Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-05-05
ALL Sorts.

pupils.
"A TOAD in well can not behold the
whole heavens, is used in reference to
contracted ideas. .r
10 be contented, even poverty and
obscurity bring happiness; while to be
ambitious, wealth and honors them
selves are productive of misery.
.Gov. CHAMBERLAIN, of South Carroll
ma, has been invited to deliver the an
nual Grafton before the law school of
Yale College on June 80.
81 SAY, Pat, what are you about
sweeping out the room 2" emo" an
swers Pat, Il am sweeping out the dirt
and leaving the room.''
IT is too late to pull the rein when the
horse has gained the brink of the preci-
pice; the time for stopping the leak is
past when the vessel is in the midst Of
the river.
The Secretary of the Interior has de-
cided that bona fide owners and holders
of patents for lands located by Chippe-
we half breed scrip certificates are emit
tied, III on surrendering these scrip
patents and paying $2.5 per acre, to
receive new and unquestionable patents
for their lands.
VAssAR COLLEGE claims to be the best
sanltarlum IN the country, since there
has been but one death there in all the
years of its existence. The Elmira, On.
Y.,) Female College answers that not
single deathshas occurred at their insti-
tuition; IN the item marriages" it claims
to be way ahead of Vassar.
The meetings of the Alumni Associa-
tons OF Union College, New York, are
to be revived. It is proposed to raise
an endowment fund of 100000 to
create professorships in the names of
Professors Jackson, Lewis and Foster,
who are about retiring after long and
faithful service.
MISS SUSAN NJ. HALLowELL, the first
assistant teacher for number of years
In the high school at Bangor Me-, has
received and accepted an invitation to
the Professorship of Natural History
in Wellesley college. at Wellesley,
Mass, at a salary of 81 800.
How delightful it is, says the Mining
Journal, to come home from the lodge,
go to bed, and when your wife thinks
you are sound asleep, have her try to
worm the secrets out of you by
pinching your little finger, while you
gasp and humble out, Eyes, I've got
to kill him-the lot fell on me |"
A MEMBER of the English Parliament
recently said that the Irish system of
education had failed completely because
it is almost clerical. Nearly all the
schools are controlled by clergymen,
chiefly Roman Catholics The result is
that neary half the people of Ireland can
neither read nor write.
The Jarden d'Acclimattion, Paris, has
a chimpanzee which measures four feet
in height, is perfectly tame and extreme
~ gentle. While its master lived at
Sierra Leone it performed in the house
the functions of servant, saluting visi-
tors, opening the door for them, escort
ing them out and offering them their
hats.
The two Oldest living graduates Of
Brown University, each over ninety
years old, live at South Abingdon.
Mass, are, members of the same church.
were partners in law, representatives
| together in the Legislature, and are
connected by family ties. They were
| both born in the town, and are in good
health.
A SWISS paper reports the discovery,
at WeZikon, of what is said to be the
most ancient evidence yet known of the
existence of man. It consist in a kind
Of network of pointed fur poles, cover
ed with wicker-work. The slate coal
in which it has been found belongs to
the period intervening between the two
glacial epochs.
The faculty of Harvard College is
now considering the expedieney of es-
tablishing next year two or more courses
in art. The history of art according to
the new plain is to be continued in a
higher course under Mr.. Norton; and O.
second course in the principle of draw
ing will be established.
The Imperial Astronomical Observa-
tory of Brazil is a dependence of the
Central College of Rio Janeiro, and is
designed not only to teach practical as
tronomy to the students, but to make
and publish astronomical and meteoro-
logical observations. The chronometers
of the navy and army are there regulat-
ed. and the time is given daily by sig
nal to the city.
A SUMNER course of instruction at
Harvard will this year present two very
attractive features. In addition to the
studies to be prosecuted in Cambridge,
class will be formed to study the
animal and vegetable life of the sea, at
some point on the coast not yet deter
mined, and another class will study
geology in the mountains of Kentucky,
leading a camp life for about two
months.
AN explanation has been given of the
cause of the early closing of the Phila-
delphia night school a few months ago.
At the late meeting of the Committee of
Councils on Schools, Mr.. Downing is
reported as saying that "there had
been $50, ZOO given for night schools,
| and the Board of Education, as soon as
they got it, raised the salaries of all the
teachers, and had to close the schools
in January, before the winter was half
!