New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-07
GENERAL NOTES.

Five real live American Indians are now
taking views afoot iu Paris. They TALL powerful
men, with regular features They appear 10 the tribal
costume of the Far West which is scant consisting
of beads here aud there aud cOlored feathers
in their back hair.
The equality of the sexes has been officially
recognized at Paris in composition of jury which
VIII decide the merits OF the mustard Of various ma
tons. The Mustard Congress will consist Of twelYo
gentlemen and twelve ladies, the suggestion having
been made that mems palates ytiated by smoking
and that women are lkeiy 10 nave nicer apptVca""
OF condiments.
The director of theatre in small town
in wesphalin recently adopted Ingenious method OF
attracting public attention. AT the bottom of The play
bill he announced that he combined dentistry with the
atrca management, and that all purchasers OF stalls
would be entitled receive from him free dental con-
sultation on the following morning. No ausiOn was
maze 70 what Americans studying the language at
German theatre would term the JaW-breakers IN the
text.
Near Kieff there is monastery Of the Rus
sian Church Several students while walking with their
professor discovered the body OF girl of thirteen hang
ing to tree They succeeded cutting the rope and
applying restOratives before life extinct but they
were interrupted their humane work by the monks OF
the institution who declared that the girl had been put
20 death because she was possessed OF demon. ile
story goes that the Guild belonged 20 an hOn0faDe
family, and that the monks had attempted 10 muueI
her after vi their number had subjected her 70 pru
treatment
A British tourist has had legal bout with
Paris barber The pivotal point OF the contention was
a charge for haT-cuttDg and shampoOing. The barber
thinking that his person Of consequences
charged him As francs The EugshmaD paid the money
under protest and appealed to police magistrate Inc
barber sustained the original claim on the ground thas
he had used set of brushes, and opened seVern
Jars of ponatum and washes In honor Of his customer
and accordingly had charged HIM for the u ysus
the brushes and lars. although negeetlug 70 Yen ita
he could have all these articles II nc CHOSE ~
them away. The tourist offered 10 pay the DaIoes
francs, ana the magistrate gave Judgment ior 'nA'
amount
To shoot oneself with turpentine is GER
taniy a new idea In suicide. Theodore Resner tooA
dinner with his family In Rochester last Saturday anu
then went into the front room Of the house In 10"
minutes his wife heard noise like the explosion
cap She went INTO the room and found her husband
living on the floor with gun close by, from the muzIe
OF which smoke was rising. An examination lea 70 eo
belief that the gun had been charged with powder anu
wad and quantity OF turpentine then poured into INC
barrel after which the unfortunateEman placed sns
uzzle In his mouth and exploded the powder driving
the whole charge down his throat The Only eAtotua'
injury visible was slight dscOoratlOn on tne upper w
b1t his tongue and arynx rightfuy laceraieo "a
was not a strikingly successful operation. lot ~ wy
not die until five hours after the tarpentlpe was he
Dir. Gladstone has that troublesome tnorn
in the aesh--a meddesome cousin This person y '"'