New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-16
GEAER1L NOTES.

CAPTAIN Brooks, of the City of Chester,
arrived Tuesday last has noted in his log sat
urday nst the fact OF his speaking the
steamship Gallia, OF the CunOrd Line, IN latitude
45o Y. As the Cunarders long announced
that with view diminish the chances OF collision
they take specific for all Of the year,
crossing the meridian OF 500 the homeward passage
at 42o latitude nothing 20 the north OF 42o II would
II IN this instance rather dangerous screw had
been loose.
The second annual meeting of the American
Bar Assoc alton viii be held Saratoga Wednesday
and Thursday OF next week The annual address will
be delivered by James o. Broadhead Of ST. Louis Mo-,
at the opening session. Papers will be read follows
l. BY Calvin q. Child Of Stamford, Conn.,, on Shifting
Uses from the Standpoint OF the Nineteenth Century"
q BY Henry Hitchcock, Of st. Louis on The Inyiola-
by OF kilograms" 3. By George A Mercer, OF savan-
nah, The Relationship of Law and National Spirit"
dress delivered by Edward j. Phelps. OF Burlington VT
East and West there are girls who can
WORK. In Carmel, away down IN Maine, ffteen-year
old out after supper mks the cows and puts
p forty-hye punches OF hay before sunset; and the
next day after doing all the homework and cookinga
big dinner she makes up four loads OF hay them
away barn. gets supper for four and walks TO the
village to buy pair OF shoes. In Smyrna, away of In
Indiana, a young woman named Florence borrows
norse bitches It TO hay rake. starts after
harvest is and takes OF the horse herself
The Committee of Naval Construction at
the ST. Petersburg Admiralty Is preparing designs
for oua Of gunbosts very similar in principle to the
series OF eight which have recently been built IN Eng
land for the Chinese Government The Cologne Gdzstn
mfers from action Of the German Admiralty
that the construction OF larger ronclads such frg
ates and corvettes has, in consequence OF the expert
ences both OF the German feet aud OF the Russo-Tnk
sh aud south American wars, been abandoned for the
future Neither Germany nor France has ever gone to
such extremes the building OF hKhtngships OF enor-
Enc nd haa Iaat wis
fierce aud furious conflict Of opinion about the merits OF
the Iu1exble al its height the friends OF that
amazing piece Of architectural mechanism had 10 ap-
peal Italy the only country which had kept pace
with England IN eniarglng the size OF war vessels lug
DandOlO and the DuiLIO alone could be put eonparf
with the Dreadnaughts, Thuuderers aud lnneAoes
He SAID Squire, how much will 1t cost a
burned old fool ike 10 get hitched u She saidi
Judge not young critters He is sixty ana M
turned forty, and reckon would do this ere JOp
sorter kinder cheap" He said "Can't you cut 'er
down Just little. for burned old couple that's begin
ming rather aei" Tie Philadelphia Judge said "Ihs
price is ve dollars and won't shave hair" She saidi
There she (produc,ng the money! and fur good
ness sake jne u.s. jue us, fur there's many slip twxt
the cup aud the hp the monkey said when he pulled
the chestuuts OF the fire." He said the knot being
ted): 'Wat burned old fool L amt Well Jane, L
s'pose put up with you Tor year, anyway" 90
out of the gstrates Office they went, ~ arm the
little old wrinkled aud the midd aged widow,
across the together IN that new weld winch
tue old. never once suspecting that their nymenes
iii er would be duly reported in the next days heeo"
Singing is one of the healthiest exercises III
which men, and children can engage Ihe
medical WocaelSchit OF 81. Petersburg has an article
ba sed upon exhaustive researches made By Professor
Monassein during the Autumn OF 1878. when he eS
amned 222 singers ranging between the ages VI nine
and nfy-three. lilo laid chief weight upon the CROWN
and absolute circumference OF the chest upon the com
paratye relation the latter to the aness OF the SUD
ec and upon t1e pneumatometrlc and sprometre oou.
dton of the singer II appears TO bs an asoertalnea
fact from Dr. Monassens experiments that the relative
and even the absolute OF chest Is creates
among singers than among those who do not sing sno
that It increases with the growth and Of the singer
The professor even SAYS that singing may DO piaoSa
physically as the antthesis OF drinking spiri'uoS
liquors. Tho latter binders while the FORMER pf'i'