New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-14

lips OF Plato should have shaken their wngs'on the
Ps OF 6SSs One Ssv g|d IA rebel to
letters whom others, juster men, have MADE poet
was a Greek Of the time OF PercIos that Is to say, be
dated from the creation OF the beautiful.
An irato Philadelphia father does MT approve OF
the present system Of schoolteachng. He declares
that it is far below that in vogue thirty years ago,
and that it is making candidates for the insane
asylum. and piling up q heap Of misery in many
forms. He desires that there should be reasonable
fOgging in schools-beginning with the teachers.
One thing which especially rouses his wrath IL the
way in which tired parents forced to teach their
sleepy children during the evening, the lessons
which they so to school tho next day merely to re-
cite He demuIs, and with reason, at doing the
mental drudgery for which nc literally pays others
who are purposey fitted for it. 1t is not alone from
Philadelphia that this remOnstrance comes. In all
our cities parents are complaining bitterly OF
the studying at home to which their children
are forced on pain of falling below their classes.
No father wants to teach school during all his
leisure hours and no child should be compelled to
spend so much Of the day in brain-work. FEWER
studies and strict discipline in the schools would
make sufficient time for the memOrizing OF lessons
at the desk 1t is the great fault Of our school sy8-
TEN that it demands that children should occupy
themselves with more studies at one time than they
are able intelligently TO master.
An amiable Pennsylvania gentleman married to
his second wife, lately held matrimonial converse
ton of n peppery nature with that lady. Inasmuch
as her rhetorical powers were infinitely finer and
more varied than his she presently scattered the OPP
posing force in dismay. He was about to retire to
solitude, therein to "suck the sweets of sweet phi
losophyD when he vas suddenly struck by that men
tai brickbat popularity known as ahappy thought. He
turned like the trampled worm and informed the
victorious trampler that there was one thing any
wavshe was not nearly so good-iooking as his inst
What could poor abused creature do but burst mo
rivers Of tears ard defy him to the proof AS there
were no relics Of departed beauty about the house ID
the shape of photographs or pretematu1lpa paintings,
the desperate man paused for one humiliatng IN
slant, when another bnckbat came at him ana he
was happy. He remembered that an excellent por-
trait of his first bad been deposited with her IN the
silent tomb Thither he rushed, there he dug with
a triumphant spade, and thence ne carried the con-
vinoing picture. Crushed to the earth, his second
rose again only to confess that his blood-curdling
assertion was teo, too true
We find this drol statement about the Cincinnati
Convention in The Lreling Post:
THAT wonderful body was largely tho work OF prom-
nent Editors East and Wcsl, Who nor a.iislu ~. ~
cussing tine pros and cons Of the proposed movement ~
their columns, became delegates t. the assembly md
for proceedings ia which they participated tcy Were
bound to make the best OF a bad bargain
Who can these prominent Editors have been Not
Mr. Murat Halstead, or Mr.. Henry Watterson or
Mr. Samp Bowles, or Mr.. Fred Hassanrok ;-these
gentlemen dstnctlydeclined to be delegates 10 dld
Mr. Isaac II. Bromley so did Mr.. David Gray, and
Mr.. f. l.. GodLin In short we recall hut one Editor
l. T,ogt Tho, aFfflan of
the Convention at all and 10 gave TO it, as Chair
man of the Committee on Resolutions, the best plat
form adopted by any National Convention for n
dozen years. We remember, however, Convention
in which several able Editors did take large and
eloquent part IL met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel (;
it organized the American Union National Demo-
cratic Republican party and it nominated for
President Mr. VIM. 5. GrOe5beck, aud for Vice
President Mr.. Fred. Law Olmsted.
Californians are at last beginning properly TO ap
preciate the peculiarites of their juries. Ii Is tn
| story Of a homeless ignorant child of ID which ha
fired their tardy judgments This poor little fellow
filled with the mischieyOus nonsense of his age ant
| condition, presented fence-stake in the darkness
i at the driver Of a stage and ordered him to deve
II the express box. This that courageous person i'm
mediately did the boy threw it unTited into til
| bushes beside the road and went on his careless
| friendless way--a very weak imitation of Claud
| Duyal surely In short time he was arrested
| tried and convicted on charge of highway rob
| berry. His sentence was years confinement in tn
| State Prison, whence he will come with q burdel
| and stain upon him which can only lead 10 evil Tn
verdict with which Californian critics contrast thi
very foolish and short-sghted one is that cOnoernn
the woman lately acquitted of the charge of Qut
Iageous murder on the gIound OF temporary insanity
The Boston fire has excited research by som
newspapers INTO the history of fires in general an
one Of them says The fire next in order was til
| burning of Moscow by its own people during tn
| French occupatiOnl in 1912. 1t is estimated tina
| Moscow paid for her patriotism with $4,000 house
| and about G300000O0 of property" When state
ment gets into history it is next to impossible to ge
| it out; but it may as well be remembered that tn
| Russians utterly disclaim the burning of Moscow
an act of the authorities and that the confagratio
is now moro properly attributed in the first in
stance, to the carelessness of the French soldiers
and afterward to incendiaries bent on plnnder.
! is most probable that there was no patriotism
| about the affair at all.
| 1t was curious TO observe, by way of comparison
| the headings in the Boston papers of Monday morn
ing of the foreign dispatches Great Fire in Lon
| don Loss Over Half a Million of Dollars ~ Sid
by side with these were the accounts of the Grea
| Fire in Boston Loss Over One Hundred Million
of Dollars But of such a fire as that in Boston i
may be said that not q whole column of sensation
head lines would be sufficient to express its magni
tude. Some iof our contemporaries tried this cheaI
typographical expedient, and made mournful fail
IRE of it, There is sometimes great news which rem
ders even the biggest type hardly more appropriat,
than pearl or agate
The horse epidemic has had one good result