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Teachers of Grammar,

A scholarly knowledge of the science
of grammar, for instance, is not spec
iallv advantageous to the teacher whose
sole business, as an instructor in gram
mar, is to impart to the young an I'M
derstanding knowledge of first princi-
pies What is the object of grammati-
cal instruction in a common SCHOOL,
Certainly to inform the young that Ian
guage has certain laws of construction;
to teach the correct use of words and
proper disposition of sentences; to pre-
pare the pupil for the higher depart
ments of training, whose province it is
to teach the forms of correctly worded
and composed writing. The object of
grammatical instruction is certainly not
q inform the pupil that there is sci
ence of grammar; in a word, it is not to
teach him grammar, but to teach him
English-to make him intelligent as far
as elementary grammar instruction can
do so.
Who is the best teacher in any given
branch-for example. GRAMMAR 1t is
not necessarily he who has every gram
NAUTICAL rule stored in his memory. A
teacher may be thoroughly skilled in
the science Of grammar, but lack every
pedagogic ability to impart his informa-
ton. In this case he will be a good
grammarian but q very poor grammat-
zeal instructor.
The best teacher of grammar must, in
the first place, know what he is to teach,
why he teaches it, and what is the OBJ
iect of teaching it. In the second place,
he must have good plan of teaching
grammar; he must know how to teach
it in order that his pupils may learn and
profit by what he knows. In the third
place, he must be able to teach it; he
must have the pedagogic ability to in
struct his pupils in grammar so that a
knowledge of grammar will be useful to
them Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
The Story of a Irerislatnr.

One Of the Representatives to the
Michigan Legislature in 1856 had bill
in regard to fishing in certain inland
lakes, and another had one in regard to
fish-ways in dams on various rivers.
One day when the House was in COM
mittee of the whole. the fish-way bill
came up, and the inland lake man mis-
took it for his own and arose and made
a forty-minute speech urging its pas
sage. He was still piping away when
his attention was called to the mistake,
and after stammering around and swal-
lowing three or four Jumps in his throat
he called out:
"Mr. Speaker, I've been fishing in the
wrong waters, and no wonder / didn't
get bitei Please excuse my speech.
That is, please consider that | didn't
make one. That is, Mr. Speaker, don't
let it go into the Journal that l was idiot
enough not to know the difference be-
tween the pickerel of an inland lake and
the suckers in a muddy mill-pond. /
will now begin all over again.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
A Curious but Pleasing Custom.

There is, according to an exchange, a
custom prevailing among the inhabi-
tants of the Sandman islands, which
may throw n light upon the civilized use
OF wedding cake. When native girl
whose exceptional beauty has brought
her many suitors is knocked down and
carried off by her accepted sutton, the
welded pair, within forty-eight hours of
the wedding, send cup of poison dis
titled from the hulahula tree TO each and
every one of the brides former admi-
rers. If any recipient feels that he can
not become reconciled to the marriage,
he drinks the poison and dies; but if he
decides that he will survive the loss of
his intended wife he throws away the
poison, and feels bound in honor never
to show the slightest sign of disappoint-
ment. BY this admirable system the
husband is spared the pangs of jealousy,
and is able to live on friendly terms
with the surviving admirers of his wife.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
Mississippi Fops,

ga fog catches you sometimes, and
what then?'
"Then we 90 by guess-plain guess.
We move slow and have one hand on the
engineers bell all the time. We nose
up into the bushes once in while, and
back out and turn around. Oh, it's
amusing what capers boat will cut in
a fog. Why, | recall once, was on the
Alice Vivian going up at the foot of the
island, when the fog came on so dense
you had to brush it aside to see your
hand. We chasseyed around there for
a long time, now into this bank, now
into that, and having $50 worth of the
derndest fun you ever saw, when all at
once | found we were in a pocket with
a bank on both sides of us and bank a
little way ahead. Yes, sir, we were 200
yards up in Three-Mile Creek, having
come down the river to accomplish this
feat
about two years ago was following
Capt. Peoples, of the johnson, in fog,
listening to her escape pipes and steer
well into the point. | thought every
thing was going all right when the
Johnson came steaming back and ]
learned that Capt. Peoples had been up
the Tensas River and was going right
through to the Atlantic Ocean, when he
heard q dog bark. Knowing there
was no dog put down on his chart he
turned back and came down where
was.
We'll, we run by dog barking. by
rooster growing, by pig squeals. These
are reliable signs to run by. Sometime:
we run by the stopping bell, and then
by the rudder. You see, we ring the
bell and accordingly as it sounds with 9
faint or a quick echo we Judge how fan
we are from the shore. We sometimes
stop the boat ever so often just to heal
the bell echo, and then it is almost the
same thing with the whistle and with
the wheel. When the wheel is grinding
away close in shore she makes an awfu
roar, but when we are well out in the
middle of the stream you can scarcely
hear it. The other way of judging the
run of the boat and her direction is by
the feel of the rudder. When the pilot
wheel turns hard we know which way
she is heading, even when we canno
see the jackstaff. OF course it is sci
ence to some degree, but for the mos
part plotting in fog is pure guesswork.
Mobile Register.
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Two or Three New Ones.

It was only two or three years ago
that the owner of grist mill on a creek
in New Hampshire, having a capacity
of about Il barrels per day, entered the
mill one morning and said to his son:
''John, I've been thinking"
eyes, dad
Flour is too low"
''She is that
1--WE are all grinding too much.'
1--WE are"
''If we grind less flour the market
will stiffen up and prices will advance"
That's it, dad, your head is as long
as mill-race."
The mill was shut down for four
months, and at the end of that time
flour was just as plenty and the price
was no higher.
"John, I've been thinking" said the
old man as he concluded to start up
again.
ssOf how we missed it.
Exactly. You see my idea of shut
ting down was all correct, and calcu-
lated to lessen the supply and increase
the demand, and couldn't think what
in Halifax was the matter. I've got her
now"
ssWhat?''
"Why, jist about the time we shet
down they must have started up two or
three new six-barrel mills over in Var
mount, and hence the market continued
overstockedr'- Val Street Daily NeJcS.
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POPULAR Life in Italv.

A most interesting feature of modern
Italian life is the persistent survival OF
old manners and customs among the
peasantry. French influence has modi-
fed the whole life of the upper classes;
painters are for the most part content
to follow the methods in vogue at the
Salon; and the dearth of high-class mu-
sic forms the stock complaint of Eng
lishmen and Germans who soiourn in
Italy. But in spite of railways, tele-
graphs, and halfpenny newspapers, the
peasant remains much as he has been
from time immemorial; his pots and
pans are still fashioned in Etruscan
shapes; his great white oxen are yoked
in the simplest conceivable manner to
carts of primeyal pattern; and only a
year or two ago some friends of mine
heard bevy Of Tuscan girls bantering
each other in improvised rhymes, such
as Theocritus might have put into the
mouths of Sicilian shepherd lasses-
Popular life IN Tuscany has lost little OF
its brightness or of its individuality, and
the peasants humor is still racy as OF
old; and this survival of the past into
the present gives a lively interest to the
investigation of such customs as have
dropped out Of use, clothing the dry
bones Of antiquarianism with the sinews
and flesh of everyday life. Though the
past be dead, there is no need to bury it
out of our sight; for its death wears the
semblance OF a sleep, from which it may
rise anew, for aUght we can see to pre-
vent it, any moment. -M0cmiliQR sMag-
QzG3C.
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Almost R1wod-

A Mrs. Reagan came very near being
buried alive at Washington recently.
She fell into a trance and was supposed
to be dead A doctor and priest were
sent for. and the latter-takin@ it for
granted that she was leceased-gaye
directions for tie funeral. and then had
masses offered up for her soul. The
poor woman was really alive and con-
scious of what the priest said, and made
tremendous efforts of will to show some
signs of life. But she could not move
a muscle of body or face. Her first re-
lief came when she found the doctor
suspected her position. and when re-
storatives were applied sbe made Il
supreme effort, and succeeded IN turn
ing over on her side. At last accounts
she was all right again Cases such rs
this do sometimes happen, and undoubt-
eddy, many persons have been. buried
who were not dead. So many WELL
authenticated cases of resuscitation are
recorded after supposed death that it is
no wonder many well-known people
have made provision that they should
not be buried until after the body be-
gins to decay -DemOreSt'S Monthly for
March.
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nlanitomo1 pilot.
THURSDAY, MARCH %, 1888.
Whittier's Opinion Of a Boiled Dinner.


The old-fashioned New England bev-
erage, cider, was mentioned, and Mr..
Whittier stated that he had once de-
rived much benefit when unwell, ''when
nothing tasted. good from the use OF
cider. Huntington suggested that with
out cider we should not have vinegar.
well. said Whittier, vinegar IS not
of much use, after all" Except" re-
piled Huntington, ''to eat on cabbage
and cucumbers." Neither of which
are fit to be eaten, remarked the poet
Il think it would be a good idea to
start prohibition party upon those two
articles. As for cabbage, it is not lit to
be eaten; if you cook it in the house,
you have got TO burn your house down
afterward to get rid of the smell; it is
certainly the most diabolical smell that
was ever invented and Whittier, who
was sitting near the open stove CRATE,
upon the top of which he had deposited
his tall hat, folded his hands and
laughed hearty. silent laugh. What
do you think of onions, Mr.. Whittier?"
asked l. WELL he replied, 'onions
are not quite so bad. for you can get rid
of the smell of those in three or four
days" Then" said Huntington,
..Fou would not approve of the old
fashioned boiled dinner?' " mo. [
think that is detestable dish. | re-
member that my father used to have it,
in which cabbage, onions, beets, pota-
toes, onions and carrots were all boiled
up together, and turned out into a great
dish all in heap, with a great greasy
piece of meat in the middle. / think
that is the reason why the present gem
Grafton is not so strong as the former.
1t is owing to the way the parents
lived, eating SO much pork and pota-
toes. Our last war showed that. The
farmers were not nearly as strong as
the men recruited in the cities-Port-
land, Portsmouth and Boston" ''But
the people in the cities do not have the
free air we get in the country said
huntington Il know that" replied
Whittier, ''but they live better, and that
makes a great difference. "-Harper's
for February.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-03-22
The New Nickel,

1t is said that on the new nickel, the
goddess of Liberty has her hair ar
ranged in bangs. This effort on the
part of the government to make bangs
legal tender for all debts public and
private. viii never be countenanced by
the people, and those who have sprung
the bang upon US -unawares know per-
fectly well that bangs would never be
adopted as the national trade mark If
left to vote of the people. Citizens as
a general thing, do not object to an &C.
casional bang, but to have bangs thrown
upon them by legislative enactment, to
have bangs for dinner, tea, and beer, to
have bangs advertised as being endorsed
by the highest power on earth, is too
much. The men in power may suggest
bangs, but they must not crowd them
down our Threats, as they will not be
swallowed however much they may be
fabricated with pomade and the coin.oi
the realm. The idea of goddess of
liberty with bangs is a stab at our patri-
otism. We have too long worshipped
the goddess with her hair brushed back,
and her starry nightcap on pole, to
swallow bangs.-Peck'S Sun.
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Yours respectfully,
Flowers for the Poor.

Dean Stanley was the founder of a
society in London which has done a
great deal Of good among the poorer
classes, in a very quiet and unosten-
tatious manner, 1t supplies any appli-
cant with flowers in pots, or stands,
with few simple directions for taking
care of them. Exchange.
Dean Stanley deserves a leathermedal.
If there is anything the poorer classes
in a great city ike London are painting
for it Is few vases of flowers. Nice
flowers placed in a low howell, whose oc-
cupants are. obliged to work eighteen
hours per day to keep from starving
may be just the thing in London,
but in America there is another kind of
flour that is more needed. Some great
men have queer notions of the needs of
the poor and when a poor family is
famished for the want of bread, they
are just IS liable to get from such great
men, bottle of smelling salts or per-
fumery, as loaf of bread or a sack of
flour. Dean Stanley must have done a
great deal of good.-Pecb' .Sts2s.
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The Artist and the Surgeon,

A pet dog of the painter Meissonier
one day broke his leg. rendered friable
by over feeding. Meissonier, desolated
by suck an accident to so beloved an
animal, resolved to have recourse to the
prince Of surgical science, who at that
time was Nelaton; but not venturing to
declare the trde motive, he telegraphed
in hot haste for him as if to visit one of
the family, then living at their charm
ing residence at Bougival. Nelaton ar
rived, and entering the drawing-room,
began talking on various topics with
the master of the house, who al
though he had painted many battles and
carried off many victories, knew not
how to face the present affair. AT last
Nelaton, becoming impatient at the de-
lay, and knowing the value of his time,
asked to the great embarrassment of
the painter, where his patient was.
Presently the wounded brute was
brought in on magnificent cushion,
bowling with pain in spite of all the
care taken. At so distressing a spec
tagle, Meissonier, forgetting everything
else, exclaimed in agony: Save him.
illustrious master, save him.
Neiaton dressed the fracture, and the
dog recovered, and shortly afterward
its master wrote grateful letter to the
great surgeon, thanking him for his
kindness, and requested to know his
fee. Nelaton replied that when the
painter came to Paris he would call
upon him. This he soon did; and was
producing his purse crammed with
bank notes, when Nelaton exclaimed.
''Stop sir! you are painter, are you
notP just put a gray coating on these
two panels which the cabinet-makers
have finishedr' This was indeed del
icate revenge; but which had the last
word? Meissonier, who, going at once
to work, at the end of few days pro-
duced two of his chefs d'euUre on the
panels.
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ENVELOPES, &c, &c.
We also have facilities for filing orders where
special ruling is desired ana will meet demands
for such work promptly.
For Pamphlet and Book Work we have sew
elal styles Of new type suitable for this class of
printing. Estimates viii be promptly furnished.
Having three presses and steam power our IA
ciIities for doing work expeditously are unsur-
passed. Orders by mail viii receive careful at
tention at all times.
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An aggravated case of faithless lover
is reported from Berlin. An inhabitant
of that city was berothed to a Jewish
heiress dwelling in the same town.
Marriage contracts are, it seems. drawn
up long beforehand over there, and the
one between this couple contained the
stipulation that should any impediment
arise to prevent the marriage, the sum
of 10000 marks should be forfeited TO
the injured party. The lady, wishing
to give her lover an agreeable surprise,
secretly joined the Lutheran Church, TO
which persuasion he belonged The
man. having meanwhile found a richer
heiress who was willing to marry him
not only made his fiancee's change OF
religion an excuse for refusing to marry
her. bat has actually sued her for the
10000 marks. and has recovered them
in a court of law
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A St Louis man writes to a newspa-

A st. Louis man writes to a newspa-
per in that city asking whether there is
"a law where a man can obtain a di-
vorce by paying the Circuit Court $40"
The editor gravely replies that there
is no place on the face of the earth that
he knows where divorces can be pro-
cured SO cheaply He informs his anx-
ious inquirer that "a reasonably cheap
divorce can be obtained in indianapolis, y
naively adding, '-but the railroad fare
from here is an item, OF course.
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low-burnino coal-oil lamp in

A low-burning coal-oil lamp in a
sleeping room may, it appears, be as
dangerous as the time and repetition
worn trick of blowing out the gas.
For several weeks the statement has
been circulating through the press, and
has been recently printed in the Medical
and Surgical Reporter, of Philadelphia.
tibet twelve girls were sufiocated in
Piedmont, one night last September,
by turning half down the kerosene
lamp burning, in their dormitory. The
theory is that the flame communicated
with the fluid in the lamp; and gradu-
ally distracted all the oxygen from the
room
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A RUN ON DRUG STORE.

Never was such rush made for any
Drug Store as is now at Robinson &
Hluriehs for Trial Bottle of DR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds. All persons affected with
Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Severe
Coughs or any affection of the Throat
and Lungs, can get Trial Bottle Of this
great remedy free, by calling at above
Drug 6ure. Rsgular sizs 800. 8
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give perfect satisfactiop or money ~
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The Fruit Growers and Forest Tree
Association of Canada. have passed q
resolution favoring the extirpation of
the English sparrow. 1t was shown that
the bird was slaughtering Canadian
song-birds, besides proving Destructive
10 fhnusrs and frufrKrvwvTs.
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The following are said to be the six
teen American inventions of worldwide
.doption: The Cotton gin, the planting
machine. the telegraph, the grass
mower and reaper, the rotary printing
press, steam navigation, the hot-air en-
CINE. the sewing machine, the India
rubber industry, the machine manufac-
ture of horse shoes. the sand blast for
craving, the gague lathe, the grain ele-
vator. artificial ice-making on q large
scale. the electric magno in its practi-
cal application. and the telephone.
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In Switzerland lofty mountains the
Alpine horn. which sounds also the far
famed Rank DIES Vaches, when the sun
has set, is taken by the herdsman and
through it he loudly pronounces the
words Praise the Lord God" At the
sound all the herdsmen issue from their
huts and take up the cry. At the last
darkness falls and the highest herdsman
calls Good night" and Good night"
again resounds kua al the mounsains
and rock gtlds.
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TIE QUESTION Is

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Liver, gives sound Digestion
and speedy health to the Dys-
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SON & Rlnrl0he,
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Cures TIE 8 sthn,a.


Geo. W. Gross, OF New York, Jan, 3
1881, writes: 1t gives me pleasure ca
say that Tanners German Ointment
cured me of Asthma The ease was
peculiar. l got box Of the Ointment
10 cure burn, aud seeing that ! wouia
cnre various diseases, | Thought [ w3ujg'
Try It for Asthma, | rnhbei Il fr~-.F
81 nv chest, and TOOK II l,t.la ilt Tia:j>
a piece about aa large - "a pea, aua g,
my surprise and delight innad II gave
tie Immediate relief am nosy sulf-;y
cared of the Asthma. anh have lad no
retaro 81 the compliant
Myers Extract u Rock Rose.
Is wonderful Bad 1ls..c.ae, c'rs-
;cgofula. Erysio 'ea. g ha-"m, etc
Mathews =-z&r rye
s splendid aye for 'ae Maiskets and
Noustaehe as Vetl rs F'3n balr Iry Il.
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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT.

Ness Robinson DC Hj7lr5chs:-Ne take
this means OF attesting our high opinion
If Htnrichs' american Corn Cure Our
opinion of its value I'D removing COr2s
and Warts Is based on the tact that We
have used 1t and have found that it will
do inst what yon claim for it. As cnre
for C0y7as and Warts If is deserving OF
The highest praise, ard We take pleasure
in recommending it so ali who are affiict
ed, knowing that it viii effect cure iii
every instance