New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-06
GENERAL NOTES.

There is q dog in Charlottesville. va. that
Knows msre that resident hyscian. few nights ago
his masters child Ill and the dog by means
found out. Sraghtway he went to the office OF ply
stefan who usually prac seq In the family and scratched
mt the door The physician and drove the canine
messenger off, but lie returned again and renewed the
invitation The doctor did not understand the actions
OF the dog and only the following morning when the
master told him his child sick and he bad summoned
another physician was tue strange conduct OF tue dog
explained.
One reads with awe of the magnificent ar
,rapgemeDt of Mile Bernbsrdt's hotel apartments ia
Philadelphia Fine rleces OF stiuaIy have been lent 10y
o Chestuut-st Nr;u. Others have contributed choice
tropical plarts Brca-brac and other ornaments arc
numerous; 30 are paintings by Moran. Lewis, Gceus
and other artists In the bedroom is gorgeous buc
screen OF Chinese embroidery. The bed Quilt is of old
gold satin. trimmed with antique lace What William
Penn or Benjamin Franklin would have said to these
magnificent and expensive furnishings for French
passengers upon their travels Often been much ess
sumptuOusly lodged good deal said of the decne
OF the droa but few actresses have been mado so much
of by the hotel keepers as Mile. Bernhard
The time has gone by when the record of
death Of centenarian can be coupled with any incident
however trivial the life of the Father of his Country
The that be SAID nowadays is that the deceased
was young tling of twenty when exPresdent Wash
ington passed from eartt. This ia SAID Of Mas Betsy
Roath, OF Eastern Connecticut, who departed this lie
last Friday evening in her Observation-Disclosures year.
Additional piquancy ia given to tie recital by the re-
mark that although she had lived opposite the track Of the
Norwich and Worcester Railroad for forty years. ard
had six nephews, three OF whom conductors aud
three Engineers in Its employ she stepped upon
steam car 1t is certainly noble record of prrsls
Incorporation to deadheadsm. But this was not her
only popularity. "She distinctly remember d when
Government changed its confed for its present
constitutional form; when steamboats,. railroad cars.
steam machinery electric telegraphs sewing machines
pfp had nO RVpu
the wiss Of the land aud she had noticed the Increase
Of our population from the three scaercd IN Rons tha
the present day" The fact that he NJ the
census figured about the end Of explains
kept her eve the census aud when ho grand figure Of
50,000OO0 was reached she was satisfied AMI depart
this life In peace.
To be a hundred years ahead of time argues
newspaper enterprise. This feat accomplished by
The Boston Daily Globe on New Years Day, when mn
impression for January l. 1881 cent out 10 all ITS
patrons The changes of century disclosed by the
current Of the day startling The House Of
Delegates Of the Irish Republic after bnlaut debate
IN which references made 10 the land agitation Of
1880, had passed resolution voting S50000o0 IN aid
of 100000 Englsh tenant farmers. The proceedings
OF Congress related to the appointment OF chief OF
planetary signal bureau with headquarters at the equa
t0ral station Mars the repeal of the expaIiaon act
growing OF the Imperial nsurr elton of 1920 aud
subsidy TO flying machine carrying the mails between
Boston and Jupiter and between Havana Ursa Major,
and participated by delegates from Cdba Canada
and Australia. The review OF the showed that there
were already 139 States in the Union, and that II the
applications Of Brazil. Chill and Peru Tor admission
should he favorably acted upon the Nation would
tain 900 900 900 Inhabitants. Among the " Ioca
eations" a collision In midair between aerial cars
on London and Boston route the ct toe
play Hyper Evolution. Or the Physical Bases Of LIE"
and the invention of press with ciiy COR printing
100000 newspapers hour. Er'ry column b1srlcs
with extraordinary intelligence, such the be inning "t
new movement to the Old New Cd South Gy
means aerial excursions from the South Sea Republic
and popular exhibitions OF the vsIOgraph the message
Of the President OF Greece favorlng tOn 10 the
the United States the dwelling OF the Rocky Mountains.
the filling up Of the Cult OF Mexico by Kew Yves. dam.
the DE Lesseps Canal being used heat rvoIr
OF Harvard students To the PyIan DIS: rip
through the OF Vesuyius made by parry clad IN
a,beslOs suits trOttlng match for horses that had
never Ocaen 1896 etc.. etc II obvious that thus copy
The GiO6e viii be Of great iner's 81 hundred
from now. Al parents and guardians having under
their c1rge promising infants. who are krY to live To
The OF ISSUE Should send for cOpy and HE
a away 10 await the centennial.