Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 3, 1880, Page 9

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Landon Binette Journal, December, 187, A ‘correspondent writes: During my recent summor-hollday f made tho nequaintanco of tho teacher of the bourd-school of tho village where I wasstaying, and wns nllowed to make inquiries with a view to ascertaln tho amount of tino spontin trying to overeomo tho spelling alil- culty, and tho extent to which this was eifected. Tho school is. a mixed one of boys and girls under a mastor, whose wif tenches tho tnfiuits, and also sewlng to tho girls, Tho children wero bright-looking, intelligent, apparently well fed and cared for, uni thore was little of tho list Iesnegs which is often to he gcon In iminy of the ebildren in somo town echools. They were nll under 13 years of age, aod, us tho villuzo was three or four miles distant from uoy other, ant She population of » settled kind, thoy hud at- tended nt the samo school with fale regularity, All tho boys, 13 soon) 48 they cnn write, aro ‘in tho hablt of having on dictution-exerelso —overy morning and nfternoon, andthe girls every morulng only, ws thelr afternoons nre devoted to Kewlny.” Ad conch Iesgon fasts three-quarters of an hour, this: represents 2 considerable portion of a child's sohool-ife. Now for tho result, as manifested intho success with which thoy met tho texte which, uy. tho courtesy of the muster, Twas Bigrat fo apply. ‘Those consisted of the fol- owing. assnges spealully, made up for the occa: sion. The first, containing many aiMeult but by no Means unusital words, was elven, 10 the first and second elusses in tho rchoe nd the second, contalaing nane but falr average English words, was given to the third and fourth elnase: . A physicinn amd his family went for a eritixo ina yacht. There wero two invallda—an old lady with rhoymutics, and a child who bid ‘burnt himself by ‘upsetting ‘the parafin barled 18 boy was tlwaya getting ipte mischief, Ho had fallen ‘Into the clatern, polled mp tho fuch- alas and mignonette from his father's gardon, ‘and broken his umbrella. He reeetved n caning, and had some ei eee ble medleing—rhu burt, Tbelfove, His father sald ho should have to put ‘bim Inu straitejucket,” : ‘This pussige wns written by twenty-three boys and thirteen girls, Of tho boys, tho most stc- cessfnl made three mistakes only, numoly: rhunatics, paras and futlos (fuchslis); and tho lnst on the lst, twenty-one. OF the girls, tho most successful mudo live mistakes, nam phystcant, cruase, rhuematies, paraslie, and such tras and tho Inst. girl on tho Hst, twenty-five, The total number of words In tho passage is clghty> tive, Tho nthor passage was the followlug: 2. 'Thoro was tt little girl whohnd to (ro out In tho fields in tho nutunin, and glenn barley and Wheat to make luayes of bread with, Sho coukt pick dulsies, too, in the bright weathor, She hid no leathor shoes to wer, and in tho winter got ehilblaing on ber toes. One duy she was knocked down by a reaping-machine, sul the wheels bruised ber arm, Somo ono sent her some cot- feo, und 4 curtain to keep: (way tho draught.” In writing this prasage the girls did the best— the first girl (7 years old) making only tivo inls- tuker, namely? dana, chitthitue, net (knocked), mechine, aud iheraft; whilo thu first boy (10 years: old) made ten mistakes, miumnely: clean (glean), lores Gonves), daateys, tether, were (Weur), cli Ddlanda, not (knooked), maahine, braze, und drag, Tho boy who did best fn writing the! moro diille cult of the two pussuges wus IP yeurs ‘old, and 0 wirl 11, ; I think tho ninster of the school deserves credit for tho way fn which some of his tat class dealt with the first passage, Not imuny ehikiren of 12 In schools of w much higher class would, L think, do better, The fallurea In the second passage wre strong evidence of the tl most fisuperable difficulty of English spelling to nny but tho sharpest children, nnd of the griovous waste of time Involved: in. bringlus bo gencril body up ta the required standards, Some of the ynricties of tid spelling deserve to be rocorded, For’ fuchalna" we hud tho following =feuctes, ferclous, fouslier, fuchite, fuchtas, fuchous, Hictea, fuctean, frtcts, futtien, fuser fuaticn, fusticad, fushes, fushiag, fuchta, fushors, frientoies, futtona, phusiad, “ Mignonotto was cleverly spelled by ono boy with a good car for fonetie spelling, minyanet. “Reaping muchine” appenrcd us reeplug mishean, ® rhoumutics " na runalise, anid 2 umbrella” ag humbird and humbraly, while ‘crufsa” was variously written cretry, ereyrac, crouse, crinise. crowa, crime, Fifteen of tho chit dren wrote “loves of bread,” and small blame to thom, say I. Perhaps some of your renders may feel jnellned to dictate the above passitges to thalr own children and, having regard to age in ouch pase, wil fobs know the, rosie. Of course no opportunity of previously reading tho pas- fagea should bo aoe y at aa 7 ‘ow tenvhors of elementary schools will object tolotting the children attempt tha above pis- bages, If the proposal be erent by the offer of a small prize to tho ebild in cuul sane urd who docs the be: FIVE LESSONS FROM OLD SCHOOLMASTER ; NATURE. Ten years to build o house? Tho mushroom’s roof In ono night rises, & And surprises ‘Tho Shophord-lout ero crushed beneath his Years to work one room full of tapes ™ ‘Tho roga’s shoot pee? ¥ Tus grown 1 foot Sinco Inst night's ratu. O Nuturo’s majesty! ‘Threo yours to flx on canvas a dead sulnt? oe Careloss to-day ‘Through ourth made way Tho iilys dullurd, teurn from ft to subtly paint, Poor Prodigalt you toss your gold tu showers * Tho Autunut-troe As reckless): E Flings alt its Touvew-but thoy roturn in May, Kind Naturo keeps for all of usa gentle school. ou Even tho whe Through it wny rise Bull wisor, Sarre aud Deuth wlone can tench He Water Zhernbury. : : : . An Owl Story. « A wounded ow] presonted to ulady of Loul villo, Ky. bucume a favorit, and was soon ul- lowed to wander about her roms. In time an Unusvolly flne speulmen of bluchird was plu uporvber tuble.. After it hud been “uot up" tt Wu go Ufo-tiica that tha uwi thought it ullvo, and stured at it ght and care At ett ho ute ithe bluckicd one night, stung and all, and, 18 It wae pickled with nrsenic, the owl now stands with opus beak and outstratched wiuga polsed on the pedestal whore tha bluebird wus poised before bim. : ——— ee .., Tho lungs aro strulued and racked by # per “alatant cough, the finer gtrongth wusted, and ao fucurably conpluint often eatublishod thore- we aud C0 und oxer' \-Hoiul effect: on tha pulmobary and brouobial LETTERS AND SCIENCE, Charles Algernon Swinburne’s Study of Shakspeare. A Lively and Original, but Not Al- ways Truthful, Volume, George Barnett: Smith’s Life of William Ewart Gladstone. Literary Notes—Promise of New Books and New Magazines. The Evoution of Numerals—Sci- ence Gossip. LITERATURES, SWINKUNNE'S, STUDY OF SIfAK- PAIN, Mr. Swinburno's “Study of Shnkapeare" [s in- telligent and suggestive, but foollehty raneor- ous, and at times extravagant. “We have no objection to aamart rapping of the knuchles of the German critics, orto numensured Jaudation of the younger Hugo; but it strikes us that nbuee for its own suke, or prise which is merely” un antithesis to abuse, ts bud Iterury form. Tb puts the reader on a falso scent, and necdlesly {ncumbers the main object of tho hunt. Siwine ‘burno has grent diitleulty in sticking tohls point. Ile §s forever running off Inte purenthotieat animosities and friendslilps, What: bo more unconnected with his theme, for Instureo, than An apostrophe to Victor Iitge, who does nat know English; and what can be more pedantic than the sentimental reference to critics not named us persons known to everybody, and to authors and plays rend only by students as within the familine knowledge of tho people? When all has licen said, however, of Swine burne's manner, the truth remalns that bls eritl- elsins nro original, fearless, und usually renson~ able and sound. Ie volecs soine opinions which many have uncongeloualy félt, but never quite dared openly to express. Ho rejects all of tho plays Intely asalgned to Shakspeare, stich as A. Warning to Fate Wonien,” “ Edward 111," ete. on sufliclent grounds, “The epitaph on German criticism,” says Swinburne, “was long since written by the unconscious hand which penned nsentenco declaring ‘Thomas, Lord Cromwell,’ ‘Bir John Okleastle,’ and +A Yorkshire Tingedy* to bo unquestionably Shakspenro's." After ree clting tho reasons, now everywhero deemed sut- iictent, for rejecting these plays, tho erftle Inunches suddenly into the following strain, whiel {llustrates whut was sald ubuye of his un- necessary nbuses ‘yhoso are mattors of anch obsolate notoriety to all students tut. tho very recapltniatton wf te facts would be ti tnpertinence ton tlm whieh tnd nob shown Itulf tolerant ef euch itntishle find auch incateninbte impudence as muy tint cory unl qMNeKery, in Joni ts" r gt and cireuiuto os rent brass of German pedants, se fang 9 while to exhibit in tho iidueorour nukedness of their Undeuped absurdity te preaniuptions nnd assumptions nif ita Teust Incompetent lecturers in tht Forel ‘Vo Christopher Marlowe tho ercdit af recone structing the Englsh stago justly belongs. Tim Bwinburne hails as “boy In yeurs, oman ine genius, and a god inambition.” ls inthucnce on Shakspeare fs ingentously described in these pages; and, thadgh a “study” of this deserip- ton mnet be moro than half u fancy sketch, we feel grateful to tho author for tho way in which he hus done his work. It was Marlowe who taught Shakypeare to despise and Took away front his false models; to leave rhyming tragedy to tho pootasters, wn enjoy for himself tho boundless region of blunt ve This much Is certain; and for tho rest we would as willingly follow tho Imagluition of Swinburne ag that of abybady else. Tho subject Is divited roughly into three po- riods:. ‘The Lyric and Fantastio; Tho Comie and Historic; The Tragle and omuntic. Though the diviston may seem familar, tho trentinent of tho theme under each headhug will be found far frum dommonplace, Without ‘ittempting to follow the argument closely, or to nuntyze tha eriticiams of tho critic, we my indicate some of his judgments which seein both rational and ine dependent. Of “Romeo and Jutlet,” which fs put In tho frst period, Swinburne Buys: ‘Tho lovollost of love-playa tn, attor atl, tn ent 1H 8 achiitot cement 1,"—A phiystet sdificull ty concolye of Bhakepenco nt any Bee ANOL Cleapatnt. (tix in tho reanes of vehement praaton, of andor, and Of agony, that we Tool the con Partie wenkneda of ap got wandron id, the tenia Ive, uncertain crusp of a stelplling Mie same ettusion ar etfervesca “words 1s pore coptible i Blount Las inthe greater Gund the tens good) partof “ome wd Jutoes und not Jens porcoptihle: tunl inelinntion of thy pout to yevert f rile fone OF eupport Low iis pootle nonnge, Swinburne is too good a critie to condemn “Romeo and Julict™ outright. Tho garden seono nnd the ‘bulcuny scene he gnys nro“ writ ten iu blank verse of equrble und blameless melody"; and “Jn them thera l4 no flaw, 10 suportlix, and no fallure,” The consummation of tho young gonlus of Shlukapeare fs to be found, our eritie belleves, In “Tho Midsummer-Night's Dream": Thoblank yorso lsum full, aweol, nnd xtrony as the bor of atruwe ue Raweney Ui Thynuad vorse. 48 elour, pure, und truo na the eintiten truest nolo. dy of © Vanus and Adonis." or the mit i ror.” Hutthen seach kind of sxeotlenco, throughouts there wre Here ne purple patches « id (inperial robes Lone wenmitont OF Ue Iyele oF ko proraie. putty tho and Inughtors, of funey tine Nitut need can rhyme, to Jook bnek in 0 hulf-taraaken Nubile OF fa nie and Ll thro bo for nny: by tho hele Toss nttoinpe to may suing ward Hob utterly unworthy? Jeb it suiflice ua td accupt this pootn ns the fandennark, UF our frat singe. “Tho second period,” suys tho critic, 1s thut of perfection In come ant hlitoris style, Tho final hights and depths of tragedy, with all Its reach of thought and all Its pulso of passion, are yet tobe senled; but to this stage belongs tho special quality of faultless, Joyous, facite come miund upon each faculty required of the presid= ing genfus for surviee or for sport." Of this perlod “Richard IIL, Monry 1V., V4, and VIEL" Julius Ciesary” and)“ Cortohinus, among tho historien) plays; “Twelfth Night, “As You Like ft," and “Much Ado About Nothing," among tho comedies; and * Hamlet" umong tho senit-romuit(e plays, ure typlenl. The theory of tho Joint authorship of “ Ieary VII" ts considered and resected In this trentiaa on grounds which will bo as: suthfactary to tho reader ag to tho author, A yory high plice Is assigned to “Richard IL" Henry Ve is a fae Yorlt hore with Mr, Swinburne, Ho studies tho Falstaff of " Henry TV." wt some length, ant ine telllgently, we must say, making hin no mere braggurt, but hOlt w gentoman, and a worthy compantonaf adlssolute Yrince, The Mubtay of The Merry Wives " {6 less to bin liking; and ho necepts on internal evidence the tradition: that the Intter play was written on the request of Queen Elizuboth, For nating less than ndic- aire ta Bee © Falstag in love" could vecount for the monstrous perversion of tho shrewd Knight Ja Honry LV." to the silly dupe in tho sequel, Tho comle masterplece of Bhukspuura fs, ne- cording tu Bwluburne, * Mich Adu Abunt Noth- dng": For absolute power of composition, for faultless bulauce, and Liameless rectitudg of dex sign, thore is unquestionably no creation of nis hand that will bear comparison with § Much ado About Nothing. Tho ultiaute marriage of diery and Claudia, on which [ have ulready ree nuurked na In Staclf a dulightfully dostrablo con sumnition, makes no tiv in the dramathe por- fection of a piece which could not othorwise haye been wound upatall This Ita one Ine evitablo conclusion, if the uctlon were net to comu to vu truglo end; and a tragic end would have beon us painfully and as grossly out of place ng Is any uta tragio end to the avtion of * Monsuro for Meusure, Wo disugrve totally with tho estimate of Shak- speare's republicanisin which Bwinburne hag founded on a study of “ JullusCivanr." ‘Tho criticluin nt this polnt fs. as ahullow und fulsa us it tu truthful and porspivacious In tho case of Falstaff. Sbuksponre was unything but a ro- publican, Ma dld net know tho meaning of tha word, much Ieasof tho thing; und Swinburne has found in bim an apt teachor, A much clour ‘| cr Idea of Bhakspcaro’s political faith may bo obtayicd from George Wilkes’ “ Bhuksepearo fron: an American Pulut of View," Wo would Ike to nsk tho unprojudiocd reader what this oO niuans, In councction with the previous Blatomont that Bhakepeare wus “ut beart a ro- Publican," but would havo “abhorred a do- mocracy such as that in Americg"'; a | paeernee a, hers ae tru ‘word Bb least potentially a ropubl yi Annnraly has (ho quthor of King Tear avowed himawit In, the onty good nnd, rational eeneo of the Workin eplritual ff noe a political democrat and Tut what aro wo to sny of tho author of 'Co- rlolanus" and tho Ingenious slandorer of Jack Cade? “*Hainlot® Is a beldga between tho middle find tho final period of Shnkspeare,' In Mr. Kwinburno's category. OF Mr. Swinburno'’s eritictam on this play wo will say nothing tre ther than that It scems to usto be neither vig- orous nor exhaustlyo; It ia, indeed, the wenkest part of tho hook, ‘The third pertod Is hold to Include “ Lear" “Othello” Mucboth," Corfolanus” Ans tony,” “Pinon, “The ‘Tempest, Meare ture for Measure," and * Cymbellue," Tho essuy on these plays is veryacute sud appreciative. Swhiburne showers epithets of admiration, won- der, and extnustless praise pon them ull, Wo havespace only to referto his apt descrip> ton of “Tcar" ns “tho most Adschylenn of hia worka'; to his protest against tho com- mon misrepresentation of Jaga us “ny momber— and a very inefticient member—of tho seeret pos Nee"; and ta his really stirring rhaspody over “Cymbeline,” which he calls © tho play of plays.” Mr. Siiuburno's essays will set tovera of Bhink- epearen-thinking; knock the underpinntitg from i. good deat of conventional criticism, ind pos: Aibly lead many minds to adopt mora {ndepend- ent babits of Judging of the inasterpleces of En- glish Uterature. For this reson, and becausc the essays ure direct and sincere, wo hope thoy may be widely clreulated. (A Study of Bhak- gpenre.” By Algernon Charles Swinburne, New York: It. Worthington & Co. Price, 81,75.) SMITINS LIFE OF GLADSTONE. George Burnett Smith's “Life of Gindstons" i4 front one pulnt of yiew premnature; but as the fil estiinate of tho state: "3 character must he long deferred, wo do not feel that this pres Uminury narrative fs fl-plaeed, ‘The author a€ lenst deserves credit for nttempting nothing am Ditions., Ho docs not presume to say tho list word about Mr. Ghulstone; tho story Js mostestly told, nid nothing Ike v summing of tho subject {soffered, Itiatrucof Mr. Gludstone that part of his Ifo ean bo as well Judged of now 18 at any time, He has geen many vielsst- tintes, nud bus buried all his youth. ‘The epltaph on that part of his Ife which ended with the dissolution of the Peellte party and his formu! adhesion to tho Liherats might as well bo written now us ever, Nopublio man in England has ever held as high a place in the affections of the American People as that which Mr, Gladstone now holds; wud ton darge portion of the English people of the present he fs the embodiment of all that Is wise und honorable in polities. The quality of mind whieh las given hin. so conspicuaus 1 po- sition ds, above alk other things, sincerity, His ‘Dest possession from tho first. hos Ween a polit- fenl canselence; his ehlef work tho educating of hia countrymen tn political morality. No man enn now doubt that atl bis changes af opinion were produced by honest convictions, wherens his great rival, who has gone through nearly the ue experience in an Jnyerse order, has 110 bet- ter reputation for Integrity of purpogo than ho hos for conelstency. The lives of theso two men taken together illustrate to what an extent. the English peoplo are Inclined to pardon slinple desertion of party, and how pre-eminent ability avowed and recogulzcd most always be in the English nation, Students of higtory and polities will Aud much to reflect upon in the account given fn this vol- ume of Mr. Gludstono’s early ‘ory procllyities, and his rensons for deserting thom; hfs curious position on the Corn-law question, aud his shitt- ing polley in relation to the English and Irish Church, Tho fundumental article of hls pollt fen! falth is well summed up in his own worlds: T think that the principle of the Conservatlyo party fe Jemtonyy of liberty anil of the people, only quaified by feury but thy potter of the Fthuritl party 1s trust in the p Hed by prudence, ‘The diNleultics which beset the Peelites onthe denth of thelr‘great leader are now matters of history. Thoy also hnve beon well described in the language of Mr, Gladstone: It took no lors than thirteen years to offuct tate flout Incorporation with tho Tfber! party. For wl ME thea thiriven yours they werg indepontl- entinembers, “Choy were lke roving Ieeborss, on which Men could not Jnnd with eafetys but, with Jehlolt slips might owe Inte periluits collision, ‘Thole welght was too ereal not ty count, but It counted first this way nod then un Tho lography is difnse and clumsy; our apology ,.hag been for Its appearance at all nithor than for the miner and form of its |} oxistunee. It will never hold a very important placo In Hterature, mut will soon bo superseded nitogethor; but while it docs have a plice on tho shelyes It will bo conventent though some- whut too coploig: book of reference, and will always bo's reservoly of Information for future historlins, (The Life of tha Right Honorable Willlam Ewart Gladstone.” By George Burnett Smulth. Large 8yo. 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LITERARY NOTE: Tho Saturday Iteview says: “dustin MeCarthy’s ‘Donn Quixote’ is the best novel thatwo have read for 4 considerable tlme, and glyes is higher hopes thun we have ever hud before ns to its nue thor’s enpubilltics.”” . ‘ John Morloy’s* English fen of Letters Series” has had asalo in Great: Britain of nearly 70,000 volumes, The “Milton’* hy Murk Pattlson 1s just out hero as well ua dn Londou, and tho “Hawthorne” by Honry James, Jr, will bo rendy very soon. fow York: All the bound volumes of St, Nicholaa for 1879, which aro among tho most popular of hollday- ‘books, have beon gold, and tho publishers hayo been obliged to Jeaye milny’ orders unfilled, Disappointed children will be relieved to know that a now edition will bo ready in two weeks. ‘Tho <lthenaum says that Kossuth is about to publish the memolrs of hts Hee, and nas fesued unappoal forsubser Iptions, Tho veteran orator, now In his 8th year, hus boon Lorved to under> inke this task iu order to carn Jnoney, since ha livgs entirely by the produce of hls pen, Others wise, 9 he states, ho should have left to hfs song tho tnek of publishiug his recollections, Vol. X. of the Stoddart reprint of the Enoy- olopiwdia Britannica is just published, and has been recelvod nt Ts Lrimuxe oflice, It con- tuning the Amorienn copyrighted artieles about which thero has boon so much controversy, and Moser, Stoddart, & Co, guarantee the prompt. and regular publication of the sieceeding vol- lines, Tho question of copyright seems to have been the recent devtsion of Judo spot af by Butler, of Philadelphia, whieh appeared in Tie PeuUNE of the BU wt “Ong of Hs Schoulmutes:” writes the Terald to any that Dr. Gerhard Ubthorn, tho learned author of “Pho Contlict between Chelstianity and Pagantsin,” bas iis tithe of Abbot from tho Suft Loceum, the suminary for young Protest: clergymen over which he presides, ‘Tho ti of the Albot of Loeeur i year, thy best it mM ts HUGH, $8 WbOUt RAU0D Wd wimnost only sincenre for elena en Hanover, De. 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Dana. ‘Tho second editlon wis piutaned In 18TH i6, with the same editors, anid in the auine mninber of volumes, excepting that tha index san additional volume. Tho cost of tile work must bays Luca Inimense, sluee money was not spared in ita-propuration. But Jt bus doubtless proved ono of the most profitable on terprises ever undertaken by the house. Of tha secoid edition alone there have bout sold more than 60,000 sets of dixtoon Volumes cach, or Up- ward of 500,000 yohimes, Hot fucluding the index, ‘Tho selllng price ta $50, £95, und SUF a set, woe contig to bindius, oF 8, #8 ud $7 0 volume, Vuking the cheapest blading und tho lowest Drive, nnd it follows tit the suled of tho work, hot counting the index volume, which fa vold for 3.50, bave alrondy ‘excoodcdt” $4,000,000, Ax it ni of tho Bota matter of faut, w las proportlo otter Hd tig Shas thas, on wade... tt will be gold haye beon fn a which the above oxthuute 4s. a gaf to assum that tho: Cyolopeains has bown sold ta the extent of not less than: $5,000,000. There fa in thego flyures w afyalticunce which rises above all vousiderstions personal to the pub- Iishers, When tho uplo invest & in ene tenuy work whoso wlnglo| ‘alin o> tinpast inforinntion and Instruction, It becotnes n mate ter of national algnificines and national pride. SPANKS OF SCIENCE, EVOLUTION OF NUMERAL! An observing farmer proved conelusively that crows could count three, but that beyond this number thofr intellects, eo fur as numbers were concerned, aro in the comiltion of tha Fues toons’, who ennnottell tho number of fingers on ono hand, having to express ameunts greater than threo by a word equivalent to our North American Indian's * heap The bucolle psychologist mentioned wns annoyed by flocka of crows invading his corn- field ns soon ns tho Inst men had withdrawn from view, Ho hid himself in anold shanty near the fleld, hoping thoy would approach with In gun-shot, but the crows refused to appear ull thoy auw him leave tho hlding-place. The furm- er took anothor man inte the shanty with him, and after awhile ong man would leave, where- Vpon tho crows In tho safe ant dim distance set upneawing and fluttering among themselves, but appronched no nearer. Another man was added to the hiders, marking three, two of whoin would exhibit themselves tothe erows nade- parting, and anothor shitter among. tho wily rds was tho only result,—thoy knew nnothor man remained; the eruica coutt count tires, und auldand subtract within those digits; but, Hke many human beings whomake metaphysics out: of things transcending tholr marrow knowl- edga of physics, the unfertunute graniveres fell victims to thelr inability ta count beyond this numben Four mon went Into the enbin; three avon left, whereupon tho crows, supposing all had gone and tho const was cicur, guthored within rango of the wmbuseade, and inany a sable pluton ceased Ita airy beatings, Tho universality of the decimal notation dee penis upon the pretty general possesslomof ten fingers by ench human unli of all races, though it need not bo Inferred that duodeelmals were’ necessarily invented by some “six-tingered Jnek" Mr. Corl Schitrz’s nboriginals count easily up to ten, and tho very wisest among them ns farts a hundred, which fs usually called “ big ten, Thoy get muddled after this; two hundred, a thousand, or a imiliion belny inconceivable to them. They, however, avall thenselyes of same of the whito tan's ndjcetives, and bave a rude way of discriminating between “a heap," a" big herp," and 0 d— big heap.” In graphically expressing numbers the red American fs stilt in his Infancy, one out or mark stunding for the figure one, ten marks for ten, ete, “Tho Cherokees did not invent tholr system till much ndvanced in civilization. On page 74, Vol. X., Poptilar Setence Monthityp, it isgaid: “Tho zero or eipher was originally 0 eirele, and scems to have come from counting around tho fingers and thumbs, Hence onee around was denoted by one finger, and the elr- clo 10." ri Prof, J, Enthoffer, of tho United States Const Survey, whose topographical drawings are fae milinr to engineers both ju this country and In Austria, where he waa formerly of the fapertal Military Geographical lostitute, and of the tus. shan Runcible Depot, arrives uta diferent conclusion from tho above-mentioned mugi- zine, und derives all Arabic numerals from tho elreto with an Included X. Jt ts probable thit: both views may be correct aind that in the cottrse of time many systems had been originated, dropped, or mingled togethor, Of the digital origitt of all methods of enumerition there et bene doubt.the Reman symbols 11 startiog in this manner, the X signifying hands crossed, the V being th and the relative positions of numbers added 10X, a8 XL, being preetacly tho method of ull other nitions. Pretixing a subtractive digit, us 1X, is peculiurto this system, Those mutters ure eniticicntly treated in arithmetios and eney> clopediu, however, and our present concern 13. with: ‘omoter not less-Knows bexinntngs of enumeration. Turning to the Chinese, the devi- mal aystem ia even carried to fractions, tholr numes for the digits being Yat, Ye, Fahm, Fay, ‘an, Shipin, Chow, Shom. ‘3 Hitiees muy be traced In these signs to the corresponding ones used by nations deriving thelr system from both Arable and Jtonmn, the 2th And tenth digit being alike in Ronan rd Chinese, shinilarities also being traceable ntnony othor numbers in wll, - Theas resemblances are not. speelul arguments for the common arlgin of ravey, but rather indl- cate how aystems may diverge in the from ono another by conditions altering, Just aa tho clumsy. churseter-printing of the Chineso is referable to thelr course writing with camels- Dlr brushes ant thick inks, while our progress from stylus to quill sugested the split stecl pen, und to éuch tweldents are dug the present. con- dlensed and mluute letters used in both printing and writlog. SCIENCE NOTES," ‘The oyater has x comnpticated nervous system, ‘and the brownish-btiek «pot in its its liver. ‘Tho most instuntancous and painters deuth an. animal may dle.can be iuduced by pithing,—that: is, Introdusing n knife between tho ocvlput and first vertobra, or, Lotter still, cutting the medulla oblongnta (upper on of spinal cord) by pushing the knife into the buck of tho mouth, tho pharynx. This cuts the “vital knot,” ag the Germans call it, destroying the resplratory centres. A telegraph operator named May, at Valenciu, both upper bull of the Treland, discovered a singular property pos- sessed by tho now metal sclenitim, through which no electrielty would pitas wntll tho metal rus exposed to the light. Siomens, of Germany, eonstrieted what be calls ay silent: Cres whole Jow ball with lens nid cornea, tho metal forming: tho retina, which was connected with i gulyante eurrent. 0 pupil would contract and the eye Uda wink under a ood of Nght. The project of converting the deserts of North Africa {nto an Julund sca has by no means been: givenup. Geographical nnd englicering socle- ties in Europe are stendlly necumulnting infor- mation as to thea most peictloal points from which the ocenn may by iudmitted and the coun- try submerged, Boo phe ensuing upon such a font will bo vast. } only will the elimute of Africa bo changed for tho better, Mediterrancan winds and bes remurvably fn Southern, Eu ‘Tho vom= merelul acvantiged to follow will be unpare allele. Photographers would find it interesting If not Alreetly profitable to thom wero they to nequidnt: themsclves with the uses of the spectroscope. Much of the advance In the art of phecourashy has been marty by physicists who, knowing the chemlen atabitities af many compounds | and their vary hug susceptibility to diiferont rays of Tight, previct results tho practical photogeapher gwindly finda correct and us Rpectroscapy’ shows why at pletire requires hilt un hour's: time for a altting in Mexleo, which in Chicago: tnkes ono minute only, Tha Northern sin is richer in chemical rays. Ants are more domestic animals than mun, These wonderfulty-lleligent six-footed com- munista make forays dn Hank mntrelies by columns or by soll phalinx. Thay believe fully In tho survivalof the ittest,” for they: extormlinite the Ingy by biting thont in tivo, Communications are conveyed to one another by, thofr antenue, and tholr ehlef sense ts that of smelt, Thoy raid tho haunts of othor specls curry away the pupa mid keep the capt prodnot Inalifeor stuvory, Beetles tro tholr hens, find lay eggs for thom. A Dlnck wnt tuentahes tb secretion unawering to tho domimut race far inllk, und this milk they actually squevze from tholr cows, ‘Tho monn duration of nulls of Ressomer steel fg, uccordiug to oxperiinants fn Germany wbout, wixteon years. (Ou the other hand siya the Annales Tnituatricites, ten. yours of trial between Cologne and Sinden has shown that the nowal4 were, during thla period, for tne wruly fran uals, O65 for steed, ab pudilled steck, nnd 34 por cent i steel, Indicating that io latter would 1a: thun sixteen yours. ‘Thore aru, however, #210 faults to be fodind with this rail. Tho engineers of the Kuisor Fordinand Northarn Une chin that Iusgemer stect 1s less capable of resisting con- cusdon, and Chit whero sudden feletion tus caused ‘heating of the rills with rapld coolly froin snow, injurious molecular elunges occur, Edward UL Loveaux in the duuraat of the So- cledy of Arte advocates sprivg propulslon for sircatounty, und brings forwant ovidenvs of ita prauttoablilly, ecomemny, and site Called springs are’ ihe mott¥e power as suggested fur oiticr Vohleles yeurs aio. Tho prinaipal, ase tlon to new methods of fosomotion bit elties | is tho elfeet of any novelty of thy Kind upon sit Ugh horses. Mast aniinals ure capable of educa. tion, ani! $ho horse lonrag thinly cas rondily as cquully fatelllgent betiugs thut he his nu to four from nn nugled ounive A ould bo gradially familiarized with carrhuges troving dn such ways, but aftor all ft isa matter of tuato us to whether u person wauld profer be- ne run uway with by an tncorrigiblo spring or u horse, ‘Tho mule mosjuito docs not bite, nor sho gifted with the pertluncity of the femulo, Ho had a feathery aitstelmoent each slide of hls pros bowela whieh Interforud with his tasinuating it into anything mora resisting than vegetuble Dbres. Those antenme haye delleate little Wures or milgraavepla feathers, und Prot. Altres Myor, of this coumry, disvovered that cach fre trembled: vymputhatically with the noted produced by tho rapt wing motions of tho fo- tnule inosxyuito, 1113 an Ousy mnattor te measure Ubu number of vibritivns mado In cuch sevend* by an Insoct's wing, us wo know the numibor o responding to wach note of music; when such note is sounded by the Inswot tu tte tight its number of beats must corrvapond to the note, which rung up to many thousand fmpulses a socond,—10,000 13 the limit for humun wudition, Pany wnhnuls ure supposed to hear plainly more rupld vibrations. . Fow, excopt regularly educated, physicians Bro aware of the uxteut lo which Investigating Juquirles have bogn carried Inte the function uf grou ost Holgh ask the nly Bee, ate deanos 3 nol 1 Ws branl Of knowlodge. Hloctrical stimulation of tho t eyances, Kau Yared brain surface of animals at tho hands of TEXAS, tore, ‘The Lumberman, a sploy Httlo shoet pub. * tio German (Fritz and Hlzig) tnd one English (Ferner) doctors, partieularly on outhropold, or man-lke, ape brains, have chubled scientists to make deduetions and seatter mitch of the uecepted sotions on preuiens. and kindred toy to tho winds. Tho brains ‘of wniinals, ine have been searched microscopleal- mapped on asenio that world represent human beings as Ave miles tigh, Phy. Mologien! studies of the nervous system nro bee ing rapidly pushed to the fall establishment of tho truth that tho inind {sn fountain of the nervous ayatem. Old nictaphyaleal doctrines nro tumbling, und the new sclence of pay chuieay ona physiologic! and anitomical basisds taking: tholr pinees, Nowhera ts the development or evolutionary theory so uaeful na in thet pre searches. The Hglit tUsheds upon such investi. nitions is beyond estimation, and upprecinted py nove Bo Well ns spectul students bn this teld. MAN AND DOG FIGHT. Morrible Might Between a Boxer and gadhound for a Bot—The Mralner dfully Bitten and the Dog Killed In the Combat. St. Lauts Post-Dispatch, Dee. 20, Perhaps tho most degrading anid wretched pleco of nileged “sport yet chronfeled In St. Tans wasn fight Jast night between a well- known light-welght boxer and a Siberinn blood+ hound, the property of 1 gentleman who his for yetra been In command of one of the best boats: on the upper river, The preliminaries of the contest were arranged in a sporting saloon on Sixth street, where, in fret, the {dea originated, partly In banter and partly in curnest, A Poste Dispatch reporter was told by n gentleman who guve away tho Information that the Nght had Its origin in a remark of Patsy Brennan to the effect that he never saw a dog of whieh bo was Aafrukt. Capt. -— ut once replied that he had aw dog of which most: people were inclined to steer clenr, a statement which was at once mot hy an offer to fight tho dog without wenpons for $250, | After much discussion the bet was taken and the prellininaries arranged by the persons who know Just how such n fight should bo arranged. Byverybody that knows old St, Louis recollects tho number of vock and dog fights that used to tnke plage fn the nefghborhood of the Hurlen Mouse Bridge, and the recent disuse of thut lo- eallty made ft ull the more secure for a contest ke this, nt which Jt was the fntention to have very few spectators, Ina tittle plente of this Kind the persons most nyolded after the pollee are the gentlemen of the press, but n reporter of tho Poxt-Diepateh was nble to clude tho Vigilance of the Cerberns who admitted the party into the Sixth strect snloon, whence hacks were talren to the scene of tho battle. ‘The reporter was given n seat In: tho hack which was carrytng the bloodhound, hfs aster, and traince, and for n little while a nervous seat it was. The dog was of tha very hurgest breed, resembling more a callin alze “than 2 dog, and Hts Huts hard as from, It weil tO he notht Its bead Yr were the most. repulsive that ever were curried by. 0 dog. The long. pendutos curs, wrinkling ‘and alniost bure, formed a sort of frame for the moat villaitous countenance, Tho eyes were | pack. ind beady, and the Ips hime dows tar over the teeth, They were drawn tp, how Y onstintiy during the carrlige ride, and a sud teping snarl was sounded each tine the shaking of the carriggy Jarred him one way or tho other. Uitowner gat at ihe head, holding the spiked calluc with both Hands, nnd keeping the dog quict with volce and hand. ‘The tack took its way mpldiv out Fifth to Brondway, id then out ihe Bellefontalng road, passing tho Jlurlem House, and, turning to the left on the allet rod, passed italy Tnnity Cemetery, and came to tstop Just this side of Florissant ave- me, little group of men were standitye bee a eluding many Ty, duserfhed, nnd side an old stable, evidently waiting for his 8lbe- Thin majesty, and ns soon as the hack discharged its load the whole party moved Into the bulldliug, whieh was soon lit ap after a inuiner with sone five or six nnterns, which were hung from the rifters, Among those in nt tunes the rial er noticed wy ex-Polive Commissioner snd an ex-Judge, tree members of the House of Dele~ y prominent physician, and several figinessmen, ‘Thu remalider of the party were sporting characters, pure amid siinple. fin tew moments tho straw was swept clear from the middle of the burnt, aid the two conte Dutants were got ready for battle. Brennan wis dressed fn heavy) corduroy: pants, thick-soled bootg, anda heavy felt shirt witch buttoned around hfs throat and came up under his ching he hud heavy buckskin gloves on, und tho only exposed partof his bods was bis faee and shortly-erepped hale. There was an immediate kick Dy the backers of the doy when they siw Ww Brennan hud dressed himself, Give Sibe~ rho chaner,” said Judge —. © Tho tht will not goon til the man sirips. At thls there was 0 general and hot discussion mony the backers of caning and bralser, and, the itter was only settled by the referee, Mr —.n fimlor partngr ina Min street grocery house, who sald that, the ayreemont waa plain that Brennan should fight without weapons, mmeuning elthor of offense or defense, und vonse- wily he was obliged te strip, which be did ty rner of the roout md tho jeune of those who y backing tho bloodhound. He soon camo wird, miked to tho walst, but with. i Hite hesttation, which was keenly noted by thoso who Wore betting an hfs euntug opponent. ‘Tho dog was being carefully groomed by Capt. —— and the trilicr, two members of the St. Louty Ken nel Clut being the most interested in the proc- ess, nud ng soon us these preliininuries were conchided tho betting besa flere tho adds being all in favor of the dog. A hundred even that tho dog tales first blood ‘Twenty to. fifteen on ler, Lake you,” and similar cries, diverted the attention from the combatants for a moment while thoy were belng placed, Capt. — had much diticnity in holding the slbertin until tine was enlicd, and thon, with a viclous Blok him, ‘Pige, the bloodhound was released, and leaped straight for the throut of the prizes fighter, whe sprang to one aide caught the dog a terrible body blow as he went by, turning: him completely in tho arand muking Tige: come down heavily spon, his_ back, second he was in lily traince's hands, und tho betting beenmo furfous. One gentleman, 0 Incmiber of tho House, within threo minutes hid pat upaver 8700 on, the dog, even, and odds ‘thor wuy wero engerly snatched up. The ref- erve tlh called time, and in tts round Bren- qin lost his luck. Tiges ide mere cautions by tho first rude rubutt, clreled round and round hls human antagonist, snarllag horribly, and fippacently gulplng down hls rage, He inade severul felnts, but Brennan was watching bim too clos oly to be thrown off hig guard. All this time’ the “crowd In tho barn wos almost Mrantle with exeltement, yelling at thor favor- itaaund . encouruging hound and mun by eNO expedient. thoy could think of, At last tho dog got within “threo feot of Patsy and made tis spring, Ho was mot by a terrible blaw atralght frum thoshoulder which made the bloud fly fron his nosound mouth, but he was too close to be evided, and nt tho same instant his teoth: ground into the shoulior of bis human intugo- nist, and, borne backward by his weight, rennin Bunk slowly to the door, his face drawn and white with pain, but with i Beowl on hls brow that meant intdchiet, Tho blood gushed from bly ngled shoulder, and almost as doon as ho was fairly on tho jeenind ho got both his hands into ‘Tiger's mouth and tugged at the cloxligy Jaw Ite had to take a second grip, chooding tho lon Ipsof his enemy this time, and tering tho badly hefure tho hound released bis hold, wand bath the fighters wore tiken trom ouch other by their friends, Tho Puat-Dinpateh reporter wi cover Brennan its his seconds 1 tind had wood chance to exe na bload- he ‘She vollarebonw was already bare ind the heer Hon of the shoulder was siinply horcible, The doje. was comparatively ns badly injured. Quo of his Jos ues wits Bo badly torn that it hung down Inches, and threo of his teeth let boon: broken by the blow he got fa the fice, He was ist as plucky as the man howover, and when ho was looted nggalty aan wilt’ AUIy". Brennan assitied the offensive this tiie, rune ning {nun the doy, who leaped half way to meet Atos, nnd, oatening Pheer by the throst, held hin Upand began deking him heavily in the belly with his strongesoled shoos, “There were pames dhe erly foul” inthe orawd and wrush of the dog's friends was made on Brennan it once, Dearlng bin to the gevitad, at which moment bia Tatelers resented bla, and for a fow xceoneds pits domonium provatled, ‘There wie a regul dnwhich a good many were bully burt, ‘Tier, not Knowing Ala fricids, fastoned upan ong of thot nnd ble bhin severely in tho arm before the dlsturikines was quelled, When, quict wits re- stored, the referee decided that: thore was ne foul, as Brontin hid iy right to use himsel way he wished, but Bronnin wit Wat in very youl fettle to renew tha ight, usa inthe melee domo ono inl kleked bhi heavily in tho ribs. and something bid got in his oye, almost blind- Ing hint. Ph: came ip gamely, however, ore 80 Nor, who appaared to have alnost enoigh: ‘of bin, ad, catebing tho doy as before, vory soun ended the conibat, for Lior mupidly bocwy unconseions. and when Drennan threw hin over: y perfectly timp and motfoutuss, aud the good ollices of hls f 3 Were AL once applied to ba restoration, reforce augila enticed: pime, and Ueennan Umped forward. ‘Tyger could not be brought on, however, and nfter a vuin offort his tralner threw up the spongy, and the mph exciting Nght over seen in St. Louls was egded. “As soon as ho was declared wiiner Brennan fulnted from the paln in bla shoulder tnd slo, whieh he td hell down by bis utconquurabte ltt and medical asalstinee was at once got or BUR. ‘Tho tht began uv tittle ufter 10 o'clock, and at IL the purty began to dianerse, A fow minutes if atter that hour *figer’ turned yer on bie buck, trembled u litte, und dled, wottling oO for all the superiority ‘of bum’ strength ove cuning, Quits a large amount of money changod hinds aftr the ungngemont, tho losers promptly payhig up to avold publicity and the polles, although tt was strongly chilmed that rennin won by afoul. A reporter valled on Patsy Dren~ nau, which, of courde, it ty needles to uy, 1s ain gusumed name, at noon to-day, and found hin pouting easily, | The doctor ln uttendange thinks he wil be contined to bls hed for pume days, but will be out ugaly before Now-Year’s. His huck+ ersaru trying tourrange wuother tlybt betwoon Patsy and un English musth, but he eays be will not cntor the llste uguln unless much more mole 7 ja uuarantoad than ho wade upon the iret 0+ , “gettied on this sand, Educational Disadvantages Great Cause of the Negro Exodus. the Tho Galveston ‘News’? Enterprise at Dallas, and the United States Senatorslilp. Artoatan Wolla at Fort Worth---Remark- able Properties of Their Water. Amenities of Journalism in the Lone-Star States A Slightly Personal Notice. Spectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Fort Wontit, Tex. Dee, 10.—The experience of sotne colored peoplo who emigrited from this State to Kansnrs, and have returned, seems to have had little, if any, effect upon the others, 08 the "boon" stil continues, nid the Joyful voice of the exodus f¢ atlll heard in tho land, Yester- day inorning eight wagons Iterally londed down with “culled” ex—beg pardon, that word his been used before—passed through here, en route for Parsons, Kas, Inanswer to your corres spondent's question, why thoy wero leaving the Btate, they sald, Kansas was a better country, where they thought they would have more rights than they enjoyed here. ‘They also spoke of tho Jute drght which in a mensture rulned the crops In the southern counties, making corn und the necessities of Mfe, thoy sald, too dear for a poor nun. ‘They knew they could get. these things much cheaper in Kansas, where splendid crops were ralsed this season, ‘Their last and #rentest reason for leaving tho State was on ace countot + ITS EDECATIONAL DISADVANTAG 18, Their children were growlug up in ignorance, nnd thelr race wanted to gu where they could have the benefits of an education. “Gor. Roberts,” thoy sald, “has knocked the frees school system In the head, erippiing the State to nimost fearful extent.” “ Now, mark what I Buy to you, Mr. Reporter,” sald the chef spokes- min aud oyidently leader of the clan, “ It won't: bo long before you see poor white people—hon- est, hard-working men—leaving Texas. They have children that should have education, and thoy will soot sco the necessity of golng where they can give it to thent, Gey. Roberts’ course iuregurd to’ the free-sehools," he continticd, “1s tho main cause of the exodus—nt least so far us the more intelligent of my tice fs con- cerned, There may be some politieal echeming to induce us to iminigrate to Kansus, yet thot has but little to do with {t, for it is voluntary on tho part of all those who go." At this point the carayun started, which put 8 stopper on further conversntion. ‘he proprictors of the Galveston Nets, falling: to monopolize Journalism in North Texas from thelr office In Gulyestun, have decided upon tho establishment of A PAPER I) DALLAS, to bo equal in ull respeets, we were Informed by one of its proprietors, to tho Galveston paper, Forty thougund dollars is to be invested tn tho enterprise, and all the smaller and wenker Jour- nalistic barks that ultilet Dullns are to be crowd ed to tho wall, and even the St, Louis journuls are to be driven from tho news-stands a fir as possible. ‘This is an evidence of great enter- prise on the part of tho News’ proprietors, nud one which will doubtless be suecessfil 18 a bust- ness-veuture, for on that prinefple, L opie, it tw bo established, The ro those, boweve! who nro of the opinion that the movement hast political siznifiernces The present, political status of the Nees i4 Buch that it wields no cone siderable influences nnd, iuasmuct: us the next veur Is fraught with so much political interest, it desires to take # band in shupling the political affairs of the State. The Presidential, State, and Congres lonal elections occur next yeur, and in additlol n thereto there 1s A UNITED STATES SENATOI to elect, and certain outcroppings of tho News indicate nleaning of that Journal to the Hon, John HH, Reagan us Maxey's successor; but your correspondent docs not belleve much in this the and, even should the News tuke a atand against tho present United States Senator, it would not uffect thut functlonury’s chiuces for re-election one pnrtlele. The press almost unnnl- tnously agree to It wel fy alone. ii ut the record will flud Senator Shiexe: gett suend work for his people,—work whle! dear him by even stronger ties than thi how unite thig valuable servant of tho publia to hia constituents. But agudn tothe News; Une: legs there ute loaves und fishes in Blght, this sheet cures but litte for palit nd tho new journal ny be looked upon only a3 a micans of further distending tho eis’ pocketbook, antl Increasing ita bink-rolt. ~ As thore hns been so much satd ond written nbuut the many ANTERIAN WELLS in this olty, Iwill fect that I have fatled in my duty if L'do not give ‘Te TRmUNe readers a Uttly light on the subject, und tell thom what 1 know ubout those wonderful wells. “‘Thoro are tirenty-one now in this city, fourteen of which are flowing from 100 to 1,500 barrels of water per day,—which is conveyed to nll parts of tho city in Water-tanks and wugona, and delivered at 10 cents per barrel to customers. One peculiarity: about this water, it nelther stugnites nor bee comes insipid, oven in the warniest weather, but rutnins fla purity no matter how loug it muy be loft standing: so thoroughly is It filtered through the pure white sand that not a particle of in- purity remains. It waehew even hotter thin ralnewater, if possible, and leaves tho skin soft and clear, It opens tho pores. and lets off tine puritics In the system through thelr natural channels, so that typhotd tomy exigt alnong those who constantly use the waiter. Many of tho otd ailments and complaints com mon to the people here have ia mensure dlse appenrad; und this artesian water is unuil= mously recommended by tho “ medleine-men" who have analyzed it asa restorative of the une feebled and sick to health, When tea fs mado from it, If it (the tea) isdmpure or bogus stuf, with which the market ia Hooded, it makes iy Denutiful clear red, and remtads one dn its colar of the old saysafras, and looks very patutable: ond enticing; but, as soon is tasted, itis found to have ne finvor atall,and is in fact insipid; but pure, sentlte ton ds not aifected, The tem- perature of this water ig Tl degrees Fahr,, und ts hot alfected by tho extremes of hout or cold where It. Haws from wells. Our winter clatern wig beat well water is from 05 to 68 degrees ‘ane. * ‘S his cenaed to THE DISCOVERY OF THESE WELLS, which aro now of inestinuble value to thls coun- try, wus purely neeldental. Mr, L. 3, Cresswell, — who, by the way, Js. Chicngoan,—on his farin, nine mites southoast of Fort Worth, In Isr dig n well forty-four feet deep, and, not finding Water, was determined to ascertain haw deep ha should huve to go before ho could get a supply and, to tho nstonishinent of all, he went to the depth of 44 feet, where he rotund a bountitel yof tha pee apurkting water, slightly fnpregiated with sutphir, ‘This well attracted much attention throughout the country; but tho great cost (about $1,000) was more than most Were ablo to pay; and, it tho siting thine, thore wery doubts 1s to the How of water, No one else attempted it, althuugh Mr. dames Potors, tho plonvor well-delller of this country, insisted that water would flow in this gity, and at a less depth: than Mr, Cresawell’s well, Bong poor himself, he was uuable to muke the experiment tone upon bis vorreet. theories of the water~ bearing strutn from: which tho flows would: rise. Hut. by ote tiem rollunce in this theory, und bly charneteristle energy, wt his own housé, in tho southweat prirt of the city for honrly two Sears, ta means and epportunitics: offered, he drilled his owa well, which fiually sunt ota nico flow of 140 or 200 barrels a day of pure, ttered water, inuny feet above the sure nee. ‘This was tn August, 1878: and the depth: of the well ig about tsu feet. ‘This works of Mr, Poters Anelred confldonce, and since thon to tha resent Uing there have been twenty-one ur hese wells duyg, ane whieh aro now towlng con stantly cctho How varylug fron 200 to J,5uu bare tuls per day. : THE PRTENS THEORY of water here f¥, that tho white sandstono in which tho water exiate eulerops in conmtl north of bere, and thut 1t dips to tho ont and southeast. ‘Thid stone ta very porous, and the water striking an the country whery this sant outcrops, Md eunyoyed Uy theto, with tho dip of tho anndstanu, wider the upper surface of {ato formution, whieh ta our Hime and shell Sormution, us (ft this eand were at sine former pee the'bed of game sen or oven, tnd tbo ue Bind Just above tho white sand fs sediment Tho shell rock, which {4 i bed of about ten or twelve fect in thickness of pura oyster-sholly, which covers all this blue sand, bis been found tn ill the wells, Hes Just over the bluo sund, and from thure to the surface are euntinions hiyens of tmestune rocks and seashells; and, when tho orifice fs mado through this 200 foub lnpes formution, the pressure of tho water fromthe fountaln-houd rises ubovo tho surfuce, The rewson that come do not thaw with ug much prowureer ferce is because the cloyations of these pain’ 2 Mirher aud nearer tho fountalnehead, Thete sali ta be, byethose xolenced” in geological Tormutions, mnothor: water-benring atrutun. to tho northwest of this one, that underlies one stratum of water sind. stony, which will not ee dag ‘over 400 or 100 feut under tho. onterop of this one. And it fa-lrmly belleyed to bo # stronger and botter uno than the ono stumbled upon here, which will forcv tho water to our very bighest poluts. ‘Tbiy fs to be tested before long, ant plo In this section of the country will look ‘orward to the results with the greatest interest wud expoutanoy: Twill lot you know reaulta (uy ua the. Ae chig or F ‘To give Tue 'TRioUNB's resdord an idea of the pleasures follawing In the wake of 1 & JOVUNALIST IN THIS COUNTRY - Tolip tho following from the Orango (Lex) Trib- those misses, lished in the adjoining catinty to whlch tho Tribune ts puilished: Bad in ooo ot (ee iseucs very politely mao a * personal” of tho eiltor of tho iittlo: sheot, who nt tha tinte was visiting in tho town where tho Jaimberman was qilted, among other, things referring to the spanking now shirt tho Orango editor wor, Tho Jntter gentleman ovidently took exception to this “ personal,” and replicd ‘with tha follow Ings uv a miserable, squint-oyed scam Nt hi artodcnn ‘pmonaee of ‘nenpesked hunsanterl Wink do you men by, venturing upon much tender Rrouhdeas dat altusion inthe” fumberman' lane eck ti Gur personal — apper tho” gnwklest, uailoat, mont Judicrnx-lookt cuss tho world over Rai and your. wiitisio {lo personal appearnneo af any ane le Rat tilts whtel Fant aioee an ofors shee ‘au nbove ai offers ahould enreful Brows Wienait man te minds in tho taato of God, but ifthe Crentor bears any resemblance ta you, of Jauta Hime must make tho Ansele weep. Wo nn Gerstand what tho fort was tizuring at anyhow when Ife moduled yuu, isn mattor Inviting tha attention of actentint. 1 mighe have intended to construct a senrecrow to keep Old Nek out of Itis favored. 10nd; hut thts is hardly probable wtion wo como to think oF Olt Why would renteoty take Fright at nny closcly resembling his own shadow; nnd AFita tind intone you far! such purpuran, ihe would havo given youn menner heart. But uly! A mid fenea would hana tts head in mortification woro! Zouta nan Raalnae Ry Nad Fone wuundly pha, Te tee Zour ty anes cantensted with a clean shirt, would frighten the tombatoncs out of n gravoyard. An to dancing, wo fonr tho bumps of your gimlat-nhapod® heud ard too pote to perceive that our mubstantial une dertandings aro balanced by & cranium to matt | i2m, that cunsonunntiy cote trove a ery serious , ; dur skipping long smoo ordinary purpose: Be senientr DAN RICE’S SPEECH. Wo Pledges Himsaclf to Devote Is Life to tho Advoency of Temperance. St. Louls Times, Dees29, n Dan Nico mado his first effort at the Sanita=* runt on Cass ayenus yestorday, Thoro was a sinal! gathoring of temperance peoplo thore, and, after speeches from several othor gentlo- , men, Mr, Cordell annowuneed that, he was about to Introduce a spenker who was known to ovory: ong in the United Stutes, etthor personally or by; reputation. Io then brought forward Dan’ Nice, The audience applauded. Strange ‘to; say, Dan was ovklently ombarrassed at firat, but! In tho course of afew minutes be warmed to his! work and was perfectly at home, Casting a! Riance around the room, aud then looking at a! spot on the opposit wall about seven fect from| tho floor, he commenced: “It is rathor an novkiward position, thls," sald Dan, looking un- eagily at tue spot on tho wall; “I dida’t expect to como here, The othor day I ro-} ecived n letter from Mr. Cordell asking mo{ toattend this meeting. T told hlin I couldn't do" it. But Mr, Cordell culled upon mo yesterday, und Induecd me to vome. My mind has been undergoing a remarkable chango recently, yot have not settled down to any direct or positive. course for tho future. Ihave been 86 mixed upy with my profession that In adopting this now course I nm moved polcly by Impulse as yet. fin not oven know what at gelog to BAY NOW; Uut I feel better than-L have dono for years. B am ghid to bo here this ufternoon, and to bear, the votees of the Ittlo children sioging thelr hymns. Itdid megood, I felt honored at being fimong thom. L have’ moral courage and am not ashamed to face any of pi as somo mont would be, Some would lave muah dignity: fostund here, Too much dignity 1s not demo-~ cratic. [Langhter.] Solomon siys he is a wise min who conforms to tho oxiencles of tho! hour, nnd us 1 havo aways been looked upon ag 0 clown, 2uny, aud fool, up to now, I think it Js about thie that I conform to the exigencte: of something else, [Laughter,] I havo been wt ininisior, but not of the Gospel. I have been a. ninister of fun. My mother's family were all Methodists, and) my mother prophesied that! one day f would be a. minister, and often} pyed that I shoukl beeome un Christian.; heard Moody the other ulght. The Prayers and songs mnde mo weep like a! chilt (here Dan's voico faltered slightly.) When ; I heard that song which my motbor sing It at- fected! ine strangely. | I eame away sind resolved'| to lend a new Ilfe. “If Dilly MeKeo hnd followed | my example bo would have beon ulive to-day. | The other day wo drank togethor, I drank! seltzer, McKeo drank seltzer and something stronger. He satd tomo: ‘Dan, this Js my lust drink. [think [ rhall foliow your exainpie,” The night before Zach Chandler's death in Chis! cugo Wo were stunding at a bar together, drink ing. Senator Chandler enid: *This 13 my last drunk, Dan, by the gods, T have fulfilied my mission.’ It wis his last, for he died that night. “Thave had ny lust drunk, and I trust to God that I took that Inst druni fintime. This tao iorlaus work, and It ds gtorloug to bo iu ft. People my sneer it they will, but Dean bear tho brunt of thelr scorn. 1 return to my profos= son, nul have not yet made up my mind whether shall or not, 1 want ra meet thnt heterogencots mass with whit my way of life has hithorto thrown me, und destroy: that. curse which ruins tholr inner natures and, sends Ko inuny of them to enrly graves. Even in my professtonnl attire [would strive to react: t thom gacer atime when f yet the harness on, 1 came here unprepared ta speak, but now I feel inspirod—inaraily rout. J belisve there is more manhood ubout me to- day than there has been at any me during the past forty vents, Let peoplo gay whut they will of me, Pshall goon. And let tho press say what: itwitl, The press hus spoken u greut deat of ine, nud his sald somo pretty hard things, When Iwas youngor 1got mud at whut they sald. L recollect once an abusive article was, written: agninst Barnum and myself, Iwanted ta tke itup, and wrote to Barnum. Ho replicd: *My dear Dan: Lot‘om say what thoy please. Ita only au advertisement.” Lnughteca 'Burnum’s skin was thicker than ining, Thoy abused me, but untillately they had no cause, My chnracter has been stainless until within the lust five yeurs, Since thon overy one inst, Louls hus known, my failing. ‘rouble caused mo to commence drinking to excess, and I hive been drunic all those five years. have got drunk to drown sorrow. Lhave gone staggoring ulong on tho streots Hiko this (staggering), Whon I think of ititmakes me ashumed of myself. Thon I thought {t very funny. I thought L was a great min. [used tu say to myself; ‘Gon. Grant's a xrent man. Gen, Grant gets drunk. Land Gen. Grant have been drunk togethor, Tam a great man, too, Ho's nm greut min, So'm 1 (hive (initating the netlons and volee of a drunken, mun.), Grant's o great general in bis business. Trina great genend inmino, Tam as big a mam, as Grant.’ [Laughter] If drunkenness wore, tho criterion T would bo a grout man. 4Vhon I! wus drunk I thought I was a great mun, but then would wake up the noxt{ mornit fa and tho hallucination would bo! ono, ‘Thon I would He thore and swear | was going to reform and Lover touch another drop. “After a while I'd got up, ‘and somehow or other L would get in tha neighborhood of that same aaloou. My head ached and my stomuch wis on tire, iit thon T had sworn {was novar going to touch another drop, I looked at tha nie a long the, and then T grow cunning. Laughter] [went tito tho saloon, I felt very sick, 1 nueded some stumuch bitters, ‘Tho burs tender didn’t have any, 2 putled his head dowa jose to my Nps aud whispered; *Givo mo a, ovktall, then, but don't telt any one, and thon: Twould get drunk aguing twas this samo ching: over nid over uguln, duy after day. [woul PAnCO? Taal tt itd often, but T huve broken it for the last time. Inv the course of my lite Lhave spent threa fore tunos. 1 would buvo thom now if lt were no& for intompernuce, and this Js but asnuul part ot, the oyil which 1 huye sutfored from it, I know what {atemperance Is, and from this time on tempernnico will uever have n stronger advocate than Dan Ice. Hoe sat down amid prolonged: uppliusc, Hs speceh was very brief, only laste ing nbout ten minutes, Niblo’s Magnificent Gitt—8150,000 for & Public Library, New York Dines, Dee, 51, Scanty Justice hug been done to one of the most charitable of men, whodiod in August, + 167% Such rupli sketches of tho tute Willlam © Nibdlo as huye appeared, though giving!some | pluco to tho gooituess of the man, hive made no mention of tho vory large sums ho gave away during bis life, not only to individuals, but to publio chueltics, and it wilh be w mutior of sur prise to many when thoy learn that $150,000 of Willan Nivto's money will be turned over :to= day to Mr, Hobert Hov, Jr, to bo expended, ag ho may deem proper, for n lurary forthe Young”, Men's Christlun Assoclition, Ubls bequest ta | perhaps the most muniticont of tho kind over taade for this purpose in the . United tutes, und execeds the frst sum doyisod by John Jacob Astor fer the Ibrary which dows his name. O12 4 brief summary of the will of the lute Willian Niblo, In the “Zines of Ag. 8, 1578, tho following muy be founds * After dome inlnor boquusts, be gives the rest. due of Lis estate to hls executors In trust for the: Denelit of the Young Men's Cristian : Associa tion of Now York, with ni roquest that ft bo np. ied to the culargoment aid mntonaice of Niblo Library, in connection with the Asso." cintion.”” ‘This Interpretation uf the willis oxuck in part, but not In particulary, as the residyo of the estate fate by expended for the MMbrary of tho Young Men’a Christin Assoctution ws str. Robert Hoo, Sry muy devin proper. At the time of Mr. Niblo's. domtee his peaperty, wus gati= mated ta bo * worth $150,W0; but to-dnyy, after all bequesta have been settled, to tho umount of 8 , the residue, $150, , sell remuins for tho Hurry, and thi vory handsome auin, the excouturg, Frank- Mn Chandler and Jacob K. Lockminy will turn vor to Mr, Hobert Huo, in order to fuldil thole trust. ‘Thia inutter of Br, Niblo's monvy bus prosonted two dilfurencos front those of. othor vse utes; frat, there huve been no dispytuits, NO 1 fulso ‘hetrs clatming monoy, we Higntion; and, acoonily, the totut of tho mionoy was much more vonstderable than waa at test sitnposet. sit inuy bo ataled that, on the death of str, Nibto, BoInD ustonishinent was oxpresiod that bo had Jeff ne ronl cutaty, Tt seumns that, with Pinte deul of Food soando, varbayy droudlg sin! ications after ie death, and having no dirvot-helrd, such row i" bof ten OF i i uétate us he might buye been possusie fifteen years Dror to hia -donth ho cither guve + away oF disposed of, roinyesting, bis capital in th mal property, Buch, ta scouritics, bondd, ane bunk stocks. The ecouri murkotable character, and of roudy sal cue abled the excoutory to vlose aut tho ostul the semarkably short porlod of fourteya. AOD United Btajos f a ; H Bwonr off repentedly, and break iy pledgo ae. | i} 4 f y 4 i t B® I v , t S48 | ! ‘