The Red Cloud chief., 1885-04-24
CROOKED ANSWERS.
Startling items Of Information
Furniohcd by School Children.

The knowledge attributed to the pro-
verbal ''school-boy' must always have
amazed any person OF Only ordinary in
te!lIgencc. Recent school examinations
have. however. revealed a depth and
variety Of information possessed by
Juveniles, which bids fair to make the
coming schOol-boy throw his predeces-
sors quite into the shade. Amongst
many startling items of information
ma: lac instance that "a fort is a place
t. put men in" and a fortress a place
To put women in" "A famine in the
LAID, 1t appears. lis what made the
Tower of Pisa lean; and "'cos the
moon is 80 changin'." is the reason
why it is of a different gender from the
sun. The surfa e of the earth consists
of land and water. said a bright young-
Ste; but when asked: ..What, then, do
land and water make:?" he instantly re-
piled: Mud"
In many cases. il is evident that the
pupils do MOI understand what the aues-
lions mean. When inquiring: ..Wha
comes next TO man in the scale of be-
ings' it is rather surprising TO be told
that il is Ibis shirt" II surely must
:lavc leen the same boy who replied
that the chief end of man was: 1.-The
end what's got his head on The first
Man that went round the world WIS. in
n li:ile girls opinion. .'Thc man in the
lmoon:' A consOnant is a portion of
land surrounded by water" 1t was
daniel in the lions dem who said:
alt is not good for nan to lie %alone;"
and "why the Israclitcs made a golden
calf was: because they hadn't
enough silver to make a cow"
Reports of SchoOl-board examinations
will form quite a comic library. ''What
would have happened ii Henry ". of
France had no. been murdercd?" The
reply was; '.He would probably have
died Il natural death" where was
Bishop Latimcr burned to dcath?:' In
ihc fire." replied a Little fellow. looking
very grave and wise. An equally uncx-
pectcd reply was elici. d fr m q pupil
when asked: ''What did the Israelites
slo when they came ont of the Red
Sca?H 'Ihey' dried themselves"
"isk 4 = tiC lSifttiiIc vi iTitT. TtESS
bright boy: Hasn't any" Next"
Seccnl bright boy: Nun" That's
right" FIRST boy. Indignantly: That's
just what said"
The following is still more ludicrous.
A teacher asked II juvenile c'ass some !
questions regarding their knowledge o:
electricity, and inquired which Of them
hsd ever seen n magnet. Ore sharp
hoy immediately said he had seen lots
of them. ''Whcrc?" inquired his IN
~struc.or. astOn;shcd ut his proficiency.
ain cheese" was the ready reply.
But the good things are not all mo-
nopolized by the boys. ''Some little
girls were studying the history of David. |
she passage for the day being that
which describes the shepherd boys VIC
tory over Goliath. The teacher asked
the quest o Now. can any Of YOU
little girls tell me who killed the giant?'
Quie< as thought one of the smallest
responded: Jack"
An examination Of girls in Beard
schools for prizes offered by the Ma
iional Health Society revealed some
curious items of information. One re-
ply to: "McntiOn any occupations
considered injurious to health was:
Occupations which are injurious to
hcassh are carboIic ac.d gas. which is
impure blood" Another pupa said:
"a stone lnason's work is injurious,
because when hcf chipping he brca;hes
in all the little chips. and then they are
taken into the lungs" A third Saws:
"A bootmakcrss trade is very iniuri-
-Oss. because. the 6etmakers press the
boots against the thorax; and. there
Tore. 1t presses the thorax in. and it
touches the heart; and. il they do not
die. they are cripplcs for life" With a
osut'fnl decisiyencSs, one girl declares
that tall mechanical work is injurious
"a hcalsh." A reply to q question
:nbout digestion runs: ..Wc should
never eat fat, because the food does not
Another sta.es that ..when
fcrd Is swallowed. it passes through the
windpipe;" and that ..the .chyle flows
an the middle of. the backbone. and
reaches the heart where it meets the
Oxvytn. and is ~pcriicd." Asothcr
ssys: 1.-The work of the heart is To ne
psir the different organs in abou. hslf a
Iniru;e." One Little physlo;ocist ne
niles: "Wc have An upper and .
lower skim: the lower skin moves st its
~ia. and the upper skin moves when
dn" Another chill says The
Resyt is . consicai shaped bag" A
ah;rd. that 1.-THE upper skin is called
.evne6erbs. and the lower skin IS called
while . fourth cnumerates the
49, al digestion . "stomach.
rrienSi5s liver and spleen"
A.NHher school furnishes n w:th some