New-York tribune., 1876-11-29
GENERAL NOTES.

,rbo cold Weld of California this year will
n. about S2O,OOOO0O.
9th Green, the veteran angler, compares
,ho take salmon trout in Owasco Lake from spawn
nods with spears foolish farmers who kill sitting
There is a stampede Of gold hunters from
,o.oawood and Custer City in the Black Hills TO Wof
Mountain where rich deposits are said 10 nave oeeh
defendant in an action recently begun in
A. Irs,ices, Court San Francisco, filed the follow
'ous0er. "I the defendant in this case. hereby GER
tIiy that don't owe the leo% NV w1O n a S h s ove
cs1tD He Is hs own lawyer lne iOOiS0"P may po
his ears, but II is not uhuer HIS pen
Tho Sontberp press loves ghastly paragraph.
"a CronnaA Yecs AYERS that not single book agent
ded during the yellow fever epidemic The Appeal re-
marks that not a single newspaper fend in Memphis sur
orod 20 the scourge of 1873 The Charleston Repttb
% rnaraIizes thus: After every storm on Morris
apd collins and skeletons of soldiers killed In the siege
wak along the beach the day after an easterly or
snntberly gale would give some of our wa-lke spirits
taste Tor the pOmp and circumstance OF glorious war;
Al the forty-seventh session of the Royal
ceoCrapbiea society in London fortnight ago. "From
cosplsnd,s lev mountains From mdias coral strand"
asnot sung but there marked achange ofattude
IN the discussion there in the hymn An effort was
at made 10 bring forward resolution condemndtOry
n5 sSe soSdu Of Mr. Stanley during his African expora
fions but the motion was finally ruled out sir Kuthei
aition with tho remark that the next best thing To
ainS the North Pole was to show that it could not be
done at all
The season for pilgrimages to LOurdes is now
and the latest visitors have been the Spanards on
their return from Rome. Many of these Spanish pill
ms who are returning to the northwest provinces OF
spain by way Of Marseilles Toulouse and Bayonne.
spepd few hours at Lourdes which is on their direct
line OF route and few Of them have been 0Dlged 70
proOng their visit TO the shrine OF the virgin Whlie
Awaiting further remittances from home The lnonas-
tery which being erected the hill facing the grotto Is
rapidly nearing completion; building is going ON IN all
directions and the town is beginning to lose hat od
World look which It had when Bernadette SouDrohs INST
saw her vision in the grOtt0 OF MassaOielle'
Why should the whining school boy be creep
ing Ike snail unwilllngy through the casscsi Why
should he 20 afoot when there wesadded ponies to
rdef An English schoOmaster. who takes pains to write
10 The London Neios does not know why He says; AS
soon as a boy knows his grammar fairly well and has
gene through easy proseconstrung book allow MN
the use of literal translation. IL is simply waste OF
time TO make boys puzzle their brains for hours over
sth passage of Juvenal or SOphOces, WDeh the 'hnS
can be explained to them few minutes. 1t is non
sense 10 talk about the mental training TO be derived
from this process. The vast majority OF eOyS nave
learned by long experience that II Is quite useless iOr
them To fry and 'Inako sense and content themselves
with looking ont the words (another Inucn oNeIldteu
sowed nv unper classes cribs the work has improved
in quality and quantity TO an amazing extent ana there
are few boys in them who cannot consrue at sight mod
eraely difficult Latin and Creek This is all very we'll
If the student be wen grounded in the grammar OF me
language. he may use the translation IN place OF
lexicon. Unfortunately the pony IS saddled 9s rule
lOng hOrseman has learned now 10 rue Inc
student uses crib before he has mastered the grammar
ana learned 10 write exercises. Note two laets; tl
large proportion Of American students now resort to
translatiJus; (2) the knowledge OF the classics when
they acquire shabby and superficial is thls cause ahu
effects
The American travelling public worries the
year round and seldom finds redress in the courts The
English traveller has rights which the courts quick to
recognize. month ago an EnglshmaD who missed a
connection through the unpunctualy OF train, com
PEELED railroad corporation to pay his hackhire and
damages and another hess BrtOn whose clothes were
bespattered with mud found legal redress Now comes
Robson agt The Northeastern Railway Company The
plaintiffs case was that the train by which she was
travelling having been drawn up final standstl she
was Justified believing that PASSENGERS alghlng az
that station invited to get out, ana that II she dld
NOT get at she would be carried on 10 the next
station The train bad in point OF fact oyershOt the
PLATFORM but this she did not observe so that IN getng
ont abe missed her footing and met WIN
the injuries for which she claimed compensation.
The CORPORATION ayerred that elderly and nnrn people
have no ri hit TO travel by rail unless accompanied Dy
sone one TO take OF them, and that II they DO so
they ought 10 the consequence OF their imprudence
Inasmuch this lady would probably not nave Dee -
tured had had to assist ner out OF tne
train company il argued, ought not 70 he uauc
liable accident that might have been aVOoed oIe
was nOnsuted the ground that there was no
Of negligence This ruling OverTued by the higher
court appeal and judgment was ordered Ior t1e laay
OF course there sharp distinction between tnglsI
and American stautes, but there is something Dehnd
that An American, whenever he is imposed upon grls
and bears IT, An Englshman not only grows, OUT ad,
win fght his way from court TO court for 10 ana dam