New-York tribune., 1878-03-01
GENERAL NOTES.
inc Vale students who were arrested

| The nine Yale students who were arrested
on Tuesday night after the Joannes performance were
fined II each with costs, amounting TO - 20 Two OF
them refused to the fine and pleaded that they Lad
been unusy arrested. Tney VIII nave 10 stand tila
committee of young BostOnians publish
every fortnight little sheet called The Br0adside.
tanning extracts from editorials in prominent Journals
and from speeches OF public men the political and
financial topics OF the time The selections are made Ju
dlci0usy, and the publication IL very useful one.
The race between the Yale and Harvard
eghts will be rowed in New-London. on Friday, juno
2s Tie captains OF the two crews, with another rep
resentative each college will meet there, next Sat
urday, settle all the prelim naries Of the REGATTA
Yale is anxious TO have Professor A. NJ Wheeler ap'
pointed referee.
Mr.. Barron, the bank cashier who preferred
TO die reveal to three robbers the secret OF
the combinatonock, was as conscientious as he was
heroic. In the safe has been found life insurance
policy OF $1,000 with letter stating that II any
errors should be found in the accounts Of the bank after
his death that much OF It as might be need
full should be- used in making good the deficiency He
was unwilling to have his memory tarnished by any
accusation, trivial ilounded, after he had
closed the account-cuIrent OF his dealings on earth
A plucky Western editor is always happy
when somebody him for libel Mr.. Henderson. tho
editor OF The AHegGn Journal has two libel suits his
bands and devoes column after column that sub
jec rying very into Africa The reckless
fellow who has exposed himself to TINS broadside IS
Isaac f. Messmore whose literary style is peculiar. In
letter the defendant. which is now conspicuousy
dsplayed he wrote; " AN mad, but that ia not
the way to catch fIes-more can be caught with
moasses than vinegar" The editor Is evidently not the
man caught with either molsses or vinegar, and
nk-tand IN sancum is filled with something like
corrosive suDimate.
The organization of the literary society at
Yale College has at longh been completed It has the
old name OF Linonia The old graduates to take
great deal OF interest the movement, aud number
sent letters of congratulations The following are
the st officers Of society President Frank 4. Beck
with, rs, Waterbury, Conn.,; VicePresident, Harold
Roorback '.s s. g. New-York; Treasurer, Samuel N.
Foster 70, Ncwburg; Vce-freasurer, I. X. setsoD,
10 g. s. Bangor Me-. secretary, Sidney C. Partridge,
80 Brooklyn n. Y; yce-secrctary. stephen Trumbu,
so. Valparaiso, Chill. On Wednesday the first debate
tatve shoad aways vote the expressed opinion OF his
debate which well conducted for the first The
decision was given in the negative.
Those who have been interested in the work
OF the cooking school in this city will be glad to learn Of
the success OF a similar establishment i'll Edinburgh.
From the seeretary report read at the second annual
meeting fortnight ii appears that during the past
year demonstration and practice lessons IN hgh-class,
plain and cheap cookery have been given at the School
Of Arts with OF lessons in districts OF
Edinburgh Leiih iu Portobello and in board.
ing for young ladies' and classes have
Quoted in foryOne towns and vllages Tie attendance
all these places large aud the evening classes for
cheap cookery wero especially successful. In three
the evening attendance reached nearly lO0O aud
in many towns it not unusual a class Of from
500 to 700 persons AS the result Of these branch
classes local committees had reported not only great
improvement IN the cookery and economy OF tho
district, but many individual instances OF increased
comfort In the homes OF the work classes Appica-
tions for classes from numerous towns and villages
throughout the country continue TO he received and
would be supplied as rapidly as the Resources OF tho
school would permit
The blackmailing tricks of Paris journalists
are ingenious. writer for prominent journal, having
observed that the directors OF insurance company
hold regular session. seut in his card and ot
fered 10 write article setting forth the benefits de-
rived by those who patronzed the concern. He
laughed at for his mpudence and the door, and
on the next morning his newspaper had long article
life insurance, admOnshng those who intended putting
money by and providing for those who 10 succeed
them that would be far preferable for them to invest
their savings securities than trust them to insurance
companies whose thirst for premiums lmpelcd them to
acts of imprudeuce inviting "a catastrophe. second
article promised giving the names and details OF
officers where policies would be obtained without any
danger Of their becoming null void through any im
prudence the otthCso whom they trusted their
money. The first article placed before the board
There was not alldsion which could prejudice the
standing OF the company b. 10 evident that the
ideas contained IN the &c would prevent numbers
to be blackmaod 20 the extent OF III 900. receiving IN
exchange an article of 1000 lines, in which the writer
proclaimed that the concern In question eStab-
lishment worthy OF distinction by the state or the ret
benefits 1t conferred those who took advantage OF tao
promises held out and fulfilled.
A correspondent in Yonkers ventures to
send to The TRIBUNE scrap OF Byzantine history, aud
to assume that tho Western Congressman may not %
familiar with It, The assumption is not an unwarranP
able indeed the odds many OF the prairie
hnancers heard of the Byzantine empire, TO say
nothing OF Finays History Tho extract from the sec
ond volume which the correspondent REFERS relates
to the payment of public debt In debased coinage ana
the commercial results Of that policy The ohronicD