Marshall County Republican., 1873-07-03
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

The United States gold and silver coin
consist OF 10 parts or, 8 by weight ofpur.
metal, and part or, of alloy; the allo,
i OF gold coins being equal parts by weigh
OF silver and copper, and that of silve,
coins pure copper Nickel and copper
coins are not alloyed.
To calculate the quantity of shelleG
corn in crib-in the ear: Multiply the
length by the width. and that product by
half the length, and deduct one tenth from
the product, and you have the number OF
bushels of shelled corn. This is as near
as possible l q bushel in the ear to a
bushel shelled, and is one ninth more
than the usual rule of 2 cubic feet to the
bushel
The customary rule is to multiply the
length by the width, and the product by
one half the depth, and you have the an
swer in bushels. Another rule is, null
tiply the length, width and depth of the
crib or bin together and their product by
AZ. Cut off the right hand figure, and
the remaining figures will be the mum Der
of bushels of shelled corn, and the fig
ure at the right, the decimal of a bushel.
There is in bushel OF shclled corn,
also and 2-5 solid inches.
1t is very important that the rising gen
Grafton should acquire naodicunp of use.
ful knowledge, and still more important
that its intellectual powers should be de-
veloped and trained but neither object
can be gained by propounding excruciat-
ing puzzles, as for example, what is the
value of horse, when 1856 is two ninths
OF seven times the value of carriage
which cost three fifths of twelve times as
much as the valuable horse under con-
sideration.
A teacher, by his contract, binds him
self to be governed in the management of
his school by the school laws of the
State
The law does not define a school day,
but custom has fixed its limit at six
hours, exclusive Cfthe noon recess. This
is perhaps long enough for pupils of any
age, and too long for the Youngest, unless
they are relieved by frequent recessess.
The English language has been grow
ing for more than thousand years. 1t
is called English" from tne word Anqzes
the name of a tribe of Germans who, with
the SaXons and other German tribes
settled in Britain about the 9th century
\. ID. The language that was spoken by
this people is called Anglo Saxon. 1t
was quite uKlike our present English, but
it is the basis of our speech, furnishing
the larger part (nearly three quarters per-
haps) OF our customary words, and the
grammatical frame work of the whole Ian
guage.
Anglo-Saxon was largely Influenced by
the Frei CHI language, spoken by the Nor
mans, who conquered England in the nth
century. In the 10Th and 10th centuries
1t received very great number of words
from Latin and from Greek, and subse-
quently from other sources.
Thus we see that the English language
is combination of many tongues. By
the time of Shakespeare, in the 10th cen.
tury it had grown into nearly its present
form 1t is now spoken by nearly one
hundred millions of people.
1t is the language of the United States
and of British America of Great Britain
and Ireland. of Australia and New Zea.
land, and it is spoken in South Africa, in
India, and elsewhere.
The English Language is made up of
a stock of words called its Uoca6@ary. A
complete English Dictionary contains
upward of 100000 words; nevertheless
it is found that the whole stock of
English words can be asserted into very
few kinds.
The 10Th century has witnessed won
derful intellectual progress. This is
shown by the rrm basis on which our
American schools are founded, which
school system, together with the Prussian
is the broadcast and best in the world.
Our country has, at present, seven
million ofchildren attending schools, and
over four hundred colleges and univer-
sites.
Ii we confine our view to the globe we
inhabit it must be allowed that chemistry
and geology are the two sciences which
not only offer the fairest promise, but al
ready contain the largest generalization.
The MoNRo DocTRINE.-In the fall of
1920 James Monroe was reelected Presi-
dent for four years. In the year 1929 the
South American republics were struggling
with Spain for Independence. Monroe
in message, advised that the independ-
ence of these republics should be recor.
nized by the United States; and, in addi-
ton, declared that "the American conti
nents are not to be considered as subjects
for future colonization by any European
powers" or, in other words, that America