New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-09
GENERAL NOTES.

Fvonch dollar of a weight of 27.215
-,,,s end eoui talent IN value to The Almighty Dol
- me United States, IL no being issued from tn
.,,n psris Itis intended for erreularon Cochin
[,,s where the normal 5-frano pieces OF the Fronc
-. which are numinally exactly equal TO ia
$500 states dollar have suffered depreciation con
o,ence o. the general a in the vaiue OF silver, ana
go Srth in iaos, only Ala francs. or depreciation OF
i0pcr cent -.
=, AGING elothss BY WORKING th. tue man IN the
totbe. mounts heaveuward. Waterproof panisloous
Jacket are piece. To this Is fastened reser-
r made of oiled silk, aud stretching from shoulders 10
let To each arm is attached wing made OF silk.
,b stee rJs After tue mortal has esssyed the gbt
., bird aud high IN air. ne hoiss sail mast four
Seei long joiuted with ms back and irAnuar sa
,as 10 be regulated b, hts feet When tho san l.
- 49, me arms are mOuoalcss. ana the gentleman IN
tSs air oeoms along ike centre-boari yacht under
spsnk.n breeze
II appears that free cigars, of the very best
hnos no doubt. nave heretofore been among the per
,,,s,rs Of the Ministry at Madrid. These we're seut
sneelly from Cuba, and the Cuban Treasury paid LOT
,ben tue annual cost being S23OOO In gold Inc
r,lou,al Miuis has ca0ed message 10 the haNan"
,sstpo more are be forwarded, and Ministers VIII
hsrcafer pay for what they smoke, or they WIZ MOI
go AZ All Possibly other aud important r.
0uisiIups made upon Cuba Nv tue mother country wiz
~ ae I've aba ndone aud il will be discovered that tue
bcsf way of Keeping The faithful island aithidi
siwaSs. ia TO treat 1t a little less like mich cow
Mr.. Vanderbilt's proposition for eleyatlng
the tracks Of ths NewYork Central Railway mas oeeh
favorably received Rochester He offers TO raise 'hs
main track that there snail be no street CROSSINGS ~
the Grade between ,st Main-st. and the Erie Canal
nnsrstod that the term grade signifies the ee-
aton OF ne bottom OF the Of the track ana th"'
the bridges supporting the tracks VIII extehd nom ""o
20 three feet below the rails aud hat where the hEht
from the present grade the proposed ordSeS lhS
cent for ordinary wagon traffic IL must De lncreaeu DS
lowering toe grade of the streets The roAdoel wiz
consist OF earth emb4nkment win sue Slopes ~
earth or suitable retaining WALL as my M bdres vii
be constructed al all street crossings
The Spectator recognizes in Dean S6nleys
letter anent me late ex-Pilnce lnperias claims upon
the Hospitality Of Westminster Abbey the voice ol
Madame russaud Are not these" it asks, " rather
the principles on which popular collection OF wax
works should be made up than those according 10 "ch
the awful repository where Kings sleep where hhs
isAppeuded to every great Engishman's career ana
where human vanity rebuked and abashed sloud De
Aued9 The Dean is thinking OF visit ot mil opera
tyes or Cooks tourists The pubic interest attaching
10 the graves OF few wel-known Jockeys, OF scueTs
or even Of murderera bust OF Peace or
OF Katharine Webster, say-mght much surpass thai
felt III the monument of great statesman Oh poet IL
would be easy make the Abbey great cuoSlty-s9op'
nv admitting tue OF all WAC we're notorious Ia ne
Ii the business Of the Dean, as DC wen Knows 70
cater hOd4y-mdkers IL IA ais duty 10 see tat ho
scuptura maj the Abbey continues H. preach the
sermons Addison aud Goldsmith ana Jeremy lay
i h5a' 'O"''''1'' u OIL ~
Three mysterious prisoners are to be tired
by me supreme tribunal in ST. Petersburg THESE are
Olchiu. Weimar. and LOpOucIin. The hrst-n"meaI is
lawyer who entered on his profession aud obtained"
lucrative practice after the laws went into opera
tiop He was chosen member Of the Municipal CJun-
Gil and having been counsel for prisoners IN some i'm
portant political cases. became famous aud very pOpu-
lar He was arrested in the country, whittier lac hao
gone as usual spend the holidays while the courts arr
haTr an nf.lI led
Executive Committee Of the Revolutionary sOcia lists
his name having said. been found In list OF such
persons at the house Of DR.. Welmar. This Dr. WenaT
was brought in custody Of soldiers 70 gave CIV dence
at the trial Of SoOvief The pistol used by soloveh
when firing at the Emperor mas been Identified by
shopkeeper named Wenig purchased at his store by
Wemar who however, alleged that he had never seen
itbefore but had bought very similar TO II for one
OF M Patients, named SebastanOh 1t also alleged
that he was the of the swift horse used when
General Dreuteln vas shot at when General MeSehtSeh
was assassnated, and when Count hrapOthHe sue
said that the poison which SOOyleh had secreted and
taken in destroy himself after firing at tue I'm
peror was purchased the written certificate OF thls
Or. weimar. Oh Lopouchiue nothing Is known.
A French journalist, who has made special
study Of military affairs. recently described IN the
Chamber the shortcomings OF the system as 1t has been
reorganzed The fault, he said, lay in the fact
that wnle in Germany the recruiting regional"
that 10 u saw the recruits from given district were in
eorporaed in the corps stationed that district in
France the recruiting took place indiscrimnatey all
over the territory that the situated in given
district received recruits from morrill, SOUTH east and
west from every district, indeed save that in which it
was chartered. This he pointed OUT, gave Germany
great advantage France. Thus, when mohiliza-
ton became the reserves were called out In
Germany the OF the reserve joined the corps ID
which they had formerly served they met the officers
who had trained them, their old comrades who had
stuck to the army and therefore found themselves at
home Moreover. fact that their friends and towns
people served with them established emula ion. and
created an esprit De when could not possibly
exist among strangers accidentally brought together.
Another great drawback the weakness OF tue
effective fOrce peace footing In no other army r.
the rea number Of prlvaes so inadequate AS the war
Strength of company $50 men, 1t would he very
hard for the officers learn how 90 handle that mum
Der when they had only small squad OF twenty-nlne
men TO exercise themselves win.