Year: 1872

of snow and ice and death. If the dying year
il a symbol of mans life-shOrt, passionate,
and soon succeeded by the stark whiteness OF
Winter-the hope of Immortality (which the
savage suatched from the swiftly revolving
seasons is mans revealed earnest of another
life another Spring.


Last year we called the attention Of readers to
the good they might do by sending papers and mag
azines to tho sufferers in the hospitals, and the
response was immediate and generous. We wlsh
once more to suggest the same action to them' Dut
hope it may not be for day or week. Let our
readers adopt the habit Of sending to No 1S East
Thirtieth-st., or TO other and similar lnstltu-
tions, all the illustrated newspapers ana mag
azines which they do not file. They VIII all DC
accountable as will also old and cheap editions of the
Wayerey Novels the works of Cooper, Dickens ana
Marryat: books of travel and adventure; chill
dren's books, and works in the German and french
languages. Every house in New-Yo contains more
or less of such reading matter which Is WITHOUT
value to the possessor but which would DO precious
in the hospitals Send everything you can gather
together-or il this not convenient senu hote W
No. 1s East Tbirtethst., and messenger VIII come
for your contributions. Remember that every paper
and every book you give will sootho many hours oi
WEAKNESS and pain They will give glimpses Oh the
fresh outside world to unfortunate people 10 "hoh
the blank walls Of the hospital have become unen-
durable. We do not know of any charity which
will cost SO little and do so much good'


The feeling of confidence in the public mind as TO
tbecharactero the incident which befel Jonah.wmch
has long prevailed has recently been rudely shaken
bv the investigations of certain Mr.. Sands, VINO
afiirms on what ground we know not, that that
luckless prophet escaped in yawl boat instead Oh
being enguphed within the digestive abysses Oh the
whale On the other hand, certain dubitatlons IN
respect to some of the recorded particulars OF inc
Journey of the ark and certain historic doubts Oh the
authenticity of Noah which have invaded weak uh-
derstandngs are finally set at rest by the discovery
of an Assyran inscription in the cunetorm character
precisely verifying the Biblical record and setting
forth also many additional and interesting par
ticulars. Mr. Smith of the British Museum, an ac-
complished orientalist. is the translator OF the
stone. Who Mr.. Sands, the promulgator OF the
yawl-boat theory ia, we don't know and don't care
much Nor is there any ground for supposing that
the position OF Jonah in this community VIII be In
the least changed by any OF his pretended dSco'eIos


II is stated "as a piece of news not generally
known" by The Yale Record, that several ladies'
applied for admission to the Medical School at the
beginning of the current term" They were refused
ad,nittance. and the Medical Faculty unanimously
resolved that ladies would not be admitted to the
Medical Department until they were also admitted
TO the other departments of the University" We
do not see the force of the rule. Perhaps society
does not need female lawyers or preachers but no
body can deny that does need for certain branches
Of practice at least female doctors. Women are In
this profession, and cannot be put out Of it, The
question is whether they shall be well OF ill-edu-
Gated To this the Yale Medical School substan-
TALLY answers that they shall not be educated at all
until other women can be educated for the pulpit
the bar; which amounts to saying that the Yale
Doctors are perfectly willing that we should have
female quaoks, but not willing that we should have
female physicians worthy OF that name.


Some new and or ginal views Of "the labor cues
ton" and the problems arising tlerefrom are to be
gwen by Miss Anna f. Dickinson, who delivers lec
ture on the topic of Things Hoped For" at Stein
way Hall, Tuesday, Dec. H. Everything relating to
the discomfort that is agiating society has vivid
interest now and Miss Dickinson has been such
close observer and thinker in the departments of
life into which these murnurs enter that she is
sure to touch the vital issues involved Strikes,
Trades Unions Eight Hour Laws. and all their train
of defiances and combinations are not so isolated
from the general well-being of society that those
who have the good Of their kind at heart afford
to neglect what Miss Dickinson has to say about
them.


The law against the DETACHMENT of natural
scenery passed year or two ago by the Legislature
of this State, has worked much good but there
is urgent need that other States follow the good
example. On the New-Jersey side of the river pill
people are painting pufTs of their pills on the
Palisades, and III other ways Obtruding upon public
attention Objectionable medicines in an objection
able manner This is exceedingly scandalous, and
the offender should be sentenced to consume large
quantities of his pills to produce an Alternative
effect upon his advertising methods. We invite the
attention of our sister State to this fragrant defle
ment of her river-wall and request her to provide
legislative enactments for the punishment of such
offenders.


Here is story which might cut very pretty
figure in one Of Charles Reades novels. 1t is told
by The liverpool Mercury. Some years ago young
man of Chester respectfully connected, for some dis
honest transactions, transported. Lately, an
old gentleman in Chester died. leaving an estate Of
about G30.OOO; and it now turns ont that the ne'er
do-well who has, however, been doing very well in
Australia, is his sole heir. The man. however, has
obtained his liberty, has settled in Australia as
prosperous sheep farmer and it is doubtful if he will
to return TO the scene of his youthful folllcs
even to become Cheshire landholder.


The Queen of England at the latest advces was
still lingering at Bamoral, considerably to the
chagrin of her Coclxney subjects. The snow having
set in, she had ordered out her sleigh for drive
across the moors. We presume that il makes hut
little difference save to herself aud the shoIeepGis
whether Her Majesty winters in London or in Scot
land The worst that might happen would be the