Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-10
2 MORNING. MAY 10, 1888.

LAP R1S 1NSs MI A 1 IN
 the flour sacks, they have to make their fires,
 and the boys have to carry the rolls to the
 houses of the consumers. z..s.-. The authorities of Harvard college are se- riously considering the question of running
 the elective system not merely into the
 freshman year, but into the preparatory
 work. At present every candidate for ad
 mission into the freshman class must have at
 least 8 small acquaintance with Latin and
 Greek, though he may drop those languages
 at the end of the freshman year. The board
 of overseers have voted that 6 change is de- sirable in the acquisitions for admission, and now the committee on government report in favor of applying the system of selection to the freshman and preparatory work, arguing that since degrees are conferred, not because particular. but because sufficient amount of knowledge has been acquired, it is illogi- cal to hold that snattering of languages or sciences is necessary to the make up of well-educated man. The committee accordingly recommends that there be two lists of admission acquisitions, aa pre- scribed, and an elective, according to which every candidate shah be examined in certain elementary studies, such as geography, gram mar, English composition and arithmetic, and then elect for himself an examination in the languages, science, or higher mathemat- ies.
 An ordinance was passed not long ago by the city council of Chicago requiring all tel egraph wires within the oity limits to be taken down and placed in underground con- duits before May 1. May l has come and gone, but the wires are still above ground
 The Western Union company asked for an injunction to prevent the city from inter fering in any way with the wires of the com pany. The petition sets forth that, finding the system of underground wires impractica- ble, the company has done what it could to remedy the evil complained of by substitut- ing in some of the streets cables containing from ten to thirty six conducting wires for the single wires which it had been using It says that the $50 wires running from the main office have been put into twenty cables, which can be let down from the poles or quickly severed with an axe should they
 be found to interfere with efforts to put out fire. It is claimed by the telegraph company that, on the strength of the right
 which the city conceded, large amounts of money have been expended to increase it's facilities, and that the city cannot take away those rights, and this claim is set up also by the Chicago Telephone company, which ask ed for an injunction on the same day. Tenn porary injunctions were granted restraining the city from enforcing the ordinance, and the council has passed, by vote of two to one, another ordinance which allows the companies to erect iron poles and string up- on them their wires punched in cables. This privilege is, it is said granted only tempor- arily until the mayor and council can dis cover if there is any practicable underground conduit system.
 Ramsdell writes from Washington to the Philadelphia Press: The streets of Wash ington are lined with old battered wrecks that the waves and winds of politics have cast ashore from time to time. It is fact, however, well known here, that a majority O1 bAOSC H1O hES 4OEC6A O06 OA pdD11C ul0 and settle in Washington turn out as "ne'sr de weeIs." know graduate of Harvard college who was hifnseif the prsaident of a college, Senator in Congress, and subss- quently in a position of almost unequalled power, who 'settlsd'' in Washington. Drink and caIds brought him to ruin, and he was. if am not wrong, once in jail and many times in the station house. He was a su- perior scholar, an eloquent speaker and an able thinker. It was not unusual for him to accost his former friends and ask for quar- ter to buy him something to eat. Where he is now do not know. know of as sad case in the lower bouse-a man of command. ing mind and presence and rarely gifted as aa orator. He was at one time member of the constitutional of Kentucky, afterward @ member of the State legislature of California, and was elected to codify the laws of that State; was an eIector on the Fremont ticket in 1856; was receiver of public moneys in one of the Ter ritories and subsequently surveyor general, and then served two terms in the House. He was sought by all the scientific, religious and literary societies here and stood as high as
 7 any man in either branch of Congress We'll what of it ? you ask. Well, this of it :: For several years past that man kept one of the lowest dives and brothels in the city, where young men and weak men were lured by rum, cards and women. He died the other day in 1 this miserable hoyel, and was followed to the grave by depraved creature of the town whom he called his wife. lean point out to i you ex-senators here who can scarcely buy their breakfasts, who are so seedy and dilapi- dated that they will cross the street rather than meet an old friend. There are ex-cabi- net officers who used to bespatter ''us com mon people, with mud from their carriage wheels as they rolled grandly on. who are now not recognized by their former associates There are ez-generals in the army whose names have honorable mention in history, whose deeds will never be forgotten and on whose shoulders the double star of a major general set with pride, now so poor and help less that they are often hungry, without ,snt to buy food.