New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-29
GENERAL NOTES.

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A large aquarium, to cost 100000, is tOL
erected in Brighton, England
The Oregon Enterprise says that that Stat.
now has Go,OO0 inhabitants.
One firm in Madison, Wis, has ordered 81.
thousand reapug machines for the coming season.
A telescope valued at $4,000 has just been
mounted In Melbourne, Australia.
Five young women have just been admitted
into tho louisiana Agricultural College at vnton
New-London, Conn, is to be lighted with kero
sene on account Of the high price OF gas.
German immigration is said to be on the ds.
crease IN Brazil account Of religious intolerance the
MuscalOnge fishing has begun at the Thou.
sand Islands. 40pOunder was recently cent to syra
Mr. Daniel d. Home, the spirtualst, ia
giving public readings, mainly Of American poetry, In
London.
The Marquis of Butte has built hospital for
lepers jerusalem in token Of gratitude for his CONVEX
sion TO Roman Catholicism.
There are so Chinese Catholics in San
Francisco Some Of them speak Latin 1uently and arc
from the Catholic seminaries Of China.
A Portuguese inventor has recently presented
to the Cabinet Of Lisbon murderous little engine aring
800 shots IN minute.
A new weekly paper, called The Protestant, is
to be started In London, to be sold for penny ImtO
be anti ROmanist. anti-Rituas and anti Nationalist
Chinaman was hung up by his queue at
Jacksonville Oregon recently His tormcntor was pun.
ished by fine.
A firm in Dalton Mass, have 1900 reams Of
bank note paper for the Italian Government They have
another large order from the Brazilian Government
The cost of an English lady of the period as
she appears at ball thoater IS said TO be about
$4,000 To this must DO added from 80 to rs cents the
total value OF the lady herself-toal $4,000 70.
The humorous papers Of Denmark arc pub
fishing carcaturcs OF Uncle Sam IN tAe GARD Of penuI
less confidence man. who buys everything aud then
fuses to pay for the goods,
Glass is not certain insulatOr against cleo.
trca charges An electrical coil has lately been mads
In London which sends the lightning spark through i've
inches Of solid glass.
Two apartments in Burns's cottage at Doom.
side Scotland have fitted up for the sale Of Mach
line woodwork and other objects Of interest The ktehen
is still preserved in its original state.
The orange crop of st. Mary's Parish, La,
this year win DO heavy The orange trees are 20 fall Of
young fruit that the limbs cannot possibly hold the crop
when it is full grown They grow almost In clusters like
grapes.
The PENNSYLVANIA Legislature, at its recent
session, passed act to prevent the publication Of
obscene advertisements and tho sale Of noxOus med.
cnes Through trckery the bill disappeared. aud
did not receive the approval Of the Governor
A new invention for boring oil wells has been
introduced INTO the petroleum districts Of Pennsylvania H
does away with the expensive machinery now used The
motive power is horse attached sweep, aud wells
are sunk at a cost Of only 81 % per foot.
Jor,os IVobk ~ Of Oakland No wo,liuO
before the war for IS 30 per week. saved regularly 81 Of
that sum. Five years ago he bought shoo-shop aud
tools with $50 Of his earnings He is making 2coo0
pairs Of ladies shoes per year.
| The Fon du Lac (Wisconsin) Reporter states
that five sections Of Lake WnnebagO, north Of that city
not one foot Of which has less than 40 feet Of water over
IT, have been sold and resod by Spectators South for
years. and still they at it. II has been valued at
| $4,000.
Miss Jones, pOstmistress at Winterset, Iowa,
recently married Mr. Alfred Smith. Mrs Smith Is not
known to the Department as postmstress, Miss Jones
has longer legal existence, and Smith is anxious 10
know whether he has married into the pOstOce, or has
married the post-ofice out OF the family.
Walter Phillips, night operator in the Office
Of the Western Union Telegraph Company az Providence
r. L. has received letter from Prof Morse with gold
pencil and pen, token OF admiration for his
mastery performance OF recording 273l words in one
| hour.
An effort is to be made to stop the Govern
ment subsidies to the theaters In Paris The opera
ceves not less than s39OO year. the Theatre Franca,
nearly 10000 the Opera Comique the same sum. aud
Theatre Lyrique the odeon and the Theatre ItaUeD
$4,000 each.
The hop mania is not eradicated in Wisconsin,
Notwithstanding the disaster Of last year. Every one
then bitten thinks that every other person SO Bitten D
cept himself will be discouraged AID not put in any
hops this year. and the consequence is the hop fever
again prevalent
FaA Greek, at Stamboul. recently had dream
that vast could be found in certain Ill.,
child were sacrificed to the guardian demon lie took
his little daughter to the place the next day, beat on
her brains and dug for the gold high spirits until he
was arrested.
Within mile of Elko, on the road to White
Pine there is large natural swimmiug-bath, Where
visitors can choose their temperature from tepd TO boil
ing. The depth IS said TO be very great and some say
that at geo feet no bottom has been found The floating
population OF Eko which is very large, indulge in fire.
quent bathing.
The history of the blue.iSh is cutie remark
able IN 1904 they disappeared ioL New Easaud waters,
and were not seen for sixty years When they returned
at first TO the waters south Of Cape Cod, aIcrward IN
lsl7 10 Massachusetts, Lly-tcy ve.c few IN number,
and disappeared with The rst cold; nov they are qa's
acclmatcd, and comparatively hardy
1t is proposed to celebrate at Philadelphia
this year, the centennial anniversary Of American life
assurance Society for the relief OF the widows and
children Of clcrgymen in the communion Of the Protest
ant Epscupal Church in the Commonwealth OF PonnsyF
vana was chartered in 1909 and has continued ioprac
tce the system OF life assurance without Interruption
up 20 the present time.
The following very frank election rrOclama-
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recommend toyou the official candidate, NJ Gnnicr de
Cassagnac He may have possibly committed mistakes