Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-24

children aged and 10, have been hauled up for stealing from their schoolmates a large quantity of clothing, etc., which was found hidden at their house. They would carry long basket to school with thsm, ard, as their class was let out a little before the others they had opportunity to fill their basket.
 An Intellectual Suicide.
 John Fiske in International Review for Januaryl
 William Kingdom Clifford died last March in the island of Madeira, at the early age f 33, the victim, apparently, of what is called ''overwork, that is, of work long pursued in utter disregard of the necessary limitations and imperative requirements of the human system. Never, perhaps, has the demon of overwork carried of more illustrious vic tim. Never. perhaps, has it been more strik- ingly shown of how little avail is the mere knowledge of hygiene in insuring obedience to it's precepts. No one understood better than Clifford what are popnlarly known es the laws of health; no one had fathomed more deeply or discussed more lucidly the depend ence of the mind upon the body; no one in our time has been better able to apply in the physiological domain the most accurate and definite conceptions of the relations of energy to work. Yet from all have been able to learn regarding Cliford's intellectual life, it would seem to have been at all times carried on with Gn intensely passionate, irrepressible zeal, as regardless of all physical laws, as if the mind were not merely Q distinct but an independent entity, unhampered even during the present life by physical conditions.
 cite this singular discrepancy between knowledge and practice on account of it's in trinsic interest, not in reproof of the course of one whose loss mourn as that of 8 friend. Admitting, with MT. Spencer, that one is morally bound so to treat the body as not lin any way to diminish the fullness or ,vigor of it's vitality" one sees at the same time that, as the world is now constituted, emer- gencies often arise which subordinate to high CT duties the duty of keeping oneself well. To save human life may jump into Q freeZ- ing river, though an ice-water bath be not recommended by hygienic advisers. So one sympathises with the heroic sense of duty which often leads the scholar to toll early and late, and long after weariness has set in, iD the performance of work which is expected of him, though in many cases the work itself may be obscure in fame, and the taskmaker thankless and treacherous. For my own part I sympathizs keenly, too, with 6 very differ ent feeling-with that glorious exuberanee of vital energy which in youthful days leads one far on into the night, working with kind of sacred fury to seize and secure the sudd en glimpses of the fairyland of scien tific truth or literary beauty, ere drowsy memory shall let them slip and fade away. l think it very likely that in many such cases a systematic self-repression in difference to, hygienic con- alterations, might be just enough to clip down the brilliant discoverer or original think CT into mere scientific or literary prig. The secrets of nature and of art are not to be won without struggles, and in the serene regions of philosophic meditation, no less than in the turmoil of practical life, the highest results are often accomplished by those who worl with desperate energy quite regardless of self Generous feelings of this sort have no doubl frequently urged great thinkers, like Clifford fatally to overtask their physical resources and such mistakes are peculiarly facilitated by the accommodating disposition of that faith full servant, the brain, which in men of highly stung nervous temperament is but too ready to keep at it's work without protest, as thorough-b bred horse will run till it drops.