The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-12
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The San Francisco Post says:
We paye the other day the examination
naner Of icusth-grade pupil, which was
curiosity ia its way. There are few scnooIs
which could not exhibit some quite IS lunny,
and. fnottoo tired, the teachers now poflns
over exsusnation. papers must have many
hearty laaph. For instance, some Iouru'
rrade suyers we have looked over iafhish
snch srisormation as this In answer 10 ques-
tiorss given the other day: -,
:. Nan is the largest being on ANA.
"gte difference between dog and a COW
is: dog has five toes on its front leet anu
ieu toes on Its hind feet"
Declduous means to dry up" - ..>
I" The banyan and magnolia trees are 10 the
Ssymety valley"
1.-THE feet of the feline Is lump under
their feet, aud no one can hear them
The fifth.grade papers contain some funny
information 10 reply to questions about tne
camel. One says: .......-..
"rHE FOOT OF THE CAMEL
is at the bottom Of his legs. to walk An.
other saws The foot of the camel Is from
three TO four feet high, and the stomach Is
nartly leather, and for making shoes" A
fhird declares that the " stomach OF the camel
Is round, SO men can tie bundles on them 10
cross the deserts, and can stay week WITH
ont dripkingn: while fourth, who IS EVIL.
IDENTITY bound to strike sure groand, says,
- The foot of the camel is used TO walk ne
could not walk il he did not have any feet,
and he has thick feet"
In answer to the request, Name TWO
mammals and two reptiles" one writes,
aPiga and dog"; and another, You're notner
and sister arc mammats-the reptiles are che
lion and the bear" !,
Question thirteen was: illustrate Inc
meaning of the words 'soluble,' elastic
.cambustible,' aegible,' aud fragrant by
using each OF them In sentence with oth9
appropriate words" The pupils generaiiy
nsed .sfrugrant" in its right sense, one little
miss of eleven writing, Fragrant Us the
breath of spring.; but the other words
were posers, and were sometimes used ia the
funniest connections as, for instance:
"The man Is soluble "The woman is
rombustible.'' ~The boy Is elastic" "The
girl is flexible" "The hog Is fragrant"
Soluble means can see through combust-
ible, strong. Fragrant, sugar."
1.-THE man that you saw Is very soluble.
The combus,ible man died quickly. The
flexible boy is bad. The fragrant house Is
broken down." t>r
1.-The soluble thing can rap. The elastic
hotel. The flexible horse" s-
1.-THE fragrant man is sick. The soluble
stove is broke The silver il elastic" -;
"The sun is very flexible. Did you go to
soluble? Did you swallow efastcs Did
you come bustble?
81 am going to draw figure and it must
be soluble"
"The dog is combustively. Horses aegs
are elastic"
Can see through"
"The man is elastic; he is in the combus-
tibe; he Is going to be flexible"
"The soluble girl sits at home. The COM
bustible little hoy walks. l have flexible
thoughts" s,4, &. M
-"Solube little bells are ringing. The
ever elastic boy is not done. The soluble
girl is naughty" ,~n
"She Is flexible about her flowers She
looks very com bustible. The soluble girl is
dead" .:-.- ~. ...
"Tbe elastic man is dead. The combusti-
bic bird is singing"
"There was soluble borsc in the yard
yesterday. That COW was very combustl-
bic thing"
"What combustible face that is.7
One pupil, in despair Of framing an orj"i-
nal sentence containing the word soluble,
thus wruus it in Mary's lamb " Mary had
q little lamb; its fleece was white as snow,
and every place wear Mary went the lamb
soluble to CO." .s.-. ....... -.s
Some curious answers were given by the
pupils in the higher grades. "Philsnthro-
pist" was defined by one pupil in the first
grade as ga fighter" and "uusllied as
:. rolling" A second.grsde scholar deemed
"dilatory" as ga sacred place. A second.
grade pupil bounded Maine as follows:
North by Oregon, east by the Pacific Ocean,
south by Michigan, and west By New Or
leans"
The pupils of the second grade were re-
luired 10 write for dHtation exercise q
short account Of Alexander Selkirk.
The biography was read to them three
times, and then they were to write what they
remembered Of it. One pupil penneG the
following:
Alexander Selkirk started on Il voyage
about century ago. His chief things were
commerce and piratical. He went oct with
Captain StaadbslEg to the Juan Fernandez
islands on voyage to the sea. The ship
they sailed was fourteen miles long, six feet
broad, and about four hlndred miles fFsm
any point of land. His chief food was some
meat auG ocean fish. When they returned
to land he built house OF some piment9
wood, using goat-skln for the outside PAX,
and had green grass all around it. -.