Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-22
HAVEN. CONN. THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER D.

| is vulgarly supposed, cape celebrated fo, | codfsh. It was here that the Norsemsn keel-hauled galley, and putting new keel in her set up the old one as memen- to and named the cape after it.
 The Department of Agriculture of Vic toria, Australia, sent circulars to the head quarters of all the State schools outside of the metropolitan area short time ago asking for their views as to the desirabil- ity of giving instruction in agriculture to the children attending those schools. Of 1,2s4 teachers s4 per cent. are favorable to the introduction of agricultural lessons in the rural schools, and 34 per cent. of them already have some acquaintance with the theories of agriculture. In ffty-two cases school children already care for gar dens or trees in the school reserves, and the majority of the scholars attending 369 other schools have garden plots or assist their parents at homo in gardening. In 161 schools the pupils have regularly made collections of wild flowers, weeds, grasses, insects and butterflies, and those collections have been used in object lessons.
 The Washington Star looks hopefully forward to the time when the national capital is to be an educational centre, in stancing as indications of such time the establishment or prospective establishment of number of important institutions of learning there. Two universities, the Columbus and the Catholic, are engaged in valuable and increasing work; the Metho- dist university, concerning which we have heard so much of late, is taking shape, and in short time the site presented by the citizens of Washington will be occupied by the various buildings of the institution; the directors of the Lutheran theological seminary, now located at Gettysburg, are considering a removal to the district; there is a proposition to erect an Episcopal cathedral, which shall be the centre of a school system, and the scheme for a national university is occasionally revived. All this looks promising for Washington.
 Few die, and none resign, but one has been found who would resign if he could. He is the postmaster of East Turner, smaller, and the postmaster thinks it hard ly worth his while to continue as a servant of Uncle Sam, so a few months ago he decided to resign. He offered to rscom- mend several of his friends for the place, but none of them wanted it. No reply came from Washington regarding his res ignation, and of course he had to run the office until the matter was settled in one way or another. A second notice of rssig- nation was sent in, but still no reply came from the department. Finally circular from the department reached the office, asking several questions regarding the es- tablishment, one of which wss ''Is liquor sold in the building where the office is2" The much-worried postmaster thought he saw chance here to finally get rid of his undesirable commission, and so he prompt ly answered, 'tYes." Then he waited pa tiently to be fired out, but as he hasn't yet received his walking papers he is about discouraged. He can't very we'll desert the office, for he is under bonds to conduct its business properly until his successor is appointed.
 Even India cannot hold out against civi- lization. An illustration of this may be seen in e Gazette extraordinary recently issued by order of the Nizam of Hydera- bad. It appears that the subjects of this potentate were agitated profoundly by the idea that he could be so forgetful of the dignity of his station and caste as to con descend to testify in person in court at Calcutta in the Imperial Diamond case, in which MT. Jacob, the supposed original of "Mr. Isaacs," is so deeply concerned. In his proclamation the Nizsm expresses grati- | tude for the solicitude manifested in his be- 1 half, but says that his refusal to give testimony would be a sign of weakness rather than strength, and would be unjust to the accused and to himself. Ho quotes the Koran to prove that the grandson o1 the prophet appeared before court, and as modern precedent, refers to the recent appearance as 8 witness of the Prince of Wales, whose example he could not hesitate to follow. Further, one o1 the Hindoo castes has resolved that here | after it's women shall wear @ flower 1T the nose instead of the ancient and GUS tomary nose ring. The reason for thi innovation is that the wearing of nos, rings has led to 'tmuch unfavorable com ment" The members of the caste hay, further resolved that if any woman il future wears nose ring she will be iabl to a fine in addition to the forfeiture O her other ornaments.