New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-19
GENERAL NOTES.

The trustees Of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore have just decided To open Il tor the receP
ton Of patients n 1850 The balance sheet o. the tfus
shows the endowment fund to b. S33237l4 o. and taa
nyes ed income SlO3isIs 81; other smal sums mass
total o. St47S,3JG 81 Nearly Sl,2OO,OJO las oeea
expended already.
The list OF men who are expected to take
part in the prOceedn Of tn, NItional Agricultural Con-
yenuon the Grand Pachc Hotel I'm Chicago December
1918 includes an unusual number or notable names
Among them Senator Miller. OF New York Clauneey
NJ Dlpcw Dr.. Coer, chemist Of the United states De-
parrment Of Agriculture; eX-Secretary Window. Il
Kmba D rector General Of the recent Atlanta Ekpos
lion; -etn Green. Dr. James Law, Colonel George
Waring and ,ieurge r Blanchard Of the Enc Railroad
The convention will devote special attention 10 zoe sac
ject Of ensage, aud action Will be taken upon ne gS
osition 20 b01 National Agricultural AMI mdusuA
Exposition next year.
An old dodge of swindlers has been revived
in London with much success. II Is commonly known
As the "crippe aud medicine lay and It's operations
simple enOu gh. yaga5Ond with a sound but osreis19
bandaged arm drops bottle OF water with crash uPoa
the pavement just respectfully dressed pers0h
passing He at once accuses the latter OF knocking
eIicne" out OF his haud bewais his iorOrn eonaf
tion and the poverty which will compel him 70 eudas
all the agony OF his broken limo without sieFias,s
crowd col ecs, and the stranger ia loudly eKhortgI
coniedarltes "c1ye the poor fellow bob 70 sSs
he Will generally assent. This simple device u eoIusS
recon- mcndcd pleasing novelty To me uoDie a"@
abe-bodied beggars which infests New-York'
1t was one of the mysteries of the ono cam
pagn of 1850 why the Democrats claimed that state y
persistcntly when the election showed that they D'a
ground upon which 10 base such statement H".
cinnad EagarsrS indianapolis correspondent sl'oss
little light upon the matter. He saysi " IN ouV'
Democrats have not had perfect poll OF the sils %
1876. In 1850 they had mock poll which vas nA ',
to mako Barrum and the New-lOrk leaders Deile'e '
il was possible TO carry Ohio Upon this reprcsenta
500 OO0 sent out ten days before me ,o ma
for all the good 1t did u might have been throw hssr
.. at fh.N N I.lHflf NY
Barnums eyes to the tune 100000 no doup. m me
than compensated the Ohio Democrats for the oS' y"
state and the deltat Of Hancock. ,oo
On the morning OF November 2, some ~
copies of "A blood -curIng placard found pOs'eu
various parts OF Paris. II purported TO be addre 80,
the International Revolutionary Executive Cohu"' ,
the bourgeois capitalists and governing oA'', 49,,
France but It's absurdy exaggerated tone susse.'
Il was "A mere farce. Here are sons OF the an'"' -,
n0uucemcnts of the placard "rhe hour Tor Ino -.
~ all your crimes and ign0uinlos has strucA IA,
letariatc declares against you a to the DEAN IA
no longer with musket in hand that we shan W raj,
into the streets 10 attack your class who nave "a
disposal hundreds OF thousands OF nea aIu.u
toeth. No shall only employ the means ' r. de.tr9
gives rs, that chemistry has reNea5 ~ and dynan.s
yOu, all methods good, from the diSscI ,Si r
10 poison and petroleum. ~ II on sciv.J q, enss that
Ella list theories rest. and It Is with tue ai1 o. death 70
we shall accomplish the social Winning Up
employers !" ,s,ins
Probably the most careful aud ihVe''' '.aa.
INVESTIGATIONS of the habits OF insects a'c TIA
Quoted by sir John Lubbock who has Ju7' ,,,,ng
Linnean society an account OF his ooSet' lined
the past year. To test the hearing Oh o'' - ,hieh
some of them TO lind honey placed on music an
was kept going several hours day Tor s. thea
tho lawn close To a window. The music poA ,,naov,
taken into the house ana set close oeSu' ~, and iI
thought out OF sight The bees eoulu Nv 10 10
though when IL had been shown TO tneiu az ,s SIR
readily enough As regards the indGsII; which be pro-
John timed bee and WASP, for eacu ~ thai the wasp
yLled "A store of honey ana no lo.u, an later In mo
began earlier IN the morning and w9fAeu vng srcaef
day He did not however quote TINS ~ t may be thar
Industry ON part OF the wasp, .nyer though ths
wnsps are less sensitive 10 cold ,traet honey
bees probosci, il admirably adapted - xnosed ssln
from tubular lowers. when the honcH 30 n moTe rap
ths ease the wasp appears able 70 s"@ OF four Ia the
iIy mis- particular wasp began WIZ mr. ,ntarnlsios
mornng AMI went without any fysn tng which thus
mi a quarter To eight in tho eyenlhs, u"e
Size visited the store OF honey ITO tlMeS--.