New-York tribune., 1878-11-26
GEHER4L NOTES.

The low prices ut which the Massachusetts
savings banks are selling their real attracting
attention The Wnchendon Bank has Just sold twenty
wooden and ten brick dwelling houses at Chelsea Tor
S2U37j. 1hese houses ~ 1874 we're taxed lof 9ioVVo
The two and One-haf miles Of shafting and
the ten thousand bearings the machinery depa tnent
ol the Centennial Exposition oiled with Peases
engine and machinery oils, manufactured at Bunao.
These oils received high hOnors nc all the great exh9
lns I'm past years. and have JGst been awarded eod
medal at Paris.
A family in Gloucester Mass, mOuTns the
los, of goose the advanced age OF seventy years
but Is consoled by the survival of anothc goose known
10 he fny years old II there is bird IN Massachusetts
which may regard the approach OF THANKSGIVING Day
with perfect serenity IL must be this
fowl It might be killed and cooked, but 1t could not De
eaten.
N6trc Dame has lost an ornament which
was perhaps, her most conspicuous one FORTNIGHT
ago high winds swept Paris and OF the strongest
gusts blew away from spiro Of the church the gided
veotnercuck which surnouHted il. The dctbroned brd
/, nowhere to be found. Whether he plunged
aeadlong into the river, or was picked up
from the pavement unpatrOtic and storegiouS
redc7trian man knoweth not. Within The outer frame
OF tlat bird eOnuel ed heap OF mntea metal. lag
collection iHciJed every French piece o. money current
In France whether OF copper silver or goid IRON cen
time 60 hundr, Il frdac piece lteIe "tle In au ,
COINS o denomination or another bearing the faces
OF all the sOyereigns 0l Europe.
Female beauty has been agitated at Gold
n
there was 90 receive prize. committee ot judges was
appointod, which at last divided upon tae preen-
sious OF blonde and brunette. 1t was observed that
while the judges debating. the rival bellies cJed
each other in no sstcry way. Alas! they soon
were locked 10 deadly combat aud blaek Iair ana
yellow hair was flying in all directions For Gudrter OF
iOuU Was the combat coHlihued. iDeh t"V ,r @
nerpused aId afIed the lovely NiNShS, Nho were ~
personal beauty left Then the committee sterhy oht
ri.htrOUsy resolved tndt ltltr vas ehtIed 10 'ho
,au1 lkssiN vent a D,ylu
fr houli.
The turkey market is now regarded, by
houspkeepegs at least quite as inportant "a tho
stock market; for Thanksgiving Day Is at hand
and what would Thanksgiving Day he without
that excellent fowi The weather has Kept
the supply mited but to-day the great turkey trade VIII
begin with demand for choice birds great deal Oh
the happiness Thanksgiving Day depends upon dinner;
and AS the turkey has, however carefully cookeo Deen
known To turn out com pete Iiilue, uue rns, us
ike to Preparations iOr happness VIII 40 VIII VIII
20 visit the arkets This week. as the Glspay then VIII
bn very brilliant and appetizng. walk through them
Will Dc quite equal to some dinners, ana as ooo !uea
rs a reasonable nan can uesite'
At the rate matters have been going on for
six months past what VIII finally remain in Europe for
the average tourist to sect Has not the Strasbourg
clock in miniature and said TO be improvement on
the original Sht 10 doors! Are not Gothc
cathedrals building around usi And did not MT L. k'
Hendricks Of Carbondae, Penn come bravely forward
days at the utltariin problem How to provide cheap
storage for petroleum Little IL may fairly be said did
bs minds eve orsce that labors had anything TO do
with the romance and reuOwn OF another But now
that his work is finished 1t appears That lie has ouuoo
the unknown cooper who long ago bulded better tnn
be- knew in maSing the huge wlne eask OF HcneIosis
Mr. Hcndricks's is not Tor wine, 10 be sure but 10
L., say has friends, over ten times as iaIso % I'd
famous Heidelberg tank, being nIIy teet h uho ~
| twenty feet high.
The English girls IN the old country-houses
generation agonc the oldfashoned conservative oi
The Standard remembers them, had merry, genuine
| unaffected smile. When guest dropped IN uheA'
pecedly they clearly delighted TO see him. and not
I'm the least ashamed It, They showed an evident de-
sire 10 please without trace OF an 0irtere peiSee Ia
| we'll developed, in the height of good health. WIN
| boom np0n the cheek and with brilliant eyes, they
| we're irresstiby charming. But II was the merry
laugh that dwet long In the menOry-a lnugh hoh'
the heart in the OF youth They joined recv
In the conversations bat did not thrust themselves or
ward aud not hnt breahed OF those social scan
das which form the staple Of fashionable g's"p
They were well acquainted with household dues anu
| had not learned TO regard them as meniai AZ tao"
the mistress would suggest that tea was hardly sr0ns
enough for man, and that nip OF brandy nlgn' ia
prove IL and after the oldtIme ate-afternoon tea III
the girls would draw round the nre. and when pipes
were produced would ask the visitor TO smokes anu
| even II he declined on account OF the ladies' IL WAS
pheasant Ia he asked As the conversation ran on eaeh
of the girls canddly avowed her opinions upon suen
n,cs as were started slushing little when she was
asked TO give her and there indiyiduaiv
displayed zest and interest to the talk ihs
was not so many years ago; but now when one CANS
such ntryhouse, how different is tho recepeon'
The servant shows the visitor into drawing-room ur
nished the modern slyle and takes the name eas S
stairs. By-and-by the ladies enter ~ troa ~ s,err
bands: nature rgidly repressed; decoru S nsIi
| IN every aounce and trinminS toucn VI WV Wv