New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Competition is generally admitted to be thu
life of trade. and rivalry may yet be the making Of tia
Rugby colony. At all events there is likely to be tea,
In that direction, for IT IL reported that an Angie
German settlement called Aardt is about TO be formed
in Fentress County, Tennessee, ten miles from Rugby
and connected with civilization by a branch OF the en-
cinnati Southern Railroad.
ScipiO Horne, physician, surgeon and astron.
smer, likewise coored brother, practising at skpwith
Miss, lately called to attend fellow African vbo
was having trouble with Of his legs. lie az once
decided that a lizard secreted IN the Offending
member, which he thereupOn cut wide Open After tor
tdring his patient for considerable time with knlfa
and probe, scpio decided that the ailment WA, an
Invisible phenomenon" Two reputable physician.
have succeeded In saving the PATIENTS life by ampnta
ting his leg and warrants are out for the arrest q,
Sclplo Africanus, who has made himself extremely
A farmer travelling on the Utica and Bacl,
River Railroad the other day succeeded in deferine ths
payment of his fare until he through the window
his own house close at hand He then boldly declared
that he would not pay cent. The train stopped
aud he told got Off A. he left the car he sapped
the conductor the back and exclaimed By gosh
You are the hest fellow ever saw That il my house
up there, and II you will stop the next time on cora
round viii give you drink OF milk " The farmer no
dOnbt thinks that he very smart TO beat tina
railroad and doesn't Imagine that ia point Of fact he Is
u thief
During the last six years the German Govern
ment mas devoted much money 10 excavations In Olym-
pa between Paras and Pyrgos, under the direction OF
Professor Curtius and Mr. Adler the Berlin architect
After long consideration 1t has been decided to build
museum in Olympia for the reception OF the antiquities
instead OF removing them to Athens, and Professor
FILLER already well known from his connection With Dr.
schie'nanns palaiial residence and the Academy OF
Science in Athens has selected site and prepared
plan for the building, toward the construction OF which
rich Greek named syngros has given $4,000.
Something like the town versus-gOwn spirit
whose ebultons used to diversity life in New Haven
and other college towns to exist at Newport The
NewpOrer and the resident" writes a CORES
pondent of The Boston Transcript do not love each
other There sides to the story 1t very
that many of the residents unbearabe snob
since money cannot make the gentleman. These snOba
to delight in fostering this feeling Here is OF
the latest stories, illustrative that have heard An
entertainment proposed. A cottager blandly sug-
gested that committee OF SIX be appointed. three
ciieenS and three Gentems YOu may be assured that
the citizens will not care to change the time Of cleo
lions to make this man voter"
Twenty years ago Patrick Kilroy, a butcher,
removed from Philadelphia 10 British Columbia leaving
ndrawn his deposits OF $3.50 in the Philadelphia Saving
Fund In 1869 his brother-in-law, John A. Duncan,
swOre that KrOy had died intesate IN 1861 procured
letters OF administration, drew the money In his yifes
NAME spent IT, and five years later died penniless Last
Saturday the officers OF the Saving Fund were surprised
by proofs that KirOy far from being dead Is pros
porous citizen OF the town OF LyttOn, British Columbia,
ant Is now ready TO draw his money, which amounts,
with accrued interest TO about $1,000. The situation IL
full of mournful interest to a couple OF Philadelphia
oystermen who the sureties for the now deeply
lamented Duncan as administrator