Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-05

RED TAPE IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT-It is q
common custom to ridicule red tape In public
affairs, TO sheer at the bureaucratic admins
uat1on OF affairs. But when we look at our
own pubic schools what do we linda para
disc of red tape! Teachers hired to instruct
our chlldren compelled to devote much OF their
valuable time In filling up ''blanks" to give STA
tsIcal information to state and town officials
ana TO swell the archives OF some hoard we
n mt, the teachers FESTIVE under such require
inehtS, which not only use up school time, but
tnelr out-of-SchoOl hours, and fully convinced
lhat their painstaking reports are destined TO
Soie pigeon, hole; w find the scholars harrassed
Gnu hurried through written examinations on
paper OF stated size, in order that the school
committee may have some volumes OF school,
10Y manuscript for eXhtbitfOn-thefr handwrit-
lhS ruined by haSty writing, their instruction
neglected for such secondary purpoSe Teach
eIS nave not unfrequently admitted and regret
yea mat they could not devote the necessary
,ihie 10 teach their pupils how TO read distinctly
and lutellgently because of the extraordinary
requirements for ornamental studies; for studies
Mhich no chlld OF tender years is able to UNDER
stand, whatever may be its special ADVANTAGE
later on In life Boston Herald.
AN EAGLE CARRIES OFF A PIG.-For seyera,
DAYS past the resident farmers in the northwes-
tern portion Of this county have marked the
presence press OF an eagle STUNNING the heights in
thelr nelghDOrhood and a Mr.. Stringer a Tar
rant county knight Of the gun. anxious to can
tuTe this king OF birds, shouldered his foWIinS
piece yesterday morning and laid for the bird
on the open prairie, at point about two miles
northwest OF the town, where small herd of
young pigs were innocently grazing on the green
sWard the bird came soaring along, and when
point had been reached nearly perpendicular
10 the head OF the swine, as il were, the Old
"Nat1onaf' sWoOped down and around the sur
race OF an inverted imaginary pyramid, aud,
sinking its taions deep In the Interior COMPOST
ton OF a thirty-pound pig, started Heaven
ward. The ascension was tedious and slow.
and gave ample time for Stringer to draw a
bead, and when height Of thirty or forty feet
had been reached he banged away and bored a
hole clean through our American monstrosity.
The pig and eagle tumbled tolerably well To-
gether to the surface-both dead-[Fort Worth
(TeTds) Denccrat.
WoRKMEN ON A STRIKE.-The proprietors O
the Newark IN. j. Steel Works having agreed
TO scale down the wages OF their ha nds two per
cent. tie latter have struck. There are about
one hundred and fifty Of them all told. They
have been receiving from $1.35 to SC per day,
those receiving the higher pay being very SUI
rerior workmen. Boys received from nifty cents
TO 81 day. Ii is clainie3 by the Torkmen that
only a few receive Bis wages; that the great
bulk have hard struggle to live On the old
prices, and that they have already suffered
three reductions since 1s!2.-fA. i. Herald, Attn.
ex~A North Carolina o!iicer reports that in
complete returns show the existence CT ill,n39
dogs in that tate-about ore dog for every
thic &c sheen.