New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The net profit Of the Electrical Exhibition
at Paris amounting to about $4,000 is to b. expended
in erecting laboratory for experiments IN electricity
to be attached to the general post and telegraph Office
The young son of a locomotive engineer
who bad committed fault for which he expected
be punished. his fathers train rolling thu
sazburg station threw himself upon the track and
cut 10 pieces before his fathers eyes.
The assistant ent0mologist of the Department
of Agriculture desires THE TRIBUNE inform its read
many Of whom have applied 70 the Department for
slkwOrm eggs, that this years supply has been
hausted and no more can be distributed
1t is believed that more oats, wheat and corn
have been planted In Georgia this thar in any
previous year since the Georgia has given her
Southern neghbOrs than useful lesson ia enter
prise and ndeps ndence, but essential TO the
agriculture.
The special messenger who accompanies all
bullion sent from the Assay Office in this city to the Mint
in Philadelphia after safely delivering S5,OOO0OO worth
OF gold bricks last Friday, remarked that he not
afraid being shot stabbed 10 DEATH but sometimes
it occurred to him he sat in the express caf that
railroad accident would make it very unpleasant for
him. The by which he is surrounded might be
easily instrument Of death b. shock dis
lodging few OF the twO-hundredpound boxes in which
tine bricks are carried.
This morning Mr.. Cushing and his Zuni
Chiefs accompanied by Mayor Green the City Council
harbor the shore of Deer Island where the
sacred ceremony of taking water from the Atlantic viii
be performed the strange people who have come so
far to accomplish it. At the spot Mr.. Cushing viii
be initiated into the secret order Of the Zuns.
Whether not the prOiane eyes or the Mayor ana Cy
Council will be permitted to behold the celebration Of
these rites the Boston papers omit to mention.
Mrs Ernest Morris, who has just returned
from Brazil where she spent the winter In explorations
with her husband has rather poor opinion Of the peo
~. Ela nd
the inane creatures. insipid as the fruits
which flourish around them one circumstance which
specially attracted her notice that everybody, no
matter how poor, had n sewing machine Dir. Morilo
expects to return next August September with col
lection which will make naturasts open their eyes wde
HIS wife enjoyed Ter experiences Dut prefers |" Foa
ut home in the future
The advance guard of the severeSt snow
storm in that region for many years reached Bode,
Cal, March g. aud for Ave days kept up series Of
brief assaults. the sixth day the main body Of the
storm arrived, and there tremendous attack all
along the line. Twenyfour hours later the town looked
like Siberian post station the streets were deserted
and the shops closed and the butchers had nothing
to do for people thought more sensible to stay indoors
and be hungry than TO venture ont into such tempest
OF course, ii thirsty, that was another matter
and several drinking saloons welcomed their most faith
Iul customers.
4 Philadelphia reporter has recently made
tour OF the shops in that city where modern timber IL
turned into antique furniture for the benefit OF persons
who long 10 possess something 10 Indicate that they have
had ancestors One OF the dealers said to him conf
dentiay The next thing VIII be old family portraits
There's man somewhere ia this city who has been to
Europe and bought up. in unkshOps and other places
LOT OF old with heads on them He got two OF
three clever young to dress them and copy them
and make them up into SETS thus Knight In armor,
fifteenth century In ruff, sixteenth century;
youth "a a cavalier or Puritan seventeenth century;
Pilgrim Father, eighteenth century; MIR Brown, Oh
Sprucest nineteenth century; set complete In har0-
niCus frames say 900 Cheap aud an excellent idea,
aud sure take. Cali again"