New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-10
GENERAL NOTES.

After the degrees were conferred at the recent
Commend ment OF BowdOin College, Brunswick. Mo- the
chaplain member OF the Board OF Directors in n part
ing prayer thanked God for His goodness and wisdom in
that he might be chosen President OF that excellent nst
tuition The clergyman Is an evident believer in divine
election.
These are tho days of multitudinous por-
traure Everybody is photographed, from infants in
arms TO oetogenarians Those who Will not face the
camera the painters easel are wonderful exceptions
to pretty general rule But we TSsd d0 ne%s5spGr
has invincDle repugnance 10 being portrayed ana
that even when John BRIGHT wanted MI sewsrts coun,
and women are governed by totally dissmllar taste
and considerable portion of their daytime In tho
chair of the accomplished operator.
Stealing yacht is rather heavy piece Of
larceny, but one T. T. Query carried oG Mr.. Guilds
yacht Pet from squantum, Mass going to sea therein
solitary and alone captain mate. and all hands. He
proved such miserable navigator that he was soon
Y an n IL coSsa6e and now he ia safely moored
in JAN But what strikes one IL tho versatility OF this
a-sded rogue for it turns out that he has been figuring
in Boston as phrenologist and pahologist We have
told OF odd enough rascas but this Is the very rst
scientific gent have ever hcard VI addicted 10 steal
ing yachts.
That ever stern Chief of Police should be
made Cupids gobetween, and the emissary OF signing
lovers But he who rules the consables of Kansas City
has received a letter from Miss Julia - OF Leaven-
worth Johnny lBascombc," che writes, "is in your
old father" " am" adds Julia, like heap or Other
girls and like TO be courted." The aectiOnate deWOl-
see ncloses her photograph, which the Chief II 10 de
liver to Johnny Bascombe, who is also to he informed
that his maiden vii stick to him, father or no iather.
Here is evidently a asse Of Spirit and Paterfamilas
may as well bcstOw the paternal saucon, and make
virtue or necessity.
At the reunion Of the 9th Connecticut Vol
uneers I'm NewHaven the other day, Gen. Butler sent
letter excnsing his absence and said therein this pleas
ant and notable thing about regiment known through
out the Eastern Southern departments as one or the
very best In the services pay them the best compl
pNt that can be paid to soldier when say that having
canned them for months in Laayette-square, IN the
very heart the most fashionable part OF the city OF
New Orleans their good conduct had so commenced
itself 10 the inhabitants that when the exigencle OF the
service required the 9th to be sent esewhefc fcceNcu
peiOn OF all the citizens living around That SQUARE
asking that they might be retained because Of tier gen
tlenany and proper conduct" The General adds, sig
n1cantly "FOr regiment encaIpeu III thaJ ci'y, ho
higher commentator can be gwen
An establishment Of much value in every
town would be shops like that OF the Association for the
Sale of Work by Ladies of Limited Means in London IL
receives fancy and plain work Of every kind which ed
Gated women invariably do better than mere senp
stresses or workingwomen and sells 1t at fair proh
Ladies who have leisure and single pretty ART such ~
rretwork uont lace or atng, send their wares to be
sold aud receive orders without annoying puDhclty f
irons also desiring curious or useful Work leave tnS
orders knowing that expert may De iounn TOT se
out commission. The trouble Win such sti
tution In this country that they charge twice as ucn
ms ordinary shops do for the same work. whe ey ar
Obliged to compete with them for patronage, Iapot
and NcedewOrl Exchange, where work could DC uohe ~
rates would Useful. The wonehs pO
Itical and panthropical societies here nave Deen De
sieged open such rooms, but have overlooked me i
d. raucc OF the project II shop were opened now, 80
~ Ia offer facilities for doing Fall sewing wOud eNo
many woman a chance to lay by something Tor "hicr