New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-21
GENERAL NOTES.

Chickens are taken at the box-ofiice of
Brigham Young's theater and change is appropriately
made with eggs
A Eoung farmer is now serving out Il three
months term Of imprisonment IN jail atIEXeter, England.
for having shot single pheasant five years ago on his
fathers farm.
Plus * is given to punning. "COme, now"
said he TO an American gentleman at the time of the
Fenian troubles Come now, tell us about these irish
he laughed as heartily as his visitors
The Pawners' Bank of Boston is an incOr-
porated pawn-broking company on large scale. The
corporators highly respectable citizens, and the IN
sttuon does much good It's total of loans averages
about 100000 and the annual dividends ~ stockholders
from eight to ten per cent.
The deep sOundngs made In connection with
the laying OF submarine cables show the average depth
Of the Atlantic to DO 1900 feet The deepest part
OF the ocean is the American side the Newfound
land banks, where immense basin exists whose depth
Is supposed to excel the hight of the lmaayan range
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry j. BigelOw,
Charles l.. Buckingham, Edward ii. Clarke, and other
professors the Boston Medical School, have forwarded
petiton TO Congress In behalf OF the Medical STAFF OF
the Navy asking for them such degree OF actual ana
substantial properly belongs to them as members
VI an honorable profession"
Thousands upon thousands of the infant
progeny of Seth Green's trout have been annually de
stroyed for some time past without apparent lie
has now discovered that certain worm spins web
ahout Them as a spider does about a fly, thus tramnc
ing them SO that they eventually die even when they
succeed in breaking away from the net. II Is a
aton 10 know that when the trout grow large they iced
on the worms IN return.
The General Superintendent of the Freed
mems Bureau says: &" It is the testimony OF well.in
formed gentlemen that the coored population OF upper
South Carolina in thriving condition, with better
The State appropriated 1000 last year buy land
for the freedmen and upward OF 10000
Governor will recommend an appropriation OF 100000
this year, Tor the same purpose
Mrs. Slocum, who edits The ST. Charles (Mo)
Herald In the absence Of her husband does not favor the
in the State strike the word male from the
Constitution She says edtorialy:
these ~omsh nghs women Who continually haPug upon this
sue aud making themselves ridiculous Ia the sensible
stay home their household dates nurse their
babies aud train their children 10 te which God
would do thoen greater service thai all the ballots they could
10 lifetime
These thoughts of truth and beauty are from
the pen Of the editor OF The THocu,es QHd) Gd-ee
Spring is coming, the of flowers and sunshine
Its return heralded not only by the singing of the blue
bird aud the robin the green grass sprnng mp 10y ,he
wayside. ana the budding popars but by the Demo
poles n hopyard The keepers rejoice and the
loafers make merry the old political stagers forth
white, red, and black-to take a drink"
People who have judged the French Empress
by those sugarcandy photographs which 50 common
III the shops Will be surprised learn that the pretty
woman has dash OF the gress in Demonstration. The
while II moved the tender hearted Emperor tears
filled the white bosom Of his wife with tempest Of rage
Of the true feminine yehomencc Naturally she is
OF Bonapare than II she had been born one even
eputed 10 have the family blood In ner veins. She could
not understand why squadrOns OF cavalry not
ordered out 10 scatter poor NJ NOirs funeral procession
Should she live long enough she VIII understand better
The controversy between Hiram Powers and
Southern papers concerning statue OF Franklin
which the sculptor partially engaged 10 make
for the city Of NewOreans. seems lkely to be at length
terminated. Tho plan OF ordering the statue
ceyed In 1874 by friends OF the sculptor who wished
TO assist HIM In this delicate Five thousand dollars
the price agreed upon, to be raised for him by sub
scripton. The plan. however, miscarried; only por
ton Of the money raised, and the statue
made. The money was paid over m fast as subscribed
and when Mr Powers found that the subscription would
be- completed, he wrote To the subscrbers offering
To return tho money. They unanimously refused Ia
accept It, Since then, some Southern newspapers,
headed by. The he,o. Orleans Times, have periodically
agtated the subject OF tho statue MIR Powers swndled
the city out oI" 7hs lsuss aaly after series VI ar