Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-06-30
NOTES AND QUERIES.

Owlhead, as he adjusted his glasses and
braced himself sidewise by spraddllng apart
his ieet; s'the cause of education Is most
tremendous engine in the fabric OF Christian
DEVELOPMENT. 1t teaches, sir, that two and
two is four, It lets US know where Mesa
Dotomia is 1t instructs US in the stars and
gives us an insight into the parts OF speech.
1t conveys to the youthful mind the posi-
bil;ties of its existence and delvelopes the
deestrickn' Now, revolving with calmness
and a certain imperfect sort of philosophy
these crude notions of Mr.. Owlhead, we can
not escape the conviction that in one material
respect he is right Education does ''develop
the deestrick" That is to say, it waters the
waste places where young minds, as
the young grass seeks the sunlight, look up
with hopeful eyes for the comforts of the
nursery of knowledge. There are some minds
whose construction is ignored by the self
elected censors who, like an ideal Chinese
Empire, assume TO have arrived at the tull
perfectibility of human knowledge. These
repudiate with scorn, the unfortunates who
do not relish the milk-die of primary edu-
cation-as education is ladled out by the ap-
prentices of erudition, in the school houses.
They leave out of their calculations and there
fore ignore the lads who cannot learn what
they cannot see and understand. These are
the non-receptives They somehow cannot
think or learn by rule. There is large
knowledge comes TO them through wide-eyed
observation, however, and they know some
thing of nature and much of natural objects;
and when pale-face, yonder, with an easy
grasp of bookish knowledge cannot tell a mule
from a four miller, they can pick you out an
old acquaintance of colt that they have
ridden bare back in hundred harnessed
horses, driven at their work. These be the
conditions and outcroppings of intuition; and
oh. how precious and tender and sensitive
they are, and how they can be and ought to
be cherished and fed and educated and led up
to the fulness of their capacities and am
billions by the judicious hand of wisdom!
Yesterday, in company with Gen. Clarke of
the school-board, we took a ride out to the
northern end of the city and looked at some
lots and situations where 1t Is
possible to erect one of the new,
separate school houses contemplated
in the enlargement plan taken into consider
alton by the terms of the late election.
There is an abundance of space thereabout.
On the east side of Carson street, nearly OPP
posite the Generals house, there are some
well-situated blocks of land which are availa
BILE at comparative moderate outlay. just
north of his place there is newly erected
dwelling house, 26 by 20 feet, and suffi-
cheney of available lands lying adjacent
which can be purchased on very reasonable
terms After looking the matter all
over we conclude that this latter
is the better because the cheaper bargain. AS
10 what will be done at the south end of the
city toward the erecting of the contemplated
school house there, we do not know.
BUFFALO BILL.
We need hardly say anything about b. b.
He is deliberately, conspicuously, t1oridly
advertised We find him in many yellow
covered and yellow backed and % buffalo
bilious" varieties of Illuminated posters;
and at Theater Hall his scalps and his war
dresses are displayed, galore. He is not
only hero but Grammatical attraction-a
combination Of Kit Carson and Gus Adams,
Daniel Boone and joaquin Miller; and we
know he must be able to present himself and
his show and his fellow borderers and their
scenes and scalp-locks in very thrilling
manner tonight, at the Carson Theater Is
where he can be seen and enjoyed. Get
your seats early; for there will be rush.
THE FOURTH OF JULY BALL
Should have received more special notice at
orr hands but for the fact that we thought
lesslv Jumped it with the general consideration
of the contemplated programme OF the Car
son Guards for that day We merely call
attention to the project, now, to remind our
readers that nothing so relieves the mind OF
its surcharged condition of patriotic and
pyrotechnc ardor as to shake the foot OF
national glee in company with the daughters
of the Republic We shall take pleasure IN
referring to this interesting subject again.
We were under amisapprehension concern
ing Crozier when wesaidin yesterday S APPEAL