New-York tribune., 1869-01-14
GENERAL NOTES.

There are 1,100 lunatlcS IN Canada. The DO
mnon asks for appropriation to erect an
asylum for them.
A Chicago paper has the cool impudence to
suggest full list Secretaries for tho Cabinet, all
residents Of Chicago.
1t is said that part of the present Scotch
crown made from the gold found In Sutherandshre,
the seat of the present gold sensation during the Blk
teenth Century
A Californian speaks of / 200 acres as "small
farm" Two hundred acres of wheat is small patch"
Some farmers have as many as 5000 acres devoted to
wheat in one season.
The food supply in Memphis. it is said, has
been for several years wholly inadequate to tie comfort
health and wellbeng OF her populaton This fact has
done to hinder the expansion OF tho city In wealth
and population than any other cause
A lawsuit is in progress before the Supreme
Court Of Michigan in which people OF the State
trying to compel the Regents OF the State University to
establish Homeopathic Medical Chair. An act was
passed requiring them to do SO as long ago as 1855.
There are now 5j7 wooden mills in Ohio
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Mime
sota with capital Of s50OO0O These mills are consuming
large share Of the Western wool production on which
Eastern manufacturers formerly depended. The large
| receipts from California fail TO supply the loss.
The first officer and mate of an American
ship have been sentenced to two years Imprisonment in
San Francisco cruelty apprentice boys the pas
sage out from New-York. The boys were compelled TO
driak cupful after cupfu OF salt different times
They also barbarously whipped and of them
was forced TO eat large piece of plug tobacco.
A Partisan savant informs the world that
goycrs make gloves OF peculiar form FOR the North
American trade, which European hands could not
The fingers are made OF apparently unreasonable
length but which barely suces for the exigences Of
Yankee hand" lie concludes from this and other signs
that rapidly acquiring the physical and mental
peculiarites of the IndIan.
Rooms have been engaged at the Mount
Vernon Hotel Baltimore from the 22d Of this month, for
number OF gentlemen and their wives from the North
who are TO he I'm Baltimore with Gen Grant Among the
names are those of Commodore FarTagut Cows. Clifford
Fish. Graham, and Aiken, Bishop McIlyaine, Messrs
Eyarts, Winthrop Sears, WetmOre, Bradford, Russell,
and McAiser. These gentlemen compose the trustees
Of the Peabody educational fund. Cen Grant himself
will stop at private house.
The cultivation of silk in California is in
highly prosperous condition In France and Italy the
silk is affected by fatal disease but on the Pacific
coast the eggs sound and the healthy and
vigorous Orders have been sent from Europe to the Cal
orna silk growers all the eggs they produce for
years come, at s. per each containing
10000 eggs Tho California Legislature encourages this
valuable interest by Offering $3.50 FOR every 5000 mulberry
trees raised and $500 for every 100000 silk pro-
duced in good merchantabe order.
Brigham Young wishes to see the proofs"
OF his speeches before they reach the public. His de
sire" which is almost law in Utah. expressed in the
following note
PRESIDENTS OFFICE, SALT LAKE CITY, Dec II, 1868.
desire tho printers Of Salt Lake City, who arc my
friends to DO the to submit my remarks to me
for correction before publishing them to the world.
Those who do not shall hardly consider as friends.
BRIGHAM YOUNG.
one paper coolly remarks in answer that Brigham
could get Up the best reputation for eloquence by sup
pressing his speeches altogether"
A case has occurred in Massachusetts in
witch marrying ones sserin-aw proved very in
convenient II absolutely Illegal William E. Marsh
OF oyoke disappeared during the year 1862 for several
years past nothing has beon heard OF him and he has
been considered dead. His brother Albert married his
supposed widow little year ago. Without any
notification OF hs being IN the land Of the living William
made his appearance in HoyOke Thursday Of last
week lie had heard nothing from his home; even the
dea OK father, which occurred three years
him; and the strange story Of Enoch Arden IS
renewed with Enochs brother as the second husband.
A friend Of NIr. George Peabody has been
reviying recoectons which add military reputation TO
that which he enjoys philanthropist lie figured,
according letter of Mr. W. W. Corcoran In The George
Courier. in the Georgetown Artillery Company"
Guflng
and sponger Of gun No l. He after speaks Of tho fight
with the British frgatos on the Potomac when the Com
pauy was acting under the command Of Commodore
Perry or Commodore Morris. He afterward obtained
land warrant for lGO for his Francis S.
Key, the author OF the Star Spangled Banner" was
member of the same company.
Two students, about 90 years old, killed
each other In a duel at sharpsburg, KY, after school
exhibition Christmas Eve. They warm personal
friends and had acquitted themselves with honor during
the evening After the exhibition they became
excited by liquor and quarreled. Each took pistol
from bystander and took positions on each side OF
street, about 100 feet apart. The first fire OF each
harmless They then fired about the time and
both instantly killed. One shot through the
head and tho other through the heart This occurred
about II o'clock at night. and Saturday tho two
friends were followed TO the same graveyard.
There is woman living in Van Buren, County,
Michigan who went there one year ago last Spring,
dressed in mems clothes, representing herself be u
man. and bought 40 Of land She is about 80 years
OF age stout built has lost the Of leg and
wooden substitute. She has built comfortable frame
house, grubbod out ny hand of heavy oak worth
SIS per and fitted for the pow; chopped and split
her rails and has eight in wheat She also dug
ditch side Of her land all Of which Is done in
superior she furnishes the most Of her neigh.
bors with ax-helyes and splnt baskets. About two
months after she she finished her house and moved
into ii. She then clothes She lives
entirely alone and keeps her counsels.
A very interesting report was given by Prof
Volt ut the last session Of the Munich Academy the
effect produced upon live pigeons by taking away the
two hemispheres OF the brain immediately after the
operation the bird falls into "A condition similar to sleep
puts s head under its wing and site with closed eyes
After few weeks IL awakes out of this condition
stretches out its head and flies OF its accord
{ Is
does not take food OF its accord and would remain