New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-22
GENERAL NOTES.

A paragraph writer on The Boston Post re-
arms the statement that necessity mother of in
yention. Sometimes he says, =" we want the door be-
tween our office the next to 1t closed and the
editor in that of feels II we get up aud shut
it. that we are getting hghtOned and exclusive, and
wounds him And don't like to do that so we have
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One hundred years ago Count de Grasse
commanded French 0eet that rendered America such
valuable aid al Yorktown Eighteen years afterward.
two of his daughters, refugees from Santo Domingo
died Charleston s. c., and buried there in ST.
Mary's Churchyard. Their tombs have now been dec
Grated with arches OF evegreens flowers and the svey
Southern moss and Wednesday the cemetery gates we're
thrown open that the public might visit the spot and
tributes OF regard 10 the memory OF inc cucn VI INC
country's benefactor.
While the people of the United States are
enjoying an unusually mild and open fall in some parts
of Europe winter has earlier than for many years
past Especially is this the in the Alpine and some
other provinces Of Austria The Alps of the Tyrol OF
Syria and of Carintha, the hy districts OF Bohemia
and Gaica the Sudetes and the Carpathians are all
covered with snow Notwithstanding the constant sleet
and the prevailing low temperature, the Imperial huht-
ing party very successful ia its excursions
far often been impossible owing To the
frequent snOWstorms
The Boston Institute Fair rejOces in being
able TO exhibit what claimed to be the only existing
relic of the rebel privaeer Alabama the commences
miral semmes. 1t made board the privateer,
and is about 4 in width and feet in length, with
a white ground and a red jack. containing blue
with thirteen The high value placed upon IT by
its owner indicated by the fact that in order to
II for exhibition il obtain heavy in
surance appraisal OF $4,000 An empOye Of ths
institute Il specially detailed to guard and protect 1t
from injury
Centenarians in America must look to their
laures French papers report that there is living
at Lucy in the department of the SaOnectLore, OLD
woman who April 81, 1906 is in her hundred
and sixteenth year. and who complete possession OF
all her faculties She the daughter of one NJ. Pdau
who at his DEATH in 1897. a tenant of the Marqase
dAiguy. She has lived under the Governments OF LOUIS
XIV Louis XVI. the First Republic in all its phases the
First Empire, L0nis XVIII Charles X, Louis Philippe,
the Republic of lSi3 the Second Empire, and the Re
public OF to-day.
BY his return to San Francisco, last week,
King Kalalaua completed his tour around the world.
having spent about eight months the journey He
set from San Francisco February 8. for Japan
and China Thence he went 10 siam. through the Straits
settlements TO Calcutta, overland TO Bombay,
and them via Canal Cairo aud the Pyramids.
Crossing TO Europe he spent time Naples. Pom
pei and Rome. After audience with the Pope he
sailed for London and from there proceeded TO Brussels
Cologne Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon, and
returning to England Glasgow, Edinburgh and Queens
town. where he took passage TO NewYork In this
try he visited many places of interest including Wash
ingtOD Fortress Monroe and Lexington, Ky. Colonel
Judd who had charge OF the tour, That favorable
weather enjoy ed throughout. and not the slightest
accident or Inconvenience was suffered.