Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-12
Teachers Institute of Ashtabula
County.

erS Institute Tor THIS county have uecluSd
to hold it in Morgan 1t will commence
on July 9th, and hold for four weeks. In
stead of the annual Institute of other
years, there will be Normal Class. Alex.
Fobes will have charge Of that part which
directly bears upon the work Of the Com
mon School Teacher. This department Of
Science will be under the control Of Prof
Albert ii. Tuttle, Of the OHIO Agricultur-
al College. The teachers in attendance
will be provided with board and lodging
at $3.50 per week, in private houses, or- at
$4.00 per week at the hotel.
Many teachers have felt that our lnS,i-
tutes, heretofore. haye,furnished but little
practical instruction. Many fine things
were said, excellent advice was offered,
and the Instructors labored hard TO make
valuable aceesSions 10 the teachers infor-
nation; still there was dearth of genu-
Ine growth. With a thorough Normal
School for four weeks, the committee be-
lieve that good effec ual instruction will
be provided. The teachers attending Will
be organized into class. Text books will
be used. The same that We have in our
schools. Regular class work will be done.
Il will be, in fact, Normal School. Alex.
Fubos is the Principal of the Cleveland
Normal School and well known to the
teachers OF this county. He is well quail
fed To teach the Normal Glass. The time
will be Sufficient for the class to 60 clear
through our ordinary text books. For ex-
ample: in Grammar, to analyhe every SEN
tence in Harvey's Grammar. In Arithme-
tic, TO do all the work in Stoddarl'S Arith-
metic. The same will be accomplished in
all the branches of our Common School
work. This will be an excellent place to
bring up all the difficult points in our
teaching and the time will allow full ex
plantations.
Prof. Tuttle is a ripe scholar in the Sci
ences. He will bring with him the neces-
sary instruments for scientific expert
ments. His department will embrace Bot
any, Geology, Philosophy, Physiology,
Zoology, Chemistry, Microscopy, Survey
ing, Astronomy, &c. One-half of the day
will be occupied in the classroom, and the
other in the open field. This will be rec
reative as well as instructive The Pro-
fessor is a fine microscopist, and will have
three microscopes. These will aid very
much in the investigation OF minute 0b-
jects. This class will enable a geometri-
clan to get an excellent drill in surveying.
Most of these sciences are taught in our
schools. This Normal Glass will permit
teachers to drill upon those points where
difficulty has arisen in the class room, and
satisfactory explanations given. We know
that our instructors are competent. They
will not spend the time in telling US fine
theories, but in teaching us the very
things which we teach in our schools The
Normal Glass will be no very pleasant
place for that teacher who knows every
thing now; but for the teacher who can
learn yet it will be an excellent school and
a pleasant recreation. We are conscious
that teachers are wearied when the scho-
lastic year ends, and for that very reason
We attach the out door school of science.
If we so choose, it can be place of varied
instruction, and also time of physical
preparation for the new school year.
n. L. GUTHRIE, Chairman Ex Comm.
The evils of imperfect drainage are
nowhere felt, perhaps so disastroGsly, as
in connection with hotels, and its import
ance has been taken into account, by sx-
landlord Warrington, in the repairs and
improvement recently made to the Ashta-
bula House. The most perfect system has
been carried out, and no offensive and del
eterious matter is suffered to collect about
the premises. but is run off Immediately
down the bank, and every part of the
house is left pure and wholesome.
The property stolen from the store of
G. ]. Record, of Conneaut, some six
months ago, amounting to some $275,
has at last been found. Sheriff Young
has been rummaging the city of Cleve-
land, and on Friday of last week, u por-
ton of it was found in a second hand
store, and on Saturday, by means of a
search warrant; about half bushel of
pocket knives, and number of articles
of silver ware, together amounting to
about 800 6as discovered. The property
was fully identified. and Goodman, the
store keeper was locked up for receiving
stolen property. The robbers of the store
were over hauled sometime since. and
were put in the way of getting their des-
serts.
AN ANCIENT DOCUMENT has been handed
in by Mr. Harden D. Harmon, which is
worthy for its antiquity az least of, pass
ing notice. 1t is sort Of coffin hand-bill.
Its heavy black lines, and coffin cut, bring
up this idea at the glance, and almost
go to a fellows marrow, but a second
glance considerably eases US off as we read
the ''headings"-a- Poem on the death Of
William Hubbard, d,-the eldest son Of Mr..
Judd-Immer and Jerusha Hubbard OF
Sandersfeld, who died Oct. 13, 1893, of a
fever, in the 10Th year of his ags-a MEM
Der in full communion with the Baptist
church in Sandersfeld-by Jessie Hartwell.
The Poem has 35 verses, and conclusion
Of two more in the form of an acrostic. A
simple stanza will probably answer
Now think Of the necessity
Since life's uncertain death is nigh
Of living in all faithfulness,
And following all the paths of peace.
The old style type and coffee color OF
the paper, attest its antiquity, if such at
testation were needed.
The Temperance Lecture of Rev. Mr..
Stafford, at the Opera House, on Friday
evening last, was rather comprehensive
and thoughtful affair, and shows how
much cowardice and dishonesty there is in
the treatment of this subject. Allusion
was made to what has now become 'rathsr
thin, the treatment of those who are Of
Tending against the better interests OF so,
,pietv with Such tenderness as not to eX-