New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-28
GENERAL NOTES.

A hundred members of the English Para-
have signed the petition to the Prime Minister In
favor OF extending to the county franchise the
same terms as men,
Twenty thousand Cinnamon are to be brought
Brazil at a $40 head. They are TO be inden-
tured for five years aborers and will be paid 81
cents day out of which they will have TO feed and
c!othe themselves.
AT n recent dinner party in Paris the host pro-
vided novelty which may possibly become feature OF
dinner parties in this electric age. Beside each plato
was u telephone, which connected with "a distant
salon. where superb orchestra playing The guests
thus able, between tho to pass the time
pleasantly in listening good music instead OF making
obvious remarks about the weather.
For the last year and half the children of
the various Sunday.schoos of Trinity parish. Newark.
~ j. have been putting money a fund for pur-
chase OF chancel window for the church. The window
has Just placed position. and said to excite
general satisfaction. The artists John La Fargo and
Tiffany and the subject chosen Is the baptism
Jesus by John the Baptist after the original picture by
POussin.
Sir John Lubbock in The Nineteenth Centry
makes a statement which is hard to realize. Down TO
the 1924 the English Government gave TO the tax
payer nOtohed stick receipt. The old Exchequer
taes willow rods about five feet long which were
n0chcd AT certain intervals, each notch being under
stood to mean many pounds, shngs and pence, or
fractions thereof When The thus notche
the stick split part being kept by the payer
and the other by the Government Immense numbers
OF these old TALES slowed away the vaults OF
the old House OF Commons and II said that they were
probably the cause OF the fire which destrOyedu
Another piece of the true cross has
TO light, this time In Poiriers, France.
IL was sent TO noted saint some time
in tie sixth century by the Emperor Justin
from Constanunope. II is known to be genuine. be.
cause a copy OF tho Emperors letter saint is said
somewhere existence, besides which is sa d to
have been the means OF miraculous cures az various
times. Ii is however. totally different variety OF wood
from any OF the other pieces OF the cross which il
in itself my stenOus circumstance
FL Paso, the quaint old Mexican city. is
perhaps the best example in America of city governed
by the priesthood II is also the worst governed The
celebrated Santa Eualia mines, which are on it, out
skirts have always been owned by the Church and the
magnificent cathedral in the centre OF the Grand Plaza
built entirely by the income from these mines
More than three hundred million dol have been taken
out OF NJ; but the methods of extracting the precious
metal were 80 clumsy that the discarded Stag Of which
there are immense quantities, will yiell from SIS 10 s25
ton some enterprlsing Americans have bought up all
tbls sag ana Will resmet It.
Among the many great congresses and cele-
Dratons OF last week little meeting perhaps most
significant Of all, probably escaped notice IL was
training School These boys and girls for the most
part children OF the chiefs and head men Of the different
rlOes-in effect they hostages who keep the peace
ana form bond between their people and the whites
stronger than dozen treaties There 367 OF these
pupils ranging In age from ten TO twenty years Besides
common English education the boys being taught
trades or teamwork, and the girls instructed in sew
Nc aaa aousework. The masters Of the school give