Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-06-20
Educational Column.

grow up to be sensible and unselfish
is to give it little and require Of it
much. For it Is not what others do
for us that benefits US but what we
do for ourselves and others. We
know parents whose aim is to CRAFTY
their children. and this they think is
generosity. 1t is not generosity; 1t
is selfishness. To crafty a child is a
keen delight, but to make it do its
duty is often troublesome. To let it
off alesson costs only word; to give
it a toy is an affair OF few cents; to
say to it some fond fattering words
is no trouble at all. But the mo-
ment you begin to enforce a duty, or
compel the faithful performance OF a
task, you encounter difficulties, you
have to take trouble, and practice
some of the cardinal virtues; you
have to be patient, firm and wise.
The difference between a good pa
rent and a bad parent is this: good
parent treats his child in the way
that will be most beneficial to it
when it is grown up; parent thinks
only of the child's enjoyment to-day.
We ought to be more charitable
toward selfish people than we are.
Selfishness is an exceedingly unpop-
ular vice. But when we consider
how many fond and foolish parents
spend years in doing nothing but
trying to please their children, and
never exercise their sense OF duty,
never call their attention to the rights
of others, never accustom them to
give way to others, or perform SER
vices for others, we ought not to
wonder that so many persons are
wholly devoted to the qualification OF
self. The limb that is not used be-
comes weak and soft, and will at
length dwindle and wither, but the
mighty right arm Of the blacksmith
still thickens and hardens, the longer
he Yields the sledge hammer. Well,
it Is just so with all the faculties Of
body and mind. Who are the gener-
Gus and public-spirited? Who are
the first to rush to the defense Of an
imperillsd country? Who are good
and obliging neighbors? Who be-
stir themselves for the Improvement
Of their village or town? Go back to
the early homes Of these people, and
you will find they were brought up to
tighten the burdens OF their parents
load, not make it heavier. They
learned self-denial and good sense
by being obliged to perform at least
as much work as they caused. The
boys were hoeing corn, bringing in
wood, and hunting the COWS, the
girls were helping their mothers. In
this way, they acquired certain in
valuable something, which prevented
them from being either very selfish
or very foolish. This something, we
know not how to name, but it is the
difference between the person OF
sense and a fool.
WONDERFUL MACHINE.
A snappish, voracious little dwarf
of machine pulls in the wire, bites
1t off by inches, necessarily, 140 bites
minute, and just as it ceases each
bite, a saucy little hammer, with a
concave face, hits the end of the wire
three taps and 3upsets' 1t to head,
while it gripesit in acountersunk hole
between his teeth, and lays it sidewise
in a groove. where levers and springs
playing like lightning, points the
pins, and whence they are dropped
into box. The pins are then polish
ed, and two very intelligent machines
reject every crooked pin. Another
automatum asserts half a dozen
lengths, and a perfect genius ofa ma
chine hangs the pins by the heads
and transfers them to slip Of paper
and by one movement sticks them
all through two corrugated ridges In
the paper, when the work Is finished
The pin machine is the nearest ap.
proach to the dexterity of the hu.
man hand that has been invented. II
Is about the size Of a sewing machine
which it closely resembles.
sELFIsHNEss,
malice and jealousy generally live In
the same bosom; as porcupine,
prairie-dog, and a rattlesnake are
usually found in the same hole. The
difference is that the former are Of
ten at strife with each other, while
the dog, the porcupine. and the rep
tile are always In harmony.
ANSWER TO QUESTIONS.
A ball dropped into a hole borec
through the center OF the earth
would in falling gain a momentum
which would carry it past the center
But as it is constantly coming to 9
part having slower axial revolution
than itself. 1t would scrape on the
east side Of the hole until 1t reached
the center; beyond that point IL
would scrape the west side. This
friction would prevent its reaching
the opposite side of tho earth.
would therefore vibrate to and fro
each time through shorter distance
until, at last, 1t would come to res
at the center Of the earth.
The sun has two motions: One
around its axis, and one with the so
lar system around the Pleiadles, and
three apparent: One along the eclec
tic,-its yearly motion, one through
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