New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Social gossip in st. Louis has reached Low
ebb An eopenent Of an apple-w0man with an Italian
barber is seized upon by the local editor as oOOn
Louisville rejoIccs in the possession of two
Of The greatest nvipg euriosites." One Is a midge,
thirty-sx inches higb. weighing hrtyt~o pounds aga
sixteen ana having a remarkable ear for music The
other is fourteen-yC ar-od idiot, bind a bat tina,
can do nor hing but CHATTER on tin pan and throw an
Old dinner-bel around the room.
nThe extraordinary increase Of population in
South Carolina claimed by the Democratic Journals
should excite surprise. II Is remarkable country
Nothing happens there IL does anywhere else, and
vital statistics and normal averages have meaning
There Is a woman In Eige1eld County VINO has eaten
nothing for twelve years, aud expects % round out
quarter century OF dTidden inyadism without break
Ing BPr fast.
The swapping of brake set in motion
Wildcat train of sxy Hoosac Tunnel one
night last week. Trunding more and Rapidly
every moment the long train rolled the bridge
at Deweyye and reached the Crossing about 100 feet
further Just ii. b. King of Norm Adams. aceompa-
zed by his son. drove the track The escape was
narrow one, the forward grazing the rear wheel Of
the carriage. The tram numbered on by Baeknglon
Station and gained such headwav that climbed the up
grade between that point aHd WilamstOwn. where II
ran into the locomotive OF an eas-Dound freight train.
The damage by the COLLISION Was snsh, anu fortunately
one was injured.
A meddlesome world which never gets
enough weather it, t. doomed to og aloog for
year or two longer without knowing every morning
the thermometer stands at either the North the
South Pole. The Polar Conference recently held at
Berne has found necessary defer the execution OF
the plan resolved upon az last years meeting Ham.
burg The resolution IN question, It be remembered
was that in the year 1881 there should b. established
In the North Polar regions eght meteorological obsery-
atorles-namely, spuzbergen, at the North CAPE, Il
mouth OF the Lena Point Barrow, at Uppernayk, { d
Jan Maven. on the east coast OF Greenland, and on
one of the islands Of the North American Polar Archi-
peago. In the South Polar Regions the society
cOntempIates establishing. soon circumstances vii
permit me genealogical ObseryatOries Ut south Georgia.
keigueen Island ana the Auckland, Campbell aud Bal
leny Islands.
A colored man named Buuough, living in
Baltimore may consider himself Ishtuins-pToof. one
afternoon last week standing m the doorway Of
barn during thunder storm, and struck by light.
ming The fluid entered his light arm, which was raised
slightly above his head, passing down his ann to his
right side then dividing passing across the stomach to
the left thigh and of ut tangent and so down his
right leg foot, OF the Top OF heavy shoe
Pieces OF skin were torn OFF different places upon the
arms, limbs and body. Moreover wherever the hud
passed the skin has etbigck dscOoraton, win The
exception of the right foot which shows sort o. White,
Scared appearances His pantalOOns were burned into
sheds hardly piece being left or the body OF the gar
ment aud for some time after the occurrence the
remnants posses sed strong uphurous smell. At the
time the lightning struck Burfougl, II threw hlminto
the stabea distance about ten feet-upon BIS face,
and also Knocked down man named Ibouir wooden,
ard partially stunned several oher men Lear by The
uid splnered bench at the door OF the stable anda
portion OF the passing through the staDe aud INTO
the basement. FGa ly, BuriOugh j. not on sun awe
but does not appear 10 have been seriously injured