New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-29
GENERAL NOTES.

orectod This Summer. The building is to be lSO py i"
feet.
Gargarol the weathiest merchant ID hoSoo"'
"a the grandson Of scrf sHis father was P0Or S"0o
maker. ... .
victorien Sardou is so nervous that 1t is I'M
possibe for him to be present at the hrs'
of any Of his plays
Uorr Mc;hfessel, the famous composer OF
German popular patriotic and student songs, died a't
month in his S5th year ..T.
Tho agent of the Lyman Mills, at HOyoke,
Mass has compelled ali the operatives. about 1900 in
number to be yaccinated
Charles CadwalladeT, engineer on the Central
pacific Road has sounded DOnDor Lake to the depth
LOCO feet without finding bottom.
The English sparrows let loose in the Phila-
depha parks dsdan the little houses built for them ana
are making nests for themselves.
A Salt Lake paper finds fault with Brigham
Young for selecting the eagle Tor his emblem, because
that royal bird is a strict monogamist.
During the past Winter there has been a
Wholesale slaughter Of sheep in Iowa. The carcasses
have been fed to hogs and the pelts sold
1t has been discovered that large and strong
Republican society exists among the troops stationed
near Naples Numerous arrests have been made,
Baroness Babette Beyfus, the last surviving
sister Of Mayer Anselm the founder Of the famous
Rohschd house. died at Frankfort March 16, AGED S.
The English papers announce that the Queen
has changed the day the celebration Of her birthday
this year. from Saturday, May 49, to Wednesday June
After the marriage of the Princess Louise to
the Prince Royal of Denmark on the 27h Of July next
the Princess Beatrice will be Queen VictOras only I'M
married daughter.
A Texas gentleman has received q quantity
OF skwOrm eggs from France through the post some
OF the eggs Matched the way, and the worms were
living on their arrival.
Mrs. Norton has applied for admission at
Cornell University student Mr. Cornell and seve'
aprofessers favor her application The Trustees how
ever, dare not admit her.
Women having a certain amount OF property
Russia tho right to VOTE though 1t must be exer
csed by proxy, a male relative or friend represent
ing them at the election.
The English Parliament is investigating the
Sunday sale of newspapers tine kingdom and thinks of
compelling the Sunday proprietors to publish on
Saturday. Six thousand persons employed in the
traffic in London every Sunday.
German paper published at Doylestown,
PENN III late ISSUE contained poem OF slXty-four
lines singing the praise Of saurkrOu and preferfing IT,
II properly prepared, to boiled sweet corn and sweet
corn pudding
Tn n communication to The 81 Louis Westliche
Post 40 young Germans of Kansas City. No. complain of
want OF young women at the latter place, and lnVlte
manageable especially German women to come there
promising to marry them right or
English coach builders are beginning to an
nounoe that they prepared to build light carriages on
wheels imported from America. They have discovered
at last the Americans half century ahead OF
them in the matter of carriage building. ..
An Association of about four hundred BOhe-
,nans In Chicago sent committee to Minnesota, in
order 10 select locality in that State for settlement
The Association expect increase of about six hundred
persons from their native country during the Summer
The Girl of the Period" and other essays
Of the class which have appeared In The Saturday
Reve and which have been sserbed TO various female
members OF the arisocracY writton by Mrs Lynn
nntOn authOress Of Lizzie Lorton, and other NOVELS
and wife OF the artist. ..
Among the aristocratic equestrians In Hyde
Park London, recently man dressed as girl OF
the period who rode on sdesadde and acted the part
VI woman perfection. Tho police took no notice OF
him. although made his appearance daily for upward
of week.
A special mission to the United States was Of
rered Gustav Freytag tho author Of Debit and Credit
aud The Lost Manuscript" when the Prussian Govern
nent heard that the distinguished novelist was DESTROYS
of making q trip to America. Freytag. however, de-
Cnsd The honor.
A Turner festival will be held at Chatta
nooga Tenn by the urne- Societies Of that and neigh
borin nos May 16 II, and &C. The theme for German
prize essay on that occasion will be- What TO ne done
in order 10 give current Of German emigration TO the
West a Southern direcIoni
II is announced in Paris that a new history of
the trial Of the Duke DEnghein will be published,
witt many important unpublished documents. manu-
ST. Int OF Napoleon has been discovered ordering pay
meu of 600 francs each the Judges who sentenced
the Duke.
The German astronomer Maedler has meas
ured the hight Of 1908 mountains in the moon Twenty
two Of higher than Mont Blanc, which Is with
In few feet of being three miles hgh si1 are above
1900 feet The highest observed mountain in the moon
is 2As4i feet high.
A Paris letter-writer says that on the morn
ing OF his quitting the Grand Hotel for London the Nabob
OF Bengal paid three Of Russian sable made for
himself and his three sons, the cold weather. to which
they are unaccustomed having rendered warm garments
necessary The bill for these furs amounted TO 10000
francs-s2i 600.
A sporting man in Paris has opened an Office
for advising inexperienced young zen in regard TO so
called affairs OF honor lie teaches then for 90 francs
how 20 Insult their advarsares In the most genteelman
uer and how to resent afronts TO render duel
inevitable lie nsructs them also IA all matters regard
ing duels and challenges lie is I'll patronized
An editor in Hampshire says that the recent
suroral display Of Thursday evening. was as II some
celestial had unroled two three dozen pieces
OF silk OF the most beautiful nts Of purple green, blue
lilac and white, gathered the ends into his hand at the
zenith. and let them How down to the horizon" The
editor vas formerly dry-goods clerk, We presume.
Col Meyer, lately taken prisoner With Ne
grete's men in Mexico, born the Argentine Re-
public. and is tn OF German parents During the
American civil war he vas Lieutenant Colonel Of q col
ored regiment. under the command OF Gen Weitze AS