New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-24
GENERAL NOTES.

| A citizen of Boston, whom The Gazette of that
city does not but loosely describes we'll
known gentleman" has made three wills during the last
twenty years. appointing three different sets OF ex-
ecutors-nne in all One after another every one OF
! the has in way another shown himself IN
worthy OF important trust and the estator finds
| It necessary to select fourth set Of executors.
Philadelphia still supports about thirty men,
bers Of tho ancient and honorable order of Cuppers
and Leechcrs Elsewhere" said one OF them 70 a
porter the other day the doctors and druggists do
| their own cupping and leechlng, but here we have
always nourished Ten years ago they tried to do with
| out u.s. but were ohge to drop the scheme I'M
possibility" From another member OF the guild the
reporter asceraned that addition TO his strictly
professional duties the Philadelphia leech or leecher as
he calls himself fills the place In the social order
which the back-eye artists Of the Bowery occupy In
| Ncw-York.
| Statistics of the religions of British India,
based upon the of 1892 which reckoned the
| tire population at 25i,s99,5l6. mako the following
enumeration: Various seots and castles OF Hindoos
Is7.037.450; Mahometans, 50,l2l,5s5; nature wor-
shippers 6,i26,5ll; Buddhlsts, 3.4ls,SS4; native
Christians S62, 63i; Jains sect whose worship is
mingled Buddhism and Hndooism, POI $50; sikhs
who simple theists S53426; miscellaneous and I'M
specified. 3057.l30 The native Protestant Christians
number only about 100000 but this Is an increase OF SO
per cent within ten years,
Lord Granville has lately found it necessary
issue circular enjoning upon all members OF Her
Maesty's Diplomatic aud Consular Services greater
regards tue use OF III
spondence BY way of giving point to his injunction the
Minister for Foreign Affairs quotes numerous speci-
mems OF bad English, mostly duo to mistransations OF
French words, aud among them theses Demisson,"
for DISMISSAL arrestaton for arrest; necessarily"
Immediately; took act FOR took note; mlnmal"
for very small; veridca FOR true. and "antocedent
solidarity" for previous understanding In future
eascs upon the barbarous dialect used In this country
III M S to te pnre and luminous Of
Her Malesty's diplomatists and eonsuls.
The &" hay bunker" is vagabond peculiar
to San Francisco He passes his nights OF tue
wharves peacefully reclining the soft side OF bale OF
hay San Francisco harbors about 800 individuals of
tins species. And they are. In truth, queer company
They live under sort OF social organization, which,
though elastic In most aspects has ateast nvoabe
rule. Smoking among the bales OF hay rgidy forbid
den and any member caught violating IL Is at once ex
PEELED he attempts sneak back into fellowship he
Ia thrown into the dock aud only pulled out in time 20
save life. He Is then ordered TO depart forthwith.
under penalty OF another duckng The bunkers are
Socialists dividing the results Of thieying and the coec
tons stray beerkegs with fraternal implrtiay
Congressman Morrison of Illinois. is believed
TO be willing TO accent the Democratic mnation for
Governor OF that State provided the Republicans do not
mako ex-senator Oglesby their candidate. In the lat
event he thinks the race would be hopeless one for
any Democrat He Is reported as saying: Ogesby is
well known in Illinois He ardent soldier,
wounded almost TO death in battle. On the stump he is
a majesty II be said of him that which cannot DO
said OF all public lie is honest and has heen
corrupted" member OF the State Senate is also said
to have remarked that There isn't man in Illinois who
remembers the war; who a soldier, the father
of II soldier who would not vote for General Dick
Ogesby." The Democrats, IL Is believed, contemplate
nominating Carter Harrison for Governor, II Oglesby
heads the Republican ticket They will then let him be
defeated and so be rid OF him.
suit of armor that originally belonged to
King Francis Of France has had a strange history
modern times. 1t bought says correspondent of
The ST. JdBesS Gazette, by the late Sir Anthony Roths-
child for al00, and sold by him to the late Lord Ash
burnham for $1,000 Some years afterward 1t sold
by Lord Ashburnham for $4,000 to dealer In curios-
tiles who resold within wentyf hours to wealthy
customer for less sum than $4,000 The subse-
quent history Of the armor Is remarkable IL
deposited by It's purchaser In the Begravesquare
PantechnicOn and when that unfortunate building
destroyed by fire the armor buried beneath the
ruins. Dug out OF the debris, 1t sold for few
pounds old iron. 1t survived, however, even this
degradaticn for, after undergoing process OF
walton, IL subsequently sold for $4,000 to Mr..
Splitter OF Paris where 1t is said TO be on sao for