New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-22
GENERAL NOTES.

The great food which inundated Bristol,
England last autumn TO be concentrated by forty or
namenta amp-ps placed In the streets, their heights
varying correspond with the level which the water
reached at the points where they stand
A Partisan dealer in. fireworks has invented
sort of rocket which whom introduced into q rabbit
Durrow will find ts way downward and when well into
the bowels of the earth explode like she'll driving out
the happy family In dire dismay. II this device sue
ceeds as well in the ground paper the ferets oc-
cupation will DO gone. For the discontinue of larger
game like the fox the coney, the rocket VIII be ar
ranged with chemical attachment which. when the ex-
ploson occurs will give OFF poisonous vspor immedl-
rely fatal to the unlucky beast inhalngit
In the garden of one Of the bastions over
looking the quarantine harbor at Malta has been
erected tombstone which bears the following inscp-
ton referring to the Reconsideration OF British troops
10th (Stirlinghire) Regiment, Malta, 1881
Here lie the fine old 75tb,
Bnt, under Gods protection,
They'll rise again, In Kilt and hose,
glorious resurrection
For By the transformation power
We 20 to bed the 18th,
And rise the ninety-twa's"
The Missionary Conference held at Calcutta
at beginning of the year determined to attack tho
practice, which Is almost universal among families OK
high CASTE OF marrying Indian children In early infancy
The missionaries will endeavor to the passage OF
a law which shall make such marriage null unless APP
pro ed by girl when she comes to years OF discretion
They would In all interpret the MARRIAGE cere
mony is called as mere betrotha ana leave VIC
parties either to ratfy it by later marriage or 10
rescind the contract.
The Nihilst Executive Committee has adj
dessed a memorandum to the Car and the Russian
Cabinet insisting upon the following constitutional re-
forms before the coronation at Moscow representa-
tive Assembly elected by universal suffrage provincial
self-government by freely elected provincial boards
the free ownership land by all classes of the people
freedom conscience, OF the press OF public meetns
and Of association the Transformation OF the stamina
military forces into territorial army Tue dOcuhehy
breatens n these accelerated 10 revert
to the means of intimidation previously employed
While the cargo of the Peninsular and ORR
entail Companys steamhip Malwa was being discharged
at Calcutta few weeks ago one OF the cases was acci
dentay broken open. The Custom House oncer iookeo
Mt the contents and promptly condemned them as sin
decent " and the case was conhscsted and removed
When the officials examine the contents at their
leisure they found several porcelain slabs each contain
ing representation OF nude female figure and at the
bottom of the case to their amazement they ionna
porcelain with the NicerOys photograph on one su7
of IT, The consignment, IL turned out, was LOT LOru
Ripon and the pictures were copies OF famous
pieces. They were IOrth"lIn ulspdeOAeo " '"' ~
nation.
The colored Baptist church at Bristol, Penn,
has been stirred by revival this winter. aud many wan
derne sheen have been gathered into the fold Tho
aoek ia led by shepherd who follows the Baptist creed
without deviation and thinks that immersion Is all the
more ecacious when the water is cold Last Sunday
three men and two plunged into the Della
ware near Bristol in the presence OF the congregation
and of a noisy crowd of curious spectators. AS the
pastor stepped into the icy water he yelled to the fault
the shore "Dis am de sort OF se-sacnce you
oughtrr arn. and don't you forgit IT, lew weeks ~
several converts were immersed through noie m o
ice. which thick enough TO bear the congregations
assembled to witness the ceremony