The Press., 1885-12-24

A lady who had taught ScnOOl TOT over thirty years gave the following as result of her xperience: When new scholar was introduced, always looked at her dress. If that was plain, neat and tidy, was pretty confident that I had good ma terial to work with For the first two or three years of my teaching was i'll the habit of scrutinizing the features and formation of the heads, but these came at last to be quite secondary considerations. Our school was so expensive that none but the daughters of the wealthy could possibly enter it; so when a young lady came to the class room in plain dress, l was sure it was on account of her ideas of the fitness of things. This argued com mon sense. Common sense IS always Ill direct antagonism to vanity, and where there is no vanity, there Is seldom self consciousness. So, you see, plain dress came to mean great deal to me. learn ed never 10 expect anything from girl whose school dress was silk or velvet.
 Bishop McMahon was interviewed re- gently to learn if the secret and rapidly growing organization known as the Knights Of Labor comes under the ban of the Cath olic church. The bishop said that he did not consider the matter was "the thing" for him to discuss in the newspapers, but he added, that if he had any fault to find with the organization he would have con- demned it from the pulpit of every church of his in Connecticut. He did not know that the members of the Knights of Labor took an oath. Catholics say that hereafter their church will be more liberal toward secret societies, because, by the recent de- cree passed at Baltimore each so-called se- cret society must hereafter be considered separately before it is condemned by any Catholic priest.
 Before Artemas Martin was appointed librarian of the coast and geodetic survey. he was market gardener, owning small piece of land on Lake Erie and serving his customers regularly from his stall in Erie city. Suddenly the newspapers an- nounced that Mr. A. Martin of Erie had been made an honorary member of some learned society of Great Britian. No one in Erie seemed to know who he was. A few days later Michigan university made him 8 master of arts. For some time after this he tended his stall, and it was only a few months ago that he was appointed to his present office. He is one of the most thorough mathematicians in America.
 An explosion in the upper seam at the ToflQale plG, near EOnG-y-FflQQ, wales, yesterday, killed at least 30 men, while scores are terribly burned. There were 750 men in the mine at the time but most of them were ill the lower seam or the death list would have been much larger. The injured were carried to places of safe ty by their more fortunate companions who had not been hurt. The latest dis patches say that 320 men have been res- cued, seven of whom are so fearfulfy burn ed that they may die.
 The new editor of The Elliiay (Ga. Courier thus salutes his readers :: "We close with the trust that when the corrod- ing tooth of time shall harrow us no more and the tangling perplexities of life shall no longer harass the soul, when we all shall gather ourselves together and surren- der to the black banner of death, may the comfort of life well spent aud tt.s con- sciousness of duty performed usher us in to grander realities, where the refrain of angels is hushed ill the song of eternity. ,
 The priests in the Roman Cathollc dio. cese of Montreal have received letter from Bishop Fabre forbidding them tc meddle with politics in any shape, and di recting them not to use the pulpit to dis seminate their views when political ques tions are on the tapis, and not even te speak in private on political matters. The Riel matter is alluded to.