New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-03-10
GENERAL NOTES.

A Paris journal last month "'"''
scribers to a free concert
six Vale freshmen and one sophomore were
suspended last week for 'rushihg
A racontlv married couple in Northern WIS
,oDsip ara making bridal tour on handsled'
An American -Brigadier-General OF 'olun-
tasrs js giving drawing lessons in Heidelberg
Horse thieves in Tennessee are now lyncheu
-, drowping like cats, with stone tied to the neck
The famous Florida farm of Harriet Beecher
stowe is for sale 1t has proved anything but success
The Lowell Machine Shop is now oulihlns
the heaviest turning lathe in the country VIII "eiS
10 tuns
An estate Of $500 was lately settled in OF
sero County n " in which the lawyers leceNeu S''O
"a tho bejrs-atlaw the rest--about $50 apiece.
A daughter of Capt. Wirz the Andersonville
tailor is goyerness in English noblemans FANNY
She ia reported to accomplished and renneu lauy'
The American Whip Company are making an
eegapt and costly whip for the soldiers OF "estneiu'
NIass which is to be presented by them to Gen kpat
rick.
The deposits in the Massachusetts, savings
hanks amount TO nearly s95OOOOOO. There was an IN
crease of nearly $4OOOOO 1868 over 1861 The NUMBER
of depostors in 1855 was 3iS,599
Auerbach. Speilhagen, Clara Mundt ana
Hans Wachenhusen are leading names on the petition
addressed by German authors TO Gen. Grant 10 tecon
mend 10 10 the next Congress the adoption OF I'LL n'o
tiOnal copyright law.
The following is taken from an advertise
nent OF Dr. ks Hverencouraging silent peramDulA
tor family pills This pill is as mild as pet amO anu
It don't go foong about 1t attends strictly to business
and is as certain as an alarm-cock"
A novelty introduced at a recent ball IN
bpgiD
falling down to the bottom Of the train, after peng
caught in some fancfu and graceful way either round
the bosom, on the waist, or in sash
At recent naval cOurt-martial, the following
dialogue is said to have taken place between one OF the
witnesses and the Court: "Are you Catholic" mo-
Sir" care you q ProtestantF "No, Sir" "What. are
you, thenp Captain Of the foretop"
The sale of the library of the Marquis OF
Hastings lately announced does not imply that his late
lordshp was reading man. The collection had been IN
the family for two centuries and not volume appeared
70 have been added within the present century
The following notice has recently been re-
moved from bridge in Athens, Georgia
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dollars fine for driving over
this bridge faster than walk II negro
lashes on the bare back. NB.-HaH the ABOVE re"aru
will be given TO the informant
The project of the Viceroy of Egypt to open
ppblie gambling bells on the plan Of those at Baden
BADEN and Monaco at Cairo suggested by directors
OF the Mediterranean Steamship Company, who believe
that such establishments at Cairo viii add to the bushes
OF their line
Richmond genius recently carried the tollle
Of the bal masque TO laborious and painful degree
comicality He persOnated donkey attached to sna
gocar in which the driver seated in the guise OF
farmer. The donkey moved "al TOURS" and braye
at intervals.
The water was warmed for the comfort o
.bo candidates on q baptismal occasion in Baptis
church at Providence last week Sunday. The rsin'
steam caused a general stampede among the congrega
ton and falntng among the ladies. who thought th'
building was on FIRE
The London underground railway has only
recently been completed that it is available for inhab
tants parts Of the metropolis Seven hundred trains
run over the various lines daily The system OF signals
10 p ,S'en' "'Sifi iInpGSsIOii,Sy.
The old grenadier from whose flask NapO-
drank Ratisbon. during the memorable
campaign Of 1905, and who that occasion uttered the
naive words After you Sire" which caused Napoleon
burst into ct Of laughter, died the 9th Of January
the Hotel des Inyalides, in his S5th year.
The River Don has this year presented an
unusual phenomenon. After having broken up ice
twice for the third time. On this
son grave accident occurred. mass Of ice accumu-
lated at ROstow incOsing large number Of steamers
and other vessels and the pressure becoming too great
the Dfidge gave immense damage was done 10
the shipping. Many boats were totally destroyed.
A bold attempt to escape from prison was
made recently by three prisoners confined in the castle
OF Thun, in Switzerland They made hole in the wall
OF their CELL and by tearing their bed clothing into strips
formed a rope eight feet long. The first man who at
tempted to descend had scarcely started when
knot Of the cord slipped and the man fell from hight
OF 70 feet on the pavement OF the courtyard His
panOns wisely abandoned their project.
The solar engine, invented by Frenchman
named MOuchO has proved successful, II is said con-
cave reflector used the sunshine on boil
erbackened with smoke II is computed that III the lat-
tude OF Paris the heat reflected from surface square
meter or 1915 square feet, will make quart Of water
taken at the freezing point boil in minutes An area
Of 100 square meters wfurnh much heat in 10 hours
as can be got from burning 60 pounds OF coal.
About a hundred years ago some good old
soul left house and garden in the city Of London as
perpetual maintenance for three poor women and cat
The property is worth $4,000 year. The Door
and their cat!riends OF the trustees-are main.
taned and the rest Of the income $365O per annum s
expended in salaries unces aunts, cousins appointed
as secretaries, treasurers, chaplans visitors &c. who
to the distribution Of aims chatechze the old
women and stroke tho cat.
Late East India papers give accounts Of the
violent earthquake which shook various parts Of Bengal
between Jan 10 and H. II most severely felt in
CaChdf ana ASSAM Inc earthquake was felt far west
OF Calcutta Dinapare. At Cachar where it was most
severe the earth seemed agtated by great wave rising
in swell 20 feet high tossing trees and buildings about
and making the hills reel The river changed It's course
and upward for an hour tossing the water 90 feet
into the air The earth opened hundreds Of places
vomiting up volumes OF blue sand and water and engu
ing houses. cattle and men, cases closing over
what 1t had swallowed and In others remaining in yawn-
Ing abysse showing the roofs houses 30 feet below tho
surface The CONFUSION was felt over all Lower Bengal