New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-02
GENERAL NOTES.

The French Government announces that IN
consequence Of the increasing number OF recent suicides
from the top OF the vendome Column in Paris the pub
lie will not in future be allowed TO ascend that monu-
ment Earnestly expressed remonsrances against the
ascent OF the monument being longer permitted were
addressed by inhabitants OF the negnborhood TO the
Project OF the Seine.
Friendly acts of birds of different species
to one another have rarely witnessed Such in
stance has just related letter addressed to tho
president of the Massachusetts, Society for the Proven
OF Cruelty to Animals br Mt r. b. Forbes Of Milton
Mr.. Forbes writes My mockng-birc hangs under the
piazza and near him Is robins nest containing young
birds The parent birds 10 be busy all day. bring
Ing to their young family Twice the robins have
been seen 10 agh on the cage the prisoner and drop
worms into his mouth, passing by their own wel-ied
young Were Lon fellow here, should invoke his aid
in commemorating this fact In rnyme'
The English farmers are threatened with the
ruin OF their hay crop, owing to the cold and rainy
weather Their attention therefore He'd by the press
to invention for drying hay in the stack The prn-
cpe OF the invention is by powerful fans TO suck away
the air hollow running half way mp the middle or
rick the consequent rushing in of the outside air
through the hay reducing the temperature OF
the mass. The crop upon the farm OF Mr. Alender,
upon which experiments now being made. is excep-
tonally heavy and juicy it has been cut carried and
stacked Ia persstenty showery weather, that the
ton Of the fan diminishing the temperature Of the
stack has been satisfactorily exempllned on one occt
sion having reached las degrees 1t is decllred by The
Pail NAL Ga=ee, "t was reduced to 96 degrees in an
hour and quarter"
Great is the audacity of the young Ameri-
can. The latest instance Of this fact is related by
The Troy Times 1.-The four-year old daughter OF wen
known divine OF this city disposed to be dctaoral in
a cunning way with her older brothers and sisters
While she acting the wee tyrant over her brother
the other day. father decided TO rebuke her for the
first time eloquenty set forth to her the kindness
OF her brother and her duty to be kind in return When
Affar rxfe
full eyes and frame trembling with emotion strobe up to
her venerable sire, and, striking an attitude, said
between her sobs lyon use too m-many words
The father vany endeavored 10 suppress his laughter as
he went TO his study and proceeded to cut down ms
next Sundays sermon"
Governor Crittenden Of Missouri has been
subjected 10 very criticism the past week for
doning some prominent gamblers Immediately after
their trial and conviction by the courts This criticism
has come newspapers and the people irrespective
Of their political leanings The pardons had scarcely
been signed when, In the Criminal Court OF st. Louis
one Joseph McCarrOn, charged with keeping a gambling
house. was convicted Of the offence Believing that
McCarron will also be pardoned, the Police Commits
sioners of St. Louis, Messrs. Cuppes, Simmons and Ma
SON. have forwarded to the Governor their designations
They were selected by Governor Crttenden at the
beginning OF his administration rs Police Commissioners
because OF their high reputation as business men and
citizens In the face OF much political opposition they
edly resign their offices because Governor CTttenden
sustained them this attempt 10 DO their
The Governor has decided to accept the resgnatlOns,
and has said IL ia stated that he intends to I'LL the
cant places three who Will be " some service
to the Democratic party"
Christians in Jerusalem, it is feared, will be
in great danger there should be ouburst of Ma
hometan fanaticsm in Egypt and the countries sur
rounding it. Edith Holman Hunt, doubtless relative
OF the eminent English artist Holman Hunt writes TO
The London Times follows Having lived III Jerusa-
lem from the commencement to the end OF the last Rus
sian war; having thus experienced something OF the
danger arising from threatened outbreak which
seethng around u.s. cannot refrain from asking few
words the muchprized columns OF The TDiesfOr the
sake Of pointing how helpless the people in
Jerusalem at the present juncture. jerusalem is the
centre OF fanatics all the peoples OF the world and
should the threatened storm burst, the Christian
habitants there will be among the first to feel It, They
are singuarly helpless shut off from the nearest coast by
thirty six miles OF difficult road The whole of Chris
dom ia interested in the question Since there are pco-
pe of every nation living in Jerusalem, cannot each
Government send trigate Jafa give to
fugyes while affairs in the present hazardous
diiol The only retreats the converts and the
woud i'll hold out against such outbreak would
take place banner Of the Prophet at last
fuIled in earnest"