New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-28
GENERAL NOTES.

The Boston Board of Aldermen adopted n
resolution last Monday that antifraud ballot-boxes
Of certain approved pattern should provided for f
ture use in that city This was adopted after
careful investigation by committee OF the merits OF thu
attempt to cheat at the polls impossible.
AT the opening of the Manchester Assizes
recently Lord ChiefJustice Coeridge expressed tho
opinion that the crime OF perjury the increase
This conclusion had been forced upon him by his obser
vations from the bench After ponCing out that IL tho
oaths OF witnesses could be relied upon the court.
themselves must become Instruments OF oppression
Lord ChefJustce remarked that he should not think
III OF q law which made the possible punishment of per-
vitade might be totally inadequase punishment for te
mischief which u peJurer might commit.
If animals are not endowed with reason it
would he interesting to just what faculty santa
Barbara weasel summoned TO his aid tho other day
had been worsted in encounter with an enormous rat
who, aware OF bis own superior strength subsequently
bulldozed him most shamefuy. Determined not 20 sub
init to such fndsnities the weasel improved mo-
ments or solitude to dig through heap or hardened
compost hole large at end small az the other
Is just 20 admit tho passage OF his body. Having oo
peted the Job TO his sstssction went forth snd en-
gagged In another battle with the Again he was do
he darted into the hole with tho heels emerged
at the small end and entered again the large end
The rat tightly wedged In the passage fell An
easy victim To tho cunning OF his adversary.
An Astronomical Congress is to be held mex,
September In Strasburg, &C which celebrities IN this
ooDhoo ironi Aincrica ana all parts or Europe
pected to be present 1t is said that strasburg was
chosen the place OF meeting reason that n pos
sesses an observatory equipped with all the newest
tronomica Instruments aud appliances. In connection
with this announcement Il is mentioning that tho
natural popular curiosity TO examine the heavenly
bodies and especially such celestial phenomena "a
comets, has been grated in Paris by establishment
In the Trocsdero Of public observatory where astron
provided for the OF
has drawn large numbers OF people this place
free observatory promises onc he
institutions OF the French Capital.
Major Mclaughlin, who is about TO assume
charge of Standing Rock Agency become the keeper
OF sitting Bull anticipates little difficulty in causing that
once redoubtable warrior to anbe along pleasant
paths OF peace In the OF recent interview
said "while tits far from impossible that sitting
when he shall have been fed clad. and has had
opportunity TO regain his lost influence people,
believe none the less fully that by this
that chief viii have changed his desires and
an Agency Indian in the better meaning OF the term.
harm and bear him naught OF malice, and then by
little preerment authorityalmost intangible IN it.
SELF but 10 who believed might be hanged when
captured, very great deal-he can gradually be
duced TO learn the truth that his interests Will no
subserved by obedience to the powers that Maybe
I'm trine too sangine and little Utopan In my ideas,
but hope not The treatment that will win with Sit
ting Bull WILL with such notifications alterations
temperament may dictate be successful In the OF
other Chiefs ana whether doa't, years,
have peaceful agency and welldisposcd lot OF
wards"
Enough has been written about the super
stitions OF gamblers to oil volumes. but the suhet VII