New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-11
GENERAL NOTES.

The farmers of Maine ought to put up
monument in honor OF the caterpars devastated
their apple orchards few years ago for time
the trees have regularly borne IN what elsewhere
of years" This years crop OF apples in Maine
NOUS the quality superb, and the farmers getting
- pdrct AT their own dOOrs owing 10 the scarcity
! everywhere else.
| y burglar entered the Palace OF the DOges
in Venice about two weeks ago. He had made his way
door far from the Bridge Of Signs to the Sec
ond story OF the palace, and cropping along sill for SONS
distance, had effected entrance into the Hall II
Bronzes, from which he had removed valuable at
treasures He left behind him Jimmy" dark
lantern, and some Wal paper with which tho
hole in the wall through which he had broken. few
days atterward young Ddlmatan, who represented
himself to he student was arrested at small inn In
MS room was found roll Of wall paper Of the same pai-
ana the stolen treasures He tpn,d oar 4, he an Oh
offender and well known 10 the police.
A recent Parliamentary return shows the
cost Of the several colonies OF the Empire the British
Exchequer between sG9!7o aud IsT9'sO The Eet x
peuditure during that period for civil services
s2,2-5, $40; and for military services e264O6 ls9.
In I-79-sO the net total fer army purposes was
s64l3,2iS exclusive Of $50 6i6, the amount by wbirl
the receipts from Ceyou exceeded the expenditure TIE
allowed for military during the year mem
toned Gibraltar 1887 1876 Malta. 1891. 600 c..
prus, s7iO2O; Mauritius, e4TOOl; Bermull
slS2.327; St. Helena, sl35O1; Hong Kong, $780, SOD;
South Africa s4s42,29l Jamaica, s72,7Go Bahamas.
s7.G2f; Honduras, slO,3l2 West Indies. RlO4G22:
Nova scotia, SII7 l92 West Coast of Africa, si2J4G:
straits settlements, sIs,5OO; and Western Australia,
slIlH.
The new FOntaine' locomotive which was
sent from Philadelphia to Altoona to be tested by hs
Pennsylvania Railroad has stood satisfactory trial
Experts declare that the damage the tracks greater
than the economy in time, and that. while upon per-
fecty straight road the locomotive might make spleH
did performance, is adapted the grades ani
curves of the Pennsylvania Road An officer OF the
pany adds Now. for instance, take engine II
the kind known as long legged loco. No TO- hitch on
ten and start her or Away she goes. swinging
around and climbing mountain Sides and giving
the speed that the builder calculated in his model
doubt II the Fontaine engine could make kind Of
line up mountain side With ear. and should feel
considerably alarmed in a swing around behind
the machine You rest assured that such style
OF engine VIII mover be adopted this road, and 10
not think viii DO wanted in the West for could nos
run against the heavy winds they have roads out
there"
Persons who have followed the details OF
the recent important discoveries Thebes will
Der that one the murrmes did not readily yield Itself
to Identification, aud that doubt seemed likely exist
forever whether IL that OF Rameses H. Rameses
XII Professor Maspero favored the latter conclusion.
pointing out his memoir addressed to the Orentass
Congress at Berlin In September that the very nc work
manshp. the unkeness OF the outer efigy and other
of the mummy indicated mmistak
ably the twentieth dynasty. Since that time Professor
Maspero has removed the outer wrappings from tho,
mummy and found it swathed In its original bandages
and on its breast inscription showing Rameses
H., named The Great, and formally registering tho
circumstances of its removal TO the vault at Dayr ia.
haree The inscription goes to say that the ancient
collin had been destroyed and consequently replaced
1t the time of removal by coin Of the date ant
Of the twentieth dynasty Hence the mis-
ahg character Oh the photography ana the unkeness
Df the outer ehigy.