New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-08
GENERAL NOTES.

Several of the best cabnet-makers and
decorators IN Vienna have combined to prepare sec
ton IN the coming electrical exhibition In that CITY
which shall display the remarkable enecs OF color
which electric lighting makes possible.
A case of interest to frequenters ofrestaurants
that is to say everybody recently came before Lon
don mag istrae who decided that the plaintiff could not
recover the value OF which he had placed on the
rack and which was missing when ne had nnsheu NV
dinner The Court declared that IL was no part OF me
business OF restaurant keeper TO LOOK aer the ha OIL
his customers.
In the historical collection of Henry L.
browne OF this city, 100 portrait engravings
OF French officers OF the Revolutionary Army VINO De-
came members OF the Society OF the CINCINNATI MI.
browne 10 also in possession OF the Original oiies ny
which tbs French officers assigned 70 different
honsea in Providence and Newport One OF these Dsh
bears in its corners the marks OF the pins py whcn
was attached 10 the wall ID count n"chs"e" "'~~
quarters
The following advertisement recently APP
reared In a London newspaper: A widow lady woua
be glad to hear OF schoomaster OF the old school IN
London who would undertake 10 punish her son. boy
OF seventeen Who though doce, is excessively idle
and careless. and she would in return be Wiling 10
offer him any reasonable compensation Address stat
ing terms and when the boy may be sent 70 him ne
Echo remarks that the widow omitted the most
ami particular namely the height and fighting weight
OF her refractory offspring
The brick house on LetItia-st., Philadelphia,
known as the Penn Mansion, has been purchased ny
number OF gentlemen VINO propose 10 e"" 'os
~ I'M aYaip on some site where 1t Will be safe from
future disturbance The plan most In favor to place
q IN the BIOLOGICAL Gardens where John PENIS house
stu stands on It's original site IL was so well bnllt
that inc walls can taken down In sections sew
era feet square when the exterior mas been fehaol-
itated the interior will be restored as nearly as may %
10 the condition in which it when Penn occupied H.
A couple of young ranchmen were hunting
stork near Battle Creek Montana few days ago "heh
they espied a large cinnamon bear perched Ia mo
crotch OF a tree They had no gun with them, but on
the principle that the only good bear is dead bear they
determined 10 carry Bruin into camp by some means
One of them launched his lasso and the next moment
had the satisfaction OF seeing the Doose drop silently
around his Victims neck touch OF the spurs ana ON
shot mis- horse and rolled the bear double circle
of the and the beast was at his mercy Dus
OF course lie had no mercy.
The demolition OF an ancient house IN inc
Rue du Jour to make for the new Paris Post-Ocs
recalls the strange which put 200 years ago.
when t was owned by Francois de MOntmOrency Conts
de Boutteville and known the Hotel de RoyaumOnt
The eccentric nobeman pleased to make the rem
dezycus of all the duests in Paris an every morning
gentlemen who had cOntrived TO pick quarrels over
night met there to settle them The Count received
them Hospitality furnished them with the weapons oil
their choice with surgeon and with room to fight IN,
md afterward entertained the survivors at late break
fast This genial mode OF life finally interrupted
nv a eonple of inconsderate ladies who succeeded IN
killing the Salon The police thought tuat
This was a little too much and obliged the Count 70
close his hosptaDle mansion.