Connecticut western news., 1883-04-11

took the friends hand at parting. "But still I hear a voice calling to me, as my mother often did when I was a boy, Peter, Peter, it is about bedtime,' and I have an old mans presentiment that I shall be taken soon"
 THE COOPER UNION.
 The plan of the Cooper Institute which Peter Cooper built in New York City, is modelled on that of the Polytechnic School of Paris, and is intended to open to the poor of New York City way for acquiring 8 scientific education. Day and evening schools have been main tained for eight months during each year, and more than five thousand pu- pills have already been taught the rrldi- ments of science and art In addition to this the Professors employed by the In stitute have delivered in the lecture rooms free discourses on natural philoso- phy, chemistry, English literature, rhetoric and elocution, and in the large hall, which seats eighteen hundred and ninety-six persons and has standing room for five hundred more, free lectures have been delivered every Saturday evening during the winter months. There are now more than two thousand students in the evening schools of science and art, most of whom are young men and women whose ambition 1t is to become producers. Excepting in the classics, as thorough an education can be obtained at the Institute free, as can be gained in any college in the land, the full course of study being five years. Among the principal features of the In stitute is a School of Art for Women, which has a permanent endowment, and which opens congenial careers for re- fined women. The School of Telegra- phy for Women has also furnished an at tractive opening for female labor. An other useful feature is Museum of Me chanics and Natural Science, which has proved of incalculable benefit to the stu dents in this great charity. Very lately lished in the Union Building, which is 8 tions, open to the public free; and within writin g school in the Institute. Some idea of the great amount of good done by this noble institution can be gained from the work done during the year end ing May last. During that time three thousand three hundred and thirty -four pupils passed through the different | classes. HIS SIMPLE HABITS. MT. Cooper was fond of writing letters to the public prints to present his views; and, because of his sincerity, and his i particularly amiable character, he al ways received free and respectful hear ing. No man was more modest in man. ners. To the last he did not know the distinctions that money and position make among human kind. And of this perhaps no better illustration could be aseed than his speech in 1879 when, il his daughters home, his birthday party was made significant by the conferrins on him of the degree of ILL. D. by th, University of New York, and when, as h' familiarly remarked, "the Latin on tn, sheepskin was all Greek to him.
 PETER COOPER.
 Give honor and love forevermore l To this great man gone to rest | Peace on the dim Plutonian shore, | Rest in the land of the blest.
 reckon him greater than any man | That ever drew sword in war;
 reckon him nobler than king or khan,
 Braver and better by far.
 | And wisest he in this whole wide land
 Of hoarding till bent and gray;
 For all you can hold in your cold dead han' Is what you have given away.
 So, whether to wander the stars or to rest Forever hushed and dumb,
 He gave with zeal and he gave his best And deserves the best to come.
 JOAQUIN MILLER.