteenth Amendment would purify Amer
can politics is open question but 1t IL quite clear that
defamatIOn vtuperaOn, and all the coarse arts OF per-
sonaI Journalism would have full play under the new
dispensation.