Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-01
NEW HAVEN CONN. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER l,

in the western part of the State, with Mrs. Julia Ward Howe as one of their chief speakers. Mrs. Howe evidently perceives the present point of weakness in such a campaign. She twas deeply pained, 7" says a report of her Northampton speech, "that women did not vote on the school question more than they do."
 A new paper, called ''The Wandering People" is to be started in London. It will be published in the gypsy tongue, and edited by George Smith, the king of the gypsies. The object of the paper is to defend the just cause of gypsydom, and to give correct accounts of the man ners, beliefs and doings of the wandering people, who are unjustly regarded as the parishs of the human family"
 Chicago people are not slow. The man. ager of Chicago apartment building says there is great rush of house-renting peo- pie to get into boarding places and hotels before the Worlds fair opens. Others are in search of small apartments just large enough to accommodate their families without leaving spare room for guests. They say they want to get rid of their country cousins and aoquaintances who have written that they will be on hand in 1893 for visit to the fair.
 Nicaragua is making great efforts to at tract immigrants. The government has reaffirmed decree passed in 1885 giving 120 acres of unoccupied land to each i'm migrant family on declaration of inten- ton to become naturalized, and sixty acres to unmarried men. Absolute titles to the land will be given after ten years resi- dence. All immigrants will enjoy the right of citizens and will be exempt from military service. A wise precaution is taken to insure the republics receiving de- sirable immigrants. Each immigrant is required to bring certain certificates from the Nicaraguan consul at the port from which he embarks.
 A new infantry drill book is to be issued by the British War Office authorities with in the next two or three weeks, and it is said to contain some striking changes and innovations in tactics. The marvellous accuracy of the new weapons has doomed the close order, or "brick-wall formation" !" and the day of mathematical movements is over. The section, the fourth part of a company, and not the company, is to be the unit of the future. In marching a space of thirty inches is to be allowed be- tween men in the ranks instead of the close huddling of the present, and dis tance of two paces is to intervene between the several sections forming a company, as well as between the several companies forming battalion. Some striking changes in musketry regulations are also to be made.
 A correspondent of the London Daily Graphic, writing upon the locust plague in North Africa, says: "In reference to the diet of St. John the Baptist, who lived on
 1ocusts and wild honey in the wilderness, there are Sunday school teachers who can not believe that anyone would voluntarily llfo Ou SuCu 1OOuY Nuu, tuoIoLoIc, say luao the locust bean,' the fruit of the carab tree, is meant by the writers of the New Testament. I can only reply that the locust cricket, the Acridum Pelerinum, or der Orthoptera, variety Saltatoria-the fly ing SauterelIe of Africa-is sold at half penny per pound in the market place of Biskra (which is the second oasis from the north in the Sahara), and that there it is cooked by boiling with salt and water, as shrimps are boiled here. I myself have little doubt that it is more nutritious than the latter, because in March, when the in sect is gathered and dried, it is as full of albumen as an egg"
 Some of the scientific gentlemen make some fine points. Ernst Curtius, the re- | nowned Greek scholar and archaologist of the University of Berlin, has made an in
 teresting discovery regarding the knowl- edge of Greek sculptors. During the ex- animation of a number of heads found in | Greece, Curtius devoted much time to a study of the eye. On extending his ob- | servations to the eyes of perfect figures
 from the classical period he learned that
 the sculptors made considerable difference
 in the forms of the male and female eyes. | While the eyes of the male were rounder
 and more arched, those of the females
 were longer and fatter. These observa-
 tions agree with the measurements of
 anatomists to-day. The discovery that the l Greeks were aware of this difference also
 will be valuable in determining the identity
 of many heads in the museums of the
 world. In numerous cases it has been i'm possible to say whether the heads have be- longed to statues of men or statues oi
 women. Professor Curtius will soon pub
 fish an accurate account of his observa | tions.