New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-22
GENERAL NoTES.

| A col0red minister, who has been Suspended
until the next annual conference has opened tsr5
shop in Washington, Penn. )
Mr.. W. j. Florence viii appear for the Ant
time In ten years Tim Moore ne Irish Lion on IA
occasion Of Mr. Floyd's benefit at walack's Mondav
evening" 31st inst. Edwin Booth and John Mccullough
as Iqgo and osLo. and Lester Wallack and Ada Dyas
in Inc Morning Call Will help to make up strono
programme II Is understood that the sale Of seas v
| begin at the box office to-day. Saturday.
A Philadelphia music publisher claims the
right attend the Pirates of Penzance" catch the
music by and ot 1t down proceeds atcrwa,d
from memory, and then to publish the report thus OBJ
tanned. In accordance with this claim he nado ar
rangements 70 have number Of musical experts attend
az many OF the performances may be necessary ID
take down. tranecribe aud publish IN music type the
whole or such parts OF the music as he may desire Ths
probabilities are that he will be prosecuted for infrag
ing the common law rights Of the author and the
poser.
The Philadelphia publishers of Nanan OBJ
ject 10 Anthony Comstock's censorship OF currcnt
literature. eve hardly believe. they say that
the law under which he acts contemplated any such
auocrac power he has exercised In this and other
cases. Under his Interpretation OF the law t would
that all he has do Is TO declare book immoral
and it is immoral be 1t Bible hymn book novel, his
decision shuts of all argument and under IL the publea
ton must be stopped the stock will be eonscatsd
and the publishers punished. In few days We shall
and until Then we do not propose. as Iawabdins
citizens. IN do anything that may have so much a. the
semblance Of resisting even pretended authority"
The Indianapolis physician who shot himself
early this week in O cemetery, his wifes grave,
had been married four years He purchased lot in the
cemetery being very particular that IL should be Just
large enough for himself and wife and the two children
He then began construction OF tomb in the lot in
which to place the remains OF his wife, and supern-
tended the work personally, watching 1t from beginning
to end The body Of his wife buried there last week
Tn hta fo.afza IA
discovered that instead of going to bed he took
scat before the picture and remained gazing nc It all
night Occasionally he would walk back and forth
position before the portrait week or ten days was
spent in this way during which he neither ate nor slept
He finally killed himself.
A child six years old was scalded to death
in bath fortnight ago In the English town Of Clifton
Little Herbert appeared TO have cold andh his aunt Miss
Laudae ordered hot bath TO be prepared, and in the
presence OF the NURSE after testing tue water with her
hand, placed the child in the bath. He struggled and
screamed, but. she had idea that he meant tho
water too cot, she kept him In 1t elk Lip
utes. He Of highly sensitive temperament, and
accustomed to get excited and ont at anything
strange that his screaming and struggling when kept
In the water did excite any alarm till he had been in
the bath some minutes when the nurse, thinking his
eyes looked strange and that he going to have it,
drew Miss Laudsles attention to their appearance and
the boy taken out and placed in bed, and doctor
very badly sc2lded. He died two days aftefward
The doctor attributed death the shock TO the nervous
system caused by the extensive scalds He added that
the hand very unreliable instrument TO test hot
water Nurses often used the elbow, and this was much
better when thermometer could not be obtained.
An exquisite bronze faun was lately dis
covered IN a newly-excavated house in Pompeii. The
statuette the OF fountain, and 10 execu
ton dimensions and type forms OF the group Of the
celebrated Nareissus, Dancing-Faun and silenus. On
entering the first OF the bronzes in the Naples
Museum the eye at attracted by the bold. free,
and graceful attitude OF this figure, the muscular yet
elegant of which unusually thick earthly
incrusation chemically united with the oxide. tn vain
tries to hide The Faun leans far back the weight Of
the body rests the right les the left being extended
forward TO preserve the balance. The wine skin Is
squeezed under and held by the left the hand OF
which grasps the spIgot. The right and hand are
lowered and slightly drawn back in the attitude Of
the back of the figure led the water into the wines kin
from whence issued from the spigOt The shape OF the
head is beautiful; the locks OF hair falling over the
brow are admirably indicated; wreath (probably
vine branch with grapes the head but s made
ndistnct by the incrustatons. Tie pointed,
and there is the usual tall The face and figure ex-
press joyous abandonment of youthful yotary of
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