Daily globe., 1882-07-09
TIMELY TOPICS.

RESOLVED, That, in the opinion Of members
here present, it is expedent that well GralifieC
women be admitted TO fellowship on the same
terms as men, and that the secretary be re.
quested to lay this note before the council.
DE-. WAKEFIELD, Of Leicester, a venerable
| nam with white hair and beard, said tha,
thirty years ago he was opposed to the idea o.
women physicians; but the world had moved
ahead since then, and he had made up hi:
mind to go with it what little time he had
left. He urged action without lodging. The
resolution was afterwards presented to tht
council and was opposed so vigorously that &
motion to postpone it indefinitely was passed
ayes, IS; nays, Sc.
MR. VAN KYssELBERGEE, director of the
Belgian meteorological bureau, has discovered
system for transmitting kilograms and tele
phonic messages simultaneously along ths
same wire. The French minister of posts and
telegraphs has received in Paris from Brussels
simultaneously, a telegram of fifty-three and 8
telephonic dispatch of 119 words. The prac
tical advantages of this invention are estimated
by the Frennh and Belgian governments as oi
the utmost importance.
TIE new Garfield scent postage stamp is
described as follows: On tablet is suspended
an incise shield decorated with an oval oi
pearls, forming frame work to the portrait
of the late President Garfield, looking toward
the left, engraved in line. At the base of the
oval is dark six pointed star, relieved by s
white outline, and in tie center the figure
'5." Disposed on the right and left of the
star flows q ribbon containing the legend
"Five cents" in white roman capitals. Below
the star and ribbon, On the lower portion oi
the tablet, appear the words ''U. s. Postage"
engraved in dark letters.
Two weeks ago two lawyers of New Haven
were sitting together and smoking, when the
tobacco habit became the subject of conversa-
ton and proposal to stop for stated time
was made. They finally entered into an agree.
ment whereby neither was to smoke for two
weeks, with the understanding that should
one break over he was to forfeit to the other a
certain number of cigars for every smoke on
the basis Of geometrical progression-two
for the nrst smoke, four for the second, eigh.
for the third, etc. The two weeks expired re
Gently. One of the parties to the bargain had
smoked none, but the other had been unable
to limit himself to less than twenty.six cigars.
Calculating the cost of cigars at s5S per 900,
the cash forfeit is but few cents short of S3,
s92,3I5
LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: Let us think
OF all that the girl graduate may accomplish
in the world between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-eight. Under such conservation of
energy, sslf-growth of character, such a
course of self-discipline, such questioning of
the heart, what benefcent results would fol-
low! What girl needs is time to become a
really womanly woman. We plead that ten
years may be given her, after
graduation, or, rather, that she
will give herself these ten years. A woman of
twenty-seven or twentY-eight, self-poised, the
embodiement of completeness, is pleasur-
able spectacle. Her advanced cultivation does
not necessarily impart to her the cold vivacity
of a careful disputant, the parade of the
scholar, and divest her of womanly tender
ness, except where she has sought to be book
ish at the expense of her womanly instincts.
Mr.. K. s. Poole has been lecturing in Lon
don on the explorations in the Delta of the
Nile, with special reference to the residence of
the Hebrews in Egypt, and the Exodus. The
London academy reports him as follows:
The starting point of reckoning was the date
Of the Exodus, which the Biblical genealogies,
counting back from David, placed at about
r ~ 120n afa cicta xry;4
chronology. The period of the sojourn was
now reckoned at 4S0 years, and the administra-
ton of Joseph would thus fall at the time of
the Shepherd Kings, while their successors of
the XVIIIth Dynasty would mark the begin
ming of the period of oppression. All Egypt
ologists now hold Rameses H., and his son
Menephtah to be the great oppressor and the
Pharoah of the Exodus respectively. Their
combined reigns correspond with the length
Of the persecution in the Bible, and their char
lcters in their own records are the counter
parts OF the Biblical portraits of the infexible
tyrant and his vacllating successor.
The bobolink is one of the liveliest birds of
Ill the feathered race. His jollity and frolic
excite the admiration of all observers, who
see no end to his lively maneuvres until the
lecline of day. His day, however, is not SO
ong as that of some other birds. He does
not begin to sing until the robin becomes ST.
ent in the morning, and is seldom heard after
1ewfal in the evening, when the veery and
'he vesper bird are most tuneful. Though
Early to bed he is not early to rise. He sings
no hymns to the morning or the evening star.
Perhaps his unceasing activity and tuneful-
ness in the bright daylight cause him to re-
luire more rest than other birds. But his
iveliness and jollity are not SO apparent at the
present time as in former days when birds
we're numerous, and focks of a dozen or more
we're often assembled in one orchard. 1t is
worthy OF notice in regard to the bobolink,
hat when the young are aedged and have lef.
heir nests, he sings no more; but for the re-
nainder of the season the birds are seen in
small flocks uttering sort of mournful note,
that of the bluebird in the late sum-
ner. To poetical fancy it might seem as if
he extreme joyOusness of the birds was sud-
ienly changed to sorrow.
THE Rev. j. Il. Scheineman, the new minis.
er OF the Jewish synagogue Bnai Israel in
ina recent sermon adverted in elo.
Iuent and touching terms to the condition of
his co religionists in eastern countries, and in