New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-05

The value OF Professor BclCmore's lectures be-
fore the teachers of this city and neighborhood
is indicated by his programme Of exploration
for the coming summer. He goes to the
head OF Lake Superior by way Of the
great lakes, up the Nipigon River, by
the Canadian Pacific TO the coast and thence by
steamer 10 Alnsl1a. He will return with an i'm
mense supply OF material, which few men orc
better qualified 10 collect classify and put to USE
The Delaware lawmakers are considering bill
70 prevent runaway matches. The measure may
pass. but love in Delaware elsewhere, will con-
tinue to laugh at loclssmiths. to euchre stern
parents and to get around legal enactments.
SANKEY'S geographical discoveries have been
noteworthy. albeit the object Of the relief expe-
dition has not been exploration. lie has traced
the Aruwimi hundreds OF miles from the Congo 70
the highlands fankng the Nile basin. lie has
demonstrated the extent and character OF the
enormous forest belt that extends northward from
TanganyikR to the equatorial lakes. He has dis
coyered Il snow-capped mountain which he thinks
rivals Kilima-Njaro In height. He has described
the tributary of the Nyanzn, which undoubtedly
connects that mysterious lake, Muta Nzige, with
the Nile system II he sets out for Zanzibar from
the southern edge Of the Hvanzs. he win make
material additions 70 geographical knowledge, for
he will pass through region which has never
been explored.
reader wants to know what is meant by the
law of compensation Well, II means just this ::
Some cities have no baseball nine, but then they
have magnificent baseball grounds. Other cities,
New-YorlS for instance, have magnificent baseball
mines, but then they have no baseball grounds.
See
"a - In hHfA wa
over the Harlem at Tenth-ayc. win be generally
shared. II have been trying for weeks says
| Mr.. Grant, TO find out why this bridge has not
been opened, but I have not been successful"
The bridge was completed two months ago, and is
| handsome structure. That it win be greatly
used Just now Is not probable; It is intended
for the future rather than the present. Never
| theless, II it is finished ID ought TO be thrown
| omen Il is 70 be hoped that the Mayor viii
! prosecute his inquiries, and let the public
know oil be learns.
There have been some unnecessary manifesto
| tions OF interest In the arrangements for the
| Centennial Celebration, but when the great day
| arrives IL will be ascertained that New York
| understands how to entertain the country on
magnificent scale.
Sheriff Jennings, OF Gentry County, Mo-, is
10 be congratulated upon the possession Of a
helpmeet Of the first quality, Two burglars
broke out Of the jail on Tuesday night and would
have escaped without difficulty in the sherins
absence II Mrs. Jennings had not stopped them
with revolver, and kept on firing in tho face
| Of fuSilnde of bricks II Mr.. Jennings should
DO cut OF unamely, Gentry County Will know
where to look for bis successor.
Arabs arriving aS Stanley Falls in february re-
ported that they had seen Stanley several months
| before. and that he and Emin wcrc marching
toward Zanzibar with several thousand meu.
women and children The news may hi confirmed
from tho east coast but II seems incredible that
! mch tidings should have reached TIppoo Tih less