The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-03-20
ALL SORTS.

ALL SORTS.
The students of Columbia college are hap
PLY opposed TO hszing.
A compulsory education bill was passed by
the Wisconsin assembly last week.
The university of Chicago needs S135, 900
to pay its debts, and 100000 for endow-
ment.
The Connecticut senate has passed bill
restoring the old system of raising school
money by district tax.
The loss by hog cholera in Illinois, as re-
reported 20 the department of agriculture for
the year 1871, was 81 ,5S3 AIS.
A Sunday-school boy, upon being asked
what made the tower of Pisa lean, replied:
Because of the famine in the land"
An experienced boy says he regards hun
ger and the schoolmaster rattan as about the
same thing, as they both make him holler.
The Central Ohio science association in
| tends to accomplish much outdoor work in
the coming summer. 1t will travel through
the state with competent professors.
Kansas Teacher-"Where does all our
grain produce go to?r Boy-"Into the hop.
| per-" Teacher Hopper? What hopper2"
Boy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
The Leavenworth superintendent of
schools says, with very great truth, that the
| primary fault with all graded schools is that
there is too much system, and they are made
manufactures.
George has had a great many pull-backs in
| life," said the young wife to her lady friend.
| And when the friend said, "1es, / saw him
with one yesterday the young wife didn't
know what she meant by it.
81 am ashamed OF the age in which we
| nve" said Lowell maiden of 49,. You may
| be ashamed of yours, but I'm not ashamed
| of mine," replied a l9 year old companion.
And it wasn't much OF a nose that went up,
| either.
The teachers of Ohio, Indiana and Michi-
gan have formed tri-state teachers associa-
| uon, which held its first meeting in Toledo
last week. Their object is an interchange of
/ opinions and statements of methods and
results.
A petition from Chinese merchants for a
separate school for Chinese children in San
| Francisco hes been laid on the table by the
California Legislature. One of the grounds
on which the petitioners asked for school
privileges was that they pay annually ever
$40, 900 in taxes.
A person who was looking at house the
other day said he couldn't afford to pay such
rent "Well, look at the neighborhood, -
replied the woman; "You can borrow flat
irons next door. coffee and tea across the
street, flour and sugar on the corner, and
there's big pile of wood belonging to the
school house right across the alley"
The study OF grammar in the schools is
called by the Boston Herald time almost
absolutely wasted. 1t adds, and not un.
wisely: NO text book in grammar should
be used in the lower schools; the teacher
should be the science and the children his
illustrations. Every lesson should be an
exercise In language, and were it so no boy
or girl would reach the age of discretion
without ability to express himself or herself
.correctly and clearly"
This beautiful poem was written in a hos
pital by one OF the wounded soldier boys
during the late war:
lam not eager, bold or strong;
| All that is past;
| i am ready not TO do
| At last! at last!
Ny half days work Is done,
And that is all my part;
/ give patient God
| Ny patient heart,
And grasp His banner still;
Though all the blue be dim,
| The stripes no less than stars
| Lead up 10 Him,
For colOred curtains cretonne TO match
the furniture covering is made up with
flutes and pulled cornices of the same. and
bordered with gathered ruflies pinked on
each edge Velours crepSnne is a novelty
giving the effect of raised figures. These are
liked best in quaint olive shades, or in cream
grounds with oddly colored vines and
| flowers, OF. else In chintz colors with borders
or in Persian designs, or black with gold
figures The Vatican patterns and Other
French designs are pa:se.
One of these days the English plum pud
ding will be made and canned in America,
and sent across the ocean. Already an en-
terprIsing firm of Yankees is putting uI
boneless ham in cans for domestic and for
eign markets During the past. few months
it has been preserving large quantities oi
poultry, which is canned in the same style
as pressed beef, the fowls being boned and
chopped up. Lately, it has, with complete
success, accomplished the teat of canning
i turkeys entire, with every bone removed
From boned turkey to chicken and veal
pies is only a short step, and then will come
II the British birthright-the Christmas pud
II ding-made, seasoned and canned by down
east Yankees, say, about the 4th of July.
i Avery extraordinary condition'of things
exists in England as regards the institution
of clergymen to livings. The bishop of Pc
4 terborough, for instance, slated in 1875 that
since he had been bishop he had been called
upon to institute one clergyman who wa'
paralytic; another so aged and infirm that be
: applied for leaye of perpetual absence; 9
third who was a reclaimed drunkard, and
whose intexapsrsnce had doccarzed in neigh