New-York tribune., 1880-01-18
GENERAL NOTES.

! A man and woman, of Phoenix, Uste,
County decidedly on the downhlil o hfe- he was sky
aud she was slxi tvecou.d wait 10 longer to be mar
rcd, and started FOR tue cergymans house "a sleigh
Ga the road they another clergyman. and with
rare and beautiful enthusiasm requested perform
The ceremony the spot They stood up in their
sleigh, the minister stood mp IN his, they we're pro-
with their ,legl.Dells furnished the wedding music
However mistaken an idea Of personal come
ness the Use Of hardyo may imply il not to be sup
posed THAI my would choose that method OF com
mittng suicide. Several ply s,cans attended the
tc Cyrus MOrrson. OF Lancaster County Penn beleye
The dye which hc applied TO his hair wA>Ses ald
mGs,ache killed HIM by poisoning his system. Since
Nature agrees furnish. gratis every man. and
chd Win more tr les abundant 5isuie "Gorhments
might be Jnsi as well 10 allow he monopoly O. the col
er.nS material
An Australian newspaper Of recent date cor
taius IN cxtraorG nary advertisement IN when EuzI
Wchbrook ~ RayenswOOd, gives her husband notice that
size does not near from him within three months from
date she intends to get married Anyone familiar
with the popular same OF drawpokcr Will at per
ceive that 3r WehhrOok holds the age" off he wants
mcnths II he doesn't want her he has Only TO keep
stlll for tlt same space oI time.
Mr. W. Il. Andrews has succeeded in doing
what year ago would have been pronounced an n-
possibility. Within twelve months lie has built up
Illustrated society paper in this city, which appearing
AS a monthly has passed through the stage OF q SENT
monthly and is issued ) a weekly in form
and with ulncss that indicate established success
It presents In orderly arrangement ana compact typo
gaphy eleven pages OF the size OF BGrTe's Weekly.
closely filed IN foriyfour columns OF brieest Jottlngs
OF social events all of the country fhe for
personalities in social matters Is unappeaseable that
this sort journalism may well be pied as an
inevitable necessity so. The Queen presenting IT IN
way tEat avoids the objections so often urged against
H. The queens social news is no way offensive. while
In ii IS amazing IN range, and encyciopeilc The
paper besides gives great deal 0feXcelen literary ana
miscellaneous reading. ard good illustrations.
DR.. Tanner, who offered 40 fast thirty days
In the presence OF DR.. Hammond any committee OF
scientific men, writes spirited letter to The MRBeap
oils Tribune OF Wednesday. in which he sub
mt to the conditions proposed by DIR. Hammond. and
says: II the experiment is again tried under test con-
ditons propose have the conditions favorable a.
possible for To place myself under the manage
ment o. a score OF medical students, and
TO consent to beng confined IN medical college
wtn the atmosphere reeking with the OF decom-
posing cadayers. would be TO insure defeat" Allnd-
iux to DIR. Hammond's concession that person might
pos,lbly live without food thirty forty days
he saws: II offered myself to DIR. Hammond a sub
sttue in tne proposed tasting test IN Ncw-iork ana
i'm Cunning the objective point at which bad aimed.
which not noOriety stomach iugger,' nor tho
philosopher, but the public acknowledgement on the part
OF this wOuldbe Solomon in medical science tDa forty
days fast is among the possibilities"
At the recent annual meeting of the Chicago
Academy OF Sciences Professor Babcock, commenting
upon a recent communication TO The Chicago Tribune Ia
regard to the origin OF the cys name remarked that
IL was the best showing yet made for the "gsrc deri
walton the word Chicago" though he was still dis
posed to question tho derivation. An examination OF
the fora about Chicago wed three species OF garlic
They were not found along the banks of the river how
ever but over praes, and OF the three species
out near Grand Crossing Hence, In his opinion the
name Garlic RIVER" could not have been applied by
the Indians to what was now known as the Chicago
River But along In June and July plant with large
green leaves, resembling cabbage and very odorous.
found growing aon the banks the North Branch
he Indians called skokee, and the English OF u was
" eLmnk's Cabbage" Skokee, by All easy transition,
had probably passed ChcOgee. and Chieogee INTO
Csicago In his opinion the present name Q, sne ss
sFokee. or " The skunk's Csbbage-IAsc"