The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-12-31

The statistics of German Methodism
in the United States for 1874, according
to DR.. Liebhart, of Cincinnati, are as fol.
lows: Members and probationers, &c.
17S; local preachers, 37S; churches, $50;
value, 81 OBS, 215; parsonages, 554 value,
$341 AIS; expended for church build
ings, $1S7, 900; for ministerial support,
$780,, 200; Sunday-schools, 647; officers
and and teachers, s,44s; scholars, as,o11; Ii
These are the wise injunctions of
the Rhode Island Schoolmaster: Teach
the pupil to think for himself. Avoid
routine. Do not be more anxious to dis
play your own knowledge of the subject
under discussion than you are to draw
out that of the pupil. Make haste slow
ly. Be sure of each step before you at
tempt the next. BE thorough. Do not
permit the brightest and most forward
in the class to do all the answering. De-
vote the greater portion of your atten-
ton to the dull and backward ones"
The Philadelphia Ledger has the fol-
lowing in reference to the neglect of read
| ing in our common schools: "Thcre is
one part of common school education
which should have the most careful study
of school boards and teachers. Children
| are taught the alphabet, and they then
receive some rudimentary lessons in
reading, that is to say, in the combina-
tion of letters to form syllablcs, and of
syilaDles to form words They are taught
spelling as an act of memory, and when
more advanced they are exercised in
definitions or expositors,' or diction-
aries in various forms, which seem de-
signed to give each word its distinct and
word at time and consideringi it as if it
were the only thing of the kind in exist
ence. When a pupil has become tolera-
bly, we'll advanced in the various studies
which form the school course, as geogra-
ply, physiology, grammar, arithmetic and
other branches, he has only incidentally
learned to read and perhaps has learned
to like reading But to reading as
separate and important branch of educa-
ton, the prevailing idea of teaching does
not give due prominence"
Foreign Gossip.
in Australia apples are sold at twenty
five dollars per barrel
"A Spanish wOman's mantilla is held
sacred by the laws of Spain and cannot
be sold for debt.
The most beautiful of all not house
plants, the camelia, grows wild in the
hedges of Japan.
An American dentist has just opened
shop in the Eternal City. He proposes
to make Rome howl"
In China they do really chop a con-
tractors head off if he makes false csti-
mates in Government work.
-Constantinople has lately organized
a fire brigade, consisting of 2, 500 men,
regularly drilled and equipped.
The police, assisted by force of
volunteers, forcibly drove the gold brok-
ers off of the streets of Havana the other
day.
The house in which the late Prof.
Agassiz was born, at Molier, Switzerland,
has had a memorial tablet placed upon
its front.
A woman who was recently hanged
in England asked to suckle her infant as
the last act before ascending the scatfold.
Boston Post
In New Zealand they want a
man to fill public office, the salary of
which is 81 800 gold, and they have to
advertise for him.
On French railways there is scnsibly
less travel on Fridays than on other days.
Receipts for that dav by comparison
with other days are rs six to ten.
Notice to Cannibals-M. Moca, a
French scientist, has discovered that the
flesh of the Caucasian is bitter and salty,
while that of the black is Of finer flavor,
and will keep much longer.
-" Practical instruction in beggary'
is given in London by Prof Rosnoy. He
furnishes dogs taught to lead the blind
twin children of unhealthy appearance
and other accessories of the sort.
To avoid Notifying a lovers family
was married the other day in a plain
Swiss muslin costing $50, while her un.
derclothing was valued at $4,000.
AT Ennis, Ireland, recently, man
three feet four inches in height was mar
ricd to a woman who is five feet ten
inches. He probably wanted to have the
figures average. as we'll as possible.
In Queen Victoria's crown there are
1868 brilliant diamonds, 1878 rose dil
mOnds and 147 table diamonds, one large
ruby, seventeen sapphires, eleven enc.
raids, four small rubies and 217 pearls.
Building in Italy would seem to be a
peculiarly dangerous occupation. Anew
office is being erected in Rome for the
Ministry of Finance. The other day a
workman fell from the scaffolding and
was killed, making the hundredth victim
of accidents upon the same building.
The London correspondent of the
Belfast Ners Letter says: Il was as.
surcd the other day that when the Red
Gauntlet, a passenger ship employed in
the station between London and Bonn
bay, was unladen at the latter port it
was discovered that cask of gunpowdcr
had been slowed indiscriminately in the
hold with other goods, and that it was
found next to large case of matchcs!"
Miscellaneous.
When q man is weak and weary at
night no friend will stand by him longer
than lamp-post.
"A woman's chief pride is in preserv-
ing her hair. This observation does not
apply to female cooks.
Whenever man is ashamed of his
religion, whatever it is, it is pretty Ger
tain that he has but little of 1t.
"A Milwaukee paragraphist recently
referred to his fool luck. A simple state
ment that the luck was his would have
been Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Western ice-dealers are already pre-