Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-30
Largest Circulation In the District
Reading Matter on Every Page.
WASHINGTON CITY:
wEDNTsDAY........ October 30. ls72.
The TeIegraph-POIe Nuisance


A positive and growing nuisance In the shape
of the huge, rough, uncouth-looking telegraph
POLES which are being planted everywhere In
this city seems, judging by An editorial in the
New York JosrHsl Of Commerce, to be felt in
that CITY in q form to require some action by
the property holders injured to see il they have
no legal remedy.
IL is doubtful If the authorities of a city have
the right to give permission for the erection of
these cumbersome, unsightly poles against the
consent OF the property holders, but certainly,
a. the Journal submits, they ought not to exer-
else the right, even if they possess it, without
some regard to the decencies of the situation.
II would be bad enough If these distractions to
the thorOU ghfares were made in the most ST Chilly
fashion after some ornamental design, were
erected with some regard TO the convenience of
occupants in front of whose dwellings or places
Of business they are planted, and were hsni-
somely painted and kept free from fsring hand
bills.
School authorities in some quarters are taking
ground against the prize medal system as hurt
ful to the physical and mental health of the
pupils. The Boston Public School committee
recently declined to accept a legacy for the re-
establishment of the rejected prize medal sys-
TEN there, and the COagregatioaaliSt in referring
to the fact speaks of the case of young lady, a
recent graduate Of q Boston high school, who,
after going through with examinations and the
cTOvning exhibition, slept for three days and
nights and had to be aroused to take her meals.
ANY physician knows what that fact means and
will say that if the young lady RECEIVERS from
the effects OF the moral and intellectual stimu-
lus after months OF rest she will be fortunate.
The COn0TegatiOnaIist, also, mentions another
case where teacher was so anxious to keep one
Of his bright boys up to the mark in the COM
i've a-k hat her hov ~ tai KEN do
with the scarlet fever he (the teacher) called
upon the father and actually proposed to give
the pupil two hours drill nightly while he was
sick.
We know that some of the best educators of
Washington have from their experience come to
the conclusion that the medal system is in
judciOus and hurtful. 1t undoubtedly is when
ambitious but inexperienced young teachers
are in charge OF pupils. These are frequently so
ANXIOUS to carry OF the prizes for their own
schools that they sacrifice all the laws of health
9th as regards their pupils and themselves.
Aside from the incalculabIe injury done to the
pupils at their tender age by the examining sys-
TEN, II Is notorious that the teachers themselves
have in many instances utterly ruined their
health by anxiety and overwOrk. Now we hold
that the sound body and the sound mind should
go together, with the teacher "a well as with
the pupil. Ii is AL important that the teacher
should have that tranquility of mind, stealiness
of nerves, and evenness OF temper that comes
from good health. TO enable them to success
fully perform their duties. A teacher with
nerves shattered, digestion spoiled, and temper
uHhinged by working over hours in the school
room; losing regular meals, &c, is utterly I'M
1t 10 deal with young children. But it is natu-
rally 10 be expected that q teacher who has so
little regard for the laws OF health in hil, or her.
own case should have none for the health OF the
Little ones entrusted to their care.
The leading western papers are one By one
changing from the blanket folio to the qlarto
form. Tie Missouri Republican Is now out In
this shape, and il printed on the walters
press, the kind OF machine upon which the
London TiNes is printed. The press is what is
called "perrecting'' machine, as 1t prints both
sides OF the sheet at one operation. is like the
Bullock press in printing from continuous
sheet wound upon a reel, and is capable OF
turning OF from 1900 to Il 900 copies of an
eight Pag- paper per hour. There are bat three
newspaper Offices in the world where the WAL
ter prtss is employed, viz: The London Times,
EdiHtETgh ScOtsmGn and the Missouri Republican.
The New York papers, not content with such
sppellatiOns for the horse disease as "equins
Epidemic 'hOrse malaria" "equine infiu-
Cnza," "horse cstarrh," "horse bronchitis
''horse plague" further ring the changes in
such compounds as "epizootic," "epihippic.n
"hippozymOsis," and "hippO- malaria" The
New York HsraId is loud upon what il calls the
typhoid laryngite, ;" reports ''the epozootic ex-
tending 10 human beings" says ga thousand
horses are drawing near the door of death" and
frantically asks "where are the philozooists?''
Though the horse disease has not reached
xxa tai +os
its influence Some OF the miIlers iu George
town, We hear, have received letters from
merchants in New York directing that no more
hour be shipped for that port at present, as
there are no means Of receiving it from the
vessels while the horse disease continues.
Coo
The Baltimore Sun says Don't give up the
ship" and Never despair of the republic )" and
therefore 90 and vote msnfully on Tuesday. We
are inclined TO think the country won't surren-
DER any vessels, or abandon all confidence in
repGblicanism, even If Horace don't make the
rifle on Tuesday.
IL will be seen by the information In our
news columns that in consequence of the perse-
cutions al home some forty thousand Roumsnian
and Continental Israelites propose to emigrate
TO this country. The United States seems to be
the place OF refuge to which the oppressed in all
quarters Of the world turn their eyes.
Senator Cameron denies that he is about TO
undertake the expensive luxury of starting
paper IN Philadelphia to break down Forney's
Press. His head is level.
There Il TO be ga grand outpourng" of the
Greeleyites in Baltimore to- morrow night Pour
On. Enjoy your little drizzle until Tuesday, and
then prepare to get in out OF the wet
1t was Henry Clay who said a. 1 would rather
he right than President" Dr. Greeley saws 81
would rather be President than write (for the
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