New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-03
GENERAL NOTES..

,ha sammer season on Cape co.,
Chariot. n French writer calls Victor HugoS
style dishrag. covered with spangles
No less than 80 biographies of Mr.. LlncOiu
have been published In Germany since he was muiuiO
Five wears ago mo white man lived WITHIN SIX
miles of ottawa Kansas Now the place mas ''OV' i''"@'
issnts
Five thousand copies of Alexis de rogue
vrea Democracy America are stI sou o'o' 'ooi
in France.
Vessel Owners Association, to protect the
inorests Of tho shipping on the lakes has Oeen
at Chicago.
kman is engaged at Minneapolis in building
,thoat h feet by hfteen to transport himself and fam
fly TO Texas.
The municipal council of Macon, France, has
voted Of 5000 francs Tor the. ereouoh epe ou
msnt to Lamsrtine.
Musketo is word of Spanish origin. 1t has
been spelled no fourteen different ways since
the discovery Of America
The Journal OfcieI is losing money, and the
ola paris Nsnier relieved Of the incubus Of Govern
nent patronage, Is doing finely
Mr.. Ball Mangesh Wagle, the first native
barrister who has qualified for his profession In Inda
was recently admitted to the Bombay bar
The report that four Europeans had become
Hobammedans at Madras is confirmed 1t is said they
are about to DO married to Mohammedan women.
THEIRS has the satisfaction of knowing that
10000 SETS or 100000 volumes OF his History OF he
Consulate and Empire have been sold in France alone
Among the graduates of the present year at
Dartmouth College q coored man, MIR. George Rice OF
Newport RI He Is fine scholar, and much respected
In the College
Napoleon reads Tacitus and Juvenal moro
than any other Latin authors Some of the satres OF
Juvena are peculiarly applicable to the present oond
ton Of France.
The nutmeg tree is indigenous to California.
There very largo number Of the trees in the State
but nutneGs gathered and sold In Placer County
many years ago.
Paul do Cassagnac, Paris editor, has been
called times has been spit on In the street seven
times has had his nose pulled four times and has been
four times hOrsewhpped.
The new postmaster of Indianapolis, Ind,
has just discovered In the basement of the pOsofHce
building a. bags Of undistrbuted mail matter, which
arrived time last Winter.
Ice gathering has not paid in Canada the
past season Vesseload Of 1t was recently omptied
into the bay Hamilton because the price offered would
not pay the cost Of transportation
At Lord LyOnss recent state dinner IN Paris,
IN honor of the Nabob from Bengal the guest Of the
evening neither ate drank According to his religion
It ia rumored that the Prince Borghese of
Rome the owner Of finest gallery Of paintings in tho
world next b that the Vatican Is about to sell his art
treasures to Russia for the of s5,OOOOOO franco
The Hath anniversary of the birth of Sam
ue Hahnemann the founder Of the Homeopathic School OF
Medicine was celebrated In Paris by banquet at which
nearly all the physicians Of that school in the city were
present
Early April in Italy was unusually cold.
Snow again fell In the neghbOrhoOd OF Florence, OF MIL
an and in several districts of LOmbardy and the banks
OF the Lake Of Como and Of the Lake, Of LuganO were
white with snow.
Shad are scarcer than ever in the Delaware
River this Spring. the fisherman fear that their
patton will DO gone entirely before many years The
fuse from Philadelphia gas works Is said to drive the
fish out Of the river.
r. L. Tabor, the organist of Williams College,
Mass has perfected invention which attached to
I-ss,v prime rasJ as &c is played.
lie contempates modifying the mechanism that 1t
be applied to the organ
Tive members of q church choir in Albany,
having seceded have been gratifying their spite by
ing che congregation out Of and at the top of their
voices They have been arrested and discharged. and
Iti persist in singing out OF tune
There are no beggars among the Hebrew
people In England Each Jewish synagogue has COM
mttee OF the most respectable members whose business
It is to look after the poor The aged pensioned and
the disabled placed In hospitals furnished with regu
lar relief
In a printing Office at GOspOrt, Ind, is a
blind compositor. His average days work is 5000 ems
and on several occasions he has set from 1000 to 1900
His letter distributed for him. and his copy is read by
his partner his memory being perfect that be
tain from four 70 six Hoes.
A French stock company, which intends to
START new daily paper in Paris, has offered Emile de
Grardin the of 10000 francs il he will leave the
Libcrte and take the management OF the newspaper
The offer declined Grardn values his share OF the
Liberte at fully 100000 france
For the first time in the history of France,
sailing vessel little aft schooner is moored in
the Seine directly alongside the Tuileres Frenchmen
daily throng the qUays and bridges In her vicinity, IN
order to gaze at the wonderful stranger Even the
Emperor and all the Imperial family have paid ysts TO
the tiny craft.
WaterhOuse Hawkins, the distinguished En-
glib naturalist thinks that the fossil footprints in the
Connecticut Valley sandstones those of marsupal
imas like kangaroos and those Of BIRDS President
Hitchcock believed during his early Investigations Dr.
Hchoocks later opinions however tended toward the
conclusion which Mr. Hawkins by the aid Of more nu
morous aud clearly defined facts, has reached.
The oldest house in the United States, in Ne
ponset Mass was built by John MinOt about the year
1910. is still in good repair. and the Minot family still
hold possession OF IT, In 1910 II was attacked by three In
dams during the absence Of the male portion OF the
family. female servant and several children were in
the house. The girl hastily barrcaded the door, and
seized loaded The first Indian attempted entrance
by open window, but met by shovel Of burning
Goals from the fireplace which thrown In his face by
the girl Another who appeared at the window,
was shot dead and the survivor beat hasty retreat