New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-23
GENERAL NOTES.

The Undertakers' Exposition in ROcbes,e,
has been visited during the last three days By rongs q,
people over whom the display Of mortuary convenience,
seems to exercise peculiar fascination
A private letter from Philadelphia says.
FairmOun Park is very beautiful just now, and Ia,
been especially this spring The last winter being mid
and the spring q very cool one. halfnardy plants and
trees have had a better chance than usual Rbodoasu
drons, azaleas maenoas ana japan NAPLES haze been
unusually fine this season"
The w0rIlmen employed in digging a canal
to connect Lakes Eustis and Dora in Florida have made
An interesting discovery. On the northwestern shore Of
Lake Dora four feet below the surface u the water they
upon the ruins Of what seems 70 have been stone
house or ratification Small cuiously shaped blocks OF
sandstone Of them showing traces Of fire. pieces Of
pottery and utensils made Of moied Got were brough,
to the surface No valuable opinion as 10 the extent
age Of the ruin has yet been given.
A couple of New-Brunswick negroes hold
Ing upon their knees enormous bowl Of lobster salad
which Rad been prepared to tickle tie paates Of the Ru
gers College Alumni were riding last Tuesday toward
the place where was to be delivered when the wagon
gave a sudden urch Both lost their balance and Q.
them fell the wheel into the road, whittier be
promptly followed by the salad II a comparatively
easy matter TO gather il mp into the bowl again. aud tho
Rutgers Alumni are none the wiser
In his address to the Academy VI. Cher
buiez made very fecitous reference to the country
home Of his predecessor the chair NJ Duaure IN the
Cbarente Infereure the great highway from Cores
to saujon. and miles from the sea. In gently
undulating country rises manson 1anked by two farm
bouses Before it stands group Of splendid ems. and
stately old expresses quart II from the salt breezcs OF
the This had for INJURIES been the homestead OF
the family and NJ. Dufaure loved 10 retain its simple
character Once a surveyor. thinking 10 please lin.
dubbed T. in the plans Of the estate which he was drH-
ing. Nizclle Castle Dufarre angry erased the ahJi'
tiOus title and wrote cottage instead.
4 Ill 1olrr xvIti
could afct a human being has taken possession Of e.
Louis grocer named Henry C. Cunningham. lie fances
that he IL Oscar Wilde, though his actions do no. in ths
least illustrate the character OF that mid apostle On
the contrary he has given evidence Of dsordered mind
by shutting himself in his house. 5arrcadng the doors
and windows and bidding defiance to the police force OF
the city which has determined 10 stary6 lin out
This. however. viii be easy matter for ms grocery
store is part Of his house and he s prepared 70 stand
prolonged siege is also well provided with arms and
ammunitiOnoi which he II ready 20 make hhI ae use
in OF assault ~ asi accounts he renamed master
OF a dec cdly interesting situation.
The French Government is about to bring
in bill for the determination Of wolves I'm France 1t
seems strange that this was not done long ago. The
Louvetere" or wolfhuntng brigade, an institu'
ton In active operation until 1892 when az being part
Of The old arstocratic regime probably It was abolished
and nothing was established instead Wolves naturally
multiplied and the Convention and after the Directory
determined to have rcco 70 system OF rewards In
the sixth year OF the Republic 1887 wolves were slain;
in the seventh 53Jl Of which had killed 80 human
beings The rewards aggregated $4,000 or late years
many packs OF wolfhounds have been broken NJ, and
farmers have regarded the bead-mODey as too sms to
mako II worth their while 10 engage in dangerous
game. The wolves have meanwhile largely increased,
especially IN those districts which were held by the
German army Of occunatiOn, where for soi'e reason
wofhunts were forbidden. The new act proposes 10
give so for each WOLF 81 30 apiece for female wo IN
an interesting coud ION. ~ for w0ets, and so for
wolves Of "A notably bad reputation How large place
wa YES oeelpy III The local lore gib2tion aud rural
traditions OF French life may be seen by La Fontanes