New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-18

,; hot.or than eyer before 139 reported by
~Tho Financial Chronicle having earned 7.5s
nor cent more than last year, and the gain IN
June was 7.43 per cent.
It is doubtful if the Northern Lights ever
before anneared so brilliant in this latitude as they
did on Saturday night. The phenomenon nrS' a',
trocted attention about 8 30, when what seemed
to be a narrow ribbon of silver with goiueh euseS
showed itself in the northern sky and descended
from a noint AZ an angle of about 10 degrees to
about ten degrees from the horizon After this
otber gold and silver ribbons gathered, giving the
onpearance of reflections from some fiery furnace.
and rolled and dashed the sky lazlly, backward
and forward. like huge serpent. These frictional
electric DISPLAYS, or whatever else they may De
called continued and pulsated with marked
rapiditv. at times almost disappeared only to re-
anpear with more energetic vividness and life
They were the most brilliant and fiery little
after 10 O'Clock. and carried the thoughts OF
Arctic travellers back to the dark winters on
Northern Green lands coast where these electric
DISPLAYS are more frequent than here, and more
awe-inspiring.
A good deal seems to have happened in Eng
land since 1886 when the Unionist majority at the
close Of the polling was 10.
Secretary Tracy's brilliant administration OF
the Navy Department has brought forth Few re-
suits that will be OF greater or more lasting oehe-
fir 10 the service than the Naval war Colbege'
Tho new buildings In Newport llarbor have Just
been completed, and the first class of Officers
will he ordered thither for instruction on the
beginning OF August. The courses Of study laid
out for them will deal with the highest and most
advanced topics connected with naval warfare,
both theoretically and with the practical demon
stration that the presence of some OF the modern
vessels of the Navy will make possible. Amerl-
can officers receive in the Naval Academy tram
lug for the service that is unsurpassed In thor
oushness and fitness for the desired ends; but
there are many matters constantly brought up ny
the rapid advances in the science Of naval war
fare that are necessarily subjects for more ad-
yanced study and practice Our Navy is full Of
individual specialists in various directions, who
are the peers Of the best that any service in the
world can show. Their knowledge and expert
cnce at such an institution as the new college
at Newport, can, with the greatest advantage, be
made available. from time TO time, for the whole
body of officers The importance of such an
institution in keeping the Navy at the highest
standard OF efficiency, and completely in touch
with the modern work in naval science, is fully
appreciated, both by the service at large. and
by Secretary Tracy. Ia fostering it the Secre-
tary has given further evidence OF his wisdom
and zeal in working for the advancement of the
Navy.
Finer summer weather than the past two days
have provided no one but confirmed faultiinder
could ask for. Despite one annoying hot spell.
July has made an exceptionally good record dur
ing It's first half
one week ago. when Mr.. Villas proposed TO go
back 10 the dark days OF Se4. and To drag out Of Ats
grave the straddle Of that year forced upon us by
was settled for all time Il, far a, the Democratic
party Is concerned npon the automatic Democratic
doctrine that Protection Is robbery under the forms
OF law" and that all Custom House taxation must be
for revenue only.-crhc Louisville Courier Journal.
Every time such utterance this is made.
the Republican cause gains strength So we pray
you. keep it up, Colonel Watterson To stigma
tie Protection as robbery is to insult the Amcri-
can people. who, by placing General Harrison In
the Presidential chair, declared with all the EN-
phasIs at their command that they approved Of
Protection with all their heart Who says that
our countrymen are a robbery -condoning people ?
The Nmmany gerrymander of the city Assem-
bly, Districts promises to be- one of the most com
plctc things Of the kind on record Ii will he
the consummatc flower of Fourteenth-st. statesman
ship.
A highly interesting movement is that Of the
League OF American Republican College Clubs,
which has just opened headquarters in this city.
It's purpose is not only TO band together college
students who naturally affiliate themselves with
the Republican party. but TO demonstrate TO the
world the righteousness OF the prevalent notion
that the majority Of the students Of our colleges
are In sympathy with frce-trade doctrines. Sta
tistics show that in some important institutions
this is not the cass, and 1t is well-known fact
that many Of the men who lean toward free trade
when they arc graduated, speedily change their
views when dealing with facts as they are, rather
than with theories. The College League has q
good work TO do and il has entered upon it in .
business-like way.
II is circumstance not without peculiar sig
nifcance that at the recent meeting OF the alumni
of the Harvard Divinity School, at which Colonel
Higginson made an address on A World Outside
Science" those present voted by large majority
10 petition the Faculty and Overseers Of the uni
yersity 10 admit women students IL theology
on equal terms with men. Ii would be singular
indeed IL this department Of the university should
be the first to open its doors to women students.
and IL that should prove the entering wedge to
full co-educatisn ~ Cambridge. This ineident 10