The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-07-27
Items.-Ihe Fall term Of the River


Items. The Fall term Of the River
Falls Academy viii commence on the 18th
Of August.
-Sanpaal Nelson is putting upaa boot
AMI shoe shop on Main Street.
The new Congregational Oh :rch iii
Hudson is open for service.
The Chronicle quotes the prices Of
produce in Hudson, MS follows Best
-four, per sack, 1915. Corn. neal $500
per hundred. Oats, SO to 30 cents. Corn,
65cts. Potatoes so cts. Eggs l24cts But
ter l6cts.
The City Council of Prescott have
appropriated $500 for the improvement
of Broad and Orange Streets.
There was little shooting afIfay ut
Diamond Bluff recently, but no harm
done. The offender ?. Ryan, is under
arrest.
The Prescott 1coPlc have voted 81,
500 to build an addition 10 their school
house, making It suitable for q graded
school.
School BooIxs.-Eyery friend Of
popular education has long dcplorcd the
want of unifcrmity in the text books used
b tn in our Common Schools and Higher
institutions Of learning. This diversity
has been owing in a great measure to the
numerous works written upon thevarious
sciences; but more, to the unceasing inn
portun;ty of Publishes, who, from mere
motives of gain, arc resolutely urging the
claims of their respective issues upon our
educators. We le,ieve hat there has
been true progress made, by this compe
ti;on of authors; but it has created q diff
fcuItv also II has callel ont tie best
talent in the land an! given us SO many
fine works, that it now requires about rs
much learning to decide iulic:oasly be-
tween the mcrts of'ari1us 5, stems, as It
did to write aud compile them. All our
tee chers ara not cepable Of making this
decision, an hence books have been alop
ted more from the recommendation of inter
est,d persons, than flom intelligent con-
viction of their fitness.
The vai'y of text books thus INTRO
ducod has become a great and growing
evil, and rather n hindrance than a help
in almost every grade of schools.
If any particular set Of text books can
20. be adopted throughout our entire State
it is certainly desirable that the different
tow rs in county should agree III this
resp It. IN n. w. Visions n, Pierce an |
S Cro:x are emphaticalIy pioneer coun
les, AMI they ougl to early, nor, come
to S, M understanding in tbs nmttcr.-
Sanders series of readers, for instance, are
largely used here at present; and SO far
rs we know and have examined them, they
are uneNceptionable in style and matter.
WAY not adopt them permanently, or til
some change, maniGestly for the better can
be made. The Same may be sail Of
Robnson's Mathematical Series from his
Primary Arithmetic up to his Ca cuus.-
Iyisoa & Phinnoy Lave published works
n other bran chcs designed to go with
hese, and they arc rapidly finding their
way into the best schools in the oldest
settled portions Of our State. We under
st. IL there is now Depository in Pres
colt, where MI these works can be easily
,rocurcd, and a. less expense than hith-
erto. Mr.. a. II. You've, who is the Agent,
will be glad to supply them to our schools
both in the villages and rural districts. We
arc not PAID for our opinion ofthcse works
We give it freely because we are interest
ell II opuar education and want to see
some uniformity established, and we know
Of nothing preferable 70 the works alluded
10. Nor are VIC alone in tbs opinion
DR.. MAxoH, o warm friend Of our eluca-
tiona .,ntorcsts-a man whose position rs
one of the Regents oftho University onght
to entite his opinion to some Difference,
we understand heartily endorses these
works. Our Academy, we believe, would
be wiling to Lad the way in this matter,
and it is now educating a large portion
Of the telchers in both counties. Thus
the ih'rg could easily be accomplished, if
par nts would be willingt TO incur trifling
expense now, to secure them against lnno-
yations in future.
The truly poetic genius can make
song out of the commonest fact IN If. and
nature; can write on epic about the mans
'direful wra th,' or an immortal ode upon
dusty charot-race. The counsel of
Goethe, SO full of good sense, addressed