New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-04
GENERAL NOTES.

The Grand Hotel, Paris, was purchased "a
fortnight agoior over 100000 francs.
They wouldn't permit her to marry the man
OF choice. those cruel parents mp In NewIampshrc
She was then pretty and lively eirl-in point OF fact u
blooming school Daam She declared that she would
longer teach the idea how 10 shoot Life be-
burden her. and also dressing and undressing
So she wrapped the drapey OF her couch around her.
and for two years she thus remained she dead
now, and repOses still more permanently IN mario Yer
bed. in which she does not require 50 much waiting
upon.
A French lass was mt school, and during a
thunderstorm the electric fluid FELL close her. For
momen. che seemed to SuffOcatns, but this sensation
soon passed of into 1T OF hiccaps These became 80
distressing that after three days her mother took her 10
the chdrens hospital in Paris for advice Tne surgeon
ordered her TO be taken to the operating theatre where
seeing the medical man standing at table covered
with aw flIOuking Instruments, aud SURROUNDED
by number VI assistants IN while aprons, the child be-
terrified that forgot her hiccups, aud she
was thus cured.
A French jewellers store i'll Barcelona was
recently robbed diamonds and other stones worth
about SSOOOOO fortnight ago the Marseilles police
noticed several rather seedy looking individuals going
from one jewellers shop TO another offering diamond
studded trnkets for SALE No time lost about their
arrest aud the wealth OF Goconda seemed contained
their persons On found pfelons stones the
value OF 800 francs, and waist belt holding nearly
vestments revealed jewels and money TO the value OF
III 200 francs. \ woman who mad also come from BA.-
ceiona, on had not dsemparked at aarseiles, wa
custody and found also 10 nave In her posses
sion unusual humber Of watches.
There has been q romantic wedding III He
highland August TO- Prince Henry X X. OF seuss.
landed on the Island VITA his betrothed. Madame Clio
tide I.osset, whose maiden name was Rolx. The
lady, VINO lost her first husband some time EXC. ha-
achieved reputation of notorety III Germany bold
rid m ircff
med by three female relatives and by her father NJ.
Roux. On the next morning Prince Henry and his be-
trothed before the magistrate that there WAS
lawful impedmep 10 their marriage and thercupon the
pair received from the of the island the
called Kings letter authorizing the marriage and In
the afternoon TIE wedding ceremony perio med at
church. The newly married couple passed the honey
moon the island, which was full OF visitors who HAD
come to enjoy sea-Dathing
A French master of impOsture, instead Of
assuming sham name and a bogus title, takes that
wellknown and wealthy landowner like the Baron &c
Maupas and to the length Of raising $4,000 Oh
the security The lender getting his
money goes the chateau Of the real Baron de Maupas
and to his dsmay finds gentleman whom he has
seen before. The real Baron convinces the money
lender that no one but himself has right % raise
money OH ns broad acres The sham Baron is then ar
rested He has meanwhile been living In nigh style aud
making mauy more Victims He has rented house Ia
the country and provided himself with horses and
suing "a writ against hun ne went and called on him.
aud actually prevailed on MS creditor not only TO
proceedings. but 10 lend MIN over 300 IN cash
A gorilla from the west coast of Africa is
now lodged the Crystal Palace, London. The chin
panzee and the orang-Outang have arms that enable
them. with slight stovp. TO touch the ground, while
the the gorilla Is not much out OF proportion to
a ongarmed human being. In the form or the hand
and fingers too it Is like these being much
shorter those OF the other two Most OF all It's
ia strikingly human, for 1t is small and beautifully
formed and instead Of thin leatbery flap utiug
ward is set well to the head 1t has also woll-forned
brow and its dark brown eyes arc lighted up with
expression to speak OF latent intelligence
In profile II has the exact resemblance to little Guinea
negro the blacklist OF blacks but looked AZ fufaced
the almost total absence Of nose. the Fat op nostr,s
the long and powerful jaws and the cavity which
forms tho mouth. rob u OF what is suggestive OF The
human face divine" When standing at its fu
height gorilla may be about two feet. bit II II lives
70 60 full grown 1t may attain from four to live feet