The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-01-07
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Csrrent Topics Culied from the Leading
Papers Of the Cesptry.
NAV Tnrl sun
in its grasp.

New York SUM-
The Bug Monthly, published by the
Division of E.omology in the astonish-
ing concern known as the Department
OF Agriculture. was recently described
by the Sun. II is not the only exam
pie of highly differentiated special jour
nalism at Washington by amateurs at
public expense.
Here is the Mushroom Quarterly, ed
tied by the Section OF Vegetable Pathol-
ogy, in the Department Of Agriculture,
and printed at the government print
ing office.
The right name Of the Mushroom
Quarterly is the Journal Of Mycology.
Il is devoted to mushrooms, tosdstools.
and all sorts Of fungoid grOwths. The
fungi have an organ Of their own at
last, and the United States Treasury
pays the bills.
This development Of special and scien-
tifc journalism at Washington il one or
the most remarkable features Of the
drift away from sound ehsrsonian
principles u government. There IL no
limit TO its possibilities. All OF the
trades. all branches of science. all de-
partmenis Of human knowledge, may
with equal propriety be represented IN
the new system Of official journalism.
Ten thousand periodicals like the Bug
Monthly and the Mushroom Quarterly
would not fill the field az long as there
were salaries TO draw and paper and
ink in stock at the government print
ing office.
Fungus growth-ve should say so
Tarin.
New York Times.
There hiss been no more grotcsqus eT-
hibition before The Ways and Means
Committee in the course OF its investi-
gntion into the tariff than that recently
made by the Hon. Gslusha A Grow, OF
PENNSYLVANIA. who Once held the chair
that Major Mckinley aspired to occupy
in the present House. Dir. Grow u 90
far in advance Of sons Of bis Republi-
can friends that he thinks the duty on
coal might be lower, but he made two
suggestions to the committee. one MAS
that the duty should be sufficient to
cover the difference between wages paid
in this country aud in Canada, and the
other was that there should be no reduc-
ton on coal coming from any country
urging an abolition Of the tariff. We
should like to see the venerable eI-
Speaker draw up bill on these lines.
How would he determine the difference
in uagtsY Would he compare the
lowest in Canada with the highest III
Pennsylvania or vice versa, or would
he take the wages paid in the South as
a basis, and what would he do II wages
should be changed Az TO his second
suggestion, how Ueuld he define the
position Of different countries as TO the
abolition Of our tariff 2 Would he take
the position Of England or that Of Can
ada, or, If he took the present position
Of the Dominion Parliament what
would he do if the majority IL the Par
lament should be changed, and then
changed back again ?
The College Boy Nuisance.
New York star.l
New York is not college town.
The capers that students sometimes cut
in small places ike New Haven and
Princeton. and which are tolerated, are
out Of place in a city, and silly. The
bows should not be so foolish as TO at
tempt them. and il they do, the police
should promptly run them INTO the
nearest statiOn-house. That was the
very deserved punishment two fresh
young men from Columbia received OK
Friday night, and it ought to be les
son TO them.
The college youth is becoming con
siderable Of a nuisance in this city. prin-
cipally. we imagine. on account OF the
example set by the Yale and Princeton
men at Thanksgiving. They come
down here by tho hundred and take
possession OF the hotels, the theatres
and the "tenderloin' district. But
New Workers do not 20 10 the theatres
on that Holiday. and there is no par
ticular harm done. But when the
Columbia or City College students get
into the habit Of going to tho theatre
all winter and insist upon cutting up
their pranks. they degenerate into "a
nuisance. AS matter of fact. there are
more first class fools at college nova
days than there are idiots in lunatic
asylums. and the luDaiic asylums are
crowded.