New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-18
GENERAL NOTES.

Among the first days receipts IL London BY
the new parcels post q consignment OF leeches.
Unfortunately the box containing them was 80 weak az
to fall apart 10 the post office, wEereupon the eeches
once scattered the establishment 10 search OF gore
Most of them recaptured. but some could not 30
found and al last account the clerks were exceedingly
uncomfortable at the prospect OF Involuntary blood
letting
A letter from an occasional correspondent
In Des MONIES. Iowa. describing the new industry Of
gathering the wild prairie hay of Iowa and shipping 1t
Eastern markets. lately published In THE TRIBUNE
The correspondent has sent another letter saying that
since the publication Of the first he has been over
whemed with inquiries concerning this novel enter
prise 81 am not" he writes, IAN intelligence Office,
but will serve The TRIBUNE readers as best
Suffice 1t say there is sufficient oftnis saccuent grass
burned every fall in State to feed all the horses in
the State of NewYork and contiguous territory To
cure IT. requires little capital labor and nearly all
t can be had without cost from the Landowner, who
prefers to have u cut ana 'hus a'oio 'ne and
risk OF running prairie nfes
The proprietor of Philadelphia shooting
gallery has devised scheme which he expects will ut
once make fortune and hand his name down 10 future
generations the farmers friend. He proposes Ia
word, TO capture innumerable sparrows by means OF
nets and sell them at 10 ceas apiece to msrksmsn who
like to shoot at a swift bird thrown from trap. He
says that the sparrow. though tame possible ia
city street. is wild a hawk when set loose In
place. and that his project has the sanction OF common
practice In England Legislation has lately put the
sparrow beyond the pale of Pennsylvania Law, but
hitherto the problem has been TO devise some plan for
saugherng these cheerful but yoracous birds fas ter
tLan nature enables them to multiply. The Phadel'
phia sportsman thinks that he mas soVed the problem.
but he is probably mistaken.
A new element has been introduced into the
struggle Of Chicago dressed beef to obtain and retain
footing In Eastern markets, II articles IN Thursdays
Philadelphia Times and Record present faithful picture
OF barbed wire skswers which used to faten ta
the Those papers agree In the statement
that, August 2, young lady whose name Is not d.
vulged, and, August 10, an old lady whose name "a
Mrs Ellen Brady, visited Dr. John s. Miller In extreme
agony desiring be relieved possible Of
a bone which had penetrated her gullet The doctor,
with much difficulty and equal surprise to himself and
his patient, removed in each piece OF wire shaped
ike the letter ami barbed at both ends The Phadel-
pia Times pursued its invesgat;ons somewhat further
tnan The Record, and obtained from Jewett Co.. tho
largest consgnees OF Western dressed beef in Phsdel
Dhia an that such skewers are geaer
ally in the trade together Win the sound opinion
that they should invariably osakoA out Ia cutting up
the beef direction similar to that which the Thought
full dr. ggst pastes upon bottle o; coughm xture- 10
be we'll shaken before taken "-wOud not answer th9
purpose for the main advantage In using this ugly
device iasteD the tag 10 that IL cannot Dc shaken out
The DarDed skewers