New-York tribune., 1882-02-18
GENERAL NOTES.

The annual report of the Manhattan Life
Insurance Company, OF this city, for its thrtysecond
year shows satisfactory state Of affairs for persons in
it. The disbursements have
millions The amount paid in death claims and endow
ments was 97466jJ. Ihe surplus Is more thah Two
millions.
The entire French coast is about to be lighted
by electricity which far back 1875 employed in
the lighthouses near IIayre Its now thought that the de-
veopmcn of the system warrants its general use on
the French FortytwO lighthouses 10 be- pro-
vided with electric lights and with steam trumpets for
OSslgnals AZ nIst cost or ahOGl cloOOouJ ana an AL
nual expenditure Of about $4,000 for maintenance
Notwithstanding in winter is becoming
and frequent in Switzerland and can be pros
ecufcd within reasonable limits, without danger
or discomfort ON January % two gentlemen from L-
cerne made the Mount Piaus and the sans
day the Righ ascendcd By more than one hundred
persons, who found the temperalure sarpri.insy m
the at Highi-stahel, and 40 in the shade.
The Prince Consort was one of the first TO
impress upon Engishmen the architectural and anti
quaran beauties of the Tower 0fLondon and since tlat
time various minor repairs and restorations have been
made. the great work OF all remains to be done
The Tower is still screened from the Thames by huge
warehouse built the War Department This is TO %
removed and then the wall aud the Lantern Tower
will be restored from careful drawings officially pre-
pared in accordance with the suggestions o some OF tho
chief authorities architecture and archaeology lt1
destined 10 produce an exact counterpart or the ancient
fortress and the total OF the restoration Is estimated
at ONLY about S32 600 IL understood that tue queen
cordially approves the contemplated WORK.
An old woman named Martha Agnes BoOthe
arrived in ST. the other day from Louisville, en-
route for Texas with black pipe and long knife, win
which she threatened to anyone who interercd with
her smoking She had no baggage whatever, no money
10 take her to Texas and nothing to do when she got
there but she said that had lived in Louisville long
enough and wanted change. The POI 9 anthorlfs
sent Der back to Louisville whence day two 0fter'
ward she was returned to St Louis This game OF bas
Iedora and shuttlecOck could not be kept up forever
and so she was ut on train for Texas 10 he thrown Of
nroaby AT the station. This seems 10 nc rhtntr
purer ainlscment for two civilized communities to in
dulge in, to say the least OF 1t.
Ten workingmen of Marsoilles dubbed To-
cether and bought number Of tickets in the Algerian
lottery one OF which drew the grand prize of 100000
Having convinced themselves that their luck was
genuine they went Paris collect the money ana thHrs
showed their good by taking drafts for $1,000
each payable at Marsces thus avoiding the danger VI
losing OF spending their easily acquired riches in the gay
capita which they quilted by the first train In Mar
sies their luck has been turned 20 good account by the
enterrsng propretOrs Of music halls and theatres 10
which they have been invited in order that the pubic
mi ,ht nav for the priviogs gazing upon them The
tnhacc9nists shop in which the " inning ticket "as
bni,,, has been ornamcnted with placard announcing
tho fact and altogether vast deal or pans mas p,cl
taken TO make a pcrniciOIs example alluTing