New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-17
GENERAL NOTES.

Telephones are to be set up by the Govern
cnt I'm the telegraph offices OF Paris and placed at the
service of the public for a small charge.
A new enterprise in illustrated journalism
has been undertaken by The Pictorial World Of London,
for whose propretOrs Captain Morton the aeronaut has
inst built a balloon. They intend to send experienced
artists the upper air IN charge of expert aeronauts
and the results of their work and detailed account of
each voyage Will appear In The Pictorial World They
have also arranged for series OF experiments in balloon
photography.
The Russian Government has at last decided
10 place in the Church of ST. Vladimir at Sebasopo
marble tablets the memory of the officers OF the Rus
alan navy who died in the Crimean war OF lsj3-56
with record OF the date Of death and OF the battle In
which each received his mortal wound These tablets
Will not include the OF those officers 10 whose
memory monuments have already been raised IN tie
Church OF st. Nicholas at SebastopoL
A citizen of Rochester whose means allow him
70 choose any OF recreation and who Is tired Of the
conventional vacations. has planned novel trip Tor the
coming summer. He has had built at st. Paul mod
flied on which lie and his family intend drift
laziy down the Mississippi stopping wherever mcllna-
ton suggests Their boat will be literally supplied with
creature comforts and furnished In homelike way. and
the expense which IS not "A controlling consideration ia
not expected TO exceed the price OF board at good
hotel.
One of the many correspondents who find it
profitable TO send sensational stories from St. Petersburg
TO distant newspapers. recently informed the Vienna
Ne Freie PesSe that the police had discovered IN sub
~ of the Russian capital mauuflcory OF dynamite
hats That is say the Nihilsts have been storing
dynamite In the hats designed be worn at
the coronation OF the Gar To be thrown jOyOusly into
the air and explode the moment they fall back
ground Tho Nc FreiC Prese prints the story but adds
that II is apparently another police fantasy.
John Gregory, of Camden, n. j., where he
is Familiarity known as English jack" has been pro-
fessonal killer for thirty years and according to his
own reckoning has put an end TO 100000 during
that period His lerrets drive the rodents their
holes and his Scotch terriers the executoners oc-
casonaly assisted by their redoubable master himself
when tho work Is specially hot. Gregory aoLnow dges
TINT deeply Interested In his vocation and
sound is sweeter to his ears than the death squeak OF
rat.
A young woman riding IN Boston horse car
had endured minutes the fixed gaze OF an imper
tnen dandy. when simple way OF getting the better OF
him occurred 10 her Assuming expression OF horror
which gradually relaxed into amusement, she looked
stcadfastly for a moment at point his collar Just
below hs ear and then with aQuet smile turned her
away Never was the complacency of "A young fool
| more completely disturbed. He hdgetted in his seat
went through dreadful cont0rons almost rolled his
eyos out their sockets In the effort extend his
OF vision tho point below his brushed softly
eagerly then fraptcaly the suspected spot and last
In an agony OF apprehension rushed out OF the and
| into ali adjacent bar-room In search of mirror.