New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-18
GENERAL NOTES.

Among its other marvels, Washington Terri
tory boasts red snow which is found mixed with the
white. and is filed with countless insects.
The well-knOwn London brewers, Barclay,
Perkins Co.. said to six vast receptacles for
beer each one Of which twice large the famous
Heidelberg tun
San Francisco through the Western Union
Telegraph Company's lines and the Atlantic Cane, is
now in direct communication with Saigon, and all parts
of Cochin China The tariff is $29 rs from London and
so Sa as Gan f''"'-''' D'D''' '''' '"' '''' VI
The Rev. Phoebe A. Hannaford writes a let
ter 70 The Ne,o York Christian Leader EXPIRE ssng her
gratitude for editorial against freeoye, condemning
the conduct Of Mrs Pauna W Davis and insisting that
many of the leading suffrage advocates desire 10
keep their skirts entirely clear from the tant OF this
heresy.
The San Francisco Alta California is severe
the Magdalena Bay scheme, and, chroncling the
rival at Cape de Lucas OF the last OF the coonsts In
dlapdated condition, SAYS: Meantime the telegraph
informs us that the company is seeking to ndnce French
Communists TO that lively country. The French Gov
eminent was Infinitely more merciful-ony proposed to
send them to New-CaledOnia."
The last cosmetic English women have be-
gun 70 is from old recipe revived from Queen
Anne's time, namely cucumbers stepped in milk Venus
from the foam Of the sea- but modern beauty rises
majestic from curd hoops and eitucebeds with oatmeal
pasters Its face chloride its locke bismuth its
fingers to give pearly appearance steel band for
milk. Why 90 through 50 much 10 get ltlef
After sleep of % days, young lady in Pitts
burgh and very indignant with friends for
what she considered their unseemly wonder as the
length OF her nap Her peculiar appearance during the
seep had for time OccasiOned the belief that she was
dead fortunately her mother insisted retann the
So yyomn IaSv imagined that she had sleD bpt f
hours, and she related a fanciful dream.
The great tunnel through the Sierra Nevada
is 70 be miles long, 10 feet hh and 81 feet wide. Its
cost IS 10 be $l5OOOOO The contractor for the work.
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principal works in this country have been the
ton OF the famous San Francisco Dry Dock, blasted 10
ledge Of solid rock and the demonon OF Blossom Rock
San Francisco Bay, by submarine excavation and blast
ing The Sierra tunnel Will permit the passage OF the
Central Pacific Railroad track and q canal to supply
San Francisco with water from Lake Tahoe.
"A message from the sea" was picked up at
Ney.Bedford Mass recently, written from the City Of
Boston, and preserved in a bottle The paper with
ont date or name and written by German, the transla
DEtR PSEs6ss lie who snds this bottle possibly way
10 t S s 1s o ssI y Sb he Sgs dserst aaguae
They come ron The sinking mp Slg Of Boston " gI sIioi
The destructive force of grasshOpper visi-
tation Is indicated in note from settler in Dakota
who writes from Fort Berhold July 90: Everything
growing finely the farm until this morning. when at
about o'clock the grdsshoppers arrived and have very
nearly cleaned MS ont Our gardens are entirely ruined
Prom the oats may enough straw for the horses
but every thing in the gardens and in the fields OF the In
dians is totally consumed. The whole work OF the sea-
destroyed in less Ian eight hours, country
Oi $40 do not know how shall get through the
Winter. cola weather begins the first Of October and
last sIN D0Ehs Buffalo are very scarce and other
game is not very plenty"
Maine counts quarryinG one of her most pro-
0Ccye and prosperous industries. The granite qmTios
Westerley among the ccebra ted in the State
In this cut-out there T. an immense block weigh
ing 20 tuns, when quArcl and designed to
form massive basin 81 stone for the
Central Park II NoT-IOrk, at q cost Of $1,000.
Blocks for building purpose, m' mortal stones elaborate
columns, little blocks made from the waste Tor pave
NYf & 4 . b DE-
did -tHtulIy for public i4.N"t iu course Ui con
rtIu.tiJI 0u eyer, .dr FROM iA.e lnt4u ,Dnus The
ratntIal Ion tr Gtk -u.. monument, aul the Ante
tam column D, ai-o C"aluf from lt The granite rom
these beds A. said 20 bc Tue finest u ,he word,