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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1895)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.' A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comment! oik! Criticism Hhmi-4 I'pon , the !Iu ixraifittn of the lay -lliwtori- t cil and Nf wr Nott-K. i Th flattery of friends ami enemies ould do us very llulc liarm. IT we j Oiiiu't unfortunately fia'ter ourselves. IihVulty Is a severe Instructor, wt (Hi r us by the supreme ' dinance of a ; parcmul guardian ami la t ir. who !.!"! us better thrui we know our Muk, tig he lows us better, too. A cK ver young newspaper reporter, who has lately been encaged lu chroii- I 1 i 1 1 iT fashionable Society fllllCtloIlH Of viiii:. us kinds, says It would not sur Iifise him if Home society dames he Is acquainted with were to set aiurt a day on which to receive their children. It si-cms that there Is a considerable field yet left for the lift; ' insurance iigetit. It Is estimated that out of the lo. l.'iT.iill Insurable persons tu this country, 7,.''.i'.'i. 11 4 sire already Insured In sume form of comjiaiiy, mainly fra ternals, while :t,o7o,027 are carrying uo policies In anythi'ig. Mrs. Hetty Green, who has earned that "much-cnvled epithet of opprobri um," a millionaire, is about as mlsera Me us any poverty stricken person tn the country. She s In constant fear of being poisoned by her relatives Bnd goes about ut'der an assumed name, living at chenii hotels and avoiding all the ordinary comforts of life. Nocturnal creatures assume night ac tivity for some other reason than that 1hey cannot see by day, or that they we lietter by night. The bat sued admira bly ii the brightest sunlight, as any one knows who has ever teased one by pok ing a stick at It It will oiM-n Its mouth and mnke an angry grab at the stick, when It Is not near It by several Inches. I rof. Holies says It Is the same with the owl. They see perfectly In bright Minllght, and better at night than most creatures. Mrs. Rloomer, the lady who first gave cousplcnlty to the garments which bear her inline, recently passed away at Omncll Bluffs, ogetl 70. It can be said In nil seriousness that few women of the century have made a deeper or more evident mark upon their times. It required a bold and original thinker a s rt of a female Columbus to con cede that her sex had legs, and to put them even In mullled evidence. The reform Is only beginning to take hold upon humanity. It Is the complement of the bicycle, and It Is growing. Mrs. Bloomer has built out of flannels a monument more enduring than brass. Ten years ago the London Times lold Mr. Gladstone to go down Into his gravemat no encumbered tlie earth. That was bifnuso he ad vocated se'f government for th people. Gladstone lives and the then conductor of the Times has i aascd awny. Now the other Tory organ, owned by a ri-crennt American, denounces Gladstone and says he should be "muzzled." The deference these British publications show to thi niiiu most revered by the advanced thought and best morula of the nation Is not precisely of the kind enjoined by the Scriptures from younger to dder, but the Grand Old Man, now dubbed the Grand Old Mischief Maker by still another Tory howler, can afford to smile and l"t It all pass. The Interesting Information comes from Hrftddock that Carnegie has re duced the wages of the men In his blast furnaces from 5 to 50 per cent. The men are going to strike. "Few of them can speak English," says the dispute!). "The company learned of the trouble and has men ready to take the places vacated." Also, who can not speak English. Carnegie will be able to fill "places vacated" as loug as the convict mines of Hungary and Bo hemia give til) their choicest sous to liliu. The contract labor law Is as waggish a thing to him as the speclfl cations of a government Job or the verdict of an armor-plate trial board. There are few blowholes In Andy's methods of hiring "Intelligent, free American labor" that cannot speak English. t Ine of the essentials to success In bus iness Is attention to details. For a com mercial enterprise to be sound It. is ab solutely necessary Unit Its foundation shall be solid. If the base Is flimsy It Is only a question of time us to when the downfall will come, for come It will hooner or later. From the very start must this question of utteutlon to de tails be carried out As old as the hills is the saying, "Tuke care of the pence And the pounds will take care of them selves." With equal truth we say, "Take care of the details and the generalities jwlll take care of themselves." As exam ple of this every large business concern may bo Instanced. From small begin nings they Isjcauie (Treat; when they gave evidence to the world that they were capable of filling small orders In a careful and proper manner the world iwKin entrusted them with large orders. Had they sneered at the small orders os too trifling for their Attention It may be taken for granted they never would have obtained the large business for which they were anxious. Sudden and unusual has been the termination of a lawsuit at Lawrence burg, Ind. Mlsa Josephine Brand had 110,000 In a safety deposit vault, and ber sister soed her for It on the ground that It was money that belonged to an state left by their father. This Mum Brand denied, and a right Jolly legal btt nnn the n-fi't In tin- tn I'ii-t if Mis lit mii 1 dis M-d cu in he tin- liH'ti y out of tlii- vault tin ! invest it ill boim, bi:t sue only a'coniplihed Irilf of what she hid phi u :-!. Sin- tool, the money out ami a Hiii f promptly re lieved her of It. Now there is ijii iilii' to fight out, Hinl consequently It is to le j.riHti iti.'il 1 !ifit tfii- lawsuit Is M hi end. if course, it was ;i contemptible act, but if tin' thief could he found ie would probably plead that he thought he might HS well have the money as lei the lawyers got it nt the expense ot considerable time of some court. A peculiar legal complication, w hich Is likely to puzzle lawyers all over the "oil n try. has arisen lu North Carollu i. A deputy sheriff In that State stand Ing near the Tennessee Hue shot and killed an escaping prisoner who had crossed the line before he was stru K by the bullets of the officer. The dep uty was tiled and convicted of murder lu North Carolina, but the Suprom. Court reversed the case and dismiss,"! the charge on the ground that the otli cer was "in contemplation of the law" In Tennessee at the time of the killilii.'. He was then Indict. -d In 'lenuess, e and a requisition was made for him us a fugitive from justice on the Governor of North Carolina. He was arrested, but applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus, which wh granted, the Court holding that as lv was not In Tennessee at the time of ih killing he could not lie a fugitive from Justice. It appears that he will be safe from prosecution as long as he keeps without the Jurisdiction of the leniu s see authorities. The case Is a novel one and is likely to attract much atten tion. It would seem to supplv nmtcri.ll for a powerful argument against the ancient doctrine of Statu rights. !t may be called an Interstate murd.-r and the circumstances may lie seized upon to Justify the enactment of a law which will give the Federal authori ties Jurisdiction In such cases. Milk Trees. Dr. Bpruce, the retiowned South American traveler, mentions a tree, h member of the dogbane family, the Juice of which Is used as milk. On the bark being wounded the milk (lows abundantly and Is of the consistency of cow's milk, of the purest white and sweet to the taste. The Indian mode of taking It Is to apply the mouth directly to the wound nnd thus receive the milk as It flows. Doctor Spruce says he has often partaken of It without experienc ing any 111 effects. In Guiana the natives employ the milk from a tree belonging to the satin family as the last named; lu the veruac ular It Is known as hyahya, mid to but aulsts as Tabernnemontnna mills (so named after Jacobus Theodorus Tuber naemontanus, a German physician and botanist;. The tnilk has the same ilavot as sweet cow's milk, but Is rather sticky on account of Its containing some caout chouc. Iu Para a lofty tree, belonging to the star-aj pie family, attaining a height of one hundred feet. Is used In a similar manner to the others mentioned. In cisions are made In the bark, and the milky Juice flows out copiously about the consistency of thick cream, and If It were not for Its taste, which Is some what peculiar, could hardly be distin guished from It. Disappointed. A young lawyer consulted Mr. Paine In regard to the construction of a cer tain statute, and, after receiving that gentleman's Interpretation of It, brought suit, depending on the legal acumen of his adviser. The case was tried be fore a Justice of the Supreme Court, and was decided against Mr. Palne's proU'ge. The latter was astonished, for he had the most Implicit confidence In the construction of the statute given by Mr. Palr.e, and, smarting with dis appointment, sought that gentleman. 'Mr. Paine," he snld, "the Judtre ruled against your Interpretation of the law!" "lie did?" replied Mr. Paine. "Well, Judge M is not so good a lawyer as I supposed." A Lighthouse Parrot. One of Uncle Sam's most faithful servants In Multw, but one that draws no salary, lives at Portland Head Lighthouse. This Is a large gray par rot, brought from Africa some time ago and presented to the keeper of the light The bird soon noticed that when the fog began to blow In from the ocean, somebody would cry out, "Fog coming In; blow the horn!" One day the fog began to come In thick, and no one noticed It, as they were all busy. Poll noticed this, and croaked out, "Fog coming In; blow the horn!" and now, whenever fog Is perceptible, Poll never falls to give warning. A Green Old Ago, "A green old age" is a phrase often grossly abused. It Is a literal transla tion of Virgil's description of Charon., the ferryman of the nether regions. The poet siieaks of him as "Jam senior; sed cnida deo vlrldlsque senectus," (some what aged; but his godshlps old age was still fresh nnd green.) This we might say of a hale sexagenarian; but to talk, as we do, of the green old age of a nonagenarian, however bale, Is sheer nonsense. Macuilllan's Maga zine. Iu Mythology. The grlffou Is a siecles of vulture found In the mountainous parts of Eu rope, North Africa and Turkey. In benthen mythology the griffon Is an animal with the body of a lion and head and wings of an eagle. Of course no such creature ever existed any more than the famous mlnotaur, centaur, or the winged dragon. One Ttry common species of ocean In-,-rla la shaped like a bell. TALKS TO FARMEIiS ON TOPICS CONNECTED WITH AGRICULTURE. How Larue Hound Ios;m Are Quickly hunt kid Into l- irevKxxi imwco 1'uuip I'rotc-ctorn- The Wiidt-r 1'iar bbeep bhould liuve hlielter. The Wilder I'ear. The original tn-e of this delicious pear was found on the shores of Itke 1 rle. It came up wild in a thicket of sprouts and rubbish and was grafted to I'.nffum, a few branches lieing left for natural fruit The latter was found to be so good the liuffum branch es the wii.ni.it i'kak, were remov ed. Since then the tree has borne pro fusely each year. The Illustration shows the fruit of half the average s.e. It resembles Iiartlett In shape with smooth skin, pale-yellow with a deep shading of brownish carmine The basin is shallow and regular, the The basin Is shallow, and regular, the eye nearly closed, sepals long and retlexed, apex rather abrupt with slight cavity, stein short, core closed and small. Seeds small, flesh pale whitish yellow, fine grained and ten der. Its quality Is very good, resem bling the Iiartlett, but the flavor Is more sprightly and free from all mus klness. Farm and Home. VarletieM of Corn. There have been as great changes In the type of corn as In any kind of cul tivated plant In New England and most of the Northern States flint corn Is almost exclusively grown as a field crop. For the garden, and to some ex tent for general purposes, sweet corn and popcorn are grown. We have known farmers to have popcorn ground for meal, and they said that when cooked It was sweeter and better than that from flint corn. The popcorn grain Is bo sn'all that It Is seldom Injured In curing. Sweet corn is, to some extent grown as food for milk cows. The stalks, If cut early, are sweeter than those of ordinary oorn. They are, therefore, more palatable and more nu tritious. The Dent corn Is mostly grown In the West and South. Its stalks are coarser and less palatable for stock Western people think the Dent corn makes better corn bread than does the Eastern flint corn, but our Idea Is that the Hint corn Is the best for all pur noses. The weight of stalks of Hint corn Is less per acre, but the yield by weight of the grain Is larger than the average of that grown at the West, Still, when an Eastern farmer wants to grow the largest possible ylejd of corn, he Is apt to select Borne oi inn early Dent varieties to make a trial with. That shows his belief that It is the greater care which flint corn usu ally gets that explains Its greater aver age prolificacy. Philadelphia Press. Losing Use of Land. Small fruit growers ought to fertilize their land thoroughly, and when this Is done they should keep It always pro ducing something. If the strawberry patch Is running out, either the red or black cap raspberry can tie planted bo tween the rows. In this way the year after the strawberry plantation is cul tivated under the raspberry canes will be In full bearing. It Is the same with the larger fru!ts. A young apple or pear orchard will grow strawberries, raspberries and blackberries nearly as well as If the orchard were not planted until It gets fully Into bearing. Wood Chopper. The latest Improvement In the ma chine wood chopper Is shown ' here with. It Is of English Invention. The round logs having been cut to the re quired length are placed one after an other in the center of the machine, as shown. In this position the base of the log rests on the upright edges of the fixed knives, through which it Is afterwards forced. The heavy weight Indicated above the same Is raised by belt power between guides.' When re leased the wtdght strikes the log, driv ing It downward on the knives and splltlng It In four pieces. The machine Illustrated Is designed to deal with logs five to twenty Inches lu diameter and about twenty-four Inches In length. Quantity of Bed Hequlred Per Acre. Wheat, 1 to 1 bushels, drilled. Wheat, 9 bushels, broadcast Oats, 8 bushels. Buckwheat, bushel Corn, In hills, fl to 8 quarts. Corn, for fod der, 2 to 8 bushels. Peas, In drills, 2 to MA CHI SB WOOD CHOPPER. 3 bushels. P.r-ioiM siru. dill's. 1': ( jsjUL-.s J Vets ai"! mini. .es. 4 o'l.i !, ituuiii.iu'iis. in di loK. 1 pound. '! '!-. red, l-l (KJllljils. ( iover. white, Ij to Si podl.ds. Jlll.otli.V. 1 peck. Il.-d top. bushels. Orchard grass. - bushels J-avvu grass. 'J,'i;i U isle-is. Jveiitu Uy blue grass. 2 bushels. Itarley. broad cast, bushels. Itarley, drilled, bushels. Hye. 1 1- bushels. Potatoes, drills. 10 bushels. Carr.us. 15 pounds. Turnips, 1 pound. Potatoes, iu hills, 1 bushels. Oats, drilled, '1 bushels; broadcast. 3 bushels. To Va'e Gof! Coffee. Itemeliiber 1.1 lliaktlig cotiee: That the same flavor will not suit every taste. That everyone can ! sailed to a nicety by properly blending two or more Liu is. That eii' j! parts of Mocha. Java and Hlo will be relished by a good many people. That a mild coffee can be made dan- geroiis'y strong and still reti.iu the mildness of flavor. That the flavor Is Improved if the liquid is turned from the dregs as soon as the proper strength has been ob tained. That where the percolation method is used the cofiee should be ground very fine or the strength will not be extract ed. That If the ground coffee Is put into the water and boiled it should be rather coarse, otherwise It will Invariably be muddy. That a good coffee will always com mand a fair price; but that all high- priced coffees are not necessarily of high quality. That lu serving, the cups and cream should be warm; the cream should be put In the cup before the coffee is put in, but It Is Immaterial when sugar Is added. That a level teasisionful of the ground coffee to each cup Is the stand ing allowance, from which deviation can be made in either direction, accord ing to tho strength desired. The Housekeeper. Cover for I'timon. In the North, pumps in cold, bleak situations are liable to fiv ,-.n up, caus ing a vast amount of trou lie. The ac companying sketch, from toe Orange Judd Fanner, shows it sli; ;e method of protecting one of the coi.; non piston pumps. An outer Jacket ' wood en velops the pump. It si. 01 ' I be large enough to allow a three-Inch space all around the sides. This space should be filled with chaff, finely cut hay or straw, pressed firmly In position. Ad ditional protection Is given by the piece of board, a, which has a hole In It that (Its closely over the pump handle, Mid during the coldest weather, when tne pump Is not lu use, this board Is placed as shown Iu the Illustration, pressed against the side of the pump, r.nd hung upon the nail at b. If In a wltdy location, the spout should be stopped up with cloth, leaving enough projecting to readily remove It by. Any one who has had to water cattle In the morning and has found the pump from which he proposes to get water frozen solidly, will appreciate this simple ar rangement for preventing such a state of affairs. A $ 10,000 Poultry House. Probably the most expensive poultry house in the country Is now being built by Mrs. Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, wife of the ex-presldeut of the Balti more and Ohio Railroad, at a cost of $1(),(K)0. The house Includes rooms for tho keeper, a fine reception room for visitors nnd a well-stocked library of poultry literature. Chickens, ducks, turkeys and pigeons up to tho number of thousands can be accommodated In the house. Connected with It are a number of Incubators of from 200 to 500 eggs capacity. Keed and Dreed. The farmers who believe that the feed, aud not the breed, gives the re suits can easily determine) for them selves what the facts may be. Take two animals, one pure bred or a grade, and the other a scrub. (Jive both the same care and attention, allowing them as much food as they will consume. The well-bred animal will give double the profit derived from the scrub, aud the expense will also be proportionately less. Truck Kami In if. A truck farm may pay $100 per acre, or as much aB $500, according to the crop grown upon It It may cost more for labor and fertilizers compared with regular farming, but tho area cultivated will be much less and the soli will be left In better condition. Improved Im plements for hand cultivation, with ef fective horse hoes, make the labor much less difficult than when the hoe, spade and rake were relied upon entirely. Value of Bklra Milk. The Wisconsin station found by feed ing pigs that twenty-five pounds of corn meal equaled one hundred pounds of skim milk. That Is, when corn meal la worth a dollar per hundred pounds skim milk Is worth 25 cents per hun dred pounds, which should be credited to the cow as so much profit given by her In addition to the butter produced. There Is an additional profit to be ex pected from the pork also. 'fc iww iimr tw mm m U m 1 j T rfjii' pitori-.rToit. CURE FOR TKUANCV. TEACHLRS UNITE AND STAMP OUT THE DISEASE. Vitiit the Parents of Abxt-nt es and Kulint Their Aid Stutitic from the Census Concerning the SiliooU of the United Stati a-Notes. Broke l-u the Koid niic. It was a town of about 4.nsi inhabit ants jnd the truancy bacillus whicli .it lirst had Infected oiiiy a few of -ie-worst spirits bad spread until tiyamy had become epidemic. A iiiniile-,-of causes combined to aggrava'e Ihe disease. It was an especial ly g.sid season for fishing, rat killim.'. ami sundry other recreations dear to the truant's heart. The usual remedies were applied. Kvery effort was made to increase the ittractiveiiess of the school, and by Interest to create involuntary attention superior to that for external things. P.ut the magnets seemed devoid of power. There were half a dozen ring leaders, large boys, who were not school children at all but loafers whose parents did not send them to school, and had concluded that they were in corrigible. These ringleaders lay in wait for the school boys and by argu ments more forcible than philosophical, pesnaded them that it was better to "come along aud have some fun." They sat on dry goods boxes nnd wrote elaborate excuses and signed the par ents' names to them for the delinquent to present the follow ing morning. And so the disease increased with uniform acceleration. When mild treatment In homeopathic doses failed, the teachers resorted to corporal punishment but this failed utterly; In fact, it seemed largely to undo the few good results secured by the "attractive" treatment Matters continued to grow worse un til a teachers' meeting was called to discuss the situation. It was decided at tho meeting to adopt an entirely different treatment and heroically to focus attention on the evil. Kvery teacher agreed to visit after school during the next week the home of every pupil wlio had been ab sent durlnir the dav. This decision was announced in all the class-rooms tho following morning, which was Friday. The renorters heard of It and the news papers devoted a few Interesting Hues to It The parents talked it over and some of the boys are said to have given It more than a passing glance. On the following Monday morning the teachers were agreeably disap pointed to find that many boys had suddenly recovered and that there were but few "vacant chairs." They called religiously upon the parents of all ab sentees and found that the parents were quite anxious to have their chil dren attend regularly and were will ing to lend a helping hand. The results exceeded the most sanguine expecta tions of those who made the experi ment It took time for the disease to die out and It was not an uncommon thing to see parents accompanying convales cent children to school In the morning, but a genuine and lasting cure was finally effected, and parents and teach ers were brought closer together School Journal. A Good Move. Yale University, says the Congrega tionallst lias decided to abandon ad dresses by students on commencement day and substitute a modification of the Oxford plan, somewhat like that now In use at Johns Hopkins. The only sp-aklng will be an address by the pres ident on the condition and progress of the university. This will be in Eng lish, but will not supersede the similar address at the alumni dinner. The candidates for a degree will all lie re quired to be present. A new officer will be Introduced, called the "Orator," who will perforin the same duties a similar dignitary does-at Oxford. It will be his place to introduce the various can didates to the president The candi dates for honorary degrees will have their qualifications for the honor put before the faculty and president by this officer, after which the customary con ferring of degrees will follow. New Kdncatlonnl Body. A bill was Introduced Into Congress by (Jeneral Black of Illinois, based on suggestions from General Lew Wallace and Librarian SpolTord, providing for a college of twenty-five persons "distin guished In literature, science, art and invention," modeled somewhat after the Institution of France, called "The Forty Immortals." A commit tee of the Senate and House will name the first five members of the college, aud these live members are to elect twenty other persons. The body will be a continuous one, and Is to be provided with a meet ing room In the new Congressional li brary building, with proper service, and have the use of all publications of the library. The college Is to make reports from time to time to Congress upon language and literature. Great Britain, Germany and other countries have sim ilar national bodies. School Statist leu. Recent returns to the Bureau of Edu cation, show that there are 14,1(15,182 children lu the elementary schools of the United States; 402,080 more are pur suing the secondary course of study lu public high schools, private academies aiiu preparatory schools, and 147,002 nre taking courses of higher education In colleges, technical and professional schools. In other words, one person In five of the entire population of the United States Is enrolled In some ele mentary school. There are also In the United States 4,000 public libraries with more than 1,000 volumes each. The total expenditure In the United States for common schools last year was $183,869,018. The largest expendi ture was In the State of New York. The followltis are Hie Rate w.!c!j Invest lnoiv i!;uii ..'." '. a year In 1 ;i t; .ii and the amount each paid In lV.'t; Ne.v York $lt.m.iS I'. -hum Uania Vl.4VW.i7 i!ii,s n.iv.i.Hoo da.,, u.isii.Ta-i M a ssa rlmsett s IVW,S7 iw,i 7..r..-.1.4S Michigan ii.o;j.li."7 Missouri "i.7ur.l In Indiana .VU V. California T,.i.A:JV) Minnesota &.17.lor Kansas 4.340.707 Wisconsin 4.2.7.).;i21 Nebraska 4.24;!.is:8 New Jersey :( 'S.S7! Texas IS VJ5 Kei:tu.ky :.:!.-.( M,0 ouio . tii-,n t;..':7i.kir Maryland 2.247.111 The .Northern States pay a great deal more for education than the Southern Stales. For example, Texas has 52, ol4 pupils enrolled and spends $!5,!l2.1. ) a year for their education, while Iowa has ri:i.il 4 enrolled pupils and spends J?7.r51,4.i. Tennessee has 4.S.I. M'.l pupils enrolled and pays !?l,ti47,7:M, while Michigan, with 4.")5,5'JS pupils, spends jfiJ.'M;2.'i57. North Carolina, with .'i."t;,'X..S children In her schools, pays JT'.ki.:'.!, while Kansas, with 3S2.- 22" pupils, pays $1.:!40.;7. South Carolina, with 22.'!.loO children, pays $!s:ukii, while California, with 2.SS,100 children, pays $5,4:H.21H. Where Are the Hoys To-Nijjht? I often think when seated at the table in my room Of the joyous childhood days indeed, which passed, alas! too Boon Of the happy boyhood days I Bpent at home down on the farm And listened to my mother's prayers that to me would come no harm. Then recollections come to me of times we had at school. When seated at ti e old brown desks to do our sums by rule, Committed lessons from our books and learned to read and write, The question often comes to me, Where are the boys to-night? I wonder if the little stream at the foot of Moorehead's hill. Where w e used to catch trout afterschool, Is running on there still? And the "Long Swamp," where we play ed our old game, "fox and hound," Is now a smooth and fertile strip of cul tivated ground? Where the sinoke of Grand Trunk en gines we watched from our school door, I wonder if they now get "stuck" as they did in days of yore; But 1 guess the railroad company has cut the grade away, For freight trains in these modern times must be hurried on their way. And the games we played at recess, some times ending in a fight, We forget, and often wonder, Where are the boys to-night ? Where the trustees sat with bat in hand to hear us read aud spell, Then praised (he teacher for his work if they thought we did it well. But the boys that studied grammar then tire the trustees of to-day, fc And nt annual meetings of the board have now their little "say." Most of the hoys that sat, there then have gone and settled down, While those of enterprising turn do busi ness now "in town." As pnthmaster or councilor they keep the township right; But sometimes think, as I do now, Where are the boys to-night? Yet in my recollections I do not forget "(he girls" Who made the school look cheerful with white aprons and their curls And when the teacher's back was turned would pass notes to and fro, Or skip the rope at dinner time some twenty years ago. Some of them are married, and now they must attend To household duties, and perhaps have little clothes to mend. And some, I fear, are old maids now, who years ago looked bright; These are the ones who sigh and ask, O, where are the boys to-night? II. R. Campbell, Buffalo Express. Gifts for Public Libraries. Within the last half century sixty Americans have given sums varying from $.'0,000 to $2,500,000 to establish or aid public libraries. The most im portant of these gifts, amounting to $10,750,O(X), were made by eleven per sons, ns follows: John Crerar, Illinois $2,500,000 Walter L. Newberry, Illinois. . 2,000.000 The Astor familv, New York. . 2,000,000 James Lenox, New York 2.000,000 Samuel J. Tilden, New York. . . 2,000,000 Mortimer T. Reynolds, New York 500,000 Dr. .lames Rush, Pennsylvania. LfiOO.IHM) Andrew Carnegie, Penns'vania. 1,100,000 George rWbody, for Maryland. 1,400,000 Enoch Pratt, Maryland 1,225,000 Henry Hall, Minnesota 500.000 Of this large sum New York received $0,500,000; Illinois, $4,500,000; Mary land, $2,025,000; Pennsylvania, $2,000,. 000; Minnesota, $500,000. lie Wrote the 8ent n ?e. A teacher of a Virginia district school recently asked one of her little colored pupils to go to the blackboard and write a sentence thereon containing the word "delight." George Washington Jackson went pompously to the front of the room and wrote, In a large, scrawling hand, these words: "De wind blowed so hard dat It put out de light" Harper's Young People. Notes on Education. Education should lead out, not force on. There are over eighty colleges In the United States that publish annuals. A. the University of Berne there are women students of almost every na tionality. Aristotle said: "The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge Is the power of teaching." The University of Michigan has a Japanese students' association, consist ing of thirteen members. A publication called School la lamed in New York, and Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress appear In England.
