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DO to oh 33 17 9010 Das 2 vil HE 6th. build I 411 19 IA 200 2 atonal COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. JUNE 10, 1877. MORNING, Closing of the Public Schools. The public schools of the city closed on Friday, and the tired teachers, as well as schollars, will have a rest for the summer.

The daily papers have said all that can, be said in praise of Prof. Butterfield and Prof. Thomas, and the tearchers of the different grades in the Lincoln school, as well as the Harrison street sehool, therefore we will not repeat what has already been written--will only say' a word respecting the graduating class of young ladies. Where all done so well, it is impossible for us to say which was best. Miss Jennie Dick's essay.

on "Do we Progress," suggested many thoughts. Miss. Elva Moor's essay, "Chips," was very good, and brought to our mind the many young ladies who are achieving for themselves a reputation in the world of art that will live long after they have passed away, by hewing the chips from the rough blocks of marble and placing before us the beautifui statues so life-like, that in looking we almost expect to hear them speak, and, as she truly said, before the chips away rough block, we, without an artisteye, could see nothing attractive in the marble. In answer to Miss Jennie Dick's essay, "Do we Progress," we would say we believe we do. Nothing ges our admiration to a greater degree than the efforts made by the young ladies of to-day, to advance themselves in everything that will promote their own interest.

The young lady who dares to brave public opinion (too often unhappily moulded against her in her aims for self support) and takes her place on the stage of life, whether in the learned profession, teaching the juvenile mind, plying the needle, or in various lines of trade, determined in whatever sphere she moves, that "Excelsior" shall be her motto, is the hope of the future of the Republic, and will do much toward shaping the destiny of the nation, by precept and example. Of late years the channels hitherto blockaded against the admission of females where generous competition might be exercised with the stearner sex, in our universities and colleges of learning, are happily now opened for our daughters as well as our sons, and they may share equally in the advantages of education in arts and sciences. We gladly hail this as an auspicious omen when the rights of women are being more fully recognized." How cheering the prospect, as we see the daughters of some of our best families who, scorning to be a burthen to their fathers and relatives, who by force of adverse circumstances are not able to provide for their comfort, buckel on their armor and hasten to their respective fields of labor, proud in the consciousness of their ability to support themselves. Like polished stones that adorn the temple, they stand out in pleasing contrast to those drones on society, whose highest ambition is to lead lives of fashionable dissipation. We are heartily glad, as Miss Jennie has shown, that we do progress.

Miss Peck's essay, "Plus Ultra, was a fine production, and well delivered. Miss Hammond's essay, "Whispering of the was beautifully written and well The loss of swine by disease, in this country, during the past twelve months has been enormous, as appears from the report of Mr. Dodge, the Statistician of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. An investigation shows a loss during the past twelve months of 4,000,000 of all ages, valued at $20,000,000. One-fifth of the reported loss occurs in the State of Illinois; next in prominence are Missouri, Iowa and Indiana, which together lose Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, have nearly as large a per centage in numbers, aggregating in value 000.

The reported losses are very small in New England, the country bordering on the great lakes, and the Pacifio coast. Of the remaining tricts, West Virginia comes nearest exemption, and Ohio and the Atlantic coast States stand better than the alluvial districts. The receipts by the internal collector during the month of May were: From cigars, beer, tobacco, special taxes. 590.83; collections on lists, making a total of $12,346.17, against 880.83 during May, 1876. TAaV T781 ,01 ortu CONDIOIS bus doe I agin HOTLIAD This space belongs to eura I D.

H. FORBES, ITINU SEATO ITO DEALER IN Hardware and Cutlery, 2MOM3J bus 230 198 Kansas avenue. natin? ategra well ton RADU8 OMA QUAY8 So awl ed of Mind and Health. The Science of Health says on this subject: The mental condition has more influence upon the bodily health than is generally supposed. It is no doubt true that ailments of the body cause a morbid depressing condition of the mind; but it is no less that sorrowful and disagreeable emotions produce disease in persons who, uninfluenced by them, would be in sound health- if disease is not produced, the functions are disordered.

Not even physicians always consider the importance of this fact. Agreeable emotions set in motion neryous currents, which stimulate blood, brain, and every part of the system into healthful activity; while grief disappointment of feeling, and brooding over present sorrows or past mistakes, depress all the vital forces. To be physically well one must, in general, be happy. The reverse is not always true; one may be happy and cheerful, and yet be a constant sufferer in body. An enormous engineering work is in progress to provide Baltimore with water, the present supply being bad in quality and inadequate in quantity.

The new source is to be Gunpowder River, nine miles from the city, and the water is to be brought thro' a tunnel seven miles long, cut through a mountain. This will be the longest tunnel in 'America, circular in shape, and twelve feet in diameter. Five miles of the distance is very hard rock, and the drilling is done by manual labor, power drills being impracticable in so small a space. The rest of the way will be bricked. Fifteen shafts have been sunk.

The cost is estimated at $3,000,000, about 150 men have been employed, and the tunnel will probably be completed in three years. The employees are mainly negroes who live in miserable log cabins; and the contractor says greatest difficulty is not of an engineering kind, but comes of drunkenness among these men. Liquor dealers infest the temporary villages with portable bars and sell vile whisky so cheap that the laborers buy extensively. 000 In reply to a question as to the number of lives lost in the war of the Rebellion, the New York Journal of Commerce says: number of deaths in the Union army during the war was 280, 739, of which 5,201 officers and 90,867 privates were killed in action for died of wounds, and 5,321 officers and 182,329 privates died of diseases or accidents. The losses of the Confederates were not more than one-fourth: to one third of this, but figures are disputed," Adelaide Neilson received for four weeks at the California Theater, San Francisco, $17,500.

It was the largest engagement ever played there, surpassing Booth's and the Florences'. GREECE AND ENGLAND, Would this sunshine be completer, Or these violets smell sweeter, Or the birds sing more in metre, If it all were years ago When the melted mountain snow Heard in Enna all the woe Of the poor forlorn Demeter? Would a stronger life pulse o'er us If a panther chariot bore us, If we saw enthroned before us, Ride the leopard god. With. a fir-cone tip the 1 rod. Whirl the thyreus round and nod To a drunken Menad chorus? Bloomed there richer, redder roses Where the Lesbian earth encolses, All of Sappho? where reposes Meleager, laid to sleep By the olive-garden deep; Where the Syrian maidens weep Bringing serpolet in posies? All it may be Greece had leisure For a world of faded pleasure, We must tread a tamer measure, 08 To a milder, homelier lyre; We must tend a paler fire; Inn Lay less perfume on the pyre, Be content with poorer treasure! Were the brown-limed lovers bolder? Venus younger, Cupid older? Down the wood-nymph's warm white shoulder Trailed a purpler, madder vine? Were the poets more divine? Brew.

we no such golden wine Here, where summer suns are colder? Yet for us, too, life has flowers, Time a glass of joyous hours, Interchange of sun and showers, And a leaf of leafy glades, 00 Meant for loving men and maids, Full of warm green lights and shades, Trellis work of wild-wood bowers. So while English suns are keeping Count of sowing time and reaping, We've no need to waste our weeping. Though the glad Greeks lounged at ease Underneath their olive trees, And the Sophoclean Swarmed on lips of poets sleeping! 0011 Temple Bar. NEWSPAPER MEN NOT frequently hear people allude to local reporters as "deadheads." They are not such, They do more gratis work than any other class in the community. The manipulators of public meetings are sorely disappointed if they do not find the reporters at the tables.

The learned Judge blows his learned proboscis and looks around in search of the newspaper man before reading his opinion. And yet outsiders envy the reporter the good time he has on exoursions, at dinners, at races and in the shows. The fact is they go to such places mechanically--as a matter of business, until it becomes a drudgery rather than a pleasure. And yet some of this class of growlers are eternally sponging off the poor printers and feel that they are engaged in a noble work. -Exchange.

The tidal wave of rats has reached Polk county. They advance westward every year, keeping pace with civilization. It's only a step sure enough from the sublime to the ridiculous. The buffalo, elk, antelope and "noble red man" disappear with the receding wave of barbarism and we have in their stead civilization and--rats. -Lincoln (Neb.) Globe.

First Repairing Shoe done Store order. North Sixth guaranteed. Kansas Manufacturer Dealer and BENSON, old 100 COHO THE BAZAAR, god out 145 KANSAS AVENUE, 145 TENDIOHO BTAIM Fashionable Millinery -AND DRESS-MAKING, Pinking, Fluting and Stamping, Done to Order. Hosiery, Gloves, CHIT Handkerchiefs, Linen Sette Corsets, Ties, Worsteds, Embroidery Patterns, Stamped Goods, White Trimmings, Dress Braid, Alpaca Braids, Trimming Braids, Twists, Ribbons, EDGINGS, INSERTIONS, ETC. ARBOCE Also, a large, and excellent, stock of Sheet Music, closing out at cost.

CO Call at 145 Kansas avenue, and examine goods and prices. Rooms 8 The Rooms 00 House -00 $2.00 per Commercial and a Fifty Contains HINDMAN, 1400.1 Tourists. 150 SAMPLE $2.50 SWOOn Proprietors, HOUSE PRIM A SPECIALTY, AT THE Cash Grocery. abl walk. ani mizall of to COMIC The Choicest Selection of STAPLE AND FANCY Provisions, etc.

Having the advantage of buying for cash, we are enabled to sell at the lowest market rates. Call and see. A trial is the surest test. W. WARREN, Opposite the Court House.

In the composition of every happiness enters the thought of having deserved it. Dio Two things a man should never be angry at--what he can and what he cannot help. All pleasure is more or less imaginative; and our greatest happiness arises from delusions. The commentary of a severe friend is better than the embellishments of A sweet-lipped flatterer. Pataloon pockets are made very low on the leg this season, and a man can pull up his socks now without letting everybody know it.

The meanest man lives in Oil City. He has sent a bill to a neighbor for giving the latter's, children the City Call. 01 This is about the time of year the ice begin to circulate the report that their crop of ice was ruined by the late -Philad. Bulletin. When we see a man standing out with an umbrella to keep the rain from off the potato patch we know that he is a book farmer Rome Sentinel.

Thanks to the liberality of committees in providing their church pews with the Moody and Sankey hymnbooks, nearly every home in Danbury has a News. Hayes has a regular old fashioned cabinet. He can always find the Key to it, changes his Shurtz when so disposed, and use his best Evarte to keep it clean. sH Women journalists are said to be more numerous in Philadelphia than any other city of the country. About every daily in one or more of them on its staff.

A man out on Webb street dropped dead, the other day, while beating a sitting-room carpet. His wife has been held to appear at the next term of the District Court. Dreadful -Burlington Hawk-eye, 411100 Marriage increases a man's modesty so that after a year or two he can't summon up enough courage to kiss a woman whose lips, in the vanishing past, were glued to his four hours at a stretch three times a week. Fulton Times. The San Francisco pound-keeper, wishing to secure all the unregistered dogs he could get, advertised for a dog.

Over 400 men applied with their animals, of which only 20 were found to have been licensed. Hence 380 dogs were killed as the law directs. TIE I am willing to rock the baby while wimmen folks are biling soap; I am reddy carpets; to they kut kan rags to keep work me into hunting rag hen eggs; or picking, green kurrants; or I will even dip kandles or kore apples for sass. but I won't churn.Josh Billings. TWO TERRIBLE -They tell a good story on one of the boys who lives on Mineral hill, and who happened to arrive in town during the progress of the inauguration ball.

His social instincts prompted him to attend, but his attire was not up to the mark, and he applied to a friend for the loan of the necessary articles of apparel. The friend consented with some reluctance, and arrayed in borrowed plumes, our hero engaged in the festivities. 'The owner garments watched him as he threaded the mazy dance, and after it was over and he had ensconced himself in a seat by the side of a fair charmer, approached him and broke loose with the following remark: "See here, D- them pants is new. and I wish you wouldn't set down and make knees in them." D- came very near fainting with mortification, and abruptly left sympathizing friend followed who by had overheard the remark and felt sorry for his embarrassment. D- stripped off those pants, and after much solicitation, accepted the loan of another pair from his new-formed friend, and, after some to the ball-room soon forgot his troubles in the smiles of the company of the fair dancers.

A polka was called on. He was on the floor with the belle of the evening, skipping and hopping as gracefully as that exhilarating dance would permit, until out of breath he promenaded, with his fair partner on his arm in close proximity to the owner of the breeches, who had been looking on in evident delight at the abandon of the wearer, and as he came by he gave vent to his pleasure by slapping D- on the back and exclaiming: "Go it, old feller; burst out of the breeches if you want to, I don't care a cent as long as you enjoy yourself." D- dropped his partner and rushed for the depot just in time to catch the train. -Eureka. (Nev.) Sentinel. give a few music lessons." We can always tell the man who don't care a continental what the papers say about him by the eagerness with which, after doing something mean, he endeavors to get hold of the first copy to see the comments.

Many a man ruined his eyesight by sitting in a bar-room looking for work. Yankee versatility is well illustrated in a brief obituary notice in an exchange, where the defunct is spoken of as having been engaged in the pianoforte and sign-painting business." This reminds one of the boy who, when asked what he intended to do for a living, replied that he thought he should be a farmer and J. R. DUTTON, 00 Dealer in all kinds of 00 Sewing Machines! $80 Machines from $50 to $60 Tuckers, all kinds, $1.00 each, Buffers, any kind. $1.50 each, Corders, 80 cents Binders, 80 cents each.

Having had years of experience, and practice, can fully warrant all repairs. Being the only practical adjuster of all Sewing Machines in the city. Office 200 Kansas 8 Doors south of the Post-office. R. N.

CHENEY NOTARIES PUBLIC, REAL ESTATE AND 001 enzoll Insurance Agents BUY AND LANDS, PAY TAXES, Colleot Rents, AND DO A bite ,1 Al out to uno oval a General Land Office Business. Kansas NORTH TOPEKA..