New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Ths tltcllicence with which the English
Journals generally discuss American politics renders
lapse like this in The PaH Mall gazette all the more no
tceabe: Judge Davis was candidate for the Presi,
Dental nomination IN the DIihoc!auc i for, "
ward NJ. Horace Greeley as Gen. Grants competitor
The importation of American beef has stimu-
lated ingenuity OF the English butchers They are
buying up all the old WORKOUT bulls ana emaciated
matrouy cows and labelling them when dressed Real
American beef not frozen The purchaser at once re-
solves e,chew American beef for the future ana goes
back 10 British beef al the Old prices, when no oiten
really gets American beef.
The Messrs Roberts Bros, the well-knOwn
Boston publishers nave adopted method of getting even
with the critics which the newspapers VIII Thoroughly
approve. They fasen some unfavorabe mention III
seadng newspaper address to the editor an elaborate
reply. IA which they Moor him completely Dy holuns ny
anultGde OF favorable notices, and thus nave IL P
with him III his advertising columns III Is hoole
ias1lon, and Roberts Bros are wise IN ther Schoion
May their shadows never grow less!
French miracles are heavy tax upon hu-
man ciedulity Marie b.. who has always Deeh very
good and very SICK left native village, ARE. where
she was known Sainte Are, and made pilgrimage 10
the shrine Of Lourdes She had been suffering from an
lnourable Illness for seven years on returning y" we
village she had relapse and died. Al tne houI vi
Duilal while the solemn mass was pelng en-
Tie church. strange noise was heard inside inc conn
The no wTenched of, and 10. Marie was alive 6he
was taken home and during the next few days recovered
rapidly.
The mines of Laurium were worked by the
snoent GreeKs 800 but their processes we're
very crude The immense beds of refuse which they LEFT
behind them contained considerable silver, which has
been extracted by improved methods OF mining. After
the refuse had been carried the yellow peoples
sprsng up and blossomed the level which had been
cleared A German scientist afrms that this peculiar
species-G aucium-was described by Pliuy ana dos
eOrides but had disappeared from tie earth ana was -
known 10 modern science until tile refuse AT lmuTuin,
under which the seed had been concealed Tor ioOo OF
1000 years, cleared away. The theory IL very
pretty one but Ia 10 he received very cautiously me
teods OF these poppes may have been 11O0 years DID,
but II Ia much probable that the natives have been
play ing sharp trick. The trade In mummy wheat was
quite active until ii SHOWN that Arab guides were
Imposing upon credulous travellers.
remarkable case of kleptomania in high
life came before the Paris police courts recently.
Madame Sophie Garianof Korewtcbensk, wife OF Rus
Gsn captain, was charged. In company with her
daughter girl OF H. with shopftDg. They were ar
rested the complaint Of several shopkeepers who bad
been robbed the apartment occupied by the prs
the missing smelling bottles card cases. and fans
were found The mother denied the charge OF theit.
The daughter said she who stole the arcIes ana on
being prompted her 10 do 50 she replied The
Holy Spirit" The father who Is SAID 70 De uisun-
ushedanember the Cars military STAN, was present
the trial having come expressly from 81 Petersburg
IL shown that Madame Korewitchenski possessed
fortune Of 81 900 year. The jury acquitted the child