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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06
The Growth of a Child,s Ideas.

Prof. Straight, of Oswego, in an ad-
dress before the school teachers OF
Hartford, Conn.,, says:
''If we can think of the little child,
Just born into the world, its senses just
opening to the world--the eye, the ear
and the touch-of the impressions
showering down on these senses-there
is the beginning. The waves of ether
from the bright light beat upon the
eye and the child at once distinguishes
the bright light from the darkness.
Soon bright colors attract the attention;
and so it begins at the outset to study
optics, discovering light and shade.
Form next comes into its conscious
ness. Thereby it learns to distinguish
its mother or nurse from other people.
was told of an experiment tried lately
by Il teacher at a kindergarten. A very
young child had been accustomed to
sec - bright dress upon it's mother, and
knew her only by color. A young lady
friend put on the dress and came into
the room where the baby was and was
Immediately taken for the mother. The
child had not progressed far enough to
distinguish between them by form.
Other children were similarly expert
mented upon, but they had been edu-
Gated in both form and color so as not
to be mistaken. After discovering op-
tics and forms, the child begins to
study sound, and soon distinguishes
the mothers voice from any other
voice. 1t also learns to distinguish
striking sounds from sounds produced
otherwise. Next follows the knowl-
edge of number. AS soon as a child
has one pain and one pleasure it begins
to learn number; when it realizes two
pains and two pleasures it has learned
number. 1t is just as easy for n child
to learn number by using cubes and
triangles as by illustrating with oranges
and apples. And as soon as the little
child can locate pain within it's body
in it's limbs or its head-there is To-
cality, the beginning of geography.
Its striking, kicking and wriggling
enables it to discover the smooth
ness and roughness of bodies. The
child begins next to study it's own form
its hands and feet. shall never for
get the pleasure and surprise that my
own little boy showed when he discov-
cred that he had ears. When he put
his hand on the side of his head and
found something he had not known of
before, there was thrill of discovery.
This Joy of discovery is like that which
thrills every true discoverer. We can
see these powers of discovery in the
first few weeks or months of the child s
lifa -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06
FOLLY SHOTS.
Flashes from the Court, the Strees
and the Theatre.

An academic joke:
1t is the custom for all aspirants TO D
seat in the French Academy to MAKE
visit to each one of the members to So
licit their vote.
M. Pailleron, who has just been ad-
mitted, was fulfilling this duty just pre-
vious to his election.
Calling upon M. Renan he was an
nounced by the servant The celebrar
ted critic went out to meet his visitor,
and after the usual salutes, III. Renan
said:
Take q chair"
II beg your pardon" replied the au-
thor of lie Monde ou IONS 'ennuie, !"
'.but it is an arm chair that have come
to ask you for"
DR.. X. has just lost one of his best
clients.
As he had been friend of the family
for number of years the members OF
it insist upon his following his last pa
tient to the cemetery.
After all the orators have celebrated
the virtues of the dead man, the doc
tor leans over the grave and in voice
full of emotion murmurs:
"Ah! Monsieur Cadet, what times
we live in! The other day my grand
child said that was reprobate!"
Cadet in very conciliating tone:
"Well. you know there are no secrets
in families.
At grand dinner.
A very Needless gentleman who talks
a great deal forgets that his neighbor,
young lady, is prematurely large, and
cries out:
Il do not like large women"
The lady bites her lips; the gentle
man sees he has made blunder, and
to repair it as gallantly rs possible, he
adds:
"When they are young, madamr'
At the club:
"Where are you going. Raoul7''
I'm going first to Monte-C Carlo and
then to Naples"
MY dear boy, if you take my ad-
vice you will begin with Naples and
finish with Monte-Carlo; it is more pru-
dent"
Mile. Andree is three years old; she
is playing with her doll, and in her
talk with it she calls herself lady.
You lady?" says one of the friends
present, purposely to bother her.
Certainly l am lady. l already
thrash my little oner'
A part of the Paris cabmen are on q
strike.
One of the raw replacers was over
heard yesterday making bargain with
stout party.
Never mind the course or the hour, u
said the new recruit, II will take you
by the weight or not at all!''
"Whv do you never pay your debtsp''
asked x. of one of his acquaintances.
MY dear boy, do all can for my
creditors. Whenever there is new
lottery authorized always buy few
! tickets. You never know what may
happen.-1ransIated from the French
| By Boston Courier.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

In the vocation of fishing, during the
past year, seventeen Gloucester (Mass.)
vessels were lost and 200 lives were
sacrificed. OF these men lost at sea,
forty left widows, and sixty-eight child
rcn were bereft of their natural protec-
tors. In the stress and strain of a sea-
faring life seventy-one men were cap
sized or were driven from their crafts,
and were carried ashore or rescued by
passing vessels after Incredible hard
ships. The total tonnage lost was
2. 120. valued at $91, 300, on which there
was an insurance of $76,972. In 1882
the total losses We're 115 lives, and
twelve vessels valued at $40, 7UO.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

'Let me see,' said q young lady
graduate to an intellectual friend. :'was
it Pope who wrote the HAD. or was it
the lliad who wrote PopeP" Neither"
replied tho intellectual friend. "It was
blind Homer who translated the Iliad. !"
"Oh, yes. now / remember. l would
give anything for your cleverness, but
please tell me. what is the Had, any
way?" ''Why, its poem telling all
about an Old fellow who lived in a tub
of water" II don't believe that man
gould live in a tub of water, do youp"
'Qh, no, bgt then we must not ques-
ton ancient mythology"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

At a recent meeting of the Massa-
chusctts teachers one speaker advo-
Gated letter writing as very good
method of teaching English compost
ton. tOnee o week. she said, ~ have
the write So1ds lSteFs fmans srs III them
the purpose. For correcting exercises
] use q few of the signs used by proof
readers, since they are as easily learned
as arbitrary ones" -
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

Speaking of Alaska, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle says: ''Its climate is
on the coast less rigorous than that of
Newfouudlancl, or Sweden, or Norway,
or the.laItic coast of Russia. There
are GOOD reasons for the belief that
wheat can be made profitable crop in
parts of the Yukon valley. And the
oedars OF Alaska are better and lnnn,
ileiy. more IRexhauStible than the iameu
esdars ui Lebanon"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

Spain now has an annual yield of
about 4o,5Q0, 900 gallons of wine, which
places h0r in the fourth rank among
Wine=growing countries. being sur-
passed only by France. Italy and Aus
tria- Hungary.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06
TRAINS WESTWARD.

Trains Nos, 8, d and % on Main Line ant
Mahoning Division run daily, and between
Cleveland and Pittsburg daily. Other trains
daily except Sunday.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Coaches run as fol
lows:
On Nos anc 3. between Chicago and Hor
nellsviile, via Marion and Chicago n Atlantic
Railway. Parlor Cars between Cincinnati and
Gallon, and between Hornellsville and New
York
On Nos. 3 and IL between Cincinnati and New
York Getween Chicago, New York, Albany
and Boston. via Marion and Chi ago & Allan
tic Ry (no sleeper between Albany and Boston
Coach betwt en- Chicago and New York. via
Mansfield and 2. +. w. & e. Ry.. (E. u Z. Line
On Nos and s. New Fast Trains) betwecl
Cleveland and New York, and Pullman Draw
ing Room Buffet Sleeping and Hotel Coachc
between st. Louis and New York in connection
with o. 4 nj. Ry
CONNECTInNs:-At Cincinnati with road,
diverging; at Marion with Chicago Il Atlantic
Ry.; at Mansfield with the + f. w. sc Ky.
at Leavittsburg, with Mahoning Division o
N. Y. p & D. K r.. for Cleveland, Youngstow I
and Pittsburg and local points: at Cleavelant
with roads diverging; at Shenango with ) 4
4. r ; at Meadville with Franklin Brsnci
1T Cory. with r. y. Y. & z. K r., and Penna
20 at jamestown with Il 4 S. w, for Buffalo
and Niagara Falls; at Salamanca with N Y
l. K u W. K. K. and X. & P K. X.
No"stop-over'' allowed u pom local ticket,
A. f, CLARK,
General Passenger and Ticket gent,
CLEVELAND. o.
J.. w FERRIS,
General Superintendent.
ILRvELAND. q
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

The signal officers on Mount Wasls-
ington have only fortnightly mail.
They go down after it on boards, that
run on the railroad track Mt the rate of
mile a minute. and they climb back
on snowshoes,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06

Ear Trains are run on Central or 9Oth Merid-
ian Time, which is 2S minutes slower than
Columbus time the standard formerly used by
this DAD.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20
PERSONAL.


Mr. Edmund Gosse the poet. has been made Professor
of English Literature the University of Cambridge
in place OF Leslie stephens, resigned.
Philippe D'Ennerv author of The Two Orphans" IS
said to have amassed fortune OF - 100000 from the
nearly three hundred plays he has written
Mr.. Hubert Herkomcr Is taking a vacation. camping
ont in Wales. His encampnen of three tents
and two painting hus. lie IS accompanied by his
father. who spends much time at his Old profession
wDOd-Carving
The Rev. Dr. Huntington. rector of Grace Church.
writes from Rome that he "must be accounted ELI
gble for the vacant place" OF (P E. Bishop OF Maryland
In OF his election. he adds he would think il his
duty 10 decline the honor
Murat Halstead Editor OF The Cincinnati Commercial
gazette. who. with Mrs. Halsiead, has been at the Bre
WORT House In this city, and al Long Branch for several
days, enioyed a visit Sunday from his two sons Mar
shall and Clarence who are students at Princeton, y j.
Mrs Leonowcns, former goverDess to the King Of SIAM
a recent interview with the Siamese Prince now on
mission to the United States Government, received
with expressions OF cordially and gratitude He
says that no would hardly recognize the Siam to-day
comparing with that of fifteen years ago. and be
butes the great regeneration that has taken place largely
to her influence the King and the young Princes com
mted TO her of whom he is one and all of whom are
now occupying high positions. Slavery has been abol
shed well as the Imprisonment of children for the
debts OF their fathers the system OF Jurisprudence has
been reformed Offices have been established public
schools endowed where the European languages are
TO enter the presence ofa superior his hands
and feet entirely done away with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20

numerous and influential but they are gencr-
ally connected with productive industries, anu
having knowledge of the interests OF the couh-
try and the needs of labor, are earnest support
FRS of the protective tariff. On the other hand,
among the ardent supporters OF Prcsident
Arthur appear such conspicuous free traders rs
Henry Ward Bcecher, Parke Goodwin and Is. IL.
Bristow, whose public reputation, however
great II may be. has not been gained III con-
nection with productive industries, ana whose
knowledge of the needs of labor may by some
be questioned. With them are associated Wall
Street bankers and lawyers, who have won
distinction in various ways,.but not as producers
or as protectionists. and not few importers OIL
foreign goods who would doubtless be pleased
TO have this country produce less and import
more. These gentlemen have perfect right to
their preferences, and the country also has a
perfect right to know that the importing mer-
chants of this city, and the bankers and lawyers
with whom they are in close relations, have IN
terests and opinions that are not necessarily in
accord with those of the millions who make the
Nation rich by their industry.
At this time Wall Street men may be fairly
reminded that the country is net quite enthusi-
astic abou! business methods here. III our
bankers had shown the conservatism IN their
own business which they discover in the con
duct of the President, the working people of the
country might now be in less danger from the
consequences of excessive speculation In
deed, this is perhaps the very city of all others
whose business men have least weight OF infir-
cncc by their counses just at present. Wall
Street is not sufficiently vigorous in health, at
this time. TO take the lead in am very powerful
M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20
4 SNAIL STEP THE HIGHT TAY.

SMALL S1EP 1HE Num- VA.
An effort is TO be made this week, it is said
TO induce the House to do something for the
financial needs of the country. Surely IT Is
time. TIE TEIBUNE will rejoice if the effort
shall prove even partially successful. for
though il NAV place the Democratic party i'll a
less discreditable position. il may help to shield
honest industry from harm, and may benefit
the country.
Legislation Is imperativey demanded on the
/ silver question. Probably there is not Il COM
/ pctcnt student OF financial questions i'll the
| country who does not sec that among all the
causes Of the present disturbance and peril, the
continued coinage of silver with the issue OF
paper certificates against silver coined is the
most potent Happily there are some strong
Democratic members who realize the danger,
! though they may not wholly agree with TIE
! TRIBUNE az 20 the remedy. They see that the
initiation of paper circulation, and the gradual
expulsion of gold by silver have shaken conf
dence and have caused Wild and harmful specu-
lati0n. All about lis lie financial wrecks caused
by this mischievous policy. If competent
Democrats are willing to make any rational
effort to check the evil, in this time Of cmerg
ency, it is the duty of Republican members to
give them earnest support. This is no time for
paitisanship, in dealing with measures Which
promise to help legitimate business or product
| i've industry.
The measure suggested by some, we are told
is embodied in a bill proposed by Mr.. Hutch
| ms, whose knowledge of business interests en-
ablcs him to realize the danger to which con-
timed coinage of silver exposes the country.
Ii cOntemplates suspension OF the coinage and
of the issue OF silver certificates only SO long
as the pile of silver in the Treasury not repre-
sented by certificates outstanding shall exceed
S33 600, 600. The amount of silver dollars in
the Treasury on Monday was $l36,519, S43,
and the amount of silver certificates outstand-
ing was $93, 95S, 741, 50 that there was an ex-
cess of nearly $43,000,000 III standard dollars.
The suspension of coinage, under such meas
ure as the one contemplated, might be very
brief. But it is fair to say that it would be
more likely to last long enough to afford pres
ent aId and to defer for a considerable time the
dangers chiefly apprehended.
Should such a measure be offered with pros
pect of any considerable Democratic support
the Republicans in the House ought to give it
hearty aid not as the right kind OF measure for
the public needs, but as promising some tenn
poraiy benefit If this Congress cannot be in
duced to do anything altogether wise or honest
it is still a duty which Republicans owe to the
public to get as much good out of it as they
can. Even a temporary and conditional sus-
pension of silver coinage would be better than
no suspension at all. The state of business is
such that any approach toward wise financial
legislation would be gladly welcomed with a
sense of relief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20

cation in any circumstances known to the pub
lic for Mr.. Pullman's assault upon the ex-Presl-
dents personal character; but even if suspicion
were pardonable, pray who commissioned this
Ncw-YorII preacher TO search out and declare
the secrets of another mans heart What right
has he to constitute himself an accuserg Has
the Almighty given him an exclusive private
view of General Grants consciencef
Sensationalism is so running riot in the pulpit
that certain churches 1--WE have not hitherto
classed Mr. Pulman's among them threaten to
become notorious for the dissemination OF reck-
less and libellous charges against individuals.
To dcnounce crime is a ministers duty but
when he charges criminal motives upon man
who, for all that he can know, may be Innocent
he becomes a criminal himself. There Is no
doubt that by his sermon on Sunday Mr.. Pull
man has made himself amenable to the law
and we believe that the church would gain II
the law interfered now and then and warned
sensational parsons not to anticipate the day OF
Judgment or usurp the functions of the record
ing angel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Indianapolis Sentinel alwaysin excited state
has been thrown into perfect frenzy since failure of
Grant Ward. SO great is Its sympathy for General
Grant that it is to declare that the Republican
party is rcsponsible--the Republican party which ia
the curse Of the land; "a stupendous nuisance y"
which took the General from the Army anil satan-Iike
nom the typ nigh mountain offered him Office and
glory and by whose Vaccinations he might vet he
driven into insane asylum unless the people come 10
the rescue. Nery II Is wicked world and the Repub
can party ought to CO.
The call for the Democratic National Convention In
vites the Democrats every organized Territory and of
the District of Columbia TO send delegates subject TO
the decision OF the convention TO their admission
This question has yet provoked much discussion
The Bu0do Courier does not believe that the Territorial
delegates will De admitted In our National Conyen-
ton,' says The Courier, there bogus cOustlu.
encies, and Democratic sentiment will hardly favor
measure calculated to create such.
Mr.. Flower has already inherited several small but
more or less thrifty 5Ooms" which encourage him 10
hope the grand old reforner himself may decide To
add codic TO his political will. Ex-senator Barnum of
Connecticut openly declares that he would rather drive
mules for Mr. Flower than for any other man IN the
country excepting only Mr. Iilden Mr. FlowAr,s clies
anxiety Just at present is lest me Sun should knife
him with poirat and he shudders every time be looks
at Mr.. Holman
The S. L0laS Republican ia not in favor OF sending
Governor Crtenden to the Democratic Convention and
apropos the Governors candidacy nmates that there
Is movement foot TO elect delegation nomnaly for
Mr. filden. wnch will sell him ont at Chicago
Republican Convention OF Cooke County. Tenn, late
y expressed by unanimous vote its choice of Mr. Blame
for the presdcncya fact which the delegates from that
district TO Chicago win DO very apt to remember when
they have cast ballot for Mr. Arthur II not before
The Iowa Republican dcegates-unanmous for Mr.
Blane-pPoSe TO be In Chicago days before the
convention meets I'm order that they may DO prepared
Use TO the best advantage the influence ro,rv belon
ing to lac representatives of great state which has ou
one candidate, and ardently desires his nomination
The statement that Senator Cameron hopes 60 conrive
some plan by which he may occupy the seat of Blaine
delegate In the convention and support another cand-
date Is denied on the authority OF mr. Chris Magee Mr.
Cameron mutually wants 10 be able next January, 10
name his successor In the senate, his he ~ should
forbid his succeeding himself
The FroeIrade Democrats of the Berkshire bills were
amazed whoa they discovered that they were ~ DC To-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20
4 EREE.IR4DE RALLK.

The business men of this city, who intendl to
express their desire for President Arthur's
nomination tonight, are probably unaware of
the fact that this is Democratic city, free
tiade city, and a city best known to most of the
Republicans of the country by reason of the
performances in and about Wall Street Just
at this time ii may be doubted whether advice
from the business men of New-York will have
very great weight Their entire inability to
control the votes of their own city, or even to
prevent atremendous Democratic majority here,
is not to their discIedit, any more than it is TO
the discredit of the scattered cOlored Repub-
licans in some Southern district that they are
overwhelmed at every election. But the Re-
publicans of the South have generally had the
modesty to observe that, they could not hope
to bring electoral votes to the support of a can
dldate, it would be both wise and becoming for
them to allow others to have the precedence in
shaping nominations.
There are business men of New York, and
very many of them, whose names do not APP
pear in the call for an Arthur demonstration.
The business men who do not appear in that
movement, it may DO added. are not only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-20
:yew2sork Daily Gribn,ss
souNprp BY HORACE GREELEY.
NEw-YoRK. TUESDAY. MAY 90.
7HE NEWS THIS MOANING.

FoREIGx.-The American Lacrosse team defeated
he Cheshire team at Rock Ferry, England, yester-
lav. - sam Ward died in Pegli Italy. -
The festivities attending the majority Of the
,zarewItch were continued in ~. Petersburg -
Government magazine at Abu-Hamed was cap
.nred by rebels. == Much property Was destroyed
andnine persons were burned TO death by fire III
Asia Minor ---- The Alert arrived at ST. Johns >.
\. F.. last night.
CoNGHEss-ln the Senate yesterday bbl was
reported favOrabv to establish another united
states judicial circuit Mr.. Lapham introduced
hili 10 authorize the bridging OF the Hudson Inc
senate insisted upon its amendments TO the lndlan
AUGMENTATION bills. --- In the House The Legis-
lative Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill
was reported aud referred. The House refused to
suspend the rules and pass the bill 10 abolish d's-
eliminating duties on works of AIT. The House
passed the Consular and Diplomatic. the Army ana
the District Of Columbia Appropriation bills.
Dom sTIC.-The suspension Of several banks was
reported from cities in vaiious parts OF tine country
- tornado occurred in Ohio. --= The Netho-
dist General Conference elected its missionary sec
rstaries - The Com entiOn of American Wheel
,nen began in Washington. -- The WoolgrowerS
CoDvenii0n m Chicago adopted taTlh pla'lor'h'
60 Ex-Attorney General MacNeagh Published
letter to General Bristow on President Arthur
Alexander " nlle, vi ~ - WIN
nitted suicide on account of financial losses. "
Michael Schaeier. of Annyiile, Penn, was bound
and gagged by robbers Ia his own house which was
set ON fire.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-C. c. Baldwin yesterday
resigned tie presidency of the Louisville and Nash
willie Railroad and J. S. Rogers was elected. --
Que comparatively unimportant fallure-that OF
W b. Scott & Co.-wss announced at the Stock
Exchange - Ferdinand Ward continued his
testimony before Referee Cole. --- The New
York Metropolitan and Brooklyn mines were
successful at baseball. - Mr.. Astens at
tempt 10 cut down the Excise appropriation
was defeated. - The concrete foundation Tor
the Bartholdl statue pedestal has been finished.
- The funeral of the Rev. Dr. Orin Dodge took
place - The Slamese Embassy were given the
freedom Of the city by Mayor Edison. - Gold
value of the legal-tender silver dollar l4l2l2
prainsl *. 90 cents. - Stocks were dull at de-
olining figures and closed rregularly feversh after
a partial recovery.
TN WEATHER-TRIBUNE local cbserv9tions in
dictate partly cloudy and cloudy weather with
slight changes IN temperature and occasional light
rain. Temperature yesterday: Highest, 500; low
est So: average. 65l2s.