Morris tribune., 1883-03-21

Monday and there is every indication
of Il large attendance. Prof. Boutelle
cannot he here rs was at first am
nounced but his place will be filled by
Prof. W. w. Pendergast, Assistant
State Superintendent, SO that the in
stitute will be in the best of hands.
Lectures will be given on Tuesday and
Thursday evenings upon subjects per-
tanning to popular education which
will be announced hereafter. Teach
ers should not fail to avail themselves
of the opportunities which this insti-
tute will afford.
The following letter speaks for it.
self:
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Minneapolis, March l..
Ny DEAR SIR:-I visited your
school OH the 5th inst, in the interest
of the High School Board, and was
much pleased with the work and dis
cipline in all the departments. /
think, Sir, your town is to be congrat-
ulated on securing the services of such
XII uDIC SCIlO1dI anu SiCCttolC SSbllC-
man as YOU have for your principal.
We want always high ideals of char
acter presented before the minds of
our young people. am, Sir, very
respectfully yours,
CHAs. w. BENTON.
To L. w. Randall, Esq. Morris.
Commedians who can unaided and
alone entertain an audience for an
entire evening are very much like
hens teeth-scarce. This fact was
illustrated on Saturday evening by
Billy Boyd, at Berkin's Hall. He
made good negro. His bone solos
and playing upon the mouth organ
were excellent-well worth hearing.
After having performed the parts in
which he eXcels, ii serices of painful
efforts were made to fill up the time,
which the audience found very tame.
So far as we can learn, Billy has paid
his bills and as part of his show was
good, there is no particular cause for
complaint.
| The Millers Association has issued Il
circular stating that hereafter great
err difference will he made i'm the price
of hard and soft wheat. The best
| grades of flour cannot be manufactured
! from soft wheat, millers do not want
it and will not pay market price for it.
| They have issued the circular early so
that farmers may be governed by it in
selecting their seed. If farmers wish
the highest price for their wheat they
must raise some of the hard varieties.
If after knowing that soft wheat is in
ferior for milling purposes, farmers
still persist in raising it, they should
not complain on account of the low
prices received in the fall.
The Jordon advocate gives away a
dead beat troupe thusly:
The Boston Ideal Uncle Toms
Cabin Co. massacred that time-hOnOr-
ed and meritorious drama, Uncle Toms
Cabin, before much larger audience
than they deserved, and left our city
several dollars ahead. They also left
behind them an opinion that the man
ayers are on the beat and their show
is snide affair. The leading star, the
trained(?) jackass, was lame and
couldn't appear; the bloodhound"
were a couple of ours only, and an in
tolerable nuisance; the get-there-or-
bu'st-a-suspender voice of Phineas,
&C., would clog a steam wood-saw;
Legree's untimely gags ruined the
most tragic and impressive scenes;
and poor old Uncle Tom was pretty
well paralyzed with surplus of PIN
pool.
We have lately received four ele-
CANT steel engraYings, published by
Messrs. Stinson 4 Co: All are very
fine works of high art, and do credit
to the publishers. These engravings
are very large, 30x40 inches each; the
original paintings and the steel plates
cost some 5000. The engravings
single plate Of this size and descrip-
ton of workmanship requires the
labor of most skillful artist from one
to two years, and often longer. Thes e
elegant engravincs are entitled 'Sing,
Birdie, Sing" Remembrance '"The
Bather's Attendant" and '"The Gar
den Gate.n 1t is believed, and gener-
ally conceded, that these engravings
make up the finest and most elegant
set of works of high art ever brought
out by American publishers. Amer.
can homes should be made beautiful
by refined works of art, and prices for
really good and merit0rious pictures
are now SO low thai there can be no
excuse for the walls to remain gloomy,
unadorned and cherries. American
homes should be made beautiful, and
the tendency of this will be to make
more refined and beautiful the lives OF
all jewellers therein