River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-02-07
Educational.


SO each, to the New England Journal
of Education.
1T is only in printed and written Ian
guage that correct spelling possesses
any value, Oral spelling is not test
of accuracy.-E.r.
ONE district complains that the pu-
pills do not read well. Primary read
ing is fairly taught in the county.
Not so advanced; study first principles.
A NATION chat does not teach it's chill
dren industrial drawing cannot long
find market for it's manufactures.
Beauty will often make even value
less article bring a good price.
B. H. CoRcoRAN has two evening
schools per week in No. 4, Oak Grove,
which are we'll attended and by other
than pupils, to receive instruction in
penmanship and arithmetic.
AN unusual number are preparing to
apply for second grade certificates at
the spring examination. Physiology,
Physical Geography. Elementary Al
zebra, Higher Arithmetic and Analy
sis, are the extra branches.
ARE spelling schools and arithmetic
evening schools beneficial E.
The former is an amusement with
out an objection. Do not expect in
tellectual results. The latter properly
managed is often very beneficial.
WE have yet to see a school that is
fairly quiet in which the teacher re-
proved disorder in a tone of scolding
or crossness. That let's the mud show
through the shallow water. 1t shows
the pupils that the teacher is annoyed.
They have power, then, to wound one
who tries to rule them, and delight in
it's use.
TEE ranges of townships in Wiscon-
sin are numbered from the 4th princi-
pal Meridian which extends from the
mouth of the Illinois River, north
ward to the mouth of the Montreal
River, passing between Grant and La
Fayette counties in Wis. The south
ern boundary of the state is the paral-
numbered. This answers numerous
inquiries.
The programme for the Association
at Trimbelle, Feb. 9th, is as follows !:
Ada Moore, Primary Arithmetic Q.
w. Youngman, Spelling; M. L. Robey,
Advantages of uniform textbooks P,
f. Robey, Mental Arithmetic; A. Ro-
senberger, Parents and School Interest;
G. G. Williams. Querist; Report of
Library Association Committee, and
organization; j. R. Elliott, Weak
Points of Pierce County Teachers.
WISH to make mention of the fol-
lowing scholars that have neither been
absent or tardy during the second
month of school. Mary Cutter, Theo-
dore Cutter, Mary Kannal, JOSH e
KannaI, Albert Wesley. Louis Ingli,
Mary Ingli, Anthony Ingli, Albert In
gil, Anna Cotter, Ella Cotter, Emil
Fosberg. Leonard Fosberg. Ella S.
English, Teacher in district No. 5,
Maiden Rock.
The Chicago Evening Journal with
nearly one page per week devoted to
educational matters, is among the
most useful and readable of our ex-
changes. Prof. w. P. Jones is the
pedagogue who presides. Those who
wish good, clean, Chicago weekly
and an able presentation of school
methods, and educational news cannot
| do better. Terms to teachers 81 5
per annum. post paid. Charles l..
Wilson, 159 & 161 Dearborn st. Chi
cago, Ill.
THE Martel Teachers Associationre.
port for the meeting of Jan. 26 was re-
ceived too late for insertion last week
and we give the substance. G. w.
Mcintyre was elected President, Anna
Isaacson, Secretary, and NJ. j. Baird,
Helena Barg, and G. Lauder, Commit
tee of arrangements. G. G. Mcintyre
opened the subject of opening exer-
cises, and it was agreed that some.
thing devotional was advisable. u.
w. Mcintyre upon ventilation claim
ed that each person needed 10 cubic
! feet of air per minute. The discus
| sion of Primary Grammar, opened by
| Miss Isaacson, led to the conclusion
that it should be taught by compost
| ton and the correction OF errors. NJ.
j. Baird thought that all rules In null
! duplication of fractions could be con-
densed into one. Also In division.
Peport of j. E. Johnson, Critic. Next
meeting, Feb. 10th, at the Halvorson
| school-house. Attendance, 80.
G. w. MCINTYRE, Pres.
ANNA IsAAcsoN, Sec.
"ONLY ten years ago, when a skull
was found, perhaps in peat or in lake
dwellings, or in some old cave, 1T was
believed that wonderful marks OF a
wild and quite undeveloped state were
/ seen vi III. ID III billo ilfto olN0 ooSeA~N
and more. The old troglodytes, lake
inhabitants, and peat people, turn out
to be quite a respectable society.
They have heads of such size that
many a person living would feel hap
by to possess one like them. On
| the whole, we must really acknowl-
edge that all fossil type of lower hui
man development is absolutely rant.
ing. Indeed, if we take the total or
all fossil men that have been found
hitherto and compare them with what
the present offers, then we can main
tain with certainty that among the
present generation there is much
larger number of relatively lower-type
individuals than among the fossils
hitherto known. AS TACT,
we must positively acknowledge that
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