Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-03

the tiger and panther; one set of teeth and
| bones of hippepotamus; several crocodiles
| or alligators, and innumerable other bones
not identified. Apparently the territory
| south of Alachua was at one time large
fresh water lake
The "Cape Cod Folks" libel suit, brought
by Lorenzo Nightingale against Alexander
Williams & Co., of Boston, has been settled.
Mr.. Nightingale has accepted a percentage
Qess than half, say the publishing firms
lawyers) of the amount awarded him by the
jury. Thus unfortunately the public is de-
prived of decision by the Supreme court
on the real merits of the case. The publish
ers' plea before the Supreme court was that
Nightingale, although wronged in moral
sense, was not wronged in legal sense. The
young man had been made an object of no
toriety, which was very unpleasant, but the
essential quality of libel, defamation was
wanting. The novelist had made him hero,
had exalted his character and his deeds-had
| in fact created and extended, but not injur-
| ed, his reputation.
President Warren, of the Boston uriversi-
ty, thinks that sex isolation in education is
a revival of the same medieval ideas which
created and sustained monasticism. eff the
aim be, he says ''to narrow human being
to one small function, isolation will be found
helpful If the aim be the semi-develop
ment Of human being, semi-isolation is by
all means desirable. On the other hand,
harmonious, all-sided development demands
harmonious influences from every side.
Masculine influence alone, feminine influence
alone, can never produce the broadest and
co1npletest humanistie culture. Only in the
fully human society of men and women can
a normal development of character go for
ward. Where mental and moral improve
ment is the earnest common purpose, the re-
fning and ennobling influences of each sex
upon the other in association can hardly be
overestimated. 1t is an elevating and mould
ing force whose potency and value have but
just begun to be recognized in the higher ed
ucation."
The Illinois Senate has passed an interest
ing bill recommended by the Citizens asso-
citation of Chicago. 1t aims to regulate
primaries. 1t legalizes primaries by fixing
the hours at from noon to p. M; requir-
ing the judges to take oaths to residence
and being householders of the election pre-
cinct; providing for five days notice of the
election, and requiring that the clerks be re
gularly sworn The judges are authorized
to pass upon the qualifications of voters, and
to interrogate anyone offering vote. The
vote must be rejected if the person Offering
it refuses to answer the questions put, and
it must also be rejected if the person refuses
to file sworn statement that he is quail
fed voter of the district, etc. Clerks are to
keep lists giving the names and residences Of
persons voting, persons challenged, and the
determination of the board upon the chal-
lenge. The forms of the poll and tally lists
differ little from those ordinarily employed
The ballot box must be opened and shown to
the voters before any ballots are received,
and it must not be removed from the polling
place nor from the view of the bystanders
before the ballots are counted after the polls
close. The number of ballots must accord
with the number of names entered on the
poll list. After the votes have been counted
and the result publicly announced, the judges
must publicly destroy the ballots, the list,
etc., to be retained and issue certificates of
election. Heavy penalties are provided for
a failure to comply with the provisions of the
law