New-York tribune., 1882-04-20
GENER1L NOTES.

a Paris athlete commonly known as the
"man steam gine" Is declared by the Paris papers to
have run thirteen and half miles In one honr on April
Q The best recorded performance Of this kind by an
English professional is about eleven and han miles, and
accepting ~ true the report of the Frenchmans feat
The London Globe lamens the loss OF Engands odtme
supremacy in every sport But perhaps The Globe drains
the cup Of gal needlessly The statement that hoty
conested record has been beaten by two miles taxes
creduitv and an American gentleman who has mastered
the subject Of athletic facts and auces declares That II
Is a ysi0O ica mp0ssiblty for any human being 10
run thirteen and a half miles IN an hour.
Great preparations are being made through
ought Portugal and In Brazil also, TO celebrate, on May
& the first centenary Of the Portuguese statesman
srbastiao Jose de Caryaho Mello Count Of Ooiras,
Marouess of Pomba and Minister during the reign Of
hs Majesty Dom JosephI The official paper, Dtdrto
do Gorero thus states the claims Of the Marques to
these centennial honOrs: Tho eminent statesman
found Portugal poor and indebted reformed her finances
and filed Golfers with gold he restored and protect
cd agriculture industry, and commerce. as philan-
throps he placed the InGans vassas OF the Portuguese
Crovn on a level with Europeans, and declared free
men all the slaves that trod the soil of the metropolis
he with hs indefaglbe energy end activity, out Of the
earthquakr of November 1888, caused Lisbon 70 arise
anew and claim to bc the most beautiful cities In
and Navy Will supply bronze for the construction OF
monument to the statesmans memory.
The death of Jesse James recalls the tate OF
another equally desperate bandit " Sam" Bass, who
made tho plains OF Western Texas the Of his
plos This noted robber for whose capture, deod
alive" n large SUN had been offered. was finally
trapped with comrale in the town OF Round Rock in
the summer OF 1879, and after short but bloody
struggle in which the sheriff Of Williamson County and
two of his deputies, well tho companion OF the OUT
law were left in the streets dead and dying, Bass himself
fell from his horse the outskirts OF the town, mortay
wounded by a ball from a Winchester rifle lie
buried with much "pomp and circunsanee in the
cemetery Mt Round Rock songs composed and
sung in his honor and his grave s even now often srewn
With flowers by sylnpnihizing Texans. His gang was
tro,on mn many OF hs partners IN going up into
Missouri aud Oinng Jese James Two OF thcIn, Frank
Carter and John Underwood, nave Inquired cOnsplcuOusy
in several recent train robberies
The Times Democrat, of New Orleans, draws
from the Mississippi floods the lesson that rice fumes In
the levees must be abolished and that the Legislature
,nust take this work IN hand "in opinion" says
that journal the danger and injury connected with
rice fumes have sufficiently demonstrated. These
fumes have caused nnumeribe croyasscs; they an
element OF weakness whore everything should be
rHced to strength They offer sort OF consideration
for the damage they threaten nlic and there Is not
the faintest justification for their existence. They
should be prohibited by the supreme law-madns author
iiy Of hc State and local governments should be held
responsble for their suppression. Those who are en-
eaged in rice planting can easily provide OF irr
eating their fields. steam pump OF sufficient capacity
purchased for $500 $500 and I'm cases where
there able this expense, group
OF neghbors could club together for the purpose one
thing is very certain--he riparian parishes and com
muuities in the subject overflow, cannot longer
afford have the eyces upon which they depend Tor
protection honeyoombed by rice fumea'