New-York tribune., 1878-02-04

new law OF finance before breakfast will be sopewhs
surprised learn that thousand years ago the Cb,ne..
were thOroughg0ng indationiss, who flooded the lana
with cheap money. in order to make millionaire ont NJ
every beggar Dutcn scholar, Heer Yissering has
published work Chinese monetary systems In which
he traces the Of paper currency far back as 75s
when 1t bore the significant Of winged goldD or
"fying money" AS The London Echo remarks IL bss
been tho wing for eleven centuries, and has given
good sport to all competent financial marksmen. Ths
title is confirmation Of the hypothesis that all the wis
dom of the Eastern world less traceabe 10
indirect influence of the Bible AM that the peo
pie Of Sinm" mad somehow or other l0t hold Of tho
Proverbs of King Solomon, who says so expressly
Riches certainly make themselves wings" '''''''
The old University of New-York never de.
served the name which Theodore Winthrop fastened
upon it-Chrysalis Palace, the perpetual High-iOv
schoolbut 1t has scarcely kept pace with the NewEng
land and Western colleges in the field oiournalsm Ths
first number of The University Quarterly however, show.
that although the students are behind hand In making
the venture they weequpped for the service They
have taken good positions in the intercollegiate con.
tests and IL is strange that their magazine a,
many literary merits. An article on " The Aim Of
College Education has, however, lame defence Of
well-known academic weakness An auson Is made to
letter from painspoken father TO college president
inquirng whether his could be taught TO spell cor.
recty well Greek meres and the response
is made that college is not the place for elementary
studies which are ought to be- thoroughly taught Ia
grammar schools. II young man is deficient in the
three RS" says the writer the college a:suredy should
spell allowed to enter college Il there way Of prob.
ing elementary ignorance OF this sort and seading back
the young jackanapes to the primary schools :
Can college student have his washing done
for less than - yearl Cornell graduate who re.
Gently sent to THE TRIBUNE a memorandum OF hls
college expenses for single year, affirmed that 81 50
all that he had paid, and moreover that his board
bill was S3i 06 year, and the annual cost of bis
academic education averaged 1884 6S. member Of
the class OF 1874, after worrying over the schedule
which printed n this column, pronOunces IL ncred
iblc and misleading. lie cannot understand why some
items large while others are so rdiculously
small. Under the comprehensive head Of Literature"
appears the entry S2l 80; textbooks cost much
$40 &c. and Sli 80 seems to be an extrayagan allow
ance for carare These estimates scarcely in keep
ing with the entries for board and washing When the
"a was at Ithaca washing cost 70 cents dozen,
and board in the cheapest clubs never less than g
a week. He IS confident that student who eats less
than $50 worth of food In the course Of forty weeks
would not have the strength 10 keep cash account TO
nothing OF the higher mathematics lie thDhs mat
Cornell student by rgif economy can manage to Keep
cut down expenses below $500 hc regards as unwse
and suicidal.
CleOpatIa's Needle is in London at last.
While the cylinder slip in port at Ferroi, new
mast was put in, new sales bent, the ballast
carefully aprdU9cu al Was ulduC ti'n' III
appearance the strange craft resembod huge Cornish
boiler with small deci-hOuse and mast It's length
was 92 feet It's diameter 10 feet and barely third Of
IL was above water The Anglia, which has so success
fully towel the Obek to the East India docks Is the
largest paddcwhee tug in London and has done great
deal OF ocean towing. The cable used was iteeninch
hawser and the length usually allowed 100 fahom'.
Starting from the BAY of Bscay January TO- the two
l-mated companions put sea, with fresh gale blow
ing and heavy sea running and arrived at Grayesend
on January after uneventful voy age Here John
Dixon and his wife went on board and congratulate
the captains Of the two vessels upon Their safe arrival
Hardly had q start been made mp the Thames when
boat was seen putting off from the shore and water
man exctedly waved envelope above his head 1t was
telegram from the Queen to the successful engineer.
announcing her qualification at hearing OF the sale
arrSa OF tho Needle. The news having spread tha Ee
obrlisk was coming up the river crowds gathered at
every wharf and pier 20 cheer and wave hahdAerchei
and At Blackwell Mr. Dixon enthusiastically greeted
TIE monoith that was raised $500 years AGO BY
Th0thmcs at Heopolis was in an English BERTH
| Day by day in Baltimore lad is bleaching
into a likeness 10 Charley Ross He has recently been
imported from Demerara and his skin is swaThy, but
is getting white under tho influence of soap and water
and fresh climate He was,brougbt from that tropical
CLINE fortnight ago. having been found there by one
rrlut and gned by him to his brother in Baltimore
mulatO woman, named Crawford, had claimed him rs
her child he had insisted that his name Charley
Ross because his mamma had told him So" Christian
X Ross looked the lad but did not recognize him. and
then the lad was sent TO charitable institution,
where certain gentlemen and their wives took great IN
tcrcst In him. He says he left Boston In ship
with a man, and got in that way to Dcmerara. Nov II
Is known that Mosher and Douglass were traced to
Boston, and that of them took voyage, and was
abs Mt long time. His hands feet aud face are much
darker than Chareys, being OF olive color and arc
some shades darker than his body, which Is fair He
says be liyed in biz house on high HILL where
his mother taught him little song, which he sung and
which the that Mrs Ross taught her children
He al 80 says that he obliged wash In tank con.
tanning peculiar kind of dirty water lie remembers
being away from the house the hill BIZ man
IN a wagon. who had Il Congo nose, which corresponds
with that OF MOsh Of the supposed aOductOrs
peculiarly Of this latest Ross story Is that 1t bears ye
ou the face OF 1t.