New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-17
GENERAL NOTES.

What's in a name9 Pennsylvania has town
named Congruity. ana a family there were recently
poisoned by drinking cider in which copperhead
snake nad been drowned II Is MOI easy TO think Of
more incuug ruuus beverage IMAM t4iat
The Japanese may be great in many me-
chauical arts bu they probably deficient modern
music Mr. Luther W. Mason, Boston Is about to
sail Japan 10 give the natives special instruction In
the divine art. Mr.: Mason Is the e nieman whose
rks at thu Pa Is Exhibition mel wtn such aFprecia-
The Ladies Floral Cabinet published monthly
by Adams * BisaOp. New-York. Is IA home companion.
full Of pretty pictures, scientific information of dr.
nestle KIND. the Of plants
and The construction OF window gardens. and hints
10 household work NJ scellaueOus literary matter and
pages OF music further adorn this agreeable maya
znc.
A strange case occurred in Rehoboth, Mass,
,ast wa.k. Mr. wethereil watched VITA Mrs. Kent,
invalid. The sick lady aroused herself and said,
Something dreadful has happened" Soon after rap
was heard a. door. when she SAID: Now you VIII
near wnat dreadful thing has happened" The door
one ed aud a messenger announced 20 NJ Wetlerell
tDa his mother. whom lac let IN nsua health. died sud
denly about the time Of Mrs. kenrs mysterious dis
closure
The college Greek-Letter FrateInities
occasionally brought to public through publ
cation OF a catalogue or tht establishment Of a new
chapter. l. May last. the Beta Beta Society, local
order o. Trinity. College applied To the Psi Epsilon
Fraternity for a charter rs one Of It's chapters. The Pc
lust been granted. anu upon me Atm OF
ruaIy next daIe which has for thirty eight years been
celebrated Winter festival Of BE Beta the scot
ETY., including many graduates a. NAV choose TO 10
Pc PUPS Upsii Si,. 80 '''''''' ~ '' '''
Mr. Brassey's address on American compe-
uuon with Ei-liSn agriculture has not tended TO reas-
sure the Brit public His ground OF encourage ment
p.esupposes change In the relations between landlord
and tenant, which cannot be effected speedily. lie
shows mat the wheat-growing OF the Western
States of America leaving out the stll richer Manitoba,
practcI " unlimited The rise IN tue rate OF ireght
| gu American railroads might now be- looked for. dnd
would Affect prices II also the various operations 81
agriculture varied the OF wages. the English
farmer woud little la The northern coun'
ties the wages we're In 1878 abou 49,. the southern
| l2,.; while III America at least 2is-
ANA the cost Of provisions WAS lower. lie did not pre-
tend to say that wheat otler could ever rear
ze prices again aud tire chief value OF MS address
Ia that It serves prepare the pubic for permanent
change In the conditions which glish agrienF
lure eau be pruntably carried fhs Pal Mall 0aais
points out that IN Minnesota ire Md raltn laso
iarulers TAT indeed. Most 81 tnem oesen
with nothing. ana now are "rl-I"uo N'o. GU Wv -
their own The sober lHbOrrr SION develop NV
isn cfrs NJ a profit with VIII AZ a, 40s quarer.
surely too pr,0aol' hat save 10 rAceptona. v
cuusfances wheat growing Will shortly OrcOme iO-lhk
| Kaar English farms
San Francisco printer, who has been deai
| for h.r,y years, we'd as anybody seven
VEGAS Va ne troubled with pans IN his mead "m0
hc was setting type Hc describrdthese s'mp'oms TO us
| ply sican who. having long made ecialy OF p'fS
Iytic diseass the idea that the deafness VI
his patient might be tho r-sult Of paralysis Tue pilne
refused be treated, sayng that he hSo spent al Wv
money ne had earned IN useless endeaNors W nav
his deafness removed. and dbl not care 10 MAKE any
further attempts direction But when the doctor
offered TO treat him months IL necessary. irer 0.
cnsrve he consented e. tine proposition species :"
| liniIprnt was applied 20 his throat aad eais lie va"
given mixture Tor garglng aud supplied with hI''o
medicine Tor internal Tnis course OF trestneu.
WAS continued for three days before any ene'
| became apparent Previous 10 this time he had oeen y
deaf that the DISCHARGE OF cannon within few r''
n,m d,d not hiIa One morning he was ""aAen
by "a sound-tne nrst he had heard Tor 'hry 49, an.
| was delirious Joy. ao dressed himself si's'u
landlady shook hands with the landlord ana siapp''