New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13
GENERAL NOTES.

The DanriHe Tribune has long been one OF
the brightest and most outspOken Republican news
papers in Kentucky and its senior Editor the Kew JOIN
W. Zimmerman. applicant for the Pension Agency
OF Kentucky and is said 70 be likely 70 get IT,
A bill has been introduced in the Illinois
Legislature which IS enough to mako all the romancers
IN the world rise in arms nothing more nor less
than measure to prohibit eopements Details as to It's
provisions at hand and no description u gwen OF
the circumstances and personal characteristics Of the
prosaic legislator VINO introduced it but the common
opinion will undoubtedly be tnat man WHO wOnld
father such not fit 20 father anything more
human and interesting
A redoubtable English cook, the chef of a
London club tired OF hearing the world say that
no one but Ere Gilman prepare q decent NEAL has
Issued challenge all cooks Of Paris for an inter
national competition He boasts that for past he
has serving dinners the club Of which he
is an than be anywhere else in the
world. As epicures now look At the question: cArry
Goals Newcastle would be an altogether natural pro
ceednR in comparison with sending cooks to Paris Tha
bold EuGlshman may have accomplished extraordinary
ieats and II he has the world will generally cOnceda
that they all the more remarkable from the Tact ha
he Is Engllshm2n One swallow does NOT make
summer and one cook can't make the gastronOmie
reputation Of a nation.
Durango, Col, rejOices in the possession Of
a real piano. Nomlnally, Mrs. @. NJ. Williams is the
owner of the instrument, but t is the only one in
the town every citizen feels that ne has proprietary
interest in It, From Denver to Bear Creek the piano
by RAIL- but beyond that point the Journey was ac-
compshed by means of wagon and mule team. Where
the road winds over the summit Of a bouldercovered
mountain the wagon gave lurch, and mules, vehicle
piano and all rolled down into o gulch. The case was
broken open. but the instrument was unln1ured, and
eventually it was dragged into Durango in triumph
The value of this story lies IN the prophetic application
Of H. To-day there Is only one plano ID DURANGO OUT
there win probably De five hundred, 70 say
nothing OF a dozen 0rchestras and operahouse III
q where the centre OF population moves west
ward daily 40 feet between sunrise and sunset IL Is
important chronicle these little incidents promptly
1t is proposed to establish in Denver, COL,
next September permanent exhibition OF ores and all
the implements OF mining. Prominent persons through
out the country interest in the project,
and the organization has been completed effective
basis. The Exposition Company, whose members Will
secure no personal profit the undertaking, has
secured forty acres land ard viii erect substantial
building costing $3.50 900. considerable proportion OF
which has been already subscribed This building will
probably peted for the opening Of the exhib
On designed the permanent home OF an extern
sive and varied colscon of specimens and machinery
Mr. Clarence King has promised TO loan one set OF
specimens from tplcaoe geological collection which
IA now being made under his direction 1t s INTENDED
that this exhibition shall display every natural fact and
every artificial process known to mining enRneers IL
will be distinctly national IN It's character but collections
machinery Illustrations rreatises from abroad will
he welcomed This broad hed 70 cover ana II "a not
expected that completeness can De attained AZ tue
outset; but the plan IS practical and affords ample
foundation for extensive and ussful supersirucure