New-York tribune., 1869-03-26
GENERAL NOTES.

Admiral Trehoust Of France, recently pro.
noted, began his a cabin boy.
Blondn has recovered damages in France
against q manager who advertised bogus Blondjn.
Woman's rights prevail in Greece. Queen
Olga accompanies her husband TO all the Cabinet meet
| inGs. sra..tr forY
Russia has confscated the treasury Of a Cath
ole convent In Poland for having allowed insurgents to
use Its printing press during the late rebellion
The Mormons are turning their attention 20
the manufacture OF porcelain, and have already prodd
so1e specimens which rival those Of France or Prussia
Ladies' ears, so long neglected, have becom.
an olseet OF attention In Paris and are now tinted with
pink white They brought forward or forced lack
ward, according TO taste. rr
Mr. Felsenthal, a Jewish minister in Chicago.
denies with indignation the
named Van Noorden, that there are twenty thousand
Christianzed Hebrews in Europe
The fashionable female lip is very pale, ao-
cordiDg to the latest Partisan accOuuts Coral eolorng
quite gene out of fashion, and the expression Of tho
elegant mouth Is thasof weariness and scorn.
Partisan ladies walk very much on their toes
this season. The heels Of the being very high
aud the soles extremely thin this becomes easy enough,
and can be acquired without much practice
Hundreds of the soldiers of the regular army
stationed In Dacotah married to Indian women.
These women, Is said, make faithful yrtuous, and
dustrious wives. The soldiers rarely desert them.
The grandson of David, the celebrated revo-
lutionary painter is married TO the greagrndaughter
Of man whom David sent 1885, the guiotine, but
who accidentally saved from being executed.
The roads from the numbering regions in
Maine are filed barrels of -four, pork and beef bags
corn, and NEAL which thrown of to tighten
loads In order TO the lives Of exhausted horses
Minnesota has law absolutely prohibiting
the destruction Of quais until the year 1875 The birds
introduced Ia lsb aud pains have been taken
since to preserve and propagate them aud they
quite numerous.
Reuth Goshen, the Arabian Giant has settled
down at Algonquin. Ill He Is ~ feet high, weighs 6li
pounds aud is, with exception the largest ~
the world He is native Of Jerusalem, and said to
speak 20 languages.
Alexander Fulton has offered to present tho
State OF Delaware three Of land In the town of
Dover on the condition that State House shall be
erected thereon He also offers to plant all necessary
trees gratutously
An old Indian silver mine has been found in
Indiana Over one OF the furnaces found tree that
had attained diameter OF fifteen inches. showing the
great antiquity Of the nine A quantity Of fine metal
was found at the bottom OF one Of the furnaces
The farewell address of the late President
has suggested the following lines the editor Of Tie De
troh Post.
"whOOpl I'm bully boz, and Congress is a Hart
Were the last dying wOrs Of A. johnson. esquire"
The old riddle, "Why is bald mans head
like Paradsef" being rehearsed 10 Lord Derby, withs
answer Because 1t is bright and shining place, where
there's no parting or dyeing" the Earl added "And,
thank Goodness. where there are no more wth)igs"
A saloon keeper in Houston has close
carriage stationed OF his place. in which he
inebrates who too feeble to get home They sleep
sweetly imagining that they driving to their domi
ellis. and wake In the morning in front OF the saloon
In a recently published volume entitled
"Culture and Anarchy Matthew Arnold expresses the
opinion that Shakespeare and Virgil would have been
dreadfuly bored If they had crossed in the Mayfower
with the Pilgrim Fathers He also that the Cornell
University "seems to rest upon provincial Disconeep
ton OF what culture truly is aud to be calculated TO pro-
duce miners engineers. architects not sweetness
and light"
Madame AudOuard having returned to Paris,
has made speech her trip 70 America at one of the
regular popular meetings in the Rue Toltbout sho said
that nothing struck her much in American society
the evident lack OF social ceverDess the part OF the
of the United States The women, with few excep
tlons with the greatest and grace in the bail
room; but the men, with exceptions. awkward
and extremely vulgar.
Here is a curious advertisement from an
English paper, Board and residence for work An Cd
literary gentleman invites widow ladies' about co.
assist him in doing without servants except eharwoman
week. Que lady must undertake entrees, soups,
and eles Both must be strong and heaty so that the
work may rather pleasant than rksome; twothr Of
it being for their comfort, company Is ever
kept private sitting ROOM Laundry Free All dining
together at 7 o'clock References Of mercantile exact
ness required"