New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-07
GENERAL NOTES.

recent incident at Ramsgate shows that
IT may be dangerous even 10, healthy to lake a
surf bath before breakfast On a recent sunday. an
Englshman, thirtytwO years oG. who vas eDoyiu Ms
annual holiday with his family went Into
before breakfast. and atcr bathing fOT quarter O
au hour ne and complained OF feeling unvell.
lie took some brandy aud 10 his lodgings
dressed and lay down. Fecug better be went out but
shortly aierward fell the sands. doctor then
for. aud brandy asO applied for at the Inn
which deceased mad previously obtained II STATING he
was III hut the second application. made by snOtbet
person. VS. refused the applicant had way
ticket. Before the doctor, who WAS at church. arrived
| the man had expired
Dear Sir thus runs letter, dated
Clifton Farm. Warrenton, Virginia" send You BY
mail a little book nat printed on press The storJ
was told by my little sister only seven years old, and
the pictures were drawn by her / am thirteen. Tie
edition il a very small Randolph has 80 copies
which are all will be for sale. II you viii take
trouble TO read it and like 1t well enough to say
thing your big paper shall feel quite proud
| Very truly yours. Herbert Barry" We have read
- The Little Dame and the Wild Animals" with great
pleasure, ana ike 1t quite well enough 10 say that II
l. credtable 10 Master Herbcrrs little sister, and
markab,y good specimen % amateur printing. The pie
lure Of the wild cat taken at tbat awIu moment when
has tail came of and he tumblrd down, f. gem ana
COMMUNICATION OF the text VIII be enough quote this
sentence from the finale: And when the baby grew
bigger wouldn't have Its hair banged, so they found
was a boy"
The death of New-Y Yorker from the over
| turning OF a diligence. described the foreign dls-
patches Of a recent issue. preceded by fatal
! Alpine accident Bcckenred An English gentle
man named Haw thorn. who had been staying for
days with bis wife and son. boy OF years. tho
Lake OF Lucerne, lost his hfe the neighboring noun
| talns. After spending afternoon with his at
see isberg two walk from Beckenried. he re-
| turning home when the darkn' IS began to o'ertake
him. He attempted TO make snort cut to BecBenried
by footway which is difficult that even in the full
/ aka r.1ta Ia. aUIfr saf-
herds provided with climbing sticks He had not gone
very far before his slipped. and he fell down the
hillside HIS fall arrested by shrub to VII ch he
clung and from which be called to his son, telling him
not to go any further Hardly had he finished giving
| this caution when his hold gave way, and he wai
preciptated into the depths below. The unfortunate
boy not daring to from the spot. called Ia vain
for help, and remained IN his dangerous position al
night In the morning ne climbed back u the road and
made his way to the nearest village, Emmetf1p, odt
could not make any one understand nun IN P!vr BOY,
who had had no sleep was accordingly Obliged 10 walk
back Beckenried, whence number OF seafcAeFs we've
! Instantly dispatched Tor his fathers BODY
Mr.. Spurgeon's figures Of speech are as
quaint and Lomey as any IN the Pilgrims Progress. In
a recent sermon preached in London he brought Be ore
the minds Of his hearers some graphic deneaiion' OF
the worldly pilgrim traveller, to be me; with nova
DAYS. When an Elgsnman made up his mind
to travel beyond his own cOuntry-to 20 alrod
| he was first struck with the idea OF the
| absolute necessity OF going TO his tailor in order
| 10 be supplied with the mos, rdicuious-ooAing
sui Of clothes il WAS possible to wear The preacher
! IMAGINED be knew his countrymcn pretty well,
and he could safely say that more outraE Gus way
nan that IN which they occasionally dl s'd themselves
could not be imagined Foreigners might very wei
often exclaim on that is an Eagdshnan" or. what
was worse stu even, Oh, there goes an Amer an"
| We're they to travel III raj way carriage IN conti-
mental or other foreign country they would he apt TO
hear said not in the English DngIe and by n means IN
q compli men airy tone, lie j, an FL gli'hmau' some
how foreigners thought the English very 0d people III
deed aud might be tat they were 80. Some OF th'u
WAYS were nast cornprcleuSion 20 the foreigner But
even In dis great England the tine Christian Vas
strange mar-a pilgrim on bis way to his Own home
hence often happened thtt tie WoIi AaN 81 ca
strange names for the Christian They could not make
mead OF him. He was this mat ana the Otier
Re was incomprehrnsiDe. WBIe one declared nm IlOF
ism another asserted lie was mao whilst sun another
ascrncd mis- dcmeanOr ana acuOn 10 fanatcism l1rse
observations however we're bur another way 81 say A
| that they could not make the man out"