The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-11

count oitleir thoroughly equipped labrn
tories. In addition, engineering, min
eralogy, metallurgy,- astronomy, geology
botany and the higher mathematics pla,
important partsin the course. \,
| ar MUSEUM. d
Nothing interested mo more In IN,
rounds at tho college than the Museum o
Natural lIistory-the gift to the college o
one OF those "mcan Yankees" dcscribct
by Parton, TO whom I have been alludin,
In, my lcttcrs-no less person tlai
George Peabody, after whom ono OF you
most prosperous Wheeling insurance com
panies Is named. lie gave Sl75,0OO TO tn,
founding OF this museum. The bascncn
OF the splendid lire.proof building Il
mainly occupied by collections Of fossil
footprints from the Connecticut valley
The first story contains III interesting
mineraloSical collection and rooms for In
structionin that department. The second
story is devoted TO Geology, tho third to
Zoology, and the fourth 10 Archaeology
and Ethnology. looked with curiosity
on The slabs on which, while they were
mud, the min drop impressions had been
caught and forever retained ,.as- also upon
the dinosaur trucks in what is called tri.
assic sandstone. All these represent IN
ancient mud fiat left bare by tho tide.
saw also perfect mastodon head-onc OF
the very largest-belonsing, it is said, to
the post tertiary era OF the world. Also
the bones OF n reptile, long extinct, meas.
uring forty feet in It's body. M
l asked m instructor in this department
who was pointing out these things and
descanting upon them, why it is that
these monsters have become extinct2
The supposition is, he replied, that the
smaller animals and reptiles took away
their chances for food. They could not
handle themselves i'll competition with
smaller animals, and were thus 30 cir.
cumscribed and impoverished that they
gradually perished OF inanilion from the
face OF the earth. M. ',sE.
As illustrative OF the development the.
ory OF Darwin, the same instructor showed
us three or four specimens OF pastern joints
and hoois Of horses, beginning with Il very
small specimen and ending with ono Of
the usual size. The ancient prototype Of
the horse had, it wonld seem, n sort Of
prongcd foot, which gradually unified into
the present hoof. This was perhaps Il
hundred thousand or two yeursago
PINE AJ.rs AND LIBRARY.
But time and space would fail me 10 90
in.o anything like detail rs to what is to
be seen in the Museum here, or In the
Fine Arts building or the Library. They
are full OF interest for all who have taste
and curiosity In such directions. For in.
stance, in the Library came upon ancient
sankrit stones from India and hierogliphiC
slabs from Egypt. Underneath one Of the
latter l read the following passage from
the book Of Hermes: 80, Egypt, Egypt! n
,timeshall come when in lieu of pure relig-
ion and pure belief, thou wilt possess
nought but ridiculous fables, incredible to
posterity, and nothing will remain to thee
but words engraven on stones, the ouly
monuments that will attest thy piety."
l saw also in the library n manuscript in
Hebrew OF the book OF Esther, brought
from Jerusalem; also mn Arabic nianli-
script Of the Koran, and an Egyptian
papyrus. There were a number OF ancient
Latin manuscripts painted in illuminated
tcAt, mostly Biblical or clerical in their
character, such rs used to employ. the
stylus experts among the old Monks in
Middle ages. Most OF them were on vel
lum. There was also an old Greek stone
inscription, three feet in length by say 10
inches In breadth. brought from Daphne
near. Antioch. There wore also two fac
SMILES, reduced in size, OF the wonderful
columns OF Trojan and Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus Mt Rome. The spirals OF these
columns, with all their bas rcliefs, are re-
produced on these abridgoments, and We
can get faint conception from them as 10
what wonderful works OF art the originals
were.
In going over the college grounds with
President Porter We stopped down and
looked into the. basement OF the old Con-
gresational church-an old church erected
in the early part OF this century that stands
on the site OF the original New Haven col
ony edifce erected about the year s1G40,
and there saw the grave stones thar
marked the resting places OF number OF
the old Puritan fathers, whose dust was
thus piously preserved. .I.t =
+. The Fine Arts building is yet in its in
fancy as store house OF art treasures. but
the collection embraces the Jarves gallery
OF itaiinn art. consisting OF paintings Of
the Italian school dating from the 1lth Ia
the 18th centuries, and the Trumbull
gallery Of pictures, comprising most of the
originals ofTrumbull's pictures Of the
Revolution, and also large collection OF
the best specimen work done by
graduates in this department. The build.
ing itself is q work OF art, and is the most
elaborate OF all the buildings at Yale. II
cost over SIZE, 900 and was tho gift OF one
man.
PHILOSOPHICAL. i.
Perhaps some OF your readers will take
tho idea from what I have written that
Yale, being an institution Of great wealth
is very aristocratic college. ! must moi
risk this unjust impression. You will be
surprised when tell you that about one,
fifth of the GOO academical students are
beneficiaries to q material extent OF the
colleges charity. They get beside the mid
OF the general treasury the benefit OF Ger
tain endowments for beneficiary mid
Then, in addition, there are linancia
prizes anu lelloWshlpS TO De won. Presf
dent Porter,is man of large sympathy
with struggling youth. He says: ave
especially desire to prevent this college
from being in any sense an institution ex.
clusively or prevailingly for the wealthy
or the independent classes" And further
he says: "We desire that no worthy stu.
dent should be denied that par.
tinl assistance, to which his neccs
stiles. his self-reliant / spirit. and his
intellectual promise may cntitle him.
He adopts DR.. Arnold,s idcns as TO the
close sympathetic relations that should
prevail between teachers and students
lie holds that the greatest work in educa.
ton is the development by ono human
being Of another, and that the gift OF teach,
ing consists not so much in the possession
Of large body OF solid learning rs "in the
power Of sympathy, the ability to place