The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-25
GENERAL NOTES.

May Freedoms breath speed to her shores
The Orange, Greer and Gray!
GENERAL NOTES.
An educational journal is about 20 appear
in California.
There were IS Americans studying at the
University of Berlin last winter
The cranberry takes its turn as the victim
of the numerous enemies of vegetation. The
crop in Wisconsin is suffering from the at
.tacks of worm called the fire-worm.
= The new postal cards are 10 be ready i'm
September, but the pOstmasters are to be
directed to sell all the old before the new are
put in the market. Is this because the new
ones are supposed to be better or worse than
the old?
Mr. Froude, British authority on the
shape and behavior of ships, considers
parafin the best material for models, be-
cause it costs less than wood, can be easily
rhaped, and may be re-melted as often as
desired.
A railroad is building between Buenos
Ayres and the port OF Campana, on the
Parana, with the view of accommodating
the traffic connected with the inland naviga-
fion of South America. The company in
charge of the enterprise recently sought, and
probably obtained, the sum of 81 10000 in
the London money market.
culiar tone, that IF women, in pursuing a
university career, succeed in entering one or
other of TIE learned professions. the result
must be the same. They can only partially
succeed in the performance of duties which
they are not qualified to undertake, while
they will FAM to fulfill those duties for which
nature has adapted them."
A pension list for faithful teachers worn in
the service would not be an unpleasant
thing. The Alumni of Michigan University
have proposed an equivalent in one case
They are about to raise fund of $4,000 to
endow civilians Professorship," the OBJ
ject being to make generous provision for
Prof. Geo. =. Williams, the oldest professor
in the institution, who must soon become
disabled by age from further active duty.
At the recent meeting of the Associated
Alumni of the Pacific Coast one speaker in
Dictated his desire that California University
might give the highest culture to its stu
dents, and his fear tat a point might be
reached when the practical men-the farmers
and miners-wish hing their sons to be edu-
TED only in the arts and sciences, shall also
wish the sons of others to be educated on
no higher plane.
- Prof. McNab presented to the Royal Irish
Academy memoir on the ascent of water
in the stems of plants. to investigate which
ROlut foT 6&poTlln6ulS were maze
Hefnds IN the privet the rate of ascent to
be about six inches per hour; in the elm SO
inches per hour; iu the cherry laurel the
rate varied from "a TO Is inches. Expert
ments were also made as to the influence of
sunlight and darkness, the influence ofsthe
bark, the influence OF the leaves, and the in
flpenee of pressure.
Mr.. lancaster, in some remarks on Mr..
Brigham's catalogue of New England earth
quakes, states that during the last three
centuries the number of recorded eartE-
quakes in New England has averaged about
two per annum. The maximum numbers
of earthquakes fall in February and No
vember, the minimum in April and Sep
TENDER. There are 16S recorded to have
occurred during the entire period during
the autumn and winter months, while only
Sc are recorded in the spring and summer
months. a llf
"Baron" Albert Grant, who was recently
+. unseated in the British Parliament, in which
he had for some months represented the
town of Kidderminster, is a German Jew,
whose name used to be Gottheimer. He
speculated in railroads in Germany and
. made a large fortune. He was also largely
Interested in the ROumanian Railroad, Hav-
ing fallen in love with a christian lady he
. changed his name and religion and married
her. Baron" Grant. or GOttheimer, has q
cousin in this city who keeps lager beer
saloon on the Bowery.-N. Y. World.
The Worcester Industrial Institute has
just graduated eighteen students. The
president of the trustees states that the insti-
tute has outgrown its outfit. Mr. Wash
burn, the founder of thedmechanlcai depart
ment, stipulated that there should be eight
apprentices in the workshop, and made a
sufficient provision to carry on the shop
with that number. In the past year the
forty-twO apprentices that applied Tor places
in the shop could not be excluded, and in
other Departments there has been a similar
increase.
Education is absolutely free to all students
in the University of Minnesota. A nominal
charge of So per year fer janitor is made, and
this, with the price of books used, is ali the
expense the student incurs. Board can be
bad from 50 30 10 81 per week--for 81 il a
club is formed. Departments of elementary
instruction. science, literature, art, mechanic
arts, and agriculture are in working order.
Feminine and masculine students enter on
the same qualifications and. requirements
pursue the same course, and receive the
same degrees.
The kidnapping of Charles Ross has led to
the reproduction of former cases of child
stealing. One occurred in England a num-
der of years ago, when a subscription was
orsised 70 cover the amount demanded by the
Ekidnappers. One sympathetic gentleman
who made liberal contribution to the fund
had his bills marked at the bank, with in
structions to have name of the person re-
turning said bills to tine bank entered
hoping thereby to trace out the guilty party.
After some months the marked bills made
their appearance at the bank, when it was
ascertained that the father of the child was
the man who presented them. He was ar
rested and properly punished for his fraud
uDOQ sympatliZiDQ friends.