New-York tribune., 1879-09-02
GENERAL NOTES.

The statement in the letter from Alhanv In
yesterdays TRIBUNE concerning peculations IN the
Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company error in
one important partcular-it referred to The KDicker
booker Fire Insurance Company and not the Rniek.
would readily show.
pulpit telephone has been put into
church North Dana Mass so as 10 connect with thu
sick OF lady who has been Invalid for twenty.
five years The first message To her from the pulpit
the Lord Is shepherd, shall not want" ecture
on tho telephone is 10 he gwen to defray the cxpenseo
putting IN the instrument.
The announcement made by the managers
Of the Oneida Community has been followed promptly
by the abandonment Of the system or complex mar
risges the part OF the Society Wsllngford Conn.,
Tho family" there has reduced about twenty
MEMBERS and these must now take their choice OF
race cebacy. and II Is thought those are
faithfully attached the doctrines of the CON-
munty Will prefer the latter II IL Significantly stated
that the women OF the Community unanimous in
their expression OF approval Of the arrangements
A public well enough disposed to be chari-
table, when charity Is needed. would really like to
whether Memphis desires assistance not. The
Memphis Aralanehe says in substance that after the
donations or last year, amounting 70 nearly tbreoquar
OF milton Of dollars. aud considering that the
pestience ths year may be fairly attributed 10 Mem
phan lack OF cleanliness begging Is resOrted to with
I'll grace. II II he resorted 10. try Tennessee
first says The raGnche IL Is great state, with over
q milton OF Inhabitants. Thos should be appealed 20
frat especially It is the persistent neglect of its
Are we o be looked upon" saws this newspaper in
the Light of perpetual phupers T.
Anent the claims of foreigners upon West
minister Abbey. The Saturday RerieV cites the Of
General Pao being nearly In point TO that o.
the Prince Imperial. HIS body was buried 10 the Old
cemetery ST. Paucras and sixty after his death
his removed Corsica but DR.. johnson and
the club had taken that be should lOt be for
gotten England, and Faxman's bust had been placed
the aisle OF the choir OF Westminster where IL
stil remains Paoh neither king nor EMPEROR
but he was President OF the Republic Of
ms native Island The Prince Of the BOnaparte
family Is buried At Chiselhurst IN Roman Catholic
cemetery. Pao was buried az -. Pincras, and lis
body may removed his native land, that OF Pa0
was but monument be erected 20 MIN. as to Paoli
in Westminster Abbey the irony history Will be strk
ingy illustrated Had Pao continued for little while
longer Governor ot Corsica the first Bonaparte could
not have been born Frenchman, even In name. The
geat grandfather Of The deceased prince was actually
In seuse the subject ofPao; and yeiIterthe lapse of
century from thc Dlrtn or Louis BOnaparte ate wards
Kng of Holland, the best precedent Tor the erection oi
monument 10 the grandson Is found ~ the case Of gen
connection between the destlnies OF France ana VI
Corsica
The big Krupp gun, breech-loader made OF
Steel tested fortnight ago. TIE charge of powder
was 44O pounds, and the weight of the shot l,7l2
pounds The velocity attained 1850 feet per second
at the muzzle. In eacn tho rounds the weight
the powder-chage 4iO pounds. The shot In the
ghed nearly l,7O9 pounds the velocity
was GA feet. In the third round the shot weighed
7O7 pounds; velocity 1645 feet. The first and second
rounds trial Shots for the purpose OF obtaining the
range The target distant 2,755 yards. The first
shot went the second fell short OF IT, but
the third made good MT The great sul-lnakcr con-
TENDS the real OF tho power OF gun Is tho
height TO which IL would be raised by the power which
is impaired to projectile when nred Krnpp. with
n..si a. IN rarsttaa an-
graIpnes a velocity OF 5O2 metres per second This
force would lif than 10000 tons metre high,
which the raising the itself % height OF
40 metres 45S feet. The energy Of the shot fired by
the Fraser eO-on gun would raise gun Itself tho
height of l2l metres 397 feet SO also le Armstrong
gun 100 tons develops an energy suhcent T. raiso
That gun elevation OF 125 metres. or 4lO fcet
The power Of modern artillery is well illustrate by ING
face that che shot lilies IT'S with force sufficient
the gun itself altitude equal t. hat oi tAe
glt cross on the topot ~. Paul.. CstaeaIai LONDON
M KIIrp 1m.s S s@ 20 P3%s5 gp segen' % an least sS
feet above the topmost point.
He who hath music in his soul but cannot
express it through back Of technical skill with iastrf
mens devised stimulate the concord OF sweet sounds
need no longer despair. Inventive genius has solved
the poblem forcing him to be content with the
monotonous hand-organ or ,ne mechanical music-box
TIE automatic organ. 1t is called involves the neces
sy the part OF the player OF using the feet upon he
treadles. but the manipulation OF the keys by the
fingers dispensed with by the peculiar process OF hav
ing the music pay l1sen In place uI Ordinary u"'es
printed upon few pages the roll OF music Is yards IN
length and the perforations varying In sze
aud place according to the time aud pitch by IN ar
rangement OF wheels this roll "a unwOund and dra.a
over the openings above tho reeds by the motion
of the pedals which forces the air through the atter
and as the perforaons pass the reeds The musical
sounds are allowed TO escape in harmony. just as
they do when the keys pressedia ordinary organ
When the played, Ingenious contryance pei.
mits the machinery 10 be reversed the sheet OF
music TO be removed readiness for another perform
ance II can then be readily removed and another put
IN its place. According the scope OF the instruments
the .iyla music performed may be varied frOln
St,bat Mater airs from PiDafore." The cost ot
the rolsis ony slightly advance of Ordinary sheet
music while large sized instrument can be had Tor
about the same the cheapest ordinary paror organ
This invention is realization OF the fancy o music
reeed out by the yard