New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-20
GENERAL NOTES.

A quarterly magazine recently established In
Cincinnati the price of its issues as follows
"No particular required to obtain Hines
Quarterly Any amount from 20 to so cents Will purchase
any single number and persons desire ana cannot
ard the price as well as not they have but TO ask Tor
IT, aud 1t will be forwarded, postage prepaid
The people of Oregon encouraged by the sue
cess OF the San Francisco Labor Exchange propose 70
tablish a similar institution In Salem The greatest DC
mand I'm California now for farm hands aud other la
bores 10 go utO the country but, with the
independence OF professional beggar hundreds OF tn9so
month Of July employment has been furnished TO 95s per
s1ns-629 men aud $50 women.
Pittsburgh inventor, says me Commercial
OF that city constructed furnace In which pan OF
water has been arranged that the water deoomposed
and the oxygen elected into the fire. rendering cOmbus
ton complete and saving % per cent OF the lue Ahoue
exchange claims that similar arrangemeht was 81, in
vented In Europe few years ago, but failed TO save iue
because il required as much heat TO decompose the
water as was gained by the use Of the oxygen
A French paper relates case OF suspended
animation man living in Bouhey had, from over IN
dulging in drink fallen into state Of lethargy so com
pete that believed to be dead The man was laid
out and friends TO pay their farewell Visit one
woman however Ie9a k1s tnSs one ., IN n1 la Sbsn
hanging down, TOOK II up 10 replace IL on te pt ML9l'
the touch, the apparent corpse suddenly opened us
eyes and looked around the room doctor was AT once
summoned aud the man recovered.
Salmon fishing is now being very vigorously
conducted at Bathurst New Brunswick, where estab
shment has built preserve the fish, 80 rs to sup
ply Southern during the Winter months The salmon
are caught nets. and without being cleaned are put
into small boxes, and frozen hard stone. The
building where the nsh are kept stores away 1900
salmon weighing from 10 TO a. pounds each the average
weight being pounds The salmon IN the Winter readily
| bring 90 cents a pound
The Alaska Times, after printing half a col
umn OF senseess rhyme, critclses 1t follows THE
above lines we publish at the urgent request OF the
author We fail 20 SEQ the least merit In single line
OF his effusion as he calls IT, advice to Prince Tho
reau H. that he had better turn hts attention 10 some
thing which he might excel In, for he was never meant
for poet. Any OF MS "efuslOns" respectfully
declined. The old adAge Where ignorance bliss tbs
folly 10 wise," Is still true.
A correspondent of The Philadelphia North
American thinks that 1t Is time to tunnel the city lie
says that number the best have been ruined
by the surface railroad and that It Is question
whether in view OF the loss property by the
depreciation OF their property the number OF lives lost
and and accidents weekly recorded upon them
the companies should not DO compelled at once 10 tunnel
their respective roads Has anybody heard anything
about the New. York Underground Railroad recently
The artesan well at St. Louis has reached
depth OF 3sI3i feet without obtaining supply OF good
water The County Court therefore decided to suspend
operations since for the the well the
penso was nearly sO and the progress made about
Ave inches day. There division In the County
Court the prOproty Of continuing the work until
the well had reached the depth OF 1000 feet but major
passed that tho superintendent bo directed TO plug
up the well at depth OF about 1900 feet where pure
water can be obtained by pumping The water FROM the
lowest depth very salt