New-York tribune., 1869-04-01
GENERAL NOTES.

Salt Lake now contains $4,000 Mormons and
5000 Gentiles.
Victor Emmanuel is the best shot among
European sovereigns.
A society for the protection of sea birds has
been organized In England.
Alaska is to have q newspaper called Inc
Times. 1t is to be independent in politics
Paris has woman's newspaper, which aims
to teach the sex "politics, science, and art"
Historicus Wernon Harcourt) has been made
Professor of International in Cambridge University
The untmbered plains between the Missis-
slppi and the Pacific have area OF 100000 square
miles. l. r ..r
A Georgia editor offers to distribute by lot
among delinquents who pay upa gold watch and other
prizes.
An unfortunate German publisher announces
complete edition of Andrew Johnsons Speeches and
Messages"
In Berlin they say. if you want to get any
thing out Of Bismarck you ought to have very good
cause or be an American.
Billiard players propose to make change IN
the counting OF the game 50 that all earoms VIII count
three whether on red or white balls.
A wretch, who claims to know the rich men
Of Cincinnati and St. LOUIS that the great want OF
each city is about IS hrst-class funerals
II is said that most of the book reviews in
the London daily papers written by young barrsters
and undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge
A cake of pure silver, weighing 3i3 pounds,
was recently shipped TO Philadelphia from the Brown
Coin Silver Mines located Georgetown Colorado
A brute in Rochester N. Y, was lately ar.
rested sent to prison for elk months and fined go for
cruelty beating daughter. infant seven months old
Prussian and French capitalists are preparing
20 build the largest hotel In Europe on the banks OF the
Lago Maggore II is intended 10 be as cheap and good
as it is large.
Milan has provided its customs officers with
very powerful microscopes for the examination OF all
meat brought into the city, TO make sure that none OF II
harbors trichine sporalis.
The Friend publishes statistics to show that
the Quakers In Pennsylvania are deereaslng In numbers
Since $780, five meetings have been eStaDhsheu'
while 81 have been abandoned I'D ..-.
King John of Saxony proposes to lecture on
literary subjects before select audiences, composed Of
his family some other crowned heads, and small mum
Der Of literary and political celebrities,
Great Joy was Manifested, recently, by the
miners at White Pine the birth of the first native OF
the region They made up pure Of several thousand
dollars In silver bars and gave 1t TO the pioneer infant
Charles Lever is a veteran wirist player, and
one of the best Europe. 80 much does the game en-
gross his leisure that he borrows from IL many Iusta
tons In his writing and often introduces 1t IN his tales
Lamartine was asked by friend if he did
not spend too much money in advertising. mo" was
hs reply, advertisements absolutely necessary
Even divine worship e bon Dc needs TO be advertised
Else what is the meaning OF church bellsP
Massena's statue will be erected at the Place
Paion in Nice on the 10th Of May next. The inscrip
tha M
will be simply Marshal Massena the soldier who saved
France from an invasion at Zurich in 1892"
The dryness of the Egyptian climate is such
that rain scarcely ever fell in the upper province, and
not more formerly than ve ak days year in the
Delta But Mehemet All has planted 2Oo0o Of trees in
these districts and annual has now increased
10 40 days.
Hydrophobia has been successfully treated
with iodine by Dr. Mussey Of Chicago OF the eight cases
promptly treated with iodine not one resulted fatally
nor were any decisive symptoms OF hydrophobla subse
quently manifested IN four OF the cases 1t was probable
that the wounds were from animals really rabd and not
In tho other four.
Mr.. Arid, a noted London barrister, was q
printer So too was Douglas Jerrold; John Ktto. the
editor Of the pictorial Bible. was by trade shoemaker
Dr. Livingstone was factory operative John Cassel
journeyman carpenter; and VIM. Clifford, the founder
Of me Edinbg Rerer. first cabin boy and then shoe
makers apprentice. -.
Capt. MOncriefs invention for mounting
heavy artillery has accepted by the British Govern
ment who pay him 5000 per annum while employed in
supernendng its introduction .25 900 at the end Of his
service and all expenses for models and experiments
The Pail Nall Gazette thinks this remuneration liberal bnt
The Spectator says he would have made money by
an ingenious mouse-trsp. III POI .... N..a..7.i sa-
The doctor against whom q verdict of $4,000
for breach of promise was recently given in Warren
County Ohio converted all his property into ready cash.
and as soon the verdict given he disappeared
This was the case In which the defense that the
promise OF marriage with pretty miner could not be
carried out because she Of very remote African
descent a , HEeI un.
The Stockton House, now in course of erection
at Cape May viii $4,000 The building Will be 800
long and four stories high with porehes IA 600 feet In
length and 20 feet wide There will be plank walk
along the crest OF the beach connecting with walks above
and below, altogether 1900 feet In length The lawn
will extend TO the beach Five hundred new lighthouses
are erecting for the accommodation of the guests.
Prosper Merimee, the French Historian and
novelist has written the following letter upon subject
on which he supposed to have authentic informatiou
f. CANNES, March IA.
Ma CHERE CoUsNE: hope you have been weeping for
in consequence OF the report Of my death In the news
Lense for long while, and deliver funeral Grafton on
ne every day All this does harm, for am rather
better than was. remain up good many hours, eat
with appetite. and get little more sleep than did.
do not lind that It does any harm and they say t
makes ono handsome DO think yOn shall know mo