Morning journal and courier., 1881-12-30

required to memorize page after page and
 book after book. would not have less his
 tory in our schools, but more; would mol
 have less geography or philosophy. but moro These subjects, however, should be consid
 cred not as so much to be memorized, but ai
 so much to be inteIligentiy read and dis
 cussed. When examiners demand of pupill
 those things which will test their ability tc
 do perfectly what they will be required to dc in after life rather than to repeat that which l will be forgotten in a few weeks, then, and not till then, will the teachers as a body make it their aim to discipline and develop those faculties of the mind which will be of most service to the children in later years,
 Mayor elect Seth. Low of Brooklyn has caused some commotion by ins;=ss'as. tsfaas s,il his heads of departments ei.a y5rszscips c.at cers shall follow his exsu la 4al se ea their private business, e as .o deves a T yls whole time to the in. ot [i.,S ess. ( number of persons = -Esees he -sas ssfszs positions worth fir ,a90 F i.e1 year have declined aeo0=i-s ol ty eondi- tions with which the offer is accompanisd Some of these gentlemen say that Mir. Low can we'll afford to give uphis private business for the coming year inasmuch as his father takes his place and keeps the business along, and moreover, because he is heir prospective to $s, 900. 900 or $10, GOO, 900. Nevertheless the principle which underlies his demand is the right one.
 The new Congressional Directory, com piled by Ben Perley Poore, shows some curi- ous facts. Of the seventy-six Senators five are of foreign birth, viz, Jones of Florida, Sewell of New Jersey, and Fair of Nevada, born in Ireland; Jones of Nevada, in Eng land, and Beck of Kentucky. Of course either of these gentlemen are eligible to the office of President pro tenn. of the Sen ate, but in the event of the death of the President there is question whether they could discharge the duties of President, the Constitution requiring that the President shall be native citizen. The youngest Sen ators are German 42, Miller 43, Plumb 34 and Hall 35. The oldest are Merrill T, Lap ham CT, Anthony and D. Davis 66, Dawes and Sswyer 65, Saulsbury GA, Conger and Hampton 65. Some of the elder Senators withheld their age from the directory. MT. Edmunds, who looks like and is recognized as the sage of the Senate, will be 54 on the 1st of February. Maine, Delaware and South Carolina are the onlE States that have a full native delegation in Congress, and Ar kansas, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kan sas, Nebraska, Oregon, Nevada and Colorado have neither representative born in the State. Of the Representatives the birth places of twenty are not given and fifteen are of foreign birth. The contrast between the nativity of legislative representatives is some what singular. New England, with repre- sentation of twenty-eight, has forty yseven of her sons in the House. New York has thir- ty-three representatives and thirty-six mem bers born in that State. Pennsylvania has twenty-ssven and thirty-three, Ohio twenty and twenty-seven, while Illinois, having nineteen representatives, has but two sons in the House. Michigan and Iowa have but one each out of nine representatives. Of two hundred and six American born whose place of birth is given, one hundred and six ty-three are of northern birth, one from the Pacific coast and but forty-two in the South.