The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.

~ push cQuufen 1orWarQ thclr btuuloS
my regard to their health. Five or Six ycars, hod
asserts, arc not too much to teach child 10 road
spell AMI write well. llo adds 'Thoro is, indeed,
among ail classes, disposition to cram, and my
one Attending tho examination of village school
cannot but feel tho nbsurdty OF tho questions put.
Subjects arc learned by rote, to DO forgotten as
soon ms the examinations arc over; and tho manner
In which tho ohildron road shows how utterly in--
cffcient tho teaching has boon. According to tho |
ystem aL present followed, it in impossible Tor nn
ordinary child read dccently thoy hayo no timo to
learn. There is class, and oach child Inns to read
sentence: this III repeated in nasal sing |
tone, without any infection of yoico or
proper emphasis whom the book is passed. to tho
Inst child it back TO tho hrst until tho les
son IL oyor How can there DO amy interest or
cmulalion2 Even tho sense must DO lost Chill
dren attond school from nino i'll tho morning till
twelve, md thcy return again at two till four.
These are too many hours for any child TO be sit
ting STILL porng over LESSONS. Threo hours day
Is as mnch ~ child can apply, allowing for in
tervals for It cannot DO supposod that three hours
continuous ntudy can DO good for any Child under
ten years old. II q different system wero cstab-
lishod, thcro cannot DO o doubt that moro real
learning might bc impaired, aud great deal OF
practical information acquired besides Suppose
reading writing and arithmetic wcro only taught
to children up to ten years DID, nll Tho day nood
not DO spent i'll thcso; and If arrangements wero
mado to occupy tho childron in succession in some
active employment, by which their intollects
| might bo sharpenod and kept alivo thero cnn DO
| no doubt that vast Improvement would bo aPpa-
rent.
| GOOD IDEA in tho way of cooperation is sug-
gestcd by correspondent OF tho London 4eie-
| 9rupi,. The writer is Il city clork. Complaining
/ of tho exorbtanf priooo charged in eating houses
NJ present, he says: snow, tho rcmefly IL in our
| own hands, und there is reason why city clerks
4 anl others who fool tho necessity Of tho stop
should not establish dining hall on the principle
Of tho various cooperative societies, at present so
| lucrative and conducive to personal comfort"
London Ia not singular in respect Of extrava-
CANT chnrgos by restauraieurs, OF in the
| necessity that n largo number OF hor cti-
| zons aro under OF obtaining ut least one
| ono meal por day at n public eating house..
| Thousands of young III New York engaged
in counting houses aud offices Obliged to tako
a midday repast at such places, and their appc-
tites arc frequently lively than their purses
can wol nfford 10 satisfy, Mt tho prices asked in
| decent establishments. Consequently they arc
forced 10 bo abstcmious, to resort to tho chcap
md nasty" sort Of dining saloons, whero the food
is unccan and unwholesomo. An eating-house
of these clerks, might provo successful expert
mont in moro than one sonso; for, besides its
economy md tho hygonio advantages Of good food
and ccan cooking, Buch n systom might tond in
the end to reduce tho prices of tho restaurants
generally as well as to improve tho manner and
matter Of their culinary productions
A CURIOUS CALCULATION hns boon entered into
by an English paper to tho cost of the battlo o
| So5ova thott ia npipra1p,Na n form N which
it puts the oxponses which various powers hnre
been led to undertake, by tho adoption Of new
arms. remodc!ing Of armios (includiDg loss o
labor, &c.,, which, altogether, make rather q for
midablc sum total. It lcaves out Prussia as She
was, with eighteen millions Of inhabitants, and
counta tho added twolro millions only, together
with Austria. Russia is omitted, too brcause hel
military reforms nre kept in tho dark. And Italy
is not counted because sho alone seems not tc
have increased her army But France, whore the
moral effect Of KoNIodRATz was tho most marked
Germany toxcopting, as above, original Prussa)
Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark nnt
Sweden whose war budgets are all largely increas
!, cd these countries have, since August, 1865
spont outright 49, 900 pounds sterling, and in
, Cured IN additional annual outlay OF 6,05s O0
pounds. Adding to this annually SO, ,95o, 900 days
This is the tangible, caculabiS loss but when W,
take into account tho paralysis OF industry ant
trade from tho fear Of coming war; tho cost OF that
one days battlo-or, if you insist upon it, of that
soVen Week' campaign-is really appalling in its
magnitude.
SINCE THE YEAR 1913 no hard coin whsteyer has
really been current in Austria, and tho general
circulation OF bank notes. which arc at present at
dlscount.of twenty-fonr per cent, will probably
continue for good many years, but tho currency
Is nominally silver. The currency in Italy, Bel
gum. aud Switzerland, is already identical with
lhat oil FRANCO, and Ronmania has also adopted
'ho sano syston', 30 that whom Tho proposed meas
nro is carried out, it will embrace almost tho
whole OF sonthorn Europe, from tho Bay OF Biscay
10 tbs Black Sea. Tho coinage of Austria is at
last nbont to be civilized. A coinage treaty bo-
tweon France and Austria was concluded at Paris
| on tho Slst of July by the two Observation-Disclosures
hlAl PAnIEu and HocH. According to this trcaty
Austra will issue gold coin OF tho value OF s
francs equal to Austrian florins 10 francs equal
70 austrian horn5, 25 francs equal to 10 Austrian
horlns, 30 francs equal to 20 Austrian forins and
| iOo francs equal to 40 Austrian florics Austris
engages to withdraw tho present silver currency
or the empire by the lst OF January 1871 md
nom that date no larger amount than francs per
hoad OF tho population Of either empire 1. to be
III circulation in silver, and no one ia TO bo COM
polcd to receive moro than so francs in silver in
any payment.
SOME INTERESTING experiments have been mado
lately at tho slaughter-houses of vincennos ns to
the most merciful manner Of killing animals with
tho least possible suffering. At present oxen aro
siauGhtered by blows from heavy hammers on the
hend, which necessarily innict tho most frieLtful
torture On tho unfortunate victims OF our carnivo-
rons propensites. Tho idea occurred to an ami.
nent physologist that tho section of tho spino
would produce moro instant doath. This how
ever, has not been demonstrated. An OK Thus
Ruled lived for twolro minutes, and endured dur
ing that time the most horrible sufierings. Do |
cap'taton was thcn tried, with the following curl,
ous resn't: calf wns hung up and decapitatod in
tho space Of quarter OF minute. It's head was |
thoh PLACED on table. In six minutos two ounces |
and half OF blood WAS lost During ths Ara,
minute tho face was hightfully convuised. the |
mouth oRpned and shut as though tho animal were
eating; and, strange to say, on putting the hand
against the mouth and nostril it was easy TO feel
tho respiration continuing. Thirty animals wero
thus killed, and tho rosult OF tho observations
taken was that tho committee decided that the old
practice Of killing by means OF blows from n bor-
mer should be continued.
lHE LONDON T1Hs. OF the eth instant, speakinp
OF OF American politics, says: '.The complication in
G0meatic ffoir &C |