New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Inc sphere or JOURNALISM - NiNtiiAE CNti1
day. 4 Sow-Orleans newspaper Is now receiving de-
posits paying interest tue rate OF per cent per
ann Im and exercising al The functions Of savings
bank.
A Philadelphia working girl amused herself
Oh Friday By stoopIng piece % machinery and ale
lowing "a locI Of her luxufiant black hair 70 wind
around small vertical shaft. She did this twice and
was So well pleased With the result that she tied 70 do
IL again This time her hair go tightly wrapped
about curling that It could not be extricated
but from her cad. most OF the scalp going with
It and Considerable 81 the SKIN from forehead 10 oye
brOws.
There has been a strange suicide in tie Ci-
nea. The young and lovely Countess Vera K1scAe ea
suddenly disappeared from her palace IN the old Rus
sian tai only two days after her solemn lcrotll
TO Count lehman, which mad been celebrated n. les
tive ri ,cing upon unusually magnificent scale.
No one could imagine whittier she bad gone until Ter
steward received letter from her written 1t her cha
toau in the Cfimea, wherein she informed Dim tat
d" she going 10 battle N he river running through
her estate and should not alive from her lah'
also described the exact spot near winch her nody
would be found In the wafer Search made wa oil
possible promptudo and it resulted IN the discovery
OF the young Counfesss corpse sewn mp I'm large straw
sac and sunk in the river. The found
be the interior or the sack proving aJ Vera kosche
zen had osprIatey sewn heisei ~ n tHc sack Oh 'Ie
river bank and then east herself INTO the stream Ia
another letter. addressed to OF her uncies size gave
her FOR meloslng herself ia sack previously
TO drowning herself. her extreme fear of cfa"-sh and
wafer beetles.
NJ. Olivier, the most mercurill of the third
Napo cons Ministers, has published tue Rert Dc
France a foolish article the work and character %
Theirs. Among other accusations which De makes Is
thisi at Is ayagan 10 honor with the title OF Der-
OF the territory the who signed away te pos
session Of Metz and strasburg. The real berator VII
be the man who viii restore 10 n our two captive
cities" lie also brings AGAINST Theirs the charge that
BIZ made the paying OF the TO Germany oppres-
the poor and OF wealth 20 the stociJOb-
bling plnocracy who incense IFS memory. 10 mcR-
ton this accusation suices TO condemn the either
so infatuated or malicious to make One Of his
anecdotes Is pointed. "Oue day Theirs went 10 my
father N the Constituent Assembly and said: were
your friend Ledru-Rou. would make ptal speech
against the expeditionto Rome why don't you make
II yoursclff asked ms father much surprised. That
impossible he said; but II you like will give you my
ideas. aud you communicate them your friend
Upon this he furnished a number Of arguments against
the expedition which en- ploved by NJ LedrU-Rolha
q few days afterwards" The salt OF This auccd0ie lies
in the fact mat inter. was an ardent rartsn o The *
petition. and that te quest on. between Conserya-
tiyes a1d Radicals, was one OF vial Importance. the
right % kill the Rpublc 80 Italy, aud Ie Clerical rarity
threais Mug to Withdraw Us support from Louis Napoleon
unless he supported Tie Pope.
One of Hodges sons" is described in
The Standards sketches Of English country life. Hes
the youngest OF prudent farmer Of considerable
From the first lie was inclined to rake his eass
IN his armchair after bis substantial but plain dinner
with little about the markets the general dopes
sion. For much OF the land was on high ground and
dry, and the soil there benefited by the wet Al the
time sheep sold WELL and Harry's hocks were Largo
and noted So he sauntercd round with his gun. and
knocked over hare, and came comfortably home to
dinner, easy IN his mind. body and pocket. Harry
not man OF energy and intense concentrated purpose
like his father He could have built up fortune
but tie money being there, Harry was just the to
keep IT, He was constantly about on the place. and his
hV keeD he me far ura
money than his single arm could have done. Thus be
dwet In the lonely manor house, living proof Of the
wisdom OF his fathers sytem. Harry Is now looking
In his slow, complacent way for wife. Being forty
years OF age he is not in great hurry and not at all
Inclined TO make present Of hmsel 10 the rst prvv
face he meets lie does not like girl Of the period;
ne fears she would spend too much money. Nor, on
whose mind aud rerson have never risen above tho
cheese-tuo, win red hands. awkward gait loud voice
ana limited conversation He has read too much IN ais
quiet way aud observed too much IN his quIel also
ioi that; lie wants grl wen educated, but rot ABOVE
her station unanrctrd and Yet comely fond ot home
and nome duties. and vet not homey. And would %
well II she mad few hundreds ~ very small would
dO-iOr her dover
A New-Jersey reader sends these comments
on case which has already received attention these
columns Progress In the science OF the rernementof
cruelty advances one step There have been numerous
devices TO get rid OF ones wife The pistol the Knife
and tile whole catalogue Of poisons and anesheucs are
common instruments OF murder, but IL was left for
Jersey man Ia invent method OF deliverance lie
did II In this wise Living within few miles OF rren-
ton he started for that city with bis wife aud child
wagon, osenslby for ride. on the way he soppeda
"a tavern, leaving his wife IN the wagon. Coming ou
lie lighted cigar and threw the burning match down
on the seat behind bis wife, Pretty her clothes
took fire. In the meantime the wagon was moving
rapidly and the breeze famed the flame. Her flesh
began To burn at last and she screamed with fright aud
pain Her husband without making the slightest effort
10 smother the fire. compelled her 90 get out OF the
wagon and stand by the side OF the road while no re-
maintd by his borses bead forblddng her near
him for fear OF frightening his horse She was burning
TO death before his aud be doing nothing TO
help her. cartman passing them st the time inquired
why lie did not smother the tire. He replied that he
was afraid his horse would away. The cartman.
more humane than the husband, jumped down from his
cart and threw his coat around her. aud. after time,
succeeded IN partially smothsrlpg tho flames but not
until some parts OF tue woman's body were burned 10
crisp, and she had received her death wound She was
taken TO the hospital. Trenton where died few
hours later, having suffered the most excruciatin6