New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-26

element Is now percoating through lawyers
stationery, al made clothing aud other pershahes n
Insurance are guessed at on the local page
Colonel Y. G.. lngcIsoll. who has Just re-
turned from New McNico brings back Pheasant recoilee
tions of that territory he wei may oF according to
his own account he and his partners in "a mining opera
ton have ".trick IL nch." "Yes." says the Colonel
"Wo have struck cxcee iiney rich mine ia fact ,sc
have struck several We all satisfied, and nothing
more need De said" III, lucky partners are Colonel
Grafton, H. j. Paine, :. b. i4idd, II b. Denman, Major
Frank He's, Colonel " g. Gillette. senator Plumb,
Major Hood. SIR. strohn AMI Plymaster Stevenson
In rrplv % question "a hs plans for the future
Copucl Iuxrr-oH says. intend, In The future, % 10
just as a"aYs have donc-iha H. The best can. lex
poet fouow aud then give ny ideas about rrigion and
politics, paf-pus and oirc-ho.dcrs- whether he mines
tuiu ont well orill'
With the approach OF hy-time a bald-headed
man 100 Milwaukee conceived the idea that u would ~
dpund 10 hi- physical ard spiritual welfare n ho coad
raise crop Of hair. He therefore repaired TO phy,.
elan. who obgingy wrote the following prescription:
Chloride Of sodium, ounce. aqua pura. = ounces;
shake we'll and rub on the scalp every morning The
bald man to drug store and had the prescription
put mp. paving ~ for small bottle 81 the mixture lie
offered the opinion that the price was rather hsh but the
druggist assured him that aqua pura ~ tho
most penetrating dru I'm the market, ard that the var
in Peru had chloride of sodium mp fabulous az
urc The mixture wac taken home Gnd used with such
gratifying results that when the bald ~ for
another bottle hc threw down 81 without wincing "Ob
We won't charge sou anything Tor IT," said the clerk
ho d not sell the orr e1na supply ." its only salt md
wn,r you know. salt H. only Two cents pound. and
j. cheap thia wear" Oh. Then seen that the
Iu-ii,I ugiar il no match fora -wnllcd AnglosaHon
In hr t"IuhuS OF u eye ~ waS torn o -redr and cast
to the four winds II hragcn. Al l.ngth. however the
inlt hcia! man WIS hrbcd With box Of cigar not 20
hrrat thc druggist ami no one knows how the iacs gOt
abroad
fngland's new arm0rcd ram P0lyphemus re-
gently launched al the Chatham Dock yard i- unique
implement 81 naval warfare. No other vessel Of the
Kind ever constructed or even designed, and TIA
piobunle that similar vessel viii Dee constructed
again. II IS eccentric experiment which may never
Doe repeated. Tho Polyphcmus carries guns and can
ncNerhr lifted to carry any. Hor weapons powerful
ram and whitehead torpclo,- both Of which she II de-
syn,d 90 with much cunning aud deadly effect The
ram, which forms the boW although 70 can be removed
40 wib i- twelve feet long and is submerged Nh.p he
vessel anoai TO Dee capable Of striking mot iron-
c,al- Of u''rl construction well below their aruor-
plating Tnr torpedo httings. which form tine other
lighting feature " the yos-c can he used In all dec
tnu- VIII equal efficiency. The polgphrmus j. cigar
shaped. rud submerged except in the centre whefc
coui,.l deck -iruouuted by slight supcr-iricturc.
r- above The water Her length j. 20 feet breadth
goo ;r.- arl placement 2.GiO tons. Engine oi 900
lor--uoarr. via prpprl her n The fa'" oi seventeen
-fiI,in. This lc-~ri m-i, Of "" ST. in i''r-
ftu rttruf Doe regarded 90 an experiment ana even
-.llp-iur -ufrr--. could NOT pruFu+e % %
f in- h,iug lhcIy To- rupri~gir al other hinl- "
lighting ships. bat only useful adjunct ~ ease u
war
II is proposed 10 celebrate the nineteenth
centenary OF Virgil whic occur. in l--2aud at toe same
time rer,1Iike the debt which mankind owes 10 the
Eon.h Church for the preservation II the Latin ca-scs
h,a conprt for prizes Offered hy the italian period
iD I,,, for thc he-t poem written IN %" Language
and urr, of YifEl 60 celebrate tne Ponthcaie ~ L"o
NIII Tap pUt,s arc offered. one gold media. and
,nu. nl t best poem printed al the cXI cn-c 81 the Ii
rrr'H of th, Falut thr ohcra silver medal add copies
a. i, second h,ri poem Zach ole or poem must con-
tan ut lD-t 200 hrNWetcr- Tho prizes are open for
competition by Catholic Iltiui-'s Of any country. The
i.,. a l Dee xix distinguished Latnirts chosen rom
members az tEr poti'il soricc- tine Arcadia ihe IT,
b,rua aud lmmaculat" Conception. two jnier- rom
,l,h The judges and The director II the FnT1p are *
oluIrd from the privilege of competing The manu-
scripts i,-f Dee IN before The eqd " The yrar 10
Nul.ci-rrur Luigi Tupcpluectorofi he inprioAm"ito
ping lf-4rhcd 90 each manuscript and sealed letter
containing doe name and adlr of the author uu-i ac
CONN DIS ,a.h porm " is proposed that tr nal,s ~
the to r-pf- gaining the prize shall Do puh-hrd ~
a.l tft- Journal. tAr 81 of March, l~-, ne ann
trf-rt ir tDr"iafunn f Leo III, uud tAr 'hihpA
mon OBJ letters ~ a nations shall seek an audience 81
. Tf. Fnfh,r the Nlrriisu fcntrnails september
- l---, for the purpose of presenting then W"fhs