NEW YORK’S “TRADE” SCHOOL.
THE ART OF JUGGLERY.
Thorough Instruction in Theory and Prao-
tlce—Ke ulrciuenta and BeaulU.
[Chicago New«. |
Bo Thoroughly Exposed the People Have
Leet AU Interest In It.
[New York Mail and Express.)
The trade school in New York is the
most successful one in the country.
The action of trade unions in limiting
the number of apprentices has made
it difficult in some of the skilled em­
ployments to find artisans qualified for
their work, and the demand is so great
and the number of those wishing to
learn the various trades so numerous
that the New York school became a
necessity alike to employer and to
young men illing to learn some use­
ful manual employment. The school
was established to take the place of the
old apprenticeship system, in which in­
struction, the use of tools, and practice
should be combined.
The school was opened in 1881 with
thirty three students in plumbing and
fresco-p' uting. The next season brick­
laying and pattern making was added
and the number of students was in­
creased to eighty-eight.
In 1883-4
wood-carving, stone-cutting and plas­
tering were added and the attendance
was 200. The present season carpen­
tering is included, with still largely in­
creased classes. The instruction is con­
fined to a course of three evenings a
week for the five months between
October and April.
The school is
neither a money-making nor a charita­
ble institution, the students being
charged tuition enough to just cover the
expense—the charges for instruction
being: For brick-laying, $17; plaster­
ing, $15; plumbing, $12, and all other
branches $10 each, with use ot tools
and materials. The instruction is very
thorough, both in theory and practice;
and, while it may not in the latter equal
a three or six years’apprenticeship, it
far exceeds it in the former, fitting the
pupil with a little expenenc at his
trade to become a comparatively skilled
laborer in any one of them.
In each class subjects are given for
discussion; as, for instance, the class
in plumbing discuss “Soil Pipes,”
Trapping and Ventilation of Soil
Pipes,”
"Cold
Water
Supply
Pipes,*’ "Boilers,” “Tanks,” and
other
kindred
subjects
bearing
upon the occupation of a plumber. The
students must be between the ages of
16 and 25, aud each class is under sev­
eral expert and educated men, who
practically understand every detail of
their department.
In cities there are greater difficulties
in the way of a boy learning a trade
than in the country, but these schools
open a widy. field for usefulness, and the
eagerness with which this one has been
sought by boys in New York, and the
possibilities before it, ought to lead to
the establishment of similar institutions
in every large city in the union.
"The art of jugglery has not advanced
much within thelasttwenty-five years,”
painfully admitted a superannuated
wizard to a reporter. "Indeed, it has
nearly all been thoroughly exposed,
and the very minute methods by which
wonderful results were attained appear
now as easy as making a coin disappear
from the closed fist. So much for sci­
ence and civilization.”
"What will be the result, do you
think!”
"Some of the results are palpable now.
The old sleight-of-hand man has almost
paused away. The wonderful cabinet of
spirits, which at one time astonished
tne world, it has been proven, was
nothing more nor less than a trick in
which confederates participated. Heller,
Houdin and the Davenport brothers all
were exposed. What is left for the pro­
fessionals to do is the question. They
cannot all turn sword-swallowers, or
knife-throwers, because that requires a
lifetime of practice. Some new de­
partures will nave to be taken in which
the cabinet does not appear and the
tricks of Houdin and Heller are omitted.
This is essentially the age of realism,
and therefore the tricks in jugglery will
have to far succeed in cleverness any
that we have ever seen produced. When
a wizard has a stage of his own he ca
produce startling effects whi h defy
superficial investigation.
“But the time has arrived when super­
ficial investigation is never carried on,
but instead such a searching and pro­
found one is performed that the little
apparatus designed to assist are taken
into consideration and removed. The
game is effectually blocked. Heller,
with his wonderful memory, could do
many strange tricks, and Houdin was
considered wonderful by the learned,
and supernatural by the ignorant. All
they both did is perfectly plain now.
borne new method, in my opinion, as­
sisted by science and electricity, will in
a few years be discovered to delude and
create speculation as the cab' et and
many other tricks did for many years.
The horse-play jugglery of th present
doesn’t amount to much. The Japanese
do astonishing tricks, but there is noth­
ing mysterious about them, since their
tricks depend altogether on their per­
sonal agility and years of constant prac­
tice.
“All of the tricks and jugglery of the
present day must give way. It no longer
entertains. The people want something
they can see into, so they will not go
any more to witness cabinet trick per­
formances. Who will open up the new
field remains to be seen. But that the
times are ripe for it no one can do”bt,
and who the wizard will be to cheat the
eyes and physical investigation of an
intelligent and sceptical public is a
matter of conjecture.
T««t for Short-Bightadne««.
[Reylrtgh in Nature.)
The increasing prevalence of short
sight is a very important matter, worthy
of all attention. There is one fact in
connection with it which 1 avail myself
of this opportunity of mentioning, in
the hope of inducing scientific oculists
to give it further e xamination. 1 find
that, though not at all short-sighted
under ordinary circumstances, I become
decidedly so in a nearly dark room, see­
ing much better with spectacles of
thirty-six inches negative locus In a
moderately good light 1 see better with­
out the glasses than with them. From
the few observations that I have made,
I have reason to believe that this pe­
culiarity of vision is not uncommon.
With the aid of a set of concave glasses
it is easy to try the experiment in a
room lighted with gas.
The flame
should be gradually turned lower aud
lower, so as to give full time for the
pupil to dilate and for the eye to ac­
quire its maximum of sensitiveness.
New Brunswick, N. J., is growing
esthetic and learned. It has received
from Dr. Lansing, a missionary in
Egypt, an ancient Egyptian papvrus.
forty-two feet long, it contains all the
ianters of the “Book of the Dead.” i>
„,000 years old. and is fuller and more
complete than the Turin papyrus copied
by Lepsius.- X F. Trtbtw.
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Cyclane» and Tornado««.
[Inter Ooean.)
A scientific writer who has studied
cyclone» say» “they always originate in
equatorial regions, but never occur
within eight or ten degrees of that line. ”
Another thing that is peculiar, he says
“the whirl is from right to left in­
northern and from left to right in
the southern hemisphere," and that
“masters of sailing vessels caught in
one these cyclones by knowing
its laws of direction can easily
sail out of its course. The same writer
speaking of tornadoes remarks they fol­
low much the same laws. "Those oc­
curring in the central part of the United
States originate in the Rocky moun­
tains or the Pacific ocean and travel
eastward. Those of the Atlantic coast
usually start in the gulf of Mexico or
Caribbean sea and follow the path of reg­
ular cyclones.” "A storm which starts
in the Rocky mountains sometimes can
be traced half way around the earth.”
Those of tho Pacific usually pass south­
eastward along the Mexican coast. The
study of cyclones and tornadoes is one ,
ittle understood and yet of abounding !
interest.
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Dealers do have an ad­ LIVERY FEED AND SALE STABLES
vantage over special dealers,
and the greater quantity of
goods sold or the volume of
business done, the.greater
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& HENDERSON,
ing a full and Complete LOGAN ----- BROS.
PROPRIETORS-----
Stock of the following Fine Carriages, Hacks and
lines of goods from the lead­
Saddle Horses,
And everything in the Livery hire,
ing dealers and best manu-
in good shape
facurers, which we replenish
At Reasonable Rates.
with new fresh goods month­
ly or oftener as the trade re­
samvix
quires, to wit: LADIES Late of Independence, ha Ying purchased th»
cory,
TEAMS AND TRUCKS
Drew and Fancy Good«, Gent»
Of Logan Bros. A Henderson, offers his
and Boy» Clothing and Furnish­
ing Goods, Hats and Caps, Boots eervioee in that line to the public, and will
Guarantee Satisfaction
and Shoes, Crockery, Queens
To
all who favor him with their patron»».
ware and Glass ware.
He will keep a wagon specially adapted to tna-
and a full line of fresh grocer-
ies, so our customers do not
have to deal at half dozen
places to supply their want«.
While we do not propose to
be undersold, yet do not and
can not put these goods in
competition with Auction
or Short Weight goods
sold to the trade by unscru­
pulous dealers. We fear no
honest competition. Thank­
ing people for past patron­
age and favors, will be pleas­
ed to have you call and de­
termine for yourselves what
merit is in our modest claim.
A. J. APPERSON.
delivery of parcels, trunks satchels, eta., for
the accomodation of the public. Order» left
at the stable will be promptly attended to at
reasonable rates.
City Stables.
HENDERSON BROS.,
Ample room to care tor horses.
Livery
teams at ss reasonable rate« as any where in
Oregon. New stable Third St., McMinnville.