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i'LATTSMOUTIl WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 18S7.
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K3STOTTS BROS,
Publishers & Proprietors.
A NEW DICTIONARY.
Bob Burdette's New Improvements
on Webster and Wooster.
Brooklyn Eujjlo
Author A man who scissors the dis
tance tables out of a railway guide, the
population of cities from the census, im
article on "volcanoes" from the encyclo
pedia, the rules of base ball from a news
paper almanac, and then publishes it un
der the title of "Gems of Thought and
Mines of Knowledge." The term was
formerly applied ulso to a person who
wrote a book; in this sense it is now ob
solete. Beauty, Professional See advertising
agency.
Congress A benevolent association
organized for the purpose of supporting
the Congressional Uncord and denying
whatever may be printed therein. See,
also, article on natural gas.
Critic See manager.
Divorce Sec Chicago.
Drought See prohibition.
Duel A fashionable amusement, for
merly considered dangerous, but now
quite popular among the leisure classes
on account of its assured harmles&ness.
It is highly recommended by physicians
for all persons who are too weak to play
base ball.
Egg A tribute of respect and admira
tion. See lecturer.
Fun See boys and "headache."
Gum, Chewing A course of study at
a girls' school; see, also, caramel and red
head. Horse A complication of strange dis
eases, that dcvelope immediately after
the sale. Sec "Taken In" and "Honest
Farmer. "
Independent One who always takes
the other side to show he can't be in
fluenced. Judge A title of honor applied to
gentlemen who hold up watches and
have the best seats at horse races; in un
civilized communities sometimes applied
to persons who preside at the sessions of
courts of justice
Kicker A man who never originates
anything or suggests anything, and op
poses everything any one else suggests,
Seo "mule."
Lady A female who takes in washing.
does kitchen work or waits on hotel ta
hies.
Major A citizen of Georgia.
Narcotic See" sermon. "
Onion A drucr for strengthening the
breath; much used by confidential peo
. pie whom you cordially dislike, and who
are forever trying to whisper something
to you which you do not wish to hear.
Professor Any one except an instruc
tor in a college or university; usually a
horse tamer or a dancing master; some
times a corn doctor.
Quart A unit of measure usually ap
plied to the hip pocket in Kansas; a
flask which holds enough for about five
men in Boston, three in Ohio and one in
Arkansas.
Rider In England, a man who tries to
fall off a horse; in New York, a man
who does fall off. See, also, "bounce"and
"buck."
Talk A singular sound produced by
opening a vacuum; a disease often fatal
to presidential candidates, who are apt
be attacked by it unless restrained by
their friends. Sec "lockjaw."
Umbrella A myth of the nineteenth
century; a piece of portable property that
cannot be held in severalty; something
- which yon have not, or if you have, it is
Tl UIV11 J - 7 J 7
not yours; that which cannot be kept.
See, also, "Thief."
Vanity The quality by which a man
is enabled to lightly ascend the long
stairway to
the editorial room with a
poem.
Wrath The quality that enables
to go down again in half the time.
him
Witness The principal victim in any
criminal trial; one who is forbidden by
American law to say what he saw or re-
neat what he heard. See "browbeat "and
"badger."
X Something which we do not nap
pen to have about us for a couple of J
days.
Zodiac A procession ot animals on
the cover of an almanac; the interior de
partmeut on a street parade; merely in-'
troduced into the language as a part of a
scheme to enable the letter izzard to make
itself useful; nuff zed.
The Cirl Graduates Ahead.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Girton and Newnham, the two colleges
in En eland devoted to the education of
women, nave scoreci a sweeping success
this year in the Cambridge examinations
open to their pupils, not usual where the
two sexes are brought together in compe -
titive study. On the average at Cornell
nnd nt Ann Arbor, in this country, the
women do better than the men. A small
er proportion is found deficient in study,
and a larger number succeeds. Recently
at Cornell, while close to a tenth of the
male students, or sixty out of a little over
700, were found at one of the mid-year
inquests to he below the required stand-
an i. uonu 01 iiiu vuuiili wuuich m i-i
women in
Hall, nearly 100 in all, appeared on tins
list. Both at Ithaca and at Michigan
University this disparity is usually ex
plained by pointing out that the girls
who come to these colleges arc, to all in
tents, a picked class, whose attempt to
Bccure a college education is itself a proof
of an unusual and serious interest in
their studies. This explanation, howev
er, scarcely tits the parallell case in the
mixed high schools of New England and
in the west, where the girls are steadily
in advance of the boys. The simple fact
is that a greater amount of regular study
will generally be given by a girl than a
boy, other things being equal. If the
average result appears to point in a diff
erent direction it is because in too many
iris' schools other things are not equal
by comparison with the advantages en
joyed by boys.
In Girton and Newnliam, even as in
most of our colleges for women, the fa
cilities offered can scarcely be considered
on a par with those enjoyed in the col
leges exclusively for men; but the longer
and steadier work of the women carries
the day. This year in the Cambridge ex
aminations, the only senior classic won
was carried off by a Girton girl, a Newn
liam girl has taken the only first-class
awarded in the mediteval and modern
languages examination, and two other
young women have attained the first-class
in the second part of these examinations.
Added to the previous success of the
members of these colleges and remember
ing that their small, if picked, number is
practically pitted in these examinations
against the students coining up from all
the other seventeen colleges open to men
and the result adds one more proof of
what we have already said, that in col
lege work young women of the class now
turning to these studies do better than
the average and too often indifferent
young man.
Prof. George J. Romanes, in his recent
article on "Mental Differences Between
Men and Women," suggests a reason for
this in the greater pressure under which
the women are willing to work. In
some of the schools preparing pupils for
theso Cambridge examinations, he finds.
"the more promising habitually under
take an amount of intellectual work
which it is sheer madness to attempt." A
girl correspondent of his, reports her dai
ly hours of study at ten or eleven, and
for a fortnight before examinations at
sixteen, with some of her companions
pushing on to eighteen, while some "stop
at fourteen or fifteen hours." As Prof.
Romanes says, "there is no public school
in the kingdom where a boy of sixteen
would be permitted to work from eleven
to eighteen hours a day, with no other
exercise than a few minutes walk," and
wo may add, no healthy boy would
The moral of these facts, which could
be easily watched in this country, is that
the danger in all advanced female edu
cation is not that too little will be learn
ed, but that too much will be attempted
by the young women, whoso teachers lit
tie understand how different the attention
bv them to their tasks is from that of
young men. With this precaution the
future is safe. "For my own part," says
Prof. G. J. Romanes, a high authority, "I
believe that with reasonable precautions
against over-pressure, and with due pro
vision for bodily exercise, the higher ed
ucation of women would wso facto si
lence the voice of medical opposition."
Smoking in America and Enaiand
From the Chicago Journal.
"One of the features of American street
life that strikes an Englishman on first
arriving here most forcibly, "said a young
T.nnilnne r wlinw sirrmaintfmM T made at
I . J S v b. v - ' j v v w -
J the Palmer house an evening or so ago,
"is the abundance of cigars. I was simp-
I K- astounded to abserve, on my arrival
! here, teamsters, porters, cabmen, aye, ev
-
en pedlers with hand-carts, smoking ci
gars. In England, you know, where ci
gars cost just as much as they do here, a
man who never smokes anything on the
street but a cigar is looked upon as an
epicure, and, if he is not a gentleman of
landed property, is regarded as a yery
extravagant fellow. What do we smoke?
Whv. pipes, of course. I know fellows
London fellows, too who are worth
all the way trom JC1W to l,OUU a year
who are inveterate smokers, and who yet
regard cigars with about as much rever-
ance as you do diamonds, no doubt. The
most extravagant of them smoke two ci'
gars, at 3d, or Gc, apiece per day. No; I
must say that the princely extravagance
of the American smoker, who, though he
miy be to poor to buy himself a warm
overcoat when the cold winds come, will
still scorn to smoke a pipe on the street,
lloors me. In London, if a costermonger
or a cabman appeared among his com
rades with a lighted cigar in his mouth,
iie vould be hooted from one end of the
strect to thc otier for endeavoring to as-
1 SUQig a luxury his circumstances in life
do not entitle him to.
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ing the eyes, or cannot bear bright light,
and find your sight weak and failing.
you should promptly usd Dr. J. II. Mc
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Tabor College Commencement.
Tajhjk, Iowa, June UOth, 18!i7.
Commencement at Tabor always calls
together an appreciative audience.
The large church with room for 1,000
persons was filled, many finding only
standing room.
The addresses by Rev. E. A. Leeper of
Red Oak, and Rev. G. W. Crofts of Coun
cil Bluffs, were of unusual merit. All
the exercises of the week passed off with
out anything to mar the performances.
The graduating class though small,
numbering four, did themselves great
credit.
The meeting of the alumni and friends
in which letters were read from absent
members was a sort of family meeting of
great interest to the members.
The exercises of the week closed with
a grand concert fully sustaining the repu
tation of the conservatory of music.
The year has been a successful one.
The completion of Gaston Hall gives the
best recitation rooms. This building,
two new teachers, a new chemical labora
tory and the fitting up of a business de
partment will add greatly to the facilities
the college. The number of students
in the last catalogue, 234, is larger than
for two years.
The donations received, $13,000, were
sufficient to complete Gaston Hall free
from debt.
A clock and bell have been placed in
the tower a gift from some generous
doners to the building. Many students
have already engaged board next year.
A new era of prosperity is before the col
lege.
The Star-Studded Sky.
From the Providence Journal.
The starlit evenings of July will be
full of beauty for those who delight to
study the wonders of the heavens. The
peerless Venus, fairest of the stars,
will reach her greatest distance eastward
from the sun, while she shines like a
young moon in the glowing West. The
lordly Jupiter will look down from the
meridian at sunset and tread with starry
feet his western path until at midnight he
sinks below the horizon. The ring-gir
dled Saturn, hidden from mortal sight,
will pass beyond the sun and commence
his course as morning star. Mercury, on
winged feet, will, like Venus, reach his
eastern limit, and with hurrying pace,
pass between us and the sun to join the
choir of morning stars in heavenly har
mony. These are the movements of some
of our brother worlds, members like our
selves of the sun's family. They are but
motes in the sunbeam, grains of sand on
the seashore when we compare them with
the immensity of the material universe,
as gloriously pictured in the suns of space
that track their shining way in myriad
hosts over the broad concave of the heav
ens. Studies of the planets forever on
the move, and studies of the stars so fixed
and immutable can not help ennobling
and uplifting the soul.
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A most important educational item
is the following, which has been tele
graphed over the country: "Princeton
defeated Darmouth easily today, on the
university grounds. Bickham's pitching
and Princeton's batting were the features
of the game. The score was: Princeton
15 runs, 13 base hits, 9 errors; Darmouth
5 runs, 5 base hits, 24 errors." All of
which is most inspiring in a literary point
of view. New York School Journal.
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Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered
liver is misery. Indigestion is a foe to
good nature.
The human digestive apparatur is one
of the most complicated unci wonderful
things in existence. It is easily put out
of order.
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bad cookery, mental worry, late hours,
rregular habits, and many other things
which ought not to be, have made the
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A Dog's Stratagem.
From the Epoch.
A dog-loving family of Staten Island
has a remarkably intelligent pet. Disc us
ing his wit one day, it was proposed to
send him up-stairs for his mistress' wrap.
3ut first one of the ladies went up-stairs,
aid the wrap on the floor, and sat down
on it with her sewing. The dog was sent
and quickly found the wrap. Vainly he
tugged at it first on one side and then
on the ether. Discouraged, but not dis
mayed, he mused for a woment, when
suddenly making a dive he seized the
sewing in his teeth and ran toward tho
fire. His opponent, now off her guar d
ran after him to rescue her work. This
was enough. The dog dropped the sew
ing, ran for the wrap, and bore it in tri
umph to his mistress.
A Rare Bird.
"We have here the rarest bird ever
brought to America," remarked the Sup
erintendent of the Philadelphia Zoological
Garden. "It is called the Australian bu sli
turkey. It is really a most remarkable
creature. During the season of incuba
tion the parent birds scratch together a
mound of earth and rubbish reaching
sometimes a diameter or teet and a
height of 5. A spacious hole is then made
in the center of the pile, narrowing as it
approaches the bottom. In this excava
tion the eg3 are deposited in layers,
mingled with the decomposing vegetable
matter and the worst rubbish to be found.
The heat generated by the fermentation
of this mass of offal hatches the eggs and
the little ones scratch their way unaided
to the surface. Queer, isn,t it?"
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A Vassar instructor is getting the
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