New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31
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GENERAL NOTES.

A. effort will be made on NewYear's Day
10 a trip through Lake George and back on the
'..am Yacht Ed. Lewis This feat, If performed VIII DO
r. is conjectured that three Immense leaden
leans recently found ct side Of st. Margarets
Curcbyard London contain the remains OF some Of the
Commonwealth leaders who were buried i'll the Abbey
SNt removed at the Restoration.
IN December % the British steamer Devon
n,re landed 800 Chinese passengers at San Francisco
and on the day the Oceanic sailed from the same
rt for Hong Kong with GOO persons of the nation
srtv on board. Thus the Monaghan tide Gibbs and
flows and there seems to be no Immediate danger OF an
inundation.
! The scientific history of the Franco German
War has just been completed by the issue of the
toth number of the work prepared by the General staff
The construction of the Empire the chief result of
the war; and for this, apart from pecuniary sacrifices,
Germany had TO pay with total loss of 62i7 officers,
doctors ald army officials 123103 men, 1l59o horses
one stand OF colOrs and SIX guns.
There is a young cOmpositOr in Santa Fe,
H. NJ who possesses the singular faculty Of being able
10 spell backward words of any length and even long
sentences rapidly anyone spell them forward.
he says that he also knows insnctiyely and without
reckoning the number of letters in word sentence.
md that possessed these peculiar powers as long
rs he can remember. He secs advantage in them,
however and values them only as source OF amusement
70 himself and his friends.
One of the peculiar features of the election
Office for the Board Of Canyassers Is the consolidation OF
the votes Of Fulton and Hamilton Counties. These votes
are cOIblned because the state election law provides
that "or all the purposes Of this act the County OF
Hamilton shall be deemed part OF the County of Fulton
This provision necessary far the vote for
Assemblyman is concerned when about 1888, single
district formed out of these two counties, but 1t was
worded to apply 20 all votes. Consequently the
votes OF these counties for State officers Congressman
and Senators are consolidated in the Secrears tables,
although there does not appear TO be any good reason
why the law should compel this TO be done beyond the
vote Assemblyman which has place in lis state
ment. For several years these votes nave beeh kept
separate THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC and this year Secre
ary Carr improved his tables far the law per
mits. by doing the same thing III foot notes.
The bloOdthirstiest manifesto thus far issued
In behalf OF downtrodden Ireland has just drpped from
the pen of p NJ McG, MA C.E, esq ana is entitled;
The irish Avenger Dynamite Evangelist" 1t is ad-
dressed "To rishmen in London, England, and other
parts OF the British DomimOus," and begins thus
"Englands weakness know you not is on her own soil!
sTis there the bloody old tyrant must be met and
aughtered It's object is to demonstrate that the one
great curea for Irelands dynamite, and TO that
explosive deity is addressed ode beginning, Hail
dynamite! Glorious dynamite" at the end of the
pamphlet are directions making the real Sophie Pc
rosk article The present & is the cf 0t
/" how TO dynamite most afely privately, securely
and Il w9Id 0s % e!e no TaSn sS
these Blessed be the hand that causes the fst out
break of fOrkod red name that wraps LOnuOn III
blaze Blessed be they that fan that hane INTO a
covering condensation which no human power can ar
rest till the den of the British tyrants shall become
heap OF ruins"
The Railcay Tge has given repeated and
earnest attention urgent need Of some general and
comprehensive system for nsurng the lives and health
OF railway empoyesaDd also Of some plan for providing
for them after age accident have unified them TO earn
a livelihood. The advantages of such system have
been widely recognized by railway officials and EN-
ployes Within months the idea has taken practi
cal shape and with cordial support OF some Of the
most influential railroad in the country articles OF
incorporation have filed in Iowa. where the state
laws are favorable 10 such organizations for 1.-The
Consolidated Railway Life and Accident Insurance
Company" with proposed capital OF S25OOO'Ooo'
"Ths says The Raiipay Age "was the necessary pre-
lminary STEP 1t remains for the incorporates to
meet and decide upon the various details OF organiza
tion and Of course these will be very carefully studied
and no feature which could be reasonably objected to by
either railway officers employees will be allowed Tho
proposed company should be in the broadcast sense mu
tal and In no sense close corporation The capital
stock is placed large enough not only to make the In
surance absolutely secure but to give railway me OF
all classes an opportunity TO participate In the goou
work and also share the profits II there are any Dy
taking stock all being placed on precisely the same lOot
NDg."