New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-03
GENERAL NOTES.

With the expressed purpose of keeping dogs
out of the Stockton House, Cape May. during the
present season, the directors issued an announcement
That they would be charged for board e rate Of SO
week apiece. That this scheme for carrying ont n
prseworthy purpose is utter failure proved by the
fact that six dogs registered at the Stockton
onse that is to say three skye terriers. lap dogs
If anyone living in New-York had ventured
10 breathe doubt to the inspiration Of the Concord
philosophers he would expected 10 be utterly con-
delnned Tor his narrow. commercial spirit What shall
be said OF The Boston Courier which ruhlessly shall
tiers an ideal with interrogatory thrusti If men
were only honest enough confess not the Concord
School chiefly occupied in clothing commonplace pat
o des IN scnorSnS words Of many syablesl Who
whole course of ecturesi-
a Board of Trade return just issued shows
that the mortality British merchant service from
all causes 400 last year. over the wear
before of 40s This increase known 70 be far in m
cess of that which might properly have anticipated
from tho improved condition of the carrying trade The
record appears s worse when the deaths through dis
ease are eliminated. The statistics then show that 675
more sailors drowned by wreck in 1850 than in
the previous year. the respective totals being I653 and
97s OF the 400 sailors who lost their lives last yer in
the British mercantile marine, only seventeen are re-
S en, i S Ge SFo9Sa natural causes II must
specified diseases excluded from this category OF
these levers were the most fatal and next th
the heart ''' ''''' '1' i'S ana diseases OF
Hitherto no very damaging complaint has
been made OF bad air I'm the Mont Cents tunnel and
traffic has been uninterrupted notwithstanding many
audible growls from the travelling pubhc especially
from Engshmon, 1t is now proposed, however 10 uro
vide an apparatus by means Of WHICH the afr may 10
kept as pure as that in the tunnels ohe British Metro
politan Railway, where the proportion OF carbonic acid
Is only GOODS. With this view, large centrifugal ven
tator has been set mp the Barlonneche end 70 be
driven by water which is abundant there The entrance
Of the tunnel is closed by door, which the trains open
passing under tho arch and close again after passing In
winter and also duog some fresh mig IN summer fhe
machine can be stopped and any necessary repairs made
In addition 10 the ventiaor there in use the compress
ang mo ,asimanhg SlIaIatus that was employed in
the care bestowed on the fires of the locomotives il is
Client in case OF even small increase OF the traffic
Mr.. A. ). Solomons, in q letter TO The Wash
1gio. Star, suggests that the Presidents recovery
should be eommemorated by the erection of CARRIED
Memorial Hospital" the spot where he was Slot
down, which is said To be Government reservation and
not the property Of The railroad company. In order
that tho proposition tangible form writes Mr.
Soiomons, permit with all modesty TO respectfully
suggest 10 citizens and to the honorable Commission
the District OF the proprioty Of their
leading In the mattor and 30 that end confer with the
of States and Territories COR them 70 ake
appeals TO their citizens and constitute the rcip
ens OF their contributions; invite our Ministers ana
Consus abroad To publicly their willingness 10
become the medam TO transmit here the freewl offer
lngs OF the rulers and people to whose Governments they
are accredited make the Treasurer of tho United states
the treasurer OF the whole fund.- at the proper tne
ask Congress- 10 perfect she work and pass bin estao-
fishing the hospital such broad liberal basis as
viii admit within it hosptable walls deserving poor
IRON all parts or the country make its attending
consulting physicians board of management rep
representative OF and embracing the best talent
found. In ine, make the Garfield Memorial Hospital
the model hospital OF the world pride every
American Now is the time for action"
Not long ago Francis Sanity, a Governments
Inspector OF Factories. stationed Pesth was spend
ing the day with some friends IN a wood Hun
garian Capital, when an aged Gypsy approached tho
group and and crayed permission exercise her gifts Of
divinaton One after another held his hand for her
inspection. When santhys came she examined bis
palm with prolonged attention and in profound silence
As she seemed 10 have fallen into the dis
closures accrng TO her from her long contemplation of
HE lines" Sanity became impatient and joculary
claimed: "out with it. How long have / 70 liver
"withn four weeks" solemnly replied the aged fortune
teller, you win kin yourself in this very wood shouts
OF derision greeted this sombre vatioinaon; the old
woman hobbled away, and neither Sanity his friends
thought anything more about the matter About fort
night later Sanity began TO complain OF violent head
ache and singing in the and csufd his intimate