New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-24
GENERAL NOTES

| OF paraBfaus
| The French define filtration 10 De tne
boundary line between friendship ana love-
| Fossil bones and teeth of enormous SIZE nave
been exhumed in various parts Of Montana Ierrory'
The Rocky Mountain Herald heads Its col
unn of humorous and other paragraphs Noooie soup
Washington is said TO be filed with insur-
ance agents drawn thther by the report that Presoen'
| Johnson's policy is nearly run out
| There is boy in Hunterdon County, New
Jersey not yet 70 years of age, who weighs over o"
| pounds. He isn't a " show" boy either
| Two hundred thousand dozen toy drums are
manufactured in Paris every year Young frenchnien
are particularly fond Of military toys XXX.
| Hansen Balling's painting of the American
Generals has hung in the Museum Hall OF sne NO"
| Agricultural Building in Washington. ..aa
| Tn department of the Haute-SaoDe, France,
the Inhabitants Of whole villages have no other occupa
ton than cutting wood into ourrycomb handles
| Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, was
the most beautiful city In the South before the war ~
wa. left I'm ruins 1t will be remembered, by sherman's
| army.
The old Quaker rule which prohibited the use
of been enforced for about twenty
years or more Nothing but name, age, and date how
| ever. allowed.
| Hotspur is the name of new iron clad being
built for the British Government in Glasgow IL VIII be
neither broadsder monitor, and Is entirely novel
| In model and construction
The colony of British Columbia is kept in
noverty by tho extravaganza OF its government The
Governors salary s25Ooofour and quarter times as
| much as tho Governor OF California gets
| During the past week whales have been seen
every clear day of tho beach at Quogue, Long Island
Many persons drive down TO the shore to look az the
| Tbov aao,n IN taxi n south-Westery
A girl was recently convicted in France OF
serious crime by her own confession 1t afterward
proven that she was innocent She was Induced to CON
| fess. like Topsy, to avoid severe sentence
| The Friend, Quaker paper published in
PHILADELPHIA complains that members or the sect are
served with notices to pay the State militia tax IT adj
yIses them to resist the demand as long as possible
The new capital building of South Carolina
presents 1t Is said, very imposing appearance In its
unfinished condition is built Of the South Carolina
granite Two million dollars were spent on the building
| before tho war;
A part of the British Abyssinian Expedition
has arrived in San Francisco tho shape OF TO bales OF
East India hay which arrived Mt the seat OF war too late
70 Ia needed The hay 1t Is said nutritious but rather
| tough and wlry.
| The Summit Soda Springs in Summit Val
ley among the Sierra Nevadas promises to become the
Saratoga OF the Pacific with the exception OF the fo
semitic there "a not all the Sierra spotof wilder mag
nincence and beauty.
The Kansas City (Mo) Journal, speaking of
the Cherokee Neutral Land resolution, confirming tho
sale to j. p Joy says that the last obstacle is now
removed from road which will connect the great lakes
| with the Gulf OF Mexico.
A citizen OF Louisville asks: "Where do the
wild pigeons go Winter I" He has watched their habits
for many years and has made inquiries In all directions
That hay
| or Canada during the month Of January
Granite, notwithstanding its exceeding hard
ness splits as straight and clean chestnut stick AT
one OF the granite quarries of Maine. recently. block
was split which measured 100 feet long, u feet wide
and fee, thick. 1t weighed over 800 tuns
A Jewish writer in the Cincinnati Isrdehte,
argues In favor making Sunday the day OF rest In con-
formy with the custom OF other religions. He declares
himself to DO tho selected spokesman OF respectable
| and highly intelligent party" In his Church
An emigrant passed through Nashville last
week with wife and seven children In covered wagon,
| ON the way from Missouri 10 North Carolina lie left
south Carolina for Missouri last Fall, did not like tho
country when he go there and turned back without I'M
packing
A husband in Flint, Michigan, recently had
his wife arrested a charge OF adultery He testified
that ho had traded his wife with neishbor for pony,
| but tho pony proved to he unsound 80 the husband
thought the bargain was not Ohuihh' u"u ""h'en ''
| wife back.
The "Mardi Gras" balls in NewOrleans usu-
ally give rise to difficulties. which may be
settled by duel during the daysof fasting and prayer In
Lent Such n conflict last.wednesday terminated III
nearly II not fatal wound The quarrel was rifng one
about some pretty girl
The Belgium clergymen have recently re-
fused TO bury two respectable who declined to ac
cept clerical attentions while on their deathbeds TWAS
insisted that they should be buried with suicides and
criminals In the corner set apart for them The civil
| authorities oyerruled tho clergy, however
The question of the confidential character of
| a telegraphic message has recently been raised in
England on the trial OF the election telegraph
company was called furnish copies Of its messages
The manager protested against the order, but he was
| overruled by the Judge. who repeated 1t.
A writer in The Philadelphia Press denies
the truth OF tho wdey-circuated statement that no
stone marks grave OF william Penn In England He
has a photograph Of JordOns Westinghouse, with the
| adjoining graveyard. One stone bears tho name Of
william Penn which is very pain even In tho photograph
The editor of The Mobile Tribune opened his
editorial columns last Thursday as follows "The editor
OF this paper being inclined Press Convention
and write editorials at and the same me magnan
mousy accords to The Baltimore Gazette the privilege OF
having one Of It's leaders stolen aud iDdorsedn thesecou
| INNS"
"Unpublishedn letters from old historical
characters arercomng the surface in all directions
The last two are from Walter and Patrick Henry
That Of Scott written TO nephew OF tho great
ellst now In Montreal The letter from Patrick Henry
published In asavannah paper, and written to his
daughter about to be married.
| vnunD man in Tpyoa who outropnd and