New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-29
GENERAL NOTES,

The officers of the London Crystal Palace
have made alomens of space to exhibitors OF electric
light at the forthcoming international exposition
There was white frost and thin forms.
ton OF ice In San Francisco November 49, and at t
same time orange trees there laden with aove,s
and fruit Ns
The San Francisco Chronicle prints extract,
from number Of papers published the Pacific Coas,
all condemning the reciprocity treaty between thu
United States and the Hawaiian Islands, and demandnc
Its abrogation.
Marriage insurance associations, hayin,
spread from Pennsylvania westward through Ohio ana
Indiana, have gained foothold in Iowa. and thu
state officers making preparations to take legal ae
ton looking 70 their suppression.
Another isthmian canal is proposed. Thi,
time it is the sUbmus OF Kraw that is to be severed civ
ing waterway the Malayan Peninsula and short
enng by GOO miles the route from India to China Tbs
canal viii be about 80 miles long through ferns
country OF great wealth in tin gold aud minerals
The Cincinnati Art Museum, which will open
in few days, probably, VIII contain eighteen Piece,
from tho Winter Palace, st. Petersburg, among them a
part Of the toilet service Of the CzaTna Anna Iyanovna
who died in 1741 hftynine pieces from the Hermitage
COLLECTION, s. PeteTsbuTg sixty from the Treasury OF
the Palace Moscow, and thrtysiX from the Treasury OF
the Patriarch OF Moscow.
MISUNDERSTANDING parcel from America
was recently received by Mr. Creyke, n p, at Rawcgs
Hail. England and he, with visions Of dynamite before
garden. But curiosity fear, and the sus-
plcous package eXhumel and sent very gingerly
TO WoOlwich Arsenal After much debate it was opened
by an experienced officer the Explosives Department.
guano.
With the beginning of the Advent season,
marked in some churches by longer sermons than usual
ttngly a reminder that in one church. at least
the rule OF short is observed the year round
At st Martins, in Pau France, the preacher Is allowed
10 hold forth for Just twenty minutes Then the sacr3
tan goes into the yesiry and rings big bell with consii
cradle yigOr Its notes are n signal that the time for
obeys. '''p-' ~'""''
A whip Of sole leather two feet long,
burned IN the to make it hard, oiled at the ex.
tremities TO make it pliable and mounted hickory
handle foot and half long, is the exquisite Instrument
with which officer OF the Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys said TO have been in the habit OF enforcing
der and Furnishing offences among the lads under his
charge His favore plan, according accounts given
by the pupils, strip off boys outer clothing tie
him chair back and lay the lash until the blood
flowed prOfusey. The charges been denied by tia
officer and close examination into the matter has been
instituted.
At the Theatre du Chatelaire, Paris, the
drama OF Michael strogor has reached It's .0Oth rep
resenation and Partisan writer calculates that from
first TO last the hero has been on bis knees before tho
Emir just - hours, moro than three entire days
besides having the rcdhot sabre passed before his eyes
during 400 minutes and remaining blind for 200 hours
or fifty days Continuing his examination, this pains
taking critic also finds that the fainting fits OF tho
mother ofthe hero have attained total duration Of
80 hours and 20 minutes while the swOOns OF the hero
inc have extended to 20 houIs and 40 minutes only.
These curious computations may at least 70
awaken sympathy the WEAKNESS inflicted on actOrs
by the modern fashion Of long runs"
The French Society for tho Prevention Of
Cruelty Animals does not appear yet to have extended
its operations far south the ancient city OF Aries
and other places in Provence for the projects Of the de-
partments which constitute the former province
the shores OF the Mediterranean have been Obliged to
send communication to the Mayors every town and
village, enjoning them 10 put down q brutal pastlms
known "a " BGuf Ia Bourgne." II has been the
tomSunday afternoons fssten two heavy ropes tia
horns Of aud drag him through the streets while
mob OF men and women belabor him with sticks Tho
animal is allowed 70 escape with his life and tho
Journal deS Debdts that the excitement sometimes
reaches such pitch that the crowd drag the
bonfire and burn him alive. What may have been the
origin OF this custom It is not easy 70 say but # is sur
prsng that barbarOus practice should have been al
lowed TO survive TO the present day and official crca
lars often fail OF their effect that this may likely
enough share their common fate.