New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-11
GENERAL NOTES.

| receipt signed by Moliere in 1858, shows
that the expenses OF his company that time
| were $50 in five days.
A man in Milford, Massachusetts, is maknv
avelocpede with wheels eight feet high 1t intended
| to make 30 miles an hour,
The grave of Gen. Zachary Taylor is six
miles from Louisville There is only simple slab with
| his name upon 1t to mark the spot
! There is a peculiar risk it is said, in pur-
chasng real estate in California. The law gives =
divorced wife a lien on 1t in some cases.
| The latest in Paris fashion is the "Confer.
ence hat" Asrachan fez with the beak and ewes m
imperial eagle 'front.' and Greclan borders all round
| All the actors in the Shanghai Theater ara
men. The fellow who plays "May Fielding" in tas
TcketofLeave Man" actually makes the audience cry
The coal mines in Prussia, during 1857
yielded tuns Of coal from 426 mines, and gays
employment to 1O2,77s and III, 22s chill
| dren.
| young rascal in Pennington, Me-, poured
into the etterbox at the Post Office night Las,
week tho morning the letters frozen into so,n
mass.
Three swindling bogus guides at Niagara Falls
were arrested last week by Buffalo detective who Of
fected innocence, and allowed them to cheat him for
several hours
About $4,000 tuns of ice, mostly for transporta-
ton, has been stored in Gardner Mane this Winter.
Three hundred vessels viii be engaged in taking away
next Summer.
The City of London Theater provided q
holiday pantomime for one penny ticket. Nest Of the
End theaters have reduced their prices Of admission
to almost nothing
The Hon. Il. w. Park of Bennington, VT,
presented his parents elegant residence which
he built expressly for them This is reversing the usual
order of generosity.
The Ohio Temperance Alliance" in session
last week. resolved that the State has more right to
license drinking saloons than 1t has to license counter
feitng establishments
An old Spanish silver coin of the year 1O17
has been found by gentleman IN Bangor. Maine. 10
shows how rude the art Of coinage at that date.
being Hammered out"
A member of the Missouri Legislature wishes
law passed by the State to provide for the analysis OF
patent medicines and the prohibition Of the sale Of such
as condemned by the Faculty.
The enterprising spirit of Chicago is already
at work in Salt Lake City large number OF leading
Chicago merchants personally among the Saints
making special arrangements for direct trade.
An extensive silk weaver of San Jose, Cali.
forna intends to manufacture flag entirely OF Caliior
mia silk TO the State and waved over tht
new Capitol at the next session Of the Legislature
A wealthy and eccentric bachelor in Chester.
Mass, is having his tomb hewn in huge bowlder Of
gray granite which rests OH high ledge his farm
The tomb is to be completed with solid rock door.
A beautiful crypt has been discovered near
the Cathedral In Grau Hungary Eight granite columns.
each with peculiar capital support the roof The date
assigned to it the twelfth century 1t to be restored
Fifteen years ago a gentleman sold a lot Of
land in Des MONIES, Iowa, for $500. week ago he
fl.a 20 xvf9n hA
sold it for s2 600 No buildings have been erected upon
II.
A play bill for the first production OF Don
Giovanni" in Leipsc, lately sold. 1t commenced.
Tonight viii be given Herrn Capellmeister Mozarts
fine slngspe The Rake's Doom, the Lcentious Don
JUAN"
The desk of the Clerk of the Illinois Legis-
lature broken into last Several bills
posed have been stolen. The Clerk OF this session also
has reported that the locks Of his desk were tempered
with at night
A French mayor having to make out de-
scriptive passport for Duchess who had but eye
retained poeness without sacricing truth, as fol-
lows "Eyesark, beautiful, soft, full Of expression
Of them being absent"
A large white Bactrian camel in Cincinnati
has given birth to beautiful little camel pure In
color as itself The young camel is little larger than
yearing calf 1t interesting little creature, and 10
The Vienna journals state that at a masked
ball recently held in that city, two masks. representing
and Beust, promenaded armn through tho
rooms. The spectacle caused such loud manifestation
from the people that the police interviewed.
A firm in Boston has received an order from
China of boots and shoes This is probably.
the first order Of kind sent from China. The
goods ordered Of cheap class and it Is intended 70
Introduce them among the natives generally
The pamphlets, handbills, manuscripts, and
various documents pertaining TO the recent war; which
have found their way the Yale College Library, to
be bound up for permanent reference Efforts being
made to make the collection complete as possible.
An enthusiastic citizen of st. Louis proposes
a new hotel take tho place Of tho lamented Lindell
The place proposed Lucas Park The building to DO
surrounded by elegant grounds. with walks shrubbery
flowers grasspats, and fountains, also an artesan we'll
An old man employed to hunt rabbits on the
Duke Of Portands estate in England was recently found
dead in rabbit hole which he had crawled and from
which he could not cxtracate himself. He was drawn
ont by the heels, grasIng rabbit and ferret In hH
hands
A young Bostonian, Mr.. c.. Mengs, is "engi-
neerng" movement for giving the ballot to boys oe
IS and 81. Wendell Phillips has written 10 hineh
pressing his sense Of the justice of claim but saying
that he has so much his hands he must leave this
others.
Engineers are now testing the bed of Detroit
River with view TO railroad tunnel connecting mo
Great Western railroad OF Canada with the Michigan
Central Michigan Southern. and Detroit ana
roads Tough clay is the result on the Michigan sue
the river
In the argument before the Supreme court
T., pos,o, unon the meaning OF the word survive IN
tho will OF the late Joseph E Worcester LIZ d. tls us