The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-14
iron the Brocilyn Eagle.I
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2 modern writer, while q boy who viii
eat four meals, play ball three hours.
gorge himself with unripe Iruit, and 90
in swimming six times dav duriag an
/ vacation, and be healthier than a tomb
stone, VIII be seized with all sorts Of
naI2dles the moment the school bell
rings. Sometimes the t03thaele is urge.{
As an excuse. 1t generally commences
ut 5 IN the morning, reaches It's highest
altitude at S.45, when the pain is intense
TO an extraordinary degree; commences
( 70 suCdge at 9, after that disaopa.rs
. with celerlty that must be veIv c5u-
I Portable to the sufferer. Il at night the
I o5y hasn't got four quarts Of walnuts
. spread out to dry upstairs, Il Is because
there Is no place upstairs to do It.
ia71ng once got our boy IN tas school
/ mousse there Is no guarantee that he will
/ stay there, Tor hrs ingenuity very often
suggests n means of escape. 4 hoy was
telling an old gentleman why he liked
I the new master OF one 81 our schools.
/ . The master, he said, - vas a first-rata
+ fellow, and dismissed the scholars twice
LATELY at $50 o'clock IN the morning. I"
! " Why, what did he 10 that for asked
/ the elderly gentleman After the voush
/ had q good laugh he managed To explain
I chat one of the boys had put piece OF
/ ice under the Thermometer and sent the
mercury down to forty, and the master
/ thought the room was not warm enough
! TO remain in. Being discovered and
! brought up for punishment, the school
/ master asks him how be shall fog him.
1 : Ii you please, sir, 7 the boy replies.
/ should ike TO have 1t UpJl the
/ Italian style Of pelmluship-t4c heavy
+ strokes upward and down ones hgLt."
/ Ii he IS 0pen-heacted enough to give
| condolences IN the family circle as 80 Isis
/ exploits, and hears his father talk 81
sChool-day pranks, ne sometimes s0Iilo-
1 qulzss: - Wonder what makes papa tell
/ such stories about hiding the school
/ master rattan when lie went TO school.
and about his running away from the
I sclO0imlstress when she was going TO
whip Llm, then shut me up ali dav III
{ the dark room because / tried lust once
/ to he as smart as be was"
Some Of the cOmlcal answers That bows
| give to questions prop0uudeG to hem In
/ school are worth recording. Here is q
/ batch: An inverse EJti0-In proportion
as the sun goes up this morning so does
/ youc collar go down. Where does all
4 our grain 20 top B1v-s'Tt zoe. into
the hoppe" "}Fhat hopper" .: Grass
hopper" Did any o. YOU ever see an
elephants skin % asked the master of an
! infant school. 81 have - shouted 4
/ 5-year-old at the foot OF the class.
- Where % inquired the teacher. amused
/ by his e9rneetless. On the elephant r.
WIS the reply. ! boy s years old, III
/ one of our public schools, having been
! told that q reptile SIS an animal that
/ creeps, on being asked 10 name one on
/ examination day, promptly and triumph
autlv replied. "a baby" Our johnny
says the Poles live partly at one end Of
! the globe and partly ut the other. He
i knows Il IS so because they are marked
/ IN the map. Somebody told aim thar
ni4e1ns ate their own weight evafv dav.
! He knows a little bird thar takes q peck
at every mouthfUl
When q boy j. old enough b write
I composition, witch what pride does the
fond parent gaze upon the first eHusious
/ Of his young offspring. In= art Of
/ Gutenberg has preserved for Us some
fearful and wonderful specimens Id this
line. 4 youngstar beng required to
wife q composition upon some potion
Ui the human body, selected thai which
uui.es tie head to the body, and ex-
pounded as follows: " ! throat is con-
yeDleuE to have, especially TO ministers
and rOosteJs. The former breaches
through his'u and then ties It up: the
latter eats corn and crows with it. This
Is pretty much AL l Cu thluk about
uecks" Here Is Johunv's composition
on the elephant: Lhe ephalent has q
trunk Ike q tale,fbut thicker, It's more
ike long nose, but Looser and curiler.
Duct there was taller Wzch prlck5 the
ephaleut's trunk with Lls needle. Then
the epholent went ana got i full OF dirty
water, and put 1t IN the taIars vlEder,
and blote p aL over the taller, hut my
Uukle Ned says 1t amt so. lie says the
taller let tlg sash down real quick on the
ephalents trunk and held him fast while
he soJe uD tue end, and the ephalent had
to swaller the dirty water and was sick
lbed. 1aey IS too kinds OF ephalents,
ones feet has I'VE toes, but the other :
feet mas only three 1neaFe toes one IS
the best, caase more Ike men. Ihey
al has ears IKE table covers, but not
lggered. There SKINS IS made two Gl5
fur en-, aast has 10 have lucks IL 1t.
In Nevada city school the scholars
were requested 10 VINE composition
on the stl@A ant One boy, after making
g herculsaA elotE, got on the following:
Sum things II small but awful stout.
\ oNJluA c32 oHtute the biggest \ uto}il-
lin D5fg. A ant can INT q Dig CHUNK
and bite nike mule SUNK ant can
It5 his tale mp TO 5iie are and paw 0ifI
like faa scc1 i you drum round hin
I mich sam foxes ike SIN * ants but !