Morris tribune., 1882-10-05
Things in General.

/ The American Missionary Association
is to hold its thirty-siXth annual meeting
in Cleveland October "a, %, and 26. This
| is one of the great benevolent socie les oil
the Congregational Churches, having for
IT'S special object the educating and Chris
| tianizing of the freedmen of the south.
When certain well-known and pop
ular Professor of the Medical School
enters his class room at Harvard the stu
dents signify their pleasure at seeing him
| by applause with their pedal extremities,
bringing them violently in contact with
the floor. This jars the building so that
| the motion is communicated to a skele-
| ton occupying the foreground next the
Professors chair, and the other day the
articulated gentleman began to express
his interest in the scene by wagging his
upper jaw up and down in most aston
| ishing manner, keeping up the motion
| such length of time and creating such
an uproar of laughter that the Professor
| was obliged to hustle him ANONYMOUSLY
| into a closet for refusing to "stop his
/ jaw"
The Gazette Maritime ct Commercials,
in its news regarding ocean disasters, re-
lates the following curious example of
the formidable power of the molecular
forces. The Italian ship Francesa, load
| ed with rice, put into port on May IL, at
| East London, leaked considerably. A
| large force of men was at once put on
DO lrd to pump out the water con-
| tanned in the ship, and to unload her,
but in spite of all the activity exerted,
| the bags of rice soaked in water gradual
| ~ swelled up. Two days afterward, on
May Is, the ship was violently burst
asunder by the swelling of her cargo.
The Eighth Church Congress will be
held in Richmond, Va, commencing
Tuesday, October "a. 1882, the Bishop of
Virginia presiding. The sessions will be
preceded by the administration of the
at II o'clock A. M. The Communion
Address will be given by the Bisnop of
Louisiana, and Immediately after the
service at st. Pauls Church the Inaugur-
al Address will be delivered in Mozart
Hall by the Bishop of the Diocese, and
a memorial of deceased members
read by the Rev. George D. Wildes,
d. D., general secretary of the congress.
The Omaha Republican says that Ne
braska has had this year the best dis
tributed rainfall in its history-that the
early spring rains covered every portion
ofthe state, and the showers since then
have been of frequent intervals and
spread over nearly the entire territory.
Zone thing is certain" the Republican
adds, Nebraska is no longer rainless
any more than it is timberless state,
and we shall continue to improve in both
as the years come and go, making the
question of crops a matter about which
there will be no doubt"
A late steamer from the Orient brought
to San. Francisco a live salamander,
which is now confined in large wood
Ell trough, and daily supplied with fresh
water and live fish at the Palace Hotel.
! The salamander comes from Japan, and
was captured in fresh water lake inithe
mountains. 1t is three and
half feet in length, has four feet and an
extensive tail, the head being broad and
flat, and shaped like a heart, and the
eyes so small as to be hardly
observable. The mouth is not unlike
that OF the crocodile, and the creature is
| known to be at least seven years old. 1t
is dark brown in color, the epidermis
being covered with eXcrescences, which
are watery glands, secreting an acrid, Wis.,
cid fluid.
One of the institutions of Boston for
many years has been the great organ
of the Music Hall. The corporation
which owns the building has recently
threatened to take it down and sell it,
The reasons assigned are, that it takes
up too much space, that it is antiquated
and out of order, and that it ought to
make way for brighter and more lively
style of music. Whereupon musicaland
artistic Boston rises up to protest with
holy horror against such vandalism. 1t
is not denied that the owners have the
right to do what they will with their
own, but is asserted that they ought to
be artistic enough to sacrifice paltry
gain to the shades of Handel and HAYDN,
not to speak of the dead and gone "Har-
ward M. AS" who first conceived the idea
of having the Music Hall.