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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
WHOLE NO. 1886

lessons llluStrated-tne hist one Win a
picture of boy facing the sun, with
his right hand pointing east and his
left pointing west, this and Olney's
Geography were the principal text
books on that subject. In arithmetic,
Dillworth, Adams and Dabol took the
lead. Who cannot remember Dabors
"Just fifteen yards of German serge
For ninety dimes had L;
How many yards of that same serge
Would fourteen eagles buyY'
Also
IF to my age these added be
One-half, one.third and three times three,
Three score and ten the sum will be;
What is my ageY Pray tell 1t me-"
Examples in f, s., d, were given
there also in singie and in double posi-
ton.
In grammar, Lindley Murray's and
Kirkham's were used, while the young
orator of those days selected from the
Columbian Orator" the United
States Speaker" and the American
Manual" and there were few boys who
did not wax eloquent on Friday after
moons with ''Hohenlinden.' "The
Greek and the Turcoman, The Buri-
al OF Sir John Moore, Patrick Henry's
Address, pitts Reply to Walpole," )"
etc., etc.
In those days the beech anl the birch
rods were known by all OF the mischiev-
Gus boys while standing on one foot
and bending over to hold doNn II nail
with one finger. Standing on tip-toe
and reaching nail-head on the wall,
having split goosc-quill on the nose
and a paper cap on the head, standing
on guard, hair-pulling, car-boxing,
feruling, Aogging, etc, were common
punishments. Sitting with the girls
was dreaded more in those days than
it is now.
Spelling-schools, arithmatc schools
and debating societies took the time of
the long Winter evenings, and going
home with the girls made the evenings
much longer and decidedly pleasanter.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
EDUCATIONAL.
How Our Parents Went to School Forty
Years Ago.

Most of the business men and women
of to-day can remember the district
schools of forty years ago, and how
their early days were passed, in the
small, cheerless school houses of that
time. Many of them were made of
logs, and in the center of the small
room would be placed large boX-stove,
capable of taking wood four feet in
length. Most of the seats were made
of long boards, or of slabs with crossed
legs for support. Several boards were
placed end to end, one side was fasten-
ed to the wall, and the whole, support
ed at an angle, was the writing-desk
for the "big" scholars, while in front
of these, without desks or backs, were
other seats for the small ones. When
writing hour arrived, the pupil was
obliged to put his feet over the seat and
turn around to get the benefit of his
desk. The school terms were two,
Summer and Winter, school ma ans
teaching in Summer and school mas
ters in the Winter, the former receiving
about 81 per week, and the latter $40
TO $40 per month and 'board around. :"
In some of the districts even these stin-
gy salaries were paid in farm produce.
An estimate of the amount of fuel to be
used would be made, and each patron
was required to draw q certain proper
ton of the wood. The boys were re-
quired to take turns in building the
fires and in sweeping the school-house.
At 8 clock the teacher would rap on
the decreasing TO "call school," First
in order was roll-call; then the first
class in reading, the second class, the
third class and the A. b. Cs. No
classes were called in arithmtiec, but
from all parts of the room would come
the request, ''Do my sum-" The teach
ers were required to write all copies for
those learning penmanship, and, as
Horace Greeley learned to write of one
them, an idea of the penmanship of
some of the copies may be gained.
Who among the pupils of that time
does not remember the copiesp ''Kings
and Queens eat pork and beans;"
commandments ten God gave to
men," "a man of words and not of
deeds is like garden full of weeds"
"Many men of many minds, etc.
Teachers were obliged to make all of
the pens, also, from goosequills, and
during writing hour the swapping of
pens on the desks and "Mend my pen"
might be heard frequently. In those
days Cobb's Readers, the English Read
er and Hale's History were the principal
reading-books, and counting aloud for
the pauses-one for comma, two for
a semicolon, four for a period, ETC., gave
a peculiar style of reading not popular
at the present day. The Columbian
Spelling-book, with its wooden covers,
and Noah Webster's, with its pictures
of the boy stealing apples, with the ac-
companying story of the owner, trying
grass and turf first, then stones, to in
duce him to come down; the fox and
the sour grapes; the farmer and the
lawyer in regard TO the goring of the
ox-these were the spelling-books.
Peter Parley's Geography. with the
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
The Preacher of the Future Will Know
His Work.

We believe the preacher of the future
will never rustic the leaves of his SER
monic manuscript in the pulpit, or read
off from the written page his invitation
to sinners to forsake their sins and be-
come reconcled to God. And we be-
lieve this will be accomplished, not by
writing the sermon and then commit
ting it-which is simply burning the
candle at both ends-but by return to
the practice of the times when written
sermons were unknown. This method
involves ones saturating himself with
his subject-clothing thought here
and there in particular form il he please
and then delivering his sermon after
the fashion of the great orators and
speakers. Webster pronounced spon-
taneity to be one of the chief character
istics of true eloquence. We believe 1t
to be reasonably characteristic of the
powerful sermon rs well rs that it j.
almost wholly lost sight of in the close
reading met in so many of the pulpts
tO-day. christian at Work.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

T. R. Bailey is in the southern
part of the State on business for the
Co.
Will Gould will be home next week
for a short vacation.
Prof. G.. R. Brandt, of Byron,
made US pleasant call Saturday.
Marshal 'Retan took a drunken
woman to Jail Monday.
Walter Osborn has invented a
a new clock, of which we will nave
something to say next week.
There are a few cases of scarlet
fever in the city.
But few days more of grace for
the turkey.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
CURRENT STUDY OF THE CLASSICS A
FAILURE.

In lecture delivered before the
Royal Institution of Great Britain, by
the Rev. +. w. Farrar, distinguished
author and philologist, and who was
one of the masters of Harrow School,
and for thirteen years classical teach
er, we have the following estimate of
the present value of the system. Canon
Farrar says: IL must, then, avow my
own deliberate opinion, arrived at in
the teeth of the STRONGEST possible bias
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
Hoods SarsapariIIa
GUARDIANS SALE.

Sold by druggists. 81; six for IS. Prepared by
c. i. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

A few minutes after Mr.. Joel Chand-
Ter Harris had registered his name at
Boston hotel the other day, according
to the Gazette of that city, he was slap
ped on the back by stranger, who eX-
claimed; "Who, halo, Harris, old
man! How are youp When did you
leave Atlanta?" .sUncle Remus" look
ed at him from head to foot carefully,
and then said: MY name isn't Harris.
I'm Charles Francis Adams" and it
was surprising to see how quickly the
stranger disappeared. All of which
shows that Boston has her bunko steer
ers, and also that "Uncle Remus"
knows Just how to fix EN-.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

In the matter of the estate of Byron F. and
Francis May Butterfed. minors.
Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of Ii
cense to me granted by the Probate Court. in and
for the county of Shiawassee in the state of Mich
igan, on the 18th day of November, A. D., 1888,
will sell at Public Auction or Vendue to the
highest bidder at the premises herein described,
in the unity of Shiawassee and state aforesaid
the I4th day of January A. d. 1854 at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon of that day all the right, title and
interest of said min ,rs Of in and to the following
described real estate, to-wit-It being the un.
divided onehalf % of lots three l3) and four I'd in
block six (6 of S. X. Barnes addition to the city of
Owosso county of Shiawassee and State ofMichi-
gan.
Dated, Corunna, November 10Th, A. d., 1883.
GULIELMA BUTTERPIELD,
Guardian.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
Ringing and Bursting Noises

in my head. Sometimes the hearing in my left
was affected Five years ago, about this
season of the year, began to use Hoods Sarsapa-
rlla. l was helped right away, bat continued TO
use II until i felt myself cured.-Mrs. Eliza Ii.
Caulfeld, Lowell, Mass.
Jerome Brownell merchant and extensive miller
at Victsr, Ontario county, n. Y, writes: have
used Hoods Sarsaparla for my catarrh, and II has
helnsd me- consider Hoods Sarsaparilla one of
the BEST remedies for blood-disease to be obtain
ad
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
SHALL THE COLLEGES PROVIDE FOR
SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION?

Now, such is the artificial condition of
our schools, and so completely are they
ruled by prescription, that, when we
attempt to lay out proper course of
training for the scientific professions,
we are met at the very outset by the
Greek question. Greek is requisition
for admission to college, and the only
schools in which scientific training
can be had do not teach Greek, and,
what is more, can not be expected to
teach it.
This brings us to the root of the whole
difficulty with which the teachers of
natural science have been contending,
and which is the cause of the present
movement. We can not obtain any
proper scientific training from the class
icA schools, and the present requisi-
tions for admission to college practical
ly exclude students prepared at any
others. At Cambridge we have vainly
tried to secure some small measure of
scientific training in the classical
schools: first, by establishing summer
courses in practical science especially
designed for training teachers, and
chiefly resorted to by such persons; and,
secondly, by introducing some science
acquisitions into the admission examin-
ations. But the attempt has been an
utter failure. The science acquisitions
have been simply ''crammed," and the
result has been worse than useless; be-
cause, instead of securing any training
in the methods of science, il has in most
cases given distaste for the whole
subject. True science-teaching is so
utterly foreign to all their methods that
the acquisitions have merely hampered
the classical schools, and the sooner
they are abandoned the better. Both
the methods and the spirit of literary
and scientific culture are so completely
at variance that we can not expect them
to be successfully united in the same
preparatory school. Josiah Partons
Cooke, IN Popular Science Monthly
for November.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
GatarrR

At this season of the year everybody has cold,
and some very bad ones. By frequent exposures
the membranes of the nose become very sensitive,
and catarrh and infuenzas are epidemic. RELIEF
may be obtained by the use OF Hoods Sarsaparilla.
For many years in succession, beginning so far
back don't remember when, had the catarrh in
my head. 1t consisted of an excessive flow from
unu
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
100 Doses 1 Dollar

" have Deem trOubIed WIFI that dlstftssiIlg
complaint catarrh, and have been using Hoods
Sarsaparila and find II one of the best remedies
have ever taken. My trouble has lasted ten years,
and never could get any relief until commenced
to use Hoods Sarsaparilla."-Martin Shield,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23

The New York Bible House reports
that not single copy Of the revised
New Testament has been sold in four
months.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
Danger from Catarrh

Depends upon the amount and extent of the
from consumption can be traced to neglected
catarrh. There is violent distress, protracted
coughing SPELL the eyes weep, the nose discharges
copiously and the head seems about to split.
In such cases Hoods Sarsaparilla corrects the
catarrh by it's direct action in dischargng the
poison from the blood through natures great out
lets, SO that healthy, sound blood reaches the
mem hraneS and Is wholesome.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-16
Brief News Items.

a special says that George Shaw. living
eight miles from Canal Dover, Ohio, has
killed his wife and six children.
Two machine guns have Just been COM
pleted at Hartford, Conn, for General
Grant, as presents to the Ylceroy OF China
and the Milkako OF Japan. The guns are
Pratt & Whitney's improvement over the
gun once known as the Gardner guns.
1t rained snails in Hartford, Ct, Sunday.
On several streets the pavements were dis
covered to be thickly studded with little
live snails. which had gay-colored shells.
1t is supposed they rGined down from q
passing cloud. A microscope was needed
to bring out their proportions.
A Charlotte (N. CO. telegram says: A
difficulty about a game OF cards, which
originated Monday night between Charles
Warren and Murdoch Malloy, both colOred.
ended in II ,lloy's stabbing Warren with Il
butcher knife. Warren lived only short
time. The murderer escaped.
An old boot is missing from Berryvile,
the capital OF Carroll county, Ark. The
county treasurer. having been summoned
to Fort Smith, hid $1,000 Of the county's
money in an old boot, which he hid in some
rags IN his garnet. On his return the boot
was not TO he found. The treasurer is
above suspicion.
While thief was being chased by de-
teciiye in Pittsburgh Tuesday the cork
cane out of quart bottle of whiskey he
had in bis coat pocket, along with box
of matches. The liquor became ignited
from the matches, and, as he ran, blue
flame was dancing up on bis back, but did
not hurt him much.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-16
Miss mackey and the SON of Peer.


The statement which appeared In last
weeks contemporary that Mrs. Mackey,
the wife Of the bonanza silver king, was
the largest bidder for the Porter Rhodes
diamond Is ut erly without foundation.
II il true that Mr.. Porter Rhodes, In COM
pauy with the Vari correspondent OF
London daily newspaper, went to No. o
Rue Tilsit 10 show the diamond to Mrs.
Mackey; but nothing transpired as 10
possible purchase, although the lady
In question likes handsome iewelry. Even
to the wife OF the millionaire, Mr.. Msckey,
the purchase OF gem costing 100000 re-
quires reflection and consultation with her
lord aud master, who is az the present mo-
ment In "the States" / have 1t on the
most Trustworthy authority that the eldest
son OF a well-known Roman Catholic
peer Is smitten with the charms OF Miss
Eva Mackey. IL IL true that many will
assert 1t is her possibly enormous dow
nv he Is in love with, as for the most
part the Roman Catholic peers OF Great
Britain are not too wealthy to refuse few
of the dollars made in q silver mine. In
this case, however. 1t Is not so much the
money as the young lady herself who is
charming, but who at the present moment
seems more inclined to become nun than
wife, though the sutton is an heir-apar-
ent to a peerage. The young gentleman
In question has recently left Paris
for tour in America, whittier he
has gone TO gain the necessary
courage for going through the fearful or
deal Of asking mama. The question at the
present moment among the gossips OF So
ciety in Paris is, Will Miss Eva Mackey
choose prospective English coronet or
the veil OF a Sacre CGur nun? / do not
think / am much astray when / state
that 1t will be the former. Miss Mack
ey's portrait Is at present on view
at the Palais d'Industrie Art EX-
hibition. II is near her fathers, and does
not 1attcr her in the smallest degree.
Some people would under ordinary cir
cumstances consider her gOod-looking;
but, taking into consideration her wealth,
she would by Others be said to be beauti-
full. so that the lily may be adorned by
being gilt, IL ii cannot by being painted.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-16
Personal.

Will Carleton, the poet, il lecturing 10
the Cornell University students.
"The Joe Brown University" is to be
the name OF Il Georgia college, with Sen.
ator Brown as patron.
+. II. HeaIy, the member Of Parliament
for Monagan, has been black-balled by the
young men VINO form the Students Deba.
ting Society Of Dublin.
Munkacsy, the painter, has, it is feared,
done his last work. Excessive industry
has caused softcning of the brain, and his
intimate friends fear the worst.
Matthew Arnold's lecture on Emerson
is finished, but not yet "polished off," and
it will not be delivered until this latter pro-
cess has been gone through with.
George ID. Robinson will be the third
Governor Of Massachusetts, directly de-
scended from DOor Davis, who came over
in 1885. John Davis and John ID. Long
were the others.
Mr.. Beecher's reverend brother, Thomas
X, OF Elmira, n. Y, has announced him
self as an independent Greenback candi-
date for Congress next year. He says he
deems it a Christian duty to give voters a
variety of candidates.
Nine. Patti sent Sgnor Nicolni down a
dozen times in New York yesterday to
tell the reporters that she would remain
with Colonel Mapleson, and that her cold
was much better. Colonel Mapeson secuted
the idea that Mr.. Abbey had entrapped his
nightingale, and, moreover, he wore on
his coat lapel not one rose alone, but two
roses.
Henry Wizards palatial residence. now
being erected in New York, will cost, I'M
furnished. fully S1,000,000. 1t is the first
attempt to reproduce an italian palace i'm
this country, and critics say that il far sur
passes the Vanderbilt houses both I'm It's
magnifcenee and in its design. 1t will not
be finished until January, though Mr.. VIII
lard's family expect to take up their resi-
dencc in ii within fortnight.
John Swinton speaks as follows OF Henry
Willard 81 met him first during the war,
In front OF Richmond. He was then a
newspaper correspondent. He was slen-
der, bright-iaced, long-legged, eccentric
young fellow then, with as light a purse as
the other members Of his craft, but now,
i believe, though l have not seen him
since then, he is solid man, over middle
age, richer than CrGsus, and up TO the
neck in huge undertakings. Poor VIII
lard /! barefoot boy OF Germany, Golden
Spike OF America"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-16

40 tNt t<eftVf ~ wv s(''k''~sN-''
Some time ago read IN one Of our pa
pers communication headed /" courtesy or
cyyi-isy" ss applicable to correspondence
with our fellow-meu. The Rev. John
Jones wrote to ministerial brother and
addressed him as Rev. John Smith, ID.
D.. When the Rev. John Smith, ID. d.,
replied. he directed his letter to "John
Jones'"
In oil business correspondence II has
been my custom 10 address firms with the
prefix mcssrs. and to give individuals
their titles, whether civil, military, or &C.
eIesIasiical, and TO respond promptly TO all
business letters. But i notice that those
who address me or my firm do not always
observe these rules Of courtesy. Many OF
the letters to my firm are addressed in the
same way that the Rev. John Smith, ID. d.,
wrote 10 John Jones.
But there Is another disconrtesy often
practiced which is OF more serious na-
turc. ] allude TO the custom OF making
remittances by checks. drafts, or currency,
without being accompanied by note or
letter--sometimes without the "scratch OF
a PEN" Such remittdnceS do not deserve
an acknowledgment, although / usually
acknowledge them, for l take the trouble
70 put down on slate or memorandum
book that A, y. or G has sent me what
ever the amount may be. Many persons,
presume, will not put themselves to this
trouble, and doubtless many such remit
fances are not acknowledged at all.
Please say TO your numerous readers
that every remittance should be accompa'
MED by q letter las short as possible) de-
scribing the samc-yiz., the amount,
drawer OF the check or draft. and on whom
drawn. This IL the proper and business
ike way, and would save trouble and an
noyancc. Any other way is discourteous,
unbusiness-rke, and improper.
Yours. COURTESY.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-16

GOLD HICKORY" had NO USE FOR THE SAR-
COPHAGCs AT GIRARD COLLEGE.

GOLD HICKORY" HAD NO USE FOR THE SAR-
COPHAGUs AT GIRARD COLLEGE.
At the meeting of the Board Of City
Trust Wednesday the report OF Vice-Presi-
dent Gregory, of Girard College, in regard
10 the sarcophagus recently discovered in
the cellar OF the college, was received and
placed upon the minutes. The sarcophagus
will remain in the college museum. TWAS
presented to the college by Commodore
Elliott i'm 1888, and when an investigation
Of the records Of the Councils OF this city
was made recently the following letter Fl )m
Andrew Jackson was found, together with
Commodore Elli0tts letter presenting him
with the sarcoplagus. In this letter the
Commodore said II pray you, General,
to live on in the fear Of the Lord, dying
the death Of a Roman soldier An en-
pcror's coffin awaits you"
The following was General Jackson's re-
ply;
"Wi it'll the warmest sensations that can
Inspire grateful heart / must decline ac-
cepting the honor intended to be bestowed
cannot consent that my mortal body shall
be laid in repository prepared for an en-
peror or king. My republican feelings
and principles Forbid it. Every monument
! erected to perpetuate the memory OF our
heroes and statesmen ought to bear evil
dence OF the economy and simplicity OF
our republican institutions and the plain
ness of our republican citizens, who are
the sovereigns OF our glorious Union, and
whose virtue is to perpetuate it. True
virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade
are the governing passions. 1t can only
dwell with the people, the great laboring
and producing classes, that form the bone
and sinews OF our confederacy. | have
prepared an humble depository for my
mortal body beside that wherein lies my
beloved wife, where, without any pomp or
parade, i have requested, when my God
| calls me to sleep with my fathers, to be
| laid. for both of lis there to remain until
the last trumpet sounds to call the dead to
| Judgment, when we. hope, shall rise to-
gether, clothed with that heavenly body
promised to all who believe in our glorious
Redeemer. who died for us that we might
live, and by whose atonement 1 hoped for
blessed Immortality.
"ANDREw JACKSON"
Professor Gregory's report gives trans
lation of the inscription on the sarcopha-
gus, and says: "The inscription trans
lated is julia, the daughter OF Caius
Mammal; aged thirty Julia Donna was
the wife OF the Emperor Septimus Sew
crus. Her sister, Julia Maesa, welded
great influence at court, and had a daugh-
ter. Julia Mammaa, born, like the other
Julias, at Emesa, in Syria. The Emperor
| Alexander Severus was the son OF Julia
Mamm@a, and was born in Arce. in Syria,
but this cannot be the lady, as she was
much older than thirty when she lost her
life.
at is reasonable to conclude that Julia
Cali, fiha Mammaa. whose sarcophagus
was found at Berytus, sixty miles from the
Emperor's birthplace at Arce, and about
one hundred miles from his mothers ma
tive town, was one of the objects OF the
imperial bounty Of Alexander Severus."
The date Of the erection was probably $50
A. y.