New-York tribune., 1869-03-27
GENERAL NOTES.

The Austrian Emperor speaks eleven languages
| fuently.
Virginia has nine colleges and two theological
seminaries Grr .t0f Ilfse
A Stradivarius volincello was recently sold in
Paris for 1900. -rrtfr3
| Frenchman has made 1913 miles in "a hours
| on velocipede. NM. .... .,,.
The best check for pauperism--one of George
Peabody's.-Punch .iilaT o aifa7 g-s15l1l l.-0sf ~
There are 100000 acres of uncultiyated
Items about land buyers from the North fll
| all the Southern papers
Seventy-two cotton and woolen mills are
being erected in Georgia.
The Earl of Zetland has been reelected Grand
Master Of Masons in England i ial z.JI Il.s tf 8.
The Savannah papers complain that their shad
season has thus far been poor. D't
Eight persons, lynched at different times, are
| buried in one Indiana cemetery.
| A Virginia paper records the arrival of a
| number of Yankee sack-toters."
Consumption is much less fatal DOW in Massa-
| chusetts than 1t was 16 years ago. ..lI.s fu ..t
Dartmouth College has received a present Of
| 5000 from Senator Grimes Of Iowa. a5tfa sa a4
| One Vienna music dealer has a stock of old
| Cremona yiolins worth over 100000.
Gen. Grant, has been sent from Connecticut,
cigar six feet long, weighing le pounds. ., a..
| Flying the blue pigeon" is London thieves
slang for stealing lead of the roofs Of houses. a
| 1t is said that fully third of the visitors to
shakespeares birthplace stratfordonAyon, Amer
| leans. af lo ...u l5L ID 8rarul .....t .a I..u
young woman in Montana is charged with
putting on when she refuses to 90 ball bare
| footed. .l ala ioo.l p
| Napoleon recently ordered the Duke of
Hamilton to leave Pars for having raised disturbance
| at a theater. o.
The Providence Board of Aldermen have
voted to raise the price of liquor licenses Bar licenses
are to be $780,
Lord Brougham's executor having refused to
pay for his Lordshps artificial teeth, the dentist sued
and recovered. r - I .
Tn Oregon, drinking is said to be preventive
against smallpox and the present style Of invitation is
''let's disnfect." 40, .-s -.. .4,...... D. f.
| A professional nurse in France has been con-
viced of drowning eight babies committed to her charge
| in pail Of water -.- gIa.r i..o eII
An Illinois railway is having freight-cars
built on which will be painted the words From Ocean
to ocean-NO Transfer" sl.ll h
Leavenworth, Kansas, is the largest city of its
e.,
old and has IS 900 inhabitants .a-.'
Dr. Spitzer of Paris, left the sum OF 100000
francs for the maintenance and education OF three
| orphans. a Catholic, Protestant, and a Jew.
The Fountains at the Crystal Palace, London,
have Jets that play to hight Of $50 feet aud when in full
operation consume 100000 gallons of water daily
| Seventy-six cottages and villas in Newport
have been thus far for the coming season. at
prices ranging from $500 to $4,000 Only remain to rent
Louisiana now licenses gaming houses. The
keeper pays $1,000 for each kind OF game played and
compelled TO have all the gambling carried upon the
first floor .... .
The French papers in Egypt-supposed to be
subsidized by the yieeroyare becoming more and more
outspoken of Egyptian independence of the Sub
| lime Porte. ...,
| The centenary anniversary of the birth of Ma
| poeon l., which will the 18th OF August next
is TO be the OF great festivities throughout the
French Empire.
| A Democratic Member of the Legislature of
Indiana is reported have bought plow with his sta
onery and silk dress for his wife with his allotment
| of postage stamps
The valleys of the ella and Salt rivers, in
Arizona are being rapidly settled, mostly with emgrants
from Texas Florence, in Pima County, is the largest
settlement on the Upper Gila
A congregation of Seventh Day Christians in
Hungary being refused tolerance by the laws, mas EN-
braced Judaism in order TO be allowed to exist In con
nection with one OF the received religions"
Victor Emmanuel offered. in 1860, to give
dowres 5000 poor girls who would marry as many
OF his patriots The money has never been paid, and
now the deuded couples are prosecuting the King
Two murlerers have actually been convicted
I'm Texas, there Is much danger that they viii
escape be rescued that citizens guard has been
organized keep them until the day OF execution
Col. Goyan, the American who raised the YES
ses sunk by order Russian Government In the en-
trance 70 the harbor sevastopo 10 keep out the allied
fleet is going TO try the spanish treasure vessels
sunk I'm yigo Bay by the English in l7o2. ....t.lI
The Postmaster at Venice, Ohio, has for the
last two years kept memorandum of the various ways
in which the of his Post once spelled The
number II. Among the worst examples "Wannes.;
"Fenige," Venus" "wannus." and "wOeneis."
The Empress of Austria appeared, at the last
state ball at Vienna In dress composed OF the
green and golden wings of South American beetles
with gold thread a tissue Of white silk splendid
suite OF diamond and emerald completed this costume
1t may interest our readers to know just what
| the siamese twins are A learned French naturalist
Isdore Georoy Saint Hiaire pats them IN the order
Autositaires as belonging the family Monomphalans
and tribe Xiophopage, in his Dictionary OF Anomalies
The citizens of Southport, Conn.,, on Friday
drove out OF the town three drunken rowdies who have
been loang around the place, insulting women &c Is
| citizens armed themselves with cOwhides ard horse
| whips and lashed the scamps vigorously beyond the
| limits.
The new Courthouse of this city finds It's
parallel as money absorber in the new opera House %
Paris The latter structure has already cost over SIX