New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Another mountain summit is to DO
conquered by steam the coming provided Secre-
tary Teller permits the construction of cable tramway
! up Pixies Pcak-u Government reservation The line
will start Manou. and IL is supposed that the sum
nit 1900 feet away, thus be reached IN three
hours, stock company has been formed 20 carry ont
project with capital Of 5000 600 Of which oneha
has been subscribed and II Is said hat work viii begin
soon permission l. received
That was a novel complaint which an
"cldcrly man" preferred I'm a London police court a few
days ago. lie declared that his son, who had large
family. had insisted upon bury ing his deceased children
ina grave which the complainant had purchased for him
SELF The consequence Will be- said the elderly
that by-and by there won't he for AMI that's
"A very uncomfortable thought for man who has taken
the trouble provide last resting place fOr himself
/ have done. Ia too bad you know"
The benefits of high wages, that is
20 say protected labor recently illustrated. by
sharp contrast in the statement Of John Bright that in
Glasgow over 10000 families live In houses Of one room
Tho subject better labOrcrs fortunately
attracting considerable attention in England the pres
cut time both political parties. hold" said Lord
Salisbury recently to the Conservatives Birmingham
that the most burning questions the housing Of
the working class in great cities" 1t ia admitted in
England that Improvement must come chiefly from ma
uoual municipal assistance II Is certainly better
from every point of View that workuaus wapr, shnud
unable him 20 provide "a decent home.
The ghosts of the present year de-
serve credit for the variety which they have brought
into their business Formerly ghost not expected
to anything than up IN sheet at the road
side in the dead OF night or the most glide though
bedroom door and extend sepulchral arm But compe-
has produced its natural results In this as In every
other field OF effort and the public the gamers The
latest ghost is glass smashing spparition. which
haunts the house of Gottcb Boos, Philadelphia grocer
has already scared the use of his voice
sides subcctng lin to considerable expense The win
dow breaking began last Wednesday and was discontinued
only Friday after the police had threatened TO arrest
every found on the premises. The glass was all
broken with pieces Of coal some of which were after
ward found too hot 10 be picked up with lmpunity Yer
lily this an ingenious though pusaunous spectre.
Dublin Castle was built early in the thirteenth
century the advice Of Mci,er Fitz Henri then hold
Ing the position of Lord Justice. King John wrote:
1--WE command you TO erect castle at Dublin. in such
place you shall judge most eIpedcn as well to
the city to defend it, II shall SO require and
that you make 1t strong you with good fosses
aud sound walls. But you just TO finish one tower
that afterward CASTLE palace and other works that
require moro time may be more conveniently raised.
You may take for this 300 marks from c. Fz-RObert
in which he stands Indebted to US" No plan OF the
castle erected under this order is extant The oldest
existing portion. the Birmingham tower supposed to
have been built about 1910. In l4Gl Parliament held
I'm Dublin enacted that as the castle running and
likely 10 a each court 1.-THE of law held in
the oastel should contribute 40 shiings year to its
rep.lr In the reign OF Elizabeth, sydney caused the
castle 10 DO made the best lodging for tho Governor