The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-07
EXAMINATIONS.

a oil away Aliio move SISeIl grass.
mericans are found croWding to Eu-
bpe every year who know nothing
.om observation OF the grander beau
es OF their own country. When ask
d by the people Of the Old countries
bout Niagara, Yosemite, the Natural
Bridge, or any Of the other great won
lers of the Western World, they are
forced to admit that they know moth
ng about them, except what they may
nave read.
The same thing is exemplifed in
teachers examinations. If the Super
intendent asks questions relating to
Europe, Asia, Africa, or the United
States in general, the answers will be
mainly correct; but if they relate to
the State Of Wisconsin, or Kenosha
County, the answers are generally IN
correct. Teachers can tell where Ten
eriffe is, or the Matter Horn, or
Y esuvius or Etna; but if asked what
county Devils Lake is in,or Geneva or
Green Lakes, the most of them could
not tell
Last fall the Superintendent asked
for maps Of Kenosha County and the
State of Wisconsin. Most of those he
received were "fearfully and wonder
fully made" He remembers one map
OF Kenosha County in particular. It
was a square blotch with river run
ming from the northeast to the south
west diagonally across the county. On
this river, a little to the northeast of
the center of the square, Salem Station
was located in capital letters. AS Sa-
lem is the superintendent native
heath, We suppose the protector of
the map (?) thought to awaken his
vanity by locating Salem Station so
prominently.
This fall there will be u separate pa
per containing ten questions OH Home
Geography. Teachers will do well to
look this matter up.
Again, teachers fail on tie business
part of Arithmetic. By the business
part | mean Percentage Particularly
in stocks Go teachers fail On most of
the papers last spring, the answers to
the questions What are government
Securities ?" What are the princi-
pal u. s. bonds in circulation?" were
summed in the magic word "Green-
backs, spelled greenbaclls, green
banks" and greenbax.
"a and B owed $500, 4 paid 5000;
what per cent. of the whole did he pay"
The answers to the above came like
this g per cent, 1866 /, 65 ,6.66, and
6666625, only few being 6635 per cent.
Of course the better class of teach
erS do not give these answers, but
many who ought to know better do
give them, and wonder why their
standing is not higher, or why they do
not get certificate. Practical work
is what we should aim at, and not a
lot OF rules. In grammar, if a lot of
set rules are asked for, the answers
will come in abundance; but il para
graph or stanZa from some good author
is given, and the teachers required to
analyze it, the question will be skipped
Or If it be answered, it is in such
shape that the man that wrote tie
grammar could make nothing of it.
After the Superintendent has lacked
his brains over it for al hour or so, he
wishes with Richard Grant White that
the last grammarian were dead. and
that Gil him (the superintendent de-
volved the duty of reading an extract
from Lindley Murray over his (the
grammarian's) grave.
Speaking OF grammar, just strike out
the words in parentheses in the above
Sentence and then tell with any degree
OF certainty what words are the ante
cedents of the pronouns him and his.
A MILDER CLIMATE NORTH.
The route of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad has been changed, so that af.
ter it leaves Lake Winnepeg the road
will run northwest 900 miles to the
Athabasca River. AL. this region, it
has RECENTLY hnnn found is n,nch rrnrr,