Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1882-03-09

1ue coloreu IAau JOSepu freemdDs WHO
was caught by Officers Bradley and Walters
in William Higby's jewelry store. 1o1 Broad
way Tuesday night, will be tried for bur-
glary in the city court tomorrow morning.
College Items.
Neaos supper at RedcIife's last night
Prof Laid gives the second division SEN
iors cut in psychology this morning in
preparation for examination.
There was rehearsal of the operetta Peni-
keese at the Atheneum last night.
The following are to speak at the Theolog-
ical school commencement W. L. Anderson,
E. II. Ashrun, A. D. Bissell, j. L. Franklin,
w. B. Hawks, l. I. Hill, W. W. Jordan, W.
G. Mann, E. M. Noyes, G. 81. Peck, A. P.
owelson, G. II. Smith, j. E. Tuttle.
Yesterdays NeaoS published a clever bur-
lesque upon the toasts and sentiments of the
Lit. supper.
The first ball game of the inter collegiate
series at New Haven will be with Brown on
May 10.
At Princeton thirteen seniors recently at
tended speaking in the college chapel attired
in the garb of Oscar Wilde, which aroused
| the anger of Pres. McCosh and led to the cir
culation of rumors of his retirement. At least
SO says one of tbe-thirteen.
At meeting of the Athletic association in
| the presidents old lecture room last night
the following officers were elected for next
year: President, A i. Symington, 'S3 vice
president, G. M. Carpenter, 1913 S. s. s.; sec
rotary and treasurer, w. H. Jessup, '84; dele
gate to convention, G. r. Corwith, '93.
Capturing Seals.
A sealskin sacque costs 80 per cent. more
than it did five years ago. Sealskins have
not been worn more than fifteen years.
Fashion and the discovery of new methods
of preparing and dyeing, or first the latter
| and second the former, brought them into
use. The seal fur, as seen here, is the inner
| coat When on the back of the seal this
fine fur is hid by coarse hairs, which are re-
| moved by process of pairing down the un-
| der side of the skin. The color of the fur as
| known to wearers is artificial. If the gov
eminent had not taken measures to protect
| the seal new wearers of seal sacques would be
| few in a short time. The Shetland seals were
| once numerous, but have been exterminated.
| The Newfoundland seal is in the market, but
| is inferior to the seal of Alaska. The islands
of the Behring sea are the only ones in the
| world where seal-catching has great COM
| mercial Importance.
From I751 to 1870 the scientific world
| knew nothing in regard to the history of the
seal. The Smithsonian Institution did not
| possess a perfect skin and skeleton of the
| seal, although thousands of men and millions
of dollars have been employed in capturing,
dressing and selling fur sealskins for the
| last hundred years. The vast breeding
| grounds bordering onthe Antarctic have been
entirely depopulated. Between the years
1877, and 1921, 1,232,37 sealskins were
taken in the Pribyloy islands between 1921
and 1886 45S, SOP skins, and from 1912 to
1861, $4,000 skins. In the year 1868 the
number of skins taken was 242, 600. In 1870
| only 1906 we're captured. During the last
ten years the catch has been little less than
| 100, 900 per year. The whole number taken
| between 1886 and 1880 was 1861 ,O51 skins.
| The seal catching is done in June and Julys
| After that time the ful begins to ''shed" and
| as worthless. The natives are paid forty cent.
skin for their labor.