New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-02
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
A., olactrical target which will be very use
~ % CreedmOOr has been invented by SWISS io0A
.o,tb II shows simultaneously upon another tlrSos
a., nm at the firing station the exact spot where Oui'o
srikes and thus does away with the necessity VI
i marker TO signal the result of each shot INC l"oo
=, d,yded into number OF concentrc rings ana eacn
aio * divided by two lines drawn right across tnc
60 and crossing each other at right angles NJ tho o
,e In each of the subdivisions OF the target ~ ne
,ng station a small hole Is pierced, ana WHICH ounce
sr,kes the distant target number at once appears ~
.h hole in the corresponding subdivision OF tne target
, noo,er. or should the bali strike upon one OF tho
-, 5,dipr the face OF the target numbers are SHOWN
a. hotn me adjacent subdivisions an the i the
ic,I asvs for which the firing was kept upi 'he CrS
eccdenf " hieh happened being that once INC ei00"
wire cut by bullet t., r.
A Frenehman cannot substitute It" 1Of
A. en.l" a - Of his name with impunity The family
an poeheehouart de Moriemart which boasts Peul
o ~ nine centuries and Of having distinguished sci'
An the Crusages at Poietiers and Agincourt III the nus
sjan campaign and the conquest OF Algeria recently
took proceedings against some upstairs VINO lor Nv"
three generations filed civil and mihtary
These nori homiass had taken 1t INTO then ne"uS "
ssume title and call themselves Mortemart' lns'eau Vi
11ortemord The Republican law officers OF the seine
DepaFtment have ordered them to spell their name VII"
GA. ond IN mi no particle or title of nobility before H.
Tn tho eourse OF the proceedings ST. SmOnS auecdote was
euoted of the Due de Mortemart ct de NlVonhe' Oh hos
xIy,s reign who learning that plebean had assuhed
The name and arms Of Rochecheuart Pa9ISH "a, taTv
bi Tor tbs good opinion he must have had OF his iamy
10 prefer their name 10 any otler'
The statistics of the graduating class at
Michigan University show that % members VIII STUDY
Iow 10 will teach 6 win become civil engineers .
mining engineers business men, II arc undecided
VII follow diplomacy theology, journalism, medi-
cine The average for expenses for four years was
81 7s5 per man. As TO religion, 10 had none at an
believed in Robert IngersOtsm. were Christians
Fplscepaians COngregatiOnalists, BaPtlsts fres
byterans IL undecided, Mormon, Methodist anu
Methodist AIlsants. mixed. Golden Rule Doubt
fuI BAPTIST Quaker, Catholic. As to reereations'
awere never amused sought intellectual food during
their leisure hours and played whist delighted most
IN mating in dancing. in billiards, IN cards IN
that little game which All Sin did not dnoersIanu, ~
picking cherries, IN sleep, IN targaZllg III VIZ.
fling and in hopping the question. twenty-five OF lHe
class found to use tobacco ana Wt[e Gu
and the historian argued that lnasmeh as te elasS @
lady graduates, this proved that c0educatioh Was o'
a failure.
The students Of Trinity College, Dublin,
arc the same jolly rOysterers whose portraits Chaes
lever has drawn A fortnight ago large bonfire was
Lit in the quadrangle windows were smashed fireworks
were set OF. and tugs-of-war" grand scale were
arranged. Botany Bay VS.. all others, the same VS..
the Medical School, and various other matches were
pulled with nearly hundred on each side. piano
was dragged down into the court, and popular songs
were sung to its accompaniment a rope was attached
to the iron metal work gate and after severe tug
the huge lamp and fixtures pulled down. so firmly
was ironwor fastened TO the butresses that the top
most block of stone on one side pulled out of its place.
and large piece broken of. An entrance effected
into the poTtel's gate lodge, and some damage done
The eas lets over the cases In the front porch mis-
shevously bent in twain soon aItss , Geock hfe
hall and the City Fire Brigade had 20 be called in 20
saSss would damage the hall The College authorities
were utterly poweIless to control the students.
A Solomon has arisen in one of the Baltic
provinces of Russia 10 reconcile pair Of wraDgiing
fsh-wOmeD at that He is lieutenant-cOlone,
assigned 70 duty as chief of police. He knew that
preaching would be Of whatever where the hear
ers were two women, who cursing another at
the rate Of 100 words minute. and who were only pre-
vented from tearing anOthers faces by the strong
arm OF the police. "YOu must be locked in and
the cell until you have kissed each other This was
invariably the sentence Of the magistrate in every
case Of female brOi which brought before him. He
knew that although kissing another Is habit with
male Russians it is not so with the of Mus
eovy. least all with the fish wives The women
hurried off rolled for time louder than ever pro-
tested that they would die than give this hUp
hours COZ inement, called the jaier, and informed MIN
that they bad kissed. They were informed that they
must repeat the kiss pubely in the open marketplace
A small tue taken from each, and they were com
PEELED in the midst OF their sisters trade to kiss each
other three times.
The - Yorkshire old fOgy," whose remarks
anent aesthetic hOuse-furniture have been quoted ~
THE TRIBUNE, describes in his letter The Standard
the dinner which he had in one Of the "new school
mansions in South KensinRtOn He sat beside very
pretty girl and, old as he was, thought himself lucky
until she began to talk What strange jargOn ii
that modern young ladies uttered! What did they
by their chatter about exquisite harmOnles of
expression" "an almost rapturOus sensuousness,"
the divine ideality Of man." and He listened In
utter bswldernent while his pretty little friend used
these aud other phrases stn mysterious, and
TALKED Familiarity OF the works Of number Of modern
poets, of whom Mr. Swinburne was by far the most
proper The cid fOgy turned for relief to his neigh
Dor on the other side. She, too, young but not
pretty. Before he knew where he was she had men,
toned the names OF Herbert spencer John Stuart MIL
and Professor Clifford, and had said incidentally that
she supposed OF course, that be considered God quite
an exploded hypothesis" Amer this Yorkshire was
hardly shOeke1 when his pretty neighbor invited him 10
dine at her club to meet lady whose volume of
verse he happened 20 have burned in disgust read
ing halfad0zen pages. And yet he learned, 10 was
quite good form for miss In her teens 10 invite haa-
dozen gentlemen TO dine at the Albermarle!
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