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Rightee." .

The Vallejo Independent tells the
following good story:
A laughable incident occurred one
evening, recently, on the up train to
Sacramento. There were two seats
in the car, turned so as to face each
other. One was occupied by o lady
and the other by a Chinaman. Evi-
IDENTIFY the lady did not relish the
presence of the Chinaman, and set
her wits to work to GUST him out.
She succeeded as follows:
Motioning the Chinaman to rise,
she explained to him that she wanted
to take the cushions and their frames,
and place them lengthwise across
from seat to seat. John said ''all
rightee, and got out in the aisle while
she placed the seats as above describ-
ed, and then proceeded to lie down on
the bed thus improvised, with her
head resting ON her vahse.
She supposed that the Chinaman
would at once take the hint that the
lady wanted to take little rest, in
the space usually occupied by four
persons. But John hadn't heard of
the womnn's rights movement, and
at once proceeded to crawl in and
stretch himself by her side, with his
head on a little bundle of his own.
The Chinese are an initiative race, and
like to do as others do, you know.
The lady, as soon as she discovered
that she had bedfellow, got up
little wildly, and started for the next
car, to the infinite amusement OF the
passengers, who had been watching
the little scene with some interest.
John took no notice of the fun he had
created, but went to sleep with the
whole bed to himself.
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Mr.. Henry Dickens, son of th,
late Mr.. Chas. Dickens, and who OBJ
tanned q very creditable place in tn,
last mathematical tripos examination
at Cambridge, has just joined the So
ciety of the Inner Temple.
The lockout in the English potter
les, which threw thirty-fve Thousand
persons out of work, has come to al
end. 1t was agreed to refer all gues
tons as to wages to a Board of Ar
bitration.
General John A. Dix and Thurlov
Weed draw pensions as soldiers o.
1911, the latter as ffer.
Tom Hood, editor of Fun, eldest
son of him who "sang the Song ot
the Shirt" has been lecturing in
Paisley, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
A Philadelphia man belongs to 342
different lodges, circles, &C., and is the
custodian of 1877 signs, grips, pass
words, &c.
1t is said, but we don't credit it,
that nine of Barnum's camels and
dromedaries have died of envy, since
they saw some of the ladies of fashion.
A case is now pending in the Frank
lin County Court of Common Pleas, in
which Sarah A. Bodle seeks to recov-
er $4,000 from John Jenkins for dam
ages alleged to have been sustained
through fright, producing miscarriage.
This is the second trial.
The will of Horace Hawes, of San
Francisco, who left S1,0O0,0O0 to
found a college, has been broken on
the ground that the testator was in
sane, and his heirs have inherited the
property.
Edward A. Pollard, the Southern
editor and author, who, as editor of
the Richmond Enquirer during the
war, ''fred the Southern heart, and
who subsequently published a book
entitled "The Lost Cause" died at
Lynchburg, Va, on the 18th, aged
forty-fve years.
The various Atlantic steamship
companies have agreed to carry steer
age passengers between New York
and Liverpool at thirty dollars per
head. The national lines rate is
twenty-nine dollars.
Professor Stowe is again restored
to health.
Mr.. Froude pronounces his name
to rhyme with "mood"
Columbine is the very pretty name
of a young Danbury girl-that is at
home at school they call her "Lum
Joe Pentland, the circus jester, Is
now an inmate of the lunatic asylum
on Wards Island.
Kennebunk, Me-, preserves the
memory of her fallen dead in the late
civil war, by a marble tablet placed
in the vestibule of the Town Hall,
upon which is inscribed the names oi
all who lost their lives as soldiers
from that town.
A mine of photographic stone has
been found in Rockbridge Co., Va:
the only other mine of the kind known
in the world being in Bavaria.
The late s. N. Pike, of Cincinnati
and New York, is reported to have
left property to the value OF s8,OOO'
600 in New York, New Jersey, Gin
cinnati, and in mines in Utah.
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The Swiss Republic.

The New York Times of recent
date contains some interesting facts
relating to the history and manage
ment of the Republic of Switzerland,
from which we extract the following
The little Republic dates from 1907,
when the cantons of the Uri, Schwitz
and Underwalden entered into con-
federacy for mutual aid against Aus
tria. 1t was at this time that the in
cident, regarded by some as apocry-
phal, which made William Tell famous,
occurred. The three cantons were
successful in their endeavor to shake
off the Austrian yoke, and within ff-
teen years, Lucerne, Zurich, Glarus,
Zug and Berne joined the young con-
federacy. The remaining cantons were
not joined to the Confederation until
the time of Napoleon and the pres
ent compact, by which all are placed
on perfect equality, only dates from
the peace of 1914. The area Of these
little United States is 1928 square
miles. 1t must be admitted that the
federation has been on the whole a
success. This is the more remarka-
BILE when the heterogeneous character
of the races who go to make up the
nation is considered. No doubt the
principal cause of the compact having
answered so successfully is to be
found in the individual independence
of each State, so far as regards inter
nal administration.
The present Federal Constitution,
founded on that of 1945, only dates
from 1848. It vests the supreme leg
islative and executive authority In two
chambers, and both chambers united
are called the Federal Assembly.
The President of this council of min
listers receives $4,000 a year, the rest
S1,7O0. There is no class of paid
permanent officials existing either IN
connection with the cantonal admin
istration OF the general management
of the Republic. Notwithstanding
the absence of such functionaries, it
may be doubted whether any people
on this earth are governed to such a
degree as the Swiss. The communal
or municipal authorities of the section
of canton in which a Swiss resides,
seem almost to determine what he
shall or shall not eat for dinner. The
population, which was 2,108, ,009 in
1887, had only increased to 2,51O,
494 in 1860.
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Some Points for u Young
Teacher.

First-Remember that your work
is a business indeed, the most diff
cult and complex of all employments
and must, therefore, be carefully
watched, and studied, and managed
iSeeond-As all intelligent business
men do, supply yourself with papers
that treat especially of your business;
attend all teachers exchanges, (asso-
ciations); watch the market for the
best opportunities of disposing of
your wares.
7Hird-But originate rather than
initiate. Manufacture your own wares,
if possible. While books, and news
papers, and conventions Sqy give
you good hints, look to your "a cir
cumstances, your own school, your
own pupils, for the happiest suggest
ions of improvement upon your prae-
tees.
F0awth-You will succeed better
with an idea thus originated by your
self than with one transplanted from
a soil which may, perhaps, be very
different from that which you are till
ing.
FEfth-Yet try, thoroughly and
conscientiously, every plausible theo-
ry, original or borrowed If it works
or fails, note it carefully in your ex-
perience as an established fact.
Sirth-But, when you put on
ready-made methods, be careful, be-
fore you attempt to fit them upon
your practices, to rip them all up, re
model them entirely upon the meas
urements of your own circumstances,
then sew them together again with
the strong thread of your own com
mon sense-that is, if you expect
them to fit neatly, or to wear we'll
National Normal
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Teachers Department.
Introductory.

AS Mr.. Boardman has kindly offer
ed column Of his paper to Educa-
tional matters, the question is, scan
it be made interesting and proftablei"
Unless it is interesting it Will not be
read to any great extent and if not
read, it cannot be useful.
One of the first questions, perhaps,
arising in the minds of many will be,
IS there any necessity for this Depart
ment in the 'THighland News?"
We think there is. Among the
readers of this paper are many Teach
ers and friends of Education, some of
whom take no paper devoted to this
subject. Their excuses are various
the soundness of which we viii not
stop to discuss, only state one or TWO.
Some say they are not able to take so
many papers. They must take
county paper, for local news; their
church paper for religious intelligence
and Sunday reading; city paper for
general news; and perhaps a Maga-
zine for the family, or a Juvenile
for the young folks. Others say
there is little in the Educational
Magazines adapted to our ungraded
schools.
In view of these things, we have
agreed to try our hand on this De
partment. Our success depends
greatly upon our fellow-teachers, to
whom we look for assistance. Writ
ing for paper is a new business for
us, and you must IDEAL gently with
the young" hand for the causes sake.
~Dont view me with a critics eye
Search for imperfections and you are
sure to find them; look for something
good, and you may find it.
We ask Of the Teachers of the
County contributions for this Depart
ment. Make them short and spicy.
Our space is limited to one column.
We want it filed with Aoely, readable
matter What we cannot produce,
must be borrowed. Ed. T. D.
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Newspaper Progress.

When Cowper, from the snug Ol
ney parlor, SO heartily proclaimed the
pleasure of contemplating the world
at distance, and peeping at ii
through the loopholes of retreat, he
had the worlds epitome of news
spread before him. It was in his day
modest "folio of four pages" which
had just been brought to him by the
'Eherald of a noisy world" the post
man, who is now to be seen in coun-
try districts, in form and appearance
not much altered from the eight
hearted wretch" who twanged his
horn within hearing of the poet of
''The Task" But how changed is
that newspaper which he carries and
deliversl No longer is it a "happy
work which not even critics criticize"
for its contents are conned over and
discussed with the most searching
criticism, and now and then provide
fruitful subjects for legal trials. But
while it has grown far beyond the
modest dimensions that it bore when
Cowper welcomed it to his snug re-
treat, it has correspondingly increas-
ed and improved in all other particu-
lars, becoming leviathan in power
as well as shape; gathering its infor
nation from a wider source; produc-
ing it in far more intelligent man
ner; and disseminating it at cheap
er rate and with wondrous mechan-
ism. At this time there were barely
in all England as many as sixty news
papers. But now, there are more
than two hundred metropolitan and
upwards of a thousand provincial
newspapers published each week
They penetrate into every district
throughout the length and breadth
of the land: they largely influence the
public mind, and thereby shape the
course of public events, and they un-
questionably exercise an important
bearing on national education. The
newspaper is the only modern pro-
duction of literature that is read by
thousands of Engishmen, especially
in rural districts. And to meet their
demands, if not to satisfy their wants
and to instruct them as to their neigh
bors' doings, there are few villages at
the present day whose noteworthy
doings are not chronicled in the col
umns of local newspaper.-[Leis-
IRE HOrr.
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The DeIuge-A Confirmation
of the Bible Story from
ChaIdaic Sources,

We have received from the accom-
pished discoverer, Mr. George Smith,
of the British Museum, the subjoined
most interesting account of the record
of the Deluge, which, as we an
nounced day or two ago, he has
lately deciphered from the Assyrian
monuments:
''The cuneiform inscription which 1
have recently found and translated
gives long and full account of the
Deluge. It contains the version or
tradition of this event which existed
in the early Chaldean period at the
city of Erech,. Zone of the cities of
Nimrod,) now represented by the
ruins of Warka In this newly dis
covered inscription the account of the
Deluge is put as narrative into the
mouth of Xisuthrus, or Noah. He
relates the wickedness Of the world,
the command to build the ark, its
building, the filing of it. the Deluge,
the resting of the ark on a mountain,
the sending out of the birds, and
other matters. The narrative has q
closer resemblance to the account
transmitted by the Greeks from
Berosus, the Chaldean historian, than
to the Biblical history, but it does not
differ materially from either.
''The principal differences are as to
the duration of the Deluge, the name
of the mountain on which the ark
rested, the sending out of the birds,
&c The cuneiform account is much
longer and fuller than that of Berosus,
and has several details omitted, both
by the Bible and the Chaldean histo-
rian.
'@This inscription opens up many
questions of which we knew nothing
previously, and it is connected with a
of other details of Chaldean
history which will be both interesting
and important. This is the first time
any inscription has been found with
an account of an event mentioned in
Genesis. : London Telegraph.
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Puzzles in Spelling and Pronouneinu


l. There is word of only five letters, and if you
take away two of them, ten will remain; what word
is that?
. There is word of five letters and if you take
two of them away, six will remain what is it?
3. Take away my first letter, take away my second
letter, take away all my letters, and am always the
same. Can you guess that?
A. Can you tell what letter it is that has never
been used but twice in America?
8. Spell the fate of all earthly things in two
letters7
g. Can you tell man in one word that he took 6
late breakfast?
I. What word is always pronouncedfaster by add.
ing two letters to it?
s. What is that word of one syllable, which if you
take away two letters from it, will become word
of two syllables?-Ex.1
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a Mistake SomeWl,ere

Without shadow of dubitation,
the Franklin Democrat, published at
Brookville, Ind, has made a grave
typographical error when it prints, as
it did last week, that the Rev. Frank
Evans, pastor of the Universalist
Church of that town, had been robbed
of a watch and $40 in money. We
are prepared to credit the statement
that while the reverend gentleman
slept, thieves may have spoiled him
of his watch; but of one hundred and
forty dollars! Never. It don't stand
to reason that any preacher in good
standing with his congregation can
ever get that far ahead of his flock
but if the Rev. Mr. Evans has actually
succeeded in obtaining $40 at one
time, on pastors salary, he owes it to
the long suffering profession whose
cloth he wears, to publish at once the
strategems to which he was compelled
to resort, by which such wonderful
and heretofore unheard of results
were accomplished Ten thousand
preachers, could they but learn from
tie Rev. Evans the secret by which
he has drawn so large a sum from
the tight pockets of close-fsted par
ishioners, would call upon his head
the choicest blessings of heaven every
time its application in their own be
half was the open sesame to the con
gregation's pocket-book. But we
cannot believe the Democrat. The
Rev. Evans may be a sharp, wide-a
wake man; but no minister has evel
yet succeeded in obtaining from his
church $40 at one time, and we
don't believe minister ever will sc
succeed. We ask the Franklin Dem
ocrat to give this matter a second
consideration. Possibly careful In
vestigation viii result in showing
that it was S1.40, and not $40 that
the Rev. Evans received. And this
would be satisfactory; for while there
is no record of $40 having ever beer
paid to a minister at one time, 6
thousand instances can be cited where
when they wanted two dollars on sal
ary, and the 'Deacons" thought thai
one dollar was enough, they have
made a pitiful show of resistance, anc
declined to compromise on anything
less than S1.40.- Hamilton Tel.
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Carlyle, now nearly eighty years
old, has abandoned writing, but still
appears in society occasionally, and
talks as vigorously as ever. He fre
quents the Kensington district O.
London, walking with William Alling
ham, the poet, who, with James An
thony Froude, edits Frazers Maga
zine.
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"Unless you give me aid" said a
beggar to a benevolent lady, 81 am
afraid I shall have to resort to some
thing which I greatly dislike to do"
The lady handed him a dollar, and
compassionately asked, ''What is it,
poor man, that I saved you from p
'EWork," was the mournful answer.
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TEACHING PUBLIC SCHOOL.

Eighty little urchins
Coming through the door,
Pushing, crowdiDg, making
A tremendous roar.
Why don't you keep quiet?
Can't you mind the rule?
Bless mel this is pleasant,
Keeping public school.
Eighty little pilgrims
On the road to famel
If they fail to reach it,
Who will be to blame?
High and lowly stations,
Birds of every feather,
On common level
Here are brought together.
Dirty little faces,
Loving little hearts,
Eyes brimfuI of mischief,
Skilled in all the arts
That's precious dariingl
What are You about?
''May pass the water7"
''Please, may 90 out?"
Boots and shoes are shufling;
States and books are rattIing,
AND IN the corner yOnder
Two pugilists are battling!
Others cutting didoes,
What bOtherationi
No wonder we grow crusty
From such association.
Anxious parent drops in,
Merely to inquire
Why his olive branches
Do not shoot up higherF
Says he wants his children
To mind theirp's and q's,
And hopes their brilliant talents
VIII not be abused
Spelling, reading, writing,
Putting up the young ones,
Tanning, scolding, fighting,
Squirting on the dumb ones,
Gymnasts, vocal music!
How the heart rejoices
When the singer comes
To cultivate the voicesi
Institute attending,
Making out reports,
Giving object lessons,
Class drills of all sorts;
Reading dissertations,
Feeling like fool
Oh, the untold blessing
OF keeping public SCHOOL,
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Inventors are experimenting with
paper, and seeing just to what pur.
pose it may successfully be used
The last proposal is to make window
shutters of it, as a safeguard against
fire. It can be made fre-proof
weather-proof and waterproof, and
with these three desirable qualities
attained, there seems to be nothing
to stand in the way Of its genera
adoption.
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DIR. KiImer, of Ironton, who made
a pedestrian tour to the Florida coast,
writes to the Cincinnati Commercial
that he walked 1,453 miles. He has
gained 10 pounds, and feels greater
degree of muscular vigor and animal
spirits than he ever before enjoyed.
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The New York Times has long
editorial attacking poor coffee. A
journal base enough to assault an ar
ticle SO universally used is as bold as
it is bad, and it would, if it could, un-
dermine the railroad breakfast system
Of this country.-[M Register.
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A WARNING.

Toll not for wealth, friend;
1t wastes away-it wastes away;
Hoard up your health, friend,
While yet you may-while yet you may;
Joy is not gilded,
Mirth has no crown;
Rest seeks the straw bed
Oft as the down.
Strive not for fame, friend,
1t rushes past-it rushes past;
And but a name, friend,
If held at last-if held at last,
Peace in the calm soul
Dwelleth secure;
Nesting beside her
Love doth endure.
Set not yoUr heart, friend,
On outward things-On outward things;
They but depart, friend,
On treach'rous wings, on treach'rous wings
Kindle affections
Delicate flame,
Purer than riches,
Brighter than fame.
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Our exchanges are considerably
agitated over our Indian trouble. We
are worried to death ourselves about
it, although we never say anything.
We prefer to let the grief eat into us
eat into us silently.-[Danbury
News
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care you going to make flower
bed here, Judlins?" asked a young
lady of the gardener. eyes, mum,
them's the horders," answered the
gardener. "Why, it'll quite spoil our
croquet ground" "Can't help it,
mum; them's your pas horders; he
says as 'ow to hev it laid out for or
ticultur; not for usbandry."
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The Fairbanks, scale manufacturers,
borrowed five dollars to make thei1
first scale, and are now worth 49,
100000. Go and borrow five dollars,
young man.
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A watering place correspondent
writes that "very few bathers bathe
at the West end;" whereupon Mrs.
Partington says she chad an idea
they bathed all over"
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I am composed of 12 letters.
My 1, 2, 8, 8, is an animal.
My q 6, 4, is what we all do.
My s, II, 1, 2, is river in Prussia.
Ny 1, II, 6, g. 10 is a sea in Europe.
My 5, G, 4, is worn on the head.
BTy9, 8, =, 12 is fruit.
My whole is the name of school girl.
Hillsboro, Dec. 1879. EULICE.
2.
I am composed of 10 letters.
Ny LIST is in mud, also in mire,
My 2nd is in water, but not in fire,
Ny Sd is in iron, but not in steel,
My 4th is in touch, but not in feel,
My 5th is in heel, but not in toe,
My 9th is in ak, but not in hoe,
My 7th is in black, but not in pink,
My Sth is in eat, but not in drink,
My 9th is in bird, but not in nest,
My 10th is in learn, but not in pest.
My whole is the name of girl of my acquaint-
ance.
PIicetown, o. PAP'S SON.
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The population of the globe is us
ually estimated at 1,OO0,OOO,0OO
A new and careful estimate, based on
the very latest returns, has just been
published at Gotha, by two compe
tent German statisticians, who calcu-
late the present number of the earth s
inhabitants at 377,000,O00.
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A little girl at school read thus
':The widow lived on small hmbacy
left her by a relative" "What do you
call the word?" asked the teacher
'sthe word is legacy, not limbacy.
'cBut, Miss johnson" said the little
girl, ''pa says I must say limb, not
leo"
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Youths Department.
Arithmetioal Problem.

fE-Original Enigmas, Charades, Problems, etc.,
ere respectfully solicited. The answers must always
accompany them, with the real name of the writer.
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A Western editor says that he
would just as soon drink whisky in a
saloon as wine at a communion ser
vice. Nobody doubts it.