New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The Prince Imperial of Madagascar has been
.srt nv his mother to DO educated In France.
Mile Nilsson has presented her parents with
handsome house IN her native city IN Sweden
In the present House of Lords there are no
dcandants of the twenty five Barons who enforced the
Magma Charta.
handsome set of plate has been presented
TO Mrs Abraham Lincoln by the admrersOI herhuspanu
at FrankfortOn-the-Main.
Stephen A. Douglas, son of the Little Giant,
Is student in the Jesuts College IN Georse'o"n'
d. c. He lnclnes to poetry.
When pious English or American Christians
arrive in Paris, they ask Which is the most improper
play now runnngi And they so to see H.
Chicago now feels itself complete fashion,
able Genemens Club has been formed there and occu
pies one Of the finest "palaces on Michigan.ave
Mike McCoole is getting quite aristocratic
since his marriage in ST. Louis His saloon has been re-
moved to handsome building In arespectapio i00A'
Kansas boasts that its salt springs are mex
haustible and produce the purest SAT- 10 10 op"'0 "
the United states.
Congress and the Legislature of Massachu-
sets are said to the only legislative bodies that al
here to the old custom OF engrossins Bils On
Mr. T. Buchanan Read has just commenced
a Ifeslze painting OF "sheridan's Ride" lie occupies
Rossetti's studio In Rome.
An article, giving the history of firearms IN
the French official Journal that In 1928 THO EhsnSh
employed Is breechloaders against orleans
A sign in front of q stage Office In buffalo
announces that stages start from this house Tor Chna
sard!nia. Holland Hamburg, Java Sweden Cuba
Havre, Italy and Pon-Yan"
NJ. Gachard, French millionaire, who died
recently at Rochelle made his original fortune by selling
nshbat 1t was worth no more than worms but was
we'll advertised
Five lucky white pine spectators recently
arrived In San Francisco each with 100000 to his credit
In bank All these fortunes were made by selling out
not by mining.
MANY members of the demi-monde in Paris ap-
near upon the stage for no saaryerely for the sake
of attracting attention When they do this they ind
no trouble IN commanding large income.
During the year 1868 the Hon. Hannibal Ham
lin then VcePresdent served private soldier in the
Maine State Guard, Company A, Of Bangor The com
pany was stationed at Fort McCary, Kittery, Maine
| Financial speculations have become very
popular among the poorer classes and poasantry In
France Cheap financial publications have been started
| especially for these classes.
An Indian mound, about ten feet square, has
been discovered banks Of the Potomac five miles
below Acquia Creek. large number Of bones, beads
arrow heads. and other relics were found.
An Italian has published seven dances Illus
raye Of the seven cardinal sins. They are called Pride
schottisch, Avarice Mazurks. Luxury Waltz, Anger
| Galop Gluttony Quadrille, Envy Polka Lazy March.
The Orkney Island farmers are bitterly
opposed to the construction Of lighthouses along the
| northern coast OF Scotland. They have been wen sup
piled hareofore with many luxures from sbipwrecked
vessels.
A novel maneuver has been introduced In
the French Army. The men throw themselves to the
ground and form rampant Of their knapsacks the
soldiers of the second limo passing their knapsacks for
ward and supplying the first line with cartridges.
The Clerical Association of Ithaca has ad
dressed long protest against dancing to the President
OF Cornell University. 1t suggested by shock
which the ministers received at reception by the Fac
ulty which wound up with dancing.
A duel was to have taken place on Shrove
Tuesday, in Paris, and the place Of meeting was fixed
The principals Miles L and NJ, Mile. L
there puncual to minute, with her seconds and
surgeons; but Mile NJ failed to appear.
1t is curious peculiarly of English law that
although Jewish patron appoint person TO
church living, Catholic patron cannot. Baron Roths
child has just filed vacant vcsrage but there are 90
lyngs within tho patronage OF Catholic peers none Of
which be given away by the present proprietors.
German papers state that the whole tract on
which the City Of st. Petersburg is built Is sinking slowly
with fearful regularity and that at the present rate
It viii DO wholly submerged in fifty years The Russian
Government Is taking steps, says ~ the court
other city The story is probably sensation
The immense Maxwell House, in Nashville
which its unfinished condition used military
hospital during the war; il nearly ready for occupation
It's approaches 100000 and it is OF the largest
hotels in the country. The lot which 1t ia built
bought in e3Ofor sll.
A man near Montpelier, Vermont, recently at
tempted to get through snOw-drit After noundering
while, he stood erect, with head aud shoulders above
tho surface. "Do you touch bottomp asked his
panion. ono; am standing on tho toprail OF fence"
Eighteen inches of snow has fallen since that.
A man named Kimball, who was captured by
the Indians in 1885, has Just made his appearance in St.
Louis. with wife aud one child He has led genuine
savage life for years His wife also captive
reared by the Indians from childhood lie found her In
another tribe All she knows Of English she has learned
from her husband.
John A. Keith, formerly in the Confederate
army, in Jail at Raleigh N c. is described by The
London N c. Press the Of the Nineteenth
Century" He shot 10 men, women, and children,
in cold blood after securing them prisoners Many
similar Outrages in the Cumberland district also laid
to his charge.
young woman in Chicago has invented
new branch Of female usefulness. She advcrses that
she VIII give lessons in etiquette the way Of con-
versDg with ladies, TO any young gentlemen who does
not feel ut ease In the society OF the opposite Tuition
to lovers, extra" She has quito successful and
makes speciality Of proposals In various forms
A firm in Washington have japanese mer-,
maid on exhibition. 1t is about 6 inches In length the
body bearing close resemblance the yellow perch
excepting that of bones appear down the back. At
the point where the gls of the should appear two