New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-07
GENERAL NOTES.

This season the Paris Salon is lighted by
the electric light The effect is said to be very satisac
tory though the color effect is, in some pictures I'M
paired.
gentleman in Paris has brought action
against a cabman who was engaged to carry him to
burial at the cemetery. but who accompanied the
wrong funeral procession
June 9 marks a decade since the death Of
Charles Dickens. Bofins Bower in Boston will cele-
brate the land Miss Collins has received so many offers
OF professional assistance that the entertainment Will
occupy two evenings.
The universal language of the future lifa
has been blnted at by Professor Gabriel Campbell, OF
the University OF Minnesota address on Philos-
ophy in America" He thinks 1t will be music based
upon some such principle that governing the msthe-
NAUTICAL combination OF sound and color On the main
topic he said Science gain nothing by an cutlery
against the classics which must command an Interest
greater and deeper than they do even now
Philosophy will have to do with the problem OF CO.
education and deal not with identical education. but
an equal education and determine the amount OF cu
ture and the kind OF culture 1t will have to do with the
governmental problem-whether woman shall take
equal command with man IN the government this VIII
be decided phosOphically, aud the question VIII %
settled whether she eau afford TO stoop IT, 1t.
The English sparrow is a "conlidence bird
OF the most insinuatipg kind He has arrived In San
Francisco where ilrepOrt had preceded him, ana yet
has succeeded in negotiating himself into the good
favor OF Cal!ornians. The Morning Call says OF him;
where-on streets we'll In the public parksbas
its enemies as we'll friends In this city the spar.
row been called hoodum' There may be locali'
ties where the presence Of the sparrow Is undesirable,
but to the shaderees in front OF private dwellings his
visits are very generally welcomed" II there be 10
America section uninYtiDR as TO be unworthy the
visits OF the maren and the blue-bird 1t Is concevaDe
that there the SPARROW might make himself useful and
desirable But in most localities he only the base
purpose OF bullying and driving away song Dlrds the
iatchet of whose shoes he Is worthy to unloose"
Il -, coekh nn nj
superstition that darkhorse" candidates run well in
the Presidential race and excite peculiar kind Of
thuSiasn The following incident Ia recalled by gen.
teman Of Lexington, Kentucky, and shows that Henry
Clay was firm believer the superstition: " In 1884,
while the Democratic Convention was in session at Bal
tmOre. in company with several gentlemen, was sit
ting in Mr.. Clay's law office. The party had called IN
order to ascertain the from the Convention The
only communication at that day was by mail One OF
the gentlemen received letter giving the result When
IL was announced that James X Polk had received the
nomination deep silence prevailed for few moments,
and said i am beaten One o. tho gentlemen asked
Why do You think so. Mr. CayP His reply was: NO
body knows James X Polk"
A little New-Yorker, fifteen years Of age,
named George McDermott, has turned up IN Man.
chester ngland police court having been arrested for
begging. The story he told him the sympathy and
aid Of the Judge He said that both bis parents were
dead and he had for the last three years kept himself
and little sister. who now six years old short
time back he shipped on board vessel from New.York
on a voyage the United Kingdom. On the ship get
ting TO Antwerp he found she not coming on here or
going back to the United States. He then got ship
which brought him to London, where he had been for
nine days trying in vain get ship. He had money.
and had walked about all the time living as best NO
could very ANXIOUS 10 get back 10 his fe SIS
Ter IN America and II he could manage TO get 20 Liver
pOol he felt sure OF obtaining berth On ship gong
back 10 the United States. He given money ont OF
the funds OF The court pay his fare " Liverpool
OF the kind of mobility" that exists only
In name France. like Poland and Italy, seems TO have
supply meet the demands for to come,
OF American girls ambitious to support some impecu-
nious count. and live In titled unhappiness Here Is
sample advertisement from Paris paper: An honor.
able English LADY, warried to u French nobleman, is
well acquainted with three dukes. four marqulscs and
five counts. belonging TO the highest French nobility
who are DESTROYS marry Englisn or American ladies
having enough income TO keep high rank IN the st.
German society OF Paris The titled persons in ques
ton are thirty TO sixty old. They 40 not re-
ouire titled ladies, but honorable ones The same Eng
sh LADY can procure the title of marquis and the title
of count gentlemen OF fortune aged from thirty 10
thiriy.twO hiryye. II they consent To marry the
young ladies who, by contract can give that title to
themselves aud their descendants. TIE greatest dis
cretiUn IL promised AMI Will De observed Apply, dur
ing a fortnight 10 Post Restante, etc."