New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-10
GENERAL NOTES.

A queer will recently admitted TO probate
I'm Pittsburg contains bequest Of 300 to st. Peters
Lutheran Church. 10 be used for the following pur
| poses: The sum OF $500 for the purchase OF bell
which shall rlng the hour OF p M OF each and every
day az also about the OF IL o'clock m OF each and
every Sunday until the reverend pastor OF INC church
has repeated Lords Prayer aud the sum OF 200 or
the support and wants OF the WIDOWS ~ Tue scfe0n
OF the pastor Of the church.
The latest acrobatic advertisement not down
on the programme, furnished by female performer
in Hamburg The girl-Mle Leona, European iaVorits
was hanging by her knees face downwards ana sup
porting another acrobat by her teeth when those much
abused members gave way, and the man Ten into the
,ot beneath Six of the teeth and portion OF the Jaw
were torn out Disgusting to relate an English admrer
has had Of The teeth handsomely mou"'ed dha To-
tends TO wear II as Dreastpln'
The 0belisk on the Thames EmbaDkment is
to be furnished with certain artistic accessories The
Metropolitan Board Of Works has fxed plaster cast Of
a sphinx cOored to look like bronze at the Dase OF
Cleopat as Needle In ord Judge Of the eject pro-
duced prior 10 the casting IN bronze OF the TWO sphbHes
which the Board have decided to place on the peneSa
The model now exhibited Is enlarged copy OF small
sphinx in stone in the collection of the Duke Of North
cumberland Anwick Castle which is supposed to be Of
the same period the obelsk itself Certain additions
have been made TO the base and pedesta OF inc oOes
in order 10 hide the broken portions Of the column and
If these approved they Will eventually DC executed
In bronze.
The Rev. r. w. Dale took this bold stand
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mon az Birmingham fortnight ago: what Is 1t that
Won feari It's moral conduct which Is uncontrolled BY
the authority OF GOd-practlcal Atbesm-an babitual
disregard Of tho ID awsan hab,ual indifference OF
the Divine approval and the Divine anger ARD against
practical Atheism no oath protect you WHAT the
Apostle James thought OF the moral ana religious Yalue
Of that bare acknowledgment Of the Divine existence to
which some good men attribute such immense import
ance appears the text Thou Delievest mar there u.
one God. Thou dOst WELL the devils also DeIeNe AID
lie
Journalism is utterly consumed"
A farmer living near Pleasant Mill, Mo-,
while breaking piece OF newly cleared ground lew
days ago poug mp box twelve inches ongand eight
inches square The plough striking It burst 1t open The
contents had far decayed that when the air struck
them they crumbed to dust Enough was visible to
show hat they had been paper bills OF the denomnaton
OF 800 In the lid Of the box were cut In rude eter
August 49, IS6i-$1 900" During the war the Union
troops were ordered to Pleasanye TO intercept GUAM
trell and defeated his force Big Creek Among the
prisoners were George Gam and youth eighteen years
Old The boy was shot the next morning for burning
death some women and children at Lawrence Gam.
BeisOe and other taken to Clinton, courtmai-
tailed aud shot When Gam marched out to be shot he
SAID he buried SIS 600 which be had taken from the
Lawrence banks on the bank OF creek at the south
edge OF Jackson County.
A new street nuisance lately introduced in
London was a small wind instrument, mounted on q
perambulatOr II had fourteen notes, and was played
by turning handle after the manner Of an ordinary
barrelOrgan The popularity Of the instrument consisted
in the manner in which the wind OF the bellows was adj
nted To reeds The turning OF the handle worked
the bellows and at the time slowly wound through
the instrument strip OF stout paper about SIX fe long
and perforated with a number OF holes II was through
these perforated holes that the wind found its way TO
the reeds which thus operated upon according to
the pOsitio and dimensions OF the aperures I OBJ
viOus that with sufficient numb,f OF reeds ana
properly perforated strip OF paper music OF any KIND
whatever may be performed such conirivance ny
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sevenfytwO feet OF paper which cost him. he sad IRON
I'd to Cd foot according to the nature Of the music