Helena weekly herald., 1884-06-12
Facts of Interest.
STUDENTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

STUDENTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
Harvard Crimson: Out of a population
of %, 100000 England sends 5000 students
to her two universities; Scotland, with a
population of 100000 has 6 800 university
students; and Germany, with pOpula-
ton of 4s,0OO,0OO, has %, 500 in her various
universities The New England States,
with population of 4,110OO0, send 1000
students to their eighteen colleges and
universities.
ABORIGINAL LAWS IN A CIVILIZED STATE.
New Haven Palladium The little State
of Tlaxcala, the Rhode Island of Mexico,
has codes peculiarly its own. This State
was an independent Republic, defying the
might of the Aztecs when the cOnquerOrs
came into the land, and its laws are said
to be much the same as they were then in
many respects, the only instance, it is
thought, when the aboriginal laws have
been preserved for a civilized common
wealth.
THE QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR.
London Spectator: The new Queen OF
Madagascar is young, of pleasing express
sion of cOuntenance, and singularly digni
fed and ladylike. On the occasion of her
inauguration she wore dress of ivory
satin, with much gold embroidery. She
had train two or three yards in length OF
handsome dark crimson velvet, spangled
with gold, borne by six officers of state
The gold crown was already upon her
head, and thus she stood upon the throne
The Prime Minister is her welded hus-
band. and old enough to be her grand
father. She is the third Queen who has
been his wife.
TO MARRY A MAN SHE NEVER SAW.
Rutland Herald: Miss Kate Hurlburt
a highly respectable Bennington girl, is to
be married this week to gentleman from
Montana, whom she had never seen until
he came on few days ago for the purpose
of marrying her. They had been in
trOduced by letter by relatives of Miss
Hurlburt, who knew the young man and
his family well, and the young people fell
! in love with each other through cores
I pondence by mail, and are both well salts.
| fed on seeing each other. Miss Hurl
! burt's affiancee is a miner in Montana
| under 80 years of age, a refined man, worth
! a good deal of property, and doing {
! thriving business. After their marriage
! they will visit the chief Eastern cities
| and read reach their home in Montana
| about the middle of June.
THE AREA OF PITTsBURG.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette: sub
scriber nts 10 know how many square
miles and acres compose the City of Pitts
! burg, what are it's limits and how far they
extend. The City of Pittsburg comprise
29} square miles of territory, being 1879
acres. Its territorial limits exceed those o
Chicago by about four square miles, o
| $500 acres. There were in Pittsburg a
the close of the last fiscal year, 355 miles 0
streets, to which have been added sine
some three or four miles. On the sOutl
side the limits extend to Williamsburg oil
the east, to Lower st. Clair Township OF
the south, and to CHARTERS Township ol
the west Between the rivers the lines ex
tend from Coleman's Station, on the Alleg
heny Valley Railroad, to GlenwOOd, on tn
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad. To 90 from
one extreme limit of the city to the Othe
extreme will require one to travel, by tn
most direct and expeditions route, abOu
twelve miles