Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-04

lantern. To the person using the lantern the glaring magnesium light is not binding at Ill, as the door opens to the right. and thus thoroughly protects the eye. The gun and left hand of the shooter being only lighted up, and while the person is invisible to the animals, the latter become bewildered, and stand staring into the light in half dazed manner. The little lamp inside the lantern is provided with sponge, which is only saturated with oil, so that the lantern may be kept in any position.
 An interesting establishment, and one we'll calculated to be useful, was formally opened yesterday in New York city. It is called Grace Memorial House, and is after the pat tern of the French creche, or day nursery. It is due primarily and by subs quent gift to Levi P. Morton, now minister to France, and began with gift of $42, 500 in 1872 in mem- ory of his wife. then just deceased, which he supplemented with $50, 600 some years after. Grace church owned one house on Fourth avenue, in the rear of the rectory, bought another, rebuilt their interiors, added Goth ic front of white marble to match the church, and made the Memorial house which is now opened. As in the French e,ec1e, the little children of working women will be cared for here during the day, kept clean fed and amused, nursed if sick, taught if they are old enough, and morning and evening attend simple religious services in an oratory. In order that the charity shall not pauperize, the sum of five cents day will be charged for each child.
 At tho annual meeting of the Fri State Teachers Association of Ohio, held few days ago at Toledo, Superintendent Ellis, of Sandusky, took strong ground against intro dueing industrial education in the public schools. He believes that the evils preva- lent in society, attributed by some to the public schools, are due to other sources, notably to the greed for gain. What is need ed for workingmen in all departments of labor, he says, is tho kind of training given by the public schools. Industry is cultivated in the schools, and the same quality that sends boy to tho head of his class will push him to the front in whatever business or work he may engage in when he leaves school. teacher has no more right to train the son of mechanic to the business of his father than the son of a doctor, lawyer or a preacher to the profession of his father. The object-lesson craze and the natural science craze in the public schools exhausted them- selves without any serious detriment to the schools or any increased expenditure of pub lie money, but if there is to be an annex of industrial training it will involve large ex- penditure of money in addition to what some people now consider the highest limit for educational purposes.
 The testimony in the case of the insolvency of the Augustinian Fathers in Lawrence, Mass shows careIessness and incapacity not excelled even by Archbishop Purcell and his brother Neither the president nor the treas urer could now, months after the collapse of their ecclesiastical savings bank, give even an approximate statement of it's condition. They admitted that when their depositors were clamoring for money which the society could not pay, mortgage for $13, GOO, the property of the society, was assigned to ore of it's creditors. When asked if he did not know that this was giving preference to rich liquor dealer over poor working people who had entrusted their small savings to the society, the treasurer ansW cred that he did know it and thought it was right. The affairs of the society, it seems, were known to Le embarrassed two or three years ago, and an accountant was employed for six m ~nths to examine the books and prepare statement. The treasurer said he believed this accountant made statement of the society's finances, but he did not now remember what it was; he had no confidence in the mans ability and so attached no importance to his state ment. Another person was afterward en- ployed as an accountant, who was not known ever to have kept books, but was said by some body to have once taught bookkeeping in 8 school, but he could make nothing of their accounts and gave up the job. The society went on with it's business without any intel ligent effort to get it's finances out of their tangle or find their true condition, and es late as last January received sums on deposit. The men responsible for this ought to be oensured by their Church and punished by the courts