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Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06

The bill introduced in the house at
Jefferson City by Mr.. Foster of St.
Louis to preserve the school funds of
the counties, clues and towns is
worthy of thoughtful consideration.
1t provides that all school lands, from
whatever source derived, belonging
to any county, city or town, or to any
incorporated board for the benefit of
q county, city or town, shall consti-
tute the permanent school fund there
of, and only the income from them
shall be expended for the support of
it's schools. 1t does not prohibit the
sale of such lands, or portions of
them, as the proper custodians there
of may direct, but it provides that
when they are sold the proceeds
thereof are to be invested. and the an
nual income only expended. If such
a measure as this had been adopted
twenty years ago it would have pre-
vented that dissipation of county and
township school POUNDS which is one
OF the most shameful facts in tho his
tory of our public-school system.
Hundreds of thousands Of acres of
school lands have been sold for a
comparative triiie, which, with pru-
dent management, would in time have
constituted a muLifcent endowment
Of the schools Republican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
Normal Schools.

The relation of normal schools to
the public is different, in some impoI-
tant respects, from that of all other
professional schools.
1t is of little consequence, COM
paratively, whether any given law
school turns out good lawyers n not !;
or whether the doctors graduated at
any particular medical school are
we'll fitted for their duties or, indeed,
whether a man who intends to be a
lawyer or a doctor attends q profess
sional school at all. If a man is, in
our opinion, not fitted for the dis
charge of the duties Of lawyer or doc
tor, we will not employ him, and
then we shall not be injured by his
bad practice. And the same is true,
in the main, in regard to clergymen.
If we find a mans preaching is not
edifying to us, we are at liberty to
attend upon the ministrations of an
other.
But in regard to a teacher tie
case is quite different. We have no
influence in his selection, and when
once appointed we have no option in
regard to accepting his services. The
authorities select him for us, and then
the law compels us to patronize his
school. We may consider him use
less or even injurious to our children !;
but that does not alter the case,-we
must take hing, or none.
And more than this. If we happen
to be able to provide a private tutor
for our children, and, as a choice of
evils, decide to do so, we are not in
the least relieved of the responsible
ty Of paying the Objectionable man d.
We choose our lawyer and our doc
tor, and pay the man we choose but
not so with the teacher. If we choose
to indulge In the luxury Of the teach
er we prefer, we pay the one we do
not prefer all the same. In this coun-
try we make our own choice of the
professional man who shall serve us,
teachers only excepted. These are
chosen for us, and we ore compelled
to pay the bills.
This being the case with every
citizen, it concerns the public vitality
that every candidate for the office Of
teacher shall have enjoyed and shall
have improved the best opportunities
for fitting himself for his proposed
work. When parents are compelled
to put their children under the in.
struction of such teachers as the pub.
lie provides, and are compelled tc
pay for the support of such teachers,
they have a right to demand hat none
but the best shall be employed.
Now all agree that a man can de
what he has learned how to do, bet
ter than what he has not learned how
to do; and all students Of education
agree that a man can learn to teach
So that when parents demand that n,
man or woman shall be allowed t.
teach their children till he has frs
learned how to teach, they are onl,
exaesing their rights,-only requiring
the best.
Of course there are two WAYS q
learning TO teach, just as there are tw
ways 81 learning the use Of drugs
the scientific and the purely en'pir
. A man might learn the distin,
ton between arsenic and soda bv Il
empirical process, and learn IL mnc
quicker and With less harm than /
could learn 4 distinguish 4 coa
mfenod ~ teaching from q bad one /
n Sssne process and yet 1t won
~ md people willing
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
That Match Off.

He was a Philadelphia young man.
He loved her to distraction, but her
stern and vigorous pa could not toll
crate the young man, so their trou-
bIes from the start seemed almost un-
bearable. He lived on West Walnut
street, and parted his hair straight
down the middle, was gallant and
good-looking, but he was ungodly
and profane, and the stern parent,
who was likewise a deacon, had for
hidden him the house. Bat for her
sake, on the first of the year be form
ed such resolutions as converted him
Immediately into a saint, and it was
q source of great solase and pride to
catechise him every evening, at their
stolen meetings, to learn from his
own lips his close observance of his
new-made VOWS. Last night he took
her home from church, and they were
shivering in the cold, dark entry,
when she again questioned him about
his new obligation, ''for," said she,
"when pa learns that you have given
up your bad habits, and do not say
naughty words, / think he will re
lent"
Julia" he replied with warmth,
squeezing her delicately-moulded
hand with fervor, 81 am true to my
word. The fellows say I am knucS-
ling too much to your venerable dad,
but blow the fellows so long as you
are happy"
George" said she, responsibility,
''Isn't your conversation tinged with
expressions, not exactly naughty,
but just a little slangy?"
"No, my DEAR" he responded
"'for your sake 1 would not he guilty
of words that are regarded as of,
His nobs, your dizzy old dad, is q
queer old cove, and is about four
sizes too stuffy for modern times.
For you / have bulged on the boys
and settled down like q brick. If he
don't come down and recognize me,
and permit me to visit you decently,
then he's All old blue mass"
The pound of gum drops which hi
was about to present to her fell in
shower in the street. The dose O
"blue mass" lifted him horizontally
fifteen feet, and as he turned the las
time before lighting in the gutter he
saw the dexter leg of her vigorous ps
lightly descend beside its mate
When he recovered his senses, anG
crawled across the roadway ON hi
bruised knees, he thought he heart
her sire exclaim: T.
'tJulia, / think this match is off,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
Told You So.''

"Wife-wife! our cows dead
choked with a turnip.'' 81 told you
So. / always know'd she'd choke
herself, with them turnips." s'But 1t
was a pumpkin-a darned big one.''
"Wal, it's all the same. / know'd
all along how it would be. Nobody
but a ninny like you would feed a
cow on pumpkins that wasn't chopt.''
''The pumpkins was chopt. And
'twant the pumpkins neither that
ehoked her. Twas the tray-the
end ont is sticking out of her mouth
now" "Ugh-ugh! There goes my
bread tray. No longer ago than yes.
terday / told you the cow would
swallow that trayi''
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
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Prob. Nc. 6.-TheIe is a square
field such that tie number of rods
around it is equal to the number of
acres within it, bow many acres does
it contain?
Prob. No. IF 16 rails fence a
rod, how many acres IN that square
field of such extent that every rail
will fence an acre.
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You want a flogging, that's wha,
You want" said a parent to an un.
ruly son. II know it, dad but ri
try to get along without it, returned
the boy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06

The article Il telling Its own story I'm the hands
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Correct and neat solutions of No. 4
have been received from j. f. Free
man, Miss Mamie j. Pulls, N. 5.
Johnston, L. B. Cudworth.
J. J. Gill and L. B. Cudworth,
furnish, each, a solution of No. 5.
The class of problems to which this
belongs admit of easy and elegant
solutions by algebra, bnt, in our
opinion, should have no place in our
school arithmetics. We append the
solution of Mr.. Gill, as it can be ex-
planned without a diagram:
Analysis.-As in right angled tri-
angles the square of the hypothenuse
is equal to the sum of the squares of
the perpendicular and base. And as
the square Of the greater of two num-
bers is equal to the square of the less
er plus the rectangle contained by
their sun and difference therefore,
in right angled triangles, the square
of the base is equal to the sum of the
other sides multiplied by their differ
ence. Wherefore "a squared or 576
divided by So equals G., the difference
in the lengths of the stub of the pole
and it's fallen part. Deductlng this
from its whole length, SO, you will
have 90; the half of which, As, is the
length of the stub, and by adding 6
to that you will have 81, the length
of the fallen part.
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educate every new aspirant for medi-
cal honors at so great an expense of
human life as this process would in
volve. What shall we say, then, OF
the policy OF educating teachers by
the empirical method? Were 1t not
a demonstrated fact that the science
and art of teaching can be acquired
III the same way as other sciences
and arts, then there might be some
excuse for those who insist that every
beginner shall learn by the old pro-
cess of personal laundering, till by
chance some good methods are hit
upon /; but with all the light OF modern
normal schools, it is difficult to be
patient with such folly.
Nc man or woman should ever be
allowed to enter a school-room as a
teacher without the best training at
tainable in a good normal school.
National Educational Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
THE BEST OF IT'S KIND.

This is the case with the Mexican
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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-06-24
Quinine.

The alkaline substance known as
quinine, notwithstanding its univer-
sal use through our civilization, as a
powerful tonic and remedy in inter-
mittent and remittent fevers, has been
discovered less than sixty years. To
Pellctier, the French chemist, noted
for observations and analysis belongs
the honor Of the discovery, for which
the Academy Of Sciences awarded
him prize OF 10000 francs. Quinine
has been much employed, recently, an
a preservative of health when the sys-
TEN is exposed to certain noxious in
huence. Its value as prophylactic
is 50 generally recognized that in our
own and other nations quinine is reg
ularly administered when ships are
within a given distance of the fever
infected coasts of Africa, 1t has not
been found effective in all forms Of in-
tcrinittent fever, and the physician in
charge of Livingstone's S Ismbcsi cx'
pedilion favored rum in preference,
Procured from the yellow bark OF the
variety Of the cinchona tree known az
calisoya. it ia to be had only in BE
liva and Chilli,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-06-24
The Mother Of the Great Napoleon,

While many members ofthc Bona
parte family attained longevity, not
one of them approached the late
Madame Patterson Bonaparte in this
regard, except the mother of the
world-renowed soldier: She was a
Corsican beautiful and pairiclan; was
married to Carlo B0naparte-her
msidenname was Maria Letizia Ro-
.malino--at the ago of seventeen, and
became the mother OF thirteen chill
dren, although her husband died
eighteen years after their union.
Five of her offspring died in infancy,
but the others became distinguished
through their all-conquering, crown
grlsbing broth. No woman of mod
lern times has had SO kingly and
princely an issue. They were In
order of birth Joseph, King of Spain !;
iNapolean, Emperor 0: the French I;
Lucien, Prince of Canine; Maria,
Anna afterwards named Elise),
Princess of Lucca and Plombino !;
Louis, King Of Holland; Carlot:a
(Marie Pauline subsequently, Prin-
cess Borghese; Annunciata (Cnro-
line). Queen of Naples; jerome,
King Of Weslphalia, and husband OF
Betsy Patterson. She was widowed
at thirty-6ve; lived for some time
after at Ajaccio, and, when Corsica
fell under British rule, went with her
children TO Marseilles, where she
lived on the pension allowed to Cor
sican refugees.
After her son had become First
Consul she removed to Paris, and on
his ascending the throne, received the
title Nine Mere. She was surround
ed by luxury and pomp, for which
she had no fondcss, and her constant
solicitude about her imperial son and
they belief that his glory could not
last, rendered her the reverse of
happy. The divorce of Josephine,
the retreat from Russia, the exile to
Elba, the final overthrow at Water
loo, and the banislinent TO St. Helena
(she was sixty-five thcn) were heavy
blows; but she was prepared for them
they were the forebodings of her
maternal heart. While the sun Of
the Emperor,s fortunes was blazing
in the zenith, she shivered under the
shadow of her fear, and her fear was
prophetic She witnessed the down
fall OF every one OF her. children.
When Waterloo had sealed Napol-
eou's doom, she went to Rome: re-
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-06-24
A Thrilling Adventure.

We find the following account of
thrilling adventure in the Oaklab
Radiator: "The Noble Grand llum-
bug OF the Sezeracs burst into this
office this morning, his face
covered with a deadly pallor, and his
limbs shaking in every joint. Some
thing terrible has happened :"
X "Gimmc tour tirgers-a bird load /"
he gasped, between ;hattering teeth.
The jug was handed out OF the cup
board, and its contents administered
in broken doses. lie was soon suffi-
ciently soothed to tell the following
terrible tale:
We'll, you know" he said, "that
there has long been talk of heavy de-
posits of gold in Milpitas. The other
day two prospectors from the Black
Hills were wandering with their
picks and pans around the suburbs Of
that classic city, when they discovered
a cavern of marvellous appearance,
They took no heed of the surround
ings in their thirst for gold, but bold
ly entered, and their eyes were greet
ed with q scene that beggars descrip-
tion. A horrid smell pervadeu the
cavernous recesses, and they found
huge powders and snags Of sub
stance resembling quartz. After re-
moving the rubbish their picks struck
in vast pockets of solid gold, and they
soon succeeded in filling their sacks
with all they could carry. just as
they were preparing TO leave" here
the eyes of the Noble Grand rolled
wildly, rendering three more fingers
necessary, "there was violent up
heaval. The ground under their feet
was thrown into terrible convulsions
and rose nearly to the roof of the
cavern. Then it opened again, aud
the bold prospectors found them
selves flying through the air at the
rate of 10000 feet n secondr They
landed in a marsh five miles from the
mouth Of the cave comparatively un-
injured"
"Was ita volcanic eruption ?" in
hocently inquired the Youngest re-
porter.
"Volcano" shouted the Noble
Grand scornfully. "Why you burned
fool, they had crawled into The mouth
ofa Milpitas girl while she was asleep
and were digging away at the plugs
In her teeth, when She sncczed them
ont n