Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-11-11

often made out of rat skins, 1t is announced
that it takes nearly 10, 900, 900 kids to fur
nish the skins required for the yearly out
put of gloves from one single manafactur-
ing town in France. These will make
about l, 100000 gloves.
1t is pertinent, If not impertinent, to re-
mark that well known firm of tin plate
manufacturers in Philadelphia announces
that during the two months since starting
their new works they have turned out tin
plate, both terne and bright tin, at the rate
of over II 10000 pounds per annum, and
within a couple of weeks they expect to
double this output and still further in
crease it in December. They say that they
are making better plates than were ever
imported and selling the medium grades at
lower prices than the imported article
costs.
People who go to the great fair at Chi
cago will be able to get something to eat
on the grounds if their money holds out.
There is to be a great central kitchen.
AhOSO W nuOul LILO COuCcsstOA ls kIdulcO
undertake to feed 5000 persons at once in
various restaurants all supplied from this
one big kitchen which will be 400 feet
long and 200 feet wide. How the dishes
are to be served hot is not yet explained,
but no doubt is left as to prices. The
restaurants will be of three grades. In
one you may have a steak for So, in an
other popular prices" will prevail, and
the third will be lunch counters.
The Medical Standard gives detailed &C
count of the extraordinary attempt of an
Italian maniac to commit suicide by cruci-
fxion. He constructed the cross in his
room and SO fastened 1t with ropes that
when thrown out of the window it would
be suspended from the sill. Then, naked
save for a white cloth girded about the
loins, he nailed his feet to the cross,
wounded his side with shoemsker's
knife, nailed one hand to the cross, wiggled
himself through the window, and as he
hung there tried to impsle his other hand
upon nail he had arranged for 1t. In this
he was unsuccessful, and after hanging
nearly an hour he was discovered and
taken down. He recovered.
The opening of the University of Edin-
burgh for the winter session this year de-
rived additional interest from the fact that
women were admitted to the classes in the
Faculty of Arts along with the men, and
on r,ranica1p tho rlo
academic privileges. This is the result of
an ordinance issued by the Universities
few months ago, which
has now become a law. In the University
of Glasgow the women are taught separate
ly from the men at st. Margaret's College,
which has been incorporated with the
University, SO that attendance on its
classes Caught either by professors or by
University lecturers) counts for gradua-
ton on the same terms as attendance on
the classes of the professors. Edinburgh
has adopted the bolder line, and has ad-
mitted women and men to the same
or at least to the same class
rooms.
frOIeSSOr NlIcuOW, WHO udS 1ubU dSsunoO
the rectorship of the Berlin university, evil
IDENTIFY believes in scientific rather than
classical studies for young men. In a re-
cent address he said: "Grammatic school
ing is no longer the aid to progressive de-
velopment necessary to our youth, or
which generates the love of learning that
is the first condition to Independent de-
there are now other fields of
learning whose methods are 80 far carried
out that they are perfectly able to fulfill
what is necessary; there are mathematics,
philosophy and the natural sciences; they
afford the young mind such secure foun-
dation that 1t can easily make itself at
home in any faculty. On the development
of these three sciences rests the whole of
our Western culture, culture which
ripened Christopher Columbus, to whose
genius and energy allow me to pay a de-
served tribute. The university is not
merely an institution for acquiring knowl
edge, but also one for examination and e1-
ploration."