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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-03
American Institute Farmers
Club.

Reported Specially for the Intelligencer.
NEW YORK, March 30.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-03

In reply to a series of questions by
J. NJ. Paul, of North Adams, Massa-
chusetts, respecting bones as fertilizer,
Mr.. James a. Whitney said that bone
uuhroken does about as much good on
soils rs a stone, and not much more.
The best way to get them into the prop
or state for plant food is either to grind
them fine or to melt them in an acid or
strong alkali. Dig q shallow pit, bank
it around with clay, break the bones
with a big hammer in as little pieces as
may be,-thc finer the better-pile them
in the pit and pour over them diluted
sulphuric acid-cover them with dry
muck or garden loan. They will soon
dissolve. If the weather is warm they
will dissolve faster. Crushed bones in
a hogshead with strong wood ashes,
kept warm and mOistened with soap
suds, will soften into mass like putty
that is soluble in water.
FRUIT TREE BoRER.
Mr.. Paul also asked how he could rid
his trees of the borer.
DIR. Trimble recommended killing 1t
by running a wire into its hole until it
is stabbed to death.
Mr.. r. 81. Williams said a friend Of
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-03

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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03
NUMBER 40
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.
Official Report for 1s69-Its Progress,
Success and Usefulness Financial Ex-
hibit-Plans and Suggestions for Future
improvement.
PRINCIPALS REPORT.
Board OF DIREcroRs

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL ::
Geatiemen: In presenting to your
Honorable Body this Fifth Annual Re-
port of the Normal School, there is, as
it seems to me, less need for extended
statement than heretofore, since the
people of the State are reasonably we'll
acquainted with the design and scope of
the institution. Information respecting
the means employed to accomplish its
objects has also been widely dissemina-
ted. In this connection, it simply re-
mains for me to say that no change has
been made in the ends to be attained,
nor has there been material modifica-
ton of the methods previously employ
ed. The school has continued its legit-
innate professional work of educating
teachers with as much energy and di-
rectness of purpose as could be brought
10 bear upon it by the united efforts of
the Faculty.
1t gives me pleasure to report con-
tinuance of that cordial cooperation of
pupils and teachers in all the work of
the school which has so characterized
the preceding years. During this year
no suspension or expulsion of students
has been found necessary in order to
maintain the rigid discipline to which
normal schools are accustomed. An
upright public sentiment and high
moral purpose seem to pervade the as
semblage of pupils in every depart
ment.
An inspection of the subjoined COM
pllation of statistics is respectfully in
vited. In order to exhibit the growth
of the school, have placed by the side
of the figures for 1869 those which were
submitted in the Principals Report for
last year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03
HOW TO BE MISERABLE.

Sit by the window, and look over the
way to your neighbours excellent man.
sion, which he has recently built, paid
for and fitted out. ''Oh! that was a
rich mani"
Get angry with your neighbor, and
think you have not friend in the world.
Shed tear or two, and take walk in
the burying ground, continually saying
to yourself, "When shall / be buried
here %
Sign note for friend, and never for
get your kindness, and every hour in the
day whisper to yourself, 81 wonder il
he will pay that note ?"
Think everybody means to cheat you.
Closely examine every bill you take, and
doubt its being genuine till you have put
the owner to a great deal of trouble
Put confidence in nobody, and believe
every man you trade with to be rogue.
Never accommodate if you can possibly
help it. Never visit the sick or afflicted
and never give farthing to assist the
poor.
Buy as cheap as you can and screw
down to the lowest mill. Grind the faces
of the unfortunate.
Brood over your misfortunes, your
lack of talents, and believe that at no
distant day you will come to want. Let
the work-house be ever in your mind
with all the horrors of distress and
poverty.
Follow these recipes strictly, and you
will be miserable to your hearts content
if we may so speak-sick at heart and
at variance with the world. Nothing
will cheer or encourage you-nothing
throw a CLEAN of sunshine or a ray OF
hope into your heart.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03
STICK TO ONE THING.

"Unstable as water, thou shalt not
succeed is the language of the Good
Book. Whoever expects TO succeed in
any undertaking must enter into it with
q hearty and earnest will to do his very
best. When q trade or profession is
chosen, obstacles, be they large or small,
must not be allowed to stand in the way
of mastering that trade or profession.
However much we may deprecate the
old-time custom of indenturing appren-
tees, the system in its practical results
operated almost always for the lasting
good of the apprentice. Generally it
insured to him q good trade and whole
some discipline that fitted him for sue
very many young men undertake to ac-
quire a trade, and after a brief trial
abandon it because there are unpleasant
duties to be performed and obstacles to
be overcome. They consider themselves
accountable to no one, and go and come
at the bidding of caprice, or an unset
tied, uneasy mind. The result of this is
to send out into the world young men
who have not half learned their trades,
of unstable character, who drift from
post to pillar, and who succeed in moth
ing but strewing along the highways of
life melancholy wrecks of men. We
would earnestly entreat every young
man, after he has chosen his vocation, to
stick to it; don't leave it because hard
blows are to be struck or disagreeable
work performed. The men who have
worked their way up to wealth and USE
fulness, do not belong to the shiftless
and unstable class, but may be reckoned
among those who took off their coats,
rolled up their sleeves, conquered their
prejudices against labor, and manfully
bore the heat and burden of the day.
Whether upon the old worn-out farm,
where our fathers toiled, diligently
striving to bring back the soil to pro-
ductiveness, in the machine shop or fac
tory, or the thousand other busy places
that invite honest toll and skill, let the
motto ever be, perseverance and indus
try.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03
THE suEz CANAL.

The Suez Canal has been formally open
ed to the commerce of the world.
When few years ago the work was COM
menced, even engineers ridiculed the
scheme, and argued laboriousiy to prove
the impossibility of its success. The in
terest of commerce needed water con-
nection between the Mediterranean and
Red Seas !; a master mind conceived the
the means, and the connection exists
and probably no project of this century
was so difficult Accomplishment. Cap
italists, at first, feared to venture their
money, but after vast deal of cavil a
company was formed, with capital of
$40,OO0O00. The greater amount of this
was subscribed by the French people,
and on April %, 1850, the first spadeful
of earth was turned at Port Said. The
Pacha of Egypt, however, threw obsta-
eles in the way, and in 1868 the Porte,
seeing that the French engineer Lesseps
was about to abandon the work, offered
to reimburse the sum expended and COM
plete the canal to Suez. This led to the
convention at Paris, the result of which
was that after delay of six months the
work was resumed by its protector, who
was Unidentified by Napoleon for his
loss of time i'll the sum of sixteen mil
lions of dollars. Thenceforth the work
was swiftly prosecuted to the end. To-
day the voyage from the English Chan
mel to the East Indies is five thousand
miles shorter than it was month ago.
The advantages to commerce are appar-
ent, and the profits of the canal may al
ready be calculated. M.Lesseps claims
that the first annual return of the canal
should show at least receipt of Sl2,-
100000.
The cost of the canal is more than
$55, 100000 in gold, and at one time there
were twenty thousand laborers engaged
in the work. Its average width is three
hundred and twenty eight feet, and its
depth twenty-six feet. The length from
sea to sea is about one hundred miles.
Commonwealth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

The wife of prominent Philadel-
phian, writing from Baden Baden, says
of Mrs. Lincoln Owe have passed
many happy, sad hours together. The
first night we spent in Frankfort we
sat talking all night long, until the
bright day dawned in at the window of
her cherries, desolate room. Not hav-
ing seen her since met her in her sick
room, after Mr.. Lincoln's death, of
course the meeting quite overcame her.
For while tears and sobs, such as I
never witnessed, rent her anguished
heart She is as great mourner now
as she was the day she lost the best of
husbands. The Duke of Nassau and
many of the nobility have called upon
her, but she declined receiving them.
| Her life is the Ioneliest ever saw"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM OF CENTU-
RY AGo.-To begin with the lady her
locks were strained upward over an
immense cushion that sat like an in
cubus on her head, and plastered over
with pomatum, and sprinkled over
with shower of white powder. The
hight of this tower was somewhat over
foot. One single white rosebud lay
on its top like an eagle on a haystack.
Over her neck and bosom was folded a
lace handkerchief, fastened in front by
a bosom-pin rather larger than a cop
per cent, containing her grandfather
miniature set in virgin gold. Her airy
form was braced up in satin dress,
the sleeve as tight as the natural skin
of the arm, with waist formed by a
bodice, worn outside, whence the skirt
flowed off, and was distended at the
top of an ample hood. Shoes of white
kid with peaked toes, and heels of two
or three inches elevation, inclosed her
feet, and glittered with spangles, as
her little pedal members peeped curl
ously out. Now for the swain his
hair was sleeked back and plentifully
befowered, while his queue projected
| Ike Cn0 uduul0 VI Skllt0G. LIE
coat was a sky-blue silk, lined with
yellow; his long vest of white satin
embroidered with gold lace; his breech
es of the same material, and tied at the
knee with pink ribbon. White silk
stockings and pumps with laces and
ties of the same hue, completed the
habiliments of his neither limbs. Lace
ruff1es clustered around his wrist, anC
a portentious frill, worked in cores
lpondence, and bearing the miniature
of his beloved, finished his truly gen
teel appearance.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

The farmers near Muscatine have for
some time been complaining that their
cows were MIXED by persons who had
no right to milk them. Those who
thought themselves imposed upon there
by began to look suspiciously upon GER
tain of their neighbors, but discovery
was made on the 9th inst. by one of the
losers. Soon after leaving home for his
place of business-about four o'clock
his attention was attracted by large,
fat hog engaged in sucking a COW which
was lying down. The bovine seemed
to think the matter all right and re-
manned perfectly passive. The porcine
er cow, which did not seem to relish
the operation quite so much, and mani
tested its disapprobation by getting mp
and moving off. The hog then returned
to COW No. and resumed business with
a grunt of evident satisfaction.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

At discussion on Capital in Farm
ing, during the New York State Fair
Joseph Harris said farmer could not
make better investment of SO than
to buy barrel of crude petroleum with
which to wash his wagons and imple-
ments, reaping and moving machines
etc., two or three times q year.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

The fabrication of Egyptian mum
mics is carried on in Paris on a very
high scale. One man alone, we are
told, has manufactured no less than 500
''relics" of the Policeman era for provin-
cial museums. A few might be of SER
vice over here to fill up inches in the
Cabinet.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

DR.. South, when once preaching be-
fore Charles IL, observed that the mon
arch and his attendants began to nod,
and some ofthem soon after snored, on
which he broke of his sermon and said
Lord Lauderdale, let me entreat you to
arouse yourself; you snore SO loudly
you viii awake the king"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

"Do you think, DOCTOR" asked an anx-
ious mother, ''that it would improve
Johnny's health to take him to the
springs and let him try the water?" Il
haven't doubt of it, madam" What
springs would you recommend, doctor p
'Any springs, madam, where you could
find plenty of SOAP
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

During the late tour of the Western
Editorial Association, by common con-
sent, Intoxicating liquors were omitted
from the bills of fare. Many of the
Western journals compliment Mr. Wat
rous of the Badger State Banner,
through whose efforts the temperance
principle was adopted.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A gentleman from Nevada, being ask
ed by an old lady in relation to the well
fare of scapegrace of a nephew who
had gone to that State, informed heI
that the young man had died from scar
~ rising" This puzzled the old lady
very much until, by dint of inquiry, she
learned that '.early rising" is the Neva-
da term for hanging.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

To purify room, and all rooms need
it regularly and often, set pitcher of
water in the room, and in few hours
it will have absorbed all the respired
gases in it, the air of which will become
pure, but the water utterly filthy. The
colder the water is, the greater its ca
pacity to contain all these gases. AT
ordinary temperature, pail of water
will contain pint of carbonic acid gas,
and several pints of amonia. The ca
pacity is nearly doubled by reducing
the water to the temperature of ice.
Hence water kept in room while is
always unfit for use. For the same rea-
son the water from the pump should al
ways be pumped in the morning before
any of it is used. Impure water is
more injurious than impure air.
The above proves how exceedingly
careless many are, as regards our health,
for we venture to say that large ma
jority of the people use water for drink
ing which has absorbed for hours the
noxious gases in their rooms.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A little girl, worn out by a long SER
mon, observing the preacher gathering
himself for the introduction of new
point" exclaimed. "Oh, mother, he's
not going to quit at all, he's swelling up
again."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A female school teacher, in her adyer-
tisement, stated that she was " complete
mistress of her own tongue " If that's
the case" said q eaustic old bachelor,
she can't ask too much for her SER
yices.7
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A New Orleans paper says that a
young widow in that city who writes
well, is training herself for an editor"
Prentice says he hopes he is not the ed
itor she is training herself for.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

ssStubbs, said one ofhis debtors, N'isn't
it about time you paid me that little
bill 2" ssMy dear sir," was the consoling
reply, 'tit's not a question of time, it's a
question of money"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A man can live in Paris pretty well on
ten cents per day, or he can eat, drink
and be merry to the tune of hundred
dollars.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

John Morrissey is endeavoring to ne
gotiate another match between the Har-
ward and Oxford crews, to take place
next summer on Saratoga Lake. Alba
ny and Troy papers are happy over the
possibility.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

A LITTLE STORY ABOUT MIR. LINCOLN.
Mr.. Lincoln was much pestered by of
f1ce-seekers. A gentleman from Illi-
nois, who thought himself peculiarly
fitted to represent the country abroad,
followed Mr.. Lincoln with great peril
nacity, -holeing him at all times
and in every place without the slightest
mercy. Finally the President, with a
pleasant smile, asked if he could speak
Spanish. No" "Well, learn Span
ish, and I'll tell you of good thing
you can get" After three months OF
hard study the would-be diplomat re-
turned to the charge, and assured him
he had thoroughly mastered the Spanish
language. WELL" said Mr.. Lincoln,
81 promised to tell you of good thing
you could get. Get Don Quixote' and
read it; it will make you laugh"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

They are to have a pigeon shoot in
Toronto soon, and the poorest shooter
is to receive pair of spectacles.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

The late gale at the East drove in
thousands of cords of seaweed, which
farmers along the New Hampshire coasi
are daily collecting to spread on theii
land.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-12-03

Total attendance 153 I9S
The comparative number of males
and females belonging to the school is
here shown: 1868 1869
Females, rs 102
Males, 20 SO
The number of students
pledged to become teachers, lib 40
Number of students who have taught
in the public schools during the year, 81.
The average age of the pupils in the
Normal School is 10 years.
The counties represented during the
year are as follows: Allen, Anderson,
Atchison, Butler, Chase, Coffey, Doni-
phan, Douglas, Greenwood, Jefferson,
johnson, Linn, Lyon, Leavenw orth, Ne
osho, Usage, Riley, Saline, Shawnee--19.
All students have heretofore been ad-
mitted, irrespective of the location of
their homes, upon the same conditions /;
viz, that they pledge themselves to be-
come teachers in Kansas. In accord
-ance with this understanding, students
from the following States have been re-
ceived, in addition to the representa-
tives from the different counties of Kan
sas New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Texas,
II
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09
On the Brain.

Formerly it vas the fashion to
charge certain individuals with hav-
ing Niger on the brain ;" certain
others with having temperance on
the brain; others still with having So
cialism, or vegetarianism. education
or something else on the brain.
The purport of this accusation is.
that person may be SO deeply in
terested in and devote so much at
tention to a special idea as to make
il an all-absOrbing topic with him.
The charge is made in derision. 1t
is sneer-an expression of con
tempt.
a moments reflection, however,
tells every thinking person who it is
that deserves the sheer he who has
something on the brain or he who
has nothing on the brain-he who
has sufficient cerebral activity to
take an impression and to make an
impression, or he whose organ of the
mind is go sluggish that it can neith>
er act for itself nor be acted upon by
anything OF Importance.
The great trouble with the world
is that there are so many who have
nothing on the brain. If one fail in
business. it argues that either he has
not taken proper interest in his prop,
er business, or he has not the requis-
tie capacity. The farmer who pro-
duces INT half crop of wheat, corn,
oats or what not, when the same
amount of hard labor would produce
a full crop, evidently has not agricul,
ture sufficiently on the brain. The
mechanic who gets four to five dol.
lars per day, and while homeless
saves nothing to work out his own
independence, and on departing this
life place his family above charity
and the poor, house, must assuredly
have something, if anything, on the
brain that does not most nearly con,
Germ him and his.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09
Communicated.
Rock River.Ins Co., Beloit, Wis.-Cor.
rection.

DIR. Cover Il notice in your is
sue of last week an article under the
heading Failure of the Rock River
Insurance Co" from which the i'm
preston has been extensively circu-
lated that it is the Rock River Ins.
Co, of Beloit Wis.
Many persons insured in the COM
pany arc anxiously inquiring after
the causes of the failure of the COM
pany, when in fact, that company
was never before in so prosperous q
financial condition as at present.
Will you be so kind as to correct
Thorough the columns of your paper
the false impression now prevailing
the minds of many Of our citizens
H. GILMORE.
REMARKs-The article alluded to
was copied from an exchange paper.
Periodical reports spiced with iii ia
vor have appeared during several
years past, calculated to damage
this company. Ed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09
To Teachers and Dist. Clerks:
THE sEMI-ANNUAL FyAMIN ALTON

Of Teachers for the Spring 90 will be held as follows
At Potosi for the towns of Potes Harrison and Paris
on Thursday and Friday, April and 2.
At Hazel Green for The towns of Hazel Green and
jamestown on Monday and Tuesday April and g.
AT Platteville for the towns of Platteyla Smelser
and Lima on Thursday aud Friday April and 9.
AT Lancaster fol the towns of Lancaster Little
Grant, Clifton and Ellenboro on Monday and Tuesday
April ~ and 10.
Al Fennimore for the towns Of Fennimore, Wing
and 49,
AT Boscobel for the towns of Boscobei Hickory
Grove Marion and Woodmsn on Monday and Tuesday
April 10 and 20.
At Muscoda for the towns of Muscoda, Waterstown
and Blue River on Thursday and Friday April % 49,
At Patch Grove for the towns of Patch Grove, Viva
inslng, Millville and Mt. Hope Monday and Tues
day. April &c and 81
Al Bloomington for the towns of Boomi ngton Bee.
% and 80. 49,
At the Brick School House, near Lewis okeys, Joint
District No 10 of Cassvle, for the towns of Classy
and Waterioo on Monday and Tuesday, May and j.
The examinations will commence at each of the places
named at 10 o'clock, A. NJ of the first day
1t very desirable that all who propose to teach in
the county should be present punctualy at the ar-
pointed time. and come prepared with pen ink and
toolscap paper. j. P HUBBARD
Lancaster, March LIST, 1862 Co. Supt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09

sA- The Indiana Legislature met
and adjourned, which interesting OPP
Grafton will be conducted every morn
ing till Monday next, when the SEES,
sion will expire by constitutional
limitation, The per diem appropria
ton has run out, and some of the
impecunious Democratic members
now regret having tender ed their
designations.
Horace Greeley suggests as the
most urgent public need OF to-day
tho condensa ion of sill that is known
beyond dispute in the domains of
natural, intellectual, and moral
science, in brief popular tracts,
cheaply printed and universally cir
culated.
S1~I 1t may be mentioned, to illus
trate the expensive establishments
kept up in Europe, that there are
thirty servants in TIE kitchen and
dining room of the Austrian Ambas-
sador in Paris, and the head cook
gets $4,000 year
e9~ Fhe flight of wild geese to the
north has already commenced, and
large focks are seen migrating to-
ward the hyperboresn regions. This
is regarded by many as aturther cor
poration of be grounding prophecy,
that the winter is passed.
S@ There are on record in the
Clerks Office of Boston 500 incorpo-
rated companies, mostly for mining,
all got up within FIVE years. The
aggregate capital is about $50 900,
600,