New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-18
GENERAL NOTES.

During the last week of June not q single
fatal case of smallpox registered in London This
was better record than any previous week had peen
a lie to furnish since November, 1879.
The recent strike of the London cabmen has
naturally led to various estimates of the daily earnings
NJ metropolitan cabs The lowest OF these is about
sAs 600 and some authorities think that 100000 would
not be too large an estimate
An Illuminated programme just issued an
nounces that Cincinnati will open It's tenth industrial
exposition on September g. The exhibits VIII be
classified in eight departments, as follows: ~ Ma
chinery; (2 minerals metals, railroad supplies, hard
ware stoves and heating apparatus; 90 tobacco,
liouors provisions cereals etc; az household furniture
pottery and ornaments; 90 textiles. clothing, etc. 90
scientific and educational 90 me arts 90 hortoui
The world generally looks to the western
mart Of this country for superative maves of all kinds
and An body hearing that somewhere the habitsbe
globe in midsummer haistones had fallen OF sufficient
SIZE to destroy utterly potatoes in the ground would
naturally attribute the phenomenon either to the
it is from switzerland that tDs extraordinary desruc
ton Is reported
An old brick building is being dismantled in
Phade pha which to he ordinary eye presents no fe
lures worthy especial attention, but at which old po.
lcemen gaze with interest II stands Firthst below
South and has exits Twenty-Five years
ago it was known the police OF all the large elites in
the country The Bugle "a resort OF pckpockets,
cut.throats and all who intent foul deeds Its
chief for villains lay in its three exits, afford
ing an easy escape when the pursuers not I'M
usually wary "The Bugle" and several adjoining
buildings are to be replaced by large commercial
structure
The verdict of English critics is that Eng
llsh cooking, a rule, Is very bad This fact lends
specia value and interest the efforts Of tbs ancient
aud honorable Cooks Company OF London TO train girls
in the art of preparing beautiful and paatabe food.
For several years past this company has been In the
habit OF selecting girls from the various city ward
schools and paying the cost Of their instruction in
practical cookery National school established for
this purpose south Kensington. recent competi-
tive examination furnished satisfactory proof OF the
good results expected from this experiment The
dishes TO be prepared selected by ballot that
susplcOns culinary examining migh enter into the
display But In spite of the inevitable accident OF one
girl getting another's specially, the dinners all
that The most fastdi0us could desire.
The famous Rosburghe Blackletter Club,
which took ito the bibliomanao duke OF that
ilk used to hold annual dinner and OF those great
banquets OF the memorable was that eaten In
1929 at which Earl Spencer presided On that occa-
sion Monsieur Gron, famous restanrateur near Johh
Murrays in Albemarle ST., with whom the club dined,
produced some wine which he ayeired had come nom
the cellars Of the wine merchant Of Louis XII Not Fas'
fed with this feat he placed before the company three
Gagons of most delicious which had come from the
sonbiaco monastery and which, II was proved had lain