Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-01-22
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Edited and Conducted 6y
j. r. LANGENBA UGH.
To Boys and Girls.

10 ooys and Girls.
Study while you are young, boys ant
girls. Now is the golden opportunity
Other people keep house for you, ani
earn the bread and butter, but some day
that will be your task Whether you art
boy or girl, the lime must come wher
you will he troubled about many things,
aud then you will look back upon thi.
easy, idle period of your life, and wonder
that you wasted it so. Of course you
must play. And it is that you may have
some play time all your life, that we viii
advise you to study now. Nothing gives
the whole life ease and comfort SO much
as good early education Play and be
happy, but there are hours you do moi
know what to do with--hours when you
gaDe and tidget, and wish it would stor
raining" ana wish this and that and the
other, and do nothing. And some pleas
ant study would make all that stupid time
pass happily. Perhaps you think to read
and write and cipher is sufficient. You
are mistaken Just as you would feel
now 1t You could not read the names
upon the street sign boards, or the mum
bers of the houses, or letter written BY
friend. SO will you feel, some day Of
your lite, for the want of some knowledge
which you might easily acquire, were ii
not too much trouble to study in these
early years ofyours.
Men and women too often come TO
some point OF their lives In which a Ger
tain knowledge is necessary to them, ten
in the midst of toll and anxiety, they oft
en- set themselves to acquire it; and after
hard days of labor, lose rest and sleep,
and often health, TO gain that which they
might have had ready foI thei; use, bu:
for useless iileness. No knowledge ever
comes amiss, and when there are so many
things to be learnt, it does seem singular
that more people are not eager to learn
all they can. How delightful to arrive at
years of discretion so well prepared for
the battle Of life that circumstances can
scarcely take YOU at a disadvantage.
Thoroughly we'll educated people who
keep sober seldom starve. A man or
woman of information must be needed
somewhere. Ifyou cannot do something
for somebody with brain or limb, the
world has no use for you. 1t is selfish
world, and the only lazy people it can en-
dure are the rich ones. And II you are
rich one day in your life you may be poor
the next. Study then-things in books
an out of books. Know all you can. Be
OF ignorance, and shake it off.
BAD TEMPER.
There are few things more productive
of evil in domestic liie than thorou ushly
bad temper. 1t does not matter what
form that temper may assume, whether it
is of sulky kind that maintains perfect
silence for many days. or the madly pas
sionate, which vents itself in absolute
violence. Ill-temper at any age is bad
thing; it never does anybody any COOL,
and those who indulge in it feel no better
for it. After the passion has passed away,
one sees that he has been very foolish,
and knows that others see it too. Bal
temper in the aged is perhaps the most
trying of all it is indeed pitiable sight
to see the wrinkled cheek of an old per-
son aflame with the fires of anger and
passion. Sincs anger is useless, and an
unspeakable -.isery to its victims, why
should it be INDUCED in at alls
TINE.
As is well known, the methods oe
time vary in different parts of the world.
The Chinese begin their day at midnight,
and end it on the midnight following, di-
vide the interval into twelve hours. each
equal to two of ours, and known by a
name and particular figure. In the Turk
ish Empire time 10 reckoncd by certain
portions of the day, resembling the
watches" Of the ancient Jews and Ro-
mans. Public clocks not being in use,
there divisions Of time are proclaimed by
the minArets. The various ancient divis-
ions of the day differed widely from the
customs of our time. Chaldeans, Syrians
PersiaEs AID Indians. began the day at
sunrise. and divided the day and nigh,
into four parts. The division of the day
into quarters was in use long before the
division into hours. II was only sfter
the first sun-dial was brought from Cata.
MIA, In Sicily, to Rome, that the Romans
divided the days into. twenty.four hours
the civil day. They began and ended the
civil day at midnight, and took this prac.
tice from their ancient laws, customs and
rites of religious use. long before they
had any idea Of the divisions into twelve
hours-a practice derived from the Baby
lonians-while in Egypt the day was di
vided into unequal intervals of time.
AN INSTRUCTIVE BRICK.
By microscopic examination of brick
taken from the pyramid of Dashhour.
German philosopher has discovered man,
infeoaafiug narfieulerr ~o~-a In