New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-26
GENERAL NOTES.

In response to an assertion which Mr.. Fors-
ter Chief Secretary for Ireland is said to have re-.
GENTLY made during speech at Glasgow, to the effect
that written constitution is 20 guarantee for liberty
the Monroe County Land League OF this State has just
caused the Declaration OF Independence and parts Of
Constitution OF the United States TO DO prin ed In
pamphlet form for dissemination throughout ireland
Bills applying for permission to construct
40 mies OF railroad in Great Britain, vf which
hreefourhs will lie In England. will be laid before Par
lament during the approaching session. This Increased
mileage lie small compared with the total al extern
sion in the United staes but in proportion it
NOUS especially when one considers that England
looks Ike a SPIDERS web the railroad maps The pros
pecye Increase aUOut 400 miles more Than that pro-
posed 20 Parliament In 1882.
Ii Is supposed that stovepipes, refractory
and docrep have caused profanity iutoIIoatiun
and oonnubal misery than all other combined.
But friend OF humanity has arisen IN person
OF Mr.. Charles Bowen OF Bodie Cal, who proposes
stem this frightful tide OF and with "a patent
sovcpipe having joints against which the total
deprayity OF Inanlmate things will contend In vain. Mr.
Bowen doubtless means WE'LL but IL Ia not reasonable 90
suppose black and foul and treaoherous nature
the soyepipes can be redeemed by any such simple
0eyice.
That the extreme duration of life to which
the hippopotamus may reasonably look forward, pro
vided II has the look forward all, lie about
thirty years, Is indicated by the experience Of
Geological Society In London The famous female hip
ropotamus Adhela" presented the Society In 1883
by the Vceroy or Egypt has Just died OF old age, and
perhaps reoned the banks OF celestial her
mate" obaysoh," which died from the cause FIVE
ago 1t is not at all likely that either Of anil
mails Judging frorl tho state OF the teeth and bones
would have been able to support existence long It's
native wilds under the favorable conditions OF Re-
gents Park
If the man who jumped off High Bridge
year two ago will compare notes
Ton, Gull. D..,I
they may together he able to inform the world
what respects the sensation offaLg rapidly through
great differs rrom the sensation OF rising rapidly
through a great space Sullivan working the other
day the foot Of eleotric light mast, when the
balance weight at the top OF IT, 257 feet from the ground
BECAME dIsarranged and shot rapidly downward At
that instant suvans feet happened to be Gu tangled In
rope which descended from the weight over puley
aud he had scared TO tho top OF the mast
enough and strength to dleentaugle himself and
slide down TO the ground.
Ii was ut the hour of morning prayer in the
girls school at Hamilton No. and pupils were per-
forming their deyotOns with becoming reverence
one of them, In the act of seating herself after the sing
ing OF a hymn, missed her CHAIR and came down upon
the floor with what the Missouri papers would call
tickenng thud The other girls with extraordinary SELF
control refrained from laughing tue teacher did
observe the catastrophe the unfortunate one IN her
confusion aud embarrassment renamed the floor.
and the exercises might have been concluded without
except for OF those extraordinary and
malicious Condolences which forever upsettng
every calculation Tue teacher and giving
nrst lesson Of morning prayer read from the tth Oh p
Ter Of Amos follows The virgin OF Israel has talon;
sho shall more che IL forsaken upon the land
there Is 20 raise her up" This was tho much.
ongsuppressed litter pervaded the schooi-r0om the
teacher looked up and the devotional exercises closed
'0rtnwith.
On January Ia The TRIBUNE gave q summary
If anonymous circular signed "The United States
Weather Observers which had appear in Washington
md which was, In fact an attack upon the Weather
Bureau as conducted By General Hazon even going so
ar as to hut NJ corruption In contradiction VI that
circular ninety six Obsei OF the Weather Bureau
lave signed their names to statement they say
Referring TO the printed circular entitled An answer
General Hszen's circular criticisng Secretary Lin
olns right aud competency TO judge what for the
stinterest OF his Department. issued by I'M
rincipled person. not any way connected with the
gnal Corps, and signed Tue United States Weather
)ssorvers we desire TO repudae the statements aud
inions therein got forth coming from us, aud Co
tate that tho signature United states Weather OBJ
erYers attached thereto IL despoaDic forgery. To
he best OF our knowledge and belief the said circular
IA printed and Issued without the authority Sane
Ion VI singe member Of eur eorps similar disolan-