New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-16
GENERAL NOTES.

| The Boston Journal says that the man who shot
his companion calling him Boston bean-eaer in TIA
City Hall Park Sunday may at some time have Ivsd
in Boston, but he not, could not have teen Bos-
In the deepest and most glorious meaning OF the
word Clearly who considers himself insultedby
being called bean eater have Of that com.
mendabc local pride which distinguishes the citizens VI
| this favored metropolis"
In the Union WorkhOuse at USbridge, Eng.
land veritable centenarians both Ms
Ann Franklin 100 years old on November Il Mira
Ann Wood was 1O2 years old last March The former
has lost all of her faculties which worth preserving
but the mental aud physical vitality OF the latter "a
astonishing. She Is moreover an Inveterae smoker
and the authorities mako no effort to control her ild
gence OF that habit.
The great grave at Vienna" In which were
buried the remains OF the 400 victims Of the Rfs
Theatre fire was visited All Saints Day and the day
following by several hundred thousand persons One Of
these Mrs Peter of Gotha, whose persisted in
the fire and whose only daughter has since died On
returning TO her hotel the poor woman with
grief and despair shot herself The next day her body
was laid In the common grave containing the ashes
her son.
Bya blunder of the printers in the famous
first column of The London nmes-which has been ir
reyerently described the Hatch Match and Dispatch
Column the headings over the lists OF births and
deaths in the issue of November ranspOsed and
everyone picture to himself the melancholy record
OF female mortality which resulted Probably the per
son annoyed leaving the editor OF the ques-
ton, tine husband who found the announcement Of
his wlfes death OF son. accompanied by the cheerful
statement All well"
Several memte rs Of q boat club at Frankfort
on-theMain recently resolved to row to Mayence by
night. II just II O'clock when they seated them
selves in their boat grasped their and babe their
friends shore farewell They pulled vigorously al
night greatly enjoying the heathfu exercise the gloon
and quiet and the weird beauty of the river Their
oh .trrtu and will DELIGHT Of their friends
imagined when they found at sunrise that they had
forgotten to weigh anchor and were still fast to the float
from which they embarked. They are now known 70 81
Frankfort as " the explorers"
The Vienna correspondent of The London
Telegraph says that for time past in Russia Ons
scandal has followed close upon another reyeaings
of corruption altogether unprecedented Only the
other day irregularities 20 the extent OF about
Sl0000000 discovered at tho SkOpa Bank In
elligence comes that special commission sent by
the Artillery Department OF the War Office to investigate
the affairs OF the powder mandatory TscherngOwi
ascertaned that during the last years the ats
has been defrauded OF many millions An inquiry
corning the central administration OF the commisad
has also brought very unpleasant facts to light
General BOrOwkOG has been intrusted with the taska
examining the archives OF that branch OF the army.
A gentleman who spent portion Of ii.
month Of October in the town Of Winnipeg, MANITOBA
says that the Thermometer frequently registered sew
eral degrees below But great is the bucysng
OF the climate aud the purity OF the atmosphere IN TAN
metropolis Of Northwestern Canada that htue ineos
venleuoe is fell from the cold A stranger, hoEeyeE
is apt to suffer from bis inexperience. He was walking
he says the street day and feeling very coi9ieft
able when a citizen up to him, aid shaping hi7
on the shoulder exclaimed: Tenderfoot, yer nonh
frlz" And he found that this was actually the case
He noticed aferward that people walking in nc sIee
in the habit Of frequently Shaping Their noses sns
To keep up the circulation In those parts.
Although they do not like to confess it. TIE
Canadians are frightened at the steady dow OF emss
ton from the Dominion to tho United States Ani1@
cation of this 10 the statement that Mgr Tasohefes@
Archbishop OF Quebec, has just issued pastoral
which he calls attention the large number Of FfoD
Canadian families which leave the Province TO a"p
their residence the United States, where, too eep'
they forsake their fath and only encounter deeepu
and misery. Such state OF things His Grace aVrDa"
TO the i'm tolerate love OF display and consequent
agance which haze invaded the country, remsrAnsA.@
until this Of show and hnery took place. -
present alarming proportions OF emigration "e'
known. In order TO procure extravagant toie'S~
tinues the Archbishop. furniture too costly '"' a
means 10 entertain their friends, to appear 10 pu'.
with magnificent equipage, people live oeyona ~.
means He then goes 10 denounce the vice o''
persnce and urges that extravaganza, ntemperan0s
emil grafton are desoatiug the country. As Al
to this he says colonization association
established 10 the faithful lilo proposes 10
fund for the latter purpose 10 when All ..o,tbg
contribute 10 cents EACH For this sacfinoe I'M
mass will be celebrated Tor those VINO essssieiy
colonization society viii DO controlled ana air''