New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-18
GENERAL NOTES.

| Tho will of the late Dr. James Rush, or Phlla-
! dslpha particularly mentioned a number OF wooden
cases containing miscellaneous papers and directed that
the papers should carefully examined and preserved
Dur,ng the past year this has been carried by
Professor w. H. b. Thomas VITO finds that the writings
are largely personal correspondence OF Dr. Benjamin
Rush signer Of the Declaration Of Independence and
the father of the Dr. James Rush. There are several
hundred letters dwelling ppm the causes OF me ke'o3
these sixty seventy were written oy signers OF tne
position. the whole FORMING. Il valuable mstoricai
collection
Wanamake,'s great Philadelphia emporium
has lately made attractive to clerks and customers
by ventlating apparatus designed and put In opera
ton by Mr. John Fernie, of the English Institute of Civil
| Engineers Reasoning that II he could induce an
supply of pure enter the bad air must OF
| necesslty DEPART Mr. Fernie has provided the huge
building with pair of mechanical lungs which greediy
phae tue outside ether draw IL through showers OF cool
spray and exhale 1t from thousands oforces within the
that In thus providing for the comfort OF others he ~
Consulting his interests He fully expects that the
system will more than pay itself in better service
from employees and more frequent visits from customers
He was lamb FROM the country and he fell
into the clutches OF couple OF Baltimore wolves but
they didn't fleece him by "a large majority" George
Anderson was his name farming his occupation and
Anne Arundel County his homo. IL was the old story
of friend OF your fathers, my dear SIR ana he
sented TO lunch and play OF cards just for
fun But when he had lost Ss5 and saw that he was
swindled the transformed into
lion OF the forbdding aspect lie grasped
one swinder with each brown paw. and shook them ust
their teeth ratified like castanets and his money fairly
covered that they had dsgorged IS than he had
tho green pastures OF Anne Arundel
Lowndes County, Ca, is the home of the
dinutve guinea they are now called, though
that was not the first of the breed 1t disputed
point whether not the original stock was brought from
Mnorca, but the breed undoubtedly perfected by
tho late Colonel Stapler, who before tho
OF large wealth and Kept open house fine estate
near yadosta IL his idea to breed race of
suited 10 that region feeders OF small docie,
hardy, and wide rangers. lie succeeded" says The
Atlanta Constitution. In getting an admirable little
animal that could live the native pasturage OF the
Pine barrcns and stand any sort OF exposure II
ages thirty inches In height has an immense bag.
Is as gentle dog and asks but little other food than
what IL picks up For years II rs known as the staper
cow and IL was dunoeo inc guinea ailer some OF ms
herd had been sold
Memphis has recently enjoyed one Of those
judicial nquriesinto the Intoxicating xicatg
quality OF beer which periodically result In proving
nothing at all NJ f. Ball charged with selling
certain occasion In violation OF statute, aud OF
course his defence that could get drunk on
beer Numerous German experts testified that man
could drink from twenty-five TO eighty glasses day
with lmpuny. 100 glasses II heehose to make
hog Of himself. In rebutai American witness de-
elared upon oath and without bushing that on the
Glorious Fourth he had mbbed nine glasses after 2p
m and that when the clock struck he was blind drunk
At this point che case went to Jury whose verdict has
not yet been announced In this city The this
cause Ia chiefly valuable for the compact and oompre-
bensiye definition OF drunkenness which 1t elected from
one of the witnesses man Is drunk said he, when
he don't know what he is thinking about"
During the investigation of charge of coun-
terfeitng in Pera recently Of the detectives per-
ceying that the scent getting hot became alarmed
and confessed th.t the roce themselves involved
The Sultan ordered inquiry, which proved that for
the last four years the police OF Pera have been in
tematc partnership with professional criminals giving
facilities for robbery and murder and regularly sharing
In the spols IL also shown that profitable trade
false accusations has been carried on the detectives
finding proper SUBJECTS the police arrcsting them ant
the detectives negotiating their The inyesxa
ton was pursued to point whore was about TO COM
promise person Of great wealth. when hs pslaes
friends obtained order for the suppression Of ths IN