New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-05
GENERAL NOTES.

There are measles and TO spare In the SOL
Aiers Orphans Home at Normal, Ohio. On FRIDAY o.
last week the nrst reported and oy e"'uu"y
night there we're fifty cases At noon Sunday there
,Voro 100 cases and Sunday night almost ZOO IhoIe
are only 1925 inmates in the Home AL tOiu'
A strange old man, who died near Troy last
Sunday requested that his remains shOnld be kept IN
the house three weeks that one OF bis sons make ms
coffin and that his four Gig the grave and ner the
body lowering It into the grave as the sun should be
setting behind the mountains near DIS mousse.
The door Car cannot be shielded from the
neadlesome pranks OF the Ehlists. When he wakes in
the morning finds revolutionary documents on his
Dressing bureau when he opens his mail he reads men
scing letters written black bordared paper When
he goes to the theatre draws from his pocket with bis
handkerchief q revolutionary mannestO. Is IL strange
that lac dstrusts everyone III his services
The GrqpMo celebrated its seventh birthday
yesterday with handsome number OF extra SIZE. us
continued demonstrates the feasibiy OF day
illustrated paper and the more striking when II is
remembered that no other city IN the world supports
,ueb journal he Graphic II edited with great
aud daily growing not only in Circulation but 10 IN
fueuCe
The secondissue of The New-York Evening
Express statesman's Annual" conducted by twOndeau-
gable workers, Henry a. Jackson ana John b. Peck.
retains ali features Of the initial number and con
ians much that is The patronage tables have been
revised and the miscellaneous statistics OF the United
States have been extended to include the gures Of
statement OF State and municipal debts Is most IN
sruc've feature Ii is Poltical encyclopedia rather
Than working handbook, but The enterprise and pains
hended.
More intricate and confusing than a thirteen
fiiesnf iurieen puzzle l. such passage TINS from
Ehe P1H NqH Gazette; Nay. even with the Americans
o! the Uued States Imperialism is the key 10 all poll
ties aud political divisions. The American Uuion fifty
years since merely mother territory with many
dependent possessions, far away, some unnhaOl-
red, some costly, and some dangerous Yet no fewer
than FIVE American Presidents belonging TO what was
on the whole the least pectbe OF the American par
fIes were elected simply they promised TO place
the integrity Of the empire before all other cOnsidera
tions Andrew Jackson. Van Buren,, Polk, Pierce and
Buchanan we're all Imperialist Presidentsi and when
their policy expired the oioodes and costest war Of
Our times followed; and all for empire. The simplest
policy denounced by the opposition he III principle
hseparaDe from human nature
All Vienna seems to be in cOmmOtiOu over
the performances OF certain Professor Hansen, who
processes 10 have the power Of controlling the minds
snd bodies Of other people by Of force residing
In hm. which ne calls magnetism tor want or better
name yet which ne says Ia not magnetism but some
ming 90 cannot explain lie hired theatre, employed
81 orchestra and for two three weeks fuod the house
with cur spectators 40 good prco for admission.
His OF raons upon persons selected from the audience
Idenuca with those which used 10 be practsed IN
this country 10y the lecturer. mesnersu VINO peram
buated the land twenty ar twenty-five years ago The
subject thrown into auc8 10y passes made with
the hands over the head ana body ana n This condition
became ob,dien 20 tho wl OF the Prof ssor imagining
TO be VINE. wakn45tirhs 20 be snakes and cong
mechanically Whatever hc directed to do. To the
Venncse This was a novelty, aud among the crowds
that o. .ed the theatre members Of The nobility
md "a Impcri. family. The doctors of The University
Invest Iated tho performances, and one Of them whom
Hansen red to operate upon denounced him a- COM