New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-01
GENERAL NOTES.

A monthly review has been estaOllsned III
Montreal devoted lts tite-pagc announces To Cana
dian emancipation ana cOmmerclai UNION WIN TIC
United states.
Japauese newspapers are not without mod
ern enterprise Que OF recently published map
OF the burned district OF Toxic. The page Is not very
handsome, but i tells the story
St. Louis is ahead of ChicagO-as a mining
gulcn Tue street Department has struck silver mine
while digging sewer through O'Fallon-sL Very rich
Galens ores fully 20 per cent In lead with
varying proportion OF silver" The deposit lies in pock
cts and the O'Faouists are contemplating the proprt
ely stalking claims In their cellars and Ddck Yards
what has Chicago To say 10 tnlsf
California is thriving and happy-and n little
boa.rrll Last year the most prosperous IN the
n,tory of the State the exports including 1000 600
gaIlons OF wine and $2oO000O0 worth Of wheat. al
though her distance FROM tie worlds markets makes
her profit on the latter commodity small. There were
built coast $50 vreees, anu the exports OF sOu
and silver were $26.2OOOOO.
The investigation of the management OF the
County Asylum at Fort wayn-. Iud., results IN test
mony TO the effect that the products OF the farm have
NOT boen honestly accounted FOR that the food served TO
inmates is vile In quality. insufficient IN quantity
wretchedy cooked, and that AGED inmates have been
rourged kicked aud treated with the greatest brutality
Putrd meat every stage OF decay seems 10 have been
served % food
Ii Is announced that the faculty of Butler
University Ia indianapolis. has forbidden the young
ludie
Many OF the charges against college fraternies have
boen vapue and unsupported. but In this
faculty has "a very PLAIN reason FOR Ts action. The
oUtu belief il ex ressed that the initiation ceremony
involved the kissing OF each glrl D, very poy' uouDe
lines being formed Tor the prompt ana efficient perform
ance OF the rIe'
There is at least one shrewd negro In
Georeia A gentleman. IN riding through the country
Gently came upon log cabn surrounded by patch OF
ground which u negro woman plough g with team
OF girls Near by the husband ana father was feeding
stout and healthy male. Upon beng asked why he did
NOT hitch his u To plough instead OF his daughters
he replied: Boss. dis mule Is mine de ole oman is
mine and de gals mine nobody IL gwine 10 fetch dem
avay but II dc mOrGum dis mule amt raised dis
Fl de white man will send dc Sheriff aud take de mule
aud all rse got. SO, thought I'd keep de mule fat.
and lot The gals oman work, aud save Ills boss
arsu rs much as can. fur II do wus comes can rice
of mule, ana go aOinewhar else 10 WOrb' Dats
II, boss; de work won't hurt dc gals.
In commenting upon the establishment at
Harvard chair OF the Chinese Language anu Itera
MIRA with a native professor The London telegraph
saws: When It Is considered how enormous are our
commercial interests the great Eastern Empire, ana
how many Engiishmen there are 10 whom u knowledge
Of Chinese would be OF the greatest values when. too,
tho rrospects OF increased communications with the
.Flowery Land grow every day, and there are not
waning sgns that China Is about open up IN man
nor altogether unprecedented to the ntelh foreigner
Il not satisfactory TO find the Americans so much in ad
vance OF ourselves. We have, 1t is true, chairs for
Oriental Ian guages but the study OF Chinese OF he
Tor elm - can only be conducted successfully by
tod gentleman from China. IL wOulu be- well II those
vino ne gte our universities at home TO their
attrnuol TO IA subject which daily increases IN luz
pOrtAncc'
Mr.. Edison is now studying up machinery
betting III order improve the connection between his
engine aud his AS TO the cracking OF his
lamps, he says. " IL bothered me at fist, for II
amounted to lamp in seventy-fve every day. Ths
would never do though believe II is much under the
average Of the cracking OF lamp chimneys. am now
cutting down the OF breakagcs every day The
lamp on the.able Is one have improved. You perhaps
know that the trouble caused by the expansion of the
metal wires which pass through che glass This causes
the glass winch Is rigid TO crack You notice the small
inner globe through which the wires pass Is now coated
with glass OF Il different nature from that OF which the
lamp Is made, and. beng slightly opaEed' Is clearly
ysible These two kinds of glass are affected by heat
at different ratio and thus the cause which leads TO
the cracking is As the claims OF others
TO the horseshoe device, be SAYS This is absurd
don't myself claim the horseshoe carbon az novelty,
and thought little OF Il that ala not even patent it,
lie adds: don't want any advertlsinR aud prefer 10
keep quiet until all arrangements are complete for
opening station in NewYOrk City for the public use OF
the igat then all viii see II and Gun Judge OF its
merits"