New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-05
GENERAL NOTES.

In Western Pennsylvania a church enter
tainment known the mum sociabe " Is taking the
place Of the tme-honored church fair As the I'M
pss NO S Us s S emn the lilo
About this season of the year many people
are asking what determines the date OF Easter
The answer is that rs the Of March, which Ten
nys0n calls I" the roaring moon Of dafods" The
old that Easter shall fall on the Sunday after the
full moon which comes after the vernal equinox That
brings Easter this year the 18th OF March In 1913
it fell on 22d OF March, the earliest date possible It
will fail upon that day gain Ia this or the following
century.
One of the many strange episodes of the re-
cent Western foods the finding Of an infant near
Louisville floating in cradle In the river. man who
ling around in search of wreckage the CRADLE
and rowing to 1t was surprised to find beautiful
infant about three months old gazing up the sky IN
and hsd not received
harm. It's parents have not yet been found
The Emperor of Austria intends to present
to the electric exhibition Vienna this year pavilion
arranged demonstrate the effects OF electric light
richly worked draperIes and embroidere According to
the plans already in progress this pavilion viii be Of
considerable dimensions and will be lructed In
style well suited for the purpose and richly decorated
with precious stus 1t will be at once very attractive
object IN the exhibition, and wi De arranged for ne
alternative application OF different systems OF electric
light.
The famous Walled Lake in the State OF
Iowa. miles Of Dubuque, has recently attracted
much attention It in the mds Of prairie land and is
two or three feet above the eartls surface 1t Is In
closed by wall Of stones in some places ten feet high,
fifteen feet wide the bottom and FIVE feet wide at the
top Tn. stones vary in weight from three tons to 100
pods There are no stones on surface of ground
within ten miles of the Lake. few years ago the ice
on the lake broke the wall in several places and the
farmers obliged 10 repair 1t to prevent lnundaon
A strange story comes from Columbus, ONO,
and is told by hotel clerk Not long ago gentleman
hotaI nd a.. q.
of Chicago short time after, H. G. Chamberlain regis
tered there again, this time from Dayton Then the
Chicago man called for the mail ad ressed to ms name
and received letters. Presently the Dayton MAJ
came up and wan eli the mail for that name The clerk
began to think trick being played and brought the
two gentlemen face face The one who hid taken the
oorespond-nee was Just beginning scratch his head
In per lex ty, two n the letters we're otaIy unlhe
neibr 10 nm being intended for the other man IL was
discovered thas both are trayellngagen,s Tor
raj machinery firms neither had never heard OF me
otner and both happened TO arrive at columbus ana N
the same h0te at the same Ilmt.
The city of Portland, Ore, which ten
years ago had population OF less than
1000 has to-day nearly three times that
number Washington Territory is also adj
yaneing with rapid strides Thirty years ago Puget
sounds first saw mill built To-day there are num-
erods towns In whieA M 200 ona cubt feet of
lumber 1ss2 we're e asm.sed at SPun
900 feet The mills are nearly all lighted oy eeetrciyi
forms OF Industry out OF the abundance OF
timber including cooperate and shipbuilding Among
recent settlers in favored regiOU are some or the
Russian Jewish mmgTa lts, and reports received from
their settlements good rOundfOr believing In sue
cessful issue to theft agricultural experiments
A Brooklyn invalid, VINO was forced to take
refuge in Florida ten years has not only
completely reganed his health but has also acquired BY
his Yankee enterprise com handing position In the
orange trade the ST. Johns River. Ths Is W. +.
Fuller OF Edgewater Grove. He has large packing.
house in which bis oranges well as those OF his
neghbors stored and regularly stop at his
wharf for fruit Of tue ,et shippers the
river HIS orange groves and residence are situated near
san MateO seven miles above Pia,ka and northern
tourists Invariably pronounce Edge "tne OF
the river" Toe weu elsewa her. On the
river are now covered with blossoms aud aD abundant
fruitag, 4, promised for next winter Besides tho
orange blossoms, tneIe century pant or very rare
species bursting ieto bloom at Edgewater ths season
aud exciting The admiration of visitors.