The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-17

bright lexicon OF youth. At Wesleyan, a |
lew days ago, "the last man up" waited in |
silence for several minutes until he hears |
he welcome sound of the bell which pro-
claimed the end of the recitation hour,
and then said briskly. II know that point,
loctor, perfectly well, and could recite it
If only had time" With this may be
the current story of the Fresh
man engaged in demonstrating a problem
in geometry, who, being somewhat deaf,
failed to understand his instructors re-
mark, You do not seem to have studied
this subject very CAREFUL" and indignant
" replied, "That is what 1 am trying to
prove. sirr' A professor in rhetoric hav-
ing asked "What figure do we find in
'Brooding darkness spreads her Jealous
wings'g" adds, to the hesitating student,
"Well, what is it like" and received the
reply, "Like a hen" A pro-
fessor at Racine explaining the manufac-
ture of sugar, says: AFTER this process
has been gone through with there is
large quantity of water in the preparation.
How shall we get the water outY To
this the intelligent undergraduate replies,
Pump it out" Other examples Of ap-
proximate wisdom may hest be presented
in the form of simple question and ans
wer:
I1O" ulu NlIkIule ECCSiNC itS
ut was named alter its verdurcg ~
why is England sometimes called Al
bion ?"
Because it is inhabited by Mbinocs."
"Who were the founders of the three
schools of political economyY
81 don't know the founder of the first.
Adam Smith was the founder of the sec
ond and the third was founded by another
French writer-I don't know his name"
"What attributes place man ut the head
of the animal kingdomy'
"Reason, speech and mental aberra-
tion."
what does Coudiliac say about brutes
in the scale of being"
"He says brute Is an imperfect man"
"And what is many'
MAN is perfect brute"
"Name the humors of the eye"
"Vitreous humor and gastric juice"
ITO what sort of a family did Shakes
pear belong@
81 think there were six or eight in the
family"
"Give a familiar example of Hogarth's
line of grace. Can't you think of it? 1t is
curved article which you see every
day."
"Is there any instance in the bible cor
responding to Hcrodias trembling before
John the Baptistg"
"Yes, sir; Mary Queen of Scots tremb
ling before Whitefield."
."What is the derivation Of teleologic.
aPr
"From tcieos, to see, and logos, discourse
or to see the point"
"What is the derivation of capillary, ~
s~From the Latin cdpio, to take, because
the tube takes water"
"Will you translate into German, He
ran around the cOrner'T'
'.Er lief um der-der-"-
as ist iceiptich."
"Oh, yesl Er tisf um die reipiich."
"When Is there luner cclipscr
'When the sun comes between us ant
the moony''
"How many apparent motions did yor
say planets havey'
"Thrcc-forward, backward and station
ary."
"What is the form of the earthT'
about three-fourths water and one
fourth land"
'Is that its formy"
"Oh! 1t is about q, 900 miles around ant
5000 In diameter"
"Do strong minds believe in luck?'
"Weu don't myself"
"From what do the Semitic language
derive their namer"
"From Shem, sir"
"From Sheml Who was Shemy"
"Why, sir, he was one of those mentione'
in the-the one of the sons of JacOt
sir.''
"What are some of the sources of on
information in regard to internationa
law?"
'Treatises on the subject, such as tn
treaty of Westphalia"
"WiH you name some important event
in the life of Horace!''
He was born in the year '65."
"Who was Apolloy'
"Sister of Mercury, think, sir"
"Who can tell the italian name whicl
has been given to this mineral
al can, sir. Pudding.stone."
Where do crystals come froms'
They were brought from Greenland"
"Can any one explain the appearance @
globular lightningY'
II guess the observer must have had tn
delirium tremens."
What are loadstoncs
Iodine of iron"
"What is this p" (pointing to the scre,
of Archimedes)
IAN arteslan WELL"
"What is calalysis, of which spOk
yesterdays"
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