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

rss Union League Club, of Philadelphia, is
=. ,u,nodel and decorate Its clubhouse. and ouiiu
- r.vunber. the sleeping Hungarian OF Alien
-. penn seems deterniDed to disappoint inc uo~
-. vho have been predicting bis speedy ue"," 80.
to raurtslment naturally. has acquired life
o." .S.s and walks about unsided During the day
are open and at night be sesps patnrnlg e
now q asibe 20 pain but Is not dsys ~
,ha narads of Barnum's menagerie
-. an Salem Mass. last Friday, the ak horsea
,be b,r glass cage that held forty serpen's Oh
- .,,es became manageable and ran away iuo
-. ras smashed and tho streets strewn WIN "e,'e'
- .na.yndas, boa-constrictors ana otner IoP'"o9
r.e xas general stampede OF the mmenss pefee
3no. even the untsrrihed small boy seeking i' h
Petc.,,sts and trees The keepers sueceensu tv
svsr IN recapturing the scay monsters "i'"'N' ~"
or ioss ue,;, troer
~, a., Oh eass Of n former resident OF Chatham
- y,ho recently. at the age OF seventy-three' To
-..vss IN bloomington III He is there enjoying "s
,xy,,ss the society Of his children granoohhuren NV,
sreat grandchildren. Looking back be mas cie"i ~
S,t,nc, racollections Of his parents -FOUR grsn
parents and two grsss e. Ss famy and should he at
tain the aye Of several Of bis ancessots' VIII
ace another generation added 10 the us"
To demonstrate the feasibility OF keeping
,.,n Inflated long enough for transatlantic voyage
IF
snny, ,hc air from the Mississippi River to the Az
,on,,c .,ast Ths Minnesota Agricultural and Meohau
a.I society has offered furnish the gas and Si3SO
toward the other expenses 81 inc "a Mpnespcs on
sen,emhSr 7. The balloon will have caIscly %
100000 cubic feet and VIII be made Oh se'ei' '"'
cloth and lined With rubber
sucb a case Of inhumanity under the name
a, o,rsp,yed charity as that of zzy Aaronsen IN fh
,sa,nhia which has already been commented upon IN
srur TR,RuSR would be impossible, The Philadelphia
Prvxs thinks In any other large city In the country Luz
supeffnte ndent Of large relief society In Cnio"s" III
forms reporter of The Tribune OF that city thSt scce
Say ia which he does not have to care fsoine
uns,rtnpat. woman. Not single one, he says, mas
been turned away hardly stop 70 ask any qusuHSus
about tr circumstance and neysr ,nlnk r OF
thing AS demanding MARRIAGE ere oi u
woman who needs ~ De taKeh care VI
A remarkable freak of nature occurred IN
lancaster County Penn, on May 81. FARMER haineu
GRAY was sitting the porch Of his house when bolt
OF lightning struck the chimney, ran down It and INTO
stoye hich shattered into iroe then along the floor
20 the porch where Gray sitting Ii passed up the
ehasr 90 his hips then in Egzag direction down his
rieht leg coiliuY around like snake burning where
II went To his little toe where 1t burst the boot and en-
tered the step the porch breaking TO spinters ana
then passed into the ground which tore up CI con
axed and Mr. Gray's injuries were by no meaus severe
A member of the League of American
Wheesn passed through Albany one day last week Oh
bicycle with wheel fifty inches in diameter on which
he had ourneyed from Lima. Ohio, TO Boston, Mass ana
was then his way back again to the West From Mar
seiles to Nevada Ohio he sd he rode for forty miles
IN rui made in the hard clay road by heavy
From west8eldt TO Buffalo, n Y, he rode between the
tracks Of the Lake Shor Railroad FroIe there to SYRIA
ease he RODE In company with another wheelman, be-
tween the NewYork Central Railroad tracks frequently
going fifteen miles hour, and making the whole dis
taaoe-nnety three milesin twelve hours. 81 expert
49, "A ts,ha hard In Eav Xor
! rode up Broadway followed by crowd OF hOotng
Soodlnins who poked sticks through the spokes Of
wheels aud harssssd in other ways As laid ont the
trip was iO85 miles but shall enough out Of the
way to make 1t ,20oat least
That it is always tho unexpected which
happens is well Illustrated by the antics Of burstcd
boilers. few days Agv Of these unruly monsters
belonging to locomotive few to pieces In Chattanooga.
Tenn without causing any Inconvenience 20 the engi-
necr but ON unfortunate pedestrian named Finch, half
0 mile away was instantly killed. Still more remark
able was the exploit OF the boiler which exploded in
Philadelphia on Thursday. Lake shot II sped on
straight line westward, carried away frame shed and
arbor on the southern side Of the residence OF Mrs
Mary Ann Nugent at No 24i3 Amherst, went through
the sdeyard fence across Amherst. through another
fence into o narrow yard between two OF the railway
STABLES IN which stood eighty 81 the conpsDys hOrsee
oooing In the shade. On the north Of this yard
row Of frame bins Three Of the outer posts Of these
nns were down. and the boiler, speeding landed
ashhsi the rrhnAofu foao touco ~ eno "oe'Srn Gnu
OF the yard distance OF 400 feet from the demolished
boiler house. perfectly intact except at its end OF the
eighty horses standing within foot almost OF the flying
boiler not scratched There was slight siam
pede, but damage was done except that George
Krouse, hOstler who was in the yard AT the time, was
Bqueezed against the south wall by the animals and
shghtiy injured At the time OF the explosion
going into the depot carrying Frederick Getz the con
4netor. who the back platform, and William
PRICE, the driver and Police Lieutenant hester the
fon platform. The boiler CROSSED the street just ahead
Of the but Of broken earth flying In Its wake
ear br0ad
broke every pane Of glase- The three men the
yere uninjured piece Of the boiler was found some
time after the explosion In the yard OF the Methodist
Auseha, Memphis and s1pviyats, three squares away