The Dickinson press., 1884-01-12
Things in General.

The new Sloane laboratory at Yale
has now advanced so far towards COM
pletion as to make its architectural ex-
c%ellence conspicuous. tits 90 feet wide.
l02 feet deep and ~ feet high. with a
tower 80 feet higher than the main roof.
The interior. admirably adapted to its
purpose, WILDE finished duringthe sum-
mer, and the building will be ready for
use next fall.
Italy has over $500 mics of railroad,
which cost an average Of almost $lOO, 600
to the mile. The population of the
country is more than ten times as dense
in pr portion to the railroad mileage as
that of the Urited States. There are
more than twice the proportionate num-
Der OF employers that we have i'll this
country but they average less than half
the wages.
erhe people who read and like to keep
abreast of the times may as we'll begin
to inform themselves about India. There
is a fermentation going on in that vast
empire that will breed direful trouble
ere long. Absolute despotism in India.
is only tempered by official stupidity and
that simply makes matters worse. John
DllSllU, ~ vi lOCGilC StdNtItSo3 Sl5iAdNtttiC@
ly remarked that India was to be Eng
lands great problem.
The other day as a Utica clergyman
and his wife were admiring the size and
beauty of q $2D gold piece which the
former had just received as a marriage
fee, and exchanging condolences as to
| the best way of investing it, a messen-
ger arrived breathless from the BRIDE
| groom to say that an unfortunate mis-
take had been made, that SO was out of
all proportion to his means, and that he
was under the painful necessity Of ask
ing the minister to accept a much small
er sum-.
The assertion that the new bridge of
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroad, four miles from Alton, is the
highest railroad viaduct in the world, is
disputed by La Nature, which claims
that prominence for the bridge ofGar-
ahit. France. That remarkable struc.
ture is 1880 feet long, and near the mid
die of the great central arch the distance
from the bed of the river to the rail is
Alb feet. The length and maximum
height of the Erie bridge are said to be
respectively 2,05l and 30l feet.
The Louisiana sugar planters were I'M
usually successful in their last years
cane crop. A portion of the sugar dis
trict was under water so late in the sea-
sou after the i%nundation of lastspringt that
itcouldnot be planted butthe yield on the
lands that were cultivated was very good
in some cases extraordinary. In ia.
vored localities planters say they will
make $500 an acre. This shows that
sugar.raising in that state is a much bet
ter business than grain raising in the
west.
Only two gifts Of substantial value
have been received by Columbus Col
lege since it's foundation in 1754-one of
$25, 900 from Mr.. Frederick Gerhard,
and another, of uncertain amount, from
will not be available for many years to
come. The uptown property of the
college has now come to yield the large
sum of S2l4, $40 in ground rents, free Of
tax, which is equal to q capital of over
s., 900, 900 at 5 per cent. But the trus-
tees want another 100000
EARLY in March the weather on the
Mediterranean had been extremely
cold. Nothing like it had been known
since 1910. Between Mentone and Mar
settles there had been snowstorms at
several points, while the thermometer
had been 10 degrees c%entigrade below
zero. At Marseilles three persons died
of the cold. Much damage was done to
fruit trees in the Alpes Maritimes.
kilograms from Algeirs and Tunls say
that the same low temperature prevail
ed in these regions, along with falls Of
now
A visitor to the old borough of Bed
ford, England, which has given a name
to so many places in this country, asked
a native, whom he casually met, what
was the staple ofthe town. "Eduration,'
was the reply. -Four hundred years ago
a London merchant endowed a school
there with thirteen acres of London land,
and this now supports a tirst-class gram
mar school. a commercial school, a pre-
paratory English school, a girls school
and an infant school. No stranger can
talk to the Inhabitants, of whatever. de-
gree, without discovering that he is in a
most exceptionally eruIite place. Next
to education, lace is tine staple.