The Portland daily press., 1874-05-01

horoupb supervision of schools. In short,
he nresent school system of New Brunswick
embraces the prominent features of our best
ty of our States. Strange as it may seem to
is, the contest will be a sharp one, for the
Catholics as a body and other sectarians will !
make bitter fight. Besides, New Bruins |
wick has quite large Charge class of chronic
tories whose ancestors left the States be-
cause of their intense love for George III.
and their hatred for Yankees, and these are
opposed to anything which may appear to be
a Yankee continuance, OF call for direct taxes.
But the New Brunswickers ale thrifty ana
intelligent people. They have founi that our
carriages are nice, our cast iron plougns 'he
best, our moving machines the thing ana
our sewing machines handy about the hoase'
LET us hope they will find our school theory
worthy of adoption and improvement The
indications are that the party of progress
will elect majority of the assembly.
MALE prudes are not common, but when
one does make his appearance he soon shows
himself dreadful ass. The latest in
stance in point comes from Illinois. per-
son who signs himself "a father" objects to
the teaching of physiology in those schools
where co-education of the sexes is permitted
for the reason that it compels young ladies'
and gentlemen to dwell upon themes when
are extremely repugnant." 1t VIII DC
source of perpetual wonder how this excess
siyeIy modest man ever allowed himself to be
betrayed into becoming father, and the wo-
man who stands to him in the relation OF
wife must be veritable Gree. Who can
picture his emotions as he stood in that reel
tation room and heard the professor gravely
describe to class of blushing boys and girls
the location of the terno-cleido-mastoid
muscle! How he must have shook with hor-
ror at the mention of the diaphragm! What
unutterable suspicious possessed his soul OF
the hidden meaning of those dreadful words
lecator labii superioris al@que nasi! No
wonder he seizsd his hat and fastened to air
his grievances at the nearest newspaper office
when the professor began to explain the for
hidden mysteries of the portal circulation.
The man was evidently not fashioned for con-
tact with gross material forms, and should be
at once translated to some more spiritual
sphere.
A CHICAGO clergyman, the Rev. Minot j..
Savageof the Third Unitarian Church, de-
liyered an able sermon on finance Sunday,
which has excited the wrath of the imitation
lists of that city. He took occasion to say
that a dangerous enemy threatened the ma
ton; that the rank and file of this threaten
honesty. He reminded his hearers that the
East got rich by work and saving, and said,
"The West and South can get out of their
difficulty in the same way, and in no other.
Were the government Golfers as full of gold
as its printing presses are of paper, the only
way for the West and South to get any of it
would be to steal it, to beg it, or to earn it.
Ii any one wishes to do the first, he should
be put in prison, not sent to congress. If he
wishes to do the second, let him come, hat
in hand, and humbly say so not claim it as a
right, and attempt to vote it law. If he
wishes to earn it, let him go to work and do it. %
The Inter Ocean warmly denounces the SER
mon and says Mr.. Savage ''has earned for him
self a reputation for intemperance of speech,
for palpable ignorance Of the subject discussed,
and for prejudice, passion and injustice"
To us il seems fitting that the severest re-
Dukes to national dishonesty should come
from the pulpit.
DOUBTLESS every one remarked yesterday
what hideous weather it was, and many
thenceforth proceeded to say that this New
England climate is barbarous. We admit thai
our climate isn't always pleasant and that i
we say nothing except good of April, 1874
we shall say nothing. But the month has
been quite as severe elsewhere as in Maine.
Georgia has bad frost and hail storm, In
diana the greatest snow storm of the season,
Texas reports frost, and in Mexico the wheat
was killed by the cold. Indeed, the weather
has been as favorable here as elsewhere. Be
sides we have winter clothing and experience
and ought not to expect warm weather until
June. Only the writers of four line doggrel
have an idea that spring ever happens in