New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-01
GENERAL NOTES.

No fewer than a thousand young women re-
Gently congregated around the stage entrance 10
Drury Lane Theatre in response to advertisement
that the management wanted one hundred grs,"yo
well made and pretty" for the forthcoming pautomime
They were admitted in squads and the rejected applI-
caus as they emerged upon the street were greeted
| with Cerisiye cries by the multitude without.
Since the Shah of Persia applied to the
| Russian Government for dr instructors for his army
the Persian Embassy at St. Petersburg has been beseged
with applications from Russian officers DESTROYS Of pro-
ceedng to Teheran. aforementioned DOmontovitch
the head Of the existing military mission in Persia,
ceyes a salary OF $1,000 year. besides other allow.
ances His eight subordnates also well paid. Asids
from the emouments offers the Persian service pop
ular account OF the chance for active service which
holds out
At Economy, Penn, the home Of that once
large and active community the HafmOnlsts' founded
by Father Rapp, about hundred old and women
still lnger OF them the brink Of the grave. Tie
business affairs Of the society have always been well
managed, and it's accumulated wealth is enormous
in the ne ghborhOUd Of Sl0,0O0O00 is said. To
cent visitors inquiry the final disposition of this
vast property an old white haired replied that he
did not doubt the state OF Pennsylvania would gladly
settle the societys affairs and take the assets for its
trouble
A correspondent of German newspaper who
visited Mecca long reports that the authorities,
probably under European pressure at last aroused
TO the belief that Allah will not work special miracle
prevent filth from producing It's usual effects,
though be the Holy City which the Of its opera
ons Hereafter quarantine of ten days is to be i'm.
posed upon the pous travellers who from all parts
OF Arabia whether they have made the pilgrimage by
land or water. The correspondent adds that this
me has produced much IN Jedda, where IL is likely
TO cause a commercial panic,
The ridiculous speculation in Confederate
bonds which probably reached its climax last week. has
not appeared especially ridiculous the fortunate per
sons who have successfully rummaged IN old trunks and
closets for musy relics OF the lost few days
ago an Atlanta gentleman received 1870 in honest money
for hundred thousand dollars of the bonds which no
discovered in his garrett His satisfaction some
what diminished, day or two afterward, when tho
price rose to 50 thousand. After ALL the young lady
who appeared not long ago at masked ball in dress
made of thousand dollar bonds was ather expensiyely
clad and the Atlanta man who receut used large sup
ply wall paper now walks through ms house with
melancholy Visage.
Professor Campbell, of the Presbyterian Col
ege Montreal, believes that he has found the key the
Hittc inscriptions, and has sent the results OF his in
yestgations the Society OF Biblical Archaeology The
most striking and important feature OF this work is the
identity established by Professor Campbell, he be-
lieyes between the Aztecs and the Hitttes He con-
cludcs OF his discovery in The Montreal W.T.
ness as follows II is interesting TO know that
great part ancient history Ii is also gratifying 10
the Azecs evoutlonsm in philoOgy and ethnOlogy VIII
receive its death blow"