Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-07-24
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.

a recent calculation relative to thu
principle European languages, shows tha
the English is spoken by ninety million.
OF persons, inhabiting Great Britain ant
Ireland, North America, the Bermudas
Jamaica, Cape of Good Hone, Australia
Van Dieman's Land, Newfoundland, an(
the East Indies; German by fifty five
millions, in their own country, Switzer
Hand, Australia, Hungary, Russia, North
and South America, LaPlata, Austria anG
The East indies; Spanish by fifty nve
millions in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, the re
lpublics of South America, Manila, etc
and French by forty five millions in
france, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada
/ cayenne, and North America.
+ CAN BODIES SToP THEMSELVES "a
moving ship will not stop suddenly when
1 the sails are taken down. The water
Hnally stops it; no one ever thinks OF
saying that the ship stops itsef. A train
/ Of cars moves along some distance after
ihe steam has been cut of, it is finally
stopped by the friction ofthe wheels as
they rub upon their axles and upon the
track, together with the other obstacles
Which It meets; it does not stop itself
A horse and his rider are moving along
Together; let the horse suddenly stop. and
his rider is plunged over his head; the
man can not stop himself. We learn
from these observations that body in
motion would move forever if it were nos
stopped by some force outside Of itself.
The ideal standard Of a true teacher
will always be higher than his realized
mark. If it is not it ought TO be. or his
realized mark will be shamefully low, an |
will continually fall lower. The nearer
the teacher succeeds in striking not only
one bat many new sparks from the hearts
oi every pupil at a given recitation. the
nearer does he approach to not very
dlfiicnlt standard of perfection. If he
fails in reaching this mark at one time
and IS geniusly plucky, the failure will
ne "a spur to urge him to higher efforts
the next time. To a coward, failure is
discouragement and destruction; to i
hero, failure is inspiration and salvation.
The English language is not of Ameri.
can, but of foreign origin. Ii Was
BROUGHT here from England, and we
Auiericans here have neither discovered.
invented II or manufactured it. We sim
ply adopted and Americanized il. Tie
German language was brought to Penn
syivaria almost two hundred years aro.
during William Penn's time, soon after
the English came here, and has teen liy
ing here since; and is now fuUg .1n1efj-
conized
1t may not be generally known, but it
Is fact, that the lirst Bibles printed il
America, during the last century, were
not IN English, but in German, bv G.
Saar, at Germantown, PA. That one of
tie first religious periodicals was the one
published by the German Evangelical
Lutheran Ministerium Of Pennsylvania
about sixty years ago, in German. That
we have German schools in these United
States now that are over one hundred
Years old. These and other facts show
that the German langrt.ge belongs to
America and should not be looked upon
as sercign language and that it is the
real American language.
The most exciting incident of recent
explorations in Palestine was the discov-
cry among the ruins of the ancient citv
DIbon, east of the Dead Sea, of a stone in
a perfect state of preservation, containing
an inscription of thirty four lines by
Mesha, king Of Moab, a little after the
time OF Omn, king Of Israel In a quarrel
OF the Arabs over the possession of the
stone, it was broken int o fragments, and
The inscription seriously impaired. This /
stone was neatly cut block of black ba-
salt, feet 81 inches high, 2 feet 31>
inches wide, and foot 1 7S-1OO inches
thick rounded at both ends, and inscribed
with thirty four straight lines os alpha
{. A. Klein, A. D. 1868, at the entrance
of the ruined Moabitish town Dibon.
once city ofMoab. Although broken to
pieces through Arabic jealousy its inscrip-
Ion has been preserved, with the exception
of about one seventh. This inscriptionis
he oldest alphabetic inscription extant.
iating about the year B. G. $50, and is now {
n the possession of NJ Gannean and the
PALESTINE Exploration Society. The trans
alton given oy d. Ginsbury, LII. d.
shows hat Moab WAS an independent
Kingdom, that Dibon was its capital, that
he Semitic alphabet was the Phenician
which i'll our alphabet IN its earlier FORMS.
The letters A, n, K, NJ, O, U, D, TT.
i, and R, are almost Identical with the
Roman and Greek characters, that punct- !
lation was carefully observed IN old ,
SO far as to separate by marks ],
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