New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-12
GENERAL NOTES.

An oak whose rings showed il to be 100
years old cut down in Bucksport, Me-, Monday
aud bedded in its trunk at the eightieth ring, point
which at the surface forty years ago. the woodchop
per found, To his amazement diamond pin containing
twenty-four brilants in silver setting Nobody knows
whose 1t was can imagine how 1t TO be whers
IL found This is tough story. Can ft be possibs
that the difficulty OF obtaining liquor In Maine has stm
the often results In the abnormal activity Of
another
The defauiting Treasurer Of Tennessee and
the companions Of his flight went about New-Orleans
through which they passed their way to Texas with
extraordinary openness and composure considering
their urgent motive for escape They drove from q
bank TO R restaurant thence to gun store, afterwad
to barber shop, drugstore and hotel. and finally to
the station staying In each place considerable time
and addressing each other by their real with
little or 10 attempt disguise Polk recognized by
Boylan but the news OF tho defacaton reached New
Orleans just too late for his arrest
A twenty-five pound tom-cat long and favor
ably known on Westinghouse wharf, San Francisco,
where he born, reared and ensconced In the afec-
tons OF his owner deliberately committed suicide
January by laying his ht adj upon the pavement and
holding IL there until express wagon had rolled
it. number OF spectators willing to that the
act was prearranged and Intentional and several per-
remember tnat the cat had shown previous
symptoms OF insanity He had, moreover, undertaken
but lost courage az the last moment and ned from tho
approaching whees.
An Indian whose musical Spanish name
translated into bald Englsh Long HIDE" died by
his own act December IA at the Real del Castillo
Lower California. Long Hide " was a modern Methu-
selah there s every to believe that he left his
first century behind him long ago. and the people who
had him all their lives stoutly declare that he
must have been $50 years old. He well and active
until about year but since then has been able only
TO crawl around December Ii cold day in Lower
California aad his friends gave Long Hide
blanket But the old man had had enough o. life and
setting his brush honse on fire he crawled into tie
flames. stout young Indian tried to draw him out,
but ne seized stake which had been driven into the
ground a spot where he ing and held on 70 is
until he WIS burned to death
aHarmless as doves" is now thought "
London not 10 DO accurate comparison. The POST
Office authorities complain that these ubiquitous birds
make themselves serious nuisance by percbing tele
graph wres householders have many bill to pay for
mortar which they have pecked away; at the British
Museum persistent but only partly successful efforts
been made to get rid OF them; at the ROYAL Ex
change the authorities have gone lar as 10 NIX wire
points into every and OF the architecture
likely TO afford Judgment for their unwecome guests;
aud nowhere. 1t appears. they In lawful possession
excepting perhaps, at tue Gndhal' where for several
wears IL has been the custom TO feed th0 every
day with peas In order to establish the right OF the cor
poation to prosecute those who treat the birds with
cruelty.
| Inc lurklSn OONeTnllcUt always cldluls ny
stipulation half sculptures found by the archeoog
| lists whom It permits the Crown lands.
Austrian archaoogsts, had the luck not long ago TO
| find at Gubaktche. opposite the island OF Rhodes, q
nausoeum of great Importance, and TO almost
the entire sculptura decorations consisting OF ree Of
subjects from the Odyssey combats Of the usual char
acter OF the time OF Greek art Greeks with ANA
IONS with Asiacs, the whole OF which, though cut
ia sandstone calculated TO resist weather tho
limestones do are In excellent condition As
the Importance the disco gery known IN CODstan
finuple telegram sent fOrbitdng the separation
OF tie sculptures but the Austrians chose "a Interpret
this TO their advantage and Immediately shipped
| all the treasures ~ vienna
A case of suspended animation closely re-
sembllng death has aroused much interest in Washing
| ton Last Sunday morning Mrs. Reagan living on
First-st near the Government Printing Office, WIS on
her way to attend early at st. Aloysiuss Church
when she suddenly became too faint TO proceed she
turned back and just succeeded in reaching her home
| where she fell insensble the floor. Her family
instantly summoned but the doctor supposed it to be
case OF suspended animation and sent out for resora-
tyes The priest the church where. after mass
| lie spoke of the womans sudden death and offered
prayers for the repose her soul Meantime she had
revived and -scribed her sensations She said that she
was conscious of voices her bedside and knew that
the priest had pronounced her dead In agony OF mp
prehenson she strive speak but her muscles
| Woud obey her Will When the restOrattyes hnd
been forced down throat she made what seemed 10
her "A gigantic effort turned her side and came
| slowly back " lie.
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