The Richmond palladium., 1875-01-13
soluble sseye is broke. The silver is

go to soluble? Did you swallow elias
tie2 Did You come bustible?'
u am going to draw figure and it
must be soluble
The dog is eombustively. Horses
legs are elastic
Soluble, that bursts Flexible,
that you can see through
The man is elastic; he is in the
combustible; he is going TO be fexi-
BILE
1.-The soluble girl sits at home. The
combustible little boy walks. | have
flexible thoughts.
Soluble little tells are ringing.
The ever elastic boy is not done. The
soluble girl is naughty"
She is flexible about her flowers.
She looks very combustible. The SOL
uble girl is dead -
The elastic man is dead The
combhstible bird is singing
There was a soluble horse in the
yard yesterday. That COW was a very
combustible thing
What a combustible face that is
One pupil, in despair OF framing an
original sentence containing the word
soluble, thus wrung it in Mary's lamb:
Mary had little lamb; its fleece was
white as snow, and every place wear
Mary went the lamb soluble to go.''
The use of coral and sandstone be-
ing asked. one little fellow of COM
mercial turn answered. To sell or to
buy Most of the pupils wrote that
coral is to make into jewelry or
'gulery.H 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 the stove. The
use of coral and sandstone is parallel. >
Coral is to make lace; sandstone 10
make hour glass.
! In answer to Give the names of
two domestic animals and their uses.
one child replied. The Geraph and
Hippotamus, but did not give their
uses.
Another said, Dogs and wild eats.
Some wild cats are good to catch rats,
and dogs are two.
Another replied, 'Chickens-their
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 tree, one boy wrote, Top, bot
| tom. mluuie, ana TWO slues.
WHY DO ANIMALS SLEEP" -
was one OF the questions. Nearly all
answered, ITO rest themselves; but
one replied, ITO 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 to open the door,
the other animal wakes up and breaks
the door and runs after the animal.
Various answers were given to the
direction to name three common and
rare fruit plants, among which were
Corn, corn starch, and popcorn;
.GrA~--------,- for chickens, and
corn TO make candy"
Some curious answers were given
by the pupils in the higher grades
"Philanthropist' was defined by one
pupil in the first grade as "a fighter, .
and ''unsullied as rolling. A sec
ond 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 dictation exer
else 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 penned the following:
Alexander Selkirk started on a
voyage about a century ago. His
chief things were commerce and pirat-
ical. lie went out with Captain
Staadburg to the Juan Fernandez
Islands on voyage to the sea. TIE
ship they sailed was about fourteen
miles long, six feet broad, aud about
four hundred miles from any point OF
land. His chief food was some meat
and ocean fish. When they returned
to land he built house of some
outside part, and had green grass all
around it.
Is it any wonder, with such a col
lection of errors to correct, teacher
should say, as one did yesterday
Sometimes, when [ see the nonsense
in these papers, wonder what we are
, ali doing And yet we are working
: like slaves, all of us
Too much is required of the pupils
and the cramming system necessltateG
produces only confusion of ideas
Look at the musical catechism taught
in the schools The first 100 ques
. tions and answers are to be taugh'
orally to the fifth grade. The frs
! question is. Nv hat is toner anC
, the answer is, A sound produced b.
, the even and uninterrupted vibrations
/, of some sonorous or elastic body II
, the air. In singing, tone is breath
! made vocal.
judging from the definitions giver
: of soluble. elastic, and ''combus
tible," how much of this sentence Gil
the pupils comprehend?
In the examination for spelling ths
first and second grades. the former
had sixteen words, the latter thirty
, and the latter were by far the NOR,
difficult.
: Lawyears' fees have reached &
rate which, when compared witt
, the past, seem almost fabulous Ir
1s45 Ogden Hoffman charged ths
city $1,000 for attending in an i'm
portant case 1t was considered
!. extortionate, but now not ten times
4 that amount would be small Beacl
2 demands $4,000 for an importan
| case. and has enough to keep hin
busy all the time. Our present Gov
] Tilden was attorney in one case i,
i which his fees were. as is CAREFUL,
r calculated, 100000 The fees i,
the Parish will case are estimated
: at an equal sum. Half as much wa
5 paid noted lawyer for services il