New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24
GENERAL NOTES.

1t Is announced that the yellow dog which
ra'd periodical visits 10 General Garhed's residence
fore the election and followed the Presidents carriage
on Inauguration day has lust reappeared upon the scene
lie called at the White House Thursday received some
AMI then departed no one knows whittier.
The atlanta Constitution is doing the neonle
OF Georgia eommendahle service in warning them
against the insidious wes OF the Mormon agents who
are travelling through that for the purpose Of max
hS conVeitsa purpose in which they unfortunately
succeeding to a surprising degree 4 conference Of
Gs"t ma Momons has been called. and doubt every
shameless creed which they confess.
\ wealthy landowner at Concise. France.
has founded upon his private asylum for super.
animated animals, which. except Cor his protection,
woud perish of neglect Many OF the inmates OF this
strange establishment have attained extraordinary gs;
indeed, the figures representing number OF their
years. which their bene actor carefully records severely
tax creiuy. The patriarch Of The family j. a mule in
his scvcniy-thrd year next a thriysix wears
DID, pig Of twenty seven. ami goat OF eighteen sum-
mers Ia the quarters assigned TO fowls the visitor IN
troduced TO goose in its thrfy-oichih year whose
pannch touches the ground and whose are dscrod
tmny-src"nd year. and bnlmch repuied To De twenty
clshi wears old. Young ana frocsoime creatures need
no apply for adnittance this asylum Tor only lie
aged ar, received ' "'
y correspondent writes: Watts Charity AT
h"'n'slcr which suggested to Charles Dickens one ~
H. p"rikno~n Christmas stories seven Poor Travel
lcr~ is, We understand. shortly be closed Many
complaints respecting this institution having been, made
strict examination has commenced Of the nightly al-
ph'antS Tor admission with most disappointing results
FOR those who have maintained that tho hoss was sim
practically fulfilling the wishes OF founder A larce
proportion Of the applicants viii even wait To face
The icoisn which they hear has De undergone aud
Z" lho>' VINO remain. The majority admit. under the ~
animation What their appearance plainly indicates that
tI'N are nniiilnG ht is
pl Mlch The house ~hould accommodate eighty huf ON
th' niNi nlGil pl rhe Inspection
ana on TIE third three were all who considered 10
answer lhe description oi way iarlng men, being
Ioglc~ Na-tnomas.'
In connection with the rumor. since antbori-
t"N'1 denied That King Kalakaua had opened uer,ffa-
"", with En-anG for the sale eft his dominios ID. SIN
t'ucieco chronicle publishes "a statement showing that
the natVe population Of the Hawaiian Islands who's,
LOYALTY Is the chief bulwarl 81 Kaakauas throne Is de-
crHsng with amazing rapidty. while the foreign por-
atlon Is rapidly Increasing in Numbers and wealth and
OF conlse in Influence In 1879 Captain Cook estimated
Tho native population at 100000 in 1882 the first con
'uS showed II To De l3o3l5; 10y the census Of SOC il
Wa~ 'N1C3; II Is now estimated $4,000 No estimate
al The foreign population made urtn 1870: sine,
i"n has increased from l"2 10 l9i 1866 and Is
now ioncht 10 %" about 10000. including Chinese Tho
lrmhlc population u disappearing much more rauiiv
,ih C male ~ l~t6 the married people vrr. lever
atHiHucd chiefly "a the d, pIaNity OF tie women a5
inc 'f ltc Use of ardent spirits The forian lnrlf-
N'h men, ioflN wears ago Na~ only 80. noN numbers
oN~N' 81 Tie entire population. owns more than ono
nan Z" tEc property and flh>acfs tllr-fulirf's of fe
h>.htS me 'hronh thinks that the islands must i,,-
clgu protector.