New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-11-18
GEYER4L NOTES

GLNLKiL 0OIEN
Irregular methods are tolerated in the West.
TWo men started from Minneapolis the same train
carving conflicting deeds 20 piece Of land in Sioux
Fails ami resolved 10 get his document recorded
trs A. they approached that city, one OF them climbed
upon Tie engine slipped the coupling, left the train to
lake care o. Itself, and rushed on securing record OF
MS haf IN advance Of ais rival Who Lad 10
walt ior another locomotive
The first Bulgarian Assembly is settling
down to Il pr0traced VI hard work. Bills are TO
he presented the organization Of the Administration
ana the police; church reform; on the reform OF
the courts OF usticej public instructions on the es-
tabisnment OF "a law college aud the army Prince
Alexander In opening che Assembly referred 10 the
brgandagc which bad adc IT'S appearance IN The east
ern portion the country alter The departure OF the
Rus ans and which had rendered necessary the procla-
MACON OF state siege hut lac added the evil bad
spread Speaking Of the Enancai SITUATION q. ad
that me present revenue Was Lot sncs = au Aa' he
vAom the eyes of Europe were liked, 10 supply The
deficit.
Gambetta took official possession OF the Palais
Bourbon fortnight Invitations had been sent TO
the Deputies to attend the ceremony. The President Of
the Chamber the VcePresident, the sec
rerles and the questors followed by large gather
ing OF MEMBERS OF all visited the sale des Scdnces
GaInDetta mounted into the Presidents chair examined
his and rang his belh no doubt 10 see IT were
sonorous enough to impose silence. The Presidential
Five Hundred. under the Empire. and is ornamented
with bas renefs marble The sale is fine one, but
the green tapestries old and faded and match baoy
wl,n red gold fringed trimmings OF ne Irbunes
r,rsTv COT iato lie rostrn and read tic decree OF
ConyOcatlOn 10 Try the acoustics Of the na, which
were pronounced satisfactory.
There are many claimants to the vacant
throne OF Afghanisiau. Up TO Tie present time tue
choice would sem to lie between Ayoob Khan. tue in
l. IL LA Inf-
ters uncle. the eldest OF the deceased AbdooHs
JAM who is still a child, and lad OF YakOOb khan'@
TIE sina correspondent Of Ihe ErGmiHr mentions an-
other preteIder the person Of one slfdar sheieef
Khan brother OF the late shere AL who has long been
living 10 Hindostan on pension allowed HIM By the
Indian Government. The reason assigned for belief
la this chiefs candidature s that he lately lett his place
OF residence in india and with fnu permission Of
the Yiccro7 proceeded Cabnl Another claimant Is
Padsha Khan the puissant CHIEF OF the great 1luLA
still living THIS muutudnous progeny rather tends 10
bar his clam, sIuee wneueve ne alea Aisnahistan
would be thick with preteudCTsSrOn the ranks "
his descendants
Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson has been giving
Boston some comuOn-sense notions about the framing
iha. Girls Need" Ia a paper read before the Moral
EdCcatiO Society she pronounced III health luxury
that enormously Increased OF living. She al
yised mothers Keep their girls from their fate.
and she asserted that girls should be made TO lead
quiet life simple diet until they fully grown.
they should exercise freely In the that
Lousework should he done by them in carefully yeuti
lated rooms that their dress should be radically
changed 50 that longer shall their vital organs he
compressed or their hips weighed down with OF
cloth that would willingly carry. Compliance
with these rules, she believed would give 20 the world
a nober. healthier VI women. The object OF girls
mental training should be- she said. 10 enable her to
reason, Ill her brain with superficial IDEAS The
processes applied to women's minds that de-
t1.a ~ Tho neif
bring about the same results. She advised that girls
pursue with thorouglncss the disciplinary studies
Next TO this she would place the perceptive faculties
In which woman is now much more proficient than man.
Woman should also be acquainted more less init
matey with PHYS natural philosophy the laws OF
mechanics, chemistry political economy the character
stcs OF republican form OF government. rhetoric and
natural sciences all OF which are Tar more importa0tt TO
the xiii than the modem languages First OF all paren-
duties Mrs. WoolsOn placed that Of htting children
ter how wealthy their family mas be, since Is
yond the reach of possible poverty.
Four railroad trains running into rivers in
one week Is bad record. Fortunately IN the Hudson.
River aud the Hackensack The loss Of life was
small merely the trains happened lightly
loaded More important was the falling OF the great
st. Charles Bridge the Missouri evening week
ago. and the punging OF seventeen cars loaded with
took into the river ninety feet beneath. Five
were killed. The bridge has four spans OF sos
feet each. and three of 800 feet each-in
all, nearly half mile. II ranked as one u
the finest railroad bridges IN the country.
survivor who the cabOose rs it eaped ou into
the gulf. says II ike taking nlght-trip In BAR
loon" The engineers do not understand how II could
have happened tho bridge would easily hold seven
times the weight OF that train" but they think axle
must nave broken Afterthe saving Of imperied lives
he peous appeals OF the imprisoned cattle and hor
were answered Says The Republican "M Men armed
Nith reyolyers walked tue line and where
sufferer was found who could not be re-
leased from the debris. bullelhole in the head
put end 10 its trouble Some OF the hOCs
however, who mOaned the loudost. were beyond even
the reach OF tho bullet buried away I'm under the wreck
These were of course left TO die. OF them lived
through the night and day. aud when the umbers were
taken away from and around them they came out nos
looking bit the Tor their terrible fall The hogs
met with the best luck Their round, fat bodies saNeds
full luUdred OF them rom death The cattle dd not fae
WELL Oui Of the 200 not taken from the
wreck"