New-York tribune., 1879-05-02
GENERAL NOTES.

An Auril day in London is alternately like
December and June. For example. the 18th ulr Al
,coct thc thermometer registered 3-o. its0od
at4l- and at 1880. when the came out the mer
5urv suddenly went UP to So. In few minutes how
sver a storm OF sleet came, and the glass fell TO 4Oo
rising again when the e1me ont O. 500 IN fact d
uan might been thinking one nour Ot the luxury
oiic-s drinks aud me next ealns ioi MS goatcoa ana
ruCs 20 Keep warm.
A radical ant-Prohibition speech was made
iu inc Minnesota Legislature recently. The honorable
member ieatE-red 81 his argument with autoologra-
ply almost the Gr-t thing my uiaut rested Ou,'
be said, vas . whiskey stl. NJ father meyer sat
1owu 90 dinner without bottle Of whi-ey on the table
ana we all drank it. Ever since can remember have
been IN The habit OF taking wa skcy every day. II
srssey ils men ana bIoats Jlen. 10 hasu't killed me-
anu sk any member Of the House 10 say II he thlLks 1t
b.uatcd me-"
A Unlon Army badge awaits an owner liz
West virginia. s. T. shaw. of PagsershurS, writes TO
TIE TRIBUNE; "a gentleman lW. C. Raleigh, who was
solder u the Confederate Army, has silver badge,
which he took the coat of dead Union soldier az
the battle Of Charlottesville. lie was wounded himself
and was going TO the when he 10 and took IT,
and ne w ta-e pleasure returning it o. the friends
of ga soldier when fully satisfied of their IDENTITY The
badge marked A. j. Hammond 3a kegimeni' Ex q
sion Brigade Pron.biy Company 1. IAe Union soldier
was kli .- one Sunday morning.
A public lecturer. who discussed on Tuesday
evening ID syracuse Tue Ethics o. Bsiug Funny" out
lined promising field for tine mathemauclans. He
suggested that somebody should gather at random
10000 newspaper -qubs and then arrange and classify
them so as 20 lculate the perCen of various
groups Il predicted the analyst woald find that
per cent relate 20 the mother-av, per cent to big
feet percent doctors killing their patients per cent
20 Illustrating the maxim that it poor mule which
WON'T work both ways and per cent 10 the servant
grl VINO kiudled fire with naphtha, and nothing has
"benzine OF her since. Moreover. he would discover
that not only the majority of jokes buLt on few
dummy ideas. but that THESE dummy IDEAS are III lhe-
selves only crnyenuoually funny.
If municipalities owe money they must pay
Nd Ike private debtors submit 10 the consequences.
Altoona. Penn. has treasury Ia q low state Of empr-
mesa u owe, Psnnsylva1ia 81 20S, and 10 cents m0re
for taxes Tired OF waiting for the money, the State
has levied The city, which 10 IA proposed 20 sell By
auction II It were more generally understood tnat all
insovent towns and cities danger Of hAc sum
mary process lj possible that fewer bonds TO much
less amount would Doe Issued Il is also probable that
citizens OF property would give trIfe more attention
topubhc affairs Settling day, however distant, must
come 20 Last; and private property may be taken on
execution for public usesa fact which there is ten
Ceny 90 forget They used 90 say ia Massachusetts, that
every farm was mortSased 20 pay ior the ri. ways;
ana though tAat was piece or Democratc eec4o-ce4-
ing there Wac good deal OF theoretical truth ia tie
statement
The spread of Nihilism Is partly accounted
for By saturday Rerie'r. tho ground tla there is
al inhOru WeryIer.sm ia Russians. Tie war, lt re-
marks may have deepened the feeling. for it is the
kind OF feeling which is easily deepeued ID troubled
times hut its existence Is way explained by the
war Where this sort of melancholy exists there is
disposition brood wrongs but 20 De Indifferent 10
remedies Tie Nihii-ts have Russia that they wish
% substitute the Russia that exists. They merely
hate who work the machinery Of existing Russia,
and are ready to lay down their lives only they
previously have the satisfaction of killing some vino
conducts represents the system they dee-t. No
pOt cal bOoY could De less III or less inclined han these
assassnatnE Nlhllst - rear up the fabric of constu-
tOna Government. They not OF tie people Tor
the people. They not even for themselves. They
cannot properly he said TO have cause. Il they
bat repay Oh their tyns some OF the misery tney un-
dergO or lear, tuey are satisfied
-Four Harvard students had lark last
Saturday night and did think OF going home unf
O'Clock in the morning. They drunk; they made
night hidsous. When officer approached them in
Washngt0ust OF them IN response % his request
70 move 0u said they drunk and another said
they would do Just about they pleased Tie officer
again ordered tue party move on aud IA no dG 50
took one OF the young men by the arm. T1is man
raised cane and struck Tie officer several times on
the head with It. The the party heard
by Major Tom Plant who, with a baker employed by
Councilman Taylor ran 70 the assistance Of the officer.
During the struggle the officer lest ms club, which
Of the students picked at tie moment dealing
him a heavy blow the head with Il. The last
salant then dropped the cub and made OF fast HE
legs could carry him. 0lt urenan gaze chase and
broughJ back. while the other three taken
charge Dv officer Plant and the baker but
out struggle, IN the cOurae OF which Tho Odiccr
thrown down and pretty severely handled hy The col
eaans The BOYS remained the stauOn-hOuse until
morning and then fined 81 Oh one OF these col
ege 0arrs Is prominently connected With tho Harvard
Navy.