New-York tribune., 1879-08-29
GENERAL NOTES.

A monthly magazine very popular among
EnGlishwomen IS The Young Ladies Journal pleasant
combination OF fiction, fashion, poetry needlework
household instruction and interesting miscellany, all
neatly illustrated. An American edition is now issued
by the international News Company beginning with tho
September number II is accompanied BY handsome
fashion plates and patterns and is full Of much enter
tanning ana useful mstter.
The number Of imprudent persons who have
been killed the Franco-Prussan trying 10
empty the German shells that have been found unex
poded In the fields round Paris Is Extraordinary. At st.
Denis fortnight ago a charcoal dealer. old Of
sixtyeigh who had earned celebrity in the neigh
borhOOd by his collection Of German Shells was trying
10 empty another when 1t exploded and blew him and
h shop to pieces The remnants his body wefo found
scattered in all directions similar accident IS also
ported from the Arsenal OF Belfort whore one artillery
man was killed and five wounded.
OF medical novelties there is no end. One
Dr.. Christian not satisfied with any existing PathIes
haproposed in the principal German and Swiss jour.
mails something which he regards as better than water
cure mllk-cure whey-eure grape-eure, Wis Night
Air-Cure. "Open your Windows" says DE- Christian,
aud allow the coo spirits of the night TO enter your
chamber and 10 sweeten and calm your dreams" some
time ago Miss nightingale adyanced the theory TIM.
night absolutely harmless to the sick but Dr.
Christian further and declares that II Will make
them well. lie must be doctor IN small practice.
According 10 a summary i-sned 10y Mar
sees firm the aspect foreign cFo.s represented
year. WI have az least the want IN 1873.
AIgersWIll be obliged TO import. Itaiy-Bad harvest
SPAIN detlct. Switzerland Belgium, Ger.
mauy--Very Indifferent crop. Russia and 1urkey-The
crops began TO look satisfactory; now they are below
the average These countries will at the utmost be
able 10 send half the wheat they did last year. Hungary
eSil just be able TO suffice for her own wants. Eng
land will import eight or ten million heetores more
than last year.
Tompkins Square, with its green grass,
-keD Is nd ok
people enjoying the fresh air presents the widest pOss
BILE contrast the barren, dusty aud forsaken waste
which il was less than year ago. The money expended
upon VIII be returned in more ways than one TO the
city treasury. Besides the reduced deathrste IN thd
vicinity it can but exercise beneficial effect upon the
moral nature Of the residents who enjoy BY ththei
a change from the contemplation Of the walls OF then
dwellings, the familiar sights Of dirty streets and back
areas Here they something OF nature, albeit aTt
fetal under restraint, and forget Tor time the
round Of daily duties. The necessity OF more
such breathnspaces IN the crowded regions o THIS cry
q painfully apparent There - talk or a new PARK on
the East SIDE further down town block above Grand
st. the East River, IS the proposed site, Whereon
there are now no buildings OF value.
The elephant IS going round and the band
IS beginning play in the exchange meDagere. Three
years ago child buried in cemetery near Milford
and rocking-horse placed beside the grave. The
lot was miniature lake in which several White
swans disported Soon after the nermcnt one Of the
swans mounted the lot, and has since kept con
stant watch the grave OF the child scarcely leaV
ing The mound even TO eat. Any one who attempts
near approach greeted with the birds shr cries and
preparations for attack. The swans mate en-
deav0red for some time induce her companion to re-
turn to the take, but without success and eventually
died OF grief Hundreds OF people have visited
the cemetery to witness the singular con
duct Of this self-stationed sentinel.......In Aus
tralla It was rabbits-.h India II Is rats. In the
Deccan these troublesome creatures are occasioning
serious ALARM and q " Rat Committee" has been ap
pointed consider the best way Of destroying them.
Rewards are be offered for dead rats In Australia
the rUiuOus rabbit partially suppressed by
blocking up all the holes which could be found; and
the correspondent of Bombay newspaper suggests
the plan should be tried with the Indian rats, which
overspread the country like Ocusts destroy the crops
thoroughly, and almost difficult 20 keep down.
An Old ander conceived violent affection for Eng,
hsh unatic who was allowed % about al will not
beng bad enough for asylum. Wherever the old man
went the gander would 20, walking few yards m adj
vance, Kissing ut all ANIMALS they met, though warn,
ing them off. When the man rested. the gaBder would
lie beside him and ut night time 50 persistent
in its demand 10 remain near lis master. tnat
compliance with its cacke deemed eXpedient The
poor bud however persisted too often, and fell
martyr o It's remarkable Affection it being killed 70 puI
an end to lis CamOrs.