New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.

| A company has been formed in Vienna to
undertake general business Of washing windows 1t
ia likewise prepared orders for the scrubbing
Of house and vesbues and the cleansing OF mir
rors ana showcases aud doubtless FOR all kindred opera
tuns. Under proper guarantees such an undertaking
might be made prohtablein any large city.
The taste for frogs legs is now spreading
rapidly In this country, after long period OF compare
tive stagnation. one Of the largest dealers In the
country Mr. J. NJ. Beck OF Boston, has set hundred
expert frog catchers ut work In the England States
and estimates that the demand this summer will he
double that OF last year An experiment IN breeding
ably supply Of spawn will be sent over for that purpose
next month
A Brown student who was searching, few
days ago. FOR missing piece Of property In the disman
tied interior Of University Hail. noticed among the ruins
OF the chimney old document OF singular appearance
which curiosity led him to examine closely It is deed
TO six and half Of land, called tho Black Fields,
iu Mitcham sussex, England and is dated Lady Day.
March, 1851 Brown University founded ia Sussex.
England and subsequently removed 10 Rhode Island.
and II Is thought possible Unat the ancient parchment
which has ust been brought to ght be the original
deco the land which the college first built
The document will be placed in the hands Of Rhode
Island Historical Society for thorough examination.
With reference to the Duke of Cambridgc's
culogy British red coat and the "thln red hnc'
The National Ga-ete OF Berlin says: at would DO diff
cult TO dnd less valid defence OF the rcd For
fare with African savagcs and Asiatc barbanans this
red line may terrors; but should England ever
engage In h0stiltics with Continental enemy. she
would very make the experience that the red line
offers nr-yisiblc target 70 his firearms During the
wars Of former times, when firearms only effective
nj short range the question of the uniforms color had
little Importance. AT present however when infantry
ire is destructive at hundreds ut metres and that of ar
lery carries several Kilometres, II is OF great
est consequence whether tho enemy's lines are dis
tiuctly YisOle distance, whether they only
appear like an unduiaton Of the ground"
A pilgrimage to Lourdes, which is to leave
London on May 81 is being organized among the Roman
Catholics throughout the kingdom The leaders Of this
movement nearly allaymen. Tie Duke of Norfolk,
the Earl Of DenblSh, Lord Ralph Kerr and many ohcrs
or less well known are organizing the expedition
and statements Of what the journey cost by diff
ferent routes being put forth in the Catho-
lie papers IL supposed that fewer than $50 per-
will take part in the pilgrimage, and that, with the
exception of a few servants who will accompany them.
the pilgrims will all belong to the upper and upper mid
die classes Of Catholic society. The object OF
undertaking is said to DC that England may be freed
nom the troubles which threaten her with regard to Ire
land.
A dilapidated man walked into Pttsburg
shoestore few days ago and said that he desired to
make purchase. His need of a new outfit appar-
ent his coarse, sOed and ragged clothes and gen-
era Dir of decay forbade the supposon that he would
desire could pay for fine article But he contempt
uOusy rejected the clerks first offers and finally
copied an excellent pair OF handmade shoes When he
had nscerained the price he drew from bundle OF
various articles held together by bandanna handker
chief cigar box ana quietly opening IT, disclosed 10 the
clerks astonshed gaze about SIS 900 bills and coin.
After adrolt questioning he explained that he had
wandered away from his fathers farm many years
and had driied around the country without gathering
any moss until finally long ago. he struck rich
Western mine and had made a fortune, of which the
contents OF the cigar box only small part He
his home TO his parents and I'm order 10 make
their CONSERVATION and his amusement complete he
proposed to appear before them In poverty
guise and not divuge his real condition until he had
enjoyed their tears and welcome and sympathy. Then
intended l
up for thA old folks IN gorgeous STYLE and tho shoes
were for $50 In tho transformation scene