New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-12
GENERAL NOTES.

situation saying that Work not much object as
good wages"
A South Carolina inventor has patented a
cotton press which is so arranged that the power
removes the packed bale from the press and prepares
another bale for packing
Brigham Young edtorially warns his follow
have anything to do with Planchette" Two
little Mormon children Frustrated by some nervous
excitement. while playing with it.
Albert Brisbane, the Fourierite, has bought
large tract Of land for colony Of Frenchmen,
who will cultivate the land the cooperative principle,
and will also manufacture silk goods
The Prussian Government proposes to abolish
the patent system The system has not been productive
of good results in Germany neither stimulating inyen
ton nor proving advantagouslto the public
The largest man on record in modern times
was Mes Darden native of North Carolina, born In
l79s. He was feet aud six inches high. At his
DEATH in 1851 he weighed little over 1000 pounds
Professor Alonzo Jackman of the Norwich
University Vermont claims that no originated the idea
of telegraph. In proof OF thihe repubshes an
article from his pen published In The Vermont Mercury In
1916.
The number of newspapers in the Southern
States is as follows Texas l14 Louisiana. "a; Alabama
ST; Arkansas 49, Florida, 49, Georgia 90; North Caro-
lima, o5; South Carolina eli Kentucky, Ts Mississippi
70; Tennessee, %.
A monument toLord Byron Is to be built in
Mssoonghi on the spot where the poet breathed his last
Oneha OF the cost of the monuments TO be betrayed by
the municipality and the other half TO BIO obtained by
public subscription.
A fountain on the grounds Of Seth B. Hunt, at
Bennington. Vermont is the highest but ono In the world
It is drawn from tho hills through sixinch pipe throw
ing stream I6s feet high. 1t appears at short dis
tance like a single silver bar.
A man was Under the Gaslight-ed on the st.
Joseph and Council Bluff Railroad, near Hamburg Iowa,
a few days ago. He was wsylaid by two men, robbed,
and bound to the railroad track lie managed TO extr
cate himself before train passed
Two wives of Mormon Bishop lately got
into trouble about their children. Wife No punished
tho children of wife NO2. Wife No became indignant
and held wife No 1, while her angry children returned
the whipping which they had received.
The body of VIM. Penn lies in little church
yard about twenty miles from London The church and
surroundings nestle In deep gorge among hills The
grave nclosed in little square OF hedge, and no mar
bic or other ornaments mark the spot
A curiosity of meanness has been exhibited in
San Francisco. During the settlement Of estate In
that city the oath Of January 1t was discovered that
brother OF the deceased had charged the estate u for
loss of time while attending the funeral.
The stable-keepers of San Francisco have
organized society prosecute all persons who hire and
abuse horses. Their names to be placed in black
list" and animals TO be put In their power list
10 also TO DO kept OF such as do not pay their bills
A cold climate seems to be favorable to long
life. According to Russian Journal the deaths during
1868 at Irkutsk Siberia included six persons ITO
years OF age Two had reached their 26th year. and
died at the age Of 1871 Three others were moro than
century old.
A Mr.. Wust, of Vienna, recently committed
suicide by hanging nset before adjusting the fatal
rope he collected all his correspondence jewels. bonds
etc. representing several millions Of forms, and set fire
to the heap He determined that lnone Of his family
should inherit his wealth
Of the 90 Governors of Maine since its sepa-
ration from Massachusetts, In 1890 IL are still living Ed
ward Kent Hugh Anderson, William G. Crosby Arson
z. Morrill,, Hannibal Hsmlin Joseph II. Williams Lot NJ
Morrill, Israel washburn, Abner Coburn. Samuel Cony
and Joshua L. Chamberlain the present Incumbent
Intemperance is the great national vice of
Sweden 1t has become alarming that the Legislature
is called upon 70 interfere Even the victims Is said
Join in the cry. Tho King Of Sweden sympathizes with
tho temperance but hesates TO act The agitators
call for statute rgldy prohibiting the manufacture OF
liquor.
Some Of the French journals announce the
discovery the public archives Of the secret OF the
Man with Iron Mask The solution Of the historical
enigma said to be established authentic evidence.
and has been communicated In sealed letter to the
President OF tho Academy Of Moral and Political Sci
ences. II will shortly be made public.
An officer Of the English Navy, Inglefeld,
has invented mode OF steering ships by the pressure Of
the water In which the floats The apparatus is
of course below the water line and It be controlled
from any part OF the vessel The captain sitting in the
cabin of the largest ronclad with compass beside him.
can steer her with his thumb and finger.
The Vatican is troubled this year by serious
financial deficiency. The receipts stated at 2 OOt
OF Pontinca yres, while the expenditure Is nearly
100000 in excess The additional outlay Is caused by
the increase Of the military forces and the
mens. The authorities look to the Gcumenical Council
their only resource for restoring equilibrium.
A Mr. P. Le Neve Foster published letter
in The London Times recommending dlution OF earbollC
acid fer children suffering from scarlet fever That let
ter widely recoped by the English press and the adj
vice regarded by many as valuable. Two physicians
have published replies showing that the dose pro
scribed by Foster would kill child aud be very injurious
TO an adult.
The conductor of q night express train on
the Vermont Central Railroad discovered q house in
flames near the track few nights ago. He stopped the
traln aud awakened tho inmates, three ladies' by Wig
orous use OF the locomotive whistle. Without this warn
ing they would have been burned to death The fire was
extngushed by the train hands assisted by few OF the
passengers who carried water from the tender In buckets
A correspondent of German agricultural
paper, who has been travelling through Turkey ana
Greece says that the Greeks have not the smallest IN
onaon for agricultural pursuits all they think Oh 10
meroe and speculation. The Government too, leaves
the country without the necessary Of communca
ton and the destruction OF forests s carried on to such
anextent that the want Of water every year greater