General News.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1676, 20 February 1885, Page 3

General News.

There is a growing tendency among the boys of this and other towns (says the Taranaki News) to spend their evenings in the streets. This “going down town, ” as it is called, cannot have an elevating or improving effect on the rising generation. To hang about street corners, 101 l on door-steps, block (he footways, while indulging in baneful language, tobacco and horse play, is surely not a part of that education which should fit these future meu for the keen competiton of the world in which they will have to take a part. Those who should have authority over these youngsters seem to ignore the fact that education should not stop at school, but should be continued by reading, borne influence, and self restraint. A correspondent of an America paper adopts the following method tor teaching a refractory cow to lead He used 20ft of half inch rope and says ; —“ This cow had never before been led, but she went like a ‘ daisy.’ The rope had been snugly tied about the horns, the knot was put forward of the ear, the eud of the rope was slipped up under the rope at the side ot the head and back of the ear, and drawn up, making a loop about the ear. The cow was then started ahead. Of course, she attempted to run ; a puli ou the rope told the ear to stop with that cow, and the cow understood it exactly. A few minutes after, Smith mounted his horse and pulled on the rope, aud the cow 1 1 :he way down the street without music or ostentatious display. Dr Torke, in a lecture before an Auckland audience the other evening said : “ Evolution is a hopeful doctrine for the world, and tells of better conditions for man’s development. 1c tells of a time when religion will consist of doing good, aud not iu creeds and dogmas. It tells of a time when a man will be ashamed to say 1 1 own a thousand acres of land. ’ It tells of a time when women will stand as the equal of man, side by side; and at that time there shall be no more war, for evolution evolves everlasting peace.”