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Year: 1874

The normal school at Tokei was estab-
lished in order to obtain supply of
properly trained teachers for new graded
schools, which, according to the scheme
of the education department, are to num-
Der over $4,000. It was begun in the
following manner: A class of twenty
five picked young men was formed, and
began the study of English. They were
fresh and unspoiled, and learned with
great rapidity. At certain point, as
soon as they could understand the ordi-
nary expressions of their foreign instruc-
tor, the study of English was dropped.
They had been taught so far, simply for
the purpose Of becoming familiar with
the manner in which foreign teacher
instructs class, and maintains discipline
1t was something very different from
what they had been accustomed to. In
japanese schools, a teacher usually
takes class of SIX or less, and instructs
each scholar separately. They know
nothing of reciting in concert, and the
discipline in large school is, in respect
of noise and irregular attendance, about
equal to that of the very worst country
schools at home. As soon as these young
men had learned how a class in foreign
school is taught and managed, little
children were brought in, formed into
classes, and the young men set to teach
them. This they did in the presence,
under the eye and by the aid of their
foreign instructor. The latter did not
know the Japanese, nor did he need it.
At present there are 80 young men
from all sections of the empire, in train
ing to be teachers Correspondence Yale
COurdnf.
Year: 1874

GENIUS FROM BROKEN HEADs.-A
writer in the British Colonist notes va
rious instances of the transmutation of
idiocy into genius by head breaking ac-
cidents. The great German Wallenstein
is said to have heen but half witted
child, until a fall from window and
consequent cerebral fracture suddenly
redeemed his intellectual nature. The
famous Mabilen was irreclaimably idiot
ic until in his nineteenth year, when a
fall down stone staircase turned him
into a genius. In an English lunatic
asylum one patient struck another tre-
mendous blow on the bridge of the nose,
and from that moment the stricken man
rapidly regained his sound mind. In
fact, one of the. old English remedies
for imbecility and madness was revol-
wing swing, whirling around hundred
times in a minute. The patient was
strapped Ihelplessly to a machine, which,
after hundreds of dizzying revolutions,
was stopped with a frightful jerk, at the
very height of its velocity. And there
is indisputable evidence that many as
tonishing cures were wrought thereby
Year: 1874

FEMALE COOPERATIVE MANUFAC-
ToRY.-The strike of the female opera
tives employed at a certain firm of shirt
makers in New Haven, Connecticut,
about week ago, against reduction of
the shamefully inadequate wages they
were then receiving, has excited the
sympathy of observers in such a shape
as promises permanent relief to these
poor girls, as we'll as the satisfaction Of
founding formidable rivalry to their
former employers. As soon as the in
formation Of their strike and its cause
became known, they were advised to
form a cooperative shirt factory of their
own, and pecuDiary assistance was pro-
missed. Since then over 81 400 worth of
stock has been taken by well disposed
people, and operations will soon begin.
But the best Of all is that the Sovereigns
of Industry are to contribute $500 to
the fund, and take their pay in shirts


Under sthe circumstances it is hoped
that an organization has been started,
which will not only inure to the steady
benefit of these peculiar girls, but will
also furnish an example for other girls
so situated to follow, ard for close-isted
and parsimonious employers to avoid.
Year: 1874

As OTHERS SEE Us.-The following
is the way writer in the last
number of the Edinburh Review speaks
of the people of the United States. at
appears to be now acknowledged by the
most competent American authorities
that nothing can be more corrupt than
the representative bodies in that country,
whether Federal Congress, State Legis-
latures or municipal corporations. No
body can have watched the course of
events in the United States during the
past dozen years without having been
painfully impressed by the varied mass
of evidence of the marked deterioration
that has taken place in the personal
character Of their public men. Moth
ing that we could say on this subject
could be stronger or more injurious to
the party in power than the statements
which have appeared without the con-
tradiction in the most respectable organs
of the press in New Nngland, or indeed
than the evidence taken before the
American courts of justice in several
memorable cases."
Year: 1874

MARvELoUs.-Among other wonders
of Brazil is the wonderful pottery tree
of Para. This tree attains height Of
100 feet before sending out branches; the
stem is very slender, seldom much ex-
ceeding one foot in diameter at the base.
The wood is hard, and contains large
amount of silica-not so much, how
ever, as the bark, which is largely en-
ployed as a source Of silica in the man
ufacture ofpottery. In preparing the
bark for the potter's use, it is first burn
ed, and the residue is then pulverized
and mixed with clay in varying proper
tions. With an equal quantity of the
two ingredients a superior quality Of
ware is produced. II is very durable,
and will bear almost any amount Of
heat. The natives employ it for all
culinary purposes. When fresh the
bark cuts like soft sandstone, and the
presence of slick may be readily ascer-
tanned by grinding piece Of the bark
between the teeth.
Year: 1874

A recent writer offers certain interest
ing facts regarding the relative weights
Of men and women, from which we con-
dense as follows: The average weights
of boys at birth range a little over six
pounds and half while girls fall lit
tie below this figure. For the first
twelve years the two sexes increase ia
weight in about the same ratio, after
which time the boys take the decided
lead-the result being that young men
of twenty average about oHe hundred
and forty-three pounds, while the aver
age for young women Of the same age IL
twenty-three pounds less. Men reach
their heaviest bulk at the age Of thirty
five, their average weight at that tine
being about one hundred and ffty-two
pounds. The maximum Of weight il at
tanned by women at fifty years, and is
about one hundred and twenty-eight
pounds. The weight Of the average man
or woman at full growth is about twenty
times that at birth.
Year: 1874

Who made the first horseshoe? We do
not know, and doubt if any one does.
We can get pretty good idea of what
the first one was like from the kind now
that belongs to farming is at the present
day very much as it was in the time of
"Moses and the prophets" The corn is
trodden out by oxen just as it was in
Scripture times, and if Adam ever did
any plowing he probably used the crook
ed stick that at the present day turns
soil of the Holy Land. A gentleman
attached to the Oriental Typographical
Expedition-which is engaged in sur
veying the Holy Land-recently brought
us an Eastern horseshoe. The shoe
seems to have been beaten out of a
piece of iron, and beaten so thin as to
make hole in the middle, which is left
of an irregular shape. The shoe at the
edges is not thicker than ordinary paste
board. OF course, horse with so
much fiat iron on his feet would not be
very sure-footed, SO the nails by which
the shoe is fastened to the hoof are made
with very large heads. The Spaniards
are not much in advance of the Orien-
tails in their farm implements, and in
those parts of America settled by the
Spaniards we find no improvement has
taken place for centuries. The Mexican
shoe is rather ahead of the Egyptian
affair, but looks very odd in comparison
with those we use. The Mexicans do
not, as general thing, shoe their horses
and mules, but in rocky country they
are obliged to, and this is the kind Of
shoe they use. The nails by means OF
which the shoe is attached, have heads
which project from the surfaces of the
shoe about half an inch.-American Ag
ricuLturist.
Year: 1874

The coffin was borne up the aisle of
the Episcopal church, the first part of
the service read, then taken back to the
hearse, the procession reformed and
marched to the grave. ttDust TO dust"
three volleys from the muskets-then
remitted to the memory of his loved
ones and the trump OF the last day.
Year: 1874

The news of the foul, unprovOked and
utterly inexcusable murder few from
lip TO lip, from man to man, nom street
to street, and cry OF vengeance was
raised. BY ten O'Clock the sidewalks on
Broad street swaTmed with armed men,
who had determined that the murderer
had seen the sun for the last time. AT
eleven O'CLOCK the signal was given to
move upon the jail, when the streets
leading to it were at once filled. Arriv-
ing at the prison the keys were demand
Year: 1874

and attitude; imagine brief waltzes and
short promenades, broken by the con-
tinually recurring mazurka step, and by
a dainty stamp of the dancers foot, and
lifting now Of one arm and now of
another. But you never will imagine it;
you must come to St. Petersburg and
see it,


1t was especially beautiful to watch
the skill and lightness Of one male
dancer named Ceschinski, and the per
feet ease and training of an old man
who waved handkerchief in his hand
as he made his steps, and called down
loud applause. He always ended his
figure by dropping on one knee and
kissing the hem of his partners blue
dress.


| was told, and ought to have been glad
to hear it, that the very prettiest and the
most perfect of the female dancers is
the mother of seven children; but pos
slbly my informant may merely have
prsctlced gratuitous piece Of cruelty.
When at last the dancers passed off the
stage there was laundering applause,
and loud cries of Bis Bis" They
showed themselves and went again, but
still the call continued louder than ever
Will they Gomez" "No, they won't. y
Yes here they are!" and on they came
again, rRi gave US a second pleasure.


In r. capital of Europe will you hear
and see such trained choruses and corps
de ballet as in St. Petersburg, where
they are all carefully trained in the I'M
perial school, which educates at one
time three hundred ballet girls. Can
one imagine an English Government
conducting the education of ballet
dancers? Yet Russia is country with
tenfold more religious observance in it
than England.
Year: 1874

Alas for veilsl From the tiny infant
in the nurses arms to the ancient widow
in her weeds, the whole sex is veiled.
Wells answer many purposes. They
conceal defects, they highten beauty,
they cover grief and so we see a whole
race of women of every age, style and
condition laying foundations for dis
eases of the eye through an almost
needless fashion. These binders are of
every conceivable style, from the white
dot on the child to the English Grape on
its grandmother. The best oculists give
testimony against this wholesale wear
ing of wells, and we think they should
make protest against it, even at the risk
of injury to their calling. At least let
the mothers of to-day look to it
that they will be held responsible, in
another generation, for suffering their
little ones to go yelled as the matrons
of past generation were for allowing
tight lacing and all the evils which that
distressing practice entailed.
Year: 1874

From the Pail Mall Gazette.


When, some years ago, the press was
called the fourth estate, that title seemed
too large and presumptuous, but nobody
can think it inappropriate now. The
power of the press is enormous, and it
goes on increasing year by year, while
the force of no other form of persuasion
or authority Except the law is fully
maintained, perhaps Therefore, un-
less it continue to be controlled by a
patriotic, judicial and lofty spirit-if it
become the instrument Of club arrange
ment and parlor conspiracies-inasmuch
as it becomes the tool of secretaries, of
demagogues, of TIE foul furieux, of SER
vile capitalists with drawing rooms to
conquest, or even of the raging sim
cere pedants who are now begin
ming to infest it, the press will
soon be not only an enormous power,
but an enormous peril. We confess
that, for several years past, we have
been oppressed with an apprehension
that the time was nigh when this danger
wauld appear unmistakably; but the
events of the last fortnight have shown
that its time is not yet. After gay and
glorious period of service journalistic
hunkeydom meets with its reward. 1t
retires from the dickey-epaulets, stick,
buttons and all-with the painful con-
sciousness that ribald public has been
laughing at the straw in its magnificently
padded calves for a long time. The
people generally, we find are as ready
to detect insinceriy and bombast, as
ready to contemn the come-for-to- go.for-
to-fetch-f fort carry gentleman of the
press, with all his inspirations and emo
tions. as may well be desired.
Year: 1874

story from that point. She fed with
her lover, and few months later he de-
serted her. By selling her jewelry she
paid an emigrant passage to New York.
Her baby was born on board ship. She
had searched the streets for the man she
believed was her husband until she had
no hope left. Even if she found him
he might repulse her. Her baby was
sick, and in devoting herself to its care
she had lost her work. Now she was a
beggar No, she would not give her
name; her friends should never know
her fate.
Year: 1874

A VALUABLE Cow. A. Gibbons,
residing near River Bank, in this county, is
the owner of an extremely valuable COW, her
value arising from the properties of the milk
which she gives. Her milk is so rich that
Mrs. Gibbons collects large quantities of pure
butter from the pans or crooks in which the
milk is deposited This, too, without the regu
lar and frequently tiresome aud tedious process
of churDiug! Not only is the milk of this COW
extremely rich in butter producing qualities,
but it is very large in quantity, the collection OF
butter being for week at time not less than
three pounds per day, or one and half pounds
at making And this is not the result of
any extraordinary stopping or keeping, this
wonderful butter-making cow running 10 the
field and having only the same care and atten-
ton bestowed by Mr. Gibbons upon his other
COWS. He is satisfied that with extra attention
prime and entirely fresh, the astonishing
amount Of twenty. i've pounds of butter per
week In fact from the milk of this COW of a
solitary churDing during the last fortnight,
Mrs. Gibbons collected one and three quarters
of pound Of butter The butter made from
the rich milk of this wonderful animal is, of
course, superb article, being when worked
out and dressed in the usual way, firm and
solid and entirely free from all extraneous mat.
ter. We are quite sure it would command
premium anyw here as standing al the head Of
the list of the best butter. Although this cow
is now yielding twenty-ooe pounds Of butter
per week, she is, as stated, not entirely fresh,
and is not yet in her prime, only having had
her third calf. This COW is not for sale, and
we are willing to be held responsible for the
truth of the statements made respecting her
wonderful butter producing qualities. Rock
mghan, Register.
Year: 1874

LNURSISHED-A FOUR STORY BROWN STONE
y handsomely furnished House, situated Central


Park rent low to responsible party and small family
house has every convenience; part tax In
by owner Call on or address OWNER. lN East Fifty
seventh
Year: 1874

HANDSOMELY FURNISHED ROOMS ON PARIoE
ani third floors suitable for man and wife sin
Re gentlemen with all modern improvem ements in good
location Is East Ninth street. door from University
place.
Year: 1874

Some months ago, we stated the purpose of MT. E. OchOa to start the business of manufacturing woolen goods in Tucson. That purpose is practically executed, and this week some very excellent blankets have been turned out of the loom-only one loom being yet in operation. Seven men are engaged in the work. The first blanket made was a real beauty, and evi- dently more serviceable than beautiful. The warp is cotton and filling wool, but goods of all wool will be manufactured. The beginning is made-that is the great point. There is no doubt of the success of the enterprise. The wool is grown here. Dye-stuffs of fair quality, with few~excep- tions are now gathered freH the wild shrubs in this vicinitygr Labor is not high and the cost 0F~fhe principal articles of living but little if any greater than in the old States, and no higher than in New England. When made, the goods will be at market. The item of freight will not count in the selling price. More men will be employed in the com munity. The way to build up a place is by producing as nearly as possible all local wants and as much as can be tor sale abroad. MT. OchOa in thls enterprise. is a benefactor to Tue son and the Territory.
Year: 1874

It will be known ere many months whether We can depend upon an early or far-of construction of the Texas and Pacit- ic railway. Col. Scott, President of the road, announces his purpose to go before Congress with a well-defined proposition for ample government aid-not for money, nor more lands, but for a guarantee of in- terest on bonds of the company, in return for which he will give as security the lands, road and it's equipments. This is surely fair and will amply secure govern ment, and also do much to revive various branches of industry in the country. In connection with this, it is telegraphed that the President will recommend aid to the Texas and Pacific. Owing to the expira- now favor granting the aid, who would not do so, however willing, prior to the late election. Had they voted ald then, most of them could hardly have been elected to stay at home by larger majorities. The big press of the country frightened the average statesman from doing what he believed to be right, and it is rather good thing that such were defeated after listen- ing to and acting in accordance with the dictation of certain large city newspapers, whose editors know but little of the feeling that prevails with the masses who consti- tute the majority at the ballot box.
Year: 1874

WE acknowledge receipt from Depart ment Headquarters'of the roster of troops, issued in October, and are informed that it had Hee3Ffeviously sent. We did not receive the August one, and regretted it, for in the many changes which have taken place this year, it would have been quite handy. But the one at hand is just the thing TOW; and as specimen of work, it is excellent and shows that headquarters keeps nice material and a competent prin- ter.
Year: 1874

Having rull faith in the country, they mean to stay by 1t until the day of general jubilee shall come, when all can rejoice together in its peace and prosperity.

 Drop in and examine our stock.

 Exchange sold on all parts of the world. Photographic transfers made with any section of the country.

 A few more ef those Don't mention them " lsft
Year: 1874




The Ross Co. Register addresses an
article to the young men of Chilli
cothe, appealing to them to take the
temperance side in the Women's
War now going on in that city. 1t
says:


Your duty in this case, then, is:
To SBow Your C0lOysi


You know the evil results OF the
tra(Iicl You know that but few of
you've any real appetite for intOxi-
eating lianorsl The question recurs:
What will you do? Will you rank
yourselves on the side of your moth
ers, your sisters, and the hundreds of
other women in the city whom yOu
so highly respect, or will you be ar
rayed on the side of those whose
traffic the former are now so earnest
ly seeking to suppress?


We have but little doubt ss to the
result, now that the issue has been
presented. And let us say that the
most effective way for ycu to array
yourself on the side of the women,
is to say: "From this day forth. at
least until this war is ended, / will
not take a drop of any liquor as a
beverage. | respect the women eu-
gagged in this cause too much to do
TO discourage them in their
work, and neither my patronage nor
my voice shall be given the saloon
keepers as an encouragement to con-
Time in their business.
Year: 1874

In Russian tale n grandmother
says to her granddaughter, who is


threatened by tiend:


80 dear me. my poor, unhappy


child! Go quickly to the priest. and
ask him this favor-that il YOU die.
your body shall not be taken oat of
the house through the doorway, but
that the ground shall he dug away
from the threshold and that YOU
shall be dragged out through the
opening"


This was originally the common
mode of proceeding among various
nations. They thought the spirit
could only return by the same way
that it went ont of the hOuse, and in
order to prevent its return, they took
the dead through an opening that
could be afterwards stopped up.


The Tisky Of Alaska always carry
their dead out through hole in the
back of the hut, and then close up
the hole with the greatest care. The
Hottentots break an opening through
the side of their hut, for the same
purpose. and the Siamese, not con-
tent with this, having taken the dead
body out, hurry at full speed around
to the other side of the house.


Another strange custom in Russia
is this: When a person suffers
very lingering death, in order to ren
der his departure more easy, they
lei a black dog by a cord down
the roof over the dying per.
sons head. They regard a black
log as an emblem of the human
spirit. anil their action ia intended
to show the departing spirit which (
way to go


The Chinese and the North Amer
ica Indians have also the idea that
the spirit leaves through the roof,
that the life must depart
in the same way that it came-from
above.


In ancient Rome a person who had |
been believed to be dead could only /
De permitted TO re-enter his honse
through the ro1f. In Germany the
relief is that the soul departs through
he window. When q person dies
he window of the house is at once
brown open, and sometimes cup of
Sater is placed on the sill for the re-
reshment of the spirit as it enters
IN its ''long journey"
Year: 1874

Many years ago Mr.. Abram Dodge,
of the town of Ipswich. Mass, owned


beautiful horse, which was the pet Of
the family. lie was admired by all


who knew his playfulness and good
qualifications. In the summer it was


Mr. Dodge's habit occasionally to have
frolic with his horse in his barn-yard.


then let him out alone, and he would
90 to the river which was about one
third of a mile distant, where he would
bathe, then 60 to a common and roll on
the grass, then with the freedom of air
start for his home. His stable was
renovated for him while be was gone.
and his breakfast put in his crib. If
he met his master be would show some
coltish pranks, bound for the stable,
pull out the wooden pin that fastened
the door with his teeth, and rush TO
the manger where he expected TO lind
his food One night the horse was (
stolen from the stable. After the ex-
piration of sixteen years Mr.. Dodge
was at the tavern when a man drove
a horse up to the door. Mr.. Dodge at
once recognized his horse. and he told |
the driver his reason for believing it to |
be his. The man told OF whom he
bought the horse, and said he had
owned him for several years. Mr. |
Dodge claimed his horse. and it was
finally agreed that if the horse would,
on being taken to his old stable, go
through the habit Of bathing, rolling
on the grass. aud pulling the pin from
the stable door as above described,
that Mr.. Dodge should have him
When the horse was let out into his
old yard he reviewed the premises for
moment, then started for his old bath
tub. then for his green towel on the
common, then to bis old stable, pulled
the wooden pin, won for himself good
meal, and his old master his favorite
horse. These facts are vouchsafed for
by reliable old residents of the beauh-
faI, picturesque old town, and show
conclusively the long memory of our
noblest animal.