New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-06
GENERAL NOTES.

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The British naval force in the Pacific is ez.
ceedingly weak. While The PaH ioH questions whether
Russia by breaking through the Declaration Paris
do English commerce much harm out Of the Pacihc,lt
comedies that there unfortunately the Government seem
even yet scarcely alive to the cxgences Of the occasion
The Triumph, though ironclad, is poor substitute
for the SHAH other vessels being sent 10 the Pa
cifc stations II Is claimed that. apart altogether from
the value Of YancOuycrs Island, its harbors and coal,
the British sGuadrons in the Pacific far too weak Tor
the interests they have 10 protect Any heay loss mere
though it could not OF course have uuch erect on tIe
main issue of "A war, would be sugUary Galnaglg ~
| British prestige IN those seas.
"Tbe workingman is hungry" says Karl
Kings solder Of the Rcd hrcDrand in Germany
and now a shining light in Socialist club OF chicago
Wcu responds the nqusitlvc reporter, will there DO
fussl Eyes think the trouble will begin IN Caiior'
MIA. That is a good State for revolution" ""AyT'
| " Land fnouopoc,-mine mOuOpOlics. Pennsy yaniaB
a good state and Massachusetts" Full OF HctOiesI'
Yes, aud the workingman is hungry" So he came out
at the point he went having made neat lttle logeA
crrult Under the second Empire fashionable 10
paris 10 sneak of revolution little difference OF opR
ION between the man whose stomach was eHply au9 us
whose stomach was Iul. Is TINS lhe sIln p'e"'
dntry Of the American Socialists
Shades of Jefferson and the Continental
Congress, not all men born free and equalt Wen
them argues Socialist LOngey, OF ST. Louis. Is Il nos
wrong that should sit at ease ia LIS CUSHIONED
| chair while another WORKS Ike Il saver ctuuCtlie
the easy chair and the laborug man would be glad 70
| occuyy it, especially as ali men were born
/ with the Same iualieIab!e right 10 possess
it, Communism being an exceedingly vac
term, implying sometimes more aud sometimes
less convenient to have its object sharply dehAed
by one OF apostles II aims, therefore. 10 gyeeNey
sou Of toll IN TINS broad and magnificent country, iom
the aueeny Atlantic the kingy Pacific from the royal
nj 1 iSIs arIl,ISir 10 AIMS ye work,
here Is n
the furniture dealers and the cabinet trade
Vera Sassultch, the Russian Charlotte Cor
day. mysteuouSy disappeared after the close OF her
trial. and 1t naturally conj,ctured that she had been
rearrcsod by the police and wouId end her days IN some
dismal prison. letter has appeared over her sgDa
ture IN Russian paper in which she states that she has
hidden herself until the storm shall have passed Alter
describing attempt OF the police to arrest her N the
carriage after tc acqualan attempt which was r. -
trated by tho crowd-she says she was followed To
by the police, who had obtained her address ana
searched every corner without Size was IRE
pared she says, 20 undergo without a murlnur, tAe
verde, OF the tribunal but she could not resign Aeri
again enduring the endless prosecutions !hsti'uledV
the Government sue las, Therefore been tOmlt lea 70
conceal unuI tc day when she Will ITO longer
incur the risk -! being once more arrested
The Mother OF the Gracchi is no longer on
her pedestal has stepped down and out. IN tLe VIA
Grcgorio depth Of three feet below the level
OF Of Rome, interesting discovery has re.
Gently been made. Tho psychologists have found mar.
bic pedestal near The portco of Octayia. when In
scIibcd "Opus Islcrats, COrnca Africans GraccOrum
This evidently served pedestal of the statue % the
Mother OF the Grac"h, which Pny relates erected
in the pOrCo Of Metcus and moved thence 10 The pOr
tlco OF Octayia by. IL IN sitting position, and
remarkable for the form Of the sandals ana this nscp
tion WAS probably cut the base when the statue was
moved the pOrco Of Octdyia; the pedestal IL fes
long high and wide. This f. the on.y work OF az
reid ug TO The Mother OF the Gracch that ma, come
hand lint her nlDN
itself may not he far Of and that may soon be iouaa
There are several other works OF the sculptor VINO WI"
Il pupil Oflyslppus, III the Roman sa'cIhs'
The Order of the Seven Archers was organ
lied Plttsburg for the OstensIbe purpose OF eecns
political reform by means OF the baliot-box, but I've
heads of the encampments are authorized by the by
laws call members for active service, and they
must respond with musket knapsack, cartridse-boA
and n few days ratiOns. EnCampments have ALREADY
been formed IN Allegheny, Old Pttsburg and IN iDs
Twentysixth ana Thirty first Wards. South side. 10
Allegheny 400 or 800 persons meet every Sunday IN
beer saloon Troy Hill, and the proceedings are con-
Quoted entirely in the German and French languages
In the Thrtyirst Ward, Tuesday night, an encam9-
organic d, aud forty persons joined, nosto
whom had guns, be II known that person can DO
member unless he has gun. aud he must eilhef
show to the committee membership, or furnish e'
dence Of having one lie then binds himself to secure
knapsack and cartrlds soon as he can Simon
Tappertit grinding the tools his workshop, and pau'
ing 10 wipe ms heated face upon his sleeve and 10 mu
something will o. this, and hops t mas Do
human gore is cOmcal swaggerer but he had IL "a
his power to 10 mischief when the signal was gwen io
the Gordon riots.
Old StapletOn, the Thames waterman III
Captain MarTyato book used to argue that man was
cursed with too many and too keen SENSES and tha'
would be decided advantage for bOaiman TO "
nearly blind, for II he could pull young couple aOoa
the river and not be able To now and them II "ou
Dc many half-crOwn IN his pocket. The unioriuh".
class whose ndented with Eyeglasses eannV
lake so philosophical view OF the benefits of short-sis
and blindness. IL is a. matter which concerns 'h'
deeply TO know how they retain whatever powers"
sight they have. There sensible suSseS
lions. for such myopc victims, In lecture which wv
| fessor ii. W. Williams delivered Harvard, Thursu'
night He said that when is using the eye IN r'"
ing, it Is well to stop frequently and look at distan ~
jeets, as the rays OF light coming from such oWeeS
very nearly parallel, and the eye is rested by the
STOPPING positions while reading must be aVop"o"
pecially by myopic persons. there is great daus
the blood causing much pressure the cunning
causing serious difficulties there. While NOT con
against hsher education. the lecturer expressed n''