Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-20

the meaning of the law; and the Supreme
 court, by a majority of one, declares this
 ruling to have been correct. The negligence
 of the conductor therefore held to be the
 negligence of the railroad company, and
 verdict in favor of the engineer was sus-
 tainsd. Mir. Justice Field delivered the pre-
 vailing opinion; and with him concurred
 Judges Miller, Harlan, Woods and the chief justice Four members of the court-Jus-
 tices Blatehford, Bradley, Matthews and Gray-dissented, and filed the following I brief but clear opinion: 'EWe think that the | conductor of the railroad train in this case l was fellow servant of the railroad company l with the other employees the train. We think that to hold otherwise would be to 1 break down the long established rule with
 regard to the exemption from responsibility 1 of employers for injuries to their servants by 1 the negligence of their fellow servants
 I The Massachusetts Centinel, of which the Boston Advertiser is the successor in direct line, published the following interesting prophecy one hundred years ago yesterday morning: In the year 1793 the United States | of America will after many internal revoiu- 1 tions become a consolidated republican ! pire, will begin to have navy and become respectable. In the year 1900 they will have opened a trade to the East Indies. In 1807 I the long expected Northwest passage from Hudsons Bay to the Cape of Good Hope will l be discovered In 1910 new form of gov
 ernment will take place, by electing repub lican monarch after the manner of the Stadt- A. will have extirpated the race of Indians which were next their frontiers, and have drove others into the inaccessible mountains, as which they will have all the fur trade to themselves, supplied by such of their own subjects, half Indian and half American, who live in their back settlements. In the year 1879, being exactly a century from their emancipation, all the powers of Europe will be confederating to guarantee their West
 India settlements to each other from the power of the Americans, which will turn thoughts seriously to the extirpation of Euro peans from the new world.
 The matter of defective hearing in the public schools has been very carefully stud jed by Dr. Samuel Sexton, the we'll known aurist of New York city, and his conclusions are interesting. He finds that about thirteen per cent. of the children in the schools suffer from defective hearing, many of whom are not aware of their own deficiency, winch is also ignored by teachers. Many children are credited with stupidity or inattention and treated accordingly, who are simply unable to hear perfectly and struggle along under unrecognized disadvantages in consequence. Dr. Sexton advocates careful tests of the I hearing capacity of school children and 1 classification with reference to it. In many cases of slight defect the difficulty can be ] overcome by attention to seating them near l the teacher and to using the voice in way | to reach ther perceptions fully. In other l cases artificial aids to hearing can be used to | advantage. It is also shown that in special l institutions for the deaf there is a lack of l proper classification and of discrimination in | respect to degrees of hearing. Many are | treated as totally deaf who may be taught to l advantage through the hearing faculty by the | use of proper methods, especially if taken i'll I hand at an early age. Dr. Sexton urges l more thoughtful attention to the require 1 ments of children who are deaf or have de | fective hearing, but who are entitled to all l the advantage of education which they are capable of receiving.