New-York tribune., 1869-04-10
GENERAL NOTES.

,Chassepot. the inventor of the French regu-
Iation musket is bankrupt He was swindled ey the
agents to whom he intrusted the management Oh us
uancia affairs
The Cheyenne Leader says that the men sent
out TO work on the Pacific Road continue TO desert h
squads and march overland for White Pine 1t is dill
cult TO find laborers to keep the track clear OF snow
A young man fell dead in the whirl of a
German waltz Chicago last week The shrek OF his
partner the elcss body dropped the crowded ball
room noor was the warning the reyelers had that
death was among them
Cleveland has a woman who has been married
tunes eight years. Two Of her husbands are
dead The other FIVE, from four Of whom she was di.
vorcd live. Her daughter, seventeen, has been
twice married and twice divorced
Mr.. Samuel Miller of Campbell County, Vir
gnia died Saturday. He the richest man in the
state, and had made all his property himself Though
Impaired by the the estimated at sS 100000
He made number OF bequests to institutions
The present English War Minister dissents
from the hitherto universal opinion that veterans old
,odlers are desirable than new recruits No in
sueements to be held them to regnst Raw
recruits will be preferred.
The Sultan has abolished throughout the
Turkish Empire the prohibition hitherto rgdy enforced
against the admission of Christians the mosques 1t is
only stipulated that those not Mussenans the
mosques shall behave properly wie in the buildings.
A double-ender locomotive is the last railway
invention 1t has no tender but water in tank
over the boiler and coal in box in the of the fur
mace It and cOwcatchers at each end, and
runs with equal facility either direction.
The Pope has conferred the title of Countess
on Madame Rozan the pretty daughter Of the famous
banker Mires The Partisan journals they igno
rant Of the cause to which young lady indebted for
this distinction.
AS a proof of the remarkable decline of Alex
andre Dumas's popularity romaneist it is said that
the manuscript Of his last novel offered to six pub
Ishers none Of whom would give him more than few
thousand hOrins forit.
Sir Kenelm Digby of England wrote to Gov.
winthrop second Massachusetts, IN the eighteenth
century and recommended the following cure for the
ague: Pare the patients nails; put the parings In
little bag round the neck Of live eel and put him in
tub OF the eel will die and the patient will recover
A Nashville druggist has invented a rat-paint
made of preparation Of phosphorus. You first catch
rat and paint him. After dark be looks like ball Of fire.
and going among his fellow they become frightened
and the premises, the phosphOrescent rat follow
ing Of course and hurrying up the rear.
A monument is to be erected at Copenhagen
TO Bishop Monrad the ex.Prime Minister Of Denmark
who emgrated 30 NewZealand few years ago. and who
wasFecently killed there by the MaOris 1t was Bshop
MOnrad who Drst advised King Christian the Ninth to
sell the Danish colonies to foreign governments.
The tutor of the French Prince Imperial has
hard break his pupil from calling the Emperor
~Todo" He learned IL when babe from his mother,
who used TO cali Napoleon mon todo." my ALL" The
Empress now addresses the Emperor Lous" and the
Emperor addresses her as "Mamma"
The irOn-clad squadron Of which Prince
Amadeus Is to take command when making voyage of
inspection Italy will be composed OF three frgates
and two armorpated batteries His Royal highness will
embark on board the Gaeta the chief officer being Rear
Admiral Deviry.
A company has been formed in London to
supply e city of Panama with water The project will
cost se0OOO-a50OOO to be subscribed in London and
$1,000 in Panama. A gas company has likewise been
formed both gas and water will be introduced In
Panama in January next.
The people of Linlithgow, Scotland, were re-
,ently highly indignant because the Department Of
Woods and Forests threatened reduce the number Of
the lake An ancient tradition states that these
all disappeared CROMWELL coming TO the throne,
but returned Immediately after the restoration.
Edmund Kean was in the habit of saying that
there such thing impulsye acting practice
however he frequently proved the contrary He studied
M characters with the greatest anxiety and care; but be
frequently rejected the premeditated course. When
lked his reason for 90 doing replied felt that what
l did was right Before was only reheaTsiDg." ,eS
good story is told by The Richmond Dis
patch. colored soldier affixed his mark apphca
don for back pay and bounty. While the claim
ng through the department he learned 70 write and
signed his to the additional papers subsequently
required The REQ Tape Bureau declared the latter sig
nature to be forgery.
subscription paper, circulated for some
charitable purpose, presented TO wealthy French
manufacturer, who subscribed 20 francs Twenty
francs ;" said the lady who presented the list to him
why, your has subscribed so francs" "Thats oil
very wep replied manufacturer, son has rich
father, and afford it."
A new stove has lately been introduced in
Europe for heating railway carriages 1t consists OF an
iron cylinder covered with sheet glass placed outside
on the top of the carriage and heated by of char
coal A small cylinder and receptacle for the ashes
complete the whole apparatus which said to dsrbus
an equal and agreeable temperature.
COL Totten has decided, after a series of tidal
observations taken at Panama and Aspinwa Bay, and
connected by levels along the line Of railroad
that the mean hight Of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Ia
exactly the same This shows, exchange. that
the stock Pacific Railway may be watered at either
end with equal facility.
London Fun reports that the Peace Society
considering the feasibility Of reducing the hight OF the
Alps below the line OF perpetual Their reason for
wishing do this that present these mountains en-
danger the peace Of Europe They give rise to pques
and produce GOODNESS between France and Switzerland
and italy. q
Two boys in Reading, Penn, saw picture
OF a man hanging illustrated paper and began TO
play hang" BY putting rope on some framework out
side their house The older Of the two boys first tred H.
and after him the other put the rOps around his neck
The older now walked of and when the mother came
upon the scene the younger face was black and blue
ifa snoto out re ext