New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-14
GENERAL NOTES.

Three weeks ago young man, well dressed
and apparently ricn entered Paris Clearinghouse and
won heavily at tTeste-etqUarane "Red wins" cried
Tie banker, handing to tie unknown 100 NapolcOns.
Ts stranger did not raise his hand for the gold His
e were glued 10 the red and his face CHASTITY pale
A tlaycr touched his arm The unknown was dead.
The banker took back TIE 100 NapOleOns marking tGat
there could De reciprocal contract between live man
aud dead man.
The freaks of light-hearted youth are always
amusing fortnight ago English lad aged -, fred
at passing railway train on the Midland at Crouch
h Islngton. The statiOnmaster saw him standing on
an embankment and taking aim at window which a
passenger was opening. Tie shots ratified against the
Windows of tho station and also the roof, but no
killed The boy captured ana some small shot
found in ms pocket He alleged, however, that he
had loaded the pistol not with shot, but with small
stones.
School Board prosecutions are conducted III
England with more energy than discretion. Al the
Rugby Petty Sessions late In October, a man whose
daughter had been allowed to go To school weny-three
instead OF seventy times in certain period, explained
that she had been detained at home owing to fever and
sore heads in the family The clerk remarked that bad
beads general excuse" and that the gil was
Ept at home To mind the baby He then lined the De-
lnquent i've shmgs. in another instance, the mother
Of bad boy protested that she mad beaten HIN re,
peatedly, but could not make him 20 to school, and
obedience. The bench wisely concluded that there was
nothing 20 be gained by prosecuting the mother OF 50 bad
The little French town of Bernay was rather
Startled recently by the sudden Eruption Of a herd
OF Wild boars, which rushed down the Rue Liseux In
the hst moment " terror the inhabitants retired to 1Nr
houses and closed the DOORS but the male population.
hoOh recovering rom their alarm proceeded 10 do battle
Win lhe invaders, IL in number. Attacked with fire
arms the Wid boars seem T. have completely lost their
ieas ana sH Of them fell without having inflicted any
tOss on the enemy one killed while attempting to
SWIM across the river and two took refuge in stable
nee they were made prisoners. fine old boar effected
Asn ,eaSat WIN dignity, ana reached the forest OF
.Yvn I'D si!ny. While these events were passing IL
me Town another herd Of wild boars, issuing from the
val and ST. L..t- '
hAs described a Centennial Exhibition from the point
:" view OF an English workman has nothing bul praise
~sy OF the management In a private letter 10 Gen.
norton he makes tins pleasant suggestion 1t is trae
'ne Main Building dwar,s the Memorial Hall ana shuts it
OUT IRON yiew but in my opinion that dihculty might
V SO' over at little cost y rebuilding it at Georges Hl
should nave been AZ first erected, and instead Of
~, Avn ana plaster, which ds1gurc the INTERIOR
sVud have IL iulaid and adorned out the abundance
s,o"-Ieaandcr should come this way, after s6ctching
vac ruins OF 81 Paul's and find your Memorial Han also
auNS be might II had been erected by q class G
st IKE Tie ancient Greeks and Romans, whose good
ti ,ed Them TO select bold aud Conspicuous site for
Rllie, from which the Goddess Oi Liberty pro
-Iineu freedom TO all the nations Of the earth"
capt. Walker of the whaler Erik of London,
Nneh has been highly successful at the Davis Straits
Shaie fishing, reports that while cruising about in
smiths Sound lie touched at the place where the Of
tne American exploring vessel Poars had Wintored He
found number Of articles lying about The poles for
e tents and the fires just they had been left
clen The explorers abandoned their winter quarters
se Dy there three large cairns Cant. Walker had
leu sm torn down in the hope that he might find docu-
hens which he had doubt had been deposited From
appearance Of the locality 1t was quite evident that