New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-17
GENER1L NOTES.

At an evening party in q physicians house
at Waterbury, Conn, the hand Of burglar thrust
through the mosquito netting after the silver on the
sdetable, but servant eDtering the frightened
him Afterward the doctor caught the fellow 10
his eel ar as he was trying to get out OF window
Figures are bewildering. Ferdinand De Les
seps is quite certain whether the Panama Canal Will
cost $4,000 900 or Sl60, 100000; and the Chicago
papers confess themselves equally the dark TO
whether their elevated road to S2ff167 mile
or that amount the whole twenty miles contemplated
But probably both the canal and the hghhyer viii be
bonded for twice their cost before work Is begun.
No more kisses will be thrown to the winds
As the trains tundIe along the eastern division Of the
New-York Lake Erie and Western Railroad. surerln
tendent Hill has issued order prohibiting brskemen
on trains from flirting with young women along the
line Of the road said the order issued on the
complaint OF an County farmer, who sent the
SuDerintendent letter aileglng that 'he oraAe"en
threw kisses TO his pretty daughter
Chicago, too raises a midsummer cutlery for
more water. Sue already has pumps which are capa-
HE OF furnishing 105 100000 gallons day, and which
actua do furnish 60,0000O0 or something Ike lao
gallons for every man, woman aud child in the city, ana
still the demand for water rises to storm about
the ears the authorities IL Is discovered that
than one-thrd OF the water received Is wasted
without being put any at all; that the present
available capacity or the pumping-works mas Deen
reached that che daily consumption per head
of consumers rapidly increasing, having doubled IN
eight wears; and that water-meters would prevent
wastage aud make the present works sufficient for all
needs Upon the discovery that the city nearly as
much water as New-York which nearly four times
as much experts say. needed Chicago has expert
mented slightly with the wHter-meter system which IL
employed in Providence and Worcester and the concH
sion IS reached that its adoption world save money
both 10 consumers aud tue city. MeaDume the waste
and the elan or on, and the announcement Is made
that the pumpin cannot be built IN time TO give
relief.
MIR. Burnside's resolution in relation to the
Panama Canal has drawn out leader from Gambeitas
journal The Repu6lique Frdneaise contends that tue
Senator entirely the wrong. II urges that French
men are not hostile Monroe Doctrine. and thai
is quite natural that America should belong TO the
Amerlcans but maintains that certain perso IN the
United States are disposed to make singular abuse OF
principle which is, all political one and which
has nothing with economical and industrial mat
ters Nobody, it argues, Will prevent American
capitalists taking many shares IN the Pan
ama Canal-shou.d 1t ever be made-as will give them
the preponderatng power IN the Managing Board; nut
it does not regard this for prohibiting Euro
pean capitalists venturing In an affair the issue OF
which is far from safe certain 1t cannot understand
I'm what way the cutting through OF the Panama lstn
mus which would be OF special service to American
commerce. is hostile manifestation against the United
States merely because the work VIII DC done WIN .ht
assistance Europe II insists that the undertaking
prOposed NJ de Lesscps Is entirely Tree from All ON
cal connections; European Power WILL as Govern
ment give either penny OF man toward It's comple
ZION All that tho future company will demand IRON
the states OF the whole w0rd-from those OF America
as from those OF Europe-will be formal engagement
to consider the canal as absolutely neutral