Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-28

The parade last evening was grand affair,
 and great credit is due the efficient workers
 who arranged it and carried it to 8 successful conclusion. Did you notice the business and professional men, who are Republicans :? One of New Haven's most respected and honored citizens, who has been in the bad habit of voting the Democratic ticket, in- forms that to his certain knowledge the slanderous and wholly unwarranted attacks made upon Mayor Bigelow by the Democratic papers of this city have had the effect of in- creasing the Republican vote. This is natur- al Those who know Mayor Bigelow cannot but feel indignant at the way he has been treated in his own city.
 Frederick Douglass, the great colored orator, made decided sensation in his speech at Cooper Institute the other evening" when he said: ''Only a few years ago we were clanking our fetters The speaker before you is one who has known what it is to be dragged fifteen miles at time, with pistols drawn to keep him in order until he reached the place where he was to be sold in the market like beast. He is now United States Marshal of the Dis trict of Columbia" It wasn't the Demo- cratic party that made this change possible
 Dr. s. Gibbon, London health officer re- ports that, whatever may be the cause, there Is no doubt that Hebrews life in London is, on the average, worth twice many years as Christians The Hebrews of the metropolis are notoriously exempt from tubercular and scrofulous taint It is very rare that one meets with pulmonary consump- ton among them. The medical officer of one of their large schools has remarked that their children do not die in anything like the same ratio as Gentle children; and in the district of Whitechapel the medical officer of health has reported that on the north side of the High street, occupied by the Hebrews, the average death rate is 20 per 1,OO0 while on the south side, occupied by English and Irish, it is 43 per l, ,OO0.
 The preparing and circulating of forged letter is not mean enough for the grand old Democratic party. The western Democrats descend still lower. In the manufacturing districts of Indiana and Ohio circulars have been distributed ih great numbers and in ya- rious languages, containing the text of the letter, and purporting to come from the Re- publican headquarters. These circulars are accompanied by approving comments and headings in large type, such as ''Garfeld's Manly Letter on the Labor Question" Read it." E'No objection to the workingman on ac- count of his race or color" 'Manufaetur- CTS have the right to buy labor where they can buy cheapest; any other policy would be hurtful and foolish" Honest Democrats must be proud of their party to-day.
 Wor5nen enjoying the benefits of protec- tion will be interested in an extract from the October number of The British Trade Journal, journal to which the exporters of Great Britain look for information as to the condi- ton of markets in other countries. Its Chicago correspondent writes 'tIn this city, the centre of an immense tributary region of country, I am informed by those heavily en- gagged in the dry goods tHade that there is marked increase in the demand for English goods. One large importer, when asked a few days since how far England could sup ply our demand for textile fabrics, replied that she could furnish America with all she needed in that line aoere the t1rif renaoced, aottze tis country soOttd f7o ttGt cGse 6e drfOe11 to tse mnaufacture of the coG7ser description Of cottou goods ecclNsiUely'' Will you vote in the interest of British manufacturers
 Prof w. Preyer, of Jena, has been en- i-, iY,to fY11I the study of babies We avail ourselves of the New York ITmes' summary of his port. This study begins, the Professor says, with the observation of the movements and sensations of a child, and then proceeds to note the development of the different senses, the formation of speech, etc., and the effect of all these things in awakening the lntelli- gence The first manifestation of voluntary motion occurs about the fourteenth week, when the infant begins to hold up it's head. After four months the head is usually bal anced well, and at ten months the power to sit up is acquired. Ability to stand was usually, in the cases studied by the Professor, gained suddenly at the end of the first year. The first grasp ing motions of the hand in the first quarter year are entirely reflex and mechanical, the first voluntary attempt to take hold of an ob- feet not being noticed before the seventeenth week. The child does not show self-con- sciousness, a knowledge of it's independent existence, until the second quarter of the sec ond year. The sensibility of the skin of newborn child is very low, and it will give no signs of discomfort if it be pricked on the noss or lips or hands. The eyes, too, close slowly when touched, and do not close at all in the bath. An increase of sensibility, how ever, appears in day or two after birth. All infants are deaf at birth, because the outer ear is closed and there is as yet no air in the middle ear response to a strong sound is observed, at the earliest, in six hours, but often not for day or two. The awakening of the sense may be detected by the blinking which loud noise occasions. No other organ is thought to contribute to the intellect ual development of the child so much the ear. The first perceptions are those of light. The infant shuts it's eyes as soon as light enters them; within a week it turns it's glance to the window, but 1t is three weeks before the eyes will follow light moved be- fore them The stupid expression of the chuds race does not leave At untA 1ne socoAo quarter year, and the face grows more human and spirited with the increase of the power of seeing intelligently. The power to distin- ouish colors follows that of intelligent atten- tion, and light and bright colors are pre- ferred; but the power to distinguish them bv name does not come until the beginning of the third year. The recognition of form, size and distance comes slowly. In the first month the infant pays no attention to the sw1ftest approach of a persons hand to it's face, and in the third year it will show ignorance of size and no appreciation of distance. The Professor set down in writing every sound uttered by a child during its first two years, and which could be so represented. At first only vowels are heard, but oven in the first