Local Happenings

D. E. Harbaiigh, said to be the original of jM. nacl' well-knnwn eluuacter of 11 His Honor,'' dled ywUrday inorñing in Detroit Tlie anU-xuonopolUta who soon Lave a convention propow a National ticket for Butler nul Befóle. Snch a eomhiiiation WOUld make a dromedary griti. The event of the week is Uit; stispension ot' tlie Marine Bank and,tbe private bank of Gran t & Waru 'm New York. Both ere Iieavy faltares and additional interest is giveu to the latter becauM U. S. Giant and liis sous wen; involved for iirfn'iv tH ti.-y iicüicnil Tl wüs olparly not throngh their intentioDal deceptlous, bnt from lack of business prudence. Much S3'uip:ithj' is feil towardf rtre Oen eral lo liis misfortune. Souic surprise has bceu expt'eased because The Coubieb does ootgo In hcartily for water-works, if the systeui eould be iuaugurated by a oompany. It is not claimed that acompany eould make anything by it for the first few years, so the argument goes that if the subscribers are williug to put ia their money why not allow them to do so. If theie were nothing fuither to be considored sucli a poilít ïuight obtaiu with force. But many of our best eitizéns, (eveu some whose ñames liad been uttached to the petition without their knoioledge or consent) are opposed to it ou the grouud that it will eutail a considerable expense upon the city íbr water rates and for sewers. NVw the editor personally migbi like to have such a plan introduced whlch wou ld provide the city with water, yet under the circumstances, he caonot ure the people Agalnst their bctter judginent to rush into it. If they want it tbey will hare it. And if they have it no oue will be greater beneiiited by it. All we recomtnend is that it be carofully considered and not run thröugfa without the consent of the raajority of the ciüzens who pay the taxos. President Andrew D. White, n Bpeaking at the banquet of the C'ornell Aliiiniii Association of Western New York, at Butfalo, a lew evenings a;o, said that it must be acknowledged that the press liad rendered one great service iu improving college life. '-The casuistries, the follies, the outrageous absurdities," he said. "' whkh in days jrone by paased unehallrngcd because public opinión outside of college wa? not brought to beur npon them, have now beon mainly scorched and shriveled out of existence bj' the popular indiïnation uttered throngh the pres?. The imltreutment of fellow-students, tiie insultinjr of professors, the attempts by classes to discipline the faculty, which twenty j-ears ago went without rebuke from the outside world, have now lteen mainly driven out of college life by public sentiment as voioed by the press. This I regard is ono very immediate and powerful cause of the real itnproveinent which university life has witnessed within the last lifteeu years." Tliere is no doubt that this is perfeetly true. College boys are boginning to nnderatand that they are not essentially different from the rest of the world, but that they are part and parcel of the general community. This knowledge has been imparted to them, not by their book?, but by the dsfly papers. The traditional ideas of the colleges would have to be mucb stronger than they are to stand against this modern engine of public opinión.