New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-09
GENERAL NOTES.

This is the way they collect old debts in
Monken China: The creditor cast the debtors father
age 20, inro prison. The son had no money; the
father had much The jaOrs tied the old man, hand
and foot in stocks, post two feet high that he
could neither sit lie down. and kept him there sew
era days The process did not wrench penny out OF
tie old mser They then cramped his loot into place
between his manacled hands and left HIM one night
On the next morning they found corpse III the STOCKS
The Scientific american recently suggested
that the American Of sitting on the rght-hand
side Of the carriage, and Of turning 10 the right on
meeting another vehicle. was wrOngt and that the
English custom OF turning 10 the left correct.
correspondent The Boston Transcript insists that the
change made in New-Engand i'll tine matter OF driving
turning ont not without reason Ine driver
seated the right and always keeping TO the right can
See the dangers and difficulties his side of the road
lie keep his wheels from running into the often ana
perhaps Overturning him. which In new country, WIN
rough and unfinished roads, is much more common
danger than that of collisions. Moreover, he has the iu
command of his whip which cannot have while On the
elaud side Of tine carriage, unless indeed, he left
handed.
somnambulist brought out the fire depart
mcn Of Lowell last week At midnight alarm of fire
was sounded from Box IS. The department responded
but found no fire. The chief engineer ascertained that
there that the apparatus had been tempered
with. He then made dgent search in the nelghbor-
hood and discovered that the key to the box had been
gwen By lis holder 10 a young man living on street
by The boy halfdresscd TO the door OF the
house and demanded the KEY, saying there was IRE IN
Cadvt He received the key, stumbled down on step
returned and thanked the kcyhOder, and ran up the
street. like Presently ne returned ana gave up
the key and then went 10 neigboring house and rang
the doOrbe CRYING Fire :! The keyhOlder was after
ward convinced that the boy was in state OF sonamDu
a The boy frequently Waksd in bis sleep Sr was a
Se9g TINS simple little story an lcredGou5 p of an
average Lowell boy for mischief.
The Neu- London Telegram gets the start Of
the oldest nhaban by advertising certain remarkable
Winters. Referring back to files find that in
ll72 the temperature high that leaves came out
the in January and birds Matched their broods
IN February In 1899 the weather was equally mild
ana the adens Of Cologne wreaths OF VIC cts and
corn flowers at Christmas and Twelfth Day. In l421
Tie trees Powered in the month OF March, and the vines
IN the month Of April. Cherries ripened in the same
nlOnth Of April Peaches appeared III May, ana mite
poys commenced TO fan out OF apple trees tfie later
and the birds Matched their young in February, as IN
lI72 In 1856 the thing was repeated and II Is
added that the at Easter To the best on
yat memory there was IN France neither snow BOZ iros
throughout the Winters OF 1885, 1907, 1902 16l7, ana
toos FINALLY, In 1867 even IN tne north OF GerIany
th stoves not lighted, trees lowered III February
and outdoor bouquets showered the newspaper
CSnces without number 1t seems put a. Yesterday
Looming 20 later dates, the Winter OF 1s46-4I when ~
Numbered Paris the 2Sth Of January and that OF
800 the year Of the humiliation OF the Seine, may Dc
mentioned as very mild"
The windows in the new Trinity Church,
Boston, which is TO be opened for divine service on Feb
H. are OF plain glass relieved by stained borders These
are TO give place 10 "StOried windows richly digh
tae hanee the three central which TO be ded
Gated TO, the memories OF Bishop Parker the Rev. Dr.
Johns Gardiner and Bishop Eastburn are u be made
London The subject Of the central one will be Christs
commission to the Disciples that OF the window on the
i' the Baptism Of Christ, and that Of the right window
the Lords Supper These windows are provided for
partly at the expense OF the church and partly by sub
serlpt0n For the south transep the central window
over the gallery Is feet high has been designed by
Ununet OF Paris and is the tribute OF Harrison Gray
5ltehe ~ the memory Of his mother, who was tue
ausaeT Of Harrison Gray Otis. The subject Is to De,
suncr little children 10 come unto me-" The centri.
WHO" underneath the gallery viii De tribute 10 the
emofy vi the late Miss Abby LOring, who left s2OOOOO
~ VARIOUS charities. THE windows the north iransept
nave nearly all been secured The two side windows
eF he gallery have been taken by Martin Brimmer and
s Nathaniel Thayer. Underneath the gallery the HOus
oDeft winthrop viii furnish ~ the memory Of
s4s PARENTS William AmOry one To the memory OF his
alAf aud the family OF the late Charles H. Appleton
que 70 their father the south side OF the win
have been secured by the family OF the late James
Fame, IT,