New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16
GENERAL NOTES.

There is nothing small about the legislation
otIe noble old Commonwealth" On Monday the legls
latC Of Massachusetts, wTes,ed with the Ten-hour law
Woman Suffrage Prohibition, and the Tunnel Road and
listened 70 Edward Atkinson wendell Phiilps, lew
capitalists, aud several ladies. 50 admaoy baiiisHu
18th Massachusetts statesman with scescen tL't ne
cal axe in wisdom ali day aud all night without being
oTerUadrd.
A lady from the farming districts went to
the Core Art Gallery in Washington last week. and
fairly stared the sttuary OF countenance Her face
as exc surveyed group OF tOrsos ana fragments OF an
tque an ore the expression OF angular ierr0ga-
Ton mark and she finally accOsod two amateurs WAC
Ntie fkctchlg. Are those nbeSs persons people WHO
iel ~ the Revolution T. she whispered
The Dartmouth boat-h0use is to be rebuilt
at and six men are 10 be placed under active train
Ing Tor the Ncw-LOndOn regatta. The Harvard Fresh
man has left training inasmUch there s to be
no race with Yale this year The money subscribed III
ara o. NE Freshman crew VIII probably De piacen III Ee
mana gers of the Williams Boat Club are al Their wits ehd
~ '"heei enough money W pay the tcht Oh inc podt
nOT ACt over 80 Of the $50 students AT cornell Can
The French Ministry has determined to put
an end To sensational reports of the last sayings, dongs
ana suherDgs Of the wrecbes who led TO execution
french newspapers, like Figaro will no longer be allowed
opander TO tae morbid appetites Of their readers Oy
publishing repulsiye and hghlywrOught accounts OF
sucl death scenes. English executions are no longer
conducted IS town shows. There arc no spectators IN
hc lhlyarCs; crowds outside; no evening extras
Win dil diails OF Tie of law. The officers
VI Inc law dO their quietly, and the result is an
hOunced rs quietly BY the press.
The Maryland Academy of Sciences has dis
covered something dreadful than the North Carolina
nesh shower Namely, sprlngails or, more poeticay,
fhowlugs, OF. more scientifically. podur& In paper
recently read before the Academy, Dr. Morris describes
shower OF the aforesaid The woods in parts OF Bati-
more County full of them The insect has six legs,
IoLi W stand and 10 jump with; his ewes nave
1ireD fcets. and ne has four jOintcd aDtehle TIC
ioaiing apparatus is cooled ike spring; when ne IN
ooi D. leaps 70 amazing distance. Ihry are some
uues found crowded together IN heaps IKE pies OF
guhpOWder When disturbed they leap ana dsperse Dut
soon gather again in groups"
native play entitled "The Miser," which
occasionally put on the Chinese stage, buresques the
haiolal vice OF avarice IN more striking thtn
agreeable. Ii resembles Moliere's LAvare." An old
mau who close to spend for food, visits
cook shop handles newt rOasted goose, and dimes by
sucking the gravy from bis fingers, eking out bis scanty
nedl with lew grains OF stolen rice Thinking That
thtrr may be speedy return oil appetite, lie saves his
Mite nnger until he had nap but whllc lie Is asleep
ssray tOrestals him. When he Is dying he cautions
us con against wasting money the funeral. The lad
Instructed 10 wood in the coffin by cutting the
corpse Short but in doing this he must not use his own
az de must borrow for as the old man says, you
VOL Know how hard my bones are!
The Scientific american, In an article on Tho
Blu Glass Deception" does rot attempt TO conceal its
eoncmpt for Gen PeasOntons theories of electricity
Ahs blue glass manual refers " Seunebers Researches