New-York tribune., 1882-03-12
GENERAL NOTES.

A gigantic scheme for connecting the RhOne
and the Loire by canal dug through country below
Lyons mentioned by French nautical journals. Tho
proposed route presents such difficulties that hydraulic
lifts and other mechanical must be resored TO-
The audacous suggestion to have been Dor
rowed from Captain Eads 1t is proposed to carry the
| boats up two long ncnes by means OF railways. To
prevent injury the boats from their cargoes they
are 10 kept floating I'm iron cisterns filed with water
the cisterns themselves resting on the rawy uucn9,
and they to be helped up the ascens Dy tue gravity
| of barges coming in the opposite direction.
The Omaha Indians evinced sincere grief
at the death Of the late Editor Of The Boston Adreer
Mr. D. A. Goddard, remembering gratefully his efforts
| to assist them in securing the titles to their lands
council of their principal recently met to express in
behalf Of all Their grief and several touching
speeches were made. Un.patunga said "This man,
think must have followed Gods word above all others
In trying to help he counted money as nothing, and
dropped by the way. God made us and placed us IN
this land and he believed God made us He made him.
Although of the foremost OF those who tired 10 help
Us dead will stl look to those who are left to car
ry the work this man began until 1t Is accomplished
Last October a San Francisco teamster, III
driving unwarily through barn door, had his neck
broken by beam and his spinal cord stretched two
inches according to the doctors statement The TACT
WAS published in the papers, and those who read the item
naturally supposed that the man died In due COURSE nut
he was made of tougher fibre than ia generally employed
I'm the human machine and has almost recovered HIS
life all the dedTcf 10 MIN Tor tnc torture through
which he passed to preserve It, He was laid Hat on his
back upon plank and there he lay without daring even
to for than two months while the DOCTOR
having by delicate manpulaOns brought the bones into
position without mangng The ,pinal cord had the sats-
facuon of seeing the edges gradually unite man VINO
can live through such experience S entltleu 10 the
credit OF it, His name Is John C0lery.
A bill now pending before the Legislature
of Massachusetts has called out protest from number
of highly esteemed ladies who have wish to be
forced to vote They say: The subject Of woman suf.
frage has not excited any general interest among tho
women Massachusetts up to the present time because
they supposed it to be the action OF small dissatisfied
class But there is the danger Of actual legislation
the basis of their approximations and Of the pas
sage ofaws which Will compel all women TO take per-
sona part in politics in order to prevent the bad ele
ments from OyerpOwering the good lt seemed right,
therefore that those who have heretofore held
their peace because they felt necessity OF speakng
but who apprehend the real danger OF having thrust
them duties and responsibilities which they DO not
seek, and which they feel themselves unable or unwilling
to fun should protest against the passage Of the
bill now pending before the Massachusetts Legls tture
A committee of which Professor WOrsaae,
the arcnHolOgist is chairman, organized In Copen-
hagen last month to prepare for the reception 0f the
Amercanis Congress of 1888 at which delegations from
all American and European nations to attend For the
study Of American archaeology, which forms the object
of these biennial conventions the University Library In
the Danish capital offers ample opportunity by its coll
lection of medieval manuscripts containing the only
existing OF the discoveries and settlement Of tho
Northmen on the American coast and In Greenland Ia
the tenth aud eleventh centuries and OF the struggles
and eventual fate OF the colonies These furnished the
material for the "Antquitates Americana" published
in 1886 by Rafn secretary Of the Danish Archaeological
Society," which attracted much attention in this country
Recent proof Of the existence OF close analogy between
the famous Danish "KjokkenmOddnger' and similar de-
posts on the American continent adds to the interest OF
the selection Of Copenhagen the meeting place oil the
next Congress There good reasons Tor the beiet
that the analogy will be found 10 extend much further
than was first suspcctedand will help TO explain much
concerning the original inhabitants Of America that Is
now in the dark. Very rich collections illustrating ths
manners and habits OF native Greenland tribes are 0nd
i'm the photographic Museum at Copennagen; they arc
held 10 be the finest If the kind IN the world The nrst
Amerranist Congress was held al Nancy IN
1874 at the invitation OF the Socete Amercane, which
tbroh the activity OF Catholic missionaries among tue
Indians had accumulated much valuable Information
concerning the history languages and customs ~ tue
aborignals Successive Congresses met at Luhemooue
i'm " at Brussels in 1879, and at Madrid last summer
Tb hosptaty Of the Danish Government as well as 0i
private citizens will be oxtenGed TO the foreign Nsiors
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