Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1880-12-04
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Semi-naries only half teach any
thing.
"A teacher who will preserve order
or break heads" is advertised tor by
Kansas School Board.
"Will ycu name the bones of the
,head" "I've got them all in my
head, Professor, but l can't give
them"
A factory has been connected with
'Eton college, England, so that the
students may get practical know
ledge of tools.
A certain junior has at last dlscov-
cred one advantage in the faculty.
lie SAYS that they write to his parents
40 often that it saves him the trouble.
jaw Gould has had sixteen Indian
,girls brought from the Indian Terri.
tory, aud will pay the expense Of
,their education at Mr.. Moody's Sem
insry, Northfeld, Mass.
Lockyer says educated men hardly
ever use the word scientist" Our
own experience teaches that Mr.,
Lbckyer tells the truth. Aud he
might have added that educated men
hardly ever use the word Kertium
mux."
A little boy, watching the burning
of the school house until the novelty
af the thing had ceased, started down
the street, saving: " I'm glad the old
smnY's burned down; | didn't have
any jogtry lesson, no how.
A seirntist informs Us that " the
skulls Of the African negroes are d"-
Irchacephalic, mesocephalic, pr"gna
dti,us, piayrhlne, aud mesostme.
.Nn wonder the West Point ctfi iaers
.,hlnk Whitaker dubbed himself.
On the platform before thejourney.
HI" For my part, | don't see that
\, matters whether girl is well edu-
Gated or not" She" Some men are
not sufficiently well educated them
selves to know the difference.
lPause.l
A prominent dry goods merchant
in Boston worked half an hour on the
following proposition, and failed to
nive an answer: If four men build a
stone wall in nine days, how long
will il take five men to build a ike
wall in six days T.
"Plesse draw upon the blackboard
an interrogation point" said n teacher
to one Of her pupils. Cant make u
good one, replied the boy. Draw
a boot. buttoner," said the teacher;
4that will answer" The boy took
the crayon and drew hairpin.
Sharp rebuke by the teacher. Other
pupils smile.
Art Clsss.-Inspector-"W What is a
landscape painter z" Student" A
painter of landscapes" Inspector
"Good. What is an animal palnterf
Student" painter OF animals.
Inspector" Excellent. What is a
marine painterl" Student -" A
painter of msrines." Inspector
- Admirable. Go and tell 1t to them.
Call next class" (Exeunt siudents.)
Those who are sometimes troubled
to know how to pronounce the ter
mination " ough"-so troublesome to
Goreipners-u.ay see how simple ana
easy the following makes the task:
..Wife. make me some dumplings Of dough,
1bay're better than meat for my cough;
PRAY let them be boiled till hot through,
But not till they are heavy and tough
Now must be of to my plough,
And the boys when they've had enough,
Must keep the flies of with bough,
. While the old mare drinks at the trough"
A teacher in = public school has
been accustomed to require her pu-
pills to say, "The equator is an i'm.
aginary line passing around the
EARTH" etc. 1t never occurred to her
that the boys aud girls had no idea
what an imaginary line meant, until
one day visitor asked theai how
wide they thought the equator was.
Some thought it was five thousand
miles wide, and others said they
could jump over it. The visitor then
asked them how they thought ships
got over it. One pupil said he
thought the crews got out and drew
them oyer, and another said he had
read that canal had been dug
through it. "Wna. is the name OF
the canalR" was asked, The Suez