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WACO, TEXAS, DEC. 20, IMS.
San Francisco lias elected ft demo
cratic mayor, which is a drop of com
fort in a sea of misfortune.
America enabled Europo to enjoy a
merry Christmas. The Irish girls of
Boston aro said to have sent $100,000
over to "the old country" for Christ
mas week, while the Italians of New
York contributed $1,500,000 for the
same purpose
The latest in rogaiu to a Cabinet
position for It. B. Hayes is that ho is
to have- a newly created portfolio of ag
riculture. It is thought his knowlcdgo
of chickens will especially fit him for a
bucolic offico of this kind. If he is to
have anything, let it be this,
About one half the iron from the
Birmingham furnaces goes to points
north of the Ohio river, oast of the
Mississippi and west ot Pennsylvania;
about one-sixth goes to Eastern cities
in direct competition with Pennsylva
nia and foreign pig, while tho remain
der goes to St. Louis, Kansas City and
other trans-Mississippi points.
Tho next solar cchpso will bo visi
ble in San Francisco on New Year's
Day. According to a well-known
French scientist, it is extremely raro
for tho year to open with a total eclipse.
It has not occurred sinco 1GG1 (New
Style), and rill not occur again till
21G1. The coincidence has also hap
pened in 1102, G60B. C, and 805 and
1405 A. I). tho two latter dates being
of tho Julian calendar.
Adam Forepaugh, tho circus man,
has decided to givo Bolivar, his big
elephant, to the Philadelphia Zoologi
cal Gardons. Bolivar is only twenty
five years old, and has been, sinco the
death of Jumbo, by far tho largest ele
phant in America. He is still grow
ing and his great size makes it very
troublesome to load and unload him in
the cars. Mr. Forepaugh is satisfied
that "it does not pay" to carry Bolivar
around, and will therefore give him to
his native city of Philadelphia.
The City of Mexico and the suburbs
comprise 1933 commercial establish
ments, 1500 industrial establishments
and 271 variety stores, making a total
of 3003 business houses, besides 225
lawyers, 48 public notarios, 70 brokers
and commercial agencies, 207 physi
cians (allopathists). 23 homocopathists,
20 dentists, 48 pharmacists, 18 build
ers and contractors, 119 courts of jus.
tice, 17 Protestand ministers and 160
Catholio priests.
England, says the Toronto Globe,
pays $40,000,000 a year for foreign
fruit. At tho same time English fruit
is believed to bo so much better than
foreign that Canadian and American
apples are sold and marked as "best
English," and bring double prices
when 60 marked. Tho landlord ques
tion lies at tho root of the decline of
English fruit-growing. The planting
of young troes which will not be of
much value for five or six years is not
a speculation that commends itself to
cither landlord or tenant.
Tho manager ot tho Fifth Avenue
Thoatre in New York is in a bad state
of mind. Mrs. Langtry insists that
when sho opens hor engagements there
and plays "Macbeth" not only all tne
ushers, but oven tho ticket-takers at
tho doors, shall bo dressed in kilts,
with plaid stocking reaohing just be.
low tho kneo, and leaving a spaco of
skin from thoro to midway up tho
thigh. Tho ushers and other theatre
people say that they will not make
monkcyi of themselves to please Mrs.
Langtry. Tho Jersey Lily insists upon
her whim, and tho manager does not
know what to do.
The commission appointed to take
testimony in tho matter of tho suits
againBt tho New York elevated rail.
roaus tor damages to proporty have
rendered some decisions acainst theso
companies that havo caused them no
littlo alarm. Tho indications are that
tho right of way which thoy "grab
bed" is likely to cost them more than
if they had honestly bought it. On
the basis of the awards so far made,
if the other claimants for damages re
ceive pro rata amounts, tho elevated
, railroad system of New York mill have
t
to pay $125,000,000 in damages. It
is, of course, highly improbable that
tho companios will pay so large n sum,
bu t is thought they will eventually
bo mulct to an amount exceeding
$1 1,000,000 or $15,000,000, and this
belief has resulted in the great depre
ciation of Manhattan stock.
The campaign of 1892 has already
begun. Tho executive committco of
tho national association of democratic
clubs has issued an address to tho
3000 clubs in the United States, de
claring that tho next campaign will bo
fought on the samo lines as tho last,
and urging tho clubs to keep up con
stantly the work of educating tho pco
plo upon politico-economical and gov-'
crnmental questions, so that in tho
congressional elections of 1800 and in
tho presidential election of 1892 tho
party of tho pcoplo may bo successful.
It is somewhat early to enter the field,
but the committco shows great courage
in returning to tho fray in such vigor
ous manner.
What Occupation Should One Choose
Tho writer believes that most every
person has certain adaptations. We
mean there has been allotted to each
individual special mental and physical
qualifications. Our argument against
tho "plurality of avocations" is that
the biographies of eminent men show
tho secreoy of their success to bo in the
common phrase, "This one thing I do,
I do." It may bo urged that some
men have mado an average success by
following two distinct occupations,
This may bo ,truc, but bear in mind
that just as sure as "there is strength
in union," just so sure success would
have been doubly great had such par
tics directed their energies to one
thing. Now, admitting one occupation
enough for any person to do justice to
in a life time, wo will direct our atten
tion to what ono individual should
choose. It is evident that we all
could not make successful lawyers,
physicians, ministers or merchants,
yet it is equally evident that every
nerson who has as much as one cood
eye, ono sound hand, two feet and can
hear it thunder, can make a success at
something. This something is what
we desire to find. Our rale is, that
which gives a contented spirit, is what
ono should follow. With this one
requisite a person is happy and shoves
ahead to the mark, which means sue
cess.
NEWS NOTES.
Tho Chinese invented paper 70 B.C.
Eletricity moves 288,000 miles per
second.
Tho catacombs of Romo contain the
remains of over 6,000,000 persons.
The mean average of persons unable
to read and write in Holland is 10 per
cent.) as against about 2 per cent, in
(iermany.
The prize of $250, which was offered
by the Protective Tariff League, to
Seniors of American colleges, has
been awarded to D. C. Todd, of the
University of Worcester, Ohio. Occi
dent.
Among the 550 who have graduated
from the fourteen leading women's
colleges and seminaries in this country,
only 117 are married. Carletonia.
The University Magazine, from the
University of North Carolina, presents
a very attractive appearance. It con
tains two excellent biographical
sketches, one of Bishop Green, and
the other of Col. John A. Lillington.
The colleges are not designed to
makes Masteis in all departments of
study, tne object is to train tne mind,
and spirit, the whole man and so fit the
student to enter with success on any
opened course of study. Rev, Dr.
Sauicyer.
The establishment of a college for
women in affiliation with Trinity Uni
versity is a now departure whioh wo
are glad to chronicle. Moulton Ladies'
College affiliated with MoMaster Uni
versity, is now, we learn, in full opera
tion, with all its available boarding ac
commodation taken up. These two
universities aro in the van of a move
inent which should have been com
menced long since in Ontario. Lady
students, ambitions of full university
courses are no longer shut up to the
alternatives ot private study, or en
trance into mixed classes. Education
al Journal.
iSUison s Agent: "Wouldn't you
1 to buy a phonograph? It will
store up everything yon say and repeat
to you want one?"
Omaha Man: "No; got a wife."
The University job printing offico,
In the new Jonea building on Frank
lin street, between 4th and 6th, is
prepared to do all klndu of Job printing
at the lowest living prices. An In
spection of their work and prices la
solicited.
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THE TEACHER OF TO-DAY.
In ancient times tho teacher was
tho associato of his pupils. Ho had
no houso wherein to teach, henco tho
school bell and tho chastoning-rod
were unknown. As they sat in tho
silent grove, or walked' through tho
flowing Hold, tho teacher gave his in
struction, appealing from timo to time
to tho natnral phenomena around him
as witnesses of tho truth of his state
ments. So taught Socrates, so taught
Plato, and tho school of the great
teacher was also ono of this kind.
What was tho charaoter of tho pupils
of thoscoarly days? What difficul
ties did tho teachers have to surmount
in instructing them? What methods
did ho havo to resort to in order to
get them to study? When I say that
his pupils wcio his companions, that
they daily s.it at his feet and listened
with plcnsuro to all ho had to say, tho
question is answered, for wo all know
that so far as tho management of tho
pupils was concerned, the teacher had
a pleasant task. No wonder then that
tho schools of the ancients turned out
so many giants in intellect.
Stepping at onco through tho mazes
of many centuries wo come down to
the schools of our fathers. Here we
find the log cabin and the beech
switch, and to tho latter many appeals
wcro mado in cases when tho unfor
tunate boy happened to whisper to his
neighbor, or failed to know his lesson
now well do l remember oven in my
own school-days tho severity of tho
school-master for little, trivial of
fences! How on one occasion, when a
large class wcro reading in McGuffey's
Old Fourth Header, the teacher
stopped tho ono reading right in tho
middle of a verso, and then asked the
lest of the class individually to point
out tho identical word at which the
reader had stopped, and when they
were unable to do so, ho administered
to them a severe thrashing, having
first made them remove their coats.
was in that class, and I verily believe
that if you should hand mo ono of
thoso old readers now, I could tell
you exactly the little proposition at
which that boy stopped, but I failed to
do so on that eventful day, and hence
was one of tho unfortunates. Those
days were rather severe on the chil
dren, but I verily believe that more
genuine scholarship has developed
than in the sohools of to-day, to which
I now pass.
The old log sohool-houso and the
switch aro gone. Perhaps it is best
that it is bo, and yet I can not but
remember tho many great men in our
nation's past who were educated in
the one and stimulated by tho other.
"Keeping in at recess" succeeded the
rod to somo extent, but that, too, is
virtually numbered "among tho things
that wore." Deprived of these mcan3
of inducing tin child to study, the
teacher next resorted to the system of
rowards for special excellence. From
a late journal I learn that this is now
forbidden in some of our Northern
schools. And thus, step by step, has
all of the persuasive authority of the
teacher been taken away from him,
and yet the demand to produce schol
ars from the material given h:m has
never been abated in tho least
What then is education, and what
tho purposo of the Bchool-room?
Surely there can be no division of
minds on tho matter? Not so. Ono
man is looking for one set of results,
and another for entirely different ones.
When the potter puts his hand on the
shapeless elay be knows exactly the
kind of vessel he intends to make.
When tho mechanio takes his tools in
hand and begins to work tho timbe
before him ho knows whether he ir
expected to build a cottage for ths
poor or a mansion for tho rich. Ho
may reject this and that pieco of lum
ber as unsuitable, and ho is required to
use just Buoh material as ho knows
will answer his calculations, whether
for stability or ornament to his build
ing. But the tcaohor must take his
material as it eomes, and oh! the
weariness of trying to mako bricks
without straw. Some parents seem to
think that if thoy furnish the children
and the timo the tcaehers can furnish
anything else that may be needful to
transform the children into eduqated
men and women. They seem to forget
that if there bo no water in tho well,
no man can draw anv therefrom.
They have never learned that educa
tion is tho drawing out, the shaping
and tho disciplining of the mind al
ready in the pupil, but seem to think
tnat it nature has failed togivotho
neoessary mental endowments, the
toaoher ought to supply that deficiency
nimseu.
Such aro some of tho difficulties un
der whioh the teachers of to-day labor,
Is it any wonder then that all teaohers
aro not successful, and that parents are
frequently disappointed in the eduea.
I tion of their children. Cor.Gvardtan.
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Sideboards by the
dozen, Parlor and Bed
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Every Description.
Rocking Chairs &
Fancy Tables. Hall
Racks by the
Hundred, and Every
thing Calculated to
Make a Handsome
Present from
Fifty cents to $500.
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