New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-08
GENIAL NOTES.


The subject OF paving Pcnnsylvar ia-ave. i
now receiving considerable attention both in and out
Congress az Washington.
The Pacha Of Egypt is having o theatt bull
ct Cairo expressly FOR Nile schneider. and offers her
salary Of $1,000 francs for every three nights.
Kudo q student in the Monson Acadc NY
Massachusetts s. the second japanese who has been ~
tized IN this country The ceremony was performed la
Sunday lie is o years old.
The respectable business men of Springfield,
Mass are trying 10 put stop TO the insulting OF women
In the streets 10 night by Young about town. Several
clerks ard other employees have been discharged.
The Supreme Court OF Massachusetts, has
decided that ie insurance policy which note had
been given for the frst premium not valid, the first
insaiiment on II Lot being due when the party died
A colossal plan of the City of Paris, showing
all recent alterations completed and in progress, is
10 he Issued under direction Of Baron ausnann The
Oldest map OF Paris was made in l40c, and engraved
IN 1876.
Chicago had parade over the opening of its
frst blast furnace last week This enterprise has
special importance IN view Of an effort in progress
10 divert tie Lake superior Chicago from Detroit
ard the Lake superior ports.
San Francisco has Injecting" every now
and then about some public calamity. 1t had a number
OF "earihQuako" meetings and now see lengthy re-
port IN krGrCl-cO paper headed Tho sIaaIIpOx
meeting" Such assembly mus, be interesting.
A fTe in Manchester, on Friday night last,
originated nom lighted candles which had been placed
srolnd the body Of Goad infant. They burned down
about midnight and fire. to the bed, half consuming
the little corpse before the flames discovered.
An old Boston almanac, printed in 1860,
records the fact that gentleman OF that city, whose
given bad deposited 500 in the hands Of the
selectmeu. OF this amount $40 be given the per
Who in the year 1 should have raised the greatest
number Of mulberry trees. $50 for the greatest num-
ber, $40 to the next, ana $40 to tho next
A young man rushed through the streets of
Toledo on Monday afternoon followed by very excited
German. TIE Latter shouting rs he ran: "BOlees
booe shtop der man. he ish gong nit der reeycr unit
der ice under for TO suicide commits" Several citizens
Joined in the chase The fugitive captured just
in time to prevent him from eapiug into the halrozen
river.
An Art Union has been organized in San
Francisco The following artists are the original mem
bers Samuel NJ Brookes. W. J. Jewett, Charles C. Nah
c. j. Denny. s. W Shaw Vim. Keith II. Q. Young, James
WISE George L. Butler. jr, j. B. Wanlcsforle Il. @.
Hollridee f. Arrlola, Norton Bush D. II. Woods, j. WI
son. Samuel Walker Alfred r. Kpps, w. L. Marble, S. NJ
Brookes.
A San Francisco Judge charged substanti
ally. few months that the publication by news
papers of the complaints in criminal suits was not priv
legged. and might be prosecuted hbeous, unless the
complaints proved to be true The California papers
complained of this decision until they heard OF The CHI
cago Tribune verdict and the prohibition Of publishing
testimony 10y an Indiana Judge, in tie Cein case
In the center Of the largest valley in the
great Horse shoe BASIN Of the Rocky Mountains In tho
Territory Of Montana there stands remarkable land
mark called Beaver Head Rock" 1t overhangs ariyer
OF name, 100 feet in hight and IS visible
Tor 20 miles up and down The traveller trapper
eunicr nj VIII has through
and reached this spot although the base Of the Rocky
Mountains may gaze upon naylgabe waters that reach
to the Cuff OF Mexico.
Three thousand pounds of fungus" was
landed last mouth in FranciscO. from ship, hail
Ing from Tahiti. This material is gathered from trees in
the southern part OF Society Islands, and packed in
bags woven slips OF the boOroG bark, the wood OF
which orange crates are made. This fungus Is in appear
ance like very thin and dirty India rubber 1t is shipped
20 China for use making "soup" The value Ia about
l2i cents per pound the islands, and about 100000
pounds are produced there annually
Chicago claims to be the greatest livestock
market ia the world, and supports her claim by some
very large figures The number OF head of livestock OF
all kinds received in the market during the year 1868
9S0in99 OF these 24 cattle, l06782 hogs
2Os75 sheep. and the rect horses and mules The ship
ments during the tine slightly exceeded 100000
head There unoaed there ,i56 carloads Of live
freight S34O7 loads shipped TO other points in
isCs The total value Of sales is estimated at SG5OOOOO
The Califo1nians look with contempt upon
the new veocipedc. "Tbey will do very WELL" says an
editor "for Paris where many people cannot afford TO
keep horses and could not ride them very well II they
did But they will do In California where boys OF
10 years Of ride fugrOwn horses at the top OF their
speed around the streets. How would man who las
felt his blood stirred by iOmle dash IN California
saddle feel finding himself trundng himself through
the streets like schoolbayi We would think Of
riding a broom handle or a rocking hobby horse"
The Chinese and Japanese possess voices of
low power feeble compass. whining In tone and having
smeallic twaug In India and Burmah the is not
powerful shri soft. and feninne that OF the in
habitants OF the hills Is robust than that OF the
inhabitants OF the plains The European nations possess
strong powerful, sOnerOus, clear The Germans
possess powerful voices In Europe Int not as
powerful those OF the Tarars Sir Duncan Gbb Vice
President Of the london AnhrOpOloglcal Society," has
made these observations
Fusil oil, of which so much is said in con-
nection with liquor authorizations, is liquid cOlOress
when pure OF offensive smell and burning TASTE obtained
by continuing in fermentation distling process
after the alcoholic portion Is drawn of Its action upon
the animal system is that OF positive poison its vapor
producing nausea headache and gdduess Its presence
tn liquors highly injurious, and indicates bad disa-
ton or the Of damaged grain. 1t may be detected by
agtating the liquor with water and leaving it stand for
the oil to rise to the surface. One ounce OF fus oil kills
rabbit In four minutes
Prof. John Tyndall, the English savant,
writes Prof Joy Of Columbia College, concerning his
own meteorological labors, as follows:
"My daylight hours have been recently occupied with
the question OF the chemical action Of light upon vapOs
and also with the blue color and polarization OF the sky.
These questions, which have been so long the great
engmas Of meteorology, have, hope, at length been
brought within grasp OF experiment, and BEEN
"a Ma II