St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1873-04-11
Schooling Children.

Schooling Children.
We recently heard some very strange
remarks i'll IL school meeting about
schooling children-in favor of keeping
them III school the year rouud, or near
~ So. rather than give them one fourth
of the year for outdoor exercise. and
other suitable employmcnts. We ad-
nit that there are Il few children who
need all of toar wears to get them
through Colhum'S arithmetic
then know vcIy little about it-who can
with safety, attend school all the year
round. They will not hc hurt. physi-
cally "r otherwise, 10y it, for they do
more playing than studying, i'll school.
and their heavy tcmpcIamcnts ale All
insurance against over mental work. Ii
is not 50 with three tourths of our
school children. and schooling should
he regulated lay the safe rule i'll refer
ence to them rather than the class not
inclined to give only Il reluctant and
lazy attention to their books. There
fore we think we discover good sense.
and ii right apprehension of the matter,
i'll the following extract from an ex-
change:
There can hardly he a question that,
taking the country through. parents are
doing Il serious injury to the phy
of their children hy requiring excessive
hraiII-w and too many hours i'll close
IL.
every side i'll regard to the pale faces,
nervous habits and liability to disease
of children of good healthy stock. IN
stances are not uncommon of children
suffering under that malady which ought
to belong alone To that period of life
when the vital powers have been over
>tIaincd-we mean insomnia or sleep
lc>snrS>. Extraordinary nervous dis
orders are also appearing among our
little ones and evidently foundation
has been laid for woI>,. disorders in lat
ter life. The physique of the whole ma
tiou Is apparently injured by this eX-
cc>>ive hlaiu-Work in childhood. And
the extraordinary Development. in the
last few ycalS. of varinus forms of ner-
vou> disorder among persons of mature
age. such a> the powrllcssne>s of the
voluntary muscles, and various kinds
ot brain diseases and paralysis, are the
fitting results of the cIrclcsSncsS shown
Il generation since in the treatment of
childhood. II We only had Il more truly
scientific medical profession, our physi-
clans would not alone Comlinc them
/ selves Ia the cure of these diseases, but
would seek to trace. them to their legit-
innate causes. in the bad habits taught
to children. or in the ovcrwork de
maudcd from them.
The suit of the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad. against James K. Lang
don. for his subscription of SlO.000. was
tried. "Wednesday. in the Washington
County Court. before Judge Barrett.
The ease has been once tn the Supreme
Court already. and now the plaintiffs
! obtain verdict. Exceptions were taken
10y the defendant. the substance Ofthem
being that there never was legal or
ganization of the road. that there never
Wa> legal distribution or award of
stock. and that the five per cent. re-
quired to hc paid in on subscriptions
WAS never paid in hy the defendant and
many others. The ease of the railroad
against George {. Shepard goes with
facts.
The DamhurN Ncrs SAYS: Thirty
Years ago. Il Young man entered the
,itl of New York. in an almost pcnni-
less condition, and without single
acquaintance in the great wilderness of
HOUSES. To-day. his name is known
wherever humanity brcathc>. 1t is
spoken in every hamlet. is in every
city. Is as familiar To the workers i'll the
mines as tO his brother in the mills.
and wherever language iS known and
ideas expressed. the name of this pcmni-
less. unknown and uncnuth lad of
thirty years ago. i uttered. 1t WAS
John Smith.
Vice President Wilson has refused to
accept any of the back pay voted by
the last Congress. and has requested
the Secretary of the Treasury To devote
his share toward the payment of the
public debt.
Duncan Harvey. who is engaged in
the mercantile business at Peacham
Hollow. has purchased and shipped
from various points i'll this state, to
Boston. since the first of October last,
over one million pounds of butter and
cheese. Mr. Harvey ships all kinds of
produce. and has orders now on hand
to purchase large quantity of maple
sugar and honcy.-St0r
The Groton MillcritcS having dcsig
mated April -, as ''thr last of carth.' ii
friend sends us the following - How
nppurtum" that our good Governor has
appointed Fast day on the llth of
April. that Our bodies as well as souls
may !c i'll condition for the ascension
on the 18th"
Fosters wife is much better Her
physician thinks she will he fully re
stored To icalth III Il week. She live,
i'll the upper story of a tenement house.
BUrrEH.-ST. ALBANS April /. \
large amount of new butter was brought
i'll. and prices show IL marked advance
on all grades. We quote spring dairies
81 to :i-c for medium to good; 10 to
l2c for choice. and fine selected at 45c.
The Mississippi Legislature has pass
ed Il temperance bill which is Il close
copy of the Ohio and Indiana laws.
The Burlington flouIing mills are I"
send il barrel of the finest pastry flour
in black walnut barrel tin lined to
/ the Vienna exposition.