New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-11
GENERAL NOTES.

| A permit for the most expensive Office build
ing erected in Chicago has been taken out by
| Armour Kent and Bensey OF that city. Its ground
dimensions to be IA BY l52 feet it is to be twelve
| stories high, and to cost II 100000 unfuinished.
| The Lower Chamber of the Grand Duchy OF
Baden voted 900 gin the preserving
Heidelberg Castle. After that sum has been udiciOusy
expended will probably be possible TO determine with
degree OF accuracy what lines the OF preser
ought follow and what it Will cost Restors
ton not the programme fortunately but simply
| the perpeustion OF IA splendid ruin.
| man who eighty years ago was chris.
| tened Chailos Banlum, but who Is generally known
the travelling tinker lately passed through Kennebeo
Me-, on his way home TO Vermont. He supports himself
on two stout canes, mOccasins his feot aud
scantes clothing and the implements Of his
trade suspended from his neck. He Is said 10 bo rich,
aud be certainly has two sons VINO would be glad 70 give
him home but he prefers TO remain nomad To the END
OF his days.
The liberty of the press is something to dream
about realize the Polish provinces Of Ger
many For spesking-or prntng-his mind on political
topics the editor OF the Kr Pom has spent five months
already prison, and will remain there six months
longer and the editor OF the Dien Pom has been
demned to dursnce for more than eleven months The
editors of the Przgiad KOseeinR Weoponin and the
Goiec WetkopOisks in prison for terms OF three
months, fifteen months and two years respectively and
who are at liberty This, too Is in time OF pol ticsl
quiet The tyranny Of the Car could scarcely be worse
A citizen of Milwaukee, Mr.. Frederick Riet-
brock, Is the pOssessor OF turning with which
family tradition says that MaIullan l., OF Germany used
to divert his thoughts from his matrimonial couPlcs-
ons At all events machine very Old its pattern
and workmanship attest. The materials. moreover
are costly the OrnsnentsOn 50 elaborate that no
one whose livelihood depended upon its use ooud nave
afforded to own IT, Mrs RetbrooR remein es once see
ing the machine IN operation. about twenty years ago.
but since that time numerous parts have become dis
arranged and the services Of skilled mechanic are
necessary to put them together again. IL is adapted FOE
the tracing Of complicated patterns on nara Metals sa
belonging IL set OF about nftX cLlsels aud Gu
craving wheels.
A new steel Is said to have been produced at
Sheffield England which expected to be Ofincaloulabs
value TO the manufacturing and railroad world III
said 70 be made "by adding from to 20 per cent OF tho
ordinary ferFomanganese OF commerce To iron either
wholly or to good extent decarbonzcd and refined aud
treated by any the ordinary processes to STEEL pro-
duced by such prOeesses" 1t s stated that small test
bar containing per OF manganese was bent double
when cold and was sufficiently hard TO turn iron thas
an axe containing the percentage and whch hsd
never been hardened tempered, cut in two oar 81
iron half IN 9Sa sa@T giving say that the
steel Is capable OF being hammered or rolled the same y
Ordinary s,eu are n in aiy measure correct the discovery
is likely 10 prove OF great economic Importance.
Everett" leading contributor to tho
columns OF IN, Christian Recorder tie organ OF tho
oOlored people or Philadelphia earnestly its up HIS WIN"
against the marriage OF white man with black WOMAN
or black mau with u white woman. He mentions no
names but takes the recent marriage" rs his text
Evidently the recent marriage" sOrey usp1esseH
Everett "suoh a step" he writes, "only makes inc
white men more careful with their daughters lest ney
get acquainted with colJred menu and So on inc oto7
hand should the eoored men protect their dausn'ors
aud sisters from the white men, Having pona'"a 0us
what he believes to be the general social tendency Ok
uc internarrages Everett continues In this eloquens
tran. Lat our black men awake, they've been seop
Ing long enough Those succeeding In their enol W hi
white wives will staud out by themselves, IKE olo To-.
M row OF corn unable To battle against the Storm VI
life; ike that row OF when tho winds anu ram AM mn
tbey will fall Let men come 10 tho trout. S." ~
for themselves be true ~ themselves De pask s.so
black wOlhen" The General Conference OF INC a ,,
Methodist Church H. 10 DO he'd Ia May, ara " r n' ~
probable that the delicate subject will be 'afe"u ~ Wv
| aroma VI debate.