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

Yale tutor carried off the honors OF the first
.hargerp ,ush OF the season on Tuesday afternoon.
The freshmen displayed standard in front OF the
New.Haven House O'Clock, and with the cries $50!
and 81 the classes rallied in force The appear
a,ce OF q tutor the sidewalk was the signal Tor
brosk in the ranks and the hanger placed in his
hands The sophomoes retired TO their renee ana sang
"Oh My Poor Fresh"
dark-eyed gypsy recently strolled into the
Kitchen of Engshmans house at Kiburn and offered
20 tell the cooks fortune. "No quoth the cook. who
was disposed be cynical al know 1t already II Is
hard work or starving" The daughter ofthe Rommany
Rive threatened transform her into some animal The
cook terrified by this preposterous menace, gave the
ripsy five shngs the first day and nine shnings and
tenpence the second day. and then had the good sense
20 have her prosecutor arrested Whether the
state of life which she was 10 be called was that OF
eiucking hen purrng tabby or turtle dove, che dld
MOI state she evidently believed that the SorcoieSS
had power TO change her into something else
The amateur draughtsmen and engravers of
Harvard appear good advantage in the closing mum
her OF the fourth volume Of The LampoOn. The fupaSe
illustration entitled Ye S-t-rd-y M-rn-ng Club5e" IS
an exceedingly clever study admirably executed IL is
Inv far the best OF the series Manners and Customs OF
We Bosonans" winch f. G. Atwood, OF the Senior class
bias contributed The Proposed Procession Of the UD
employed" from the hand, is capital HIT the
figures being those of College swes generously arrayed
in usters and superior with canes and cbins III
the air The humOT of this College fuoch" is Oiie1-
de1se but there is genuine merit IN ne Grawlnss
happy coneeit.
Thomas Brassey, NJ. p, son of the saga
ciOus railroad contractor and capitalist whose lie Story
has been told with such charming simplicity by Arthur
Helps recently laid before an audience OF woIhlnSmeh
some wholesome thoughts the comparative efficiency
OF American and English labor. He remarked that the
cost OF labor in the United States had stimulated the In
geuuty of American inventors, and by laOor-Savlng
machinery they had been able to compete with England
IN her own special manufactures. Reductions IN wages
had cheapened the of production st further and
American manufacturers were eupPi!ils ius s W Vo
Turkish armies. and sending locomotives 10 SCUM amer
ica and Australia. American mechanics he SAID worked
longer ami ndusiriously than thelr brethren Ill
England
Two English brothers have been wrangling
over their fathers grave The elder brother after keep
ing ave horses and running through fort had been
esiranged from his father and did not know OF the OLD
mans death until he received letter py post, running
Dear Augustus-lt Is my painful duty TO inform you
that father died last night at quarter OF twelve
sh4n be at home tomorrow, If you Ike to SEQ him
Yours iraternaly, Adolphus" Augustus drove TO the
funeral in cOach-aDdo and at the cemetery chapel
put out his hand his brother but AdOphus drew back
On their their fathers house, one demanded
that the will should be produced and read and the other
refused 10 have II done. When luncheon was brought
in AUGUSTUS took his seat at the head OF the table but
servant removed the wine rudey, and two policemen
phcs was then prosecuted assauting Augustus and
all the family linen was hung out TO dry.
There is a very sly passage in the Rev. John
w.
has lust been issued a pamphlet. II is this: went
TO hear the Boanerges doctrine here IN Brooklyn
set it FORTH And did set 1t FORTH without the least
equiyOcation. But did ne believe what he saidf He
thought or thought he thought he did but did hei Mo-
or he would nave thousand times more earnest
and eloquent He would not have cracked his little
jokes and heaped up his incongruous metaphors with
conscious pride And did his hearers, any OF them, be-
lieve what he saylngf 1 think not one. They sat
there and smiling as If they were listening to
the absurdties of The Crushed Tragedan The whole
performance involving preacher and congregation
stupendous piece of for the
most part but still make-beleve." What have BOan
erges" and his audience to TO thati SO radical
thinker Mr. Chadwick is certain 10 talk plainly when
versy which will force thousand men 10 ask, Do IN
deed believe this fghtul dogma TO which laDgudly
assentf and which Will compel as many 70 qes lon as
they have before the claim Of special inspiration
said the stronghold Of the gigantic Terror
The refusal of several Italian bishops to
celebrate funeral for the King provoked serious
disturbances. At Piacenza the bishops carriage
mobbed, the windows OF the Episcopal Palace were
smashed and the rioters only dispersed at the
point OF the bayonet At Bologna there were similar
demonstrations. At Rome Cardinal Bio urged the
Pope send encyccal letter to all the bishops,
Joining on them policy of resistance the holding OF
O consisory and the delivery Of allocuton in which 1t
Shoud be affirmed that the advent of the King and
the OF the present Ministry endangered the
independent co Of the concaye The intoerant Car
dnal advised the Pope to decline to receive any foreign
whohad arrived TO do honor TO the remains
OF the despoier." Cardinal Manning pointed out the
impruGcDce OF this course and the other hand the
Inconsistency Of yielding all points in the question of
religious rites especially there was no proof mat the
new King intended deviate from the policy pursued
by father. He Gsoountenanced any concession that
could construed admission OF the right Of the
King 10 rule in the Papal dominion. II intended
D. the Italian colony IN London that solemn requiem
mass should be performed In concentration OF the
death OF Victor Ell o lue The movement sup
ported by men Of all classes and views; even the
Church regarded II with favor, for priest among
the promoters IL was necessary 10 get Cardinal Man
nng's sanction Application made TO him by tele
graph and II was expected that he would Immediately
give hls permission. He IA understood to have replied
that the Italians might have low said that would
them; but the solemn obseQues proposed
were absolutely interdic ed The prohibition was sub
scduently modified. These incidents s. ow that Cardinal
Winnings influence al the Vatican is increasing and
that older he Is becoming less and less
EDgl.shman.
uTcYC1T And DRAMATIC NOTES