The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

The necessity of scientific instruction in agricul-
ture and mechanics is becoming recognized by the
people of America, and efforts are making to extend
the benefits of such instruction to all classes of the
population. The following exhibits the present
condition of agricultural colleges, giving their loca-
tion, endowment, number of pupils, course of in-
struction, expense of tuition, &c. : —Sheffield Scien-
tific School of Yale College, at Newhaven, Copnec-
ticut—Acres, scrip, 180,000; endowment, $160,000;
pupils, 1867-8, 130 ; cost of tuition, per annum,
$125 and $75 f, tr chemical apparatus; time, 3 years.
Course ot study : English, chemistry, mechanics, civil
engineering, mining and metallurgy, agriculture,
natural history and geology, French and German,
&c. Number of volumes in the library, 73,000.
Institute of Technology, B )ston, Mass.—Endow-
ment, $480,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 170 ; time, four
years. Course of study—English mathematics,
chemistry, astronomy, surveying, molern languages,
mechanical engineering, building and architecture,
science, and literature, tactics. Agricultural Col-
lege, Amherst, Mass.—Acres, scrip, 360,000 ; en-
dowment, $116,000 ; cost of tuition per annum,
$330 ; time, four years. Course of study—Algebra,
geometry, anatomy, botany, French, German, agri-
culture, chemistry, horticulture, philosophy, &c.,
&c. Agricultural College, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y.—Acres, scrip, 990,000; endowment,
$1,000,000 ; not opened ; cost of tuition per
annum, $3O; time, four years. Course of study
—Agriculture, mechanic arts, civil engineering,
military engineering and tactics, mining and
practical geology, history, social and political
science, modern and ancient languages. Agri-
cultural College, Centre County, Pa.—Acres, scrip,
720,000; endowments, $206,000; cost of tuition
per annum, $5O, and board $BO. Course of study
—General science, agriculture, mechanical and
civil engineering, metallurgy, mineralogy, and
mining, literature, military Instruction. Agricul-
tural College, near Lansing, Mich.—Acres, scrip,
240,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 97 ; cost of tuition per
annum, $2O, and board $l5O. Course of study
—English, mathematics, agriculture, literature,
natural history, physics, rhetoric, civil engineer-
ing, landscape gardening, philosophy, French.
Agricultural College, Prince George County,
Maryland.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment,
$101,253 ; pupils, 1867-8, 11; cost of tuition per
annum, $75 and board $225. Course of study—
Chemistry, natural philosophy, physical geogra-
phy, mineralogy, geology, ancient and modern
languages, agriculture, mathematics. Number of
volumes in the library, 1,600. College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts, Hanover, N. H.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $BO,OOO ; time, four
years. Course of study—Various branches of ap-
plied science. University and State Agricultural
College, Burlington, Vt.—Acres, scrip, 150,000 ;
cost of tuition, $l5 per term, $lO for chemical ap-
paratus ; time, 3 or 4 years. Course of study
Algebra, chemistry, drawing, French, German,
natural history, minerals and metallurgy, engi-
neering. College of Arts, State University, Ma-
dison, Wis.—Acres, scrip, 286,000; endowment,
$300,000; cost of tuition per annum, $2l. Course
of study —Mathematics, German, French, Latin,
rhetoric, horticulture, astronomy, logic, theology.
Agricultural College, Morgantown, Va.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $137,946 ; pupils,
1867-8, 138. State Agricultural and Medhanical
Arts College, New Brunswick, N.J.—Acres, scrip,
210,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 26 ; cost of tuition per
annum, $B3 and $l5. Course of study.—Civil en-
gineering and mechanics, chemistry, and agricul-
ture, architecture, natural history, astronomy, and
navigation, French and German. Agricultural and
Mechanical College, Lexington, Ky.—Acres, scrip,
330,000 ; endowment, $164,960 ; pupils, 1867-8,
190; cost of tuition per annum, 300 free, others $3O.
Course of study—English, French, Spanish, Ger-
man, Italian; other departments as above not com-
menced ; no detail given. Agricultural, Mining, and
Mechanical Arts College, Oakland, Cal.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000. Not commenced, no detail given.
College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,
Orono, Me.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment,
$104,500. Course of study—Marine Architecture.
Scientific Department of Brown University, Provi-
dence, R. I.—Acres, scrip, 120,000 ; endowment,
$50,000. Opened this year, September 1, 1868.
State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas.—
Acres, scrip, 90,000 ; endowment, $500,000. Free,
except melodeon and piano ; board, $4. CoursE.
of study.—Classics, agriculture, military tactics,
mechanics, &c. State Industrial University, Illi-
nois.--Acres, scrip, 480,000 ; cost of tuition per
annum, $2O. Course of study—Agricultuie and
science, as above.

LETTER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN,

( From the Anglo-American Times)

Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea,
Sept. 8, 1868.

Dear Anglo-American Times,—Thanks for Tem-
perance Journal. Glad you are friendly to re-
form. Men drink more than they think. The Mail
leader you quote gives me no credit as a reformer.
My ambition is to do good—practical and theo-
retical reform. More drunkards are made by the
apothecary and our medical men than by the ruin-
shop. Up with Turkish baths and down with drugs.
Down with alcoholic medicines, and up with a cold-
water diet. Up with temperance, and down with
drunkenness. Should you have space to-day here
are some boiled-down ideas addressed to the editor
of the Herald of Health.—Sincerely,

G. F. T.

M. L. Holbrook, Esq., M.D.,
No. 15, Laight-street, New York.

Dear Sir, —" M. D." in, England, means Money Down.
Physicians who have invested four thousand pounds ster-
ling for the privilege of legally poisoning deluded huma-
nity have thick hides.
Believe iu Drugs? Should think not; or rather, yes,
I do believe in them—believe that in nine cases out of ten
they kill, while the tenth lives to curse his manhood.
Drugs ! Satan's Elixir. Apothecary Shops ! blisters,
scabs on society. If riot was justifiable, I would like to
lead the mob that broke up and burned down the drug and
medicine shops of the world. Bigotry is rampant still.
The Medical College would have let Seward die the other
day rather than Surgeon-General Barnes should consult
an " regular" physician!
Slavery abolished! let us abolish legalized poisoners.
Civil war is over! lot us settle the drug war against man-
kind. Nature has been seduced by Art ! Nature is
strong—give her diet, rest, regularity, and she recovers
rapidly, except when the system is poisoned with mer-
cury, when the constitution is macadamized with blue
pills. Ignorance is mother of impudence, and Allo-
pathic knowledge makes doctors impudent, because
ignorant. Have you never seen the drug-poisoners
quarrel over a death-bed consultation ? The faculty
aro unyielding; your money or your life ! Strong-
minded patients sometimes live by refusing medi-
cine ; weak ones die by taking it. Experience is the
enemy of science. How many throw the poisonous drug
under the bad and recover ! How many swallow it and
die none can tell! Nature is often too much for the doc-
tors. Not always. Who taught the Indian to avoid the
poisonous mineral—the animal to give a wide berth to the
poisonous plant? Why do you hold the infant's nose to
make him swallow the drug ? Instinct has told the baby
it is poison.

The air, the earth, the water, and the sun—these ele-
ments alone have rescued many an invalid from the
clutches and crutches of the apothecary. Four-fifths of
the world is water and one-fifth land ; so four-fifths of
our body is water, and but oae-fifth flesh and bone.
Hence water cures water. Your Allopathist quotes the
Bible for his system:-1 that is filthy, let him
be filthy still." Your Hydropathist also quotes Scrip-
ture :—" Cleanliness is next to godliness." The Feast
of Purification should Won the banks of the Hudson
and Mississippi, as well as on the Nilo and the Ganges.
Wherever I roamed in the Ancient World (and I have
been everywhere) everybody bathed. Russian baths in
Moscow, Turkish baths in Stamboul, were simply impor-
tations from Chinese Asia. The Siamese live in the
water, and the Japanese maiden swims like a duck. In
Java both black and white have their water cures. Gayety
would find no subscribers for his paper at Batavia or Suma-
rang. Both Asiatics and Europeans use water, and ex-
press disgust at the impure habits of the Western world.
Throughout Egypt are bath houses, and one is astonished
in Italy at the magnitude of the ruins of the bathing places
of the Roman emperors. Hippocrates favoured cold
water, and by it Severus cured the gout; while Thucy-
didas says many an Athenian during the Peloponnesian
war cured the plague by plunging into the river. Do not
the Hindoos, Mohammedans, and Jews make the use of
water, inside and out, a religious rite ? Water cure was
a remedy for the pest, cold water cured the plague ; so
syphilis and smallpox are easily mastered by hydropathy.