New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-20
GENERAL NOTES.

In that wonderful little poetic fragment
"Kubla Khan" which Coeridge declared that he
dreamed read OF That sunny dome those caves Of
ice They have discovered the equal Of lKublas caves
in winneskeik County, Iowa. The workmen upon road
there accidentally opened cave from which there was
OF the cavern that ice formed wherever moisture
might be tempted in the dogdays anchorite and
pass the remainder of ones life in state of beatihc
refrigeration At any rate one might give the Summers
sancty and the Winters to the other sort Of thing
A curious instance of the cosmopolitan char
acter Of the age afforded at the Amherst Commence
ment last week. ut which Mr.. Joseph Nee sima, upon
taking the degree OF A. reeed Grafton in the Japa
nese, which his native tongue. How the Professor Of
Rhetoric managed to correct Mr. Josephs Grafton as he
does those Of the English speaking boys, cannot con-
lecture and fancy that this fastdious parsonage was
entirely at the mercy OF the graduate, who may have
committed half hundred solecisms condemned by
Campbell and Whatey II the Professor at Amherst
like other Professors OF Rhetoric who have been known
TO u.s. we can CINE the hopeless anxieties which
have filled his soul 1t isn't every student who has the
advantage OF writing his commencement theme in Japa-
nese.
Evansville, Ind, has been much agitated by
the nuptals of Peter vandermede, who belongs to the
Dutch order OF mankind and Lucy Ann Boen who is Of
the cOOred description. The indignant people of Evans
vile proceeded to disturb the honeymoon by mobbing
the newly married pair and then both bride and bride
groom arrested under the State law which declared
their marriage 10 be crime. But ChefJustice Walker,
riage to be good one ali acts Of the State Of Indiana to
the contrary and the prisoners by him discharged
The question OF the Xpedency OF marriages ike this may
be open one but, however they may be regarded
is late to arran their legality and there is many
white at the South who ought to legtimze his chill
dren by marrying their black mother at once
When people are getting up Festivals" it
excellent plan count the cost and to be OF
selling tickets enough to defray it, Our own unhappy
Jubilee affords in point. so in Cincinnati, after
the great and glorious sangerfest, lively
about the expenses and especially about the building
expenses. Mr. Kuznitzky the architect agreed to
struct the temple of harmony for sl72o9 Now comes
S9S27l pleading at the time that the building cost
to put up any structure for public
use, except at advance OF from $4,000 to 100000
its estimated expense one OF the mysteries OF arch
lecture. II private buildings involved the diff
Guilty there would be much less construction great
deal more insolvency.
The march of constitutional principles in
Spain has accelerated by the introduction into this
land Of fine old crusy wines, of that truly democratic
beverage--beer! This might have touched Mr.. Bulls
heart If anything could but his appreciation will be
materially diminished by the astonishing way in which
appears, pour the malt not into its native pewter but
into great bowl then they mix 1t with lemonade and
I'LL Ii with lade into wine. glasses. Beerpunch, IL
pears, and nothing more or less TINS way Of with
between the Warehouses and Mr. Richard swiveler
Did your ever taste beer - said Dick had sip Of
things cTed Mr. sWiveer She neT tasted lit
can't DO tasted in sip" For than century the
liberty he enjoys TO his extraordinary consumption
OF beef and beer occult relation these
articles OF susenance and constitutional freedom, has
never been properly explained, and perhaps will
but that IL really exists, know from several OF
matte and other literature. We hardly imagine the
somew hat absemous Spaniard converted into "A sound
politician by udiciOus OF the beverage which has
elected many Members Of Parliament but Ii beer will
help Don Whiskerandos to freedom let him swg and not
fastdiOusly sip!
OF paper collars Gn an emergency we have
had personal experience, but cannot undertake
estimate the precise value OF paper shirt although it
would be small enough, we fancy, in Midsummer, and
very likely to resolve itself into its primitive pulp
where between the shoulders However that rage
defTauding the washerwoman, which may DO set down
OF the nineteenth century paper shirts
are likely to have, as we'll as paper cOunterpanes
tablecloths, curtains, &c Ingenious people In England
out OF WOOL slk skins, hemp iute and cotton max
10 the manufacture OF oil the articles above named
Should IL be found possible to work old news
papers into the fabric, who knows nut
that unreconstructed Rebels may clOthe themselves
with THE TRIBUNE OransmogTiied) as with garment,
and experience thereby the most sanatve and cOnstu
tonal effects Whether We shall 40 calling paper
shirts " linen" AS have long called cotton
Imagination is enormous, and fall naturally into
figures Of speech We cannot OF course be expected
look kindly upon any invention calculated To diminish
paper stock and thus, also 10 diminish the profits Of
this newspaper. but expect very 10 hear that
somebody has made an excellent printing paper out OF
old boots beg nobody to cloth instead Of paper
account The must be advancing In material
comforts when rags anu tattes have become scarce
and Rreslo9s e9lnmedity. t