New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14
GANEkAL NOTES.

The traditional young idea has been trying
% shoot uncouvenuona. way from the benches
North AtteDoro lNIass) Grammar school. timid
lad recently LETT his seat extreme repdatlOn, and,
being repr maaded sharply by teacher. gave this
succiuct explanation: can't sit there and have
seven-shootcr pointed me-" The hoy accused
asserted thai Il only pasiehoaid pistol hut when
lis pockets td the be crauu'd
down his throat ihe scytn-shootcl was there, with
every chamrer loaded
The recent death Of Lord Durham has To-
freshed public recollection Il tact illustrating the
effect OF the law OF primOsengrc The eldest
o. ms Loldslp were twins and 80 wonderfully Ike mat
the elder. present Lord Durham, hld 80 be marked
for identification. THIS troubled the father and he de
termineo mat tne Hon. Fred, lck William Lambon, who
had the had fortGue 10 into the world thirty miu-
utes after his tucker brother, should have handsome
provision made for him in spite Of the law of entail He
therefore Duiit fine residence 40 Uvoer, an excellent
spot ior iooing and shns anu this 'he datory twin
VOW iuherits.
A Daniel has come to judgment in the per-
sou oil Judge Edrdge If Memphis, who requires Tue
officers Of the Circuit TO be prompt IN their attendance
under penalty OF fine. Ore day last week he late
himself business OF course suspended until he
appeared He mounted the bench with the stern aspect
of Raadamanthus Mr. Clerk" he Observed. you
will please sab. enter mp fine against Judge Eldrdge
for absence without an excuse" Tnis done amid
breathiess silence. bu alteIward AtOrneyGeneral
Dayal mado a most eloquent appeal IN favor yemll
ting the fine. lie referred in touching terms t. the
lromptness OF Judge EdrdGe. ANA to his deyO-
ton to the duties of official position. Then followed
W. j. RIyes, in speech ~ which logic and pathos were
most deileately and ngen,0usly interviewer. But the
eloquenca ct both attorneys fell on stony The
Court observed that while edited and moved by the
tOqueucc OF The learned counsel lis determination 10
punish offer der n1exinle Bartlett might pass
away; tbc time might arrive WHIT M pins would
o. discuss the sanitary question; but that hne must
stand.
The wedding breakfast is an institution with
which American readers OF British novels, vel
acquainted But perhaps il Is not generally under
stood here. that the wedding breakfast is festive
cessity that Is institution created by tIe English
law. which that marriages shall be soemnzed
between the hours Of m. aad II IN. Mr.. Blener
hussett Inc House II Commons, has given notice OF
bill TO repeal this law. and TO allow marriages 10
be celebrated In the evening. This viii abolish
the wedding breakfast with its early drinking and
dissipation ana its forced hlary. to nothing OF The
sacrifice a whole day the part OF the guests which
A. and the mpossbility OF getting rid OF
feeling Of scandaOus, daylight upsiness. People can
be married there at post-incrdau hour by taking
out specal license, which involves the payment OF
good round sum the Archbishop of Canterbury This
arbitrarily hunted privilege. % Is held, should br the
free possession of the Engish people There Is also
enme tax of celebrating marriages IN drawlngIOOhs
ettCr the American fashion.