Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-10-17

a. LARGEST DAILY. TR1-wEEKIY, AND WEEKLY
CIRCULATION, OF ANY PAPER IN WHEELING.
WE read in one of our exchanges, that
proposition is being entertained in certain quar-
tiers, to hold school five days aud half during the
week-that is, that Saturday the immemoriaI
holiday of the boys, is to be cut up and part of
it putinto the school days. On behalf of the
three or four hundred boys which we see play
ing about our public schools daily, and bifurca-
ted juvenility id general, wehold up our hands
in holy horrorat this proposed Infringement
The boys have not an hour more of holiday now
than they ought to have, and to undertake to
deprive them of Saturday would result in
small rebellion. After plodding over a dull
book for six hours amid the monotony of
school room, boys eyes grow dim, his
mind becomes confused, he Hoses application,
and were it not for the visions of pleasure and
hopes to be realized on the Saturday to come,
he would turn into dundcrpate and drone.
It's as much as a man wants to do, to study six
hours day after day, and to require a specimen
of our young America, full Of animal enerRv.
IN nerfor,n Tho laoor and cheat
MIN Of his Saturdays besides, is little too
hard Not long since, in making an examines
ton OF new school building, and observing
some stationary ink stands with fauciful move.
able tops, we were told by the teacher that they
were intended for the boys to move to and fro,
operating escape pipes to let off supera>
bundance of animal spirits, and thus avoid fit
full explosions during school hours. With only
six hours to study and glorious Saturday all
to himself, to use as he sees fit, and no fear Of
seeing cts for the same, boy can resist tho
natural impulse to kick, turn, jump, talk, yell,
and tumble about, even without the aid of a
toy; but keep his head down to the mental
grindstone, and steal away his Saturdays, to
which he looks forward as a prisoner 20 a re
prieve, and there is no motive to study, for his
study gives him nOthing-alI is blank and use.
less, "stale, fat and Improbable" Instead OIL
studying, his ingenuity is busted with devising
ways to escape it. Instead Of going to school,
when he starts in the morning, he runs off to
the woods, or idles through the streets forming
evil associations and consequent bad habits.
School hours, in our opinion, are too long now,
and it would be the worst of policy to lengthen
them. Let the boys have Saturday, and as
much of every other day as possible, and they
will give US better men and ripper scholars in the
end.
Az English paper says that valuable dis>
covery has been made by French peasant in
the culture of hops. 1t consists in making the
plant run in horizontal direction instead of
climbing up pole, and this is managed by
means ola low trelIis work of the simplest con-
structon. Numerous advantages are named
which will result from this change in the cult,
walton of hops-all of which can DO readily
apprehended; but the new process can by no
means be relied on as an Improvement Some
years ago we experimental with very thrifty
hop vine. For some years it had chung to a polo
and yielded most unaccountable quantity of
hops As the vine began to shoot forth the
season in question, we spread net work over
ayard some fifty feet in length, and the vine
left the polo and followed the cord It grew
astonshingly. In single night we frequently
noticed that foot of cord had been spanned by
the vine. But finally it grew out The dis
lance from the root to the farthest shoot was
perhaps forty feet. There were few hops on
the vine, and the following year there was no
vine to be seen. The experiment had exhaust
ed all its vitality. We came to the conclusion
that bop vines had to be poled and that you
might just as well attempt to raise first class
lima beans on the ground as to raise hops by
running the vines in horizantal direction.
esaDss--
TuE two months campaign in Italy can scare
ly be said to have been a cheap amusement for
any of the parties concerned. The 4Ugemeine
Zsitung figures up the cost to the immediate
parties to the war, and also to the neutral Pow
crs who were required to make preparations for
contingencies, in the following table:
austria ego ,O0O,0OU
200 $1,000
6ieumont: 40O0,0Rn
Othec Italian states SnO,ONO
EoSStA.: 100000
6nRlanu..... $4,000
6120,OOO
e5l600000
This makes the snug little aggregate of $780,
oooooo-or nearly one-third of the who'd ma
tlonal debt Of England.
soAE of the passengers who arrived in Boston
on the steamer Canada last week report that
itis-not probable the Great Eastern will DO in