NEWS FROM NORRISTOWN
I'WO MEN STADBED, ONE MORTALLY.
NORRISTOWN, PA., Feb. 11.—Four
Italian laborers, employed at Albertson
& Son's glass works, became engaged
in a quarrel at noon to-day, and Peler
Petrello stabbed two of them, one
‘atally, indicting a long, deep gash in
his abdomen. The victim 1s Frank
Bimo. The attending physician sad
.0-night that the man could not live.
The other wounded man, who was cut
in the back, 1s in a critical condition,
but 1s likely to survive, A third man,
who interfered, was knocked down
with a shovel by Petrello and rendered
senseless,
The assailant fled, pursued by an
cilicer on horseback and a posse on
foot. He was driven into a woods in
Plymouth township this evening, and
when darkness set in the hunt was
abandoned.
THIEVES MAKE A GOOD HAUL,
NORRISTOWN, Pa,, Feb, 11.—DB, I'.
Richardson, residing in Plymouth
township, near the borough line, re-
ported to the police this evening that
his dwelling bad been robbed of jew-
elry, silverware and clothing to the
value of about $600, Mr. Richardson
and his family bave been away since
on the 9th. ’fhey met in a bar room
and opened ‘dre simuitaneously, Wal-
ton Was Y.{ljed, and D. A. Martin was
shot Iv, the arm, The Marshal was
not Ir, jured,
~~A broken rail threw a freight car
and a passenger coach of an accommo:
dation train off the track at Naginey,
Pa., on the 11th. There were nine
passengers on board and they were all
injured, none fatally however.
— While two young sons of Ell W.
Carpenter were firing at a mark against
a woodshed, at Bucyrus, Oho, on the
11th, one of the bullets penetrated the
siding and struck their mother, who
had just entered, in the side, inflicting
a fatal wound.
-On the morning of the 1lith an
explosion occurred at a point midway
between Willlams Bridge and Bedford
Park, on the line of the New York,
New Haven and Ilartford Railroad,
just as the train from Stamford, Conn.,
which 1s due in New Yorkat 9.40 a.
m, passed there, It is believed that
the explosion was caused by a gang of
Italian workmen throwing out a dyna.
mite cartridge too suddenly. Every
pane of glass In the train was shal-
tered, and the 500 passengers wers ter-
ribly shaken up. A large
known of the robbery until the for
mer’s return this evening.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—A diabolical attempt to burn and
blow up a five story double tenement on
Hester street, New York, was discov.
ered early on the morning of the 10th,
Bundles of rags saturated with kero-
sene had been used; also several pounds
of gunpowder, Fortunately the pow.
der had pot been reached when the
flames were discovered and exting-
uished. The author of the plot and
its motive are unknown. Simon J.
Dillon was stabbed and killed in a
bury, Connecticut, on the morning o!
the 10th.
~—Cmsar Frazer and Edward Criss,
both colored, were arrested on
morning of the 10th in Charleston,
South Uarolisa, for the murder of E.
H. Holdenberg. Frazer confessed his
guilt, while Criss asserted that be was
innocent.
—A fight took place ten miles from
Newport, Kentucky, on the afternoon
new rallroad, between Italian work-
men and negroes, Three men are re-
ported to have been killed and a score
wounded. The trouble is said to have
severe cuts about the Lead
and face fro e flying glass,
—A secret service officer
more counterfeilers In
county,
16 in all.
this gang
since, but
arrested
several
7ures
commenced
active mesa
Years
against
arrest of one of the
others 80 badly that
parity scared the
tuey ceased work.
—A loaded car dast:edd down the in-
at Galusha A. Grow’s mines,
Pa,, ‘on the 11th,
Killing Edward M. Baker and injuring
Robert E. Crisswell.
the 11th, precipitating the cage 95 feet
bottom, George Harper was
his son slightiy and a man
Dexter and Melverne Cole, two young
Nova Scotia, on the 11th,
setting of a canoe,
by the
up
—During a fight between Pravzero
i
the evening of
Policeman
and ace
side and
W. Cox,a prominent citizen of
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was shet dead
i
of a jug of whisky. No
have been received.
~—Wililam Holden was killed by =
man named McGrath, In Montreal,
Quebec, on the 9th, Holden bad called
McGrath a *‘nigger.”” McGrath 1s a
white man, but his wife has negro
blood in her veins, E. H, Oldenburg,
a grocer in Charleston, South Carolino,
60 years of age, was murdered al his
store on the evening of the 9th, by two
unknown negroes, wbo had entered the
store for the purpose of robbery. They
escaped with about $50, While a num-
ber of colored laborers were relurning
to a camp in Lee conuly, Kentucky, a
rufian named William Shaw
one of them to drink with him, While
the man was complying Shaw raised i
particulars
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The enraged colored
afterwards had him lodged
Haywood Handy, colored, shot and
killed a young white man pamed
Charles Stewart, in Dossier parish,
Louisiana, on the 8th, and was lynched
by a wob on the same night,
pears that Handy amd two other
negroes were charged with hog steal.
Court =n few days ago. Feeling
that Handy and the others had
avaded justice through various techni-
zalitles, and inasmuch as their past
record fur hog stealing and other of-
fences was bad, a few of the citizens
residing ia that vicinity determined to
at least give all of them a flogging and
potify them that if they were ever
charged with the same crime again
they would bave to leave the parish,
When the party reached Handy’s house
be refused to allow them to enter and
they burst the door open. Stewarl was
in the lead and Handy shot him.
— William Hamilton was stabbed to
jeath by DPenjamin Brown, In St
Ionis, on the evening of the 10th.
They quarrelled over a game of cards
in which five cents was the stake. A
boller at the brick works of Guild,
White & Gillespie, in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, exploded on the 11th, killing
Charles Falls and fatally injuring his
son, During a dance at San Jacinto, &
a hittle mountain town in California, a
few days ago, an earthquake shock oc-
curred, and ihe two hundred people
present sought safely by jumping
through windows, Many were tramp-
led under foot and others were cut by
glass, but no one was fatally hurt.
~The Hessian fly is reported to be
destroying tlhe wheat crop in Central
lllinots. The dry freezing weather is
also reported to be killing the wheat.
~Michael Rizzolo, alias “Red Nose
Mike,”” on trial in Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
for the killing of Paymaster McClure
and Stablewan Flanoigan, was on the
11th found guilty murder in the
first degree. Sentence was deferred
until the 16th. Father Ashfield, a
at ~t. Peter’s Catholic Church,
Memphus, Tennessee, was stabbed to
death on the morning of the 11th by
W. Reeves, a young man, whom he
been instrumental in having re-
leased from jail, where he had been
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entered
protest.”
Harrell, whose !+use he
Mrs, Plarrell’s
during her husband 's absence,
—The case of diss Margaret
Willlamrs against David Kearr, for $10,
000 damages or breach of promise of
marriage wi tried in New York on
the 13th, au nited in a verdict for
the plaintif 1500, Miss Willlams
was Lhe sister urs first wife,
— Policeman J
Hampton, lowa, on the evening of the
The former made
and was shot and fatally
Befrankie
a business of re.
for the Northern Wisconsin
dives,
—Peter Rooney,
shot and fatally wounded in Chicagoon
by Ferdinand
Vecchione, an Italian blacksmith, who
caught Rooney climbing through his
~—An epidemic of a virulent charac
ter, the nature and symptoms of which
are not clearly stated,
Lake. Manitoba, and their extermina-
tion is feared.
An explosion occurred at Johnson's
Harline and demolishing the building.
William Harris, a notorious character
James Jenkins, a young raslroad brake.
man. As Harns was being removed to
mob, but was retaken by the sherifl
and his deputies,
was being taken out of town, be was
again captured by the mob, and was
being strung upto a tree when Rev.
Mr. Hudson, a Baptist preacher, ap-
peared on the scene, and, after an im-
passioned appeal by him, the crowd re.
turned Harris to the calaboos, On the
evening of the 13th another mob at-
tacked the jall and forced an entrance,
but found that Harris had been taken
to Coffeeville, At last accounts it
was sald that another mob would go to
Coffeville and lynch Harris, Charles
Gabit, a laborer, 36 years old,
shot his wife in Reading, Pa. on the
14th, and then shot himself, The
woman's wound 1s slight, but Gabit's
condition is dangerous, ‘They quar-
relled about Gabit's failure to support
the family. Tascott, the alleged mur-
derer of Millionaire Snell in Chicago,
has, it Is stated, been arrested at Deer
Lodge, Montana, His captors claim
that he has all the marks mentioned
in the descriptive circular sent out,
Sophia Buck, aged 30 years, living on
the second floor of a tenement Louse
in New York, threw her T-months-old
babe out of the window on the morn-
ing of the 14th. The child was fatally
hurt. The woman was abandoned by
her husband, who left her ill and des.
titute, and while brooding over her
condition her reason gave wav.
~All the Calumet shafts, except
No. 5, at Calumet, Michizan, were
sealed on the afternoon of the 13th,
as the miners in shafts 2 and 4 were
compelled to leave by gas and smoke,
Fire is still burning in the section
where it broke out, but, it is said, there
1s no encroachment on the new timbers,
The old process of *smothering’ will
be resumed, and the mine remains
closed tor an indefinite time,
~An unknown man advanced in
front of a railroad train In a suburb of
Chicago, on the 14th, and, deliberately
head on the rails, was
decapitated before the engineer could
in Ne
n
Further aavices rrom Shanghi «
the China steamer which bas arrived +’
Francisco, state that the famine Un
Aunui and Kiangsu 1s worse. In ove
province 300 families are starving, and
altogether several millions are suffering
from famine caused by drought two
years in succession,
-—A despatch from Helena, Mon-
tana, says that A, C. Webster, a stock
raiser, just in from the cattle ranges,
says that, while the present very agree-
able and spring-like weather would ap-
pear to benefit cattle, it came far from
it, The streams are frozen, and, as
there is not & particle of snow on the
ground, many cattle are in a famisbed
condition for water, It is feared the
streams will ran dry very early this year
owing, to the ve ry light snowfall.
—The saloons in Badger, Duncombe,
Lehigh and Barnum, lowa, were raided
by citizens on the 13th, and the liquors
spilled. 1t is stated that active measures
are to be adopted In Fort Dodge at
once to make the city “dry.”
—A passenger and freight train on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
13th.
of the
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SENATE.
Senate on the 11th, the
Mr. for his new
Mr. Dawes presented
Inthe U, S,
of
ed,
Coke
term were {i
Virgima, against the con-
tions to Indians as unwise,
mending ther equivalent
and recom-
farming
Mr. Dawes
memorial was in the hand-
of one the students, was
signed in their own handwriting by al
in
of
own unprompted idea. The
was referred, On motion of Mr. Sherman
petition
When the doors were 1e-
and the
Pending iis con-
Vos £8 § A
illu asloe
temporarily
In the United States Senate, on the
bill to establish a National
Health was reported and
the calendar, The Naval
of
Joard
A INEStage Was re.
regard to the Deliring’s Sea seal (sh-
eres, Mr. DEvarts asked unanimous
for the setting aside of the
unfinished business, the Unlon Pacific
tious in regard to outrages In Washing.
toh county, Texas. After discussion
the resolution was taken up. It di.
on Privileges and
Elections to carefully reverse the ex
laws regulating elections
ing for a more complete protection of
the exercises of the elective franchise
it, and to report to the next
Adjourned.
In the U.
in
baif a million for the
protection of American interests in
“amoa was retained, and that the ap-
propriation of $100,000 for a coaling
ferred to the Naval Appropnation bill,
had passed tbe Senate on the
Mr. Coke obtained the
HOUSE,
In the Housa on the 9th, the ost
Pending discussion the House
adjourned.
In the House on the 11th, a confer.
ence was ordered on the amendments
to the Direct Tax Refund bill. The
South Carolina contested case of
Smalls vs. Elliott was taken up. Pend-
ing ils discussion, the House ad
jeurned.
In the House on the 12th, the Senate
bill appropriating $250,000 to enable
the President to protect American in-
terests on the Isthmus of Panama, was
referred to the Committees on Foreign
Affairs, with leave to report at any
time, Mr. Townshend, of lllinois,
introduced a bill, which was referred,
appropriating $50,000 for a special dis.
play of the farm products of the United
States at the Paris Exposition. The
consideration of the Smalls-Elliott
contested election case was resumed,
Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, defended
the majority report in favor of the
sitting member, Mr. Cooper, of Ohio,
spoke in support of the contestant, and
was followed on the same side by
Messrs, Johnson, of Indiana, and
MeComas, of Maryland, Mr. Outh-
walte, of Ohlo, spoke In support of the
majority report, and Mr. Smalls, the
contestant, then spoke in his own be-
half. The General Deficiency ill was
reported and the House adjourned.
In the House, on the 13th, three
vetoes of private pension bills were re-
oeived from the President and referred.
Mr. Oates, from the Judiciary Com-
mittee, reported a bill to amend the
Naturalization laws, which ‘was
ordered printed and recommitied. Mr
Wise, from the Committee on Naval
Asal, reported the bill award:
Chief Engineer Melville for Mvp,
tion bill was reported and referred to
the Committee of the Whole. The
seat, was
a SA MAI I.
Bean
ot ty unaccompanied by virtue is
BENATE,
+i the Senate on the 12th the Presi
dent pro tempore appointed Messrs,
Delamater, Reyburn, Brown (of Mont-
gomery), and Henninger a committee
to represent the Senate and to meet
other committees from Philadelphia
City Councils and the State of New
Jersey to make inspection of that part
of the Delaware river affected by the
operation of the River and Harbor bill.
Adjourhed.
In the Senate on the 13th, the ap-
pointment of Thomas I’. Butler to be
lay Judge of Chester county was con-
firmed, The President pro tempore
signed the writ for a special election in
the Eighth Senatorizl District of Phil-
adelphia on March 14th. Bills were
passed finally, dividing up the cities of
the State into three classes and making
Labor day a legal holiday. Adjourned.
In the Senate bills were Introduced,
as follows :
By Mr. Shull to prevent the forma-
tion of trust and combinations to reg-
ulate the sale and comsumption of
i general use,
ployment of children under 12 yeurs of
| requiring kept mn all
under 16 years
a register
| places of all the minors
| of age.
| The Senate bill making
| afternoon a legal holiday, and pamiog
{on third reading.
In the House on
ary General Committee reported favor-
ably the bill to allow druggists to carry
on their business on Sundays,
The Appropriation Commillee re-
ported favorably the iil to appropriate
Adjourned,
A LSAT
JOHN DULL OWNS UP.
A ————
fhe American Girl is the Gul of the
Pertod,
The Yondon Dafly Telegraph says if
may fairly be acknowledged that the
‘American girl’ is the girl of the period.
What she may become in the future no-
body can tell, At present her destiny
seems superb, Her father finds eilver,
strikes oil, kills pigs by the million, or
raises corn by the square mile, bhe is
pretty, can talk well, does not know
what deference or diffidence means ané
enters Europe full of money,
ing’s Roman of John Bull, It is still
truer of the little girl whom Uncle Sam
does his best to spoll by unlimited ten-
derness and mnumerable cheqies, As
her wealth—sometimes all combined—
she Linas French nobles, Italian princes
will,
James and
SOme-
Mr.
is not so eager
capture coronets at her
Mr, Henry
i Howells point out, she
for these ornan
ed, For the truth mi
i s (10
riage Goes
{#2 as might be
en
be tol
not seein
means
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W het '
| what it sii
English women,
f
virtue or a fault
! French
i lege at Thiladelphias also to make an
| appropriation of $20,000 to the Gettys-
| burg Memorial Association to purchase
{| the ground upon which the batlie
fought,
Mr. Richmond introduced to
| prevent the erection of a slaughter
house within 1000 feet of a public
square or schoolhouse,
The bi to establish a Doard of Di-
reclors of
a bill
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up and passed without farther amend-
tent, and sent (o the
journed.
Senate,
In the UU, 8. Senate on the 14th, mes.
sages were received from the President
vetoing two private pension bills, The
House bill for the allotment of lands
in severally to the Oneidea
Wisconsin was reported adversely, Mr.
| Hoar offered a resolution, which
to transmit
the sworn testimony
regard to alledged frauds in the
| New York Custom House taken by
special Agent Byrne. On motion of
! Mr. Edmunds the Committees on Com
merce was directed to cousider the
expediency of the purchase by the
Unged States of the Dismal Swamp
Canal, with
ment of an adequale walér way be-
tween Chesapeake Bay and the North
Carolina Sounds, A conference was
ordered on the lLegisialive Approprin-
ton bill, Mr, Coke spoke
| the Treasury
coples of all
by the Commitiee on Privileges and
Elactions, After an executive session
| the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the housa on
| fers’ orphans’ schools was instructed
| to especially investigate ihe trouble in
| McAllisterville School. The Anti-food
Adulteration blll, which
| ported adversely, was recommitled,
| Adjourned.
!
| introduced by Messre, Kratz and Fow
| to prevent trusts or combinations from
{ affecting the prices of commodities or
| restricting trade; by Mr. Hayes, for
| the incorporation and regulation of
passenger railway companies, and by
| Mr, Thompson, to prevent the sale or
| gift of cigarettes to persons under 16
| years of age. The biil to prevent per-
| sons from unlawfully using or wearing
the insignia or rosette of the Military
Order of the Loyal
United States, or the badge or button
act of 1874, “0 provide for the incor-
passed finally. Adjourned,
In the House on the 13th the bill
regulating veterinary surgery, which
had been recommitted, was reported
back with slight amendment, and goes
on the calendar for third reading. Ad-
journed,
In the House on the 14th the Senate
bill was passed providing for writs of
error to the Bupreme Court of the
United States in all cases involving the
jurisdiction of the Court below. A
conference was ordered on the Legisia-
tive Appropriation bill. The bill to
divide a portion of the Sioux Reserva-
tion in Dakota into separate reserva.
tions and to secure the relinquishment
of the Indian title to the remainder
was taken up and passed. The Forti-
fication bill, with the Senate amend-
ment, was referred to the Committee of
the Whole. The ronference report on
the Senate bill for the admission of
South Dakota as a State, reported a
disagreement, was accepted and an-
other conference was ordered. A res-
olution was offered by Mr, Baker, of
New York, instructing the House
conferrees to withdraw their de-
mand for the admission of New
Mexico, and agree to the admis.
sion of North Dakota, Moniana aod
Wash and vide for the ad-
mission of South Dakota after a new
election. Mr. Cox offered a substitute,
differing from Mr, Baker's resolution
only 1n omitting the provision for au
Slection in Sou Dakota. he satatt,
was accepted r. Baker, a
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, de-
manded a division of the instructions,
the all
| and homes,
ractiven
F404 wit
no ques Ii
as the wife and mother
| with rule; and es
| the slender
bind the sampler
Yaukes
palron, we mal
tthe wit and
cent, the intelligent
rapid repartee that pi
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NAL DARLIOLRIVY.,
Toe immigrants to this country from
England and Wales last year cxceeded
those from Ireland by 25,000.
Maxiy is reported to have devised a
gun that wiil dre 1000 shots a minnte
in any direction. This is supposed to be
is Maximum effort.
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A pin has been introduced in the
IMinois Legislature, providing for the
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electricsty,
ars similar to
York law,
those of the New
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Wer Wearner 18 FLORIDA.—
Southern papers state that the Florida
farmers are complaining of the extreme-
ly wet weather of the past two months,
which has greatly retarded the trucking
business in nearly every section of the
State. Vegetable growers are much
eir crops will
most likely be too late in maturing lo
Prices,
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wmtato 4 Ysa of Pr God
Lats formed oul
; A Sa
Territory name
4
n tho new
ashi
ngion
posed, a t of Winona
Dakota,
to Lhe
man,
gan
Ona th
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| gan militia, a
State has
the
sported a gorgeous uniform,
pressed the German officers at Ul
as a remarkal
He spoke ol his
racks and elsewhere
man for his years,
aclhieveme the field of Kalamazoo
i
of turning the tide of war al Cold wats
and saving the day at Dattle C
too,
to Windsor from
i: » J Yee
stall detachment, and bel
ned, how he
expla
! over
a state of terror and alarin und
closed. He spoke
warches he had made
Clair Flats, and gave
+F
yf
§ outs
LI
loon
a
the siege of MM
Phil.
fo have part
actions as
Dut it was «
that he didn’t pay
stantly borrowing mn
ficers do not Wke a man who borrows
of General
“eI
many
the young
werved tinally
his bills and was con-
ney, German
money, preferring to have a mol
of that Industry themselves, Fu
the pretentious
foutd to be a swindler and had to
Michigan officer
escape arrest,
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Feeding a Hungry Beggar.
{ bas for a six mouths been the victim of
| a beggar, who always told him the same
story of not having had a mouthful to
eat for twenty-four hours, He made
thie very common mistake of answering
the appeal with a dime or a quarter.
Recently several of his parishioners told
him about this perpetually hungry man
and how he had receivel financial aid
from them.
Recently the good dominie was the
recipient of a visit from the hungry
man, This time he had fasted ‘ocnger
than usual.
‘My poor fellow, you must be hun-
gry,’ said the clergyman, sympatbetic-
ally; ‘come down with me to the kitch-
en.’
The beggar’s face fell, but he follow.
ed. At the master’s bidding the cook
wiaced an enormous roast, from which
the clergyman cut an enormous slice.
“There, my poor fellow, eat your fill.’
The fellow ate, not daring to refuse,
and, as his plate became emptied, the
clergyman, with ferocious hospitality,
replenished it again and again. The
beggar ate until it became positively
painful to watch him. After he had
eaten about three ordinary meals the
clergyman relented and dismissed the
beggar with an invitation to call when-
ever he felt hungry.
Tur reclamation of arid lands by
means of reservoirs and canals, to be
built by the government, will be a proper
thing to do whenever the people of the
United States run short of other lands
requiring no such artificial works. Maj.
Powell estimates that when the works
Lave been erected it will cost the furm-
ers from $1 to $2 per acre to irrigate
their lands, For these sums, capital.
ized, millions of acres of well watered
Jands can be bought out-night, It is a
waste of money to reclaim and lands at
a time when there is an abundance
good land unworked.
down
RAIN MOS
ochanty. She'll sit
ner daund
re out a
ng. Plans
i a bridge
ong, from
The cost
, which does
et prolit
t and traflic is
The engineers
ASSengers
o trust.
twenty-
trouble.
on the
desert Lhe
not seem extravagant, val the
to be realized from {iv
$20 000 Ox
of coHurse, that
have to be educated
themselves on a bruige
three miles long, built over the
sotoe Straits of Dover, bul that,
contrary, everybody
boals
estimated at
assume,
woull not
rior
Hy
would
and flock to the rulge.
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i Wesrenx civilizat have a
bard time of it in China as long as the
| Emperor puts so much faith in his
| astrologers as to stop the building of a
| railroad because of an evil omen—a fire
| in the Imperial palace. The astrologer,
as Jong as he is believed, has a great ad-
| vantage over anybody else, lle can get
| omens of all sorts from every day events
| and rule the country by his mysterious
| power. The first steps in the civiliza-
| tion of China will have to be made in
the direction of freeing the rulers of
superstitious faith in their asirologers,
and this will be no easy task. There is
one other way of getting round
the difficulty, and that is the par-
chase of the astrologers, but that is une
moral and subjects enterprises of great
pith and moment to a greal deal of
risk,
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On Wail
SA an
Troy. Ricnaros, of Yale College,
has wade a.study of the records of 2425
students in order to determine, if possi-
ble, the relations of athletics, in Yale,
to scholarship. The general result is
that the athletes fall slightly behind the
non-athletes in scholarship, bul not sc
much as to demand a suppression of
such exercises, In some branches of
athletic exercises the students who en.
gage in the sports are above the average
of the non-athletes in scholarstup, For
the slight difference noted between the
two great classes, there may be greater
strength and epdurance or physical de
velopment compensating for the loss of
scholarship. This does not appear from
the report, but a bealthy, energetic wax
with fair scholarship 1s a better product
of college education than a debilitated
student with higher average in book
studies. So far as statistics go, how:
ever, the most that can be clalmed fou
Prof. Richard's report is that it is nega-
tive in Its results, and shows that
athletic games do not seriously interfere
with the scholarship of students.
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Trust no secrets to a friend which, i
reported, would make an enemy.