New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-30
GENERAL NOTES.

The Northwest Seal Lighthouse on the Pacific
coast be rebuilt II will DO built entirely OF granite
blocks and iron. aud will be protected 10y granite pier
There is n farmer in Pennsylvania who has
been married three times. and has had try-four chill
drrn most OF whom alive. He Is great local GU
town, aud had "tin-typc" OF himself TAKEN with +"
placurd his breast bearing the Inscriptions - u NJ
The Father OF Thrty-fOur Children"
A recent police court case i'll England showed
how nbsurdy IA good law may he made to operate when
Dogberry the bench. man walking through uedOh
a Sunday rabbit struggling III trap ana mef'huT
ended iIs sulcringS The magistrate, however gr"eV.
declared him guilty OF two ofences-Rilns gme on sun
day and killing game without n hcensc--and hhed hlul
SO and the costs of the action.
There is an old clock in Washington Penn,
concerning which the inhabitants Of the town tell
strange story About twenty years ago was hanged
i'm the yard. The clock, which had always tohei
the hour regularly stopped the hour of O'clock being
the time which the drop fell which sent the unort
nate man into eternity Siucc that time me eloSA a.,
mover bo made to stllke ana II Is now 10 NC 'l0 "
another.
According to The MoScOW Gd>ette, the number
of valuable skins obtained in the Kamschata from tho
Last part year 1873 until the end Of 1880 a. o
lows sables $50; offers, 700; foxes 1000 emiAcs'
1900 bears 1900 Chiffon, 27 seals, 1000; walrns I''
Arctic foxes wolves 20 and about 900 skins OF diner
ent wild animals including 300 wild sheepsklhs' All
these furs which formerly went TO Russia to De DOuSu
by Russian merchants, fall now 10 the she OF ioyi.u
company, which has thc monopoly or the tr.Id' Vi '
schitka aud OF the coast OF the sea OF OhhotSk'
In response TO n paragraph III Iuesdly
TRIBUNE commenting the test OF the Dan electric
motor ut SARATOGA last Saturday Mr. Leo DAFT states taas
the experiment. considering the conditions under "mH"
was performed practically new one; that the car
WIS 80 overloaded that on tho ward trip low rate Oh
speed was purpuscy maintained but that the curve was
rounded 50 easily that on the return trip the speed was
considerably increased; that the curve coming back
heavy lurch lifting angos over the rails, caused TAO
accident which very slght that the accident aa no
relation whatevero the inechalSii or re, "A iS
OF the motor; and that tho experiment observation-disclosures
economy III the application OF the electric energy
A number of capitalists have just puf-
chased 500 acres OF land in Piokens County,
Ga for the purpose of quarryng marble. IAis
nromises 10 be one OF tho most lmporIaht
Of the now Industries OF Georgia. member Of the COM
pany speaks in the highest terms of the quality or tho
marble There is literally" he says, mountain oil
marble on the property and In every direction we hna
rich outcroppngs The supply is simply exhausteSs ana
as % the quality II Is superior TO any have ever seon o
building and interior decoration. General hlpey, o. @
Rutland marble company pronounces II e po'' % ~ NOT
ing MARBLE but that for cemetery purposes IL ~
quito equal 10 the Vermont marble YET We went 'oe
to marble cutter In this city, who was WORKING on Ia
plece OF marble. General Ripley promo lnced ~ ,
marble while Governor Proctor thought II W. nv
The truth IL 1t was Georgia marble TAKEN nom o Min
For cemetery building or decoration We are sausnou WV"
the qualify as well as the quantity"
The Harvard University crew has already
gone into training for the Yale race heAs
spring. The crow has lost Captain Hamhoho
aud Belshaw of last yeass crew beyond pos
siblity OF recovery l.. A. s. CLARK, "a. ono Oh INV
strongs members OF the 53 crew has also lett coe'
but may return time row with the crew next SPINE
or last years crew there now In college, ana espo
or seats in the "a boat tive men, as follows