New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Beginning with September Is The Art Inter-
change will be published every alternate Wednesday
from OF the Society Of Decorative Art No. 81
East Nineeenth-s. under whose auspieies has been
started It is an eight-paRe anAFio. and its
trbutors will be General Di CesnOla Louis Tiffany and
william C. Prime Its articles will give suggestions in
silk erewel tapestry and MEDIEVAL enbrOideFes; Ia
drawing and painting on wood SILK linen aud porcelain
and IN modelling clay, decoration in relief and
ing IN ivory and wood.
A railway across Newfoundland is projected.
American and British capitalists have joined hands in
the enterprise and the legislative assembly has offered
an annual subsidy OF $40 600 TO company that will
20 on with the work. with this road completed and
railway communication established over NeSBruns-
wick Cape Breton Island and into Maine, the Cali
fornan. longing TOR trip TO Europe, might 20 by rail
across continent TO ST. Johns and from there ferry
TO Queenstown. Aud ferry-bOats might take on board
tue original san Francisco drawingrOOm cars haklng
all rail trip OF H. Invention has not reached tue emu
OF ITS rope by any means
China will make vigorous war on opium.
The edicts against its cultivation have many times come
10 little as officials easily bribed by producers.
But an edict recently gone forth which not
only forblds the culture OF the poppy after 1879, but
all importatons OF s products after 1880. Governors
and leading generals required 10 submit plans hleh
shall eneotually do away with the use OF opium, ana
certain pains and penalties OF the usual Celestial type,
IN case Of failure are affixed to their instructions.
large hospital for the cure OF opumeaters has been es
Mind are In contemplation. The ambassador 90 this
country has been instructed 10 study the metaods Oh
treatment employed Ia this country.
Yale will challenge Harvard to an eight
cared four.mile strughaway race with cOxswans the
race 20 take place at time aud I'm hereafter 10
be named. This was voted at meeting Wednesday
night Yale club is feer OF debt than II has been In
several years At time the debt had reached several
thousand dollars but Il now amounts to only $500 OF
$3.50 In times past there responsibility for the
chi mai
say OUTLAWS were made. In 1873 there such tems
as seventeen suppers." "afteen cravats" and wines
and cigars." The expenses OF the crew while |" In
board paid by the clue N 1879 70 81 ~;
aud In 1873 20 only $780, During the last year 652 II
was collected for the boat club.
A Vicksburg lady when the plague broke
out went to Indianapolis she had thirteen years
Of age Dubuque Iowa, who hearing OF her departure,
seized with intense desire TO see her. The friends
with whom he lived decided at last that IL not best
that he should co. and MS disappointment grew mon
bitter every day Finally he resolved TO see his mother
cost what 1t might and putting ON the shabbes suit OF
clothes he had, taking no baggage and no money, he
started TO make the journey on foot He begged bis
food at rarmhouses slept barns and caught ride in
a farmers wagon and then. In ten days he made
the 265 miles, and having before been In Indianapolis.
found the house OF his uncle in which his mother VAS
Without help from any one There was Joy unsPesksDe
ged clothes because he Thought people would then be.
leye he q tramp anu would help MINI Wnle, hau
been weldressed, he might have been taken Tor an
impOstor.
A plague of rabbits is upon some portions
Of the Australian colonies Farmers shoot, trap and
poison them, and legislatures have tried IN vain to rid
the country Of the evil Poison the most convenient
and expeditions agent yet employed but 1t be used
only in Winter when green food Is scarce. man on
horseback then takes quantity Of Oats that have been
treated with stryehnine, and scatters them through
the slds aud In the woods In single night hundreds
Of rabbits have thus been destroyed An ordinary trap
Is used Summer great numbers being set every night
and man is employed to witch them, and to reset one
whenever n rabbit Ia caught The animals skins are
oil removed packed bales for transport to Eng
land where they sell for tw0-pence threepence per
pound. Experiments, 10 is said have shown tnat n9
flesh OF rabbits destroyed by strychnine Is not guIsa
Ivy the poison and 10 Is freely eaten In Australia " .9
farmers Tue supply, however is so great that msy
dead rabbits left TO lie on the grOund Wners 'no
crows and Wild cats and and MAKE way WIN then ia
great numbers.
The ceremony at Notre Dame, September .,
IN honor OF the Theirs anniversary s called by fa~
Mall correspondent, " truly imposing" Inc oa'heufa
was draped from roof to roof with black YeNes
fringed with silver. Large shields bearing the letef
we're affixed 10 all the pillars banners with festoons Oh
crepe hung from the eeSfstofies and IN the OF
nave rose huge eatatalque surrounded with banning
flvods and surrounded az It's with very mouh-
tain OF noseRays," ehapete and crowns OF immoftees
brought By Populations from more than two hanafeo
municipalities while Of those present there were 'ne