The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-19
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secret political societies. and says:-"It was, it
appears, under leaders of those aecursed secret
societies in France that Stephens and others
were initiated into the system of assailing
society through the priesthood; there they served
their unholy apprenticeship and learned their
wicked tactics"
In Mrs. Howe's recent sermon in Boston,
she discoursed about the significance of the
Saviour's conduct in washing the disciples
feet" She thought it had an application to the
Christian work of the present day. She told
how she had once visited poor and dirty
household, where the children were in the most
shocking condition, and how, after leaving the
place, she had upbraided herself for not having
taken those children in hand, thoroughly
washed and cleaned them turned out for the
moment the thriftless mother, scrubbed the
floor, and aired the room and bedding" This"
said she, "would have been good form in
which to have applied the symbolical washing
OF the dear Christ" And, she continued, IL
propose TO you, ladies, that o band of us should,
at proper intervals go through those miserable
dwellings, and collecting the neglected children,
give them and their mothers realizing sense of
how disciples should wash"
There is company In Hartford devoted to
the inspection and insurance of steam boilers.
Similar institutions have met with great success
in England, and there is no reason why they
should not here. The dangers to which the
community is exposed are forcibly illustrated
in the report of the Connecticut company for
last month. The defects discovered bore the
grave proportion of GO per cent. to the boilers
examined Thirty are mentioned that were
safety-valves were rusted fast; one boiler
was externally so corroded for a space of
| two and half feet that light stroke of
hammer could penetrate it, and two
boilers were found that had the bolt and yoke of
| their hand-hole plates completely oxidized
| When such is the condition of affairs among the
| careful class of owners that insure their pro-
| perty what is it among those whose only solici-
| tude is to get much as possible out of a
| boiler hpfOra IL OiVaa In this citV and
| vicinity no safety whatever can be hoped for in
| respect to boilers until they are recorded and
| inspected with as much actual rigor as theo-
| retically is brought to bear on every barrel of
| whisky. Most especially should there be a
careful official examination of secondhand
boilers offered for sale with the expectation that
the buyer will tinker them up for fresh lease
| of danger.
DR. Maclin has been giving in the Journal
| AnuSdnt the history or archaeological hoaxes.
| Among the series is the following:-A country
man near Colmar found, while plowing the field
a large vase of singular form, which seemed
from its deteriorated condition 10 date far back
into antiquity. Immediately all the academies
| and all the learned societies of the Upper anC
Lower Rhine, and of Franche Comte also, begar
publishing historical, scientific and archaeology
cal memoirs to settle the question of the origin
of the vase, and a multitude of the most inge
nious and learned commentaries we're written tt
explain the inscription which was found upor
the vase, and which was partly effaced. 1t raj
thus:-
| T.E.RR ID. Fol. CIR. .Av .TRvF . s.
| Floods of ink were poured out ami the ques
tion was still unsettled, when one day the pro
| prietor of a restaurant of the city visited thu
| Baron s. to take his orders for dinner to bC
given shortly The Baron had purchased the
| precious relic at an enormous prlce, and 1t wa
placed upon the table of his library, togethe
with other treasures. "Ah ~ said the restaura
teur, ''what do you keep that old jar upon YOU
table for? / have dozen like 1t in my cellar
"a dozen like that? said the Baron, smiling
ironically; ''are you quite sure ?" Certainly
Just read what is upon the outside Terrine d
foie graS auI tufes" (Jar for liver and trufiies)
------aan-s-
The TRUE EDUCATION. will Britain
MIA remove that dust that obscures her seat
of learning--live in tho present, but forge
the past knowledge viii make giant stride
when the education of young minds mainl
consists in the observations of the living
Personal experiences have much more vivi
effect on men than their records; living ar
preferable to stuffed animals, and spoken t
dead languages The aim of education shoul
2 be to fit individuals for q useful exlstenct
Q Education at least begins with mans birtf
: and it only ends with his death; but 1t has II
phases. The training the infant receives
? physical and mental, is seen in the schoo
g boy, whose pursuits at that time epitomE
his professional studies, and his career In b
:. walk Of life is the reflex of all his previo'
d existence. How much may be done
o adapting the course of training and study
y the qualities and powers of the embryo ma
t, HIS qualities, varied as the medium throuG
h which light passes, can find, in judicio
rt training, those elements which assist in ne
tbair na inannaliffao Mimi