New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-13
GENERAL NOTES.


While Chicago brewer and his wife were
dancing and drinking wine a neighbours wedding one
evening last week. daughter. who had remained at
home on the plea OF having such headache" quietly
ran away with young man ana was married
''Pink-eye is the name given to a disease
which has broken ont among the horses at Hartford,
Conn Il usually follows excessive weather, with
sudden changes and is very much like cold IL settles
on the lungs aud produces congestion OF the bowels.
and If the kept work the complaint soon kils
HIM, for he loses his appee and the joints OF the legs
become very much swollen.
How many clergymen are there who can
build pulpit The Rev. Mr. Sweat (suggestive name)
has constructed one; and instead OF keeping it for his
own use In MddlehOro Mass. Mr. Sweat has presented
it TO the Temple Highland Grove. Martba's Vineyard.
II is said to be a fine piece OF workmanship; and tho
reverend builder ought to have the privilege OF preach
Ing the first sermon la T.
Cincinnati has a society for "The Promo
ton Marriage" and under It's auspices picnic was
lately given, which # announced thar hum
bred couples benefciar!es OF p NJ. A. would be pub
licy given in the bands holy matrimony. First catch
your rabbit you cannot people unless you can
ind pairs TO marry and instead Of one hundred the
society could only induce three men and three women
to 60 through the performance Those who went To- the
picnic TO witness gigantic and multtudiH0us marrying
disguised and uttered loud expressions OF diseon-
tent This failure of a piece of wholesale vugariy Is
happiness of marriage solemnzed In balloon, circus,
a glft enterprise concert room. or al picnic.
A Vienna journal. with an air of great
solemny states that Emperor Will shortly receive
private letter from n person Of exalted position N
Spain the contents Of which will be OF the highest in
teres to the reigniny families in the countries The
contents note, adds paper will only be made
public in November This very mysterious paragraph
probably the possible marriage Of King Alfonso
with The Austrian Archduchess Marie Christine. The
Young widower lately met the Princess in Biarritz,
.rfthb ar Kfuy
was three years at the Vienna Academy the Theresan
mm and it vas during student times that he first
made the acquaintance OF tue Arcbduchcss then hardly
more than a child. He VIII visit Vienna IN September
or October on his way Hungary where he is ing TO
stay win old college friend for some shooting
Men can get accustomed to anything. 1t
l. said that I'm Memphis, with the number Of new
cases" su increasing, is less cheerful
ness and that tests are entirely unknown An AMI
mat d new spaper at such pestienra crisis. must no
Invaluable; and there is the stricken city winch
announces with little joke, tnat It must consign an
original "pome" to the wastepaper basket, one s'aDZa
OF said "pome" being: "Our streets full OF ghost
Ike gutes With blauched cheek and anded head And
II Il were not their nurred movements, You would
tuk that they already dead" IL rather ghssty
however TO read OF a threatened ot at the Camp Mark
TO winch so many have fled SAFETY, and the consgn-
ment Of several ,rsons jail for dsordery proceed
ms Nothing can sob SOME people in good behavior
or prevent them from Writing poetry
The history of a late strike in West Stock
bridge Mass Is edifying. The wOrkmen in the employ
of the Hudson Iron Company getciug II per dem
Some of them struck for 81 25 ard forced others VINO
had no stomach for striking the same. The iad-
son Company its furnaces needed repairs, were q's
willing 70 close It's miues Last Friday there was con-
ference Of employers and employed, and the rate OF
wages was settled 81 12 There have been ten days
of idleness voluntary enforced The strikers nave
thus lost $40 They must, therefore, work eighty DAYS
before the advance Of l2l9 cents, which they nave
secured Will make up for the so lost; ami 40 the end
OF that the Hudson Iron Company should put back
the 81 the whole thing VIII DO 10 do over atan
The question Is whether the agreement could not Jaw
been arrived at through the exercise OF little mooeF
without any strike OF loss at ali.
The refinement of scientific warfare Is Illus
trated By the firing Of the French Army As
Me process described by the 4reHr Mil'taiTe heu
firing c4nnot he carried ia tue manner preseOcdOy
the regulations without the employment Of six dnereb'
Instruments. An thermometer Is used 10 measure 'Ao
force and velocity wind ia order that the Aeees
sary corrections may DO made. The pressure o. tbe
sphere is ascertaned by barometer; because INC
sights having been graduated for with the baroter
at certain height If the pressure varies. secoHo
series Of corrections must be made. A hygromeiei "a
required to measure the amount OF moisture In ths
soherc the degree OF dampness OF which nlatet
ally Affects the resistance IL offers the flight OF pro-
,ectie and consequently third series OF corrections
must DO made When the nre ia directed upon objeets
hidd, n from view plane table. called panohetle 70
employed. A telemeter OF rapsonnder' IL ehpi"Se sS
ascertain tho distance OF tho objects nred At ANU