New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20
STR1Y, NOTES.

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Gas-light costs the city Of Boston s2SS.OO0.
Kate Field is passing the Summer at the Islea
Of Shoals. EN-
Gail Hamilton will soon start for Europe 10
be absent for year.
Mapping, Mass, has this year produced three
pairs Of twins and two sets Of tripets. - :. f.
He who is monarch OF all he slIrveysr ON
the Island Of Juan Fernandez, has but IS subjects w
The seventeen year locusts are emgratino
from Tennessee, and the rabbits follow them In hoa
sands lrI n.
Stephens. the late Head Center of the Fenia,
brotherhood ia the United States Is teaching EDgshs
Paris.
The wife of Abel Fulsom, of Zimbrota.
cd %ds few benrs The snake attacked ber 49, and
of her house.
The printers in The Toronto Leader Office ara
on sTk o. s wages Thew demand b 10 eS IN
discount be allowed
Bishop Moriarty celebrated mass two wecks
ago the summit of st. Brendan's Mountain. Kerry
Ireland 5000 feet above the sea level st. Brendan
Kerry's patron saint
John V. b. Hatfield, third base of the ON.
cnnat b. b Club last eek threw ball Of the regular
size and weight, 800 feet the second trial. he sent
1914 feet the third, S96-he longest throw re-
corded.
Among the visitors at Newport is Ralph
Waldo Emerson, who is in excellent health. Gen Jo
johnston late OF the Confederate army, and Gen. Han.
cock candidate for the recent Tammany candidacy are
expected next week
Samuel Wells, who died in Boston ON
Wednesday was once Governor Of Maine and Judge Of
tho Supreme Court He was brother to the late exena
enOr Wells OF Illinois
On the 25th of June the Legislature of Con-
necticut passed act granting full pardon 10 John
Prison The Governor forgot TO sign the papers and the
young man died on Wednesday of broken heart
Mrs. COrdelia Wade of Cincinnati has recent
ly made the seventh attempt TO reach definite solution
Of her continuity by violence For the seventh time shs
has failed through the vigilance of her aectionae rel
atives, who have by much Practee, learned 10 operate
the stomach pump successfully
Last Wednesday night a number of the stu
dents of Exeter Academy serenaded Prof Daah, their
writing teacher. with h"rns. tinpans, tOrpedoes BELLS
gongs and hOrse-fddl I finished the evenings sport
by taking off all the 'abes 2 30 his garden. TheY
we're fined $40 each by Guilty.
A letter from Cape Cod says That during last
Thursdays storm the lightning struck the waters OF Wa
quoit Bay and frightened the TO the surface They
by the Waves @" came to land again In the morning s
natives collected Is barrels Of them from the beach
A Western editor says Of cotemporaryi
He Is an unmitgated scoundrel In intellect he Is an
ass. He can't write English His clothes don't NJ him.
He is a shallow.pated Democratic gopher He drinks
and Comprehend 10 his country This is what poor Tom
Hood would call yipertuperatlon"
The Manchester Mirror states that the "snake
nsa sS tbe odest @ ii Ne% ever
knew. IL is white foam at the joints or grass, and IN
Is concealed something in embryo state thas Is cG.'a
outlines and shows that the general idea about Is cor.
rect. IL So IN short time the neds VIII nterauy swarm
with grasshOppers.
Among the interesting Personal para
graphs of Western paper the following: The KING
Of Bavaria goes 70 bed at daybreak; Queen Victoria
snus Eugenie smokes; the Holy Father shayes himse
Miles OReilly is writing elaborate obituary OF B. r.
Chase Gen. Grant died last weekOne OF the best tot'
tiers In the State cost $4,000 Samuel n Carr ded under
his barber the 9thfrictOn long time he bore,
but nature couldn't stand up under more OF It,"
A late English paper says "Some cute
Yankee importers have been cheating their own CUSTOM
by getting their lead sent from spain, run into
mOids representing the heads Of eminent American
statesman. and inyOced works OF art, which come 10
free of duty II the United States have 70 complain OIL
lead being struggled In them under the form Oh sa
mems heads complaint this side or the wateit
that have 70 pay heavily for 'statesmens heSds
which should be properly entered as lead"
The solar eclipse that is to take place on
the 18th prox VIII be total Special expeditions of asr0n
photographers TO be sent out ny the Gov
ernnents Of Great Britain France Austria, Germany
and Italy 20 observe aid record the important phenom
nOD which is to be of nearly seven minutes duAau0n.
As will be visible in its totality only from The
globe adjacent 10 the equator the
OF Summer Journey tropical regions. Most OF them
are already under way At Alden, at the mouth Of tina
Red Sea- where the eclipse will be observable at SUNRISE
As the most convenient point from Europe the greater
number of these special scientific ENJOYS will congregate
In the course of the day tho total eclipse VIII DO visible
India the Islands of BorneO and Ceebes the spice
Islands and toward sunset in New-Guiana. In all OF
localities careful observations are expected 10 bs
made.