New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-10-05


Tho Free Schools of the National Academy of
Design for teaching Drawing and Painting vii
open to-day. and continue open day and evening
until June. The Department Of Schools in the
Academy comprises an Antique School, Life
School, and Painting School, and courses of
Lectures are to be given. which will be open to all
the members of the three schools and to tho MEM
beers and fellows of the Academy. All students
must first enter the Antique School, and as quai-
cation for admission applicants have to submit to
the Council of the Academy shaded drawing from
a cast of hand, foot. head, or other portion OF
statue of the human figure. thorough course OF
study in the Antique School must be gone through
with before the students enter the other classes
Only students in the Antique School are engibie
for admission to the Life School, IN which
they are allowed to study the condition that they
present to the Council an approved drawing Of
statue made in the Antique School. and during the
session in the course of which the application for
admission is made The studies in the Life School
are from both the draped and the nude model: The
last school is the Painting School. and to this only
students from the Life School are admitted, and
these at the discretion of the Council The studies
in this class are from stillfe subjects and from the
living model The students in the classes Of the
present year number 2Oj in thu Antique School. Il
in the Life School, and % in the Painting School.
These numbers show that an interest in the schools
is growing and as the want of such schools is i'm
peratve, and will be permanent, we are glad to
know that the Academy is awake to the Importance
of the subject and in earnest to do all it can to
make the schools what they ought to be.
long article of great social interest might BIO
written upon wholesale additions to the family; but
we promise to be short First-it was at Ierre
Haute. The father John Smith. Number OF little
Smiths, all in one day. born to John. four. Never
was family less needing increase than the Smith
family but this Is the way that the odd old dame.
Nature, freaks it. All boys and each weighed n
pounds Thirty pounds Of little strangers! The cir
cumstance was beautifully noticed the next morn
ing in The Trre Haute Gazette under the sensational
heading Of Four Bouncing Baby BOysT Hereafter"
said The Gazette let to curl the cODtemptu
ous lip when the name of John Smith falls upon the
ear For one we promise. Not curl" Then at
Bethlehem Penn, we observe additional phenOm-
epa. Mrs. Carol aud Mrs. Ford are twin sisters.
They were married on the same day. Their first
children were born in the same month their second
in the same week; their third at the-same hour-or
rather we should say their third and fourth each for
on tins interesting occasion there were twin Carols
and twin Fords. All these darlings are alive and
well. We have spent more than an hour in rubbing
our head and in thus trying to deduce some hereto
fore undiscovered Law of Nature from these facts.
1t has been failure. Neera law
Newton Hacker, Attorney General for the First
Judicial District Of Tennessee. has seen fit to print
in The Jonesboyo Echo a card containing a state
ment of his views of Lynch law. which he indi-
rectly approves in way not Over-much becoming
40 Mr. ted
had expressed determination to prosecute certain
parties engaged in the unlawful hanging of some
Colored Fiend, and he takes early occasion to
denounce the report as an unmixed fasehoOd,
adding: eff there ever was an instance in the
worlds history in which the summary execution of
a brutal wretch was justifiabo, this was one" He
concludes that as the case now stands the law re-
qures no action in the matter. and he trusts never
WILL That is to say, certain parties in Hackers
district having committed murder, this person,
charged with the execution Of the laws, denounces
as n scandal the report that he will do his official
duty n the premises and trusts that tho felons will
escape legal punishment! We do not see why The
Nashville Unon in view of such scandalOus fact.
should ask whittier are we driftngp The
whittier is plain enough, we should think.
Let the youth of America bethink itself of its
our neighbor Lord Dufferin, says about it. He de-
clares that he has been struck by the absence in
American children of the Difference and respect to
those who are older than themselves to which Eu-
ropeans still cling. And he makes, further, the
remarkable statement that in his travels on this
continent he has seen children whom he has been
tempted TO take up and give good whipping"
He doth illustrate. Il have seen them" he says,
thrust aside two gentlemen IN conversation tram
ple OIL ladies' dresses, shoulder their way about
without thought of tho Inconvenience they were
occasioning.' Lord Dutferin certainly has reason
if patriotism fOrbds Americans to go so far as to
call the children Of the country as q whole i'll
hammered they at least obliged to confess TO the
prevailing absence of Difference and respect" Ii is
true there is very little Of the generous sentiment Of
reverence and esteem for age among the young pcO-
pie of this young nation, and it does not assist them
in the dignties and graces of life that it should
be 50.
Happy is that human being who has the tact to
do dsagreeable thing beautifully. Here are the