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The examiner., 1886-02-13
INTOLERANCE.

INTOLERANCE, either in religion or politics is one of the greatest obstacles to the progress and improvement of mankind. Less than 100 years since one of England's most learned scien- lists and clergyman, had to flee for his life from Birmingham, the city where he was settled as pastor, for holding a somewhat more rationalistic view of religion than was embraced in the creed of the established church of which he was member. He was suspected also of believing in the equal rights of all men; and for these two offences he was attacked by mob, which though he elluded, the senseless crowd set fire to his dwelling and burned his library, his laboratory and all his scientific apparatus, together with all his invaluble manuscripts, the work of a lifetime. This man was Dr. Joseph Priestly, who in 1774 discovered oxygen gas, discovery that revolutionized chemistry and physiology, and imparted a new i'm pulse to science; as Prof. Draper said, 'Sit was a discovery rlvalling that of universal gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton" He was called the father of pneumatic chemistry. Yet for all his scientific achievements which have been of such untold benefit to man he and his family were ostracised, perse- cuted and practically banished from thelr native land.
 Priestly came to this country in 17e4, but even here in the realm of thought he was in advance of his fellow men, and of course the blood-hounds of In tolerence bayed after him, but at a more respectful distance. That was nearly century since, but Intolerance still lives and we see exhibitions of it occasionally all around us.
 Dr. Prieatly died at his home in Penn. in 1894, . and half a century afterward in England whose people had driven him into exile, they built a statue for him, and vied with this country in doing honor to his memory. But this is the way of the world. It crucifes its benefactors, then deifes them or builds monuments over their ashes. But this inconsistency is better than no manifestation at all It shows that Ignorance is hobbling along after Truth, and doing homage at each mile stone.
The examiner., 1886-02-13
ANOTHER "OLD HICKOR I"
 WANTED,

ONCE, Notification was thought to be indigenous only to South Carolina
 But "Old Hickory" swooped down and stamped it out there quite suddenly. Latterly it seems to have sprung up again in Washington, for the Treas ury officials for years have refused to comply with the statutes in regard to the disposition made of the coin re- ce1ved for duties on imported goods. First, the law required these duties to be pad in coin and that 1t shall be applied, first to the payment in coin of the interest on the bonds and notes of the United States. Second to the purchase or payment of one.per cent of the public debt each fiscal year. Both this and the proceeding Admin istration have entirely disregarded the law,-have never applied the coin as required, and Secretary Manning, with the President, has the unparal- leled impotence to tell the people that the coinage of silver must be stopped as ''it cannot be made 10 circulate" ]" when all the time he has it locked up in the Treasury vaults, and stands like Cerberus guarding the doors to keep it out of circulation
The examiner., 1886-02-13
THE USURER'S PRAYER.

Our father who art in London and whose sanctuary abidethin Wall street, Shylock be thy name, thy kingdom come in this our favored land as in the lands beyond the sea, and thy will be done in Washington as it is in other capitals where thy throne abounds. Give us each day our dividends on Watered Stocks and our interest on thrice paid Government Bonds; may our trespasses never cease, and lead us not into the temptation of considering the prayer S and interests of the Landless and the Homeless, the tears of the women we have Clothed in Rags. TOT the cries of the children we have Deprived of bread. And oh, most mighty Shylock, bless our great High Priest at Washington, who closeth the doors of the National Treasury and keepeth the Shekels of Silver from the people; and bless thy servant, the ruler of the nation, kisteth before the altar of the High Frggsassnd sniffelh the smoke of his sacrifice and crieth, amen amen And we pray thee Shylock, thou who reignest supreme in our hearts, to confound our enemies-the Silverites, and the Greenbackites who maketh war upon us in the great Sanhedrim of the nation, and above all the (Kn)ies of Labor with their internal arm tf resistance to our vested rights-the remorseless Boycott. May their days be few and may others fill their office; deliver us from the evil of Paid off Debts and Bonds, and Secret Ballot Laws, and thine shall be the glory, the power and the poodle forever and ever, Amen
The examiner., 1886-02-13

THE manipulators of the news across the water blame the Socialists for the big riots of London. This is strictly in accordance with scientific warfare. The highway robbers of old always shot down one of the lead ing coach horses in his raid for plum der. The English press people, how ever, are not desperate enough to charge the hunger of the unemployed thousands on the Socialists too, and therefore many will still continue to associate the rising in some way with the want of bread and employment. But the Socialists can stand the odium, if the Government can stand the pressure. On this side of the water, his excellency of Washington is or dering out the man-killers that the Chinese may continue to supplant good Democrats who cannot learn to contract their stomachs, and live like the ''haythen.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

THE Free Religious Association of Massachusetts sent in two petitions to the Legislature of that State, one praying that the right of citizens to obtain justice in the courts shall not be defeated on account of the theo- logical opinions of witnesses. A will had lately been made void there, be- cause a witness to 1t did not entertain the same theological views as those of the men who framed the statutes. The other petition is for change in the Sunday laws, so that license to fraud be no longer given, by making 1t impossible, as now, 10 bring an action for damages against rogues who cheat on Suuday-thus annulling the maxim of "The better the day the better the deed" .
The examiner., 1886-02-13
THEY WEREN'T THERE.

Ar the different hearings given by the Committee on Labor we had at least expected to see few of the good philanthropic women of Connecticut in attendance to appeal in behalf of their own sex and the little ones com pelled to toll in some of our factories eleven hours or more per day. Think of the cruelty-and the more cruel because unnecessary, of little children from the tender age of eight years and upwards, reused from their cots while the stars are still shining, with the sleep of childhood still pressing upon their drowsy eyelids, still weary with the toll of the proceeding day, hastily swallowing a meager breakfast, and then, thinly clad, hurrying out into the frosty air, their little feet batter ing over the icy pavements to their ceaseless round in the disease breed ing air of the factory, all through the long hours of the day till after gas light, thus defrauded of their child hood and the education that belongs to it, stunted in mind and body, wrecked mentally and morally before the years of maturity arrive.
 Such barbarism and cruelty right in the midst of us, we thought would appeal to the sympathies of woman kind. But we were disappointed j; women were conspicuous only by their absence. We know their feelings are alive to sin and suffering in distant lands, that they devote time and strength and money to save the hea- then in the islands of the South sea or the interior of Africa, but forget our heather at home.
 Is it, that we become accustomed to the every day sight of wrong, in justice, and wretchedness, till we do not realize it's presence and our sym pathies go out to that which we have not seen, but our imaginations are left free to exaggerate.
 However, the absence of the many should not permit us to ignore the presence of the one solitary female appearing at the second hearing-Mrs. E. P. Collins of Hartford, who alone was obliged to partake of the entire dose of consuming havanas puffed out in beautiful curling wreaths from the vicinity of the central figure of the group behind the railing.
The examiner., 1886-02-13
BRAIN PRODUCTS.

cONNEC TlCUT BRAIN PRODUCTS.
 Official list of patents issued from the United States Patent office to citizens o1 Connecticut on February 9, 1886. Re ported from the office of Patrick O'Farrel, Solicitor of Patents, Washing ton, D. c who will furnish information to our readers free:-
 Frank Armstrong and N. W. Vande- grift, Bridgeport; Vandegrift assignor to Armstrong, wrench.
 George ". Bigelow, New Haven, direct. acting engine.
 Anthony P. Buxton, assignor to Bradley & Hubbard Mfg. Co.,, Meriden, hanging lamp.
 Henry F. and F. l.. Case, South Man chester, paper finishing machine.
 John W. L. Colt and J. R. McNamara, Norwich, beer-drawing apparatus.
 James R. and J. Ferguson, Chester, bill-holder.
 Jacob Jacobsen, Norwich, bracket.
 Elisha J. Martin, Rockville, reel for fish, ing rods.
 John H. Newbury, Waterford, sash- holder.
 Samuel H. Richmond, Norwalk, stove-lid holder.
 EVelyn L. SmlLn, NeW Haven, ana E. A. Hitchcock, Waterbury, manufacture of Watch-crowns. John T. Smith, Rockfall, lock for revol- yers.
 Ralph L. Spencer, Hartford, assignor of one-half to H. o. Rose, Essex, sun dial. Wm. D. Spencer. Middletown, to Russel & Erwin Mfg. Co.,, New Britain, lcck. Alvin Taplin, Forrestville, assignor to Bristol Brass and Clock Co.,, Bristol, fric- ton pulley for lamps.
 James s. Taylor, Danbury, hat scalding and felting machine.
 Justus A. Traut, assignor to Stanley Rule & Level Co.,, New Britain, beading tool. George D. Tucker, assignor to Pratt & Whitney Co.,, Hartford, screw threading tool.
 Hyram A. Tyler, Stamford, and B. McGovern, Bridgeport, billiard chalk holder.
 Harry A. Wales, Bridgeport, artificial ear drum.
 Chas. D. Warner, Ansonica, electric clock system.
 DESIGNS.
 Chas. Casper, Meriden, handle for spoons, etc.
The examiner., 1886-02-13
GIRLS IN FACTORIES AND STORES.

When the overseer's wife makes her an-
 nual or semi-annual trip to the city to buy
 her dry goods, and is waited upon by &
 dapper little lady, well-dressed and we'll
 educated, she little thinks she is being
 waited upon by lady who is working for
 fifty cents per day, as is often the case. Not only working for fifty cents per day, the wages of a spooler-girl, but out of that must come two car fares each day, and such wages will afford her the luxury of church attendance.
 It will be seen that this reduces her wages to positively forty cents per day, and yet she must dress like lady and appear we'll at least ten hours per day. The en- ployer is pot to blame, either, for the woods are full of them," standing ready to fill all vacancies at those figures. The system is to blame, and the ministers of the Gospel preaching in costly churches at from S, 5,OOO to $1O,0O0 per year, do not add one cent to the wages of those girls. They are working for about what it costs te clothe them. The younger girls in either cotton or woolen mills are infinitely better of. They get equal, if not better wages. Their clothing during working days costs but little, and the temptation to spend money is much less in factory village than in a city, where appearances are greater than real worth. The help in factory village either pay each for what they buy, or there is money enough due them in the office. It is not so in the city. At least 50, and probably 75 per cent. of the well-dressed in cities are walking around in clothes belonging to their tailoru waiting for but dreading the bill that is t !, come.-Fsbre and Fabric.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

votes in the German Parliament with the representatives of the "commcn people, "and thereby make majority. Bismark and his King do not like this. Who is his King? William of Prussia, the man who when crowned, (if history does not lie, ) refused even to allow the church to consecrate his accession, but placed the crown him. self on his own head as a God-given right, and signifed to all his people that he reigned by favor of himself and God alone.
 No little country in the world has loved its liberty as have the sons and daughters of this outraged kingdom. They have been made for centuries the slaves of all the princeiy powers of Europe, and through it all they still retain a love of liberty and country. Every son of Poland has fought, in every way, in every cline, for liberty where such has been denied hls fellow men. The Great Napolean tried to crush out Poland, but he failed. The treaty of Vienna took it from the map ot Europe; put Follsh blood and Polish hearts, still circulate and beat to-day for liberty for all mankind. The diplomats made a mistake. They thought that years ago, a change in the map, the plotting out of a country's name, was the same as annihilat1on. It is not so, Poland on the map may have been obliterated, but the love of freedom, the advance to human liberty, the advocacy of the rights of man, still lives in the hearts of Polish men and women over all the world.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

THE reason usually assigned for denying women a voice in choosing their own rulers is that they are too angelic, too good to vote. A few years ago in many of the States clergy men, too, were denied the same right; but in later days it was found that ministers were not so transcendently good as had been supposed, in fact, were bad enough to be allowed to vote and help govern the State. A good many women are now anxious to learn to what degree of turpitude they must decend in order to be eligible to the full rights of citzenship.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

THE toiling millions seem at last waking up to the fact. that better social conditionis possible, and their demands are more and more heard. The sense of human brotherhood, and
 the community of human interests is
 broadening and deepening, giving token of the approaching millennial reign of peace and plenty on the earth that God made for aH his people but is wrongfully monopolized by the few.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

When private citizen disobeys the law, he is punished. Is the pub lie officer absolved from obedience to ii? Should not he, too, be punished when he violates it? Let us prate no more of the "maj esty'' of the law if it's officers may disregard it with i'm punity
The examiner., 1886-02-13

that the author of it is unknown. Even MT. John Fiske in his lectures here, few weeks since reiterated the same error.
 Why all this unparalleled injustice Be- cause the subject of it, is poverty stricken, comparatively unknown, and a woman. After she is starved to death, perhaps thirty years hence, Congress will make an appropriation of $1O0,O0O to build monu- ment to her memory. E. F. c.
 Hartford. Feb, 'S6.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

COLLEGES generally have educated our American boys as though they were the sons of titled paupers, dub- bed noblemen, and have silently taught them to look with contempt upon manual labor as something de- grading; and to aspire only to pro fessional or clerical pursuits, where
 the earning of the bread comes gen. erally by the sweat of other brows.
The examiner., 1886-02-13
TnJN ST1rAPT MIrr remarked

JOHN STUART MILL remarked, "I do not say that all conservatives are stupid, but I do say that all stupid people are conservative" They re fuse to lift themselves. or be lifted out ot the old ruts of cusfom-and tra- dition, no matter how absurd, fneon- venient or unjust they may be; and one with courage to deviate from the old ways is assailed as fanatic, crank, or communist.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

There are papers now that are not afraid to tell the truth, and we advise the workers if they would be free to read them; and among them we take pleasure in mention ing The AGIrAToR, The Examiner, the Winsted Press, and John Swipton's paper. All of these will give truth about the pirates if they have to go to sheol for it, Naugatuck Agitator.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

slider in turn that this world was not made for them alone; and that any success which leaves far in the dis tance other toilers less fortunate, to suffer unaided the rapacites of cruel remorseless system, is undeserving the sacrafice of men of heart, soul and principle.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

Intense feeling, not correct theory merely, is needed to-day. The eyer-growing pow erty of the many, and it's terrible resnlts spring from social disease. Its most dan gerous qualityis the power to render it's victims blind, indifferent, and helpless. To rouse them to their need of help is the first work. This done there will be no trouble to find the remedy. It is the leth- argy of the masses, benumbed by some fatal spell, that makes the situation Country.
The examiner., 1886-02-13

Col. INGERsoLL thinks he could have improved upon the plans of Prov idence by making health, and not dis ease, contagious. We believe health is now contagious-that cheerful,
 hopeful, joyous lives and companions ship is better tonic than any drug found in the shop of of the apothecary.
The examiner., 1886-02-13
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1886.
A STANDING OFFERI

A column week of THE EXAMINER is hereby placed at the disposal of anyone desiring to elucidate the following Wherein is there one fundamental point of issue between the Democratic and Republican parties of to day?
The examiner., 1886-02-13
THE EXAMINER,

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The Washington critic., 1886-06-11
THE COMMENCEMENT SEASON.
The College of Pharmacists, the Wa
verify Seminary and Miner School.

The College of Pharmacists, the Wa
verify Seminary and Miner School.
The commencement exercises of the Ma
tional College Of Pharmacy took place at
the National Theatre last night. The salu-
tatory was delivered by II. G. Easterday,
and the yaledictory by Francis A. st. Clair
The graduates were: w. G. Aldridge, Ed
win V. Conner, G. ii. Franzoni, L. II.
Hapelhnger, Max Koch, r. l.. Lynch, w.
@. Nuss, f. A. st. Clair, II. w. Jessford and
G. II. Weiss. The address to the graduates
was delivered by f. w. Clark, esq. A ban
quet followed.
tlcular, and the gentlemen present repre-
senting the officers of the college, faculty
and various classes responded to the toasts
presented with hearty good will. Professor
s. Waggaman, NJ. D., presided as toast
master, and s. Edgar Mahan, Phar. d., de-
livered an address Of welcome to the grad
uates.
Among those present were Mr. Charles
Becker, president OF the college; Professors
Messrs. Duckett, Milburn, Thompson,
Keim, Simms, Muncaster, Cole, Evans,
Henry, Acker, De Moll and others equally
well known.
Last night at the Church OF Our Father
the following young ladies graduated from
the Waverley Seminary: Misses Alma
Baird, Alice e. johnson, Edith II. Thomas,
Matte L. Church, Mamie H. Cartier and
Margaret G. Foster. The prizes were
awarded as follows: For instrumental
music, Misses Yela Lee, Mamie Cartier and
Belle Howell. For vocal music, Miss Susie
Greenwell; and for elocution, Miss Minnie
Riley. For improvement in French, Misses
Vela Lee, Alma Baird and Minnie Riley.
For penmanship, Miss Emile Jarvis. The
first honor scholarship medal was awarded
to Miss Alma Baird for highest average on
literary course. For the next highest average
the second honor scholarship medal was
awarded to Miss Alice johnson. Miss
johnson delivered the sautatory, Miss
Baird the valedictory and Miss Lipscomb
the address to the graduates.
The Miner Normal School held its com
mencement at the school, corner Of Seven
teenth and Q streets. The exercises were
varied and interesting, at the close of which
Commissioner Webb delivered certificates
to the following graduates: Alice V. Ash
ton, Rebecca D. Baldwin, George Brooks,
Cornela Costin, j. Eleanor Datcher,
Emma Davis, Josie B. Evans, Amelia j,
Heathman, Jane NJ. Hill, Mamie 4. Jack
son, Rosa johnson, Martha Llggons, LYDIA
Malvin, Sara Riddles, Aunie V. Ryder,
Emily f. Sewall, Anna Smith, NJ. Bessie
Smith, Mary NJ. syphax aud Carrie II,
Thomas
The Washington critic., 1886-06-11

rather lost his noddle by the attention
paid him. lie imagined that he con
ceived the whole matter, and was, so
TO speak, discovercr. He ended by
putting an injunction on Mr.. Stan.
ford's book in America, &c. AS |
looked over the pictures, the produc-
tion of which in q book with text cost,
as have stated, $40, 900, the remarka-
bic power of the horse in his front
legs, pastern, &c, was brought to light.
How could expensive experiments
Of that sort be made without private
fortunes to give the opportunity 1t is
popularly supposed that the Govern
ment can easily do such things, but
experience shows that there are great
many things the Government cannot
do at all Any man who would propose
In Congress to spend $4,000 to take
pictures of running horse or trotting
horse would be left Mt home by his con.
sttuents next time. A mans wealth
can do just those things which appear
to go beyond common sense, and yet
produce the largest results.
The Washington critic., 1886-06-11
ECONOMY IN CONTRACTS.
Examples of Reform in the Posto flee
~,

Examples OF Reform in the Posto Hice
Department..
There seems to have been most ex-
cellent management in the matter of
making contracts for postofIlce supplies
during the past eighteen months, and
as a consequence there has been great
saving to the Government. When
Judge Gresham was Postmaster Gen.
eral this business became considerably
mixed and some contracts were let
which proved afterwards to have been
not altogether business.like trans
actions. Postmaster. General Villas has
given special attention to this part of
the work under him, and he and Third
Assistant Postmaster General Hazen,
after much labor, now have binding
contracts which, while they will doubt.
less yield fair profits to the contractors,
will at the same time result In great
advantage to the public at large.
Take for instance the contract for
furnishing the Department with post
age.stamps, postal cards, registered
packages, tags, and official and dead
letter envelopes. This contract Is to
run four years from the 80th of June
last. The first year is near enough to
Its close to enable very good idea to
be obtained as to how 1t has worked so
far, and how 1t will work for the next
three years. BY the Both of the pres.
ent month 1t is estimated the books
will show that during the year there
was ordered by the Department
$1,032, ,253,5S0 worth of the supplies
under the contract referred to- and the
prices paid for them will show de-
crease of about 25.5 per cent. in the
postage.stamp outlay; about 1873 per
cent. in postal cards and about 45.5 per
cent. in the other articles, making a
saving of about 24.4 per cent. over the
outlay for similar articles during the
previous fiscal year.
Take, again, the contract for stamped
envelopes which has just been made by
the Postmaster. General for the four
years commencing July next. There
was a great deal of preparatory work
before the Department advertised for
proposals for those envelopes. This
work consisted of getting the most
suitable paper for the different styles
of envelopes. changing the styles of
the old ones and other work of that
kind. The new envelopes will be Of
very convenient sizes. Some of them
will be sold so cheap to the public as
to make them very unpopular with
stationers. There will even be en-
yelopes made of the cream. .colored
paper and in the square shape now so
popular among the ladies. There will,
1t is estimated, be ordered by the De.
partment during the next four years
$3,2S0, 600 worth Of stamped envelopes.
If 1t should pay for them on the basis
of the present contract disbursement
of over $3.50, 900 more than that sum
would be necessary. The result will
therefore be saving of nearly mil
lion dollars, or about 25 per cent AL
together the Postoflice Department in
purchasing Its supplies is making an
excellent record.