New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-01
GENERAL NOTES.

| The people of Trenton, n. j, really seem TO
he IN earnest in regard to centennial celebration Of the
battle NEE ing was held Tuesday night and every
body present mace a speech anu was bi'oh s''n'"~
room a committee.
Prof. Wheeler of Yale made complaint on
Tuesday at the police Office in New-Hayen that gamb
ling house on Crown-st opposite Music Hail. was re-
of certain members ~ the Freshman Oass' anu '
they had been swindled there.
Frank Whetts, a c0lored centenarian, aged
ILL., was one of the guests his granddaushers we'd
ding AZ Pittsburgh last week lie not only says nc was
Jan TO- 1906 but has documentary evidence "
prove it. He talks well, aud sleeps still better
1t is not every Congressional black sheep
that has "a much or rs good wool as the Hon. W. s. King
Of MINNEAPOLIS He said TO have the best flock OF long
wooded sheep I'm the United states II now numbers 100
and has been bred from English prize sheep HIS cp
combines the best qualities OF combinS woo-lehstn;
rInness and OF fiber strength OF staple ana
luster.
Class politics were bad enough when there
were only mon college to wrango over them. but now
that the coeducaton Of the has brought woman
into the caucus the Glass day exercises may well be
suspended and the Faculty take the appointments into
their own hands. Thirteen OF the 80 mehDers OF tne
10 take part in the Cassday exercises II certain lady
insists upon delivering the poem. Inc ady anu nes
friends maintain that she was fairy elected, ana sue
means TO keep the appointment
A reporter with nose for news has been on
the scent OF tramps at Norwich Conn., He sums up his
impressions with the caustc remark: There were AZ
OF them in the tramps room and cells In the City Hall
night or two ago. sleeping ostensiby resting no doubt
city OF Cologne for though the tramp be- as his lolo-
gists insist usually pOus aud praiseworthy person
whom unmercful disaster has oyeraken, lis odor IS
never by any chance that OF sanctity unless saheuy
Favored with the dead flies Of doctrine"
Another English traveller has won signal
victory over railroad corporation He brought suit for
the recovery of As which he had paid for cab in conso
auencc OF the neglect of the Midland Railway Company
to provide accommodation for himself and wife IN
train leaving the Central Station Liverpool for Mersey
road which they had taken hrst-elass tckets on
reaching the train 1t was found that there was on oo
The railway officials offered MIN Two seats
and took cab to his destination. The judge hell,
fortnight ago. that the company was bound 10 take o
plann by the train for which ne had purchased va 5
and that the offer Of seats in srokingearrage ala no'
free them from liability.
The Faneuil Hall portraits were removed on
Monday TO the Art Museum, Bosom. The first pctIe
taken down was that OF Gen. Knox, by Stuart winch
hung ON the east end of the front gallery next came that
OF John Quincy Adams by Page, near the south emu Oh
the east gallery directly opposite the speakers desk:
then followed that OF John Hancock by Copiey near wy
center Of the same gallery tnen tne portrait onnoe the
Speakers desk and last Of all came Stuarts famous P
trait of Washington, on the south wall directly on p o
left of the platform, with the sign underneath, fte
sented 10 the city In 1906" The original skeen OF ' 90
washington portrait presented by MI stuart "
Isaac Davis at whose death 1t sold TO Ignaus l.
| Sargent for SLOW
| The Chicago papers tax human credullty oy
soliciting acceptance of tremendous dog story IN
wednesday of last week iyeyeaI-od child hvlhS iul
miles south OF GRANVILLE was sitting before the fire eahs
nuts The parents 10 have been away and Only on0
or two other little children present BY some m
the childs clothing caught fire, and In moment sc r
enyeloped in flames Tie house dog common o,
spraug on the child, threw her down, ana T Iiscif
stripped of the burning clothing, burning hIn log
severey by the time the parents aTriyod tue rS
had saved the chld's life. There Is another n.,o at
| in the exchanges nowadays about an opVseu Rnts
| pIayed an organ in a chGt IN in Delaware and ~
| line must be drawn somewhere. 81,
The successful prosecution OF DlacAm"ii''