New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-22
GENERAL NOTES.

The Tri-State Picnic and Exhibition OF the
Patrons OF Husbandry OF Pennsylvania. Maryland and
West Virginia Will held this year at Wiiamss Grove.
Columbia County, PENN beginning on Monday, August
o. and lasting through the week Lastyear the exhibit
ton attended by more than 3O,OOO FARMERS HUN
ten different States
A unique photograph was taken on a recent
Sunday at the Marble Palace at Posdam The principal
figures in IL are the Emperor William the Crown Prince
Prince William aud the infant Prince, whom the I'm
peral grandfather proudly bore in his arms The
photograph thus presents the nrst our generations Vi
the new Imperial House OF Germany IN single group
Late reports from Patrick County, Va, Tor
whose starving people the sympathy and assistance Oh
the country been invoked conflicting AT least
two positive statements have been made to the effect
that the suffering which greatly exaggerated at the
outset has been abundanty relieved. The Richmond
Vhiq however, regards the afinations more credible
than the denas and says "The safe stcourse Is to
tnue our efforts help these people though 1t NAV de-
range somewhat the plans and profits OF their mer.
chants proysiondeaers and speculators Better thas
ave tboIs and should BE- overfed than that should
starye through lack OF charity"
/ A national association to suppress juvenile
smoking was formed in London June 8. IL would De
interesting hear in what the society proposes 70
set about its work There universal agreement that
smoking hurts children, and without doubt the habit
has extended rapidly them at least In TINS cOun
try since the introduction ofcheap and nasty cigarettes
In England perhaps the facilities for obtaining cheap
smoke have not multiplied fast they have here mo
Pail Nall Gazette says that boys begin to smoke young
because they bored That is the long and the short
Of it, German and French schools where the boys LOAF
show much Larger proportion or smokers than Engnsn
schools where the boys play games The children Of the
door, who have few recreations begin to smoke muca
than the children OF the rich, VINO have plenty.
Tho hest thing the society can do Is to back up
heartily every effort Increase the number OF places
ond sunply HE means of healthy recreation FOR the c
I, -" the moor II they want what may be done
in tba direction, they might than make an eI-
III n 10 Ibe very successful play ground in White
| chanel which has now been open Tor TWO years
| Ice Pow Foon, president of the Ming fung
H., ono ~ the oldest of the Chinese Six Companies
ded fortnight ago in San Francisco, and his friends
ireoiateIv had the body embalmed for shipment to
China Before its departure an elaborate iuhera cere
| mony was performed In public. low BOOTH Sixty ny
twenty feet in SIZE erected on CommerclalsI lhs
hdv Of the structure draped In white, and four up
right posts supported white canopy Ont lower ehdoI
Tho booth were the roasted OF four pigs and
two sheep each placed rencher with noses 10 JUG
| west Above these a stand, on which were numef'
ous nvrlmiis of CONNECTIONS, c0nsecrated frus NUS
etc each pile decorated with fancy paper streanes ana
surnounted by sticks Of burning punk and greasy III
ccnse Above these open space about twenty
feet square, fenced with ropes, and In the centre~
this was deposited the closed rosewood collin containing
the mortal remains Of Lee Poy Foon. The funeral eIer
clses were COnduclcu Win great III"
mourners went through variety of genuheetons ou'
the only human utterances were mechanical soos to
peated during dearly hours. Incense and ointment
banners and saekcloh, gongs and hddles played an w
portant part In the obsequies. The hearse was SUI,
rounded by sixteen pallbearers in white, ana wSsiOr
! lowed by procession Of priests IN black iOoes ar
others were heavily laden Win baskets con sjn,
ers and incense aud score 81 friends I0iO"ed "A
long poles surrounded with flowers O,her INC
members Ming Iung Company hn NJ longs
line nterspersed by occasional Cninese JAM on nadrn
and hdlcs Last OF all passed an exp 30 the departed
| with baked meats for the reSAIeinoN' - "
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