Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-07

A COMMERCIAL traveller who has been
selling barbsd wirs fencing In Brasil writes
70 The Philadelphia Hrsss 70 post Northern
manufacturers and merchants on the tricks
oftrude With South America and makes
lt very plain that II Americana want that
business they must work for IT, All the
stsamship lines that may b subsidissd
will mot enable N 10 extend our commerce
unless NJ can sell cheaper or bsttsr goods.
Tmn school committee Of tho Philadel-
phia board Of public education on Thurs.
day eravsly considered the suggestion that
trimming school for girls should be estab-
Ilshsd In connection with the manual train
ing school for boys now In su0ccssfui
operation in that city.
Miss Charlotte Pendleton, represent
Ing the Educational Society Of Pennsyl-
wants, appeared before the committee with
3 plan which astonishsd them. "The fair
sex are 70 handle hammer, axe, saw and
trowsl and study the Same trades and
mechanical arts, with the exception Of
forging, - the boys Of the manual training
school. The new institution II 10 consist
Of . foundry, wood shop, modelling
room, . tlnsmIthing course, . drawing
room and . chemical and physical
laboratory. Miss Pendlston said that
II would have . peculiar advantage In
house keeping were women to be taught
the principles Of the use Of tools" Prln-
cipal eayre, Of the boys training school,
supported this novel Idea, and member
remarked that all women are not wives,
and some OF those who are have not good
husbands. Instructions Of this kind seemed
nsossaary. Superintendent MacAlister
appears 70 have boon aws-struck by the
novelty Of the suggestion and begged them
10 remember that they were discussing .
department Of education unknown TO tho
world before, 20 the committee adjourned
70 think II over. To many this enterprise
win appear hopeless, for the most intslli-
gent women will use chisel for screw
driver, drive screw like nall, and open
sardins can with hatchet.
TEE champion Ash liar ought TO surren-
der his medal to the ''old timer" who tells
published elsewhere.
TEE Russian letter made public by
George Kennan, and published to-day, pre-.
sents with striking realism . national
peculiarly Of the Russisns, their low
Asiatic valuation Of life. The hunger
strike seems TO people Of tho west pecu-
liarly upside down Chinese idea, and COM
mitting suicide by way Of revenge upon
ones enemies 10 certainly Chinese notion
In this casa, according TO the lottcr, large
number Of the political prisoners contem.
plated suicide on the moro announcement
that they were 10 be treated ~ convicts. II
must be remembered that these pr..Unef,
are r9eruitsd from the most Intelligent
An innnhly educated portion Of the
population and many Of them are moi
NihilIsts, aud yet they seem to be entirely
without the religious scrnples or tho sense
Of responsibility which restrains western
Europeans and Americans from self
murder.
Mn. BurTERwoRTH, Of Ohio, appears 10
bo pretty etfectually smothered by the
Democracy, and 20 IL wise enough to begin
training himself In the use Of Democratic
tariH reform thunder.
A PrrTsBURa dispatch tells OF "a party
Of befooled and befiddled Swedes and
Hungsrians who passed through that city
On their way TO Kansas, where European
immigration agents had led them to expe
FREQ gifts OF houses and land. As they had
oil been shipped from Stockholm 1t may
be doubted whether there were any Hun.
garians among them, but It seems TO be the
custom to assume that immigrants who
speak any particular strange tongue are
HungnriAns. These miserable foreigners
had not cent among them and are sure tc
have hard time In the West. Our consul
lar service might be used to csuntersct thu