New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-12
GENERAL NOTES.

Professor Maspero has been disappointed by
his examination Of the pyramid Of MeydOOn II contains
neither inscriptions sarcophagus The professor,
ever suspects the existence of another chamber and
VIII make sOundlngs Tor IL In the course or the
present month.
An clipping couple were being driven at
furious pace through Louisville Ky the other day ia
catch train 10 Chicago and happiness when msehev
urchn Knocked of the drivers hat with SNOWFALL
This interruption caused such loss Of time that when,
little later the lovers breathessy into the station
the train had gone and before they coud devise another
plan Of escape the young womans father and mother ap
peared and carried Off their daughter. The youngsteI
probably buided better than he knew when he con
strcted the SNOWFALL which caused 80 much temporary
woe and possibly he may receive legacy some day from
or both OF the ardent fugitives.
Extreme longevity is probably not more fire.
quent now than it has been in the past but for some
unusual number Of very old have been
put upon the record in the past few months. Many
readers Of THE TRIBUNE in Western NewYork will
learn with pleasure that Mr. Charles FOoe completed
his lOlst wear last Saturday in good health and
spirits In removed from Massachusetts,. where
he was born to what Monroe County and settled
upon a farm in East Mendon. twelve miles from
Rochester He the ground on which Rochester now
stands when II covered with it's native forest ia
first vote President cast for Jefersons second
term and his last for Garfield He was one OF the ar
dent admirers Of CLAW who were not ashamsd 20 shea
tears the Of his defeat MI FOote s enjoys al
his faculties writes his own letters and attends TO ms
pprsO
the topics of the time.
Not since thew turned their harbor into
teapot have the people OF Boston been excited they
now are at discovery announced with malignant de-
liberation by VI their number that subtle but
viruent poison turks IN beans In baked beans
II appears that small insect has been evolved from thu
labyrinth Of Nature which loves TO bnrrow under the
skin of the and there die, aud that this insect dis
tia rank poison which cannot fail To proance alarming
results when introduced into the human system Not
many years ago DR.. Dio Lewis made a series OF an
nouncements to shuddering world. the sum total OF
which was in effect, that every known conceivable
article Of food was fearfly unhealthfu and that the
ONLY way to keep wen 10 starve 10 death Bnt after
n time peope stopped shuddering and began 10 eat
again with excellent results; and Boston is advised "a
deal with the insects i'll her own way
In a lecture delivered at the London Insti-
tuition recently Professor Jndd expressed the opinion
somewhat cautiously that a vast supply Of coal under
hes the British METROPOLIS, and that few COMPARE
lively inexpensive borngs in the districts about Croydon
Maidstone and Fozestone would set all doubts at rest
ana enable metropolitan freeh0ders TO sink shafts on
their estates confidence in the results The Tee
graph comments follows Theoretically the PROBES
sor may be said have made out his case In Order
however 70 satisfy the needs and ongngs OF the rO
poitan householder. we ought to have some approx
idea OF how far beneath the surface OF the Royal
Exchange the supply OF coal Is supposed to be- Geoo-
ists tell rs that Muswc Hill is the result Of glacial
dis urbance that scientific fact does not affect the
present climate of the site of the Alexandra Palace
Once upon time-a very long time ago-tha playful
elephant NAV have roamed at large about Woolvch
Common and, still earlier Greenwich Park may have
been az the bottom That coal beds may have
been formed Westminster during the caIbonfer"u'
aye ia as Professor Judd won d explain highly prob
able: but the level the strip OF land on when the
Abbey stand has been raised So much since peri
and the coal measures must he very lar below Poets
| Corner, that perhaps might moi even II we so ne
sired be able to get at them at anything Ike Reason
| able COST