New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-26
GENERAL NOTES.

The grafton at the Valley Forge centennial
celebration, next june will be delivered by Henry Ar.
mitt Brown, Philadelphia Colonel 7. W. Bean, Of
Norristown will read historical address, and prOpos
ais are to opened for the construction OF an ODE be
sung by large choir There will also be Federal sautes
military review, Kelsrs American hymn and other
soemnities.
A paupers' strike is a new idea. A company
of able bodied men Of this class In the English City Of
Sheffield were recently sent from the old workhouse
help build new one. They refused to work. and organ.
tied strike. Their grievance that the hash sup
piled to them for dinner stale. They called upon the
chairman OF the Board of Guardians and submitted
inspection sample Of their rations, and he was com
PEELED to admit that 1t not what ought to have
BEEN They refused to with their work. or even to
pick oakum until the hash should DO officially nyest:'
gated.
Ponson du Terrail's dolls ought to have Joined
the company of at his funeral In Paris three
weeks ago. He most popular author offeueton and
was in habit of writing several stories al once which
appeared simultaneously in various papers He used to
dress up little wooden dolls TO represent the characters
Of his Stories and In order to keep his plots free from
confusion he would place each set OF figures in position
on Its own STAGE that whenever new instament of
the romance called for he could see at glance how
and where had left the children Of his brain when be
last wrote of them Once he killed off hero without
removing from the board the doll that represented the
character and subsequently the young man reappeared
in the story much to the asonishnent OIL 'ne tsa0ets.
thor killed him of again few chapters further on
body's feelings were hurt.
A Paris banker, a self-made man who had
known the struggles Of poverty IN his young days. had
an old tmepieee his bed when be breathed his last
a few weeks ago When be was boy he used to say to
himself: "when you rich, you will buy picture.
clock representing hamlet with its church ana III the
steepe clock and at the foot Of the village railroad,
with train In full motion, and side tue sea, with
ships sailing by" All these things we're made to work by
machinery IN the clock which the rich banker bought
The train whisted aud along the line aDd the ships
were tossed in the and tho key which set them IN
motion was carried in the old genteman's pocket. The
clock the place Of honor in his drawngroom sur
rounded by paintings which cost their weight In gold,
there remained for years His wife and children
did not like It, They laughed at IT, They could not IN
derstand his whim They did not know OF oil the Old
dreams which that picture awakened IN hun. His
friends laughed at him for letting 1t remain In the draw
ing-room. so he took 1t into his own room; Nheneysf
he wanted his youth no would WIND up the ola
clock, and then the steeple would cnme tle sea loaf
the ships toss backwards and forwards and ne Woua
about the wonderful treasure.
Two hundred Scotch students went to tho
opera at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow fortnight ago.
and during the overture brought various Instruments
of torture play The programme or their proceedings
was varied by the singing OF g Nancy Lee, ana o'ner
songs After performance of the opera had begun
the students amused themselves by throwing peas
oranges pipeheads and other missiles among the audi
epce Four constables inspector, and a sergeant
went TO the gallery whether their presence would
helm restore order The students evidently looked upon
them as new objects on which 20 vent their SUPER
abundant energy, and peas and oranges tapped the
heads shoulders and faces OF the officers. As 1t was
useess to attempt any arrests then. the police quietly
admitted to all the assaults and kept their eyes about
them to pick out their men. In the meantime, some
hard aud sharp missile thrown from the gallery struck
the head OF young lady In the stalls and made an
ugly cut, from which blood flowed freely The academic
black who did the mischief arrested after the
perfrmance and an attempt made 10 seize another
young man bat the students made rush and rescued
him. Great efforts put forth 10 capture an amateur
bucler who rad been CONSPICUOUS leader IN the DIS
turbance but his companions shut oil the gas aud no
made good his escape.