New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-14

Of bad provisions and Of come Other defect. IN o.
eommissariat- us
recent Ordonnsnee issued by the Russia, u;,;-...
OF War respecting the clothing of prisoner, az v.r
Conveys disagreeabIe idea of Russian no,,,,,. -
e'eanine-s. Thus, prisoner Is furnished With CO..
pam OF pan'sOons, two shrts and one pair of boz
which are to last year.
Inc late French Minister Of Marine. Dueos-o.
la'n'r me emoamed corpse of him--was served va
'en'ay win a grand military funeral ceremony n.
only SIX months since the streets Of Paris osYeres
similar spectacle mi honor of II. Armand. Napoko,
seems to love to bury his assistants of pc.emAs,--
with imposing pomps. Dueos's Successor IN o,.,., :.
Hsmein, who was admiral last year Of the Rlask g.
feet. The imperial decree that appointed him Wa.
dated from Windsor 1t has curioss esec, rp.,, o,.
as You il printed in the HoatteEr. II remind. v,
of imperial DEGREES in old numbers Of the Ms.,s.,r
dated from Berlin for example, or especially that On.
dated from Moscow, which treated If theasrc.r
matters.
| find among my notes of recent ncwspsper r.mb..
this pleasant and authentic anecdote from Constants.
nople: II seems that large number Of Greek Chr
tans are detained III the prisons Of that city. On A.
casion of the last Easter holidays these wotAss--
better Greeks than Christians, one supposes-n.,.
known to priests their desire 10 take part in The sa,
able religious ceremonies. The priests presented their
request TO the Grand Nizer. who granted il the ec
ditou accepted by the pries' that they would be an.
swerablc for the varlets after tie performance Of Ae,
devotons. There l. fine Christianity in this MosLu,
charity. Tie honesty Of the priests in putting he d,
votonal rogues in quod again when services weNoyer
would do credit to Mussulmans.
Apropos OF the honesty, here IS a satisfactory Feus
instance There are in Paris as you may rcm~nssi,
moe than three thousand clcters, drivers Of pubic
carriages Now when one thinks Of the numSsr 4
persons who enter into and aight from these Carriages
this city Of cheap fares of all varieties Of etsts
aud in all sorts OF moods Of mind-of the fnity o
human memory, of the irailty Of watch-guards and
locket-ribbons OF the impcrections to which pockc
portfolios retcules even clenched hands and all other
human inventions and human nature are habe-o0e
gets some conception OF the lots of things that must Be
left by accident on the carriage floor and scats BY
an excellent police regulation indeed the cocher IS
bound to hand his passenger printed check bcarin,
the number which is marked on his vehicle. Bat tho
cockcr does not always do that the passenger rarely
retains it. The chances therefore OF dishonesty are
almost numberloss; the virtue that rcssts The chano
deserves record During the year 1884 vrtuous coach
men have found in their vehicles and brought TO the
appointed place of deposit values in gold silver bank
bills and other paper forms to the amount Of $4,000
francs. say nothing here Of the store Of thimbes,
canes, umbrellas, rings, mantilas, broaspns, brown
paper parcels and things IN general that testify TO Their
fidelity The Project of Police has granted recon-
perses-material rewards of virtue-to seventeen Il
them and publicly exposed on printed piaearls about
the streets the honored Of iortyive Apre
pos of rogues notice hal within few days seventy
FIVE sexagonarian criminals have been withdrawn fro,
the galeys at Touon and sent Ia different prisons
the country, Of a more comfortable sort. This i b
pursuance of a new humane law respecting condemns
ons to hard labor which relieves prisoners after re
ing the age Of sixty, from working out their penalyn
tie galley.
Letters from the East speak of a new earh.
quake or rather series of earthquakes, wbkA
has nearly completed the destruction Of The
town of Broussa. The shocks were felt s
intervals during eleven days. They were most
severe and frequent from the 18th to the l5a
of April, in which time there were $50. BY comples
ton of disasters fire consuming what the earh-
Quakes had spared. Shocks have been also felt
Constsntinope, Smyrna and other places in TIA
soTely-vistcd Eastern world The one at Consianh-
nopIe which felt at = on the evening oil me 10th,
is reported to have teen OF unusual Duration Theun-
duatons were from east to west; they were preceded
bv "hoavy grooming in the air" Krae, DiTector&
the Ni,nnese Observatory, has lately invented "a n
vented an instrument for measuring the intensity u
earthquakes and the direction Of their undulstion
Il is composed Of pendulum suspended that il may
oscilate in any direction, terminating in ycrted
ylinder that revolves once in twenty-four hours.
so pencil brought in contact with the cylinder by a
elastic pressure mark. upon its surface uninio.
ruptod line long tho pendulum is in repose bgto
soon as the earth is shaken and The pendulum oonse-
quenty oscillates the variations OF the pcncl-mars
upon the cylinder indicate the intensity and drectna
of the movements.
In memoir presented to the Academy of Sciences
by n. Poey of Havana in which he treats OF thundr
storms in Cuba aud the United States, the auRm
states ;ha; Of los instances If thunder striking Is
NC popularity say, l. were mortal, causing the desa
u thirty persons. This number OF Instances studied
by Inn cccanci between 1891 and So lie cites q
rcmarkahs case q the ce,. Of elcctsictv upon tie
lcAVo> 81 = pA-ui-'rcc which SENS 70 have cons
viism rs own obscrsa;ion. II occurred July y,
lSsa Re saw ;Ao 6rg caves 4 the pslna-;ree be
Ae images, A. sctarsi,,g ds1nei a. tAosgh they $50
engraved VII the burn q Elues TIA; were rDors ihss
e'sussnd fcct 1Rtazi- Our remedy 81 kE33s-
sirokes-sle po1r.ne o. COD wI.er a511aHaay ovs-
h. highly coumealS
Tho artificial axe AID fivsr IN he Bai. de Basicrss
srs rov ssochci viA tlousaais q G--sfcsI b.:ohd
kss-ssissos, tro1i and osher vnriesscs-sssx
GRADUATES f'osa Ire nurseries Al TIE Cofsrs b
Fsrce lheso 'ect4nnais ofsErins 81 -cience vi-rs
ard sisA ard 6s about ~ vicore-sly a. any nntzs-
Sor ~ y iae world
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