Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1880, Page 7

7 EDUCATIONAL TOPICS. ‘The House-Painter. : : — ‘The Missouri State University has 596 stu~ ‘dents. —In Milwaukee, 7,914 children out of a daily attendance of 11,09 in the public schools, are studying German. K—It is stated that the sum of $140,212.21 on the educational account ts due to the city of New Orleans from the state of Louisiane. — Hiram College, Ohio—the college of which General Garfield was once president, and of which he is now a trustee—has 209 —— Wellesley college has lately recetved $1,500 from M. H. Simpson, of Boston, for another dormitory. and $5,000 for a scholarship, for which preference 13 to be given the ters Of foreign missionartes. —Dean Swift said that the reason a certain ‘aniversity was a learned place was that mest TsoDS took some learning there, and but few rought any away with them, afd so it accu- mulated. — During the past winter there were at the twenty German universities the Lr a et Der of 20,172 students. The Untversity # Ber- iin bad the largest number—3,608. The phtlo~ Sopbical deparuments attracted the largest number, 8,624. —The training of the voice Copies to ode ebiidhood. Then the organ is more fle Dienna adaptable than it is at any other time, and much of the harshness developed in later Years could thus be avoided. As pleasant Speaking is part of good manners, and as there can be no pleasant +h without a proper- ly modulated voice, it is well to train the voice ‘while the manners are forming. —The Jesuits inculeate, says an English writer, two qualities in their scholars more valued, perhaps, by French people than our- selves.’ ‘These aré:—First, politeness; second, obedience to parents and superiors. Their pu- pils have poll ¢ manners and the art of submis- sion to parental authority to such a d indeed, that a youth reared by them may — for docility at home and politeness abroad. —The method of teaching used by Profes- ‘Sor Henry Adams in bis historical courses at Harvara tics been adopted by some of the in- structors th other departments, and hag been particularly successtul in physics and in Ger- Map. Uncer this system each student it made to undert: ke special and exhaustive study of Some part of the work of the course, to Jecture to the class upon that part. —A writer in Burnes's Educational Monthly complains with mucb justice and force of the Way ip which history is taught in our schools. The minds of the pupils are crammed with dates and numbers which they soon forget, and there fs no intellectual grasp of the customs sid characters of the times concern- ing which they study. And this, it must be Said, is chi tly the fault of teachers, for even a F text-book may be made of worth in the ands of a wise and skilful teacher. —The ister of Public Instruction in France has addressed to the rectors a circular relative tothe practical execution of the gym- Dastic exe now obligatory by law in sehools. These exercises are ‘Lt to be conducted by the masters since special instructors in this s yet wanting. In all colleges, ly- unary normal schools gymnastics are to be jactised at least four times a week, during halt an hour at a time. The exercises are obligatory for all the pupils save those whose bociy infirmities are attested by a doctor's cet ificate. nyen College, at Gambler, O., one of the Oldest and probably the best of western tnstitu- tions, is to have a grand commencement day, Jue 21. She pumbers among her prom- tment g:acuates President Hayes, Hon. Stan- Jey Matthews and Hon. David Davis, all of Whom wili be present this year at the com- mencement; Chief Justice Walte, late a trus- tee of the college, will also attend—a special car carry ¢ the distinguishea party, and other alumni ire: \\asbington. The address before the alumi: on tie evening before commence- ment, Wii: be deitvered Dy Hon. Stanley Mat- thews. Tir poet for the occasion 1s Rev. Wyllis Lei. of Michigan. Bishop Jaggar, of southern ©' lo, will preach the Daccalaureate Sermon on Suuday, the 20th. —This !s the latest school-boy composition: ~ I go to schcol to read and rite and siphor to slide cn the ice and traid off an old nifeif I have one, in summer to pick wild flowers and strawberries sud to get out ot work hot some boys bas to go to school to get out of their mother’s road, Dut I would rather stay in winter thay to goto and set by acold Stove and fi+ze my toes. I like to go to school to see the teacher scold the big girls when they cut up some goes to school to fool but I go to stucy when we are old we can’t go to School 2d then we will feel sorry that we fooled when we was and went to school I don’t get no time to fool anyway. forI have enough io cu when I come to my gography.” —France 1.as agricultura: schouls for girls. One of the chief 1s near Rouen, which 1s said to have been begun with a capital of one franc by a sister of charity and two little ms ‘is, to be now worth ‘$100,000. “This estab! ent has 300 girls from it to'etgnteen. The farm, entirely cultiva- by them, is Over 400 acres in extent. The Staff of teachers consists of 25 sisters. More than ove medal of the French Agricultural y bas been awarded to this establish- ment at Darnetel, and the pupils are in great demand all over Normandy on account of their ‘They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm mauaers, dairy women and laundresses. Each gir) hos, oa leaving, an outfit and a small Sum Of money, earned in spare hours. If they — @ Lome they ean always return to Darne- —The most successful teacher, cther requi- Sites belug equal, is he or she who Is the brightest aid cheerlest teacher, who rules the — by 1! law of love, and lives a life of sun- sh: = frm, but ity. Into a after flog: an eager | Other dev been four ess; and the in the race tan be sp into competition by a smile, When the wessful rod has been laid aside. Honest, wnt, and earnest effort, in a Kindly ‘wa: «sli win for the teacher a success in that vo: ion that will come tn no other way. It i © In the nursery of the home, and true li. (uc wursery of the schoo. A kind Word—a sii answer—will sometimes form a a character into nobiltty and usefulness, that Would oti. «ise sink Into the slough of de- Spond, ang be lost in the mire of crime and ignorance. I cau pick out such, who taught me, when « boy, and their classes flourisned according’ H. Davis, —One of ancients observes that a lamp Joses Done of its own light by allowing another lamp to be | + from ft. He uses the illustration to enforce tie duty of liberality in imparting our knowl’ ¢ to others. Knowledge, he says, ures, 1s not diminished by gtv- ‘ion falls to express the whole ting of knowledge to bo peten the donor, but It unlike other i rea actually bccases bis riches. Docendo disct- mus. By teaching we learn. A man grows in knowledge t very act of commanticating It. ‘The reason Ss lsobvious. In order to com- Municate to the mind of another a thought Which fs in cur own mind, we must give to the —— define shape and form. We must handle it. and pack it up for safe conveyance, ‘Thus the mere act of giving a thougnt ex ‘Sion in words. iixes tt more deeply In our minds. Not only © can, In fact, very rarely be said be in ession of a thought ourselves, ue or the pen we have com- a it to somebody else. The expression It, In seme ‘Tm, Seems necessary to give It, even In our own minds, a definite shape and & lasting !mpr The Teacher, journey, “ “pa Ju dawn ter Sata, “Th. is the Jour-knee that I meant,” unto her paj EW YORK.—Not long since I Was chatting with a prominent florist here, and he gave me some interesting facts concerning the growth of the flower Dustness in New York curing whe past forty years, since brseenahn leno of foral — for occa- sions festive and funeral, w ‘at tUmes, bas on the whole had omy crease. For instance, about 1940, if a rc a — gave a ainner-party one quet_on center of the table was consiiiered quite sum- cient. and on such a holiday as New Year's the hostess was satisfied with a couple of mooeas on her mantelpiece. For ration of isso, the great sold ‘$200 worth of flowers, and the sales of the whole Row Is estnaaed nee 6s ton = ae lady alone, the wite of Eeption and dininye ao an ng year amount to $4,000,000, Thine 5 Vanished into thin’ atr. twenty-five florist at trays carried by hundreds of children. green-houses, stock, &c., there is said 2 hy peoples ew ‘World in the abundance and cheapness E Pet} eliee fs g 5 an nging spirits for it evermore. ? ‘Trying to Drive a Hen. [Kate Thorne, in Galveston Register. ] Did you ever indertake to drive a hen any- where? Ifnot, then never say “where there’s a will there’s a way,” or “‘All things are possible to him who perseveres,” because you don’t know anything about it. Driving a ken properly, and decorously, and successfully, requires more skill than capturing a herd of buffalo. ‘The hen you want to drive is always a strong- minded hen. If she had been a woman she would bave wanted the ballot long ago, and her husband would have had to keep quiet when she “got set” on anything. But being only a hen, she can do fs to cackle, and be contrary, and thwart you at every turn. if you want her to go in somewhere she'll be sure lo Want to go out, and vice versa. You want to drive her most when she gets out of the coop, and gets into your garden, to the total destruction of your pet bubs, and roots, and seeds, and everything else. One smart active hen will do more harm in one hour than a cow would in half a day. A hen fs born with an instinct toget at the Toot of the matter, and she follows out her na- ture. When your hen gets out of confinement she makes straight for your choicest flower-bed, and she stays there for an hour before you dis- cover her. By that time she has dug out every- thing that you cared anything about, and has buried herself up all but her head, and there she lies in the sun with happiness and triumph in her speaking countenance. How mad you are! You feel as if you coula sever her joints and make her into a pot-pie with a will—no matter if she 1s one of the trio that cost $10. You go for her with energy, and scream out “shoo!”* at her, and flourish your apron, and make wild gestures in her direction, and call your husband, and the children, and the hired girl, to help drive her into her quarters. Now, it is never any use to call a man to help drive ahen. We are willing to admit that the lords of creation can do quantities of things that the weaker sex cannot, but there ts one aoe @ man can never do—and that ts drivea en. He'll break the rake-handie, and get hung in the clothes-line, and lose his hat, ani fall down over the croquet wickets, and burst off two or tbree of his suspender buttons, and the hen will fy up on the top of the barn, or take refuge in the tallest tree on the premises, and there she will stay and laugh at him until she fs ready to come down. Andall the men In creation can- not drive her down, for she knows that she has got things her own way. Your hen that you are going to drive gener- ally cackles all the time you are trying to drive ber. It gives her courage, perhaps, to defy you. it ts like the music of a martial band when the troops are marching into battle. It is as in- spiring as the strains of “Yankee Doodle” to the hen’s ear, You try gentleness first. “Shoo, biddy! shoo, biddy! shoo there!” and she plunges off in the direction contrary to the one you wish her to go in; and then you draw off your forces and execute a flank movement, and “pen” her up, but presto! just as you think you bave got her, she squats and gives a scoot right out under your skirts, and away she goes free as air. Then you ce some corn and try to bribe her. Oh, no, she doesn’t want any corn, thank you. She ts above bribery. She doesn’t take apy stock in your “chicky! chicky! chicky!” de- Itvered in your most cajoling of voices. Still she cackles. All the roosters cackle, too, evi- dently tickled with her spunk. A few hens who are not curious join in. All the neighbors Will be looking out to see “what on earth are you paki them hens screech so for.” Your husband gets a pole and makes a dive for that hen. He’li fix her cackle for her, he Says; she’ll go into that hen-house or he’ll know the reason! And by the time he has chased her all over the premises, and torn his pants, and knocked Nece of skin off his hand, and run over Little rley, he does find out the reason. It ts be- cout abe 1s oe of eraind to go into that hen- jouse. And he says that hens area nuisance, and that he'll kill the whole of ’em, and he wishes there had never been one invented. By this time you are tired of his help, and you aeaueet him to go away and you'll drive that eD. ‘Then you begin, and the hen begins, too. She tiles over the fence, and up on a nelghbor’s woodshed, and down into somebody’s pig-pen, and the pig takes after her with a vim, and she Mies Out with a screech, and runs under the barn, and there she stays till night, and then if You will leave open your hen-house door she will find her way thither, as meek and innocent, looking as you please—for “chickens andcurses come home to roost.” a bs Lincoln in Richmond. {Gen. G. F. Shepley, in July Atlantic. } After his interview with Judge Campbell, the President being about to return to the Wabash, I took him and Admiral Porter in my carriage. AB immense concourse of colored le throng- ed the streets, accompanied and followed the carriage, calling upon the President with the wildest exclamations of gratitude and de- light. He was the Moses, the Messial to the slaves of the south. Hundreds of colored women their hands high in the alr, and thea bent down to the ground, weeping for joy. Some shouted sopgs of deliverance, and the old pianta- Uon refrains, which had prophesied the coming of a deliverer from bon “God bless you, Father Abraham!” went up from a thousai throats. Those only who have seen the parox- ysmal enthusiasm of a religious meeting of slaves can form any adequate conception of the way in which the tears and smmiles and shouts of these emancipated people evinced the frenzy Of their grat to their deliverer. He looked at it all attentively, with a face expressive only of @ sort of pathetic wonder. Occasionally its sadness would alternate with one of on the pro ori mor thos *rnoee nD great proportion of those wi color indicated a mixed lineage from the white master and the black slave; and that reminded him of some little story of his life In Kentucky, which he would smilingly tell; and then his face would relapse again tuto that sad expres- sion which all will remember who saw him during the last few weeks of the rebellion. Perhaps it was a presentiment of his impending fate. J accompanted him to the ship, bade him fare- well, and left him, to see his fase no more. Not long after the bullet of the assassin arrested the gS Of one of the kindest hearts that ever Unrobbed in human bosom. * Phil. Sheridan and the Planter. During the pursutt of Lee’s the north Bide of tne Appomatio with =. = oe or ine eels Sheridan, ever al nt, stopped at a farm house, near 8 dismounted, tied his horse, Planter—“Sir, as I can truly say that none booms noe Pecny By soe, X will pay 20; it, if Lhad seen any, I should feel {+ my duty’ to refuse to FeRy to Zour question. I cannot give you any mation w! might work to the disadvan- “fhe general, wih ttle whistie of a | Pigeon <5 his cigar,and continued to a few minutes he looked up again and asked: ~‘How far is it to Buffalo river?” Steridan—“The- “you dec How long ha you lived here?” Au Re Ee surprise, ‘study Pisneer— Tall my life.” Sheridan—‘" Well, sir, it’s time know! Captain, P it ‘hls leman Pohang in charge of a guard, and walk him down to Buffalo river f : F pee 4 miles of mud, look at the 1! With wi he was familiar. 5 E 3 6 +4 g & lottery. aimost tne tire male population had got S2"The New Haven Journal makes the curt- OLB Beement that a mortem in the case . Purdy, jr., Canaan, “Te Nealed ‘the tact Liat ‘his death was Caused bya broken neck, and that be had beea living in posa Patition tor some three Feans, a8 is Bup- which he is engaged (New York Times.} Painting and a are crimes that go band in hand. ae does not neces- brazenly haying “Plumbing, gas fitting, “and house-painting done here.” ‘Thus, while one partner paints the outside of the house the other plumbs its to- —— and ———. the ceo e ruin of the use owner complet ‘The painter resembles the plumber in his Ceep-rovied un’ to keep his agree- ments, One of his chief objects in life is to put off the hour of painting until the house- owner's patience is completely exhausted, and Lis consequent indignation deprives him of that Mental equanimity nece-sary for a successful contest with the painter's wiles. There was, probably, never an instance of a painter wao painted a housé on the day when he had prom- ised Lo paintit. He never makes less than three postpoLements. His excuse for the first of these is Lat he 1s out of white-lead or turpentine, and has been unable to procure them. Thesecond pos! ponement 1s made because the painter Bro- Tesses to foresee a con-ing shower of rain—which reiuses to come with as much obstinacy as if 1t bad been prophesied by Prof. Vennor—and for the painter's unird failure to ap; on the promised day he pleads either an attack of ill- neSS OF the failure of his assistant to provide him with ladders. By this time the house-owner has become so indignant that, when the painter actually ar- rives, the latter finds 1t comparatively easy to overthrow the arguments of the former tn favor ofaby cular color. It {sa point of honor with the painters never to let a man have his own choice as to the color with which nis heuse shall be painted. The house-owner and ns wife may have given much time to the selection of a ice color for the house and a suitable shade for the trimmings, but when he lays the two unts before the painter the latter tnvari- ably replies, “O, them colors won't’ do at ail, Sir.” In vain does the unhappy man insist that he Mkes them, and that, therefore, they will and must “do;”*the painter bends a pitying glance upon him and asserts that he has Do idea how the two tints in questien will Icok when laid on the house. In most cases his obstinacy Overrules the house-owner, and the latter ts compelled to consent to having his house painted with colors which he privately thinks detestable. Sometimes, however, the painter pretends to acquiesce in his victim's views, and the latter flatters himselt Uthat he has gained a victory. He soon finds Out, When it is too late, that no painter ever yet consented to adopt colors which he him- Self had not selected. ‘The house-owner may have supposed that his house was to painted a delicate cream-color, but he will Mind that it has been painted Indian red, and that the painter insists that he has strictly followed his tustructions, although, as he pre- tends, it ts just possible that the Unt has been mixed a trifle too warm. What can the help- less man whose house has been thus unlaw- fully painted red do with the wretch who calmly insists that Indian red 1s really a delt- cate creain-color, rendered a trille too warm in the mixing? He may kill the painter, but the unjust laws of the country will punish him, or he Ibay at vast expense hire another painter, and bave his house repainted, with results as upsatisfactery as those which attended his rst effort. If he is a wise man, he simply submits tothe inevitable, and recognizes the fact that no man can have his house painted to Suit himseif. There is a worthy gentleman re- siding in a New-Jersey suburban town who for twenty years has been trying to have his house painted a particular shade of brown. During that time he has employed four differ- ent painters, and has had his house painted successively yellow, red, green, and orange, but never once has he been able’ by tureats oF entreaties to induce pine to use the brown paint for which he sig’ It 1s, of course, possible for a man to buy his own paint, thus’ procuring the precise shade which he desires, and theu to hire a painter to it on the house. This experiment has ‘n tried, but Ho man, having once tried it, ever tries if again; such a method of painting a house should not be attempted by any one whose tucome ts less than $15,000 a year. The amcunt Of paint, turpentine, and brushes that the painter uses will be found to cost rather more than the house. No matter if the paint merchant has made a careful calculation of the quantity of paint that will be sufficient to cover the house, the painter will demand at least three times that amount, and will then ruin his cuore in vurpentine and brushes. Moreover, the amount of paint which the painter, who js hired by the job, contrives to Splll on every available spot of surface where paint is not desired is enormous. He never Tails to upset at least two well-filled paint- pots, and always selects the worst possible lo- calities for the performance of this feat. If we add to this the number of paues of glass which the painter knocks out with the end of his lad- der, and the blinds that he breaks with the same ellective Instrument, it will be found, on the whole, cheaper to set the house on’ tire than to Lire a painter te paint it with colors Se’ect« d and furnished by the house-owner. In any event, the painter, when he comes to hake out his bill displays an amount of un- blushing wickedness which the Pore alone can rival. He charges for his paints, brushes, and turpentine, for his time, and for “the job. He never takes Jess than twice the time to paint a hcuse which he originally said would be sufficient, and if he is lucky enough to be able to pretend that a sudden shower has Spoiled the paint which he had just laid on, he can proceed to paint the house “ail over again. As between the painter and the plumber there 13 little to choose, ‘The latter 1s, perhaps, a it~ Ue the bolder of the two, but the former ac- cemplishes his criminal purpose with at least equal success. A Blighted Being. ‘The theatrical super isa person whom the Careless playgoer 1s very apt to with in- difference. The historic importance of the parts which he is constantly summoned to as- Sume has somehow failed to win for this unfor- tunate performer the fame which would seem to be bis desert. He 1s at one moment a knight in armor, at another the favorite of a king, and yetthe Illusion of the stage oe to the raise him to the dignity of his lion. How- ever worthily he may bear a banner or wave a Sword, the secret of his identity isstill studious- ly withheld from the public; and if the Pplece in proves a failure the pular derision not unseldom lights is wholly innocent contribution to pe Ogees een Indeed, 1 18 NOL altogether neglected, he is very Ukely to be treated with ridicule and contempt. His Dame never finds its way on to any play bill, and his individuality is merged in a motley crowd of “courtiers, officers of the guard and attendants.” If his armor is not Spero iit, there is always some wag in the fe lery ready to apnounce the fact to the audience; if his Sword, as will sometimes happen even in the best regulated army, mes ent led In his legs, the incident 1s with of laughter, and the unfortunate culprit 1s hooted off the stage, only to receive the curses of the hero, whose stately exit has beer. unluckily in- force of upon terrupted. It is somewhat surprising that, amid the many reforms of the modern Slage, the cli of the super still remain unr The constant pro- tests against what is known as the “star” Bsn mole peed taken account of the ‘super’s modest and necessary exertions; and even the vaunted regime of the Comedie Pram caise does not afford a means of bringing the exercise of lis talents directly to the nou the world. It would be scarcely wonderful if ae and Lelong oe pe ae the ni position. The titles and oe 80 freely lavished upon him, and even the splendid raiment in which he is clothed, can only serve to re-enforce the con- viction of his own personal obscurity. Bitterly resenting the unmerited neglect he 1s fated to endure, the super must doubtless secrete in the course of a long career some trenchant and po! would form @ very int dramatic literature. The pub! document could not but serve to lessen the pre- and it may be doubted whether even theo fons of a valet de chambre would more eftec_ Uvely undermine the foundations of an actor's glory.—Saturday Revier, A Mariner’s Description of a Piano. A sea captain, who was asked by his 1 well driven home, rail over all, 6 feet 2 inches. ith of 38. es; depth of hold 14 tnches, ht draft makes the craft eq in high C’s or low flats, two martingales, for light airs and zephyr winds, and one for stro! and or can be chewed up, on oes act home for a first-class tal failed the craft a little, and 5 it board side better than the Pc mers had laughter of the gods, divine! vinely fair.” But it is great! to the credit of ‘the morality of Hindustan and the moral gran4- eur of the poem that Sita, the wife of Ramaand berotne of the Ramayuna, was not a wanton like the Homeric Helen, but a faithful wife and pure-minded woman, who alike the Unreats and Dlandishments of her abiuctor, and returned such to her husband, when the rock- ritbed ramparts of Lanca had fallen before his terrible enginery. Lanca, the Hindu Troy, was on the Island of Ceylon; and the natural scen- ery around that island and the neignboring | Continent gave the Hindu poet opportunities | for description not less magnificent than those of Homer. It is, pone worth while to mention that the earliest recorded statement of the ordeal by fire, familiar enough to us in the history of the Middle and Dark Ages of Europe, is to be found in the Ramayuna. The ordeal was undergone by Sita, after her deliverance and return to her husband, to prove her innocence of any compll- city with the tyrant Ravan in the affair of her atduction. Later than Valmika, yet still apparently much anterior to Homer, another great Epic Poet of Hincustan, Vyasa, a worthy disciple and suc- cessor of Valmika, wrote the Mahabharata, or Story ef the Great War.g@The war referred to was the contest, memorsble in Hindu history, beiween the Pandu andthe Kuru princes, ri- ‘al aud nearly related families of the so-called Lunar Race, for the possession of the imperial crown of Hindustan, which seems to have oc- curred about thirteen centuries before the Christian era, and consequently some time be- re the Trojan war. It was the epoch of the appearance of the hero Chrishna, the eighth avatar or incarnation of Vishnu, who, in his human form, eae actively in the war as the champion of the Pandus, and whose exploits more than rival those of Achilles before Troy. The war is stated to have culminated in a tre- mendous battle of eighteen days’ duration on the plains of Agra, and to have resulted in the almost total extermination of one party, and ultimately in the voluntary withdrawal of the other from the country. The poem of the Mahabharata 1s nearly as long a8 Milton’s Paradise Lost. Like the Ra- mayuna, it is not, in all respects, consistent with our canons of literary taste. Yet it is a wonderful poem, in which the manners and customs of the time are as vividly delineated as ure those of the heroic ages of Greece in the pages of Homer; and beautiful episodes of deeds of love and war alternate with profound spec- ulations on the problems of philosophy and re- ion. ‘To make the parallel with Homer and Milton complete there is a tradition, apparently as un- supported by testimony as in the case of the Greek poet, that Vyasa became blind In his old age. The remarkable similarity between the Ho- meric legends and the poems of the Ramayuna and Mababharata, together with some other curious coincidences between early Greece and Hindustan. has given occasion for a theory that the heroes of the Trojan war, and Troy itself, Were but figments of Homer’s brain; and that lis poems Were but the echoes of events of ear- lier date and far distant regions, the memories of which had been brought westward by the self-exiled heroes of the Great War. But this theory, like many others, not utterly devoid of foundation, has been very substantially refuted by the discoveries of Schliemann on the hill of Hissirlik, and the unvetiizg to the light of day of the lopg-buried city of Hector and Priam. ‘The similarity 1s, in all probability, mainly due to the sameness of human thought in all ages and all nations, Shopping. [Chicago Alliance. ] Shopping is the art of wearying one’s self in the attempt to find out what one does not want. The pleasant fiction obtainsin certain fashionable circles that shopping 1s the labor attendant upon providing the children and madam with clot and the house with furn- ishings. But no gentleman who has escorted a lady or two through a four-hour shoppin; tour and at the end carried as the net six towels, a few handkerchiefs, a ribbon or two and forty-three dress patterns, -vill dare or care to maintain that Shopping is business. It is a woman’s pastime. Itis to her what a shcoting match or a fis) excursion 1s to the average man. Hedoes not hit the bull’s eye, or catch the big fish, to any great extent, but he bas the tramp, he gets tired and secures a good appetite for his dinner. In both cases, it not the result, but the pursuit that pleasss. How much fun there is in ranging through a score of shops, and pricing things that she has nO intention of buying, in hunt! for bar- ains that are never accepted when found, and Cdn Bt ee eaten hel clothe fat in “purple ard fine linen,” at the cost of ging- + ham and calico, no man ever has orl, com- rehend. A man is a nuisance to a shopping lady, ard shopping is a nuisance to a man. Where the fun comes in he fails to understand. When he has occasion to buy anything, he rushes into a store, asks for what he wants, in- quires the price—to show that he is wide- awake—“Do it up,” ‘ao the money, and is gone. She asks for the goods, feels of them in a knowing way, asks the jae twice, the sec- ond time as though she felt sure she had mis- understood the first time, and immediately b> comes convinced she can do better elsewhere, or begins to doubt whether it is what she wants. She rushes wildly into the next store, Prices the same goods and finds them higher, goes to store after store; leoking at other Ubings that she thinks that she may sometime Want, gets led off on false scents, and comes back to the first store, to find that all the goods She looked at in the morning are sold, and finally goes home witha few patternsand a pever of pins, without the moots: she came out the morning fully intending to buy, Mountain Railroads, ‘The first railroad train reached the summit of Mount Vesuvius last Sunday, according to the cable, and so another one 1s added to the very Small and very modern list of mountain rati- roads. The one up Mont Cenis was completed in 1868, and upon it the traction of the engine ‘was secured by two wheels acting horizontally under heavy pressure against a middie rail. In the railroad up Mount Washington, New Hamp- a the traction Is effected by a cogged wheel working ina cogged rail. The Mount Rigi rail- way, in Switzerland, is on the same plan. It Was opened for traffic in 1873, or some four Years after Its pattern. Now coiaes the Mount Vesuvius _rail in which old plans are abandoned, and the cars are simply pulled 68 feet in 100, and 100, by sheer si ch of & stationary engine, just_ as the cars are raised to the top of Mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and to the top of the Inclined planes on the “switch- back” railroads of Pennsylvania. The Vesu- Vian railroad would, doubtless, have been sooner built if engineers had not deemed it almost ian- sible to secure the rails to soll of so crumb- a nature on so steep a grade. thick platform of wood, not unlike a gigantic Taft, 18 laid over the whole road-bed, and the rails are thus cleared of the shifting cinders, java and detritus which makes up the cone. ‘The station ts twenty-one feet under the lava, and it is thought that in case of eruption (the last was in 1876) the destruction of the would not ne Heretofore to visit the voleano from Naples has cost some seven hours, much fatigue, and about $5 for each person; now the ascent of the cone, the worst of the journey, requires only eight min- utes. The height reac! (Gord railroad, some int reached by any railway is 16,646 feet, onkhe. Andes road. Official Snobbery. ‘The death of General James L. Mitchell, chief Proprietor of the Hotel Brunswick, in New York, e most een episode in his career. In 1860 General Mitchell was the proprietor of Congres Hall, in Albany, and was gparter: master general on the staff of Governor organ. In the of that Sera Ge ee ‘ales stay summer visited the United States, and di in Albany he stopped at Congress The ‘Casa Del. Centenario” the Largest Hitherto Discovered. The Nae correspondent of the Daily News writes: ““lhe house which was to be celebration of the centenary of Pompeti, and ia, therefore calied ‘Casa de! Cen tenaito,’ and from which I then sav etons dug out, has proved to be hitherto discovered, and is of peculiar tn’ It contains two atria, two trichnia, four ale or oa @ calidarium, jor. to be excavated. The vest decorated, and its mosaic pavement hoo the figure of a dolp! Tse. is adorned with smail theatrical scenes, the pave- ment 1s sunk and broken, as if by an quake, and there is a hole through waich che sees the cellar. The second atrium is very spacious, with a handsome perisyil umns—white and red stucco—veing twenty-six {n number. In the center is a large marble Dasin, Within the edge of which runs a narrow step. The most interesting place in the house ts an inner court or room, on one side of which fs the niche, with tiny marble steps, often to be seen in Pompeian houses. ‘Lhe irescoes on the walls are very beautiful. Close to the floor runs a wreath of leaves about & quarter of a yard wide, with alternately a vard and a stork. Above it, about a yard dis- tant droop, as if from over a wall, large branches ot vine or ivy and broad leaves like those of the tger-lilly—all very freely, naturally, and gracefully drawn. At each ‘corner of’ the rocm a bird clings to one of these brenches, Then comes a space—bordered at the top by another row of leaves—in Which is represented a whole aquarium, as it the room were Mned with tauks. ‘I'here are dif- ferent sorts of shells and aquatic _planis lying at the Lottom of the water, and swimming inor on it all kinds of fish, jelly fish, seplas, ducks. and swans, admirably sketched with a light yet firm touch. ‘The ripples made by the swimming ducks are indicated, and one duck ts just flying Into the water with’ a splash. On each side of the niche this amusing aquarium is enlivened by a special Incident. “To the left a large octo- pus has caught a monstrous munena (lamp- rey)—which turns round to bite—in its tenta- cles; to the right a fine lobster has plerced enoiher murana through and through with its jong, herd feelers, or horns. These creatures are painted in the natural colors very truth- Tully. On the left wall of the room, above the fishes, are two sphinxes, supporting on their heads square marble vases, on the brim of each of which sits a dove. Behind the niche, and on the left side of the Toom. runs a little gallery with a corridor under- Death, lighted by small square holes 1a the border of ee branches. The wall of this gallery behind the niche 1s decorated with a Woodland landscape, in which, on one side, is represented a bull running frantically away With a lion clinging to its haunches; on the other, a horse lying struggling on its back, attacked by a leopard: all nearly the size of lite. On each side of the doorway is Painted, Tespectively, a graceful doe and a bear. ‘The other rooms are also very beautiful; one with a splendidly elegant design on a black ground; in another a smali fresco representing a man pouring wine out of an amphora into a large vessel." The bath-rooms are large and elegant, the cold bath spacious and of marble, Jn one room a corner is dedicated to the /ares and penates, and in the fresco decoration, snore the usual serpents, &c., I noticed the singular figure of a Bacchus or bacchante, en- tely clothed with large grapes. In one of the mosaic pavements 1s a head of Medusa, the colors very bright and well preserved. Assome 1 the rooms are only excavated to within two or three feet of the floor, it is ble that many valuable ornaments or statuettes may. yet be lound, a8 everything indicates that this splendid house belonged to some rich citizen.” The Frequency of Divorce. {8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. | It is our favorite boast that we live in an age of progress. We claim, with great ©=lf-com- placency, that we are marching onwa-d more rapicly towards that ultimate perfection which humanity is supposed to-be capable of emai g than any previous generation that ever liv It cannot be denied that in the material world our oLward strides are prodigious. Never be- fore has the world’s population achieved such a mastery Over nature. Its forces are harnessed in the service of man, and are doing duty in the removal of obstacles which it has placed in the wey at his supplying his wants. But in the midst of this wonderful material of eres, when we turn to the ethical side of the ac- count, we not unfrequently encounter sume ugly facts which lead us to question how far our assumed advance tov: and purer earthly life is real, In an article in the North American Review on “Divorces in New England,” Dr. Nathan Allen presents Statistics which show that during the it ten years the ratio of divorces to ee has The statistics been steadily on the increase. are necessi imperfect, but are sufficiently accurate to make certain the fact that, taking the New England states together, the 'propor- Uon of divorces to marriages ts almost twice as reat as ten years ago. There is good reazon to eve that at least an equal increase in the frequency of divorce would be shown to have cecurred in the whole country were similar Statistics attainable in tne other states; and although there are various causes which may yartially account for it, still it must be accepted 85 @ proof that there is something in our mod- pe fe nie ee ne and poet more and more incapable of ving together happily in the married state. With a liberal allow. ance for the effects of addi grounds of Giverce which have been incorporated in the awe the unwelcome truth remains that our society 1s graduaily producing a greater pro- portion of men DAL to be Husbands and a greater Lon poke of women unfit to be wives. The social ition of divorced ns 1s not reported, but if it were, there is little doubt but that most of them will be found to have be- longed to the so-called better classes, They Who labor for their bread are seldom iroubled with domestic unhappiness. ‘They in mar- ried life with at least a large appreci: luent, and here must be sought the causes which lle at the bot- tom of our domestic degeneracy. Chief amo them is the faulty training of our boys and girls. Parents and children are alike ambitious, and the result is that the education of our youth is made to subserve the single aim of getting ahead in Bo! taught those jlory of manhood. Their intellect is crowded & its utmost Umit, and with the stock of knowledge which they are able to acquire from the schools, they are expected to be sharp enough their own interests. There is tend to the domestic side of they are pushed into an ability to cope with the world, ‘without ever cog J taught ae all-im- Portant truth that upon them devolves the so- Hous duty of fashioning the world. As men they are averse to self sacrifice, and their selfish natures yield only to extreme necessity. To aon 1soarrisge crores me eee instead of a lappiness, abd where both parties are equally sel the restraint Lecomes intolerable. A life of pleasurabte self-sacrifice is something which they require to be taught, and which they often refuse to learn. They’ have never bestowed a thought on how to é themselves ood husbands and fathers, and often decline to “ut th veal th f girls is still jut the education o! ‘Still more defec- tive. Although woman has by far the r share in Kebeghey Srv Shaping domestic life,girls = Regio) ow = to take no lot or part ie average expects to marry. that end she is So eeht the accom- Legere which make her most attractive to e susceptible sterner sex, and her intellectual faculties are cultivated to le Enotes existence aj Ww ley eventually expect enter; and the example of home is systematical- ly disr often 8 pee ane ne fe etn aoe reeul ig not pleasant to contemplate what ti secteur work of 31 screws a minute, although only experimental as yet, 93 Catered] has been the regular work ne, Buckle’s Li the Greatest Writers (Life and Writings of Thos. Henry Buckle.) caches = me od oer - pe the few portant Ww: wo produ whose works, from the amount of vt they contain, mark an epoch in the history of the human mind. Such a list will be extremely short, and I shall make it shorter by striking out of It the great physical and ma- | thematical works, because th are so cumulative that the latest works are usually the best. With this reservation I wil now mention what I think the most ria bt and original writers. Homer, Plato, Aristot e (the Roroans produced nothing original exce;t | their jurisprudence—their philosophy they sto Irom the Greeks and spotied 1% in the stealing), Dante, Shakespeare, Bacon, 1 es, Hobbes, Gretius, Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Brown “On Causes and Effects,” Hegel, Comte’s ‘+ Philos- 0; hie Positive,” MIDs Lagi,” Sanit “Wealth of Nations,” Malthus “On ‘eee Ricardo’s “Political Ecooomy.” And for the study of human nature the three test modern works of fiction are “Don Quixote,” “The Pilgrim's Progress” and Goethe's “ Faust.” Possibiy 1 have omitted something: but these, I believe, are the whole of the masterpieces. Virgil and Milton 1 omit, because, greatly as I admire them (especially Milton), 1 cannot place them in the same rank Homer, te and Shakespeare. as BOOKS, &c. NEW Books ror SUMMER READ. Mrs. Austin— Harper's Half-hour Series Second Thoughts, | vol. 2—Appletons Hi ‘olume Series. Nicol's Huth’s Life and Writings Outlying Europe and the nearer Orient ‘A fine lot of Stationery at Lan Bel 1 eae, MORmIION., . 475 Pa. Je10 ave. n.w. L4 a 1 Lied rs METROPOLITAN BOOK my22 911 Pennsylvania = NEW EDITION LIPPINOOT?’S PRONOUNOING GAZETTEER oF THE WORLD. Just published and for sale by FRANCIS B. MOHUN, Bvocessons To Monum Baos., myl 2OLS Pa. ave., cor. 11th st. 21S5T- PorvuLaB MonTHLY DRawixG OF THE Commonwealth Distribution Co., AT MACAULEY'S THEATER, In the City of Louisville, on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1880. THESE WIN AUTHOR! BY THE LEGISLATURE AND BUSTATNED BY ALL THE gccui om the LAST DAY OF EVERY NTH, ani 78 @3 rr 0} for the iz of FIVE 30, ‘The United States Circuit Court on March 81 ren- Gered the following decisions : Ast—That the Commonwealth Distri- bution Company is legal. 2d—Its drawings are not fraudulent. ‘The management call attention to the libera scheme which has heretof met with such popular favor fore, and which will again be présented forthe RA WING, 810002810, 000 20 do., 60 each.10,000 600 do., 20 each.12,000 1,000 do., 10each.10,000 55 Money Order, Express. To delays, corres- ite their names and places of residen nuniber of Post Office box or 8t , County and State. All comm munications connected with the Distribu- tion and Orders for Tickets should be addressed, £0 B._M, BOARDMAN, Courier-Journal Building, York ors. W: CLABK, 1703. NY ave, und ua Penn. ave. LUMBER! OUB PRICE List. WE ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST. No. 1 BOAEDS, all 16 feet long. .per 100 fest, $1.25 VIRGINIA FLOORING, No. HEADED PALINGS, # ft. long........per 100, 1.50 SQUARED POSTS, 65 ft. long (best)......each, 800. BAILS, 2x3, 16 feet.. seecese-O80R, 100. GET OUE BID ON YOUR LUMEEB!!! WE ARE NEVER BEATEN!!! WILLET & LIBBEY, OOR. 6TH STREET AND NEW YORK AVE ap2t EBRRA COTTA WINDOW CAPS, ‘ACTUBED FEOM THE FINEST OLAYS. VERY ORNAMENTAL, of and ae ‘and tn imitation of all kinds ef stone, just ‘For sale ats heavy discount from former prices. TERRA OOTTA VASES, SEWER PIFB. STOVE CROOKS, &c., BOOTS AND SHOES. i desire to save piaits ances eerero ere era) ot ne!) sn alert margin Tean'to carsy them © a paler’ S-etrap naudale only Tho. Ladies’ Bevscrts and Low Butt. Bhoes, only T5c. c % Newports and Low Butt. Shoee, $1, $1.25, Taties al testher Kid ana Debbie Butt. Shoes, only d and Pebble Butt. Ehoes, only #1. ladies’ ine Kid worked Button-hole, $2and @2.50. Ladies’ fine French Kid Button Shoes, only $3. es’ Foxea Butt., from 81 to 83. Ladies’ Foxed Lace Gaiters, 750. to 82 Ladies’ Rerve lace Gaiters’ 7: Ladies’ Serve Butt , $1 25 to #2. adies' Berge Consteas : 750. ines 8nd Children’s Shoes from 250. Men's good Low Shoes, 5 Men's Calf Boote, 81.50 Boy's rood Lace ? boes 850. Boy's goed Gal 5 And other gcods too Bumerous to mention. All we i ook pen inapertion Of our goods. | Polite attention Os th st chee Tae ists, ‘an Branch Store 140 Bridge st , Georgetown. Counin's Fine Shoes a speci JelT-2w 1° REDUCE sTocK, ‘We will offer the balance of our $4 a pair. ‘Men's thoes from #1. A large lot of Ladies’ Foxed Buttoa Ladies’ New from €1 to 83 to 86.50 a pair. Cloth and Bete Top Kid Boots at $2, formerly @2.00 a pair, pees Ratton ‘Ties and Sandal Slippers W. 8. BICH, jel 717 Market Space. WME ONE AND ALL: Parente are respectfully invited to buy their EXAMINATION SHOES, Which contain Sand Slippers, Newport, Lace sud Button, Hich and Tow, front Be. ren, at the GREAT BOSTON BHOE AUCTION HOUSE, 491 Pennsylvania Avenue, (Sign of the Red Flag.) THE LEADING SHOE oe IN THE Dis- Cheaper Thar Ever! Read These Pri ‘One of our specialties are Ladies’ “A 25 cts. Ladies’ Eid Shoe, from @1 up to @5. 100 pairs Men's {Gonereee low quarter Oak jr w{t0 pairs Hebe Cat Low Quarters, only @1.50 pairs Men's Calf Low y 81.50. HE only 81.75. 10 pairs Men's Calf 100 pais "Gai . with ti ot. : aa heey ters or Lace, ips, 85 dow Quarters, SPECIALTIES D pail Children's Shoes, 15 cents a pair, or ‘two pairs for 25 cents. Men'r Base Ball Shoes can be found at GKEAT BOBTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, vynia Avenue, 316 LEOPOLD HICHOLD, Proprietor. REPARED TO SUPPLY EVERY CHILD IN THE DI: TRICT EXAMINATION SHUES AND an Child's 6 to 10 Sandale, 50c. 0 Child’s 6 to Misses’ mp. meee Boots for Children, Misses’, TLaales and fan Infante, $120 to Lnaice’ fasidale and Nowports, 760 Boys’ Low Shoes, large variety. Wm. HAHN 516 7th st. and 1022 Penna. ave., sel6-3t Bien of “Red Slipper.” NEW Youk sHox sTonx, 605 Pennsylvania Avenue, NI -FITTY iH AXD SOLD ANYW! Ladice' Newport Ties, from $1 to 82.50. Ladies: Strap Slippers, $1 to 83. HU S-rtrap Bor 25. See Binet ‘and Ties. and Gaiters, $1.25 to Boye’ and Scuths' Shoes sad ee WE GUARANTEE OUR PRI . WE GUARANTEN OUR GOODS THE DEST 8-Ore rice. dT GEO. McCARTHY. EDUCATIONAL, aa z eacl ‘OBGAN oJ. Yoon mists” 3 be eee es enchares” Terme moderate hs Het eet my28-1m* SW. FLYNG, a. Evening, t woz 88 i Preparation for oliege, eat ‘Point, Anuapoli and ail competitive examninations. 1 Fivatelessons 4 M., Principal. PROFESSIONAL. B. T. M. TALBOTT, Darrimr, No. 443 7th at., Die eo its = insert ed 87 per set. All work warranted FUL FEET, &c.—Thousands visit DB. Uitte rat toes catarlinenee Gage re: = Hotel. oe est edica!, Judicial and political dignitaries of this country ‘aud tatives of leading forei«n le a oe bun- ailments of the test. “Office fee 81. my35- i. JOHNSTON. Dentist, od Graduate Flog» trecaly te Dr. Domer and others. i “my7" lite Dr John i Darl, of 1257 Dr. 0.3" WATERS Tormeris ot preoe) a ‘ot fully solicited. E- BORN, DDentiag, removed to Dine cecuLor inserted 10 end all Bataral Tosti at reasonable prow Bet tracting, 50 centr. f 8 4 H é fi i door. a of this B. DUI SPORTING GOODS. wrt tt 0? RAZ ORI Ws be excelled for taking s keen gase."—G. Vinton and it."—Aug. P. Warrin. RAZOR eee betel Ra’ 3 Will evllt s hair-or shaves fae x ea =| thespian HEADQUARTERS FOR THE ee ‘for yo, ine SSS