New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-12

outside labor Under proper restrictions Il seems
possible to employ these people public
roads without offence to the public at large
Showers OF fish. like the one recently noted In
Western Colorado. are no new thing and there
have been showers OF rats and toads and lizards
and other rodents. reptiles and the like recorded
from time TO time. Though they overcome us
like n summer cloud. they need no longer excite
special wonder. II often rains cats and dogs
and nobody pays especial attention to It. except
to spread his umbrella and grid tighter his flow
ing macintosh. In 1898 Major Forbes Mac
kenzie OF Fodderty. In Rosshre Scotland. TAX
ing n walk through his fields one day found them
covered with small herring. phenomenon not,d
some years afterwarG in the island OF Islay.
where It rained behring's of and on for several
hours. to the great terror Of the supplemented
folk inhabIting there. who nevertheless gathered
up the fish and smoked them. similar rain OF
another sort OF fish occurred near Allahabad. in
India in 1910. In 1904 memoir presented
to the French Academy by n learned naturalist
OF the time. describing great shower Of frogs
that had fallen near Toulouse short time be-
fore There Is nothing miraculous In these occur
rences. though they terrifying to simple
minded and ignorant communities The wind
simply scoops up these animate objects in It's
less powerful manifestations II carries aloft
leaves and dust and other light substances. and
scatters them whcresoevcr II will. In Norway a
case Is on record where a colony Of rats while
migrating from the high to the low countries
was caught up by the wind borne through the
air and deposited in neighboring valley.
II Is good news for NEWCOMERS that the
Metropolitan Traction Company has inten-
ton OF abandoning or modifying Its transfer
the public convenience. Instead OF being cur
tailed, the system ought to be extended.
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Mayor Strong has made a suggestion to the
pastors and officers Of churches In this
city which has already called out several
favorable responses 1t Is that room for
some Of the children who cannot ind places
In the overcrowded schools may be fur
nished In apartments belonging to the churches
which are used for Sunday school purposes
once a week, and not used during the re-
mainder Of the week. save perhaps on one or two
evenings. Such rooms are not. presumably. we'll
adapted for school purposes. but In the existing
condition OF things the proffer Of them to the
Board OF Education will be welcome. 1t is better
that children should go to school, even in quar-
tiers not of the best than to spend their time in
the streets while waiting for the regular school
houses that are needed.
.
The bids for Fire Island have got up to
$4,000 But that Is not enough. unless ex-0ov
ernor Flower Is ready to come forward with a
public confession that he paid entirely too much
for 1t when he bought II In haste four years ago.
Fraternizl tion between the members Of the
American and British Associations for the Ad-
vancement OF Science, on the occasion OF the
L.
has already been arranged for. 1t Is probable
that similar interchange Of personal and on
cial courteses between the British and French
organizations will also occur In 1893 or 1893.
their annual meetings being held at points on
opposite sides of the British Channel almost
simultaneously Inspired. perhaps. by knowl-
edge Of these facts. Science" Of this city, pro-
poses the formation Of an international society.
having In view the same objects az the national
bodies already referred to. There can be no
doubt that the individual and organized eo-coers