New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
GENERAL NOTES.

II is said that not fewer than forty.three
English yachts cruising in the Mediterranean.
The project of permanent art museum In
Detroit which had s origin in the recent successful loan
exhibition likely to be carried out the nnsl sub
scptOn the fund OF $4,000 for site having been TO-
ceyed.
The Texas Assembly has passed stringent
law against fencecuttng but whether It be enforced
is quite another question The latest reports represent
the fencecuters being practically in the ascendant and
as is OF course impossible police the region affected
all thoroughly any law on the SUBJECTS liable 10 De
dead letter.
Physicians, especially those of Pennsylvania,
are interested in moyemen. to have next years ses.
sion othe Worlds Medical Congress held in this country
in Philadelphia II possible The congress VIII meet In
Copenhagen this year and the American delegates who
win be selected at the May meeting OF the American
Medical Association In Washington, will doubtless be In
struced TO urge the claims of this country 10 the con-
gress OF 1855.
Two curious incidents are to be observed in
the account the railroad accident at the Whte kver
bridge The engineer had just to the baggage-car
for drink OF water and was killed Had nc s1ayeo On
the engine he would have escaped man named "nito
was working under the bridge at the tne ana pags % ana
train fel upon him. driving him through ne ice ana GOWN
10 the bottom OF the river yet he escaped Win D' me-
The proposed Government telegraph business
IN Canada has been financial failure, according TO the
annual report OF the Minister OF Public Works The ex-
pepdures last year exceeded the receipts over my PEI
cent, and the fhlNre cAtciiur ho0 ohiy W ''AS
lines but to the perfected systems for instance thai
which the Government purchased from the western
Union Company In British Columbia II seems that the
nroportiou of telegraph Offices TO population In the DO
nlnion unreasonably large, but OF course ts ~ ~
The nnly cause OF the failure. One no donD
that when Government undertakes an enter IN
knd n acks the interest and the guidance which
piled by the conditions OF private luyesthehe. er
eases the tendency must always be toward e1eeSN''
penditures ..
Exaggerated reports OF unusual sickness a.
yale Collage recently led to the appointment of commit
Too consisting of Professor f. Chandler, of Columbia
coI,ece DIR G. A. Lndsey of the Yale Medical school,
and professor william H. Brewer Of the Sheffield scen
,,, school TO make thorough examination of Farnam
Durfee and North Middle dormitoriss That COMMITTEES
ha, reported that plumbing and draining OF the col
Iege buildings and grounds are in accordance win '
hest sanitary practice and in the best condition. Poes
sor Brewer who Is the president of the New Haven bosa
of Health makes additional report 70 the eheot
NeW-Hayen is the healtniest seaport OF ts SIG ~ 80
world and that the ward In which tue college
arc situated has had lower death rate thah ANY .
ward az the CITY IN i've out OF the last seven years '
death rate las. year about twelve per l,OVV.
A correspondent who noticed recent para
sranh I'm THE TRIRtNE alludng 20 Daniel Lambert an
FnS1lshman who at the Of his death. weighed 'Ss
rounds az nrobably the fattest record has sent
IA INF, Office q printed death notice, In which MIS-
Amelia Rrooss of ST. Louis is said TO have weighed pe
,oon oo0 and LOCO pounds He also sends newspaper
,,,n co,I.d from The West Tennessee Wig In 1900
nnuncine the dcath OF Mr. Miles Darden ~ his resi-
Gacs near Le xington aud thus describing hlm: %seo %
dccasd was beyond all question tho largest man n s
d Uis height was seven feet SIX inches-tHo inenns
higher than Porter the celebrated heSiuvky 7.,,,1
,segnt vras fraction over 0op feiuasl ~ rclunSa
seyenteen men " put him IN lbs eomn' 1oNN "S'