New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-05
GENERdL NOTES.

1t is said that the clerks and officials in the
main Office Of the Texas Central Railroad Company
lesson in Spanish every afternoon from instructor
VINO is paiG by the company.
In view OF the present universal interest In
everything pertaining tie President publishers
Of The american Tailor Of this city have shown some
shrewdness in issuing coored Autograph fashionplate
the figures upon winch represent Mr.. Garfield and bis
Cabinet. This picture forward some dis
tance into the future it shows President IN even
ing dress aud the best health, in the of shaking
hands wiz one Of his constitutional advisers, the
in an equal agony Of good clothes Thsre have been
doubtless profitable one.
distinguished Austrian physician has re-
Gently published book in which he attempts to provo
that habitual criminals such because they cannot
help it, We has examined the brains OF number Of per
sistert scoundrels and has invariably that
surericr frontal oonyolution not continuous but is
div ded INTO forr sub ccRvouons analogous the parts
found predatory carnivorous animals he thinks
that the mental Characteristic OF criminals
this peclac formation o. the brain There is probably
snbstIat9m OF truth in the hypotess Of tho learned
these habitual criminals invariably the difference
between penny and shilling, there is wy
wrong"
One of the Phenomena of this year of comets
and planetary conuDctons il he prevalence OF what
called and doubtless honestly believed by many per,
sons 10 be prayercures Since early spring the news
papers have hoanod in the records such recoyries
from disease every form and the advances
their number is increased Last Monday firth day OF
the camp+neetng at Old Orchard, was devoted TO this
subject and after address by DR. Calls who believes
himself to have been the instrument by whose means
Coo has repeatedly restored sick persons health in
TO prayer, fewer than seventeen persons
after another declared themselves by
faith. Ii is credible that al Of these aud
npostors and il would he unsafe either DENY CT
affirm that their faith has cured them. That what
man believes himself 10 be, that he is" is Of
Nersal application aud yet physician would bei'tls
the position OF faitn in therapeutics on this subject
those persons are the most Illogical, who insist upon a
literal Interpretation ef the Scriptures in the
breath discredit the fllnlnleut OF their promises.
The following letter, undated but inclosed
in an envelope bearing the Philadelphia postmk-k was
received at THE TRIBUNE Office Tuesday. whether t
deserves reply from Rhode Island NOT it tells IN
few plain words the story of sad fe may serve "A
useful model to aspirants for literary who begin
write without knowing what they want to cav or
how say it," This is the letter: OF have had only
$50 from my fathers estate In Rhode Island in nine
years. 1 am in my sixtyninth year. and my life
has been nearly all tears, and I too feeble
to home until carried I'm coffin. gratuitOusy
thousands OF columns for daily ard weekly newspa
perB OF NewYork aud their propTetors will earnestly
request the Judge OF the Municipal Court of Providence
r. L., TO send them official statement OF what Ia due
from my fathers estate, they Will do for what
did for them In their early struggles for existence.
buy bread and medicine raiment am on tho con-
fines of famine and nakcdDess and the sepuchre and
implore God and man 10 forgive sns and pity me,
poor stephen Ii. Branch"