New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-05
GENERAL NOTES.

Tie French Government has received 1000
New Year applications for the decoration of the Legion
Of Honor.
The official Inspector of Manufactures has
discovered that the nuisance Of excessive smoke from
which Berlin suffers is caused large by the
uusklfuln,ss OF stokers. Accordingly institutions are
TO be- established TO teach the art OF making Lics aAd
ke' ping them.
The people of S0mervilIe, Mass, presented
go their venerable City Clerk, Mr Charles J.. Gilman,
gold watch aud chain and seal Oh New Years Day;
and with good reason, for they have annually elected
him 10y unanimous during period Of forty years
the position which he still occupies. Iii doubtful
any other man IN tne country can snow ~ IosS con-
tinuous term o. public service In an elective Office
A club of unfortunate Lovers has been
formed IN the town Of Hene, England and already
fourteen members are enrolled. An elderly bachelor ,
who has met with repeated rebufFs, has been elected
charau and, the organization having been thus hap
PLY effected the particular kind Of misery implied in ,ho
club will hereafter know where 20 90 for company
1t may he noted in passing, That those unfortunate
lovers" whose woes from the successful termination
of their suits need not apply.
The wife of al eminent physician desires 10
ask through THE TRIBUNE II the spread Of smallpox can
have any possible connection with the sale Of Old
l,ome Of them rags which has been going Drsky
of late she remarks that the Onentals not famed
for cleanliness and have surplus Of bed linen, and
that moreover the rugs not ceasod OF their
original dust THE TRIBUNE would be glad 10 have is
its columns.
Another proof that poetry is the best ox-
preston of universal truth furnished the other day
for the special benefit of Mr. Bret Hare and his society
upon the Stanislaus in a Paris police court when NJ
Poulinier a former Government clerk, aud quiet
tired old gentleman, charged with assault This
singular lapse from is thus explained NJ POdli-
ner had received anonymous letter announcing that
person who had heard of his antiquarian pursuits had
left him by win collection Of remains Of prehistoric
animals When the antquary had classified the cocc-
tion of his friends brought acquaintance to see
tle bones The irreverent new conner took up the
blade bone OF shoulder of pork whereup0n the rate
anquary nearly fractured he critics skull with one 81
the specimens. II was similar weapon tnat "caNcu
the head OF Thompson IN"
An Englishman to whom was lately left q
legacy OF GlOO has exempied national trait much 70
the annoyance his In settlement OF lis
dues he received 500 1851 the remaining shIlliugs
having been deducted for legal expenses This arrange
ment however the egateo declined 10 sanction,
the executors refused hand over the missing shi
b the case came into For the defence urged
that general custom OF long standing authorizes
tor, 10 deduct PROBATE duty from legacies in proportion
to amount the plaintiff took bic stand the law
or what he conceived be such, and stOuty maintained
that all expenditures of that sort ought to be betrayed out
Of the estate He bad been lett slOO not 900 lbs, AID
on rincipe he claimed the fun sum. The Judge cor.
sdered the point thus raised important that be post
poned Judgment in order to have time to consult high
legal authorities The trait thus illustrated is not mea
ness but readiness to 20 trouble and expense
tain personal rights This instance Of 81 may be wrong,
but the general principle Is sound While the English
egatee j. trying 10 collect Gl' snlngs several MN
bred thousand citizens of NewY0Tk jumping skis
and lodging trucks aud stalls their sldeg4lS'
without protest