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|s Iv^v' GENERAL LABOR NEWS.
Labor Hotes.
The kni^Hts in New Hampshire are
moving for a ten-hour law.
The American print works at Fall
.River are running thirteen machines.
The Vermont Marble Company is
opening a new quarry at West But
land.
Four million bricks have been made
in the town of Penobscot, Me., this
year.
All the strikers at Conners' woollen
mill, South Iiolyoke, have reiurned to
work again.
A fine paving quarry has been opened
near the California House at Vinal
haven, Me.
The long morocco strike at "Wilming
ton, Del., is ended. The men have re
turned to work.
The secretary and treasurer of the
Knights of Labor are each paid a salary
of $2,000 a year.'
From all accounts it would appear
that the steel industries are in a nour
ishing condition.
The west end oj the Fall River iron
works started up last week, after a shut
down of five months.
The Marlboro Stationary Engineers'
Association has received its charter and
•j the organization is completed,
•j The b-:dstead factory at Moultonville,
in Ossipee, IN. II., is about to start up.
making 800 bedsteads per week,
4 The Consolidated street railway ern
ployes of Boston have accepted the ten
hour proposition of President Powers.
Sis hundred hosiery operatives have
joined the strikers at Kensington, Pa.,
and the total number now out is about
2,000.
The Amsterdam {X. Y.) knitting
xo 11 is, it is said, are gradually supply
ing themselves with non union opera
tives.
The Nonotuck Silk Company's mills
in Haydenviiie, Leeds and Florence
have been reduced to three-quarters
rime.
John P. Mahoney and Jeremiah
Clark of Lowell have purchased the ma
chinery in the Henderson woollen mill
at Merrimack, In H,
The possibility of a lockout in the
textile mills in Philadelphia and vicin
ity is intimated. If doae it will de
prive about, 7-3,000 persons of work.
One hundred employes of the Silver
Pi ale Cutlery Company of Shelton. Ct.,
have struck because of the discharge of
two men. The matter will probably be
amicably settled.
The Westbrook (Me.) Paper Com
pany are putting up several new build
ings in addition so their already exten
sive mills. They are now at work on
large orders from Is'ew York firms.
The general executive board of the
Ivnights of Labor has been authorized
to purchase a home for the family of
the late Uriah S. Stevens, founder of
the order of the Kuights of Labor.
The Knights of Labor convention
appropriated £-50,000 to establish per
manent headquarters for the general
of.iciuvs of the order at Philadelphia.
The knights own a lot upon which it is
proposed to erect a substantial build
ing.
The Knights of Labor hud. that
negro labor is badly paid, because the
negroes, having been slaves so long,
can be kept down and that this poorly
paid labor is coming in competition
with white labor to the detriment of
the latter.
The resolutions recently adopted by
the general assembly of the Knights of
Labor at Richmond, calling on ?igar
malters who are members of the niter
national Union and also knights to
choose which of the organization they
shall follow, says a Sedalia, Mo., dis
patch, created a great deal of comment
in this city. All ot the cigarraakers
here are members of both orders aud to
a man will renounce allegiance to the
Kuights of Labor.
President John Egau of the Bay
State grinders' union went to Turner's
Fallo, recently, to adjust a difficulty be
tween workmen and their employers in
the cutlery works at that place. Some
of the workmen refused^ to join the
grinders' union and were called
"scabs," and the other men refused to
work with them. Mr. Egan gave as
his ultimatum that the so-called
4'scabs''
must go or join the union, and
the employers accepted the terms, Mr.
Egan agreeing to.furnish all the skilled
labor required.
At the Richmond convention resolu
tions were adopted strongly opposing
bringing convict labor in competition
with honest labor, and appealing to
Congress to enact laws forbinding the
employment of such labor on govern
ment work or allow contractors to bid
for such work who use this class of
labor proposing to license locomotive
engineers favoring woman suffrage
and the coining of (silver calling upon
Congress to abrogate the Burlingame
treaty with China and opposing immi
gration of Chinese. A resolution was re
ferred to the incoming legislative com
mittee demanding laws to prohibit any
member of either house of Congress, or
of auv state Legislature, from acting as
attorney for any person or- corporation
nmtinnallv intarAHforl in f.lio ltxriclaKrvn
peisonally interested in the legislation
of the body in which he sits during his
term of office as such member.
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HOME LESSONS.
A Plea for tUe Abolishment of This Cruel
Method of Teachingr*
It was reported last year that home
lessons in the public schools would be
done away with in a great measure
this year. .Nevertheless, they have al
ready begun in some schools, and are
likely to increase as the months roll on
and examination time approaches.
The consequence will be that when the
school sessions are over at the opening
of the summer vacations many of the
pupils will be broken down mentally
and physically, and good marks will
have been earned at the expense of
ruined health. And the teachers as
well as the pupils will be used up in
the attempt to cover too much educa
tional ground in a given space of time,
and substitutes at different portions of
the year will play a prominent part in
endeavoring to impart instruction to
over-crowded young minds.
It is time that this cruel method of
teaching "by means of home lessous
was discontinued in the public schools.
The time that the growing child has
out of the school-room should be de
voted to recreation, not to study, and
we are not certain that the introduc
tion of the elective system in all
grades in the school' above the pri
mary ones would not be a good thing
for both teachers and children. Why
should pupils who have only a limited
time to spend in acquiring an educa
tion be compelled to devote a great
many hours to studies which will be
of no practical value to them when
they have gone into the work-shop or
the counting room. Of general
knowledge in this age of newspapers
and books, every intelligent person
who can read can acquire a sufficient
amount after they have left school,
and it: is worse than useless to load the
hnmature brain and the undeveloped
mind with a mass of matter for which,
it has no especial fondness, and. which
will be remembered, if at all, so
vaguely that it will be like Cassio's
recollection after he had looked upon
the wine when it was red.
Away with home lessons then, saj
we. Life is too short for such non
sense. There is no time saved by at
tempting too much, as many an inva
lid's bed and insane hospital can tes
tify. Let our children have healthy
bodies and minds, even if they do not
know that Wordsworth wrote the "Ex
cursion." and. can not paraphrase it for
an admiring audience. Home lessons
have got to go with the pale, lantern
jawed student, who used to light him
self to an early grave by burning mid
night oil.
See that this refonn is brought about,
superintendent, supervisors and mem
bers oi the school committee, and do
.not tell us that children break down
because they are injudiciously fed at
home. The bad feeding is in the pub
lic schools, and it is a good deal like
the stuffing of the Strasburg'goose. It
produces a diseased organ.-—Boston
Budget.
CHINESE HUMOR,
YACHTING
tha
Three Specimen Jo-its Fresh from
jf.anil of the "Son of ITeaveii."
The Chinese have their stories and
their fun, just as we have. Here now
follow three spce'.men jests from Can
ton:
A wealthy man once lived between
the bouses of. two blacksmiths and was.
constantly annoyed by the noise of
thou* hammers, so that he could uot
get rest night or day. First he asked
them to strike more gently then lie
made them great promises if they
would remove at once. The two
blacksmiths consented and he, over
joyed to get rid of them, prepared a
graud'.entertainment When the banquet
was over ho asked them where they were
-going to take up their new abodes
they replied—to the intense dismay of
their worthy host, no doubt: "He who
lives on the left of your house is going
to that on the right aud he who lives
ou your right is going to the house ou
your left."
A literary man, while reading one
night:, observed, that a thief was busy
digging under.the wall of his house.
He happened to have a teapotful of
boiling water, so he took it and placed
it near him, waiting for the thief. The
opening being made, the thief first put
through his feet, which the literary
man seized and watered well with the
scalding contents of his teapot. The
thief uttered a piercing cry and asked
pardon but he answered him, a
grave tone: "Wait till I have emptied
the tea-pot."
One night the Khoja dreamed thai
some person had given him nine pieces
of money but he was not content, and.
said: "Make it ten," upon which he
awoke, and, finding his hands empty,
at once closed his eyes again, and
stretching out his hand, said: "I re
pent: give me the nine." Baptist
Weekly.
"support every movement tending to
the improvement of the human speech
es."—N. Y. Telegram.
—The jury in the case of George
Sorg, of Swormville, who was sup
posed to have been poisoned, brought
in a verdict that the said George Sorg
came to his death by "suspicion of
poison."—Buffalo Commercial.
—In responding to the toast of "The
Press" at an agricultural dinner a gen
tleman unintentionally perpetrated a
pun by mispronouncing a word. He
hoped the Press would ever maintain
its independence, and so forth, and good reason to doubt its truthfulness.
Inquisitive Boston Maiden Who
Wanted to Know All About It.
"Oh, Charley!" she exclaimed, as
the young man took a seat on the
veranda, "I'm so glad! I've been
reading about those yachts you know.
It's so interesting! I'm really quite
fascinated, yon know. But there are
some things I don't clearly under
stand. And I want you to tell me
what they mean.
"I11 one place it says the Mayflower
had a handicap, and a little farther on
it says she had a capful. Of course
she couldn't have a capful unless she
had a cap handy but what puzzles me
is that the paper talks as though a
handicap was a bad thing to have,
while a capful is just what was wanted.
Now do explain it to me. that's a dear
good fellow.
"And then it says in another place,
that one of the yachts, I forget which,
had her starboard tacks aboard. I
suppose they forgot to leave them on
shore in the hurry of starling. Wasn't
it-mean? They must have been dread
fully overloaded, for just before that it
says she had ho difficulty in picking up
the buoys''-—
"Edith!" exclaimed Aunt Maria,who
had caught only the last sentence,
"fm ashamed of you, talking after
that manner. Picking up the boys!
You know I detest slang. And pray
how can you take any interest in what
that hussy did?"
"Why, aunt, I'm not talking about
any woman only about these delight
ful yachts.
"Oh yes, Charley! There was an
other funny thing. It says that one of
them stood out 011 the other leg. Only
think of it! I never knew that yachts
and of the yachts running before
the wind and outfooting each other.
Of course they couldn't do that without
legs. And they must have arms, too,
for it tells about their hugging the
shore. That must have been so nice!
"But, Charley, how awfully cruel
the yachtsmen are. The paper says
the Priscilla was hard pinched,
and that the Mayflower was jammed
for all she was worth, and it says
there was 110. need of jamming her so
close either. The paper, however,
says she didn't seem to lose her life.
I'm glad of that, but no thanks to
those great hateful men that did the
jamming and the pinching.
"And the paper tells about losing
time cruising in stays—to think they
THE IRISH STANDARD: SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 6, 1886.
evidently with the intention of
riigrims came over in—
"I declare! if lie hasn't gone without
.30 much as opening his mouth. I don't
care I'll ask Fred when I see him.
Fred '11 tell me, I know."—Boston
Transeriot,
Domestic Life in China.
A ease of wife-pawning occurred re
cently in Kwang-Si which throws light
on the moral practices of the Chinese
in his own country. A woman was
pawned by her husband for thirty dol
lars during the winter. In the spring,
when times were better, she was re
deemed, but soon after was sold to a
second man for one hundred dollars
half down, and the remainder at the
end of three months. This fellow lost
on the trade, as the wretched creature
committed suicide by hanging herself
after one night in her new quarter^.
This incident is given by one of the
most trustworthy of the native Chinese
journals, and there seems to be no
It shows how low is the moral plane of
a country which can permit such traffic
'n women.—San Francisco Chronicle.
—Mme. Anderson, of Stockholm,
Sweden, is granted by the King tho
freedom of the railways of that coun
try, as an aid to her important mission
ary labors for the promotion of tem
perance and social purity.
SLANG. FULL FUN.
had legs oefore though, come to however, he succeeded, and drawing a
think of it, it does speak of their heels, jorig breath remarked: "If if wasn't
yachts running before for
should mention such things! And then
about blanketing one another—it came
up cold. I suppose and in another
place it says all the sloops were sailing
under the same sail—I don't see how
they could do it without getting all
tangled up do you?
"And how fuuny the Mayflower
cted. She was so capricious, you
know. At one time, so the paper
says, she was hauling on the black
sloops
helping theru along, which was real
kind, I'm sure and a little while after
it says the Mayflower had a magnet
on all those before her, and she was
pulling them back to herself. Don't
seem's though she could do it with a
magnet, does it?
"I was real glad that the Mayflower
beat, though my heart was right in my
mouth when I read that the captain of
the Atlantic kept on getting all he
could out of his yacht. But shouldn't
you have thought he'd been afraid to
lighten her so? Wonder she didn't
capsize.
"And Charley, what do they mean
by outpointing and outstretching and
lulling and all that sort of thing? And
do they always have skippers on board
yachts? Come from the cheese they 1
have for lunch, I suppose. Ugh! it
makes me crawl all over.
"Really, must you go? And yon 1
haven't told me a single thing: and I
lotted on seeing 3-ou and getting you
to explain it to me, so I could under
stand all about it
"But. Charley, do tell me one thing.
Is the Mayflower the same vessel the
0 E E C1
—The latest novelty from Pittsburgh
is a "piano made of pretty girls."—
Gazette. Is that so? Then "hold the
forte, for we are coming!"—Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
—"I walked the floor all night with
the toothache." said he to which his
unfeeling listener replied: "You didn't
expect to walk the ceiling with it, did
you?"—Norristown Herald.
—A scene of introduction: "Gentle*
men, this is ray friend X, who is not
quite so foolish as he looks." X—
"That is precisely the difference, gen
tlemen, between my friend and me."—
Chicago Standard.
—"Did you hear about the bnrglai
who was arrested this morning:?"
"No! What for?" "For breaking into
song." "is that so?" "Yes. He'd got
through two bars when some one hit
him with a stave."—K Y. Mail.
—Office Boy (to editor)—"There is a
man outside what says ho has a bill
he wants Jo present." Editor*—"Say
to him that his manuscript is respect
fully declined.''—A7". Y. Independent.
Hello, Brown! I see you and
Miss Jones are not so intimate as for
merly." No. She i3 a nice girl, biit
she affected me like an ague." ."Af
fected you like an ague? How was
that? "She shook me."—-V.Y. Sun.
—Tourist (to the Celtic guide)-—
Why is it, my good man, that the
Highland miles are so much longer
than the Lowland ones?"' Celt
Shust peeause ta quality is nae sae
cood, an' they haf to gif petfcer meas
ure."—Boston Globe.
—A Galveston (Tex.) school-'cache?
had a great deal of trouble making a
boy understand his lesson. Finally,
me
y0U would be the biggest don­
key on Galveston Island! "—Pittsburgh
Chronicle..
—Parting lovers are sentimental, but
a Massachusetts girl, on bidding good
bye to her fiance,, capped the climax
by directing his attention to the Great
Dipper in the starry firmament. "You
see the second star in the handle of the
dipper, don't you?" "Yes." "And
yon see that faint little star close to
the second star?" 'Yes, my dear."
"Well, darling, that's me."—Harper's
Weekly.
—As a train was approaching Cleve
land it parted in the middle and the
bell-rope snapped, off like thread, the
end of it striking an old lady in the
bonnet
««What is the matter?" she
exclaimed. "Oh, the train broke in
two," replied a gentleman who sat in
the next seat. "I should say so," the
old lady said, looking at the broken
bell-cord. "Did they s'pose a trilling
little string like that would hold the
train together?"—Toledo Blade.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A black eagle, captured a few days
ago near Evanston, Wy. T., measured
jift&en ar)d a half feet
Mail.
—The acreage devoted to the culti
vation of tobacco in the United States
is said to have increased from 688,84:1
acres in 1880, to 700.000 at the present
time, while the product has increased
from 472,661,100 pounds to 600,000,
000 pounds. Until 1870, Virginia led
as a tobacco manufacturing State.
Now Kentucky is first.—N. Y. World,
—How many persons seem to be on
the lookout for something at which to
get mad, and how ready they are to
impugn your motives and to pass sen
tence without allowing a word of ex
planation. Why such people are born
into the world is one of the darkest
things of the problem of existence.—
'Richmond Religious Herald.
—Crater lane, in the Cascade mount
ains, is a sheet of transparent water
covering an area of about s3cty acres.
It is nearly surrounded by high bluffs
of volcanic rock, and presents every
appearance of having been the crater
of a long extinct volcano. The water
is but melted snow, icy cold, so pure
and devoid of all vegetable matter that
not a fish can live in it. So transpar
ent is it that, where it seems to be but
hree inches in depth, thrust in your
trm and you will find it to be eighteen
nches.—N.
Y.
Mail.
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—A Rice County man has discovered
that fourteen ears to the square rod
make forty bushels of corn to the acre.
—Atchison (Kan.) Champion.
—Probably the most valuable raee»
horse on the American turf i,-: Miss
Woodford. She has won during the
past live years nearly $108,000.—N. Y.
Herald.
—The largest fish ever caught at- the
Isle of Shoals weighed one hundred
and eleven pounds, and Miss Rose M.ill
mine, of New York, held the line, but
she became frightened at her success
and Charles Robinson saved the fish.
—A pair of broncos that were brought
from Montana to Deadwood. D. T.,
eight years ago, were lost recently by
their owner, who, after much inquiry,
gave them up. Recently he received a
letter from his old Montana home sav
ing that his broncos were back on
their old feeding grounds.
—New York has a "pet" hotel,
where, all sorts of household pets, from
a canary bird to monkey, are boarded
during the absence of their owners.
The prices, however, are pretty high.
The little canary pays 25 cents, the
parrot 50, the monej' 75, pussy $2 and
dogs from $2 to $-£.50 per week.—N. Y.
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