New-York tribune., 1870-04-14
GENERAL NOTES.

the Madras AhenGum gives the following
specimens OF Madrassee English An ex-schoolmaster
petitionng for clerkshp, promises that :" and my
family will ever cease pray to the humble Almighty
to shower his blessings on you for ever and ever.
Another begging for an Increase OF salary on account VI
SeachabIs and lie only in the comprehension of gentle
men of your honorable disposition ready to open your
bowels of compassion to sympathze with the aicteu,
and by extending your gracious hand to shoulder them
from the civil darts OF this dear cy third MAKES a
tending office to-day my grandmother dispatched heT
life and to to see G0dy m red yer ana
and grapes" requests days leave, as he u "unort
nateiy III by blessing Of Cod"
An electric display in Leyden Not one
horse affair like those gotten up by Musschenbrock and
his friends with their little glass jars in the city of that
name across the sea- but a magnificent illumination
worthy Of the times planned and carried into enect D
Sden in this ss sa te n e tn bdgs gs
at about O'clock on clear 9sh when narS% 1e
OF cloud standing Se d to be- tinted with the
cOl0rs OF the rainbow and alive with electricity Crimson
north and northwest This display continued about 20
minutes, when the light seemed to concentrate IN one
or1on 10 an ade Of about $50 heavy electrical
udbank-apparently disconnected with the phenome
non-seted upon and covered for many hours the north
east horizon, emitting at long intervals pale white
glow
We often hear men who have returned here
after soourn in the extreme West comment on the mar
row and nggardy views of the people here as compared
cc soDe Yet events occasionally indicate that there
may be another side to this picture Thus there was
Mr Munson who committed suicide on the 9th ult near
sheridan, Montana by humping into well Aer an IN IN,
Coroner and claimed S for helping to pull the corpse out
of the we'll and s. for sitting up with it, The PHI
Wilson was really at quite distance from that locality at
the time professed to have rendered these services
lie shaned into refundng the $40 Tor the sake OF
Of the deceased who IS known to DE
in the country but has not yet been found wilson seems
to have been Munsons only friend Is IL wonderful
that he committed suicidet
Sulphur is an important mining product OF
California and there fair prospect that the home sup
ply will entirely supersede that imported from the Med
iterranean Clear Lake whose shores are the locality
OF the mines occupies the crater of an
Aange at the points of which are the lake the Geysers
and ST. Helena each 30 miles from the other, aDounds
with seSTa SraR sya S9Sldan faa YARN % sPPng a Of
Clear Lake is only few hundred yards from the water
Alkaline and supur springs and vent holes from which
ike Ssd Of ashes These holes are surrounded
by crystals of pure sulphur deposited from the rising
fumes The earth also in the vicinity when distilled
yields per cent Of this substance The uses OF sulphur
are principally in manufacturing powder and the com,
pounds of suphric nitric and nuratic acids are made
ana Used ann IN Ba new use op @
Tor mdew for which PURPOSE the demand ior ~ Is con-
development to keep up the supply.
An American gentleman travelling in Italy
mentions In private letter that painting in the Churc
OF Saince Agnese the POra Pia in the outskirts Of
Rome an incident in the life OF Plus SO as
to make the Pope appear the subject of miracle. The
facts are that one day in 1856 His Holiness surrounded
by several the dgnitares OF the church. standing
in small room forming part OF this edihce when the
floor way and the whole assembage was precipita
bruises and torn garments. The painting is three
story fresco" On the upper floor which Is platform Of
clouds Virgin appears smiling assent to the prayers
of sainte Agnese The floor below this is broken and
falling few afted priests are cnging TO the sides
for support On the cellar Cor Cardinal Ant0nel with
an Inpassye countenance and officer in full uniform,
have found themselves suddenly deposited In sitting
Hight seems to be calling FOR terrestrial aid The rest Of
the personages scattered in the utmost confusion
himself wko in the center, erect and undistrbed up
borne in the arms OF St Peter As work of art, the
grouping Is unfortunate and the colorng crude but
the sentiment of the composition Is certainly very re-
markable.
1t has been said that Canada has no litera-
ture Perhaps everything that Is there is evolved by
authority is with to this deficiency that
Toronto i provided with Government Bookstore"
and Chief superintendent of Education conducts it,
The present ncumbent is DR. Ryeron, who rushes into
tion Nacauley-"the late Lord" the Doctor pre-
alluded pass unrefuted" The Doctor forth that
his establishment is intended 70 supply the municipal
cheap and sound literature" This, bytheby, describes
THE NEW-IoRK TRIBUNE, though the Doctor does not
tionists"-we never knew man OF any education by
bat ts h, the CANADIAN @ itsm In
declares that the real cause of offense Is that
novels, including stories Of such rolckng drunken
heroes "a as r,, Harry Lorreguer Inaries OMpL
ley, JACK Hinton, &C. lt must be admitted that the
Doctor could not furnish Levers novels without their
heroes, and, SO far as We recolect Them there was
DID we consider them especially drunken But the morals
OF the Dominion are endangered Still referring to the
heroes he says: "The CouncA Of Public Instruction. be-
heyng that there too Of such characters In the
country already, without Increasing their number
fused to sanction the spending Of public money to buy
and crculae&book to eulogize and applaud them, Sc
Right about public money" Doctor! But had really
never suspected that Canada with heroes OF
romance Thither then, let nOvelists wend and OBJ
servo the supertuOus Charles OMaueys before they
toned down by the proper books OF the 'DeposorY"
The Doctor may yet strike the episode Of the r0ckg
Noah out Of the school Bible,