New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-16
GENERAL NOT rs.


Nearly all the Alpine Clubs are now provided
with phic apparatus aud their auspices
some very fine photographs of the most inaccessible
peaks have been taken.
An adventurous traveller has performed the
feat walking the entire continent of Australia
distance OF 1000 miles, in 100 days sometimes fully
100 miles interviewed between human haDitatonS
The annual revenue of St. Paul's Cathedral,
London, Is now $l25000 or this sum $4,000 is paid
and 900 each to the three canons In resi-
dence The maintenance OF worship in the Cathedral
Of the stpends to the clergy costs SllOOO
year.
1t is perhaps not generally known that the
culture OF the cinchona from the bark which quinne is
extracted has recently entered upon an entirely new
phase 1865 the seed OF the finest and rarest quality
OF the cDchona introduced into Java, and since
that time the Dutch have developed It's qunlneproduc-
ing properties with extraordinary Skill
man i'm Ohio few nights ago was reused
out of his sumbers by burglar He pursued the fellow
with shotgun. did not succeed In shooting him.
Soon the burglar to river and plunged In but not
being a swimmer he sank and was drowned. And now
the Grand Jury has indicted the householder Tor murder
IN the degree for not going TO the assistance OF the
drowning This is strange In view OF the fact that
had previously shot the burglar nothing would have
been done to him.
The Liverpool Presbytery Of the English
Presbyterian Church is agitated over a momentous
question. few days ago clergyman
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meeting soon to occur, the members Of the pres
byfery should all appear In their patural attire This
vague but innocently meant proposition instantly ex-
cited an acrimonious debate, and the hapess brother
who made the motion besieged with questions as to
what constituted the natural attire" OF clergyman.
One brother that he had three natural etres
gown aud when he preached ordinary clothing la
fe and when he went TO bed something else not
named And he wanted TO know In which OF these he
Mas ex pected TO appear the meeting. New churches
been organized questions not much more impor
tant than snis
The Irish mail train on the Holyhead line
had narrow escape from an extraordinary danger
July q The sgnalman at Landudno Junction received
a message from Conway that locomotive, without
train was coming, and knowing that the Irish mail was
due ne decided the approaching locomotive on
siding Accordingly he put out the signals but to his
the engine into the junction at full speed
swep past all the danger signals aud around and
disappeared down the line toward Chester. With rare
intuition the sgnaman that both and
fireman be asleep aud lie accordingly teiegfaphed
to Colwyn Bay station; Engine coming; driver
asleep. Put fog signals on line" The mau ut Colwyn
Bay was equally ALERT and Instantly comprehendpg the
stuaton rushed from and had just time place
the IOrpedoes the track before the flying locomotive
men and the locomotive upon side track out o.
the way Irish mail The condition OF the nre-box
ana Dvs s"Se tme They We're immediatiy dis
charged One of the morals OF the occurrence lies In the
fact that the men had been on duty hitsen nouns
An old man ninety-three years of age, ma
tive of SPAIN just returned from this country where
he has been living many years. his native land There
is nothing remarkable about this but the prodigious
famiy which accompanied him back certainly
markabe IL consisted Of sixteen daughters. twenty
three sons thirty-four granddaughter, fortyseyen
grandsons, forty ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, thirty nine
randsons three great granddaughter and
seventytwo sonsin-law and daughters-in-law, making
in all hundred and seyentynine persons The old
man had been three times married and his Oldest
now seventy years OF age. The ship upon which he aud
his astonishing family colony went to Europe belongs TO
him. and is commanded by of his grand
1csent health Every day he takes two hours gym
nastc exercise walks for two hours and directs the edu
spruous liquors in any ioru and Goes not smoke He
viii shortly Be presented at the Court OF Madrid.
June 20 was day of mourning in Aix-la-
Chapele for that day twenty buildings and part OF
the quaint but magnificent Hotel de Vlle the pride of
AK aud OF the Empire. destroyed by fire. Floating
cnders lodged the tower of the grand old sruc
ture high up In tho and completely out Of range Of
the iiputian pumping machine Of the Fire Department
Below stood twenty thousand people pressed back
respectful by regiment OF infantry anxously
watching the vain movements of the nremsn rs they
scrambled along the root Of the great building Within
half an hour after the cry "das Ratbaus brennt"
heard the houseops aud In the streets both Of the
towers were wrapt In flames At4:3o o'clock the ancient
tnc-piece In mournfully struck the half
hour and scarcely had echoes died away when the
tower swayed and fro for instant and then amid
the groans Of the people, went pungng down into the
houses below. The steady and untiring work OF the
ireuen aided by Stiffness In the air that marvel
lous soon secured CONTROL OF the flames. On the
second floor Of the Raihaus is the great coronation
hail. of tho largest and moat interesting
apartments in Germany. IL Is one hundred and sixty
two feet long. sky feet wde aud twentyeght and
half hisn In II thirtytwo kings ana twelve quesns
have toasted during their coronation festivities The
principal objects interest IN this hall fres
coes OK Alfred Rethe which executed between the
years lS46 and 1885, and take Arst rank In the
Of the German Empire. They portray eight Of the
tunaiey this protected by srched iron roof
which withstood the shock Of falling debris and thsrcby
saved the the fate which seemed inevitable.
Tho beautiful facade aud the famous council chamber.
where the treaties OK 1888 aud 174S were signed were
also saved