New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-02
GENERAL NOTES.

An ancient and remarkable clock has been
recently set up in the readingroom of the municipal
library OF ROuen. A single winding keeps IL running
for fourteen months and some odd days IL was con-
srlicted in 1882, underwent aterat ons in 1916 was
bought Dy 9uen Tor LOU francs Ia leoo' mas recently
been repaired andjust set going
A word ought to be said for the zeal and
efficiency OF the Cleveland police during the recent
sOrrOwl days when the city crowded to its utmost
capacity A multitude OF professional thieves and
rowdies there ready TO take advantage OF every
facility for plying their business, but they vigil
lantly watched that they reaped scanty harvest On
Monday evening in response TO call for volunteers TO
guard the railroad sta lions all night and assist and
protect strangers, thirty-hye men who had worked all
day without eating Immediately offered their services
and went TO work
Mr. Mills, the apostle Of ensage, or the
preservation OF crops in green state for fodder, tho
possibilities OF which he Is illustrating at Arrabeck farm,
PomptOn, ~ j., lays down the following conditions
essential to Air must be perfectly excluded
from the pit or so by uniform and continuous press
Of about $50 pounds TO the square foot the crop
should have Powered before being cut and the knives
should be sharp enough not TO tear the saccharine
sacks Last year Mr.. Mills fed for months 40
animals and horses from ten Of fodder.
The past he fed for six weeks 100 cattle mostly
milch cows from five of in the spring,
and he believes that during the coming winter and until
his crop for 1882 IL ready he can in spite of in
the fodder cut from twenty five Mr. Mills states
that grass preserved green so possesses
feeding capacity twenty tons OF the hest hay.
to dispute them Mr. Mills viii gladly furnish the proof
aud riumphantly point to his sleek and happy cows.
whose rich milk briIgs cent quart than the
usual price.
Napoleon the G ceat died too soon for his
own happiness. somsbody has invented a new game
of solitaire which wCd have puzzled even the ingenuity
of the master of the gme while would have fascinated
him than the several forms which he devised
to while the solitary hours Of his st. Helena i'm
prisOnment This new came Is Just now interesting al
card players and clubs formed to play it, commun,
cation of being made by telegraph and letter
Il is the most difficult form Of the game yet devised.
The elements OF calculation and chance about
equally divided The possible combinations OF the game
may bee said to be ncllculabe The full pack Of
cards is used They must be thoroughly shulcd 10 be-
gin WITH and then laid out one by one in rows
large table Whenever thus laid out card OF the
suit the last one in the is 10 be found three
cards back, skipping two" it be placed top OF
the last card in the This Of Gisturbs the
der OF the gina arrangement aud may bring cards Of
the suit within cards of each other. In that
event the may be placed in a single pile, that TO the
right being the which the other card must be
placed 1t will often happen that the four suits may DO
moved in this way at the same time and in doing this
the memory is taxed and great ingenuity needs 10 DO
frequently displayed so as to combine the cards in such
a way rs 20 bring those OF the suit within two
each other. When the cards the table offer
no chance 10 move the player draws further from those
in the hand until all exhausted The result OF the
game il successful is the combination Of all those OF tho
suit IN pile by themselves, thus making four
piles Failure is reached when, the cards In hand being
exhausted, there are further moves and more than
four piles remain on the table. From the rule Of going
back two cards TO find the 10 play the game has
come TO be called "skp-two solitaire" Special cards.
smaller than those generally used not TO take
too mach rDOm sold with instructions how To play
what a really fascinating mono game, requiring
siderable exercise of memory and vast deal Of patience
only necessary to add that it is fashionable to mako
the new game popular.