New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-12
GENERlL NOTES.

Handsome illustrations Of the new dormltory
Tor Brown University appear in the current number OF
The American 4rchect The building is 20 stand ~ the
south end Of the back campus about seventy feet from
the line OF GeOrges Il is 10 be built OF darAace bricks
LAID i'm black mortar with steps. windOw-caps and slils
OF browu-st0ne and bands and coping OF teTracoa il
viii be four stories in height, with a high basement
aud roofs covered with states tiles The rooms are ar
ranged n suites Of two-suJy and bedroom-and also IN
suites oftlree roomssudy and two bedrooms; and VIII
accommodate forty-eiGhJ students Tho building VIII
face the SOUTH and except at the east and west ends. hy
from them on the north side The plans are So excellent
that is pity that there should nave been quarrel
Dr.. Slade the American spiritualist, whose
adventures 10 the London courts were followed by
English readers with much interest about year ago
is now DOB Berlin where be enables contempAuve Ger
mans 20 pass the commitments OF the season with the
spirits o. their departed friends. The organ o. the
Utram0utalists takes pains % explain that all Cahoic
Inorats are agreed that modern ~prsm assisted by
the cooperation Of evil spirits. II father or vile
whom Mr. slade processes o. Introduce 10 sOrro|lng
son or husband Paradise 10 probable thar n such
case some designing wicked spirit appears and per
sonate the beloved departed and says something or
other which viii tend to the moral destruction OF the
inquirer IT, on the other hard, the spirits whom Mr.
sade processes to introduce 20 living earthly relatives
should happen to be already damned nothlA- ~ more
sons" Ins Is only another way Of saying that the devil
Is silent partner oi Dr. o4i"e'
A lawsuit over four old portraits has reached
its last stage in the Orphans Court, Philadelphia The
pictures ore claimed % be from the hand OF the Flemish
painter Anthony Van Dyck and TO represent the an
csstors of tho Moseey family one VI them is the por
trait Of a stiff. pompous Old gentleman SIR Edward
Noseley and the others the l6euesses or English
ladies dressed the odfashOned style Of low corsge
and short pulled sleeves. Dr. samuel MOseey died about
fifteen years ago. and in accordance with his will the
a. rrrtrl % rc.f nv
legatee she was instructed keep the four Van Dycks
until Burweu B. Moseleys heirs, who lived in Norfolk
Va should demand them. Mrs Clara J. Moore, who is
another Moseev took ont letters OF administration on
the estate OF BuIwel B. Moseley and asked 10 have
the portraits turned over o. ner Three OF the Norfolk
claim lille two Of them sided with Mrs Moore. Inc
court hold thar the portraits could not ne mover uess
the Norfolk heirs united m demanding them ana an ap
peal from tBs ruling is now under consideration Inc
main oi1 at i,sue is Are tile portraits assets or heir
LOOMS
The recent practical joke of the medical
students IN administering strong Cayenne pepper TO the
Liberal Club Is warmly approved by the college paper
The Columbia Spectator The argument Is, first the fact
mat III il necessary impress the public with the TACT
that students are particular class IN the community
ready 70 resent a fair way any insult upon them
selves Individually OF al a body; and. secondly, the
freak Of the medical students really and strictly
ioke-as rough and dsagreeabe 10 outsiders as all
practical Jokes apt TO be, but no more So IL Is
proper moreover that people should beware OF mourning
the dispea5ure Of students III body. In all European
university towns this Is the case and is the worse
for it, Individually students should have no special
privileges but collectively they have a right 10 some
separation from the "Phstnes and II is time say the
editor. for Columbia students 10 assert tits right,
though OF course DO pIOvOcaOn should be given IN any
Wv Tie logic II simple. consecutive, and convincing
Fye-v Alderman knows that students have inaiena-
BIZ right collectively themselves with pepper
cast0rs and ser Lstine world sueezing Every wise
mother knows, too. that the academic world is lnsu
GENTLY spanked when u Is young