New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-29
GENERAL NOTES

A correspondent directs attenuOn 10 the IacU
that Mr. Orestes Cleveland, candidate for Commission
er to the Paris Exbi ton from NewJersey, not con
nected with the stevens Institute Of Technology
enormously stated in yesterdays TRIBUNE.
There is gamln in Chicago, WHO is full to
the brim and running over with the spirit of this com.
mercial age. There was alarming runaway Friday
afternoon The horses attached TO an express wagon
tore down Dearborn-s, throwing out tue driver scat
terng the packages and creating CONSERVATION in the
crowded thoroughfare Close behind the team was
newsboy running as fast as he could go and shouting
"Daiiy NecS, full account OF the runaway"
The Faculty of Michigan University seem
70 be rather hnsknned They decided last Friday not
to graduate any students who venture 10 treat with dis
respect during the exercises OF Class Day any OF the
Academic powers that be- The historian and the
propbet have been accustomed to give uteance that
occasion to tests nsnuatiOns and insults at tie expense
OF the Faculty and this is to be stopped for all
Whoever pokes any more fun at The professors to lose
is overstrained College w.t. coarse and caust.c as II
often Is Is always harmless
Clerical crusaders don't cut as fine a figure
to-day as they did in the time OF Peter the Hermit
Their brave speeches sound ike linking c. mbal. and
when they mount their boobies it is the TESTERS cap and
bells rather than the Od-time helmet that covers their
iron-gray hair Here is Vicar Bennett, declining in
yitatson to address ting held al FrOme, III aid Of
the Palestine Exploration Fund.- and using words sucn
as these ALLOW TO add prayer that very soon,
political events TO show, Christians may more
be In possession OF the Holy Land and the inner
itance Of Coos people driving those odious TURKS back
into their native barbarislD and that then beng Sub
dued, we may be able 70 convert them 10 the faith
Everything, under God, depends upon that just now"
What shall be done with Temple Bars A
hundred thousand letters have been addressed the cd
tors Of the English newspapers in response to this in
curry during the past years AS 1t de
cided that the ancient structure must come down. the
CRY was raised Set 1t somewhere else and various
sites were suggested While the wOrkmen wrench
ing the iron clamps from the lowest layers of Portland
and Bath stone, Engshman in Lncolns Inn clapped
his hands and cried, why net send 1t to Americal"
Then be unloaded the idea in letter to The London
Times in which he suggested that the Bar should be pre-
scented TO the Americans gift from the old country
"They love-" he writes O dwell old Institutions
at least far their separate history goes, and
venerate in their heart Of hearts perhaps more than any
other existing ,natiOn the remembrance OF old trad
tons" Ii this offer wholly disinterested3 Engshmen
may be anxious to open foreign market for their trad
tons and architecture and in sending on this gateway
as sample. may hope to build large export trade
In ancient relics They VIII begin IN quiet way with
Temple Bar, for which they have no use at home.
there will be such demand for eay
thai ruined castles like kenil worth aud chapes Ike that
OF Henry the Seventh can be placed the market here
and disposed OF ON easy terms
A writer in The Pal Mall Gazette, who has been
yrving 10 cOunteract the effects OF Mr. Wallaces work
ta"Russa by setting before the English public in as
strong light as possible the vices Of society and the
defects of administration in the Cars dOminions draws
aslhouette Of the dplomatist in pettcOats In CONT
mental cities he says the female political agent OF the
Russian Government always has troop OF journalists
at her orders and takes to have them rewarded
with bits OF ribbon to put in butt0nholes; but
they not serve her for the sake OF these insignia
They believe In her, and value her friendship In Paris
and Vienna she gives large parties TO which the adyen
turers OF the quill think 1t honor to be admitted
while Others Indifferent to social bats, caOled
by the glamour OF possible Russian alliance by that
attraction toward Muscovte things which is felt by
OF despotc minds De Mastre has left few disciples
the Cohtinent who rejoice in what they call the
autOcracy ~ the North Men who oathe mob rule and
despse pafiamens, newspapers. and all other things
modern. turn their With re1Ic hing sensation to-
ward the country where liberalism has not yet penetrated
in France the Uegitmists Ia Germany and Austria the
old Feudalxts are frieu1s OF the
She does much by their means and, when she cannot
succeed 10 making them shape national policy, she ex
Tracts Information from thcn winch assists her III
thwarting liberal policy
Rhode Islands share of glory in the War of
the Revolution was small as but natural for small
State but she contributed one OF the few exploits which
threw ray OF humor the sombre realities Of that
epoch. Colonel Barton's bold capture OF Genera
Prescott excited the merrment OF England as well as
OF America and the British press broke out into
epigraDs upon the ludcrous spectacle OF surprised
British General making the night air resonant with
"Where oh, Where's my breeches." An admirable
account Of this capture giving by Professor Lewis
Diman In an address delivered at Its Centennial ami
versary In July last This has been published in an
Attractive small quarto pamphlet by Sidney Rider, Of
Providence, the first of promised series Of Rhode
Island Historical Tracts" There are, besides the ad
oress, q portrait OF Colonel Barton and the various
spsrams and ballads called by the exploit in this