The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-06-29
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

According to the statistics of the grad !,
atng class at Yale, the average expenses OF
the course were as follows: Freshman year,
$793; sophomore year, $751; junior year,
1884 senior year. 1919. This is certainly
uouole the average expense of twenty-five
years ago,
The Chinese actors who have been charm
ing their audience at the Windsor theatre
New York. were received by several hundred
Chinamen and one Chinese woman, in
silence, as 1t is against Chinese etiquette to
applaud or even to laugh aloud. The few
Americans who were SO demonstratiye as
to break this rule were treated with scorn
and contempt by the yellow people.
writer in the Country Gentleman ad-
vises farmers who raise swine to devote
more attention to the cultivation of inteln-
gence. affection, gentleness, kindness and
sagacity in the hogs. To the uninitated
this sounds somewhat like pleasantly but
it is averred that there are distinct traits of
character in swine as much as in human
beings, and that by careful attention TO the
laws of heredity in breeding 1t is possible
to raise "gentlemanly" hogs aud transmit
their good characteristics from generation
to generation. This writer shows that in
telligence and good disposition in a hog
pay. 1t makes all the difference between
success and failure.
Switzerland will celebrate the glorious
Fourth on the shores of Lake Zurich, by the
finest fete of the kind ever held in Switzer-
land. Mr.. Washburne, the new United
States minister to Berne, has been secured
as chairman, and Eugene Schuyler, who is
making tour of Switzerland, and other
prominent Americans will make speeches at
/ the grand banquet. During the progress of
this celebration Venetian fete. will be
given on the lake by the municipality in
honor of the Americans at Zurich. All
Americans anywhere near Zurich on that
date are cordially invited, and the Anglo,
American students club will attend and celes
brate by athletic sports. Silver medals will
be given as prizes in connection with tie
sports.
The greatest Mussulman educational
centre in northern Africa is the University
o ( Carouin in Morocco. The Students num-
Der about seven hundred. and there are forty
professors. Work begins between half-past
two and five in the morning, according to
the season. The first instruction consists of
comments on the Koran. AT sunrise the
second batch OF pl ofessors-about dozen or
so-dscourse ON law and dogma. In the
afternoon grammar and rhetoric are taught,
and later, logic, astronomy, arithmetic,
geography, history, Mussulman literature
and the science of taliSmanic numbers or the
determination by calculation of the influence
of angels, spirits and stars on future events
The fore-determination of the conqueror and
conquered in a coming war or battle seems
to be special branch. There is the greatest
difficulty in obtaining professors intimate
with the principles of the science in its
entirety. There are no examinations.
Every professor is supposed to know those
among his hearers who are worthy of
diplomas. The diplomas are very highly
valued and give the holders great prestige in
the Moslem WI rid.