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NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
Care of PnpilB EycniRht Advantages
of Fcrap Books A Fathers Idea of
What Should Be Tausht His Eon
Sampson Kducat tonal Intelligence
Protect the KyeBieht
Take care of jour pupils eyesight
You are morally and professionally
1kuu1 to guard it from ill use abuse or
aieglect Remove all conditions that
tend to strain blur or obscure it Do
aiot permit anything in the furniture or
surroundings of the room even though
it was introduced and sanctioned by
-some one else who perhaps had more
experience than you and is supposed
to be a great deal wiser upon the sub
ject than you are to remain If It proves
to be a source of annoyance to your
pupils sight Change it at once Dont
fancy that you have no responsibility
In the matter since some one else
placed It there Duty has to do with
the present not the past If the situa
tion is not wisely chosen for the battle
the officer who Is In charge will be gov
erned by events and in the light of sub
sequent knowledge correct the mistake
and strengthen his position Each is
held responsible for the trust he as
sumes It may have been the rule in
the school you are teaching to use a
steatite instead of the old fashioned
white crayon and the same article may
stfll be furnished by the board Do not
use It without making a protest Clear
your skirts at least from the pernicious
practice of snuffing out your pupils
eyes like so many candles What If
there are bits of chalk dust breathed
These particles of mineral matter are
readily thrown off from the system be
fore they are permitted to lodge and
work harm Better to work in a little
-extra chalk dust and have plain white
lines on the board than to ruin in short
measure the eyes and in consequence
the happiness of a whole lifetime by
compelling pupils to decipher faint lines
in an obscure light at improper angles
and all kinds of distances Study your
environments to protect the eyesight of
your pupils Let us drop the soapstone
as a crayon for the blackboard
Scrap Books
Scrap iooks carefully planned may
be made very helpful Note the pro
viso carefully planned
This is rendered peculiarly easy for
the teacher from the fact that the
1 leading magazines and papers are giv
en nowadays to illustrating in series
One scrap book in our possession con
tains views from Waterloo from the
Cosmopolitan another Ottawa anil
its environs We will mention still
ers and how they related to the work
in hand
While engaged in some general les
sons on the Indians we came across
some views of the Zuni Pueblos also
the Mission Stations of California in
the days of Padre Junipero Seud This
gave just the help needed in showing
certain types of Indian life
For other lessons we mounted views
of cotton raising orange and rice cul
ture
To help impress the Greek stories all
the stories relating to them that came
in our way were laid aside as well as
outlines of vase forms statues coins
etc
Gemlla in Seven Little Sisters
was made more vivid by views of Sa
hara the Pyramids the Sphinx and
the Nile In the same way Agoon
4ioks charm was heightened by pic
tures of Arctic life
If these pictures are intended for
third year pupils they may be mount
ed on card board or drawing paper and
tied in one corner by a ribbon that can
he readily slipped from the punch hole
if the views are to be passed about in
the class
If these views are for younger pupils
to have at their desks perhaps the
scrap book form is better Exchange
London to Have a University
There is reason to believe that the
sixtieth year of Queen Victorias reign
is to be made memorable by the estab
lishment in London of a great teaching
university The London university has
existed since 1S3G but its function has
always been limited to the examina
tion of candidates and the conferring
of degrees This restriction has made
it an imperial rather than a local or
metropolitan institution Its examina
tions have indeed been characterized
by thoroughness and fairness and
have commanded the confidence of
teachers and students in all parts of
the United Kingdom Still the feeling
has been growing among scholars thai
Loudon should have an organized uni
versity of its own which should fur
nish help and guidance in other ways
than by examinations and for some
twelve years a movement has been go
ing on to make London a great seat of
learning
Want No Immigrant Teachers
The school teachers of England fear
that the educational department will
admit to employment in the elementary
schools of Great Britain teachers hold
ing the certificates issued by the Irish
-education board Thej argue that this
would lower the standard of the schools
and increase the opportunities for theo
logical discussions The ordinary sal
ary of teachers in Ireland is about 200
less than that of the English teacher
of corresponding grade and this leads
many to believe that a considerable im
migration may be expected
His Tdea of Education
A teacher once received the following
laughable letter from the father of one
of her pupils
Respected Madduni It is neither my
desire nor my wish that my son Samp
son persoo the study of grammer nor
any of the other dead laugwidges He
can git along with plain English aud
as he ant ever likely to be a Physick
Ian he aint no need to persoo the study
of iizzyology either and I dont think
their skilitons is a proper thing foi
children to study and I peefer that
Sampson be konfined to rithmetic read
in gogerfy and ritin and the names of
the Presidents of our country
Educational IntelHcence
Oxford University consists of twenty
two colleges
The students of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity are not permitted to publish any
periodical
The Washington State Board of Edu
cation as announced by Governor Rog
ers Is W J Hughes H B Walker J
H Morgan and Mrs Rice
The new bell and clock for Mount
Holyoke College is to be provided by
the gift of 1000 by George Cutler Jr
in memory of his sister Mrs Susan
Cutler Jones
The Indiana House has passed a com
pulsory education bill with the small
maximum of twelve weeks required
schooling annually for children be
tween the ages of eight and fourteen
Nine Juniors of Yale University were
last week brought to account by the
faculty for sending a letter to Corbett
the pugilist extending Yales best
wishes The signers of the letter an-
nounced their willingness to retract the
objectionable sentiment
The new library at Princeton wit
cost 600000 and will accommodate
2200000 volumes besides a large num
ber of recitation rooms for such classes
as require special library facilities
This structure Gothic In architecture
will be one of the finest buildings of its
kind in this country
The Educational Club of Philadel
phia has unanimously adopted a reso
lution offered by Public School Super
intendent Brooks urging the Phila
delphia members of the House and
Senate to vote for House bill No 53 in
creasing the minimum school term in
the State from six to seven months
Prof Jebb M P has been nominated
by the crown a member of the Sen
ate of the University of London This
is a very happy nomination as although
the Senate of the University of London
contains many specialists Prof Jebb
will be a distinguished addition to the
few members who are cognizant of the
subject of education generally
Many busiuess men and educators are
signing a petition to the Pennsylvania
Legislature to repeal the compulsory
vaccination law or to amend it so as
to have it Inflict less hardship upon
those school children who are not sus
ceptible to the virus Under the present
law a child that is not susceptible to
the virus has its arm kept in a state of
irritation because of the constant and
repeated attempts to make the vac
cine take
One of the most interesting features
of the last report of the President of
Johns Hopkins University is the state
ment that about 800 of the Universitys
graduates nearly one half of the total
number of graduates have become
teachers Chicago University has em
ployed 23 University of Wisconsin 16
Bryn Mawr College 18 Leland Stan
ford Jr University 17 University of
Pennsylvania 16 Cornell 14 Colum
bia 13 Harvard 10
The Des Moines Summer School ot
Methods will hold Its eight annual ses
sion at Drake University July 5th to
30th It is the largest and oldest sum
mer school in Iowa During the last
seven years it has given training during
the summer vacation to hundreds oi
teachers of Iowa and ten other States
Its corps of instructors are selected
from among the best specialists of five
different States It Is not only a great
school of methods but it offers oppor
tunities for the most thorough instruc
tion in the common and high school
branches and provides for an examina
tion for State certificates at the close of
the session
What a Small Boy Could Do
A lad in Boston rather small or his
age works in an office as errand boy
for four gentlemen who do business
there One day the gentlemen were
chaffing him a little for being so small
and said to him
You will never amount to much yor
can never do much you are too small
The little fellow looked at them
Well said he as small as I am I
can do something that neither of you
can do
Ah what is that said they
I dont know as I ought to tell you
he replied
But they were anxious to know and
urged him to tell what he could do thai
neither of them were able to do
I can keep from swearing said the
little fellow
There were some blushes on four
faces and there seemed to be no
anxiety for further information Ex
Salaries of Rulers
The King of Bavaria receives 1 412
000 The King of Saxony has a salary
of 750000 a year The King of Italy
receives 285S000 as salary and 1S0
000 for his family The President of
the United States gets 50000 per an
num house rental and expenses there
of The King of Spain receives 1400
000 a year and 600000 a year for ex
penses making a total of 2000000
The Emperor of Austria manages to
make both ends meet with an annual
allowance of 3875000 His Majesty
of Portugal in consideration of size ol
kingdom contents himself with 635
440 a year The King of Greece has a
salary of 260000 a year and receives
60000 besides The annual salary of
the Queen of England is 1925000
The Prince of Wales gets 200000 rest
of royal family the same The Czar of
Russia receives no salary His income
arises from 1000000 square miles of
land which he inherits from the crown
His average income is a trifle more
than 33000 a day
FOE LITTLE POLKS
A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN
TEREST TO THEM
Boraethins that Will Interest the Juv
venile Members of Every Household
Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings
of Many Cute and Cunning Children
How the Tantern Was Invented
King Alfred the Great is credited
with originating the lantern He was
so bothered by the candle flames blow
ing in the wind that he protected them
by putting the candles in cow horns
which he ordered to be scraped thin
Our grandfathers made lanterns by
punching holes and slits in properly
shaped pieces of tin which were then
soldered together The light which
came through the little cuts was al
ways very dim and flickering It was
this kind of lantern which the old town
watchmen used to carry when they
went about calling the hours and the
weather in rhyme
Tis one o the clock midnight is past
Sleep on good friends the time thou hast
For rise ye must at early dawn
is one o the clock and Tuesday morn
Easier than Arithmetic
It is easier to remember things usu
ally If you know what they mean A
little boy could never remember even
about how long a cubit is until his fath
er told him the word was cubitus in
Latin which means an elbow and that
the measure called cubit was the dis
tance from a mans elbow to the end of
his middle finger
And how much is a fathom asked
the little boy
Oh fathom comes from the two
words fat which means in the Aryan
language to extend and horn a man
A fathom is the length of a man ex
tended that is when his arms are
stretched out on each side from the
shoulders from tip to tip of his fingers
The foot is an English word and
means just the length of the foot of a
full grown man
Makins Candy in a Paper Pan
The girls of some of our Eastern col
leges have a novel method of candy
making which deserves to be known
outside this magic circle especially as
the results are particularly delicious
They take a sheet of heavy glazed
writing paper and turn up the four
edges to a depth of about three fourths
of an inch Into this box they pour a
cupful of white sugar and a very little
water and set it on top of the stove
One would think the paper would burn
but it does not The sugar boils up
charmingly and looks tempting enough
in its dainty receptacle
When it is done a drop or two of fla
voring is added or just before taking
from the fire some nut meats are
strewn over its surface It is then taken
off the stove and set to float in its paper
box in a bowl or basin of water When
cold it should be brittle and then the
paper can be peeled off and a dainty
square of toothsome candy is the re
ward
It is great fun to make and will sur
prise your friends if they chance to see
w boiling in its paper box
Combat with a Tijer
Russian hunters are said to look upon
a combat single handed with a bear as
only an ordinary experience It is
floubtful however if many instances
of a man attacking a tiger armed with
a sword only can be found Col Sea
ton the elephant hunter however tells
this story of bravery
One morning just as we were leav
ing the parade ground a man came
rushing up breathless Get your guns
men he exclaimed there is a tiger
in the hollow by the hut and no one
dares go by In all haste we got our
guns and two elephants and hurried to
the spot where in truth a terrible scene
presented itself The tiger bleeding
from a cut in the head was on the edge
of the hollow growling fiercely with a
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ing beneath his paws The unfortu
nate man was a fine swordsman and
first rate wrestler one of the cham
pions of his regiment Some people
who went to draw water at the well
had disturbed the tiger and on his ris
ing they fled in terror The brave but
rash soldier who happened to be near
at the moment on learning the cause
of the commotion Immediately ad
vanced to attack the tiger and with
his sword gave him a tremendous cut
over the head which however did not
materially injure the powerful brute
The tiger rushed at the man stripped
the arm down to the elbow and dash
ing him to the ground held him be
neath his paws When we came up we
were at first at a loss how to act for
the man was as much exposed to our
fire as the tiger However it was not a
time for lengthened consideration we
fired and a lucky shot finished the
animal
Whistline Not a Bad Habit
The boy in the following story is
described as never saying anything re
markable as eating oatmeal in large
quantities chasing the cat slamming
the door and otherwise conducting him
self after the manner of boys with the
exception that he asked few questions
and does much thinking If he does
not understand a thing he whistles
which is not a bad habit on some oc
casions
There was much whistling in our
yard one summer It seemed to be an
all summer performance Near the end
of the season however our boy an
nounced the height of our tall maple
to be thirty three feet
Why how do you know was the
general question
Measured it
How
Four foot rule and yardstick
You didnt climb that tall tree his
mother asked anxiously
Nom I just found the length of the
shadow and measured that
But the length of the shadow
changes
Yesm but twice a day the shadows
are just as long as the things them
selves Ive been trying it all summer
I drove a stick into the ground and
when the shadow was just as long as
the stick I knew that the shadow of
the tree would be just as long as the
tree and thats thirty three feet
So that is what you have been wins
tling about all summer
Did I whistle asked Tom
The First American Flag
A well known authority on American
curios says The first resemblance
to a flag was the work of Benjamin
Franklin and Messrs Harrison and
Lynch They were chosen as a com
mittee to create a national flag and
adopted the Kings colors as a union
reunited with thirteen stripes alternate
red and white showing that although
the colonies united for defense against
Englands tyranny they still acknowl
edged her sovereignty On Tuesday
Jan 2 1776 this flag was hoisted in
camp at Cambridge Mass now Somer
ville receiving a salute of thirteen
guns and thirteen cheers The first
American made flag was hoisted over
the capitol at Washington Feb 24
1866 all previous flags having been
manufactured from English bunting
Indians Not Allowed to Vote
The expression Indians not taxed
refers to the Indians in their tribal re
lations Tribal Indians are not allow
ed to vote because they are not taxed
and are the wards of the Government
rather than citizens of the country
The Government considers them as its
proteges whom it must protect When
the tribal relations of the Indians are
dissolved and their land is divided
among them to be held by individuals
rather than by tribes it is almost cer
tain that provision will be made for
them as citizens and that being land
owners and taxpayers they will be en
titled to and will receive all the rights
of full citizenship
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Sir said Dr Johnson to a friend
commenting upon a widower who re
married though his wedded life had
been unhappy It is the triumph of
hope over experience
A clerk in a Chicago book store was
surprised not long ago when a young
laly came into the store and said to
him I want to buy a present of a
book for a young man Yes miss
said he what kind of a book do you
want Why a book for a young
man Well but what kind of a young
man Oh hes tall and has light hair
and h always wears blue neckties
Of Matthew Arnold as a school exam
iner a tale is told by a fellow inspector
of a class of girl pupil teachers that he
asked Arnold to examine for him Ar
nold gave them all the excellent mark
But said the other inspector surely
they are not all as good as they can be
some must be better than others Per
haps that is so replied Arnold but
then you see they are all such very
nice girls
It was related of one of the members
of Grants first Cabinet a former col
lege professor of the know-it-all vari
ety that he was on one occasion dis
coursing on the subject of the Druses
when an auditor interrupted him with
the remark tJbat the cyclopedia did not
agree with him Oh was the reply
I know a great deal more about the
Druses than I did when I wrote that
article in the cyclopedia
Senator Voorhees once had succeeded
in delivering an appeal which had
brought teals to the eyes of several
jurymen Then arose the prosecuting
attorney a gruff old man with a piping
voice and nasal twang Gentlemen
said he deliberately you might as
well understand from the beginning
that I am not boring for water This
proved so effectual a wet blanket to the
emotions excited by Mr Voorhees that
he realized the futility of his own bor
ng
After the expulsion of Louis Philippe
in 1848 Louis Napoleon let several
months go by before offering himself
as a candidate for the chamber He
was elected and presented himself
while the law decreeing his exile was
still in force One of the deputies pro
tested against his taking his seat Louis
Napoleon arose hesitated bungled and
sat down without having been able to
address the assembly After that
said the objecting deputy I withdraw
my objection
General Thaddeus H Stanton the
paymaster general of the army called
at old Fort Brydger in Wyoming about
twenty years ago to see an old friend
named Hastings ivho was one of the
custodians of the abandoned post He
met a man named Williams and inquir
ed for Hastings Oh Hastings is
dead said Williams Dead said
Stanton in surprise what did he die
of Committed suicide said Will
iams The devil you say responded
Stanton how did he commit suicide
He called me a liar answered Will
Lams
Maurice Barrymore was once in Lon
don with a new piece which he was
anxious to have produced He had read
it to a manager and it had been decided
that he was to play the leading role
About a week after it was supposed to
have been definitely settled Barry
received a note from the manager ask
ing him to call Barrymore called and
the manager said I like the piece old
fellow but I dont see how I can use
you in the cast Your beastly American
dialect wont do at all you know They
wont have it Well thats strange
said Barryomre they told me on the
other side that they have me
on account of my beastly English dia
lect What am I to do give recitations
on the transatlantic steamers
AnOaklandbootblack an honest man
who would not deceive his patrons
when he first went into business six
years ago put up a sign which read
Joe Garibaldi bootblack Has two
small children Each succeeding year
found him deserving of more sympathy
for he kept amending the sign until it
read eight small children A few days
ago Joes stand was locked for a whole
day and when he returned the next
morning he confided to the butchers
boy that his baby died His first work
was to amend the sign so that it might
not mislead the public and it then read
Joe Garibaldi bootblack Has seven
small children Then to avoid being
placed in a false position before the
public he added with his finger and
shoe blacking One he die
A devoted couple who apparently
had been long separated were thrust
suddenly into each others company
says the Boston Evening Record at a
largely attended reception A lady who
tells the story was present in company
with an educated deaf girl The happy
reunited pair displayed fully the
thoughts thut were in their hearts by
the beam upon their countenances Sud
denly the young man drew near to the
one whom he adored and said in a low
tone inaudible to those about him a
few seemingly affectionate words The
deaf girl watched the proceedings with
intense interest and suddenly broke
into a broad grin Her companion in
quired what it was that amused her
She turned about so that the couple
could not see her and replied That
man said If all these people were not
here Id kiss you If they dont get out
of the way pretty soon I shall have to
before them The girl replied Then I
shall scream The deaf girl under
stood their words by the motions of
heir lips
A New Yorker who has spent time
and monej in developing carrier pig
eons and may be called Jones for short
says the Sun was boasting at hi3 club
one night of the great flights that his
plgeDnn had made when Brown wAf
Il bet you the best dinner the club cani
furnish for every one present that yott
havent a pigeon that can fly from Phil
adelphia to New York It will be sim
ply robbery said Jones but Ill take
your bet Brown stipulated that he
should carry the pigeon to Philadelphia
himself and he did Before releasing
the bird he clipped his wings and thea
he returned to New Yore by a slow
train Well I released your pigeon la
Philadelphia this morning he said to
Jones that night at the club has he re
turned yet Not yet said Jones
The next day Brown again asked Jones
about the bird and when Jones admit
ted that ihls pigeon had not come back
claimed the bet The owner of the pig
eon said tbathe wouldnt admit defeat
The pigeon didnt sliow up on the sec
ond day but on the third day wlien
Brown asked jecringly Isnt it about
time for that supper I dont suppose
your pigeon has returned Jones re
plied promptly Yes he has but er
well his feet are very sore Brown
paid the bet
Overwhelmed by an Avalanche
An extraordinary escape from deat
was lately recorded by a newspaper o
Mountain Home Idaho a mining town
high up among the mountains where
avalanches of the most fearful descrip
tion are not infrequent On the tiratj
day of last December a citizen of j
Mountain Home Frank Andreas byj
name started at an early hour In the
morning to go from a mine to a black-
smith shop some distance away on then
side of the mountain With him were
his two big dogs which are in part of
St Bernard blood
The dogs were gamboling about in
the snow some distance from their
master when a great snowsllde which
the warmth of the sun had dislodged
some two hundred feet up the moun
tain descended upon Andreas with
such velocity that there was no escap
ing from it
He was borne along with and umlerj
the snow and lodged against the sido
of the gulch much farther down Abovej
him the snow was packed hard An-
dreas did not know how deep it was
in reality It was about four feet above
his head but he did know that It was
so hard that he could scarcely move a
muscle
Andreas quickly began to experiences
difficulty in breathing Luckily he uadi
been carried along by the avalanche in
an upright position he had thrown unj
his hands in an effort to save himself
and his left arm had remained in thaB
position thrust upward By working
It from side to side in the hard packed
snow he made a small opening up int
looser snow in which there seemed to
be some air at any rate he could
breathe enough to save himself fron
suffocation at present
He knew however that he could not
live in such a place long He struggled
and pushed and tried to enlarge the
opening made by his left arm pickia
pieces of snow from about his body
with his right hand and working them
into the opening
But he would certainly have grown
discouraged after he had worked vain
ly thus far half an hour or more if he
had not heard a scratching and bur
rowing sound above his head Up
knew by this that his faithful dogs had
escaped the avalanche had found the
place where he was overwhelmed an3
were digging him out
This gave him strength for new ef
forts Now he bent all his own fn
deavors not to getting out he left the
dogs to uncover him but to getting air
enough to keep him alive until the dogs
should succeed in digging down
through the hard snow He worked his
left hand upward and about and as the
dogs dug downward he soon succeed
ed in getting a little hole through to
the air
For an hour and a half he and Vie
dogs were at work and at the end of
that time he succeeded in dragging
himself out upon the side of the exca
vation the dogs had made There
more dead than alive he took deep
draughts of the mountain air till these
revived him and he was able to go on
his way
A Grateful Tenant
Mr Ford has some houses in Brooir
lyn one of Which he rented to Mr
Stone a mason For three months Mr
Ford failed to collect the rent and at
last resolved to send Mr Stone adrift
But if I am put out Mr Ford said
Stone I cant move my duds I have
no money
Mr Ford being tender hearted gave
him two dollars and Stone moved out
Shortly afterward Mr Stone appointed
an agent to attend to his rents Every
thing went right until one day Mr Ford
found that the rent of a certain house
remained unpaid
The tenants all right sir said the
agent Hes a good man of the name
of Stone a mason and hell pay in vu
day or two
The landlord called upon the back
ward tenant and found that he was
the same Stone whom he had evicted
some months before
How is it youre back here again
asked Mr Ford
Really said Stone I couldnt
think of patronizing another landlord
Mr Ford You had been kind to me
and I felt grateful Harpers Round
Table
Man Only Has a Nose
Man is the only animal that has a real
nose or chin Horses have faces that
are all nose swine have snouts and ele
phants trunks lions have vast smell
ing organs but none of them anything
that can be separated from their faces
and called a nose It is even more true
of the chin which is particularly
man
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