Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-16
MORNING. MAY l6, 1883.

l6. 1883.
 State taxation and the governor will prob
 ably not veto it.
 It will cost one cent to go on feet over the
 big bridge between Brooklyn and New York. People will probably not grumble about this
 much at first, but they will before long. The
 bridge should be as near free as possible.
 Builders in New York city do not take
 earthquakes into account. An apartment
 house to accommodate thirty-eEght families 1 is soon to be built at the corner of Seventh I avenue and Fifty ninth street. It will have l ten stories in front, each fourteen feet high.
 In the rear ths-spsce will be divided into if
 teen stories, each about nine feet high. It i will be fre-proof.
 Mir. Pulitzer, who has bought the New York World, has been successful in journal | ism in St. Louis iu the face of many and
 great obstacles. He is German, with fea- l lures of 8 decidedly Jewish cast. His paper,
 the Post-Dispatch, now pays him $sO. .Ooo
 year. A few years ago he was coaohman,
 and afterwards he was day Iaborer, deck
 hand on 8 Mississippi river steamboat and
 grave digger during the cholera epidemic in
 St Louis before he tried his hand at journal
 ism.
 A novel complaint was preferred in Lon
 don police court few days ago by an elderly | man. He declared that his son, who had large family had insisted upon burying his
 deceased children in grave which the com
 plainant had purchased for himself "The | consequence will be- said the elderly man, ''that by-and-by there won't be room for me;
 and that's very uncomfortable thought for i 8 man who has taken the trouble to provi.de | 8 last resting place for himself as I nave | done. It's too bad, you know"
 On the 24th of this month, the day when l the Brooklyn bridge will be opened, the
 railroad exposition at Chicago will open ! It will remain open for month, and will be exceedingly interesting. There will be eight departments, designated alphabetically, each I with it's appropriate classification. Thus, ! department A relates to rolling stock, and has five classes, nsDIely locomotives, I cars, running gear, interior furnishings
 for passenger cars and freight car appli- l ances. Wood working and iron working are another department, track goods third, metals fourth, stations, office appurten- ances, pumps and water station appliances fifth, oils, Yarnish and paint sixth, miscel- lany seventh and street railroad appliances an eighth. Among the interesting features
 will be an electric railroad running around the gallery, to suggest the railroad of the future.
 MT. Bookwalter, of Ohio, has informed the people of this country that India is al- ready formidable competitor in the Eng fish wheat markets, with the probability that she will more and more rival us in these markets MT. Bookwalter testifes to the immense wheat harvesting area of India. A member of the House of Commons has proposed tax upon Ameriea- Hhees' and, .-L-I ----Eortant, there appears to be real purpose in England to improve the transportation facilities in the Indian provinces to the sea The great drawback now to the Indian produc- tlon IS the cost of carrying wheat tn .Ao 1 port of shipment. The land is fertile; the l laborer is well clotheo in two cotton shirts ! per year, and lives on six cents expenditure | per day. But with our agriculturna .achin- ! cry, cheap land and speedy communication with Europe, there is reason fer gFeak alarm yet. It will be many years before railroads will be made to accommodate wheat growers in India.
 Mir. Judah P. Benjamin, who wRs attorney | general under the Confederate government | and has since been one of the most promi- l nent and successful lawyers in England, is l not yet believer in the Union. He is re- | ported as saying: So far as the war lent to the abolition of slavery it was for good. So far as it split the bad blood which had always brewed between the North and South and brought about final settlement of those quarrels which could have been concluded in no other way, it was for good; but it is not to be SO readily admitted that had the result been different the prosperity which the North enjoys would not have been possessed by the South. It is folly to say that North Ameri- ca, or that part of it at least which is enn- braced in the Federal States, is not large enough for one nation. On the contrary, there is room for as many as are in Europe and prosperity for them all. I believe from my heart that the structure called the Fed eral States of America will fall apart some day from it's own inherent weakness.
 In speech before the Rhode Island Har- ward club recently President Eliot of Harvard college said that it is quite evident that,
 Io,- &E,ot highest seat of learning in the country, there is yet no institution that comes anywhere near our ideal of what 8 university, in the proper sense of the word ought to be- We have made very great progress during the past twenty-five years but we have nothing like the great universities of Vienna, Leipsic, Berlin, or even Strasburg, not to speak of . Oxford and Cambridge in England. Ezra Cornell, himself not 8 literally educated man. gave one of the best definitions of univers- ity when he said that he would found an in- stitution where anybody could learn any thing. On the side of teaching we have not half enough teachers. At Harvard more is thought than ever of the importance of pro- ducing effect on character, of training men to respect themselves and rely on themselves. It used to be said that the college stood to the student tsin loco parentis.'' The speaker did not accept this theory, inasmuch as there are various kinds of parents, and it was impossi- ble from the very nature of the case that any college instructor could take the exact place of any, even the best parent.
 SIMPLE.
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