New-York tribune., 1869-03-12
GENERAL NOTES.

A wealthy Jewess is President of the Berlin
Midnight Missions.
The present Eddystone lighthouse, which TOOK
the paee Of that destroyed in 1885, has been standing ITO
years.
One banker in Paris, NJ Tmbaudeau' holds
s,o oon worth o Confederate bonds for which he pald 6O
per cent OF their face.
The King of Bavaria will present to his young
Russian bride, upon her arri'ai III 'uui'"' "
pearls worth 100000 forms
A Court ball at the Tuileries costs from
A. so COO francs and the four entertainments given
every winter at the palace Of Prince Metternch cost over
100000 francs.
The Delessert Gallery, one of the finest prl-
vate collections Of pictures Europe is to De soio
auetjon 1t contains Raphaels celebrated VIRGIN VI
the Orleans gallery.
Tho Prussian executiOner Reindel, has ap-
ed 70 the Minister Justice for permission 10 transfer
his terrible Office to other person lie mas Oeheau
cd ftty persons during his official career
The Duke de MOrny has left large work
ON tbe mart which be took in the events OF DeoemDer
1881 According to secret clause in his W IT'S not 10
be published until after the death OF Napoleon the Ihu
It is estimated that the property owners OIL
the French capital have received over 5OOOO francs
from the Queen Of Spain and her cOurers nearly al VI
whom have lnYesleu JutH uuVhNy AZ ANNNNS
Paris.
Among the guests at the last Court ball In
Wanna with acknowledgements conversed long tme
was Francis Pulszky formerly KOssuths private seee
tary He would have been summarily executed i 'no
Austrian Government had caught him when 1t was III 'no
hands OF the reaotiOnists
The Island of St. Bartholomew, in the West
indies and the only colony Of Sweden in America Is re-
ported to be suffering excessively from famine AN
official report has been sent to Stockholm lat "l'hn
four weeks 10 deaths had occurred from absolute starVa
ton Six hundred persons we're on the point OF snaris
the same fate unless help was speedily Afforded sI
bartholomew has an Of 80 square miles, and pop
lation of $1,000 souls.
There was strange and startling exhibition
at Iaconia New Hampshire few Sundays ago. As the
people were assembling for worship, welFdressed
stranger cooy assembled some ladders which sun re-
Inained upon the Unitarian Church. mounted 10 the
very top OF the steep surveyed for few moments the
landscape and those who watching him IN terrneo
groups performed gymnastic feat, gazed about lew
moments more descended the ground and walked out
OF town without utterng word or manlfesng any emo
tiOn He is thought to have been an escaped iunaue
The editor of The Ne,u- Orleans Picdyune ac-
knowledges the receipt of bouquet IN tho following
terms: Tinted with the blue Of the softest Summer
skies and laden with perfume recalling the delicious
sea air on Summer morn, was the glorious bouquet o.
double volet fecked here and there with white Lady
Bank roses sent us yesterday by fair friend from Jei
ferson Rare and odorOus blossoms caught together b.
the delicate hands OF who has an eye TO effec
aud soul to drink in and comprehend the beautiful ar
cheering companions and bring sparkling pleasure
the eve dulled by the nonotonous aspect Of prnte
pages"
Maurice Topin, one of the most eminen
Young French historians, whose work Europe an
the Bourbons under Louis the Fourteenth was recent
crowned by the French Academy has erreted out at La
the true name the famous Man OF the Iron Mask, ha
ing found documents which prove in the most rrefutab
manner who that mysterious parsonage was. NJ Topi
communicated his discovery Immediately to his uncle
The great historian Moquet who ADVISED him TO send th
secret to the President of the Academy Of Moral and Pc
Ucal Sciences in sealed letter. which should be opened
only at his request 1t is said that the publication
tho secret Is certain create great sensation in histor
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