New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-01

able ana decent smoker ventures to indulge
in the seclusion of his own precincts, is i.
necessary to bawl in at his window that he ia
simply worshping the devil
Mr. Sturgeon is man Of an odd eOquence. Ifhs
were less sincere it would be impossible not TO iken
him to the gentle Chadband, so unctuOusly pictu-
rescue is he at times. On Easter Tuesday there was
a great Butchers Tea Party at the Tabcruaclc-a
party which did away with 1l5O pounds of meat.
ten hundred weight Of bread and cake, and river
of tea Mr. Sturgeon preached TO the asscmbya
sermon having in it number Of pleasing and ap-
propriate allusions-one Of which, for instance was
the declaration that if anybody could mako a rock
ing-horse 60 16 miles an hour it was butcher" to
which refined clerical jest he added the advice TO
the Jehus of the trade, to take little more pains
not to drive over passengers. lie likewise prayed
with his audience of 200 butchers, boldly invoking
"a divine blessing on tho SHAMELESS Further even
than this he carried his idea Of the fitness Of things,
and gratied his taste for local eSloEDg by causing
the 1900 20 sing the hymn,
"There is Fountain filed with Blood"
The whole performance certainly seems very queer.
but it may have had more instant effect upon the
congregation than more Sacred-seemng service
would have had
The police of India have novel ways Of extracting
confessions from their prisoners without torture.
One method applied to opium eaters is perfectly
simple and sociable. The policeman sits down
opposite his prisoner and playfuly keeps
opium ball rolling about the palm Of his hand.
OF course the prisoner suffers like Tantalus himself
and the consequence is that the policeman very
soon gets his story and the prisoner his opium. An
other method, used where there are number Of
prisoners suspected of the same oiense, reminds one
Of similar proceedings in Arabian tales. One man Is
taken from the number and locked up alone, while
his companions imagine that he is in the next room.
In this several inspectors, who proceed to
stoutly belabor an empty sack hanging in the cor
ner one of them keeping up violent groanlng.
This over, the man is loudly called upon to confess.
and constable Stimulates a confession in how.
mumbling voice. All this little comedy seems
stern tragedy to the trembling prisoners in the other
room, and when the next man is brought out he is
almost sure to make full confession.
During the past year the British National Lteboat
Institution has saved with its boats the lives OF $50
persons nearly the whole of them from dangers that
would have precluded any ordinary boats from pro-
cedng to their aid. In addition to this service in
the way Of lfe the boats have saved in the year %
ships. noble and picturesque venture was that Of
the st. Ives lifebOat which was launched five times
in a heavy gale of wind, to the Of the crews
Of three vessels wrecked the coast the stormy
Sd of February last. The wind and tide twice car
ried the boat to eeward, but by unyiedng persist
ence fresh crews taking the place of those exhausted
she succeeded in saving the crews Of the vessels.
with the exception Of two men, who persisted before
they could be reached. Only three mishaps oc-
CURED to the Society's boats during the year The
cause of two of these a heavy sea, washing men
out of the boat. The Ramsgate lifeboat-which
during the past 20 years has, without the loss Of
single life employed by her. saved several hundred
people-thus lost one of her men in February
We have heard of juries arriving at verdict By
means Of a toss-up, but in Ireland they have i'm
proved upon this practice SO far that they enforce
unanimity by knOck-down. At Ballinakll Quar-
ter Sessions the other day. after the jury had been
sent to their room to deliberate a larceny case
one of tho twelve observed to come ont and
attempt TO leave the Court. Stopped by officer.
he explained, "Ab, begor. would at stay there;
they re all boxin and fghtn' inside" He was
sent back. however, and constable stationed at
the door to prevent any more escapes; so in duo
course the prisoner was convicted,-a result sut-
fcienty explained by the remark overheard from
juryman after the verdict Only threatened TO
lick him, he d never agree"
The last romance concerning Napoleon III. comes
from an English letter to the Paris Figaro. Inc
writer asserts with absurd earneStneSS That the
Emperor is not dead, but that by means of Q
chiTurgcal plot and dummy he slyly got away
from Chselhurst, went to small London hotel,
with his papers all in order, cut his mustache.
shaved off his imperial and put an artistic wig.
Thence this marvellous tale takes him to France,
where he is said to be travelling about at leisure.
studying the situation of affairs and reserving him.
self for coup de theatre. The letter includes dis
patch from a person who declares that he was met
and recognized in the Faubourg st. Honor6. lt's
to be hoped that this is the first and last attempt at
mystifcation in this very unsavory direction.
Verdi has had ga demonstration" in Naples. Al
the gallant young princes and counts Of tue city,
curled and perfumod; all the young artistic tr0H-
des and professors Of all kinds united in the per-
foImance They embarrassed his horses and drew
his carriage homo themselves after AidG had
finished at the San Carlo. or course, this done
in spite of the strenuous resistance of tho composer.
1t always is. procession of carriages, torches,
band of music which played the famous march from
ida and any number of "viyas" made up the pro-
gramme of the demonstration. This is the sort OF
thing at which Americans must ever blink in fruit
less envy unless indeed, we should bestow such an
ovation" upon the author Of "Shoo, Fly" aud
the like.
In the year 100 lived in Kent England, Eliza and
Mary Chulkhurst, who We're joined together after
the manner of the Siame5e Twins. Their will or
dered that the income given by tho lands Of which
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