New-York tribune., 1869-02-25
GENERAL NOTES.


Three Japanese are studying for the ministry
at Amherst Massachusetts,.
Velocipedes arc to be made in Newark WIN
double saddles for a lady and gentleman.
The richest copper ores Oh the western
slde of this continent are found IN Arizona
A firm in Newport will make psoht OF
$4,000 by the recent rise in sugar and molasses'
A Canada correspondent says mama Tor
rrmmeline newspaper men appears TO prevail In that
province.
ri A New.Hampshire Baptist clergyman named
Lowell has accepted car at less salary than MS
present one.
Most of the stone required for the massive
of the Suez Canal has been made from the saho
Of the Desert
A denutation from the illinois Press Conyen-
tion will probably make southern tour during tne
month Of March. Fl ~.
The new Missouri law against prize-fghts
ipaicts penalty Of two years Imprisonment or soOo
fine on principals and assistants alike.
California is about to add tin to her other
mlneral treasures The Temascat mine in that State
now gives employment to Is hands and the prospect
good for an immense increase OF the production
According to The Providence Journal Mr..
william Hanlin that city is the Oldest living Free MA
son I'm the United States IL not in the world he nearly
81 years old and has been member OF the oEaer years
The plan Of "class subscriptions" devised by
Harvard to increase her available college properly
promises to work we'll Each class Is urged TO pledge
a 900 per annum for years The receipts already are
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The Southern Pacific Railroad, says The San
Francisco Bulletin, OF the richest mineral DEUS
I'm tho world in California, Arizona and New-Mexico.
tbr IN wa
copper mines. .E '-a.1'
There is TO be steamboat fight" it is said,
on the Mississippi next season, which Will excel all
former contests known in those waters The managers
OF the various lines tried to an agreement az
meeting in St. Louis, but failed 10 do SO.
The young ladies of Dover, Wayne Co., lnd.'
have formed society for the redemption OF young men
from bad habits Each of the members has pledged her
self not to receive the attentions Of any young man who
uses liquor tobacco, or profane language.
The number of lunatics in England in pro-
portion to the population is nearly double what II was IN
ls.4 according 10 official records. These records are
much more complete now, however, than formerly THIS
may be the cause of the apparent increase
The accumulation OF models in the Patent
Office makes 1t necessary to dispose of all that are over
twenty years old. An exchange suggests that they DC
advertised and sold auction to inventors as there
must be many valuable germs Of mechanical ideas In the
collection.
w. A. Pinkerton, the son of Allen Pinkerton
OF National Police" notoriety, nherits his fathers en-
ergy IN hunting down criminals. He reecny tracked
Cheyenne defauer TO Texas. arrested him at Corpus
Christi five months after his crme and returned win
him, via Chicago TO Cheyenne.
One reason that the Chinese object to rail-
roads that they necessarily disturb the graves OF their
friends and There being no public cemeteries
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The entire country thereOref we consider Its age ana
populaton-must be gigantic battle-ground
The New-Zealand Rebels seem to be very
thoroughly drilled In the OF the spade or some sim
liar instrument An army OF them suddenly dscoy
ered one morning, completely inrenched within l2Oo
yards OF the British headquarters. They had thrown up
an earthwork and erected paisade during the night
Dr. Abernethy asked student one day,
what he would do In man were blown up with gun
powder. :" should wait until he came down., was the
cool reply suppose should kick you for your Inn
pertnence," said the angry surgeon, what muscles
would put in motion q" 1.-The tensors and fexors of
my right arm. SrW ......
The Missouri Legislature recently borrowed
n Joke from the Illinois Assembly and disposed OF St.
Louis by annerng IL to very small city on the north
side OF the Missouri River The act was passed. too
during quorum Of the House. The St Louis delegation
was absent and only few OF the Members thought that
the bill not serious one until aIer tue 'oto was
taken.
A gentlemanly beggar in Philadelphia sends
up his card to ladies' and is ushered into the parlor
After arranging their toilets to meet some one whose
name they fail to recognize but who Is undoubtedly
some casual acquaintance. the ladies meet hum shake
hands, aud after few moments conversation are re-
quested to buy some soap stationery and listen to
melancholy story.
Secretary Seward writes to the President OF
Albany Bugesses Corps declining oreceiye an honorary
visit in Washington March 3. :" am expecting, he
says "to from public service on the day which Is
thus indicated II is my purpose to seek and enjoy there
after so much OF rest and freedom from political studies
and labors is compatible with the responsibilities which
share in common with ali my fellow citizens"
The CHICAGO Tribune has the following from
It's Washington correspondent There is social evil re-
vyng the Capitol which 1t is time TO reDuke Long
files OF eyprans in the habit Of rendezyousng there
and paradng between the House and Senate and In the
obbies thereof calling out members making designations
for the and loans for the past and so completely
signalling the place that it is at her peril that good
woman walks alone in the Capitol
A young married lady from Springfield Il
lnois called ut Police Headquarters in Neworeans
last week. get clue to her husband who had been
missing months. He always made Southern tour
in wiuter she said, and made a great deal Of money
keeping her wen supplied. lie had been gone so long
this time however, that she was anxious IL turned out
that he was professional thief and is now in prison
The poor horror and anguish may be imagined
An Employer of Women" writes to The
Chicago ErenD Post that 1t takes about 10 good female
ypesetters tho work of 10 good Five women
he says require much overseeing 10 men. He
not get extra female help he says as be can male help
by sending TO the nearest drinking saloon Lastly he
complains that he cannot swear at the women. Female
compostors he insists cannot compete with men at the
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