New-York tribune., 1882-04-09
GENERAL NOTES.

Last Sunday, while the regular serv ices in
St Louis church were proceeding with due solemny,
a and disturbing element suddenly introduced
by the rapid progress OF sacregOus goat through the
centre aisle, closely followed by excited Dutchman
who at length succeeded driving the creature from
the sacred eOihce.
The inhabitants Of the Solomon Islands have
n curious system Of decimal currency. cocoanut
seems to be the unit But the circulating medium con-
ssts of strings OF white and red shell beads, dogs teeth
and porpOse teeth One string Of white money is equiv
alen cocoanuts fiat stick Of tobacco. Ten
strings of white money make string ofre money or
one dogs tooth: ten dogs teeth make lisa " (or
fifty porpoise teeth aud ten isas equivalent to one
good-quality wife" So that wife in good society Is
worth ten thousand cOcoanus.
The Massachusetts, Society for the Proven
on Of Cruelty Animals is endeavorng to break up the
practice Of bleeding calves before they killed
practice which extensively resorted to in New England
for the purpose OF securing the price which Is paid
for veal thus unnaturay whened IL is charged that
calves often btd three times before they
killed. The outrageous cruelty Of such treatment is
apparent but addition that the flesh treated s
known 70 be positively unwhoesome, and the society
begs the cooperation OF the public IN preventing It's
sale.
AT a recent meeting of the French Academy
Of Sciences NJ de Lesseps severely denounced the quar-
antne system in the Canal introducing his
with the that he himself supposed to be
undergoing quarantine In Egypt at that very moment.
tyranny he decl red that regulations which cooped up
thousands Of pilgrims returning from Mecca In spots
which speedily became feycrbeds, aud which detained
sOcalled suspected vessels without preventing
people from landing embarking, served no useful
purpose, nor was there any object in Introducing into
the East system dsused at home and worthy only OF
the middle ages Commerce was ODstructed without tho
public health being secured.
As "a satire upon the present system of edu
cation IN Texas The Gacesion NerS publishes the fol-
lowing conversation which doubt also invented
by that sprightly journal: "How is your son coming
onl" "Oh am having power Of trouble with him."
What's the matter now I" "Well, you know, couldn't
send him To school, BECAUSE thanks to Governor Roberts,
there free OILS and could not afford to send
him to a private school" Yes. | know that is So"
"Weu him away from Galveston to the from.
tier. and luck would have IT, he convicted VI horse
steal ~, and got five years in the Pcnitenary That
bad" NO, It wasn't; for you the Penen
ary he could learn trade and become useful citizen
"Nel tlas good" No. IL isn't for Governor Roberts
has plrdOned him out account ot his youth aud igno
rance"
1t is not often that mans will is read
in public during his lifetime but this done the other
dag Cincinnati in the suit for order for the sae Of
Archbishop PurcelIs real estate. The Archbishop made
the VIII May 4, 1858, nearly twenty years after he
succeeded Archbishop Fenwick. The document pro-
yides the payment Of the Archbshops just debts,
contracted they have been for the benefit Of re-
ngon" and for the following legaces; Three suits Of
vestments 100 volumes Of my books and $1,000 TO my
brother. and many to my mother, OF her
DEATH to my sister Catherine fory brother drew
his salary, but left it all for the Church
most faithfully and disinterestedly. always LIVING
simply and economically" All Olher property neld by
the Archbishop in fee simple trustee FOR the Church
The viii leaves his successor, who Is earnestly
Who for twenty Years had been fa hfally aborous
and strictly conscientious in the discharge OF her duties