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SUNG Tie LESSONS
Geography Set to Music an Old
Time Teaching Scheme
A PLAN OF YANKEE ORIGIN
One of the Most Popular Airs In the
List Used to Interest the Pupils In
Their Studies Was Auld Lang
Syne Bonny Doon Also Liked
Singing geography was a popular
fad In the educational line In New
York In olden days particularly In up
state school districts It was of Yan
kee origin It was never made part of
the common school system of the state
but was taught outside the regular
hours
A set of wall maps known as Pel
tons outline maps was used There
were no names of geographical divi
sions or places on them The Instruc
tor would go over the map on which
the lesson was found pointing out
with n pointing rod the different coun
tries cities rivers lakes or whatever
might be the subject In hand and at
the same time the name of each di
vision place or body of water would
be mentioned in song The teacher
usually a man would lead the class
chorus as he pointed and if the sub
ject happened to be political divisions
the song would run like this to the
tune of Bonny Doon
Let North America be first
In our descriptive rhyme rehearsed
Its norttiern bound the arctic waves
Its oast the Atlantic ocean laves
The gulf of Mexico we see
Upon Its southern boundary
Its western and southwestern sides
Are washed by thePaclfic tides
The geographical verses were con
tained in the pupihVtoxt book called
riM Koy to ioltons New and Im
proved Series of Outline Maps
Among other things the following Is
found in tho preface of one of these
old time volumes
With respect to the versification it
Is merely necessary to say that the de
sign has been to put all the important
geographical localities on the globe in
connection witti much wiluable matter
to a form which cau be most easily
committed to memory and It is confi
dently believed that the exhilarating
effect of harmouious sounds will great
ly facilitate the acquisition of this
knowledge and care has been taken
that none but popular and approved
airs be inserted in the work
Auld Lang Syne appears to have
been regarded as an especially pop
ular and approved air and was often
used In the very first lesson the pu
pils were taught to describe the earth
by singing the following to this tune
Tho earth Is a large ball or globe
Whose surface has been found
Three fourths with ocean waves sub
merged
And but one fourth dry ground
Two hundred millions of square miles
Earths surface does embrace
Eight hundred million people here
All find a dwelling place
Tongue twisting names did not em
barrass the geographical versifier al
though the enunciation of all the pu
pils probably was not perfect wlieu
for example in the lesson ou Asia
they sang to the air of Bruces Ad
dress such lines as these
Mow in modulations sweet
Asias rivers we repeat
Obi first in Russia greet
Irtish river next
Lost in sand behold Helmund
Thep northward seek 1arkund
Be Bot turbid Oxus shunned
Sihon river see
Ural river next in place
Attruck and Koor river trace
Klzil lrmak then embrace
In our melody
There were thirty oue siates in the
Union when singing geography was in
vogue and the pupils were tanght to
bound each of them iu verse Cali
fornia was then the newest state hav
ing been admitted in 1S30 was the last
on the list and its boundaries were
thus defined
On Californias northern side vast Oregon
is placed
Both Utah ana New Mexico upon the east
are traced
Upon its southern borders next may Mex
ico be found
And broad Pacifics sparkling waves com
pose its western bound
In thirty tour stanzas set to the
tune of Bonny Doon the geography
class would make a tour of Europe
and glean bits of information about
various countries and cities visited
The tour would start in this fashiou
Now be our geographic rhymes
Transferred to European climes
The grand divisions first wc teach
With the metropolis of each
Norway a region bleak and cold
By Christiania is controlled
Sweden that Charles the hero bred
Takes Stockholm for Its chief and head
Russia in proud expansion sits
And to St Petersburg submits
Austria with its imperial crown
Vienna takes for its chief town
Turkey in southern Europe placed
Is by Constantinople graced
Greece once for arts and arms re
nowned
With glorious Athens still is crowned
Thus the geography pupils sang on
through the list of European nation
and capitals New York Sun
Enlivened the Play
Monte Cristo was playing to a
crowded house in a New York theater
In a box sat a man who had looked on
the wine when it was red When
Monte mounted the rock in the sea
and exclaimed The world is mine
the man in the box shouted Whatll
you take for HobokeuV Brooklyn
Life
Silence Is a figure of speech unan
Bwerabh short cold but terribly se
vereParker
FRICTION
What Causes It and What Would Hap
pen Without It
What Is friction really caused by
Why will two things Iu contact not
Blip over each other easily It Is be
cause every substance known to science
has teeth microscopic it Is true but
still teeth The result then Is ob
vious If we shove a book across a
table the teeth of the ook interlock
with the teeth of the table just as cog
wheels do and the push has to be
strong enough either lo bend them
enough or to break them off for the
motion to continue
It has actually been observed in a
microscope that If the push Is only a
slight one and moves the book only a
short distance on the pressure of the
hand being removed the book actually
jumps back to Its former position
This action Is a slight bending of the
two sets of teeth only not far enough
for them to lose their relaltve posi
tions and I heir elasticity on being re
leased makes the book fly back
It has been shown that this friction
Is not so much between different bod
ies as between bodies of the same ma
terial One industrial application of
this is the bearings for steel axles
They are made of brass instead of
steel
In some things we want as much
friction as possible and in others as
little The former Is Illustrated In the
friction between an engine wheel and
the track sand sometimes being pour
ed on the track to increase the friction
The latter case Is Illustrated lu all
bearings where rotating metal is in
contact with stationary metal some
times ball bearings being substituted
thus lessening the friction
Many peculiar things would happen
if theru was no friction xll screws in
wood would immediately twist back
ward rapidly and shoot out irfto the
air trains could not run save on cog
ged rails which would probably be
iM cessary above as well as below thus
having four rails instead of two build
Ings would tumble down and new ones
could not be built unless molded in
place like Edisons or else riveted to
gether People would have to wear
shoes with long spikes In them and
then have to be careful for dirt grains
would slip over one another easily and
would act like deep sand But one
great thing would happen machines
wodld run at 100 per cent efficiency
would give out as much energy as was
put Into them Lawrence Hodges In
New York Tribune
THE SPEAKERS MACE
Ancient Emblem Used In the House
of Representatives
With all its dignity Its senatorial
courtesy and the forms and ceremo
nies that always are observed the sen
ate is far behind the house of repre
sentatives in the matter nf one anti
quated piece of furniture The senate
has no mace Now a mace i uot
much iu the way of furniture It is a
silver eagle mounted upon a staff
around which are bands of silver
This mace Is always an emblem of
the house of representatives It is the
duty of one employee to look after iL
Just before a session of the house be
gins he takes it from the office of the
sergeant-at-arms Into the house cham
ber and as soon as the speakers gavel
falls he Inserts it in a socket in a
stone pillar at the right of the speak
ers chair The mace remains there
while the house is in session and is
taken out and stood beside its pedes
tal when the house is in committee of
the whole When the house adjourns
the mace is carried back to the office
of the sergeant-at-arms
This ancient emblem has uot a thing
to do with the order of business of the
house save as one of the old time reg
ulations that are continued Wheu the
house is turbulent an officer seizes the
mace and walks through the aisles
Ouly ouce or twice when the speaker
failed to preserve order have 1 seen an
officer seize the mace and walk
through the house waving it back
ward and forward Possibly the sight
ot it brought members to their senses
aud they retired to their seats At all
eveuts thui is about the only real use
for the mace that 1 ever have observ
ed Washington Cor St Louis Star
Sensitiveness of the Phone
Preece has calculated that an audi
ble sound is produced iu a telephone
by a current of 5 to 1013 amperes and
Pellat has calculated that a sound is
produced by a difference of potential
between the two stations amounting
to only one two thousandth volt These
statements give some idea of the great
sensitiveness of the modern telephone
but the sensitiveness of the human
ear which perceives the invisible vi
bration of the telephone diaphragm is
no less remarkable Washiugton Star
In No Hurry
Too many people said a clergy
man regard their religion as did the
little bov in the jam closet His moth
er pounced on him suddenly lie stood
en tiptoe ladling jam with both hands
from the jam pot to his mouth
Oh lacky his mother cried
And only last night you prayed to be
made a saint
Ilis face an expressionless mask of
jam turned toward her
Yes but not till after Im dead he
explained
A Matter of Economy
Mrs Nocash Mercy You let your
girl off every afternoon
Neighbor Yes indeed it is such a
saving The more she is away the
fewer dishes she breaks Illustrated
Bits
Sloth never arrived atthe attainment
of a good wish Cervantes
BIRTH OF A VOLCANO
Natures Process In Forming a
Mountain of Lava
THE FORCE OF AN ERUPTION
Upheaval That Destroyed the East
Indian Island of Krakatoa In 1883
Propelled an Air Wave Three and a
Half Times Round the Earth
Though volcanoes are often spoken
of as burning mountains they do not
burn at all nor in the proper sense of
the word are they mountains at all
A volcano Is really a flaw In the crust
of the earth through which the tierce
glowing heat lying below the crust has
managed to burst a hole Through this
hole great floods of melted rock spout
up Some volcanoes work at Inter
vals some are In eruption all the time
As the melted rock jets up Into the
air and falls It naturally builds itself
Into a mountain round the hole The
next eruption has to burst Its way
through the heart of that mountain
The chimney It spouts through is usu
ally called the pipe
Sometimes an eruption Is so fierce
that when tho lava another name for
melted rock spouts out It Is burst into
bils When it falls It Is sometimes as
One as dust sometimes the size or cin
ders Most volcanoes indeed are sim
ply gigantic cinder heaps
When the force is not so great the
lava In the pipe simply bubbles over
and flows down the sides of the moun
tain exactly as porridge bolls over the
edge of a pot As lava Is liquid the
slope of a lava volcano or lava cone
as itis usually called Is always very
geutle Falling cinders on the other
hand pile themselves up quite steeply
A lava cone then Js always less steep
than a cinder cone
And a volcano never bums What
looks like flame Is only the glow ot
the white hot lava ou the clouds of
steam The more steam there Is forc
ing its way up the pipe the more the
lava bubbles just as in the case of
the porridge If the pressure of steam
Is very great then you have the lava
blown to bits and falling as cinders
while the mighty clouds of steam rise
high above the mountain It is this
steam that is mistaken for smoke
Sometimes a cone sends out lava and
cinders alternately so that you have
a great mountain of cinders bound to
gether by layers and walls of lava
These walls of lava are due to the
fact that sometimes more lava wants
to come up the pipe than the pipe will
hold so the lava bursts its way out
through weak spots in the sides of the
mountain Etna has no fewer than
700 of these cones on its slopes One
of them Monte Itossi Is a hill in
itselt being 4f0 feet high Indeed a
model of Etna looks as if it were cov
ered with pimples
When Etna is really roused It is far
more dangerous than Vesuvius In
110 it uearly destroyed the city of
Catania killing 15000 people In 1W9
It found its pipe so inconveniently
small that it had to crack one of its
sides This crack was no less than
twelve miles long At the bottom
white hot lava could dimly be seen
through the clouds of steam In 1755
millions of gallons of boiling water
were shot out of the Val del Bove
which is a great circular pit on the
slope of the mountain four or five
miles in diameter its sides bing cliffs
nearly a mile high In places
The greatest volcanic eruption ever
known took place in the East Indies
in 1SS3 The story makes almost In
credible reading The volcanic island
of Krakatoa commenced proceedings
bv blowing half of itself into thin air
From the opening no less than a cubic
mile of rock was shot ouL
A column of steam and lava dust
rose into the air to a height six times
as great as that ot Mount Everest It
spread and spread till for hundreds of
miles around the air was black as mid
night Sounds as of distaut cannonad
ing were heard 2000 miles off
Sea waves fifty feet high killed 3 V
000 people and were felt as far off as
California Instead ot an island half
a mile high there was now a hole a
quarter of a mile deep The shock of
the eruption sent air waves three and
a halt times around the earth The
fine dust in the upper atmosphere add
ed for months afterward a strange
glow to the sunsets in England and
did not vanish completely for three
years
The exact cause of the eruptious is
not known for certain A popular the
ory is that they are caused by water
getting in to the white hot mass which
is supposed to lie under the outer crust
of the earth And it is certainly a fact
that practically all volcanoes are close
to the edge of the sea
Some lava flows slowly some quick
ly Vesuvius in 1S03 sent out a lava
stream that in four minutes had reach
ed a spot four miles off The size of a
lava stream is sometimes gig antic In
17S3 Skaptar Jokull in Iceland emitted
two streams at one time One was
forty miles long by seven miles broad
the other fifty miles by fifteen The
averages depth of both was about a
hundred feet
Lava cools very very slowly except
on the surface which cools at once
It is an extremely bad conductor of
heat Twenty years after a stream of
lava was sent out from Jorullo In Mex
ico tourists could light their cigars
through chinks in the surface and the
surface had been cold for twenty years
In 1S2S a layer of snow many feet
thick was found under a layer of Vesu
vian lava It was still unmelted and
Is probably there BtilL Pearsons
Weekly
Scared into Sound Health
Mr i p Kolloy Springfield 111
writes A year ago I began to bo
troubled with my kidneys and blad
der which grow worao and worse un
til I became alarmed at my condition
I suffered also with dull heavy head
aches and the action of my bladder
was annoying and painful I read of
Foley Kidney Pills aud after taking
them a few weeks the hentlaehos left
me the action of my bladder becumo
normal and I was free of all dis
tress A McAIUIon
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