New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-04
GENERfL MOTIFS

The mortal remains of Lieutenant Nathan
Davis and his wife repose peacefully in the old b,rviv
ground at HarwintOn, Conn He died in I7s5 and she
year later and each was nineyseveR years Old when
the mortal coil was shuied Of one headstone serves
Tor both graves and upon it two stanls
OF elegiac verse, of which the following literal copy
death is a Diet
that's justly due
that have paid
and so must you"
This det I owe
and am come to
sleep with you"
Mrs Davis isstil celebrated Litchfelc Comfy az
den on Sunday morning
Honey and chickens are the two articles
of food without which Swiss hotel would be unrecogp,z
able The honey is all right up the present time bur
the chickens are nearly all disease has broken
out among them which is causing great uneasipes 10
both fowls and hotekeepers and is not likely 10 serve
the guests as an appetizer The demand for fowls Is far
greater than Switzerland can supply and consequence
there is an enormous importation Italy ana France
is in these imported birds that the disease ocar
though they occasionally impart TO the native breed
and 1t is supposed TO be developed by the sunerings
Which they undergo during their transport over tie
Alps The Bund of Berne advises that the Federal police
under the bird protection law have right suppress
jocted.
Unless some one who will have his little
oRe is laying trap for the urwary the Trojan horse
is about TO be outdone by south Atlantic CITY Gle
phonl tSSiauant an the shape OF THIS animal
in coarse OF construction the at thai resort
1t viii be IS feet long, ii feet high and - feet broad
The animals legs, which be feet in height viii
be supported by heavy plling 25 feet under ground
and the two back legs will be fitted with spiri fs,
ways, by which the wouldbe diners may Obtain ON,
trance 10 the interior The trunk viii touch the e,pd
as though the animal were feeding and the tnsks VII
serve chimneys through which the smoke and dors ~
the Kitchen located in the head, may escape On the
back VIII be howdah twenty-five feet ina height which
viii serve as balcony, and seats Will also sur
round the trunk. The interior will be 30 arranged
through ysiem OF sliding doors, as 10 be available
either Tor large theatre dining ROOM or rs apart-
1nents for private parties Nineteen carloads OF Life
ana yellow pine frOm the forests
ana three carloads of heavy bolts VIII he used IA tao
construction OF the monster which is 10 be completed in
September
The Carson appeal tells how Doc. Benton
aud Hank Monk brought ten pound trout down from
the lake and vowed that the President should be the
only man in America TO get a knife into H. They
accordingly laid out the ice and then went into the
house 10 ndite letter TO accompany it, Bentons idea
was TO send the trout the gift Of the Glen
brook Stage Company, having, doubt dim that
the line might some time Reed an appropriation fr0m
Congress of few hundred square miles OF the public
domain Monk thought IL his name was written on a
card and tied 10 the head of the trout and Doc Bentons
at the tail it would be just the thing. 1t was finally
agreed 10 send IL the gift OF the people Nevada
They then built ice which TO preserve the
h while 10 was transported Next they vent cut 20 the
Just IA time To cat in the OF Juggling the
through hole which led under stable. The
was raised ana IN few minutes the whole force Of
stabemen were laying siege 10 the cat poue poles and