New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The full text of the ukase providing for 4
new forced loan that the Bank Of Russia Is CON-
PEELED lend TO all subscribers. pledge C certificates
bonds 80 per OF the price, while 1t IS not allowed
to charge than per cent per sDnum. In plain
English 80 per cent OF what the public Will not pay for
the Bank but the Bank for its risk Is gwen the
security members Of the public aud Is also allowed
to charge interest to them The arrangement plainly
a temporary device 10 tide pressing difficulty All
the efforts OF the Government TO float fore gn loan
have failed, and II walt longer for runds s
obliged TO have TO It's subjects. But the plan
SHOWS that 1t viii get no gold or silver, ana 10 makes
no preteDce OF reducing the amount OF paper money
In faci the loan In Its ultimate result another Issue o
bank notes.
In Berlin police court not long ago a SER
girl accused by her mistress Of gross negl
gence and disobedence in discharge OF her dunes
When the judge asked the plaintiff. simply but re-
spectably-dressed lady, her name, she proudly drew
herself up and replied, 81 am by BIRTH princess Of
Zanzibar Her declaration, at first dlscredited proved
10 be perfectly true. She niece OF the relgHing
Sultan OF Zanzibar whose dspeasure she aroused by
secret alliance with Mr. Ruee, native Of Hamburg
who had made her acquaintance during his stay the
coast OF East Africa. The Princes, VINO became os
tranged from her family account Of her marriage
with Christian, followed Der husband 10 Germany
where she had however the misfortune soon 70 be LETT
a WIDOW. sac attempted reconciliation with her uncle
his visit to London. but her enceayOrs sgnally failed.
the Sultan refusing to her On Mrs. Rueles
return TO Germany some Influential friends of her late
nuSD1nd .1oo up tr oSsf su ,l ~ DID, uOlen,
her small yearly allowance. She IS now NYBg IN Der
lin ana gaining her livelihood by giving lessons IN her
mother tongue those consular officials aud travellers
intent on proceeding to East Africa.
Ex-Governor DIngley, at the public recep-
ton with which he honOred at Augusta, Me- last
week. upon his return from Europe. endeayOred 20
vince has neighbOrs that American needs TO 90
abroad to appreciate how great triumph awaits bis
own country the Among other things he said:
" was walking in Oxford-5L, London, and CHANGED TO
glance into a window Of store where cotton goods
were sold What did see there sheetngs labelled,
Wamsutta Mills, Ncw-Dcdford, and 'Androscoggm
Mills. Lewiston II had had tune. should doubtless
have found sheetngs from every cotton mill IN Lewis
ton and Auburn stepped in to fDd what was
asked for both the English and the American sheetugs
on The counter The salesman gave the same price Tor
each asked him which were the better talthoUsh tue
difference manifest) lie looked at me a moment
and said. suppose this 1.-THE American) Is the better
piece Of goods. There's good deal OF clay in tho
other travelling the in Ireland, and as
usual America was the subject 81 conversation. 1
heard man say The difficulty Is. We have been clay.
ing our goods too much, wnle these Americans have
sending them % China and other markc and are cut
ting as ont These little things 60 to sho" that Amer
lea mus, be Eng.and's most f0rmdao.e eomPeutyr IN
the manufacture OF cOtton and many other KINDS oi
goods. Even IN Birmingham 50" American locks "a
window Eycry where, heard illusions 10 on. WONDER
tul progress"
An Imperial funeral in China is very poor
show. Foreigners are not permitted to witness the
proceedings, but when the remains Of the Emperor and
the Empress transferred aJe IN April to their hus
resting place ut the Eastern Tombs, stranger con-
tryed to peep through a hole about the size al half
crown cut IN curtain. In letter 10 The Celestial LB-
Dre he declares that there is no travelling circus IN Eu
rope that would present hdudsOmer appearance IN
proce ssiOn through a country town tran does the fu-
neral cor,ege OF emperor in PekinG brstng though
il may with princes, mobiles, empTesses aud prin
cesses, nothing OF the presence Of the
reguing Emperor himself With the solitary exception
Of few gay dresses there absolutely nothing 10
please the eye; and 1t impossible, while contem-
plating the understood, ngrJomed ponies, tho strag-
Cling riders the sorry string OK gagewagons, and
the common ugly little wooden occupied by the
princes and Processes dragged along the
road, 5vo.d eXcalmins. Is tins all, about which 30
much uss j, made, such and mystery kept upP
One man would be dressed in brown purple another
in blue handsomely embroidered; third, perhaps, In
brilliant silver gray, looking from distance almost
ana tncy all troJtei or cancred or struggled
along according To pace each preferred. Inen
came anOt detachment OF the Guard state; ana
hen Heterogeneous collection of mandarlns gorgeous
IN every TINT aud baton ana pcae0cks fraihtr,
amb az marally along their scfasgy ikcpt PONIES.
The EmpreSses bolt uprlgAt looking straight before
them. Inry IN .ddle-aged, Nel!-preoerYed women,
with hard stolid faces ana expression HbcI sBg-
gess idea Of cod rigdy OF purpose. The pruci-
little EmpeiOrs some hat
projecting forehead AMI pointed chin