The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-01-14
Sharp San Francisco Scholars.

+, For instance, some fourth grade papers
we have looked over furnish such infor-
nation as this in answer to the questions
| given the other day:
Man il the largest being on land"
:" The difference between a dog and a
| cow is, dog has five toes in its front
feet and four toes on its hind feet"
| Deciduous means to dry up"
| The lawyer constructs people"
Lawyers are peacemakers."
Lawyers govern the country"
Lawyers plead cases and use com
mon sense"
The doctor saves people from dying,
and is a very useful man for cutting oil
legs and heads"
Doctors are men. The LAWYERS, if
| you lend some money to another man
| and he did not pay you, you would go to
suit and get a divorce. Lawyers decide
a case of trouble"
The banyan and magnolia trees are
| in the Osmety Valley"
The feet of the feline is a lump under
| their feet, and no one can hear them
coming"
The NTH grade papers contain some
funny information in reply TO questions
about the camel. One says: The foot
of the camel is at the bottom of his legs,
| to walk" Another says: The foot of
the camel is from three to four feet high,
! and the stomach is partly leather, and
| for making shoes" A third declares
that " the stomach of the camel is round
so men can tie bundles ON them to Grouse
deserts, and can stay week without
drinking" while a fourth, who is evident
ly bound to stick to sure ground, says:
The foot of the camel is used to walk
he could not walk if he did not have any
| feet, and he has thick feet"
In answer to the request, Name two
mammals and two reptiles" one writes.
Pig and dog" and another, Your
| mother and sisters are mammals-the
| reptiles are the lion and the bear"
Question SIX was: How do animals
get food by killing things" q Byrunning
away by making a noise" "BY
! bighting, kicking and scratching them
| selves"
Question thirteen was: illustrate the
meaning of the words soluble elias
| tic, combustible,' flexible and fra
| grant by using each of them in a SEN
tence with other appropriate words. )"
The pupils generally used " fragrant" in
| its right sense, one little miss of eleven
| writing, " Fragrant as the breath of
| spring. but the other words were pos
| ers, and were sometimes used in the fun
NEST connections, as for instance:
The man is soluble" "The woman
| is combustible." The boy is elastic"
The girl is flexible" The hog is fra
| grant"
Soluble means can see through com.
bustible, strong. Fragrant, sugar"
The man that you saw is very solu-
BILE. The combustibe man died quickly.
The flexible boy is bad. The fragrant
| house is broken down"
| The soluble thing can run. The
elastic hotel. The flexible horse"
| The fragrant man is sick. The solu-
BILE stove is broke. The silver is elastic"
The sun is very flexible. Did Won
go to soluble? Did you swallow elastic?
| Did you come bustible?"
| am going To draw figure, and il
| must be soluble"
The dog Is combustivcly. Horses
| legs are elastic"
Soluble that bursts. Flexible, that
| you can see through"
The man is elastic; he is in the com
! bustIble; he is going to be flexible"
The soluble girl sits at home. The
| combustible little boy walks. | have
| flexible thoughts
Soluble little bells arc ringing. The
ever elastic boy is not done. The solu-
| bic girl is naughty"
She is flexible about her flowers. She
looks very combustible. The soluble
girl is dead
The elastic man is dead The com
bustible bird is singing"
there was soluble horse in the ward
yesterday. That COW was very com
buStible thing"
What cumbustible face that is"
one pupil, IN despair of framing an
original sentence containing the word sol
uhle, thus wrung it in Marys lamb: MA
ry had little lamb; its fleece was white
as snow, and every place where Mary
went the lamb soluble to go"
he use OF coral nd sandstone being
asked, one little fellow of "A commercial
turn answered, "To sell or to buy"
Most OF the pupils wrote that coral is to
make into "iewelry" or cutlery" Some
OF the other replies were:
Coral Is used to make diamonds and
pearls. Sandstone is to put on graves. "
Coral IS to put into stoves The use
OF coral and sandstone is parallel"
Coral Is TO make lace; sandstone to
make hour glass"
In answer to Give the names of two
domestic animals and their uses" one
chilu repiled: The gcraph and hippo
potamus, but did not give their uses.
Another said, Dogs and wild cats
some Wild cats are good to catch rats,
and dogs are two
Another replied, Chickens-thcir
uses are eggs. The Cow-its uses is to
give milk, and those two animals nurse
their young ones
Being required to give " five parts of a
tfeG, one boy wrote, Top, bottom,
middle and two sides"
"Why do animals Sleep" was one of
the questions. Nearly ali answered. ITO
rest themselves" but one repied "To
rest their mind when they have any"
and third, The sleep to animals is
when they sleep. Sometimes when the
animal Is IN trouble and wants 10 omen
the door the other animal wakes up and
breaks Tie door and runs after the ami
NAL"
various answers were given to the di-
rcctlon to name three common and rare
lruit plants, among which were Corn.
corn starch and popcorn" Green corn.
corn for chickens, and corn to make
candy"
90. c curious answers were given by
the pupils in the higher grades. phi
lanthropist was defined by one pupil in
the first grade as "a fighter" and Gun.
sullicd" as rolling" \ second grade
scholar defined "dilatory" as "a 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 Orleans"
The pupils of the second grade were
required TO write for a diCtatiOn exercise
a 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
penn ed the following:
Alexander Sclkirk started on a vow
age about century ago. His chief |
things were commerce and piratical. He
went out with Capt. Staadburg TO The
Juan Fernandez Islands on a voyage to
the sea. The slip they sailed was about |
fourteen feet hong, six feet broad and
about 400 miles from any point of land. !
His chief food vas some meat and ocean I
fish. When they returned TO land he built /
house of some pimento wood. using I
goat-skin for the outside part and had |
green grass all around it"
Is il any wonder, with such collec- !
ton of errors to correct, q teacher should /
say, as one did yesterday: Sometimes !
when see the nonsense in these papers /
L wonder what We are all doing. And /
yet we are working like slaves, all of u.s. /
Too much Is required of the pupils and /