New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-29
GENERAL NOTES

Nc,y-Orlcans has a French CTcniauhS III
brary
rb, Maine lnmbcrmen are having an unu-
suaiy successful Winter
Forty-fye Thousand dollars worth OF carriages
,-,re made IN the Maine Penientian last year
TIN. i.bcrmcn Of the Red River country failed
...,,op. is well as the farmers and iur-hun'eis'
dsndclion in full bloom peeped mp through
en-, nav the other day. Lexington Connecticut
10 sre II Spring had come.
An American gentleman writes from LONDON
that common American corcobs are SOLD IN l"o ''u"
Of hat city as Patent Arcighers-eish for penn!'
\ writer in a recent Ncw-Oroans paper asks.
yhv il, Neir-E agtDd considered tho Athens OF Amer
leaf"
Nev-Or'clns has he'd exciting umors that
tgoOo prize from The Havana lottery had been oTaNh
By apary In that city.
The total population of Michigan is 1,1225S9.
There are but 12ll7 colorod people The entire popHa-
IN Io3) 1915.
iarl'u C.. Meade, ir, has been visiting CHI
cago with Dis beautiful Italian wife He soon returns 10
Italy To- commence h, models for the Lincoln ""'''DN
Monument at lunsfcld
The Oregon City WOODEN Mills make HVO
ia,r,t kinds and Qualities Of clotlfron the finest dress
Goods 60 Oregon gray" They produce $4,000 yards per
auuum
A speculative justice Of the peace at AleXan-
dria Nmuaso,a offers 20 marry all couples gt"u' WHO
will buy their sock OF housekeeping drugs spices &C.
al his store.
The biI-Dostors of Pittsburgh are constantly
quarreuc and Ggh!iu, about Their respective rights 10
certain old fences brick piles, and vacant corners one o
tom Is now under bail for threatening to shoot ano'Aor
St. Louis has a new patent vclocipede. Inc
back Of the rider is supported 10y clamp when ac's
asauor It has two back wheels five IeeI III diameter
and Is moved by both the arms and legs
The ladies of Lowell. Massachusetts, are
saving themselves trouble by giving private parties III
public hail as some OF very fashionable people DO
is this dispensing hospitality or dispensing with ~
ncxlv-invented velocipede is being manu-
ac>red in Atkinson, Kansas. Il has three wheels but
can 5o changed 10 the ordinary two-wheeed veoeiPeDe
Ia I've minutes.
The Hebrew word Shlemiel signifies fuSsy
fellow who never does anything. but always makes
show OF sorkmg hard. We have no equivalent word
and .t~ adoption N0rld be a convenience
Stammering arises from a peculiar mental
nervousness rather than from any physical defect
stammerng boy in las been cured Of the impedi-
ment by becoming deanged
An Ohio gentleman is ambitious TO furnish
ts towns cities Of America with motive power OBJ
tanned from compressed air. lie proposes TO distribute
Dis power through ordinary service pipes. gas and
water distributed, with meter for each consumer
Gen. Sherman's residence in st. Louis, No
% Garrisonave is recognized by citizens Of all parties
as a place Of social hospitality. lie has been literally
vlued nd dned 10y many leading and has returned
TIER attentions accordingly lie attends the theaters
frequently. and usually dresses in a civilians suit.
Tie St. Louis City Council has been petit
toroi to print circulate document setting forth tho
advantages Of that city National Capital St. Louis
w Norr mill
Orleans 1000 miles from san Francisco and about 200
miles from the Northern border.
New-Orleans shows little inclination to ad-
vance its system Of public instruction Its debt already
large and it tries to economic at the expense Of its
most vital interests writer complains that there is
constant effort to cheaper education TO lower its
standard. and to destroy its high schools"
The ST. Louis papers are all anxious to en-
COURAGE the influx Of Eastern capital labor fail
to agree in their statements Of the cys prosperity One
editor SAYS that 2Ol buildings have gone up within
the past year valued Another places the
humber at $780, and the value at nearly soooooOo.
Two Pittsburgh officers made tour through
the city markets week to inspect the poultry They
condemned $50 pounds unfit TO be sod and had 1t I'M
nedatey cared away and dumped into the river Much
Of il was absolutely putrd and Of the fowls had
been diseased.
man, his wife, and two sons have been
DecI lie il an Engllshman. claiming to be the OF
lord aud University graduate. lie in the En-
gsh army deserted came to America, and is row doing
the best he cam with neither health money, friends
The negbbors helping the family through the Winter
Tauchnitzs beautiful edition of the English
authors has nearly reached its housandth volume The
publisher proposes TO make that volume editODS the
authorized New Testament, printed in olGfaced type,
enriched with foOnOtcs by DR.. Tsche1dOrf giving IN
English tie transferable readings. 81 the Snac. the
Vatican, and the AlexandTlne manuscripts.
Noah PomeFOy of Meriden, Connecticut, has
left curious will He provides that his daughter by his
second wife shall large share OF his property on
condition she is not Catholic at the Of % years
H. however on reaching years the trustees named in
his Will shall find his daughter is Catholic, then she Is
10 receive the Of only $780, and the balance is 10 be
given to the First Uniyersalist Church of Meriden
The vicinity of Danbury, Conn, furnishes
SONS very odd names-suGar Hollow, Wildcat, Plumb
Trees Tamarack. stadley Rough. Dumping Hole Shell
ter ROck Squabble HILL Cupboard Ridge PeytOnarim,
Bogus wofpits and Nifty Brook Bog Sherman, Conn,
has a school district officially known as "obtuse" Newton
Ragged Corner Dogintown, Hardscrabble, sugarst
Puppytown, Palestine, and shaggerack Reading has
Poverty Hollow. Ridgefeld has postoce at Titticus
The country people near Milan, Mo-. have
been greatly excited about a strange animal which
rently made its appearance. The most exaggerated
stories have been circulated about The beast Some said
twas a panther; others could find name for 1t. II
had eaten up several children according to one story
and one man related that while he riding horse
back the thing jumped up behind him and began TO eat
ms 6esh. 1t turns out to be an overgrown wildcat
citizen of Portland Maine, thinks the world
IL to be- visited by second deluge He is accordingly
converting his entire propertys OO0into ark The
will be fifty feet long fifteen feet wide fiat boOmed