New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-26
GENERAL NOTES.

The migratory birds of Canada are dali,
leaving their homes In large nun bers for A
winter quarters at the South and many OF them get ~
passage over Lake Ontario In the rigging Of tia I.h
ste0mers.
A curious charity is conducted by a German
| benevolent society which has large number 4,
branches in Northern Germany and the Rhenisb p,ov
| nces The society places in every cafe to whehn.
allowed access tray into which smokers drop the END.
Of their cigars which they have Oh before ligbn
them The tobacco thus collected Is sold and with Ina
proceeds clothes bought for poor children at Cbn.,
mas. The branches OF the society steadily increas
ing in number, and have, in fact doubled within the last
three years.
Prices have not declined in Italy in tia
ratio In which the paper currency has appreciated
and travellers who used to Jingle their English soyer
el,ns with the agreeable knowledge that they vera
worth twenty and half francs apiece In current
money are mourning the good Old d0ys Tie Italian
Government has been gr4 'uaily collecting bullion the
drain OF gold Is no longer source OF weakness and its
understood that ny next year an attempt VII be made
call in the paper money or al least considerable SHARE
OF It.
Inasnuch as it is twenty-One years since
Sumter fired on, war-horses that carried Their
through the Rebellion must be very scarce above
ground one Of the few survivors, belonging to Gen
era Sharpe. went TO the majority last week. and
buried in Kingston. He was large sorel nickraned
General sharpe was Colonel. He In the war non
beginning end and injured only once, and thea
slightly. General Sharpe comforted by the reflection
that the faithful animal has led placid ana happy life
for years past in tat pastures, aud that II there
horses heaven. Baby A" IS surely there.
The Iceland famine bubble, which no
doubt innoccntly blown 70 have been eGectu
ally prcked though too late TO prevent the dispatch Of
vessel loaded with food by benevolent people In Eng
land One of the most authoritative deniais is found
in letter to he London Times from Dr. NigussOn the
learned teacher OF Icelaudic at Oxford who quotes the
dcclara ton Of personal friend. living just where tbs
distress is said TO be greatest that there has been
famine at all Dr.. Viglusson suspects that the story Of
famine began with the kind-heurtc and npulsiye"
Inhabitants OF Copenhagen, who from the Minister for
Iceland downward have g not the slightest acquant-
aDce with the ceandc life or language One OF the
speakers at the Mansion House relief meeting pinned
his faith the wretcbed and starved faces which DO
saw in the country last June; but this Dr. ygfussOn
explains Is only the ordinary appearance OF his country
men 1t is furthermore in evidence that the people whC
mountain sheep good condition at the rate OF
week DR.. NigfussOn deeply regrets that msdfectel
charity should have done It's best " pauperLe Ills cOun
try.
Among the pathetic figures III the South
are the old plantation negroes whom the downfall Of
slavery left without homes of support at tine
Of life when they could do little or nOthingo help
themselves. All Atlanta gentleman is preparing to
raise fund for the establishment or home for these
aged relies of the past At Kept In slavery says The
AH0na C0nstitu ion, until they too old to adapt
themselves to the new order OF thngstured pennies
on the world when the old limbs too stiff and weak
for efficient work. without sons able willing TO sup
port them. supplemented, aiiectionate sincere-thee
is much in their pitabe condition to excite sympathy
They seldom beggars and still less seldom dshon-
With their hearts in the old plantation days few
wants and simple habits they prefer TO s in the sun
shine and suffer In the body, while feeding their souls
with day dreams. II * the affection and sympathy
that all people must feel Tor this shabby honest last
vanishing figure Of the Old plantation darcy, that
brings quite often applause nom those WAC
witness Mlt BGrOws Incompatible pcrsOnatiOn OF ODD
Black joe aud that has made Uncle Remus the tender
est and best beloved OF sOryecI>. Much OF tue moley
that goes to colleges for Young negroes ml-ut Wen 70
put In home for ancient ones, and he WI be uas
philanLrOpist who makes "a diversion IL this NEects-