Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

complete their education. In China and
Japan they come to this country. There are
now twenty-seven Japanese students at the
Michigan university.
The rapidity with which Anglo o-Saxon lit
erature is pouring into Japan is illustrated by
the statement that $1,000 English and 119, 900
American books were imported by the sub
jects of the Milkado last year.
Eassar college has conferred the honorary
degree of LII. ID. on Mrs. Christine Ladd
Franklin, of Baltimore, whose attainments
in mathematics and logic had previously been
recognized by her appointment as fellow of
the Johns Hopkins university.
Mr.. MacAllister, Philadelphia's superin-
tendent of schools, reports that the Normal
girls becoming quite proficient. The world
will have made great stride towards perfect
happiness when every wife can enter her
kitchen with cooking intelligence in her eye
and give orders in confident voice.
Mrs Merritt Trimble, Mrs. George T..
Garfield, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss Helen
Isclin, Mrs Henry e. Pellew, Mrs. Everett
p. Wheeler, and other New York ladies are
raising scholarship fund of 6,000 whose
interest shall be used to pay the college ex
penses of the New York woman who each
year shall pass the best examination for en-
trance to Harvard,
There are number of women studying
to obtain situations in apothecaries' shops.
The pharmaceutical course is the shortest
and in some respects the easiest, and it
is far cheaper than all other courses. A
number of young girls who have passed the
pharmaceutical examination have fascinated
the hearts of country physicians, so that the
husband prescribes, the wife makes up the
prescription, and all the profits are kept in
the family.
An industrial school in Essex, England
makes a request that has bearing on all
sewing schools. If dressmakers would send,
through their lady customers odds and ends
of good material, or if housekeepers would
gather up useless remnants, which the school
girls would make up into dolls clothes, cush-
ions, patchwork, etc, q boon would be con-
clever at making up such things, but, for
want ofproper material, the objects manu-
factured are often useless for sale.
Ex-President McCosh, of Princeton col
lege, is now devoting himself to literary
work. He is at work on volume to be en-
titled "First or Fundamental Principles" !"
which he thinks will be the most enduring
Of his achievements in philosophy. An effort
is being made to have him write a book of
personal memoirs, giving anecdotes of his
experiences in Scotland, Ireland and Amer
lea, and pen picture of the famous people
he has known. tits probable that the next
few years will see much that, is entertaining
educator.
The women of Russia are more ambitious
for liberal education than their sex in any
other European country. In 1876 there We're
779 female students in the universities, the ma
jority being the daughters of noble political
and military officials. Il addition to these
there are several hundred Russian ladies
studying at non-Russian universities, prin-
cipally in Switzerland and in Paris. The
majority study medicine. In con-
sequence at the closing of the Rus
sian universities, large numbers of students
are leaving the country to take up their res
in Switzerland
Prof, George L. G0oda1e was the eulogis t
of the late Prof, Asa Gray before the Boston
society of natural history last Wednesday
evening In the course of his remarks he
said: "Few things were more pleasant to
DR.. Gray in the last years after he had re-
linquishcd the work of teaching and certain
administrative duties to others, than to
watch the progress of the garden, the arbore-
tum, the cryptogramic collections, and the
botanical laboratories. But his chief inter
est was the herbarium, He felt its impor-
tance to American botany, but he regarded it
as means only not an end. His text books
were designed to introduce the youth of this
country to the subject in which they might
afterwards help on this great work. His
studies of DarWiniansm were to enable him
self TO gain a better comprehension of the
| origin of our vegetation, and having found
upon trial that it was of service to himself in
this work, proclaimed the fact boldly to
| others. All of his systematic work, even his
| extraordinary study of the japanese fora is
made to throw light on our own plants
| Even up to the very last days in November,
| when the shadow fell, his thoughts were
given to the future of his herbarium as q
| means of working out all the relations Of the
! vegetation of North America