New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-02
GENERAL NOTES.

A singular dilemma is reported in life in.
surance business AT Memphis this Summer. died Peter
A. Tgne. So did the doctor who attended him. SO did
undertaken who LAID him out so did the clergyman
VINO offciated at his funeral The company in watch
Mr. Tighe's life insured declines pay the amount
OF the policy for want or the regular evidence OF hb
death.
AT Vergennes, VT, wager was lately laid
by Wm Laduke that ms de of would eat
pounds of pork steak, four large potatoes half
pie two slices Of bread one-quarter Of pound Of but
ter half Bushe Of ap Hes and drink two cups Of
He did it within the specified time, and had hall hour
10 spare His weight when he began was las pounds;
when he ended 1913 pounds. He felt no Inconvenience
from tue gorglng.
Connecticut generally, and Bridgeport par
tlcuarly. has jolly lot of lawsuits, all related TO each
other. Fred. E. C. Hill. of Hong Kong, was sued By
his wife for divorce. He employed friend, Captain
McGiyery to offer Mrs. Hill $4,000 to have tue LIBEL
withdrawn. While personally conducting the neSoua'
tons vita Mrs. Hill. the Captain offended the LADY, and
she beat MIN the mead with water-piteher The
actions therefore. stands the docket thus: Eliza
BETH Adams Hill V. Charles E. Ill., petition for divorces
Q Charles E. Hill " lzaOeth Adams Hill. petition for
divorce; g. Henry McGilvery Elizabeth Adams Hill,
action for assault, with damages laid at $4,000;
Elizabeth Adams Hin V. Henry MeGilyery, action for
SANDER, th damages laid at Sl0OOO An Immense
number Of witnesses has ben summoned small
army yers engaged and bills VI COSTS miles iong
Will nave 10 be paid BY somebody.
The cupola of st. Peters in Rome was so
much damaged by the force of the late ram that The
water began filter through into the church. Work.
men were employed day and night to repair the injury
before further harm should be duDe The lighted torches
which outside rise 10 belief among tue
peasants VINO isolated on the Campagna by inc
iuundaton the Tber that the Pope had ordered An
illumination to comfort them IN their distress Inc
storm spent greatest fury upon Rome, but extended
with more or less intensity the whole country
I,t TN he lOWe d
all inundated and the food extended even to the Corso
and PiazzO del POpOO. AT noon on November Ia tho
river had risen twenty feet above ITS low water mark
The force OF the storm very great Times lLon'
dom correspondent says: The ram swept down IN
sheets driven by into great wave.
like curves which dasned up spray from the pavement
speedily converted into courses along WHICH inc
water rushed like torrents"
There are questions which never get settled
in tnis world, while there PROBABILITY that they
Will be settled in the next One OF the most venerable Of
them" Will lager beer intoxcate f'-has lately been
agitated IN the collegiate city NewHaven, Conn., To
be sure there slight variation there OF the prob
lem IL was not lager which the subject OF H.
curry as to uddng potency but another tuid called
Schenck beer. The witnesses did not widely differ IN
their opinions. Joseph Hall, state chemist found IN
schenck not than 9.s6 per cent Of alcohol. Pro-
fessor johnson. OF the Sheffield Scientific School, found
only Ala per by wegnt, and 30 per cent oy vol
ume and did not consider such beer to be intoxr
catug Cider which Is freely sold In Connecticut LAS
been found contain $50 per cent OF alcohol brewer
named Phillip Fresenus declares II impossible 10 drink
enough OF schenck intoNicatcseycn OF his wOrkmen
drinking thirty gallons per diem. An editor, Herr
schlen declared could drink twenty glasses at
sitting aud not be I'm the least inebrlated. Mr. Krauss
could 20 Herr ScBlen ten glasses better and still be u'
dically sober Dr. Bellosa wnether L. ID. or Ph d. or
NJ d. or d. D. not reported had consumed the beer In
question for a quarter OF century. taking sometimes
thirty glasses OF evening, and he declared enpai
ctlly that he had Oven drunk de went lurther
He believed that man might DE filled u the throat
with tins innocent liquor ana IL would not atec' I'm
SchencK be feeble nectar indeed IL was
not OF course. for the Court 10 inquire hlry
glasses this tippe did not occasion cerfm sense
of funess, u suspicion or headache next morn
lug. Enough, however, was said TO bother the COutl
which adjourned the cases. This week Ihe moral ano
scientific battle will be renewed.