New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-03-07

There seems TO be an implied censure IN some
of the comments upon Congressman Wise's refusal
to fight duel with journalist who has attacked
him. This ought not to be. If Mr.. Wise has
fought duels before it is all the more credtable TO
him that he should acknowledge the folly and bar
barty of the code, and that he should declare his
intention to avoid such encounters henceforth.
Every prominent Southerner who takes such po-
stion ought TO be encouraged to maintain it, for it
is only by the force of example that the misohley-
GUS custom of the dueo can be abolished
The conflict between Mr.. Joseph Cook ard the
clergyman, Mr. Price who wished him to ohcr
prayer at his meeting, naturally aroused great IN
terest in the village of Keene. The Student, paper
of that place, prints Mr.. Cooks statement the sub
stance Of which has already been published letter
by Mr. Price, certificate" by the landlord of the
hotel, and other documents, the topic receiving
also dspassionate editorial treatment 1t is pain
ful to notice that Mr.. Cook thinks Mr. Price wanted
to use BIN Cook to advertise his Prices prayer
meeting; while Mr. Price thinks Mr. Cook wanted
to use the prayeTmeeting to advertise his Cooks
lecture. Mr.. Cook says Mr. Price did pound upon
the door, while Mr. Price says he did not pound upon
the door He says that Mr.. Cook sprang upon him
and would have preciptated him down the stairs,
g had not been his superior in physical strength
and resisted him" He says Mr.. Cook called him
3" a nuisance" and "a barbarian etc. The hotel
proprietor certiGes that Mr. Cook acted and looked
like n crazy man." The Editor of The Atadeat judi
caly remarks that perhaps Mr.. Price, in his desire
to have 4lr Cook speak, Oyerstepped the bounds
of due and proper reticence7-as to the pounding
the door. 1t further suggests misunderstanding
as to the hour. On the whole, the evidence seems
to show that Mr.. Price did pound and that Mr.
Cool did get angry. which in a weary man trying to
get some sleep was not so remarkable after all.
The sworn statement of cX-Deputy- Collector Of
United States Customs Charles Irvine, of Fort
GratIot, concerning the methods employed IN eSTl-
mating the immigration from Canada to the United
States certainly calls for explanation from Wash
ngton Ii it be true that the passengers have never
been counted, or the number of immigrants ascer-
tanned in any way the presumption is that tho Off
cial. charged with this duty have disobeycd their
Instructions for it can hardly be supposed that they
were countenanced by the Government in the DELHI
crate fabrication of sham immigration statistics.
Irvine however, certainly implies knowledge of
this system the part Of some of his superors Tor
he says that on one occasion bis report was re-
turned to him to put more women and children IN
the returns"
During the last few weeks Harrison, the boy
preacher has been working up a tremendous re-
vival in ST. Louis, I'm which all have been invited
TO come forward and be saved. 1t appears, how
ever, that this invitation was not intended to be
taken literally for the colored people who attend
the meetings are told that on no account must they
come forward, but take seats in the gallery or by
the door, The excuse offered for this course is that
the white people who come to be converted would
be offended if negroes were allowed to come for
ward. The colored people of ST. Louis need not feel
anxious at their exclusion from the front seats in
IL IL nc oh al
walton in the gallery or at the door quite quickly
as those who would exclude them from the priyi-
leges of a common Christian brotherhood.
Professor Piazzi Smyth, Acknowledged of
Scotland, and author of very strange book en-
titled Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid" has
written to this country suggesting the proprety of
including Russian and German scientists in the pro-
iected Pyramid expedition, provided England and
France are represented though he would prefer that
the expedition should be strictly American. Inas-
much as Mr. Petric'5 pyramid measurements at
Ghizeh appear to leave no room for further work
of that kind, being abOrousy exact and exhaust
iye and inasmuch as the result Of Mr.. Petre's
measurements is to upset all nearly all the
peculiar theories of Professor Pazz Smyth in regard
to the significance and of the Great Pyramid, it
is perhaps in order TO inquire what special good
likely to result from the proposed expedition. The
relation between the Pyramid and the Anglo
Saxon metric standard" seems already disproved,
and the astronomical hypothesis of the Scotch As
trOnOmer Royal have Jared no better in the hands
of an unbiased measurer. In short natural
termination of pyramidal fantasies appears to have
arrived.
DR.. Holman is doing good work in showing the
police how to apply primary aid and relief to the in
iured, and particularly in teaching them to dis
tInguish between the Inconsistencies caused by
drink and that which results from accident or dis
The police theory that the best way to assist
an inscnsiblo person to club him brskly about the
head is not based upon careful study of physlolog-
ica and pathological conditions. and it is well for
the members of the force to know that there
sometimes objections to that other police panacea
which consists in application of the club to the feet
of the patient Hitherto the police have acted too
uniformly on the theory that it was their sole duty
TO nhict INJURIES and that all remedial appliances
must be left to the ambulance surgeons.
The question of yivlsectlon has been brought up
anew IN England by the action of tho Oxford Con-
vacation in voting $50 900 to ARCHAEOLOGICAL lab
oratorv at Oxford without any restriction upon
vivisectional experiments though the physiology
cal professor who wilt control the laboratory is an
uncompromising defender of vivisection OF course
all the old arguments are brought forward again,
and much bitterness is felt toward the members of
the Convocation, who it is said hocked in crowds
TO vote when tho question one of ecclesiastical
etiquette but stayed away when gleat principle
WAS at stake. The agitation of this question at
least shows that modern society is slowly advanc-
ing toward recognition of the rights and senS-
bilities Of the lower creation.
PERSONAL.