The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1868-07-16

"N'iUN VI 'i'"' 0OlG which, as eA Aperience
hath shown, encourageth frequent and
protracted rain storms Vests are gener.
ally esehewed, even coats are discarded by
the more alventurous, while tie ladies
achie7c miracles iu the way Of looking
full dressed, with the smallest and thin
nest quality Of dry goods possible.
An enterprising Deutschcr ha. started
place for lake bathing away over on the
north side. 1t is space of some fifteen
acres OF the lake fenced in AMI furnished
with a row Of little bath houses. Here
may be seen . constan. crowd from o.
clock a. n. TO 1 O'Clock a. H. through 1.
day and eight. Folks i've as much as pos
sible in The shade, and ont Of doors at
night. Iiammocks are becoming Popular +
Every body carries fan lee is in uni I
vcrsal demand It has thus tar been the |
hottest summer Chicago ever had Sun |
strokes are frequent, and young medical
students haunt the principal thorougfares:
=" laying for cases to experiment upon
AmusemoEts are unsuccessful Business
is almost a; stand still. News are scarce
and what there are Of them scarcely worth
my treating al any length here.
There is one lot Of people among US who
do display some activity, very quietly,
too, as il they ,ncant something by it
They meet at night-hot as the weather
is. They have drills in their halls, and
parade in the streets late at night. They
are laying in munitions Of war and buying
new uniforms These industrious chaps
arc the Eenians. We have seen so much
Of them that we pay very little attention
to their acts, but there is every reason to
believe thatthey will make another raid on
Canada this fall, of much more formidable
character than their first Canadians are
peculiarly apprehensive of this, and are
making great preparations for it. IN
1866 Toronto had for mayor a genuine
specimen Of John Buli-a portIy old fei-
low, with boiled lobster complexion,
mottied with magenta. | saw him turn
white about the gills while lie listened to
/ jocose Bohemians stories Of the power
and perfection Of tic Feuian organization
then. How amusing it would be nov 10
take him around to their Chicago head
quarters, to show him their numbers and
large circles, 70 let him observe the TRIM
jaunty young soldiers who have sworn to
pace the green above the red. Now that
these Fenians have stopped all their blow
ing and are still quietly working. l begin
to think that they mean something after
all.
Our board of education did an eminent
| ly sensible thing the other day, in the
adoption Of the same system ior heating
and vertilating cur public schools as is
employed 10y the government in its finest
hospitals and other public buildings--a
system by which fresh pure air from out
side the building is drawn in by fans, its
temperature raised by passing it through
steam coils, aud is then forced into all the
rooms 10 constant ana regular current.
Cold air is admitted to the Aucs from
without, so that this air may be graduated
to any required degree before entering the
apartments. By the same apparatus cold
aud pure air may be forced through the
same hues in hot weather, so that all the
year round the same Temperature exactly
Ray be maintained No other system has
tver proven so absolutely perfect as this
aud it is disgrace to older eastern cite:
that they have not applied it heretofore e
merely because it cost little more thar
SONS other methods. What few dol
lars compared to the health OF our chill
dren. Chicago has the honor Of leading
the van in this reform. Already we have
it in the High and Dore schools, and it
has now been ordered also for the Frank
lin. Clark, Holden, Carpenter AND Lay es
school building Messrs Walworth,
Twohg & Furse, of No, 225 Lake street
are the builders. These gentlemen have
been established here fifteen years in the
manufacturing Of all varieties Of metal
tubing and fittings, boilers, etc, and are
now making speciality Of this apparatus.
The capitalists of Chicago are just at
present taking quite a lively interest in
the newly proposed PENN sular railway
whi,h is to give us direct route through
the best parts of Indiana and Michigan,
from Chicago to Port ii uron, opposide
Sarnia, the terminus of the Canadian
Grand Trunk railway. The distance be-
tween these points will be only 325 miles.
OF this about 125 miles are are already
prepared for laying the rails. At meet
ing of the company held here on Friday
last, the following officers were elected
President, Henry Fuller; vicc-presdent
G.. S. Hubbard; secretary, j. j. Young
fraocuror II II MacSav