The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-09-18
TIE Times,
OWOSSO, FRIDAY. SEPT. Is, 1891.
Buffalo Express:
He's In thoughtful mood today,
He moves with slow detected air,

Buffalo Express;
He's In a thoughtful mood today,
He moves with slow, detected air,
He is the man who tried his best,
But didn't manage TO get there.
Boston Herald: There's great scarcity
in fruit jars. but the supply of the old-fash-
toned family jars is fully equal to the de-
mand.
Louisville Courier-Journal: The scientific
person who Is giving out that singing Is
healthful, doubtless refers to the singer him
self or herself. Singing is often very deadly
to the one who has to listen to it,
Hartford COurant: Brown University
follows Harvard in opening a side door to
women. They may take examinations, and
they may receive certificates OF their at
tainments"-by no means degrees. When
may we look for that long forshadowed for
ward step of Yale in this line?
Philadelphia Times: The Delaware reed
bird on toast is much priced by the Phila-
delphia epicure; but the Maine Reed bird Oh
the floor of Congress is what the democratic
congressional epicures are expecting to find
very appetizing when Congress meets.
Boston Traveller: 1t is gratifying to learn
from the base ball gossip of a contemporary
that Fuller of the Browns is one of the
brainlest shOrtstOps in the cOuntry-a WON
derful artist in his position" Artists have
long held an eminent place in the hair-dress-
ing and bOOt-blacking professions, but we
believe that they are comparatively new to
the diamond.
New York Tribune: Brown University
is the latest accession to the ranks of the
American colleges which recognize the
claims of women to participate in the higher
education offered to men. Its authorities,
after considerable discussion, have decided
to allow women to take its entrance eXami-
nations and to grant them certificates for
what they accomplish therein.
Miss Alice M. Fletcher, of the United
States Interior Department and the Pea
body Museum, Cambridge, will contribute
to The Century in 1892 the results of her
studies of the American Indian in series
of illustrated papers. They will give an in
innate account of how the Indian actually
lives and thinks, his music, home life, war
fare, hunting customs. ETC., and it is the
opinion of Professor Putnam, of Harvard,
that they will undoubtedly be the most i'm
portant papers that have ever been published
on the subject, and that they will give an
entirely different idea of the Indian from
that now commonly prevailing. The series
will be called 1.-The Indians Side"
The startling fact is shown by reports of
the Massachusetts, Commissioners of prisons
that during the last fifty years, while the
population of the state has only trebled, the
number of criminals has increased fifty fold.
There is one prisoner to every 400 inhabi-
tants in the state, and in Boston one to
every 222 inhabitants. This large proper
ton, however, includes re-commitments.
These facts are interpreted by Mr.. William
p. Andrews, for many years clerk of the
criminal court at Salem, Mass, as evidence
that the ':reformatory" conduct of prisons
has caused an alarming increase of crime.
and that the substitution of refOrmatOry for
punitive treatment is fast bringing us to
state socialism through the attractiveness of
prison-life. Mr.. Andrews will contribute
an article to the October Forum, containing
the results of many years. observations of
the working of the two systems.