New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-28
GENERAL NOTES.

At the funeral of woman tie other day in
St Johns, NIB the pallbearers six women wear
| ing black dresses and white wells and gloves They
carried the collin from the house TO the hearse into and
| out of the church and lowered ii into the grave.
| The drOnth in northeastern New-York is a
serious matter to mll-owners some Of whom arc using
steam power for the first time IN twenty years. and TO
| thousands OF people whose wells have failed
before. In many spots the ground does not contain
moisture enough to freeze. over a siderable portion
Of western Vermont and northeastern Ncw-York," says
The TROY Press there has been nothing like soaking.
drcnching rain since early last summer and only from
two to four five days IN all told during that period
A performance of both parts OF GOethes
Faust recently given IN Mannheim, and the Ger
papers rightly describe 1t "A giant representa-
ton" if they refer 10 its length On the first day tho
performance began at ; o'clock In the afternoon AMI
ended 1885 o'clock and the second day lasted
! from 5 o'clock until go O'Clock the next morning
Aud nevertheless" says a local paper. the powerful
work and its successful representation held the audience
enchaned until the very close The spectators gave their
and sympathetic attention and app!auded from
/ act to act, yea from scene TO scene.
The Scilly Isles, which for some twenty years
sending London her earliest supplies of spring
vegetables, have of late gone In for very successful
flower farms and the raising OF valuable bulbs. Tho
islands leased from the Duchy OF Cornwall by Mr.
Smith DOrrien, whose prudence il Is entirely due that
they have become so valuable property The story
ment in love. Tresco Abbey, Mr. Dorrens seat, is an
exquisite marine residence where under the fostering
breezes Of the Guf Stream myrtes and geraniums flour
ish the year through When the lease expires he value
revenue has suffered OF late from bad times, but tho
from II ar least $50 900 wear more than his father
In the time George III. it had shamefuliy
against $4,000 now. out OF the moHey accuniula-
tons the Prince OF Wales bought sandringhain.
The Indian Mirror tells of some strange
and amusing curiosities of journalism which the native
press of that country furnishes Some time ago native
paper Of Ahnedabad published of its yell
low paper Its readers were at loss 20 account for tho
transformation when week afterward II came out on
dark green paper with an editorial note explaining
the reasOn which that their stock Of ordinary white
paper had been exhausted. Consequently the pro-
pretOr obliged to some cOOred paper which was
intended for wrappers Another native journal in Guze-
rat disappeared from the FOR two consecutive
weeks. on the third week it appeared with an apollo
getic note. stating that readers not served IN
consequence of the editors sister being Ill. 4 third
the editor had to proceed 10 BOMBAY witness IN
small court Lately the SnmShdr BdhddHr,
Of Amedabad. has hit upon the original idea Of printing
ITS first side heading and ALL on the fourth page IL his
carried out the singular programme consistently 10
read the paper you nave 10 begin from the emu ana
finish AT the beginning.
A letter in The Kansas City Journal
Grand Forks Dakota. gives the following details OF
the terrible death OF and her child near stump
Lake They were both very sick IN the miserable shaly
which they called home; and the husband, who sa
Russian named sanger thought 1t better for them
all leave and attempt TO reach the house OF neigh
Dor. half mile distant The fierce and binding storm
so benumbed and confused the husband nat he drove
aimlcssly around in circle for two hours His wife
had been calling upon him To hurry, she was
only deathy cold herself but feared for the thiny
clad baby, and at last she told her husband
that the child dead. They carried it for about
quarter of hour and then abandoned and the oxen
they hal been driving salinger used every means IN
his pos er TO keep his wife warm, taking every
ycstigc of clothing from the dead child aud wrapping ~
about her, but she became more and moro beuninDed
being unable to speak. and ut last falling insensble IN
the He chafed her hands and exhausted hnlseu
trying revive her, but finally, when there was no
longer any donDt Of her death he pushed and came
10 the neighbours house. His face hands and feet WeEs
horribly 1. Ost-bitten.