The true northerner., 1880-07-30

markably healthy AS for the other thing, you
| let me see-three years, and ia that time I've
licked ten OF tue principal men kicked dozen
OF the lesser ones, sued thirteen WOMEN FOR
SANDER frightened od Polly Middleton, The
town gossip. out of the place by threatening to
tell her intimate friends that she was a cook in
Old Hengland, and made faces at all the child
ren. And now 1 never hear word-not the
slightest hint-abolt anything that could an
noy me. I knew 1t be obliged to i've It down,
and by George, 1 DID, sr.'-Deuoit Free Press.
Sr. NICHOLAS FOR AUGUsF.-A pleasant feat
ure Of this VACATION number OF the bova and
girls magazine is the profdseiy illustrated ar
ticle, Happy Thought for Street Chpren.
This details the working Of the Evening Post
Fresh Air Excursions under Mr. Willard Par
sons, through whose efforts, seconded by will
ing iarmer-families, thousands of c.ty-worn
little ones taste every year the delights OF
summer fortnight n the country Besides the
lnstallments Of the two serials, ~ Louisa M
Alcott and Noah Brooks-one dealing with
sprighty home-life, the other with boys who
form militia company and have muster and
a sham tight-there ace several complete short
stores. There ~, also, an illustrated INSTALL
ment Of The Majors Bly-T stor.es,' re!at-
! ing anecdotes concerning two curious ANIMALS
the Bye-Bye and the Howis Dattorhi. Placer
and Caleb Mining tor Gold are graphically de-
scrlbed by Ernest Ingersoll and illustrated by
j. Harrison Mills, and a bright account is gwen
of the Darnlng Nesde, CT dragon.hy. The
pages of large type reading matter set apart
for very little folk, and the departments OF
Jack nthe-Pulpit, Letter-Box and Riddle
! Box, are made attractive with sto,es, anec-
dotes, items, pictures, letters from the boys
and girls, aud puzzles and scattered here and
there are many poems, single pictures, and
jingles, winch Gil up eighty pages in , way to
make even the rainle,t holiday delightful to tho
youngster who gets this humber OF the magazine.
From sketch Of The Western Man, by
Charles Dudley Warner, ~ the Midsummer
Scrbner, we quote the following on he subject
o.; American education: = We have invented
what we call System Of education approaching
perfection as an organization, comprehensive,
dffuse1. ail-!nciuslve, necessarily more or ess
superficial. It's aim is TO teach everyb body
! everything. Perhaps more exa.; statement
Of the truth e. that the aim S to train every
body TO pass an examination IN everything.
1t may be sad that the exclusive examination
system encourages two v.rtues--to forgive and
to forget-iu time to forgive the examiner and
| tc forget the subj ect Of the examination. The
tests OF the value OF or system OF education,
already tending to become too machine like,
will he two fod and the results may not be
marked before the lapse of generalon or two.
First, what kind OF an education, as TO the more
important elements OF character are we to get
and, second, what ls 10 be the effect oi uni
versa education, or a universal smattering or
learning, upon the inclination to work, to work
with the hands, TO earn living by manual Ia
bor? The noblest aspiration OF youth Is the
cultivation OF the mind-if the body is not neg
lected. But il the Western Man should get the
notion that it is any less honorable, or in the
end less satisfactory, 10 work with hoe than
with pan or yard-stlck, he will foster an idea
that is neither new nor needed in the world, for
the Eastern Man has already run it into the
ground
It speaks well for American enterprise to
notice the fact that an American magazine ,s
the first to attempt the illustration OF the
homes and haunts OF the characters OF Charles
Dickens. In the Midsummer Scrbner begins
a short series on this subject. entitled About
England with Dickens. The illustrations are
by Charles A. Vsnderhoof, who vas sent abroad
for this purpose, and whose work the Scribner
audience are familiar With.
The question, VIII the French Republ ic
Last? is answered in Scrbners Monthly for
August by Madame Adam (Juhette Lamber),
the editor OF ithe Nouyelle Revue, the new aud
famous rival Of the Revue des Deux Mondes
7 On Monday evening three ladies' Of this yl
lage aver that snovAlkes fell and melted in
their hands. The cara from the south show ed
whte frost on their roofs.-Kalamazoo Tee-
graph, July II.
A gentleman from YpssntI who has been
stopping in this city for two days. says that he
has seen here during that short time more
drunken men than in year before.-Battle
Greek Moon.
The essay Charles Dudley Warner read to
the Ann Arbor boys is published in Scnbner's
magazine for August.
When a girl is compelled 10 we'd first and