New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-13
GENERAL NOTES.

Telegrapbing from Cologne, a sweet-scented
spot for Imperial scandal, correspondent OF The
Standard OndODb insinuates that the selection Of Gen
era Meiko "a virtual Dictator OF Russia Is not
accountable might be imagined as he is the natu-
raj son Of the Gar, his mother being an Armenian
Ono of the most remarkable features of the
scene presented chapel In Knock the Irish LOur
des Is the collection Of discarded crutches and walking
sticks alleged TO have been eft behind by people who
stated that they had been cured OF ameness Of one kind
or another. There were about dozen crntches and
three or dozen sticks, which had been LETT evil
dences OF the cures effected.
That there Is to be TO peace in Europe The
North German Gazette mainteins to the last It
tinues replying It's critics AT home and abroad and
in effect uphOlds Its first propositions that, while
Germany Is eIninenty peaceoving aud AYERS TO dis
turbng Der DeghDOrs there are among those neghbors
some who arc of the same disposition The Gazette
insists upon It that Is in sight" and that military
movements In Russia have warlike meaning hostile
10 Germany If tie Panslavists to triumph. It
asserts, the dissolution Of the AustrO-Hungarlan
Monarchy must follow, and the policy o. Prince BIS
msrck which has been sanctioned by Germany, IL 10
Intervene TO prevent that end This warike journal u
known to be generally inspired from the Imperial
ChancelOrs once
A worthy couple in NorristOwn have been
wonderfully blessed either By an active Providence or
an imaginative reporter. The husband is now IN his
eightytDird year. bet remarkably active His sight
remained good rather longer than is the case Win most
old mep but at length failed with all the phenomena
usual in advancing life and for sixteen years be was
Obliged 10 use glasses At length he found great DIM
Guilty In obtaining spectacles TO suit hun They seemed
to hinder rather than help his sight, and, to his own
surprise the power OF his eyes returning For
several years he discarded glasses altogether ana Is
now able TO read the finest print used in daily newspa-
Ders with perfect ease His wife is In her seventy
seventh year about she usual her teeth began
to ra and she finally lost them all In the Summer OK
1873 she began to De troubled with pain IN thc upper
law aud soon full third set OK teefn made tbeir ap-
pearance They grew the usual SIZE anu nave since
rem ned hrm in good condition, put DO new teeth
appeared in the lower Jaw.
When the little elephant was born In the
Philadelphia circus on "Wednesday the other elephants
threw up their trunks and danced around as far as
their chains let them and altogether raised snch
a hubbub that the mother became frantic. She picked
I'D the baby with her trunk and threw II about twenty
yards across the stable 1t fell rear a stove Then
Hebe broke her chains with terrific plunge, ana ioE
lowed after the little one She tore down the railing
that was around the and gave the stove itself
blow that demolished the pipe. But about TINS ume
Stuart Craven trainer arrived. The Waterman had
seut for him 10 pOst-haste when the baby Was Dorn;
Craven came Just In time for under ms dlreenoh ana
through the influence OF his voice on Hebe, she was qu
eted ana secured with chains again The other SIX ere
phants had become calm egain. The ltte eiepnsn1S
measured IS inches In height, and weighed just ZlSi2
mounds wher born Her trunk IS rather stumpy Dut III
other re- poets she is perfectly developed