Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-12-28
OUR soJi0Ois. !
A Nine Year-old's Composition.

tions and closing work Of the term, except |
the Friday evening exercises, which we're
very largely attended, and seem 10 have
given general satisfaction, and reflected
credit upon the students and their teachers.
The following is the programme for the
evenings exercises;
: Ptayer-Rev. J. II. BETHARDs.
Instrumental Music" Wedding March"
Amateur Trio, with Miss LAURA A |
DIcgtNsoS, Of South Toledo, presiding at
the Piano.
Essay-LEwrs wrpp-" Mahomst and
his Religion" "
Essay-ORRA G. McKNraHr-" Labor.
Music" Approach Of Spring Waitzes."
Essay--ELLA ACALLARp.-"Ps "Pstaeyerence.'
Essay-CARRIE, BRowS--N The Intellec-
tual Life Of the Middle Ages"
Song--Mrs. A. q. SMITH" Rock Me to
Sleep Mother" .fftt
Essay-MINNIE L. WErMoRE-"Then
and Now"
Essoy-NErrA G. LAwRENcE--" Some
Observations"
Music" Auf der Reise Galop."
Essay-ALIcE Crook" After Darkness,
Light" =
" American Hymn 3-phoyal Union,
Following these exercises social re-un-
ion for an hour was enjoyed by teachers,
pupils, parents and friends Of thf school.
We publish below a specimen of apupiPs
work that people may see what is being
done in this direction, it being new as
regular part Of the daily school work. Pu-
pills are required to write two lessons
week on familiar subjects, care being taken
to criticize writing, spelling neatncss, &c.
The lessons are carefully arranged, and all
the information necessary upon any sub
ject is given by the teacher in the way OF
talks to the children before writing. The
following paper is a review lesson, giving a
summary Of the lessons they haye had, and
what they have learned during the term.
1t is from boy in the 81 grade, years
old, and we print it just ms written, spelling,
capitalizing and all.
This one was selected from a number of
papers nearly as good, and is remarkable
for its accuracy in every respect, ms was
also the hand writing for its nentness and
eGibibility. When work like this is being
done in our schools, il might be interesting
to visit them more frequently than most of
us do:
We have learned this term that the
monkey ia four handed animal and that
it is theivish, greedy and misehievous.
| The cat, lion, tiger and panther belong TO
the cat family and they are Aesheaters he
cause they eat other animals for food. The
tiger is spotted and the panther is about as
large az large dog. The last three ami
pals are wild. The cat il the smallest and
most useful and the lion and tiger is the
largest. The lion ard panther are both
found in Africa and the southern part of
! Aisa and the tiger lives in India.
| The dog family are dog, wolf and fox.
The dog is the only animal that has fol-
lowed man to all parts of the world. The
prairie wolf lives west Of the Mississippi
| River.
The fox is different from all the rest OF
the dog family By its pointed muzzle and
bhshy tail. The weasel family are weasel
and American sable and they both have
nice fur. The weasel fur is called Ermine
but the American sable is called Hudson
Bay sable and there is another animal
SIM lar to it that lives in Siberia which is
called Russains sable. The American
slble lives in the Northern part of the
United States and Canada. The weasel is
lonnd IN North america and there is
another Kind that lives in Siberia.
Onr next Tour lessons were about the oc-
cupations The larmer, carpenter, blacksmith
and mason. The farmer raises grain, po-
tatos and things OF that kind. lie uses a
plom, cultlValor ana drag.
| The carpenter builds houses makes doors
! ana windows ana things OF that kind. He
has hammers, saws and planes.
LFe nlocks1nl'n ', uses a, hammer anvil,
lorSe, vice ana bel!q%s. Then he has tongs
! 10 take the iron out of the fire when it is
red hot. \ mason is man who builds
foundations, brick and stone houses, chin
neys, cisterhs and cellars.
| Our next subject was about trees. We
learrel that tue largest trees came from
California and that India rubber comes
from the sap OF tree that grows in warm
countries. Maple sugar is made from the
sap OF maple tree and there is a tree in
| Africa called the bread iruit tree and 1t Is
the natives iood.' phere are shade, fruit
! and forest trees and the forest trees are
used for wood and fruit trees are merely
for shade and beauty. We have learned
That lowers are found everywhere. There
are many ri IDS OF flowers. will
name two or three. The pink, rose and
lilac are sweet smelling and there are
some that have no odor as the cactus.
Honey bees get their living off of flowers.
After this came weeds. Weeds are
Troublesome plants and grow everywhere iIf
wondss, fields and streets. Some weeds are
used for medicine but they are not Of much
dee.
| The next lesson was fruit. It is one of
the productions OF the earth. Some faults
are juicy, sweet and mellow. There are
many, kinds OF trait; Some OF them ase
strawberry, grape, cherry and pear.
Our next three. lessons were about the
comparisons OF fruit. The first was the
apple and pear next the peach and plum
and last the grape and cherry. The apple
ia round but the pear is Oblong or bell
shape. They both have core but the ap
pie core ls the largest.
The peach has soft delicate down on
the outside, but the plum is perfectly
smGothe and is rath sour. They both
have a stone but the peach stone as the