Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-12-02
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
An Interesting Monthly Meeting at the
Market street school Building
Yesterday.

The regular monthly meeting of the
County Teachers Institute was held yes
terday morning at the Market Street
School. The room was full, and, If the at
tendance continues to increase as hereto
fore, it will soon be necessary to seek a
more commodious place of meeting. The
teachers from the surrounding country are
always well represented at the meetings.
Mrs. Horton, the county superintendent,
deserves great credit for the earnestness
with which she is laboring to improve the
condition of the county schools, and
the interest manifested in the In
stitute shows that she has won
the hearty cooperation OF her teachers.
Miss Toyell has been giving a series of
lessons in methods OF teaching geography.
She has been endeavoring to show that
the lack OF uniform textbooks in the
county schools is really no disadvantage
when the teacher knows how to teach the
subject. She advocates map-drawing and
other blackboard illustrations as the best
and easiest method of giving true
knowledge OF geography. More geography
may be learned by exercises in comparing
the different portions of the globe than in
any otherway. In addition to the regular
lesson Miss Ioyell gave full explanation
of the standard time system adopted by the
recent railroad convention. The distance
across the country, from the extreme
east of Maine TO the Pacific, is divided into
four sections, each embracing l50 of longi-
tude, or nearly 900 miles in the latitude OF
Memphis. These sections are named re-
| spectively the Eastern, Central, Mountain
| and Pacific Divisions. The Pacific Divi-
sion extends beyond the land fo1 100 miles
or more. Each OF these divisions en-
/ brace one hour of time, that is, the time on
! the eastern boundary OF the Eastern Di-
/ vision is one hour faster than the time on
| the eastern boundary OF the Central
| Division, and so on. 1t is pro-
posed that all the railroads in each
! division shall keep exactly the same time
| and that this shall be the time of the
meridian passing through the center of
| each division. The central meridian OF
1 the Eastern Division is 75o west from
! Greenwich, of the Central 90o, OF the
/ Mountain 1862, and of the Pacific 1902
Memphis lies in the Central Division
| Just a trifie west of the ninetieth
meridian, and the standard time for
this division is just thirty-two seconds
faster than Memphis time. Our standard
time is Just six hours slower than Green
wich time, and just one hour slower than
the standard time in the Eastern Di-
vision, and one hour faster than the
standard time of the Mountain Division.
y Sllilllif pldn iOT TtSuiallIlS Ine IlIle Oh
the world was submitted by President +.
A. P. Barnard, Of Columbia College, to
the Association for the Reform and Codi-
tication of the Laws OF Nations, at their
meeting at Cologne, a few years ago.
Miss Higbee gave an interesting and in
structive lecture on teaching language.
She advocates the use of objects and pic
lures as means OF stimulating the little
ones to talk The teacher should correct
their modes OF expression, and
in due time they should be required
TO put their thoughts into writ
ing. No one has added more to the ex,
ercises of the institute than Prof. W. 5
Jones. He is now giving a series OF les
sons in the best method OF teaching
writing. He is always ready to give hi.
time and talents for the benefit of his fel
low-teachers. The County Teachers In
stitute is n valuable institution and de
serves the encouragement OF all who arr
interested in education.