The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-01-09

'The things we ought to know" are thus
mentioned by "Uuce Ben a writer in the Yer
mont Chronicle A celebrated ancient writer
has truly said. There some things which
| il ia no credit for US to knOT, but great re-
vroach not to know" Among these we may
reckon: FIRST. Things necessary boy should
know how to tie his handkerchief. drive a horse,
build a fire, tie up bnudle neatly. reckon mon
av. tell the points of the compass, wind up
watch. hold his knife and fork at the table, etc..
etc. These and countless number Of other
things. which / cannot Lere mention, you will
have occasion to know how to do-s0me daily
- others more or less frequently If you can
not it will often put you and others TO great
Inconvenience. If you make the attempt and
fail or succeed badly, you will be greatly NOR
tilted" perhaps laughed at and reproached for
your ignorance and inefficiencv. A young miss
should Certainly know how to make bed set
the table, trim the lamps, dress her hair, and
arrange her own apparel and room properly,
superscribe letter neatly, and many other
things which your mothers will remind you of.
TO what is better, you yourselves wall perhaps
think of, and try 10 do Now, it is no great
credit for boy or girl TO know how to Go
these everyday affairs, (though many are sadly
deficient IN them,) but great discredn not to
know Second. Things common why does
the blaze Of the light, by which you write. go
up? Why does the moisture collect IN drops
upon the pitcher f led with water : How is the
rainbow formed How can the fly walk Oh the
ceiling overhead? Why does water ascend in
| a sponge etc These and many other facts
and processes are daily and hourly going on
around you and under your very eyes, and you
do and sI0uLd know something about hem DO
YOU say, "Sume Of these things know, and
OF hers do not l ihink some OF them pretty
Tough philosophical questions. We'll, sup
| pose ! ask ''wcther a snake has bones, which
way the hind legs of ar elephant bend or fold, =
or the very simple question: "hOw many toes
hen has Oh each feet, how many Of you could
| answer even the last question? Could you
| tell ME for a certainty wehiher 1t has four. OF
| FIVE or three toes? You mig ht guess at he
number or go out and count them. But y. u
have seen them "a hundred times and ought tn
know and the question is, do you 10 a dead
certainty" As the phrase is, 70 As TO answer
correctly AID at once :? The truth is my young
friends, We know something great many thing
aud bu' tsU ihng> for certsiniv The very
things We do see every day. and We think we
know all about. we tin1 have escaped our attrn-
rion. II We e to @ hers for information, We are
but little better off Indeed sve shall be sur
pIis, 10 find how few persons are exclusively
md correctly informed--how few, even OF the
wise heads" around us, eau live The irioIma
sion We nee /, aud whose answers We can safe
ly ,ely upon. You See then, the importance
| Vt beginning to iearu when yOung, anj OF betug
careful ho,c we learn Others, and observe 7
ourselves III VIII remember the story OF
Columbus he made The egg stand up We
should not only know now 10 do them prompt
y. Third. Things near home-ln you; own
| ne ghDOrnoud town. county, state Suppose
one were to ask you "how many inh4blanrs
there were III yuGr native town or safe" Could
| you tell the number and give their names ::
Could You even tell the number and names Of
| the towns III your eun couuty.l Ii they furth-
er wished to know The lrngti OF the state ami
/ its bread h az each end" could they learn from
you. Again. if you were asked what year
| the battle of Bennington was taught, or where
Washington died" would you not pos>ibI,
| have to turn to your history fore You would
be quite certain rs to the answers you should
/ give 7 Now these are only few of the many
things You ought to know; and if you J, not
/ when you come to go into the world among re-
ally in eilgent persons, your pride will be
wounded at every step,