New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-05
GENERAL NOTES.

The people of Victoria, B. c., Loyalty
decorated their shops and homes to honor the ys Of
the Princess Louise and her husband and several eab-
crate arches OF welcome spanned the streets One dis
play which the local paper thought worthy OF special
mention that Of liquor saloon whose con-
frmed his devotion and did neat stroke Of advertising
at the same time by illuminating his establishment
within and without and hOsting large transparency
with the royal arms on one side, and the motto IN
Vino VeI1tas on the other.
Two doctors have lately conducted at Gre.
NELL suburb Of Paris. at the expense Of rich swedish
phanthropst series of experiments upon pigs for the
purpose OF ascertaining the effects OF alcohol upon the
internal organs of drnkards. Fifteen pigs treated
daily with different kinds OF liquor each pig however
being confined particular tpple. When they had
been killed their vital organs found to be marked
with small white spots resembling ulcers Their flesh
was pronounced sound but when to market ii
seized unfit for food At last accounts dispute
going on between the exerimenters and the police tho
former maintaining that the market inspector was mis-
taken.
young American teacher in Panama,
writing friends in Philadelphia about the recent earth
Quakes at the Isthmus says The panic in the city
wonderful Nearly every family who have place
go have left the city and pitching tents out
the savannas At least 900 people encamped All
in the house sleep with their stockings on their slippers
beside them. and their clothes In bundle where
they can grasp them and Imagine what con-
diton this is to be living in! What renders it douby
;
any theory by which to explain the disturbance You
have read OF the earthquakes but word Of tongue or
pen describe their horrors in this mild form.
The greatest CONSERVATION prevails everywhere"
The owner of one of the llrgest private
libraries in the country died Monday at HIS home in
Albany. His name was Royal Woodward, and he was
not author professional man or rich connoisseu
but pedler OF sewing silk For many he had in
vested the greater part of his earnings which
siderable in books and is supposed to have left" says
The Troy Times, 80 more than 10000 volumes. His
tastes the direction OF theology genealogies and
town histories His library never arranged but was
slowed from cellar 10 garrett In parlor and woodshed
He also owned large collections Of engravins and auto
graphs. Mr. Woodward honorary member OF
n number OF antiquarian and literary societies Ia tnis
country and Europe"
The census of English convict prisons
just completed shows that of the 1Oo6 prisoners three
fourths medical authority. fit for hard labor and
only onethirteth unfit for labor OF any knds That part
the population which ia between twenty-five and
years OF contributes far moro than ts
proportion Of criminals This, Sir Edmund du Cain
says may be taken the criminal age after which
tendency to crime rapidly dimnshes. II Is suggested
that If those whose evinces marked criminal
tendency could De locked up kept under supervision
till they had passed. say forty years Of vast deal
of crime would be prevented. The London GkDbf makes
the lust observation with reference To this impractical
suggestion that growing Discrimination TO repeat past
crimes is probably largely the result OF hard experience
and that perhaps IL the viciousy inclined pre-
vented from gaining that experience in their way
before their thirty fourth year they would Insist IN
gaining it aftcrward.