New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-08
GENERAL NOTES.

! 1t is understood, says The Boston TrqreTlcr
that the report OF the subcommittee the Worlds Fair
when made, viii recommend that Il be held in BOSTON
four years hence, that SO 100000 be secured As a
guarantee fund and that the Back Bay site originally
proposed be the place selected its location II m
many thought best that the report should not be SUBJ
united 10 tue larger committee before septenDer s
many OF It's members are now out OF town. -
The London Echo pities the American news
paper that announces the case Of seven children NJ
BIRTH IN Kentucky 1t deplores such poverty Of inye,
Ton as sign Of decadence in American journalism ana
urges It's con emporary 10 discover child with sc,
mothers, or something really worth quoting II seems
Just rife dangerous present such challenge 10 r
nnte5nsd Western paragraper and The Echo win Ia 20
Hood OF tales that would have killed Munchauscn WITH
During the past fifty years. The Mep,DLis
AraIa@ee thinks, there has been SO long duration
Of extremely Lot weather has been cet in most parts
OF the country, but especially, perhaps in the south
since about the middle of June The year ISL w long
be remembered as the scorchng year. when the North
was visited by more sunstrokes and more storms and
whirwnds than in any previous year during the past
nty when more houses were blown down and more lives
destroyed by tornadoes than before Ngbe,
South was more generally burnt up her corn crops
The French artist who illustrated NJ. Guizotis
History Of England gave view Of the Tower OF London
which, though faithful enough, presents far more po-
turesque view than anything which greets the eyes
OF passengers the passing Tower wharf This
eneet was prodaced simply by emitting from the picture
the unsighty pile OF tall brick warehouses which dis
SDlcDdid If
Ola fortress froIn the river II is being urge that
the Goyernment ought to get rid of this eyesOrc which
artists ideal OF the Tower from the river be real ze
An amateur astronomer IN Nevada feels s,,ra
that there is something the matter the moon To
his eyes there is visible what TO be moek moon
partially overlapping the true and also surround
ing them both is q peculiar haze mist. He believes
that part OF the tail comet has been attracted 20
and settled around the moon forming thin gaseous At
mospbere or an envelope resembling atmosphere
And now people in Nevada sitting up
suddenly transformed into verttable hery comet fhe
glowing crescent assuming the vsage Mother ship
backward for tail
An interesting novelty will be introduced
into the naval review which be held on the 18th
and 10th OF next MONTH the occasion OF the German
Emperors visit TO scheswg Holstein The German iron.
clad Hee including the Friedrich Karl the Preussen the
Friedrich der Crosse and the Kronprinz with the dis
patchboat Grille, will attempt force their way into
kiel Harbor. The fight between these ships and the
shore batteries can hardly fail TO be an animated
spectacle. No little interest is felt in the torpedo er-
permens that arc 70 DO carried out and in the
those terrible engines OF naval warfare.
In order TO accustOm German soldiers 20 the
opaque atmosphere Of battle field, when mnsketry
practice clouds OF smoke produced by burning
and wet grasses by other means between the marks
men and their targets The Pail NAL Ga.ete oommends
the advantages OF this system over the English custom
OF shooting In clear air. and relates how the soldiers sc
Wimbledon had chance TO try the German plan when
the furze on that common accidentally during
the late encampnent Instead, however, eeeing the
nse TO which the confederation might be put the burn
. OF the house taught Charles Lambs Chinese the way
TO produce roast pig the people at Wimbledon stopped
firing until the smoke had cleared away.
The performances of Fritz Kapernick the
Berlin pedestrian, attracting considerable attention
IN scientific circles. Professor Kirchho OF Halle
pares Them with the feats OF the historical pcde Of
the ancient Mexican postal service known the
Tschasks 1t is recorded he says that the foot
gers constituting the Aztec post not unrequently
ersed distance equivalent 10 3S5 yards per minute.
This statement has generally been regarded mythical,
bat Kapernick has demonstrated it's credbiity his
from Berlin PoJsdam Ii not es ceeod
H. At the suggestion OF English sportsrnen Kaperick
has projected Tor tie autumn OF 2500 English