New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-27
GENERAL NOTES.

A sale of a private library by Messrs. Bar
ker & Co. AZ Liber,ySt, beginning at noon to-day
I afford good chance 10 purchase standard works IN
handsome editions. The collection somewhat misccl
laneous and bidders Of al sorts will have an oppoTtu
nifty OF gratifying their tastes
The Kangaroo is not so amOOsln it was
in A. Wards day Cor its market value mas gone down 20
ss2 at which figures three sold IN Louisville last
week. A twohorued rhinoceros BROUGHT $500 al
auction; az elephant. loo; a Hon. SIOo' a camel
$50 sacred COW, 49, ana wolf, -.
Francis FeatherstOue, a gentlemanly lunauc,
called buckingham Palace ct hafrast in the morning.
fortnight ago. and inauiced for the Queen servant
who answered the bell the tradesmns entrance asked
him his business He replied that he wished to
"My mother is the Queen" Mr. Fesberstone was
the Bow street station and sent 10 the work
house wandering ldlOt
Colonel Ingersoll and Widow Van Colt lee
tured in Buffalo Sunday evening but not from the
same platform The lady prayed devouty for the CON
version OF THAT wicked blasphemer, whose lips might
this night made dumb aud speeehless" Her descriI
ton of him poor. barking dog" put an edge upon
his strcasm. II suppose lie said to newspaper re-
porter the natural result OF what Is called vital
piey that IS TO say universal love brte"s lhu'!uuHi
There are rumors of the supernatural in
Chicopee Mass Mrs. Hannah OBrien had paraytic
shock about the middle Of January which left her blind
IN which condition she remained two weeks, but recov
cred her eyesght she left the church. when Father
~ offered
she had another shock which left her deaf and dumb
with fun faith in Father Healeys power to heal her, she
has had two IN asses offered IN her behalf and Thurs
dav OF last week after the second mass her power OF
,noech and hearing returned The woman T. widow
f6ftv wears old with six children Botn she and her
family and large circle Of lrsn people consider the
cures a. mrcles and not the result Of the ord
nary processes Of nature
Carrier-pigeons are as useful in peace as in
war Resul,r pgeon-ports have been established
by the Prussian Minister OF Commerce between
the island Of BJrkum and the two lighvesses on the
Borkun Reefs, and also between the pilot Office IN
T0nnng and the lighships N the Elder. From one OF
tbe ships seventeen miles from the receiving office, 1872
pigeons were sent between April and November, last
year OF these, few the distance in eight minutes;
nine in eighteen minutes; seven in twenty minutes; aud
s1 in half an hour; but during storms pigeon was
nearly two hours making It's wsy home, three were
between two and three hours over three hours.
and nineteen hours on the way This last bird
arriving IN very exhausted state, ana had evil
IDENTIFY been attacked by some bird OF prey
The manners of the Pennsylvania legisla-
tors are evidently not irreproachabie Harrisburg
correspondent OF The Psbu,g telegraph relates pleas
ing incident. A Senator attended Mr.. PaXOns church
last Sunday, accompanied by Democratic candidate
for Governor. The two gentlemen were escStcd 10 a
front pew BY the usher and seated 10y couple OF ladies'
the being next to the ladies' During the ser
mon Senator concluded that he would pick his teeth
and not yet having drawn his legislative too,h-pck he
pulled his packet bigheaded lucifer match and
bring IL down 10 a fine point. While thus engaged the
blade OF the knife came rather sharply with
the birthstone the head Of the match and this was
followed 10y an explosion s0methng Ike pistol shot
and blue bazes smoke and the smell OF birthstone. The
lady TO the senator Inv ountarJ Jumped out OF the
seal, and many members OF me congIegatlon ~ero
startled by the report and the ascending smoke
The new dOrmitOry at Brown University Is
not 10 stand on the back campus, but line with the
principal buildings between University and Rhode
Island Halls The excavations have already been made
the former site. but the corporation hr revised Is
decision and the hole will be filed up. The rich and
worthy gentlemen who signed q remembrance against
the site on the back campus have been allowed TO have
their way and will, OF course he at liberty and In
the to swell the endowment fund Of the college
at tie next commencement dinner. Several thousand
volumes have been removed from Manning Hal 10 the
new library building which has Just been opened There
had been prayers and praises speeches and congraua
lions at The ceremonies Of dedication, and the remov
OF the books from the Old 10 the new alcovos
might without Improperly. have been undertaken
quietly and informally. But the Librarian was rot The
man 10 call for = whcCblrIOw and dump IN literature
promiscuOusly. H. Organized proc aacS 90 t~o-
Limsef IN advance wiki a costly toiio 81 iasslers
Of History IN the rear The procession halted Ia Inc
first slcoye Of the new building ana t.e sacred NOHAe
was Tcyerentiy laid upon the hTst sheIi'
The gush of woman sutiragists, the driycl
OF prairie flanders and the rant OF wOrkinginenr dc
gogues all tend 10 promote spirit Of political pesYrm
On this side Of the Atlantic but Heaven be praised the
female socialists have not yet undertaken to save Their
country by their gable. A number OF these women
have recently assembled IN Berlin 70 attend socialist
congress- and there has been unenOng chatter about TIE
manifold evils OF society and the century One Of the
leaders exhOrted humanity 10 revolt against
ecclesiastical restraints and every form Of Christianity
The presiding harry Of the congress Frau Hahn, cried
with loud voice that the Christian Church, deiODed
ait is by immoral ignorance, must DO despOed Of Its
rophes and possessions that the priests must be turned
at. the ornaments pulled down and removed. and the
Laces for worship transformed INTO dwellings for work