New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Revised reports Of the destruction at War
saw through'the riot which began on Christmas show
that 2,oll families, numbering about 10000 persona
were ruined They include 2i6 nquor-dealers, PSI
tobacconists and other retail shop keepers 49s eating
mousse keepers and other furnshers OF refreshments
3l5 workmen, and 43A employers During the riot there
were ueMOshed 292 Liquors. looms COB eating houses,
warehouses; and syDagogues, and 303 private houses ali
the properly of Jews.
An albatross has recently established for his
species new claim to the reverence and gratitude OF
sailors seaman on vessel bound for Australia fell
overheard on stormy day into raging sea and no one
hoped to save him. But, the the surface.
close beside him sbatross whose neck he
threw his arms and thus with much tapping and found
erng and strange conyersatOn between aud bird,
as me Eeho remarks he held until he lifted into
boat The attention OF the late Mr. Colerdge respect
fully invited to this paragraph.
A fOqui Indian, recently convicted of tho
assassination Of Mexican, executed in the public
square OF Hermosillo on January 81. multitude OF
both sexes and all from the surrounding country
filed the plaza AMI passed the time OF waiting In tho
merriest manner until platoon OF soldiers surrounding
the cart which carried the prisoner and his coffin filed
out from the prison yard. The Indian sat still
without hnching the soldiers as they drew up in limo
before him. and fell dead at the first volley without
murmur
The effect of imagination upon the physical
condition has lust been illustrated afresh in Camden.
The death in that city from hydrophOba OF boy named
Edward Gardner has been already reported. Not long
before be died the boy In his frenzy spit az his father
and some of the froth from his lips flew into the latters
eyes. Mr. Gardner at declared his conviction that
he had been poisoned and became terribly frightened.
Within few hours he had worked himself into hyseri
cal condition, and the next morning, complained Of
pains, dryness Of the throat and chilly sensation
about the spinal column and actually vent TO Short
sharp coughs like those OF mad dog HIS physician
sured him that hydrophOba could not possibly havo
been transmitted to him from his sons lips, but he re-
be forced by drugs to sleep On Wednesday his physical
condition had improved and his reason resumed control
of his fancy. II 10 not improbable that he might have
died If he had been left to himself.
1t was formerly the rule in Germany to ex-
empt from duty the covering Of any article which was
itself free, though the covering would In any other
circumstances be subject to impost. The Berlin Mont
tagsblaa says that Alexander Humboldt awaited
himself Of this liberty In very ingenious manner In
the 1905 he and GuyLussac in Paris engaged
in their experiments the compression Of air The two
scientists found themselves need Of large number Of
glass tubes This article exceedingly dear ia Franco
at the me and the rate of mpOst upon imported glass
tubes something alarming Humboldt sent an order
Germany for the needed articles and gave directions
that the manufactures should seal the tubes at both
ends and put label upon each tube with the words
DeutSche Lut ( German air.. The air Of Germany
article upon which there no duty, and the tubes
and arrived free of duty in the hands OF the two expert
The tale got abroad that the officers OF the
French Customs did not find the article III their regua-
TONS aud let IL unchallenged but 10 Is much
more likely that the object for which Humboldt and hs
colleague wanted the tubes known to the autor-
and that the exemption was purposely conceded