The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-01-22
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
At Frankfort on the Main, Police
Commissioner RnnpT was killed with dag
ger in front or his residence by unknown
persons. As his effects were not taken, the
decd was clearly one OF vengeance. He took
an active part in the recent prosecutions Of
believed that socialism is responsible for his
death. A reward Of $50 IS offered for the
discos, RS or the murderer. Emperor William
was somewhat unnerycd on Icing informed
OF the crime.
A deficit Of -, OO0,O 900 is reported in
the Prussian budget for 1885. In the Reich
stag Bismarck announced that in order to
nccessars to treble the duty on wheat and to
double the tariff on rye.
An Anarchist plot has been unearth-
G j mt Lyons. France, which contemplated the
seizure By night OF arms and the immediate
proclamation of Il revolution.
4 party of army recruits made
fe, ocions attaca upoa the Jewish residents
nj NilAomcr. Russia. The police were power
less but The tiremen quccd the riot
Extreme restitution and suffering are
reported in the Spanish province Of Anda-
lusa.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
Premier Ferry mad. an Official declaration
OF the governments intention with regard to
Tonquin. lie stated that the Cabinet had do
cidei on the immediate and complete occu-
patton Of TOnluin rs the only means OF set
Ting the difficulty with China.
Great anxiety is felt in England con-
corning the movements OF the Nile expo.
dtion. 1t Is realized that the most critical
point has been reached.
Twenty-eight mon we're buried alive
by an explosion of frc-damp in the great
coal mine ut LEVIN au Pas de Calais, France.
All were killed.
Edmund Yates, editor Of the London
Iro,Id, who was sentenced to four months'
imprisonment for libeling Lord Lonsdale, win
be compelled To spend that length Of time IL
Jail, the court having dismissed his appeal
against the sentence.
Edmond About, the French journal
list and novelist, died in Paris, aged 81 years.
Practical Knowledge Versus hook Leasnlng.
It is not often that good word Is
said in behalf of Ignorance. Yet peo-
pie manage to get along very comfort
ably and be ignorant of great variety
of things. A man may be expert in his
particular business and he an excellent
hY,u1&0,l fnt1.ar nrl .st;1o,> all L~~a~p
nothing of geology, botany, chemistry,
mathematics or the dead languages. He
"av tor all practical purposes DO .
philosopher and know nothing Of the
schools of philosophy, their tenets and
systems. He may enjoy the heavens
and know nothing of astronomy. He
may be guileless of metaphysics and
yet be good Judge of character. He
may have abundant information on
many useful and some curious matters
and display habitual sound Judgment
on the affairs Of life and not know q
thing about Scsostris, or John Of
Gaunt, or be able to shed the slightest
light upon the vexed inquiry as to who
struck William Patterson. There arc
mnltit,des OF persons endowed with
capacious and retentivc memories, and
yeritable book devonrers who seem to
have . prodigions amount of knowl-
edge, who are not in point OF fact as
wcll-informed, as capable, and. mental
~ speaking, as disciplined and useful
as those who by volition or by circum-
stance are contentedly ignorant of
masses of things which do not impinge
upon them and for which they have no
need. The man who learns to call q
single article (say hiatt by four or Ave
different names il apt to plume himself
on some fancied superiority over tho
man who can make the hat, or the man
who can tell its manifold relations to
commerce. The mere storage Of 90.
styled knowledge is vaunted on every
hand, which is about as sensible as to
exalt warehouse over the field, noun
tains, workmen, machines and skill
which have prepared the things that
are to be stored in the warehouse. No
man is any the worse because he cannot
answer finland how far the Chincha
Islands lie from Lima or what Covers
Vox CLAIMANTS treated of, and no one
is SO oppressively wise for happening to
know, as to take on any airs thereat.
There are more book fools wandering
around loose than any other kind Of
fools Much learning has not made
them mad, but much memorized stuff
has often disabled them from acquiring
real knowledge. ans, smothcred in them
the invaluable faculty of independent
observation and judgment. There is no
design here to d:sparage knowledge. It
is good thing to have in the family,
but when sensible md able men and
women are sneered ut because they do
not know particular things, it is time to
take the asses who do the sneering by
their individual ears and march them to
the rear. This Is al ago of specialties,
aud although general information is q
source Of pleasure and entertainment.
it is always wisdom to forego the knowI-
edge of many things in or.ler to know q
few thoroughly and we'll. There is
partial ignorance which is the price
paid for great excellence in chosen
and exigent departments. Pittsburgh
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