New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-30
GENERAL NOTES.

Experiments in forwarding messages by IA
vcns place Of carrier pigeons have lately been made
AT Cobcntz The birds returned safely 20 the village
near Troves where they reared or course ravens
are not "a swift pigeons but they not liable 10 be
attacked by birds OF prov the pigeons employed
during the siege Of Parts ny the trained hawks Of the
Germans.
A provincial tradcsman having eaten an excel
lent dinner Paris restaurant tho other day dclibcr
acly blew ont his brains and expired at the table In
front of him was found piece Of paper containing these
signacnnt ohscryatOns oysters good for the st"m
ac old wine tends prolong fe but politics are the
bnnc Of existence. Therefore kill myself" The trades
man II sccus selecting restaurant tho scene Of
his departure, was only following the latest Partisan
fashion IN 5uloldeS
William Portion. who was born on the Eng
sh man -of-war saturn August II, 1888 who Joined
the navy "a youth and stood close To Nelson when he
received his mortal wound in the battle of Trafalgar has
lust died at Wolyerbampton, where no had earned live
hood for more than sixty years The GloJe adds that ho
died in wolhousc. touching illustration Of how
England delights IN hQnoring pcr heroes especially
her naval heroes, being mistress OF the sea-
The soldiers monument in Mount MOriah
Cemetery Philadelphia, erected under tho direction Of
the Soldiers Home, unveiled Wednc day last In
the centre of plot I'm which sixty dead heroes sleep the
bronze figure Of isoder rather larger than life stands
upon granite pedestal nine feet high. Three hundred
orphans from the soldiers Home and the Keystone
Battery took part in the exercises and Colonel A. Lou
don snowdcn delivered an address; bat owing 10 the
cold rain few other persons present The cost Of
the monument was 9=,loO
A few years ago the administrators of the
IIospces syums, in Antwerp ordered all the works
Of art In the establishments under their direction to be
sought order that complete list Of thom might be
made. A careful search made and from various
hooks forgotten pictures to Hight. until
now no fewer than l43 works by the first artists OF the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which prob
ably concealed at the time the French Republican army
invaded Belgium, have been collected. This unexpected
addition to the art treasures Of.Antwerp ucudcsplcres
OF great beauty by Ruhens. VandyCk HOben, Van Erp
De Nos Fruns Halls and other masters. About one hun
drcd Of them have been restored and OF the rest com
parativcly few are in IA condition of hopeless ruin.
One of the oldest fancies ever conceived
almost but not quito found expression recently in Paris
whore an ingenious made preparations for open
ing cafe OF hnchbacks OF every nation Her plan was
TO secure walters and Mattresses afflicted with that de
formy aud carry out the central Idea in hunchbackcd
furniture decorations china and glass. In order to
secure the custom OF hchbaoks she inserted advertise
monts in the papers inviting people thus msshapen to
free epast the opening day But after she had hired
premises on the Boulevard dos Capucnes at rental of
80 600 francs per dlsheartenng lack OF appli
cants possessing the essential qualification compelled
her abandon tho project and her landlord was forced
to bring suit for his rent