New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-07
GENERAL NOTES.

fine portrait of the Hon. VIM. Henry
smith, now IN charge OF the General Agency for both the
NcwYoB and Western Associated Presses, Is feature
OF the mdwnter number OF Frank Lcslie's newspaper
us issued This Journal shows marked advance in the
character OF it's wood engraving and It, proves
tnc wisdom with which Mr. Leslie provided for s con
! duet aud ownership IN his Will
An extraordinary security was offered by a
man who recently advertise Tin Berlin newspaper for
loan The advertisement ran IA follpws a medical
studeIt whose means aro exhausted would Ike TO meet
with some one who would advance him the necessary
sum to complete his studies at moderate rate of IN
terest II necessary he would guarantee at once
marry his creditors daughter, or n be prefers IL, would
give an undertaking 10 do 80 ON passing his hnal exam
inatiOn.
The mule, though it leads life of toll and
pryatlon has 50 many opportunities TO illustrate its
trcacherous and malignant spirit and is admirably
fitted by nature 10 improve them that on the whole. 1t
probably is unhappy beast But this provdcnal
compcnsaton does apply TO mules employed in coal
mines. The Philadelphia aud Reading Coal and Iron
Company employs fewer than 200 OF these bghted
creatures under ground and many Of them do not
the light OF day year to another On being at
last drawn up their subterranean prisons they are
totally blinded by the transition from darkness 10 light,
and this aftction Is often permanent Moreover ule
and willy that only at long intervals does le succeed
in kicking victim into the great hereafter
Mr.. John Gage, rich citizen of Vineland
~ is DESTROYS OF seeing crematory erected In that
town. and 10 contribute $500 toward Its construc-
ton and two acres of land adjoining the Oak Hill Gene
terry for site Mr. Gage is eighty years old, and must
therefore expect in OF nature TO be need
m grave or an urn himself before long and lie evidently
prefers latter To the observation that the lie Moyne
furnace at Washington PENN finds little 10 do he
Mics: THAT not the question. The more eremator.es
there are erected the widespread will the desire
for cremation become The erection OF erematores IL
tho way to combat popular prejudice against their
use. Nothing would prove greater blessing TO future
Generations than the passage OF II law compelling all
bodies to be- burned Instead OF allowing them TO be in
TERED in the ground
In Castle District, at point about five miles
north Of Virginia, New, is "a deserted tunnel which
makes constant and most singular protest against its
own existence. The excavation made four years
ago in the side OF n steep hill When they had pene-
trated the hill about fifteen feet the workmen cut into
mass Of soft clay through which they struggled twenty
five feet further with the aid of tmbers and then gave
up the job. Being left to its own devices the tunnel
proceeded to repair damages IL very plainly showed
that resented the whole business. Its first
To push out all the timbers and dump them down the
hill IL did not stop at that sat projected from its
mouth pth or stopper Of clay the full size of the
walton. This came out horizontally some eight feet
though to look about and what had become OF the
miners when II broke oil and rolled down the slope In
this way It has been going on until there are Hundreds OF
only about week for plug to come out and break of
then month, ana tu now the misses are clected
only three four times Yet the motion Itnues
aud to-day the tunnel has the better OF the light by
about four feet.
The famous spectre of the Broken which
frequently appears in the Hartz Mountains seldom visits
this country. but 1t not long ago from the TOu-
iabc rnnge in Nevada by Mr. K. A. MARI OF the Coast
and Geodotc Survey who gives this the amos
pheric phenomenon: suddenly stood looking
the vast expanse beneath me, SELF confronted
by monster figure OF man standing in mdair before
lGe, upon the top Of clearly defined mountain peak
which Ind but the thin air OF the valley below for rest
ing place Tho figure only short distance from
me. Around 1t two circles OF rainbow light and
color the outer family defined compared with the
inner which WINS bright ana clear and distinctly ir
descent Around the head of the figure was beautiful
halo If light aud from the figure itself shot rays o ooors
normal to the body The sight startled me more than
tell threw up my hands in astonishment and
perhaps some little fear nnd nj this moncnt the spectre
seemed 10 toward me. In few minutes got over
my fright, and them after the figure had faded away,