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ent, E. L. B, writes tow-mulosiffg
a few figures, the results of some
calculations.
According to the
latter it would require 4,000 years
for the waters from the Mediterra­
nean to fill the valley of the Jordan,
which is 1,000 feet below the
former, the water to flow through a
passage 100 ft. wide by 25 ft. deep
with a velocity of 4 miles an hour.
With a channel 100 times this ca-
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•cational paper« wo hove ov ^ f - ■seen - Take-a cla«4.of pii|>ik.t£.n years old, —Thft following story from the
published anywhere. We hope to let each have pencil and i^fte; you Illinois School Journal shows how
give the readers of the H erald write a plain sentence on the board, a little good humoured tact enable*
some excellent scissor editorials the pupils are required to copy; a teacher not only to overcome
from ife columns. Friend G., here the teacher explains the use of difficulties but to make people laugh
is our £4? across the continent, i capitals, points, tec.; thus write with him and enter into sympathy
We are glad to see and hear of your i several sentences, then . read • or with his work
“A certain teacher, who is well
success. An intelligent, industri­ dictate several sentences to be
ous “ Kanuck ” can get along any-^ written; then the teacher writes known in at least one county in
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where. We were also well pleased the sentences correctly, on the the State, was troubled by the over­
to read of the success of the schools board, and the pupils correct; then crowded condition of his school­
of Ontario. We have still a love write a number of sentences, each room. Appeals for additional seats
limit the period of filling to 40 for the land of our birth, though one containing'ah error, and nave were disregarded by his dlrwtwi.
> years. At the same rate it would the snowdrifts do get to be 10 feet the pupils to correct. In addition He at last determined to accom­
to this they should haye frequent plish by indirect w’hat he had been
take 40,000 years to fill up the deep in winter sometimes.
exercise in reproduction.
The unable to effect by ordinary means,
Caspian sea to the sea level, and
The Study of the English.
teacher should not neglect to point so one day, when all the available
. thousands of years to fill up the
....... Sahara._____
^JEhfl-cducational problem is one out the several parts of speech in seating facilities were in use, and a
hoy wavensconsed inthotoaohor’a-
’each ’scnfehTS?
W orking and T hinking .—It is of deep concern to every one. Mr.
chair and a few more, on the floor,
J. w. c.
a no less fatal error to despise la­ Charles Francis Adams has made
he sent for his Board. Mr. A. came
some criticisms against the study of
bor, when regulated by intellect,
Witness my Hand and Seal. in and was warmly received by the
than to value it for it» own sake. the classics. On the other side
teacher. He looked about some­
Lord Coleridge sloutîÿ^mamtâttià’
In the year 600 after Christ,
We are always in these days trying
what hesitatingly and said, ‘ Well,
to separate the two; we want one that we can not afford to .dispense what was the state of Europe ? Mr. A., I should be glad to give
man Jo be always thinking and an­ with them. Prof. Huxley’s son is The Goths, the Vandals, the Franks, you a chair, if I had one, but I am
other to be always working, and we pursuing a classical course, which the Huns, the Normans, the Turks, just out. Make yourself at home;
call one a gentleman and the other, shows that Prof. II. favors the study and other barbarian hordes had in­ sit down on tlie stove.’ Mr. A., to
an operative ; whereas the work­ of the classics. There can be no vaded and overthrown the Roman the amusement of the pupils,
man ought often to be thinking and definite, general decision in the empire, and had established various awkwardly best*rode the ‘ warmer,
the thinker often to be working case. The ability of the student kingdoms on its ruins. In the then which the favorable weather had
and both should be gentlemen in must decide. Some students who so-called Christian nations, there not yet brought into active opera­
succeed well in mathematics make existed no science worthy of the
the heat. Rpnsft...
K.„Wjg..„IU&ke -poor-prcrgre^TnrradiBg-¥irgibtmd-|-
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H—■é7nTschôW"WfiïïtBv^-'^tead= tions. Shortly after, director num-
both ungentle, the one envying, the
ber two appeared. He was received
other despising his brother, and the Homer. Their efforts in this direc­ ing, writing and ciphering were with equal cordiality by the teach­
mass of society is made up: of mor­ tion are futile ; yet they compre­ separate and distinct trades. The er, and, from necessity, took his
bid thinkers and miserable workers. hend and apply the principles of masses, the nobility, the poor, and position with number one. Nutn-
Now,'it is only by labor that Euclid and Davy without great the rich, were wholly unacquainted ber three put in an appearance a
effort; such pupils should not with the mysteries of the alphabet
thought can be made healthy, and
little later, and was offered a place
only by thought that labor can be study the classics, at least >théy and the pen. A few men, known by-the side of his official colleagues.
made happy; and the professions should not begin the study tco as clerks, who generally belonged But about that time it began to
to the priesthood j monopolized, tham. .
should be liberal, and there should early
My own experience teaches me as a special class of artists. They
be less pride felt in peculiarity of
virate that the teacher was less in­
employment and more in excellence that maturity may fit one for taught their business only to their nocent than his ‘ childlike and
studies in which one took no inter­ seminarists, apprentices; and be­
of achievement.— Ruskin.
est in former years.
I read yond themselves and their few blank’countenance indicated. The
Xenophon and OviTl long before I pupils no one know how to read president called him one side with,
Educational Department.
had any special interest in Algebra. and write; nor was it expected of ‘ Mr. R, I am a little busy, and will
Now I find that my taste for the generality, any more than it call again. How many do you
CONDUCTED* BT PROP. J. D. HAWES.
mathematics grows while my taste would be now a days that every­ need , It is needless to say that
All matter intended fur this department
an adequate supyly of desks, with
should be handed or sent to Prof. J. D. Hawes, for languages has not diminished. body should be a shoemaker or a
Monmouth, Oregon.
On the other hand, pupils who have lawyer. Kings did not even know all the modern improvements, were
on hand in the shortest possible
The Canada School Journal. a taste for the classics are not likely how to sign tTteir names, so that time.”— C. S. Journal.
to begin their study too early. 1 when they wanted to subscribe to
We have received the first two was talking with a Scotchman to­ a written contract, law^or treaty,
A good story is told concerning
numbers of the Canada School day who read Caesar at ten intelli­ which some clerk had drawn up for the first nomination of Col. Pickett
Journal, the first we have seen gently.
them, they would smear their right as State Supt. of Schools of Ken-*
' since coming to Oregon. We used
More time should be given to the hand with ink and Blap ic down on tucky, near the dose of a long
to be a subscriber to it when back acquirement of English in our the parchment, saying, “ Witness ncuninating convention for State
in the snows of Ontario doing our schools, and less attention given to my hand.” At a later day some officers. Gen. Breckepride, a leader
best at the “ delightful task.” And the classics. It is well enough to genius devised the substitute of the in State politics, rose, under the
we weie well pleased to see it again be able to conjugate “ amo " and to seal, which was impressed instead five-minute rule, and said; “ During
with its much improved appear­ decline " rex ” but this should not of the hand, but oftener besides the the late war, there was a chaplain
ance, and still under the manage­ be acquired at the expense of use­ hand. Every gentleman had a seal in one of our regiments who dis­
ment of our old friend, W. J. Gage, ful knowledge of our mother with a peculiar device thereon. tinguished himself by great self­
or who is now, W. J. Gage & Co., tongue. Our methods of teaching Hence the sacramental words now sacrifice and self forgetfulness. I
we believe, as he has taken a life English are deficient; we rely too in use, “ Witness my hand and have seen hitn with my own eyes
seal,” affixed to modern deeds, at
partner to share his joys and sor­ much on tho grammar; a child is least servo the purpose of reminding care for the wounded, administer
rows, Bince we last saw him. The to be taught to read and write cor­ us of the ignorance of the Middle medicines and comforts to the sick
C. S. J. is one of’the very best edu- rectly by exercise and training. Ages.— Sei.
and suffering, and consolations to
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