Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-04-11
GATHERED GRAINS.

nesSee.
Cornell University is now open to stu
dents of both sexes.
BE rigid to yourself and gentle to 9th
ers. So said Confucius.
In Japan no one is allowed to cut dow1
a tree unless he plants another.
Tennessee has 100000 o facres o.
soil. but cultivates S,000,O 900 of them.
There are Cs,S25 white women in the
State 10 ran neither read nor write also
G3,S25 colored.
The rural districts have fewer goo
schools now than ever before in the his
tory of our State.
B. G. Northrop, of Connecticut, has
accepted an offer to go to Japan as Su-
perintcndent of schools.
An industrious and v%irtuous education
of children is a better inheritance for
them than a great estate.
There are in Tennessee 225,7i3 per-
sons twenty one years old aud over, who
can neither read nor write.
If men would but hate themselves as
they do their neighbors,it would be a good
step toward loving their ~neighbors as they
DO them selves.-M. L0u9in.
Look at these figures, there ere 72,lS9
white children in the state between 1G
and u years, who can neither re,d nor
write and &C, 7G6 colored.
During the last ten years the white
population has increased - per cent,
while the number of illiterate adults has
increased 80 per cent. in Tennessee.
The highest salary paid in this country
to a lady teacher is said to be giver to
Miss Anna G.. Bracket principal of the St.
Louis Norma, Sciool-S2.500 Il year.
A bill has passed both houses of Congress
setting apart and de ating foreve: to the
purposes of a public park the wonderful
Yellow Stone Valley of Montana and Wy
oming.
The first book ever printed was the
Book of Psalms, by Faust and Shaeffer,
A. d., I457. 1t was printed on one
side of the leaves, after which they were,
in the binding, pasted back to back.
A little boy watching the burning of
the school-house until the novelty of the
thing had ceased, started down the street
saying: I'm glad the old things burned
down I didn't have my Biography lesson,
nohow %
Professor Tyndall produced enough
snow, in one of his experiments during a
lecture on Ice, Water, and Air, to form a
SNOWFALL, which he threw at the head of
his assistant, thus delighting the Juvenile
portion of his audience.
Edwin T. Batchelder, of Mansfield, |
Massachusetts,. bequeathed his whole
property, 100000, to the American BIZ
BILE Society. Every scholar in the public
schools of this country is to receive a BIZ
BILE. A Christian widow in Boston left
$4,000 for the Bible Society.
A THOUGHT FOR THE TIMEs.-"The
Heather Chinee' prides himself on pay
ing up all his debts at the beginning Of
each year, and places over his door an
emblem that he is square with the world.
This custom prevails throughout the En-
pire, and must be complied with to secure
q good financial Standing"
The Legislature of Illinois has passed a
which places s%pendthrift drunkards in
the same category with idiots and provides
for the appointment of guardians to look
and protect their property
Of .02O c~onvicts in the Illinois State
$50 signed a petition to the Leg
stating that intoxication brought
hem to their present state and intreating
he representatives of the people to save,
f possible, others from a like fate.
ORIGIN OF PLANTS.
Peas are of Egyptian origin.
Celery originated in Germany.
The chestnut came from Italy.
The onion originated in Egypt. {
The nettle comes from Europe. ]
Tobacco is a native of Virginia.
Rye originally came from Siberia.
The citron is a native of Greece. =.
The poppy originated in the East. j
The pine is a native of America.
The mulberry originated in Persia.
Oats originated in North Africa. :
Parsely was first known in Sardinia.
The pear and apple are from Europe. !
Spinach was first known in Sardinia. :
The sunflower was brought from Peru. :
The walnut and peach came from Per- ]
ia. z
The horse-chestuut is a native of Thu .
ct.
The cucumber came from the East :
ndies.
The radish originated in China and ia /
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