The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-05-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THERE has been a good deal of dis
cussion lately in regard to the cost OF
college education, and college president
has collected statistics on the subject.
According to his figures the average ex-
pcnse is highest at Harvard, where it costs
$500 wear, and lowest at Colgate Uni
versity, where it costs only 5000. The
average at Yale is $500, at Williams $500,
at Cornell $525, at Princeton $42O. At
many smaller institutions the yearly ex-
pcnse is not above 5000. "These sta
tistics, " says the San Francisco Chronicle,
"show that college education ought to
be within the reach of any bright yourg
man who can get some assistance from
his parents. No youth ought to
attempt to 60 through college un-
aided, because the chances are
against his success. 1t demands excep"
tional physique to teach or work at
trade, besides devoting the usual numt er
of hours to college studies; and the men
who get their education in this way must
have uncommon stamina. Several OF the
larger Eastern colleges provide number
of Scholarships for excellence in various
,tudies, which will nearly support a
student, and this system ought to be
more widely adopted. Instead of fou' d.
ing new colleges or new chairs, one
wealthy man could do far more good for
the cause of education by establishing
scholarships, the revenue of which would
assist clever students. There are TOO few
of these helps even in the big colleges,
while the small colleges furnist- practl-
cally no aid to those who have more
brains than COIN"
CAPTAIN HARRISON, of the British
steamer Gothemburg City, reports to the
photographic Office that during a bols-
teIous passage across the Atlantic he
saved his vessel from heing swept by the
waves by suspending canvas bags stuffed
with oil-saturated oakum low enough TO
touch the surface of the water. He used
but fifty gallons of oil, which so smoothcd
the roughncss of the sea that he did not
lose one of the 1856 head Of cattle COM
posing his cargo Captain Marshall, of
Norfolk, reports that in northeast gale,
after his vessel, the Sibylla, had shipped
three immense seas, the last OF which
flooded the engirc-room and started the
piot-hcuse. he hung over the quarter
three small bags filled with oakum soaked
in kerosene and fish oil, the result being
that the yacht lay to for seventeen hours
without shipping a sea. Other captains
make similar reports, and 1t is hoped
that some of the horrors of ocean travel
may be Systematically mitigated.
IT is all mistake that women out
number men, declares fair correspond
ent of the Womcn's Penny Paper. 1t is
estimated that, according to the last cen
sus, there are between the ages of fifteen
and forty-fivc, 1886 more bachelors
than spinsters in the United Kingdom.
This does not include the army, navy
and merchant seamcn abroad, who would
of course greatly add to the prcponder-
ancc of men; the small excess of women
in the total population consists entirely
of women who have husbands abroad and
widows, and numbers only 65,017 in
population of $4,000, 900. Twenry-one
boys are born to every twenty girls. The
writer thinks it important that these
facts should be known since the irnpres.
sion that men are scarce tends to give
them fictitious value.
FRANK CoMAc, a convivial New York
er and a member of the Produce Ex-
change, went to stag party thirteen
months ago, and did not go home until
a recent Tuesday. He started for home
all right. but was so hilarious from the
effects of champagne that he succeeded
in getting himself arrested and commit
ted to Blackwell's Island. En- route to
the prison he fell into the hands Of
physician, who declared him insane, and
he was sent to the asylum at Wards ISL
and. 1t has taken him until now to get
out, although he has been all this time az
sane as Jay Gould. Mr.. Comac will
hereafter eschew stag parties.
HYfNoTIsM, according t. the recent
experiments in Berlin, is as great mys-
tcry as it was in the time of Franklin,
when the leading scientific men of France
made formal test of Mesmer's theories
and power. Franklin was one of the
leading members of the commission which
reported that mcsmerism was not to be
encouraged, as it was prcjudicial to
morality, giving one who had the mes
mcric power unlimited command over
those whom he could influence. A CEN
tury later we find adopts in hypnotism
who claim to transmit their power by let
ter or even by telegraph.
4 NUMBER of merchants, especially
those interested in textile goods manu-
facturc, propose to begin an agitation in
favor of broad and comprehensive sys-
.em of industrial schools, first in New
York City and then elsewhere. The
movement has its origin in a conviction
that unless American youth are drilled
thoroughly in the rudiments and the
nigher development of textile manufac-
turc, this entire department of industry
will before long pass absolutely into the
hands of an undesirable class of foreign
born and foreign bed workmcn.