New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-14
GENERAL NOTES

A gang of Winnebago Indians employed on
the Union Pacific Railroad have proved TO be excelen'
workmen respects superior to ,hose OF any
other nationality
some of the merchants of Philadelphia de-
velon An amount OF busuess enterprise that does much
10 .cou,t that city Of the charge being behind the ago.
A shoe store has photograph gallery fitted up In
the top floor where every purchaser OF pair OF shoes
IA entitled TO have his photograph taken. cigar
dealer poses the legend, "a ticket for the Manner
Choir Garden and good Havana cigar for tweatynve
cents" And popular dentist ATTRACTS CUSTOM u HIM
SELF by giving teeth on trial
An incident in the House of Commons the
other day showed under what conditions the new parcels
post "a not an Improvement on bid methods memoer
received packet through the parcels post containing"
titi On from his constituents for which the charge was
threepence Had the document been sent as an ordi-
nary ,etter 1t would have cost twopence. Had been
sent by book post penny stamp would have carIiedI
And still further It petition designed for pres
eutaton to the House of Commons. IL might have peca
sent post ftee. 80.
The members of the Jewish race are said 70
have one advantage Christians: they ARE eomPa'
atiyely secure from pestence. In the Middle As's'
when the plague appeared. SO few Jews were sm''ea
that the suspicious Of the ignorant people we're arouse"
and the Jews accused of poisoning tho wes 'aa
rivers During the three great outbreaks OF choers
Algeria the Jewish mortality was only about eheu..
that OF the Gentiles, and at Pesth In 1897 WIS v
seventh At Rome In 1868. the cholera death e
among tina Roman Catholic population was tnteo s"'ss
as high as 1t among the Jews -
queer family lives near Omaha, Neo. Ins
father and mother have dwet In one house Tor 'ho
ten years and during all that time neither they nor
children have ever come out Of the hocse ehoop'
night They deal with only ono tadesman' WI
n,shes them with the Of life night
window. and his bills are always promptly paid "''"Ds
question coffin Is kept IN the house for eVory "oa
ber OF the family As the children grow anu 'ne oo
become too small. larger are procured. nhon
new member is added to the family CONN Is ~ IN
ordered. The physician who has been caleb " 49,"
this angular household says that he has never
the face OF sny member of IL. fAs 0waAa Hes nas
this case and youches for the statemens ~
gwen. but omits to tell the namei 90 thesn "o" -
useless to send for an autograph.
ave have been engaged for ten years III To-
ing the genealogical tree Of family. ana nsv0
ceeded in completing one branch that to whion =.
long" said George T. Davis Of New Rochelle on o.
day Mr. Davis has summoned tho descenosass
Colonel John Davis. of Oxford, Conn, 70 fanny
union at High Rock Grove. Connecticut on Ausas,
He hss cot become discouraged In his gcneaosO.
searched, for he has begun to work out ano'ne. y.
Of tho family tree, and there 10 third to Afssn" W
believes that before his work 10 complsted no
reached the ago Of his grandfather. Captain s,s,,v
Davis died In his cighty-nrst year. ~ .A. "a
V an ancient ono and royalty descended" - INV