Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-24

MIXTURE long before aerial navles take 10
graphing in the central blue''
From recent surveys it has been ascer-
tanned that the entire city of Virginia, Neva-
da, has moved over thirty inches to the east
since the big fire of 1876 The Maynard
block, in Golden Hill, is known to be gradn-
ally sliding down in the direction of Gold
Canon, and has moved nearly two feet since
Its erection. This movement is gradual
that it does not affect in any manner the
safety of the building, the ground to a
depth of nearly one hundred feet to the bed
rock is known to be continually. sliding Tt
is well known fact among practical miners
that the ground on which Virginia City is
built is what is termed slide, and that it
is necessary to sink nearly one hundred feet
before finding the natural bed rock These
slides are caused by the constant crumbling
of the rocks on the mountain sides. The de-
bris thus accumulated through incalculable
ages is constantly gravitating downward and
in few hundred thousands of years what
is now known as the site of Virginia City
will be nothing but barren bed rock.
Lord Walsingham is about to try, on his
Norfolk estates, new method of preserving
game. He has come to the conclusion that
in these depressed times agricultural labor
needs some sort of subsidy, direct or indi-
rect. He is also of the opinion that laborers
make capital underkeepers, and he has ac-
cordingly announced his intention of setting
aside a shilling for every partridge shot on
his estates. The fund thus created will be
deducted from the cottage rent account, and
the rent of the cottagers will be proportion
ately diminished, each tenant sharing in the
benefit according to the amount of his rental
During the last nine years there has been up
on Lord Walsinghams estates an average
bag of 1000 partridges, which would give
to each of his tenants reduction of lis. 3d.. I:
while if good year came, and 5000 birds
were killed, a cottager paying an annual rem
tai of e3 5s. would be entitled to lump re-
duction of 19s His lordship expresses his
hope that this offer will induce his tenants
''to do all in their power to protect the nests
of partridges during the breeding season"
The promoters of the American school at
Athens have issued an appeal for aid. Al
though they say, the existence of the Amer
ican school at Athens is generally known we
think it can hardly be understood by the
friends of classical learning that all the ad-
vantages of the school, including library of
| more than 1900 volumes, a comfortable
room open through the day and evening, and
the constant aid and advice of resident di-
rector, are offered absolutely free of expense
to all competent students from the United
States, and also to transient visitors IN
Athens who are interested in classical studies
The school is now supported by the annual
contributions of thirteen of our colleges, the
quota of each (about $3.50 being in most
cases subscribed by the professors and other
residents each college in turn giving to one
of its professors leave of absence with at
least a part of his salary for single year to
act as director. Although the school has
been successfully founded, and its usefulness
has been abundantly proved under this sys-
tenn, it is more and more obvious each year
that this precarious subsistence from yearly
contributions, with the annual change of
director, cannot go on for many years long
er. The managing committee feel already
that the future existence of the school de-
pends absolutely upon its receiving such an
endowment as will enable it to maintain a
permanent director at Athens, and to erect q
suitable building there