Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-06
In the Industrial department of

III VIC AHuuStIIdI department OF
the Kansas State Agricultural College
instruction is given in carpentry, cabi-
net and wagon-making. blacksmithing,
turning, dress-making, printing, teleg-
raphy, scroll-sawing. carving, engrav-
ing and photography.
Arrangements are already being
made for the next meeting of the Ma
tlonal Council of Congregational
Churches, which will be held in the
autumn of 1877. The place of meet
ing has not yet been designated, but it
will probably be in Western city.
One of the students of the Yale
Theological Seminary. says the Yale
Courant, has been obliged to leave by
being recalled by his church, the Cow
enanters, who threatened to eXcom-
municate him if he sang the religious
songs or hymns in the chapel service
or cast vote for any civil ruler.
The Bible is said to be the only ex-
listing thing on which pawnbrokers
will not advance money. The reason
is, because Bibles are so cheap that
they have little hope of getting their
money back again. So much for Bible
Societies and for the widespread cir
culation of book which they think it
eXpedient to put upon the market at
the lowest possible price.
-Gymnastic exercises for Young
ladies are part OF the regular instruc-
ton in large number of the schools
Of Germany. In the higher schools in
Berlin they have been for some time
compulsory, and on Oct. I the same
system was extended to all the COM
munal schools for girls in the German
Capital. The chief hostility to the
movement comes from the mothers of
the pupils.
The Episcopal Bishop of ALBANY
is unsatistied with the kind of music
now fashionable in the church. He
calls it "a wretched degradation of
church music" intended to draw Il
multitude of listeners who come to
have their ears tickled by the same
kind of music they are accustomed to
in the opera and concert halls His
remedy is precentors, when they can
be obtained.
The Japanese Educational Com
mission, after spending four years in
examining the various systems Of edu-
cation in Europe and America, has Sc
lected the Boston system rs the model
which it will represent at home. 1t
has made a collection of furniture,
diplomas, maps, blanks, globes text
books, books of reference, and every
thing used in the schools from the
lowest to the highest departments.
You mustn't expect your children
to be better than you are yourself.
You can ask nothing more of them
than to learn the lessons you set them.
" Why do you walk so crooked. child z"
said an old crab to a young one.
"Show me how to walk straight, and
! will try" was the answer. There is
"A Scotch proverb to the same effect:
"Trot fether, trot mither, how can the
foal canter?" 1t is never well for
parents to say to their children,
CO. the more persuasive word is,
Come. ~. Y. Herald.
Prof. Mallet publishes an inter-
esting account of his examination into
the various causes that operate to re-
tard or accelerate the earth's daily ro-
tation. He takes into account all the
operations at work upon the earth's
surface, such as the flowing of rivers
down hill into the ocean, the carriage
of great masses Of earth, as mud,
from the upper sections of the globe
to the bottom of the ocean, the fall of
rain drops, the flow of rivers from
low to high ATTITUDES, and all other
seemingly insignificant causes. His
conclusion is--differing in this from
some very distinguished scientists
that there is no reason for supposing
the retardation of our globe, by tidal
friction, whatever may be its actual
amount, can go on unchecked until
the earth is brought to stand