Morning journal and courier., 1893-05-15
NEW HAVEN CONN. MONDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1893.

and the consequent oyererowding of the
 higher professions, and the pressure con-
 stantly brought to bear by the government
 for the diminution of large army of poor scholars. The poor student, on the one hand, sees seldom anything but lack of employment and poverty ahead fer him,
 while the government dreads danger to 6 conservative government from scholarly radicalism and socialism.
 Judge Brown of the United States Dis. trict court has handed down an interest ing decision against steamship company
 whose vessels ply between Liverpool and New York. The complainant in the case claimed damages because when five days out she discovered that her trunks were floating about in sea water with all their contents soaked through. The oompany's defence was that 1t was not liable for damages to passengers baggage from
 "perils of the sea-" Judge Brown ruled in effect that in this particular case the company had not used proper precaution to avoid ''psrils of the ses," and that its written contract "to land the persons aforesaid, with their luggage, at the last mentioned port'-that is, at the port of of New York-without any exceptions embodied or referred to, superseded any implied contract and all implied excep. tions save the acts of God and public enemies. An appeal is to be taken, and ocean travellers will be curious to see how the upper court will decide 1t.
 "Collectors" sometimes have odd mo- tions. A New York man who never saw live rattlesnake has 6 cabinet full of rattle snake tails, and buys every one he can secure; @ Jersey City man has 5000 door knobs; Philadelphia bartender has speci- mems of policemen's clubs from almost every city of size in the country, all of which have seen service; another Philadel- phia man has his house decorated with hundreds of horseshoes; Boston barber has clipping of hair or beard of every patron of his shop, each one in an envel- ope dated and labeled; Paris collector assemblies nothing but books and prints relating to skating; the speciality of e Mad rid collector is broken tiles of Aoorish or igin, and he will not buy perfect tile, but has his house full of fragments; @ Berlin mans weakness runs to stuffed cats, which he sets up himself; man at Spanish Town, Jamaica, has over 1,5oO scorpions and centipedes that he has caught himself; and man at Vienna, who makes his living begging at church doors, spends every cent he has for almanacs, ancient or modern.
 The work done by the United States Fish commission is of great value. Du- ring tue year 1899 the total distribution of eggs, fry, and yearlings numbered BOG. ESQ., 432. This includes all kinds of fish. The 'tfry" are young fish matched by the com mission, and the "yearlings" are fish matched by the commission and retained until they are at least one year old. The most extended operations are in shsd. Of this fish there were distributed 69, ,000, 900 fry, including 100000 ysarlipgs and nearly 8, 3,000, 900 eggs. Of the shsd fry over It, 900, 900 were distributed in Mary land waters, 9.4ss, ,000 in those of Peunsyl- vauia, and 735, 900 in ,ho,e of New Jersey. Next to shad, cod ia the fish most distrib- uted. Of this specie 53, 100000 fry were distributed last year along the New Eng land coast. The following figures repre- sent the operations of the commission in the species most handled; Pike perch, A. 500, 900 eggs and 50.000, 900 fry; white fish, 21, ,000, 900 eggs and 45, ,5o0, 900 fry: lake trout, 1000, 900 eggs and 500, 900 fry; flat fish, $500. 900 fry; lobster, 5000. 900 fry; salmon, s,6Oo. 900 eggs, 1,7l7, 900 fry and 422,0 ,000 yearlings; pollock, 2,5O0, ,0o0 fry; trout, s42, 300 eggs, 3is. 900 ysarlings and 4a,00o fry. The distribution was made in every State and Territory of the Union.