New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-21
GENERAL NOTES.

| TMore than A,OO0'dOral crowns were heaped
around GAmbcttas coffin In the Palais Bourbon, and
writer IN Figaro estimates their value at 100000.
Pnr and It's cnyons pi oduccd them all natural well
IA artificial IL is reckoned that the daily sale OF natural
flowers I'm Paris realizes about $4,000 The flowers
most I'm fashion ut present the gardena, which sells
M francs ench flower; the lily OF the valley, worth o
rnncs the pOt the queen rose ana the purple rose tho
spanish carnaon and the violet or the latter large
number from NIECE nut they have not the perfume
or those grown around Paris The cameu at one tune
so much priced is now quite out Of fashion.
A young man by the name of Murphy
living at the East End OF London went home the other
nlyht and instead OF finding warm welcome and hot
suppcr he found his mother lying dead the floor
with her head firmly fixed IN tin saucepan. She
I'm louor when her left her and the medical evil
dence went to show that she had pitched forward upon
tho floor and driven her head into the saucepan
uneny dicd suiOcaton. since the dawn OF creation
the King Of Terrors has welded an Infinite variety OF
weapons but pro lhnJ ncFcF pCloIo COhIIOutou MS
victim with n saucepan
The Ncw-York State Hatchery Mt Gale
donna has now large supply OF the fry OF salmon trout,
brook trout and California trout ana Will have for
distribution mature black bass Oswcgo bass. rock bass
waleycd pike bull-h6ads and yellow perch. Mr.. Seth
Green that all persons desiring FISH tor the pur
nose OF stocking public waters In this state should APP
y nj once Il IA necessary" he adds, for us 10 have
close time for receiving applications and the time ex
pres March /. Waters suitable for brook. salmon trout
and California trout should receive quantity each year.
or the supply must diminish I'm proportion the drain
on them 70 keep lakes and streams welstockcd il is
necessary that the old ones caught and killed OF
supply OF young should be maturing 70 MI the vacancy,
the the farmer keeps up hi supply OF chickens.
sheep. with the mature FISH above mentioned. II the
already contain them there need OF putting
In with proper protection they Will keep their
own supply" Mr.. Green may be addressed at ROches
An interesting and important experiment
been going for several years at the Abbey OF the
Trc Fontanc In the Roman Campagna the direction
OF the Tmp7st monks its purpose being to determine
whether or not cultivation OF the soil would result in
purifying the poisonous atmosphere OF the Cam
pagn The results thus far have been most satisfao
tory. At first the monks obliged to live within the
city walls during the bad but since the ground
came under cultivation and above all since the EUcdlyp
tbs gobuls was planted large scale I'm the neighbour
hood the Abbey has been Inhabited all the year round
and the feyers from which its inmates still sometimes
suffer are mild character and rarely fatal whereas at
the outset something like fourth OF the little community
succumbed every year The health OF the $50 cOnycts en-
plOyed on the works IA Satisfactory the average annual
deaths from malaria not exceeding three The Govern
ment has lately made very large grant OF land IN per-
petulty to rappsts who have already planted on IL
no fewer than 100000 eucalyptus trees which are all
doing well.
The ghastlest example of red-ape thus far
recorded is reported from the Russian town OF samara
A local Government clerk, named Tichenow, who had
been drinking heavily for some days, utterly collapsed
the night before New Years. and to all appearance
died 1t is not the Russian custom to keep bodya long
above ground and burial can't take place during
holidays the relatives OF the dead decided to have
the funeral forthwith When the body arrived at the
church the priest noticed that there moisture the
forehead and suggested that II might be perspration
but tho relatives quickly explained that nothing
moro than melted snow which had fallen there while
they were on their way to. the CHURCH This simple