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Yale College seems to be running the government of the Sandwich Islands. Two judges of the Supreme Court, the superintendent of schools, the attorney general and some minor officers are graduates of the New Haven institution. It's to be hoped, for the sake of the islands, that these Yale men behave better than they did at college. If not, Honolulu howls...
Judge Crosby of the Lowell Police Court gave a reception to the Dartmouth alumni last evening...
...Maritime Customs, says: "The chief characteristic of the Chinese, as a nation, is industry. Their working day begins at dawn, and lasts till sunset. Schools open at sunrise, and do not close till 5 P. M., there being but one short recess during the day. The emperor and his court rise soon after midnight, and court audiences are given between 5 and 8 o'clock in the morning. After sunset very few people are in the streets, the Chinese, like domestic fowls, retiring early to rest. There is no day corresponding to Sunday, and only a few holidays...
...Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has just decided, in the case of the professor in mathematics in Lewisburg University vs. the corporation, that a college professor is not an officer, but merely an employee of the institution he serves, and, therefore, can be dismissed with no formality of presentment and proving of charges...
District-Attorney Corkhill says that Guiteau will never appear in a court room again, and that his next appearance in public will be on the scaffold...