Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-07

EQ6 1nG0E6StS OI Luo sCuOO1S AAO critic asserts that the scholars do not learn enough, and that the blame should attach to the teachers because the latter do not know enough.
 A bold company is about to construct cable road up Pike's peak, which has an ele- vation of 14, 200 feet. more than twice the height of Mount Washington. The design is to build the road in three sections of about three miles each. The first will start from Manitou, and the last will terminate in front of the signal station on the peak. The SUD- ports will consist of trees not less than eight inches in diameter and twenty-four feet in height. On these endless wire cables will be made to run. To these, at intervals of about 100 feet, large covered armchairs capable of seating two persons win be at tached Each armchair will be suspended about eight feet from the ground and at discharg- ing points there will be a moving platform so that the arnchairs may be loaded and un- loaded without stopping. Engines, one placed at the foot and the other at the top of the mountain, will be used to propel the ca bles of the two end sections of the road, while falling water will be employed for the middle section The machinery for this road is already being constructed at South Pueblo
 The prospect that Freeman, the Pocasset fanatic who murdered his child in fit of religious frenzy, will soon be free Is not a pleasing one Perhaps he will never kill anybody else, and perhaps he will. The
 homicidal tendency is not easy to oblterste. A sad case illustrating the danger of letting people with this tendency loose was lately re- ported in an English journal and vouched for by an association of leading English physl- cians. A husband with homicidal tendencies was placed in an asylum by his wife, After remaining under the care of the doctors fR two years his restoration to health was ap- parently rapid. His wife urged his release To all intents and purposes he was sane The doctors declined, fearing that the cure was not vet certain. She employed the power ot the law, and the man WAS released. The happy wife took her husband home with her. That very night he cut her throat.
 A French officer who was sent to London during the war with Germany to negotiate for the enlistment of 20,O 900 Fenians who were anxious to enter the French service has just given an English correspondent an inter- estine account of the manner in which the negotiations were conducted. Having repaired to a certain spot in accordance with his instructions, he was ushered into cao bv two persons who were waiting for him. After driving for some time the vehicle stopped; he was asked to alight, and was shown by two other persons into another cab. which at once drove off. He had no idea where he was, for it was quite dark but his impression was that he was passing through very low quarter. Once again his cab and his guides were changed and finally te was taken into house, shown upssafrS, ana fe1G in perfect obscurity. Thinking that his last hour had arrived, and that he had fallen into a snare, he got his back to the wall and drew his revolver His mind was shortly re- Heved by tho appearance of two gentlemen with candles, who at once entered upon busi- ness. The negotiations fell through, as the Fenians asked too much among other things a large grant of land in Algeria after the war. The French negotiator was assured that Tn the place where he alighted there was no danger of police interference, and that force 100 strong if they ventured into the "sanctu- ary" would be immediately killed.