New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-27
GENERAL NOTES.

After shooting at it eight or nine times Mr..
W. H. Richardson finally killed, with ninth shot, few
DAYS ago. milk white deer In the forest Bigbee
Ala. The negroes think that white deer are akin to
witches and probably delighted that Of them has
been recently In the forests OF Washington
County, Ala
The immersion of converts in a lake or
river always draws crowd, but unusual number OF
curious people recently gathered at Shebyve Ind to
witness perfor OF that rite for the that
the Baptist pastor weighs only 125 pounds while one Of
the converts tips the beam 300 The spectators antc
pated thrilling and they not disappointed,
for the dominic carried under BY the unweldy ca n
ddate aud both narrowly escaped drowning
There lives in st. Louis q man who, during
the last four years has missed attendance upon
single session of the Criminal Court No one know
what his Is anything about him. except that he
mildly insane. His devotion to the court Is supposed
10 have an element Of In it, for IL Is said that he
hopes TO find again there young woman whom he saw
years ago on the witness stand and fell IN love with In
deed IL Is asserted that the face which hauDts his me
DRY IL the cause his madness.
The profits of ostrich farming in South Afri-
ca have interested capital IN India we'll as in this
country and a number OF fine birds have lately been
shipped Port Elizabeth for Madras Each bird had
its own PEN from twelve fifteen feet square in which
IL was swung from dock to the hold OF the vessel
The London Globe remarks that although the demand for
ostrich feathers s after ALL strictly limited and change
OF fashion may at any time ruin the business the prce
has yet been lowered in any apprecabe degree by
the great increase in the supply consequent upon sys
tematic ostrich farming.
Not long ago Mrs. Charles Baldwin, of st.
Joseph Mo- received postal order for $22 and gave It
to her husband cash BY way Of joke he handed her
only 500 excalmng that the postonice charges were
So Thinking that this exorbitant fee she com
planned without husbands knowledge, to her mother
who had sent tho postalorder and she in turn COM
pained 10 the office at which II had been drawn. The
postmaster forwarded statement OF the case to Wash
ington and the Department forthwith sent Inspector
Metcalf all the way st. Joseph, investigate the
Mr. Baldwin "a now ready 10 acknowledge that practical
Jokes are poor Kind OF sport
The sparrow is saucy adversary, afraid of
nothing and seldom worsed In far fight but of course
he has TO yield to superior members Thus. not long
ago In the Austrian OF Klagenfurth throng OF
persons watched siege which left sparrow In most
depornbe situation He had taken possession OF the nest
Of pair swallows under the balcony roof OF saw
ngs bank when they returned refused to be elected
whcreupon they few Off and presently returned with a
score their kindred each bearing lump or mud In Its
bill Before the sparrow realized what was going on his
enemies had shut him up In the nest, leaving only one
small opening OF which, at last accounts, his neck
hanging in disconsoato manner, While starvation
stared him IN the lace.
The safe of the Granite State, which was
burned in the Connecticut River a few weeks ago,
tanned but failed 10 preserve 75 bank belonging
TO the crew The charred fragments, to all appearance
q hopeless lot OF rubbish, sent to Washington.
whore experts with powerful microscopes have succeed
ed in identifying q considerable part Of them These
certified fragments have all been redeemed by the banks
which issued tho except OF the denomination
OF So This the National Bank OF Virginia, at Richmond,
refuses 10 redeem according The Hartford Times,
the reason that the officers of that institution
see In IL any resemblance TO bank.nOe, and
willing TO accept the decision OF the Treasury at Wash
ington.
President Cattell's baccalaureate sermon at
Laiay cite College last sunday exceptional among
discOurses OF that kind II farewell to the college,
its associations its students and It's instructors. DR..
Cattes failing health has left him choice but TO with
draw from the charge OF the institution to the OF
which he has contributed greatly 1t must have been
with full heart that he spoke, and his associates young
and old, heard these words: And so, my beloved
young friends say TO You farewell, seem 20 say 1t
TO all around TO your feowstudents in the under
casses and my beloved colleagues In the faculty; to
these beautiful grounds and to these stately and noble
halls that have watched rs they stone by stone,
from their foundations. Yes, am saying farewell to
the and duties to which heart cngs with such
fondness in which large part of my life has been
spent and In which had hoped God would permit to
spend the remainder OF my days. But His Is not
always way-though It Is always the best way His
will be done"