Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-09
sHtHP SCHOLARS
IdicsyucrRttc She Dting ON the Part o r
Young San Francesca Ideas.

otherday the examination paper OF a fourtS
grade pupil. which was a curiosity in it, wsy
There are few schools which could not "a
hibit some quite A. funny, and, "a Bpt TOO
trCd, the teachers now porting Oy ~ eNamina-
ton Iapcrs must have many hearty laugh.
For instance. some fourth grade papers ~
have looked over furnish sucn Information
a. hits in answer 10 the questions given ne
Man i the largest being on land"
/ The difference between dog ani COW L..
y dog has ave toes Ia it, front feet aad four
. tees itS hind feet
] ..peciduOuS means 10 dry up
/ The lawyer constructs people"
/ Lawyers are peace makers"
/ Lawyers govern the country.
/ Lawyers plead cases and use common
The doctor saves people from dying. ana
I is = very useful man f0T cutting OF legs snf
! heads
/ Doctors are men The lawyers. n yoa
I lend some money To another man and he ia
/ not pay you, you would go Ia suit ani &C. q
! divorce. Lawyers decide n case Of trouble"
Tine hsnyan and magnolia trecs are in the
' The ie,,t OF die feline H. = lump under their
feet aud no one can hear them coming"
The nun grade papeTS contain some funny
/ Information I'm reply 20 questions about a.
rms roof oF THE CAMEL
/ i ~ the bottom of his legs. "a walk" An
J o;hpr SANS: The foot Oi tho camel o. frsu
. turea 10 four feet high. ard the stomach L.
4 partly cathcr. and tor making shoes 4
/ tniui declares that ''thc stomach q tn camel
! il round 81 men can tie bundles 90 them .
J Grouse deserts. and can stay wSfk without
4 driuktng!' while q !our.g- who il evidently
4 bound To- stick 10 sure ground, says. the
. foot of tie camel l. Use 1 Ia walk" could
Z no. walk il lac did no have any f'g,, and Ia
4 has thick tNct'
| In answer 10 thu REQUEST. Name ;womaul-
! mails and two reptiles one WRIT, "piEapd
! dog" ana another. Your mother au' sister
/ are mammaiS-the reptiles are the lion and
QUESTION six was. How 10 animals defend
I thcmSely, -" Answers. They get fool Nv
7 making "A noise" BY higutiug, kicking and
. scratching themselves
/ Question thirteen was. ILLUSTRATE the
2 meaning of the words soluble elastic
/ 'cOmbustihe. flexible and fragrant ~
! using each o. them in a sentence with other
| appropriate words" The pupils generally
| used "iragrant' in its right sense on, lille
| miss OF N writing. "Fragra a. the breath
| Of SPRING" but the other word, were pp>,'rS,
| and were sometimes used in the funniest con
| nections. a. for instance.
| Tine man H. soluble" The woman &, com
! buStible." The boy il elastic The giri IL
! flexible The hog II fragrant"
! soluble means can see through combusti-
! BILE. strong. Fragrant, sugar"
| The man thai you saw - very soluble.
| The combuStihl" man died quickly. The
flexible boy i bad The fragrant hous, is
| broken down"
The soluble thing can ran. The elastic
The fragrant; man j. sick. The soluble
4 stove il broke. The silver il elastic"
! The sun il very flexible. Bid you e. 10
| soluble Did you swallow elastic DID yOu
| come bustible:''
Il am going to draw a figure AMI il must be
| soluble"
The dog is oombu>tivcly. Horse, leg, are
| elastic"
soluble. that bursts. Flexible, tina, you
The man is elastic; he is in the combusti-
| hl'; he il going 10 lie flexible"
| The soluble girl sits at home. TIE COM
| thoughts"
| soluble little bells are ringing. Tn, ever
I II IlaHa In rrrI
| naughty"
..>he is flexible about her flowers She looks
| very combu>tibie. The soluble girl J. dead
| The elastic man is dead. The cUnbUstibIe
| bind il singing"
There was soluble horse in the yarI YES
| terday: That cow was very combu>tibis
| thing
What combustibIe face that is"
| one pupil, IN despair of framing an original
| sentence containing the word soluble. thu.
1 wrung il in Mary'S lamb; Mary hal "A little
| lamb, its fleece was white as snow and very
| place wear Mary went the lamb soluble 10
The use of coral and sandstone being asked.
one little fellow OF commercial turn an
| swerct, To sell 10 buy" Most OF the
pupils wrote that coral is 10 make into
| 'tewclry" or cutlery" Some of The otherre-
Coral is used To ma Ike diamonds and pearIs-
| Sandstone i To be- put on graves"
| Coral l. TO be put into tine stove. The use
I OF coral and sandstone is parallel"
| Coral Is 10 make lace sandstone u make
\ hour glass"
| In answer 10 ''Ciive the names Of two do
| nestle animals and their Uses. :" one child re-
plied, THE Geraph and IIipOpoiamus." but
| did not give their Uses
: Arothcr said. Dogs aul wild cats Soma
WIZ cats are good to catch rats, and dogs ara
Another replied. s.Chickens-their uses ere
eggs The Cow-itS uses il 10 give milk. and
those Two animals nurse their young ones"
Being required 10 give five parts ora tree"
one boy wrote, Top, bottom, middle, and
/ two sides"
| s.WIIy M A~TNArS Srpprs,,
was one of the questions. Nearly all an
/ swered, To rest themselves but one re
any and third, The sleep 10 animal.
/ Is when they sleep. Sometimes when the AMI
maj Is in trouble and wants TO open the door,
the other animal wakes up and breaks the
door and runs after the animal"
| Various answers were given TO the direc-
4 ton TO name three common aud rare fruit
plants, among which We're Corn. corn starch
and POPCORN" Green corn, corn for chickens
| and corn TO make candy"
Some curious answers were given bv the
pupils in the higher grades. ..Philanthr1pisf',
was defined by one pupil i'm the first grade as
"a tighter" and ''unsullied" as rolling A
second grade scholar defined .'dilatory' a. "a
sacred place" A second gra ie pupil bounded
Maine as follows North by Oregon east a.,
The Pacific Ocean, south by Michigan, and
west 10y New Orleans"
The pupils ofthe second grade were required
TO write for a dictation exercise a short ac-
| count OF
ALEXANDER sELKIRK.
The biography was read TO them three
| times, ana then they were To write wlIa: they
| lowing:
Alexander Selkirk started on a voyage
ABOUT a century ago His chief things were
| commerce and piratical He went out with
captain Staadburg to the Juan Fernandez
| Islands on a voyage 10 the sea. The ship they
sailed was about fourteen miles long six feet
broad, and about four hundred miles from any
point OF land His chief food was some meat
and ocean fsh. When they returned to land
ne Dullt house of some pinento wood, using
gOat-Skin for the outside mart and hal 9-reas,
grass all around it,"
| Is IL any wonder, with such a collection OF
| errors 10 correct, a teacher should saw a. one
| did yesterday, "SOmetimeS. when / see the
| nonsense IN these papers, wonder what we
| are all doing. And yet we are working like
| slaves, all OF US"
Too much is required Of the pupils aud the
examining system neceSSitated produces onIy
| CONFUSION OF ideas. Look at the musical
catechiSm taught in the schools. The first loo
questions and answers are 10 be taught orally
10 the nth grade. The first question is,
| what Is tone?" and the answer is "A
| sound produced by the even and unterrupted
| vibrations of some sonorous or elastic BODY