The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-27
January as-Tuesaay In Dallas.

The appearance of our city last Tues.
day was such as to indicate that our
citizens truly enjoyed the loneliness OF
the day. Nature herself, AZ II to con-
tribute her quota to the full enjoyment
OF all, was In accord with the wishes
of the people, aud the sun rose calm
and smiling as maiden from her
bath. BY 10 o'clock q. IN. crowds OF
well dressed people crowded the streets
Of Main and Elm that would have
done credit TO Denny brook Fair. The
utmost good will was every where OBJ.
servable, and more especially at the
junction Of Lamar and Elm streets,
where was TO be seen the wonderful
manipulation Of figures, Professor Bur-
r0ughs, of New York, who had sue
ceeded In drawing around him nm in.
tell!gent assembly of spectators, whom
he highly entertained by his
wonderful expertness and rapid method
with which he performed aritbmetical
questions upon his black board, work.
ing out problems Of the most intricate
nature found In the pursuits OF a COM
mercial life, including the funda-
mental rules, fractions, extraction of
square and cube roots, percentage,
measurement, discount, average, bro
kersge, and the computation of inter-
est, much to the establishment Of his
entire audience. So accustomed have
the people become to seeing vendors Of
various articles of traffic on the street
corners that 1t Is almost impossible to
collect n respectable crowd, and espe.
cially Of one comprising tho business
men OF the city. But the novelty Of
witnessing gentleman Of refinement
and culture, and of extraordinary ac-
compliments on the street, transact
ing business SO honorable and legiti-
mate, thereby, promoting the interest
of education, by yielding pleasing
instruction, soon attracted an audience
composed Of class OF citizens seldom
seen lettering on the street corners;and
more to the credit Of the Professor and
his work, Is the fact that 1t Is endorsed
by the Governor OF the State, State At.
t0rney, Auditor General and Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction,
Professor Hollingsworth, and by the
business men of our city, comprising
the houses of Messrs. Schneider Il
Davis, L. NJ. Kahn u Brother, Sanger
Brothers, A. Metzler, Messrs. Church
Il Co., Texas Distillery Company, Reed
Il Lathrop, and the whole combined
press; and still more to the credit Of
the professor is the fact OF such house
rs those of Messrs. Schneider & Davis,
Il. M. Kahn " Brother and A. Metzler,
giving full permission to the professor,
enabling him TO transact his business
In front Of their immense houses
themselves composing part of his
audience, and pictured upon their fea-
lures In plain English an expression
of pleasure and delight, which plainly
portrayed, to close observer, the
fact Of themselves looking upon his
demonstrations as those of class truly
wonderful, and of u character for once
upon our streets as was worthy OF app
probation, purely Of moral nature,
and instructive to public
at large. And az n friend to all ed
improvements and moral re-
tinements, We, as a press representing
the best interests of our city, would
respectfully advise all business men,
students, statesmen and mechanics, and
the farmer, to carefully examine the
methods Of Professor Burroughs, and
from him obtain copy Of said work.