New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-08
GENERAL NOTES.

The leading article in The Yale Literary
Mgo-e for October expresses the conviction that rs
college students merely "a SUCH have come to hold rel
atively less important position IN public estimation thah
formerly they have themselves grown more sensitive
TO public opinion and that the morals and the scholar
shin OF the colleges show a corresponding Improvement
The Metropolitan Board of Works of London
has sanctioned tunnel under the Thames one mile
east OF London Bridge the cost OF which estimated at
about 81 900 900 The condition Of the treasury VIII
not warrant various other Improvements which have
been contemplated such couple OF new bridges over
tho Thames the widening OF Paramcnt-st, and the con
strucon OF decent approach to the new Law courts.
General Joseph S. Fullerton, who was Adu-
tantGenera of Gordon Changers corps AT the Date Oh
CbIcououco describes In some detail General steed-
mans conduct on that historic occasion, IN an interview
In The ST. Lolis R,pu5'iead lie says General Granger
esteedmau the orders under which he moved toward
the sound of the enemys guns He describes stcedmns
conduct brilliant, and pays also warm ou'o W '
old chief, General Granger.
The remains of the Roman arena which were
brought 70 light In Paris time are in much bet
ter state OF preservation than at first imased ana
that the passage 100 feet long 10y twenty Ieot "e
which leads down from the main entrance To the arena
itself has been cleared the debris It Is easy to FORM an
idea of what the ruins will look like when the other OBJ
str1ctions have been removed Descending into the
alnphitheatro by this passage" says The NJ JdReSS
Ga-e the visitor will have to bis LETT the stone seats
rising one above the other IN 'front.' OF MN the Sencrco
formed by the wall enclosing the arena ana 10 MS ish
the outline of the stage which is still very well pre-
seryed Only one half OF the has been eXcayated
but the other half, which belongs TO the Paris Omnibus
Company will probably be purchasedb by the Municipal
ity; and In the meanwhile the various fragments OF
columns, sculpture, etc, which are now In the Carnala
let Museum, and which known to have been removed
from the arena will he taken back Although this Is the
oldest building In Paris dating a. IL does from the uno
of Hadran very few relies OF great antiquity nave been
discovered during the progress of the excavationsi p
among the bones which have been dug up are some when
apparently belonged to the wild animals killed IN 'ho
amphheatre."
A Russian jew, Solomon Schisgal by name,
and only nineteen years old the Of matchmaker III
Berdtschen, has invented watch which goes by elec
trcity which declared by Herr Chwolson Proies
sor Physics the University OF st. Petersburg 70 DO an
instrument OF wonderful simplicity and value In an vi
tce In The Nocos, describing the invention whioh 10
believes viii revoutonze the manufacture OF Watches,
Professor Chwoson Says The watches are without any
springs and consist solely OF two wheels Besides pens
true they tho advantage OF the secondhand mo'ns
in single momentary leaps Is usually the case . gby
la very costly Watches and which OF tho utmost unS
FOR astronomical observations. These watches oan a"