New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Charles L. Upton, the Rochester bank de.
auter Is reported to have said that the cause of his
electric storm November TO- dispatch order
ing his brokers 10 sell his oil stock delayed nine
hours and thereby his last chance TO unload at profit
lost. Before the dispatch could he delivered the
bottom had dropped ont of the oil market.
The route of a Philadelphia letter-carrier on
Christmas morning took him TO the house Of elderly
invalid who had sooner received her mail than she
thrust into his hands without word of explanation two
ono hundred dollar greenbacks The LUCKY postmaR
withdrew in state of CONSERVATION from which he has
not yet recovered. But lie retains sufficient possession
OF us faculties to hope ferveny that his route VIII not
be changed during the coming year.
The NeWdrk advertiser, in q leading article,
recently declared that the etbaek the outflow OF
population from New-York to New-Jersey Is only rela
tive and that all the towns Of the improving
in appearance and increasing in population at rate
which would be satisfactory IL not that. reason
ing from first conditions, it ought to be great d al
larger" The rage for extension which ruined Elhi-
beth and burdcncd Newark and Railway mas not
afflicted the suburban villages Of the state to any great
extern, and many OF them are growing rapidly on
sound basis At many desirable points within an holr
OF dne ely tu anu ,I n hs Gnhc6 b. he feiTto are
greater obstacle than the residents OF Westcheter for
instance have 10 encounter
Some interesting statistics have just been
issued by the German Postal Department o. to the eK
pertinent tried this year establishing summer post
and telegraph offices mountain peaks and other
remote and solitary spots much visited by tourists
The result has been such to encourage repetition
OF the practice. In ALL 103,5sJ letters and 1904 tee-
grams were thus forwarded more than $4,000 OF the
former alone having dispatched from the Basei
precipicc in Saxon Switzerland From the Wartburg'
in Thurtuga, 10000 letters were sent, and an equal
number from the schueekoppe In the Giant Mountains
from the Broken in the iiaL were seat 1000 90,
/ aud /, 279 kilograms respectively.
The following statistics of the number OF
Inhabitants of of the principal cities in Europe
have been recently issued There arc 02 cities in tho
whole OF Europe each containing population OF more
than 100000, but only four which have more than
million viz. London, 3s32,l4O; Paris. 2225,9l0;
Berlin 222 800; Vienna 1lO31l0 OF the other capt.
tails ST. Petersburg possesses s7G $40; Consantnopc,
600 OOO; Madrid 367. ESQ; Buda-Pesth 360,jSO War
saw, 339.34O; Amsterdam, 3l7.0iO; Rome 3Oo'47O
Lisbon, 2l6,3l0; Palermo, 2ii,90O; Copenhagen
$50: Munich, $50 o20; Bucharest 22lsoo; Dres
den. 900, $50; Stockholm, 1Gs77o Brussels i6l $50;
Venice 132,s30; Stu II, 1890. In addition 10
these Moscow contains Ga $40; Nap.es 493,1l0; Ham
Du1g. 4IO12O Lyons. 372 $50; Marseillos 1880;
Milan 1921 $40; Breslau. 2729i0 Turin. 2J2,S30; BOr
deau1 100000; Barcelona, 2l5,96O; Odessa l93,5l0;
Eberfcld. 1880; Genoa. 17951O Lille, l77,0iO;
lorenzo. 10000; Riga 16H,SiO; Prague, 10000 Ant-
BB ottPrs rs 600: Cologne la 77O Maecbure
1877 30; Frankfort l36s20; Toulouse, l366tO Client
1860: Mcssina. 1265OO Hanover, l22sto; Mantle.
i9i go; Iiege ii5 $50; The Hague ll3 f6O OportO,
105,sl0; and ROuen. l0i,OlO
A giant is pulling the celebrities of the
medical profession In Paris. The man, VINO N
now nineteen and half years of age, had nothing
at all the matter with him when at tho age
of seventeen he seemed to have finished growing at the
respectable extraordinary height tot six feet
five inches. on the 18th OF May 1881 he measured
himself and found that be good inch taller than he
had been few weeks before His curiosity being nstu-
rally aroused. continued to take regular measure
lcnts every week. and found that his growing powers
had actually made fresh start. BY the beginning OF
the following September he had gained about three
inches At the time he experienced peculiar
aching pains in his bones hut the rate at which his stat
ure increased seemed TO develop Itself more and more
rapidly that the beginning Of the present year he
had gained fOur inches more hnd stood over seven ttt
without his boots Another quarter Of year found hn
full five inches taller and without any signs OF nature
Ia wing Exhausted her energies. Only In June last Jd tue
growth of his body cease and since That time his eks
have still been growing longer ana thinner, I'LL ne mas
now reached height rather the ength-fOr he can
no longer stand upTght-Of seven feet ten inches MS
are described each about twenty inches long, b
ne has no use for them. his feeblenes5 Is TOO
great for any exercise whatever. He also shows -y
toms OF consumption. and the doctors do not suppose
that he can live long In fact, IL may he said OF MN
with more emphasis than. perhaps IN any recofuen
case that ne has OutgroNn himself though why he
should have done is mystery which all the doctors Of
the SOrbonne have not yet been able 10 explain.