River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-29
ReApiNo oLRcLe woRk-oc1oBsR.


the use of local circles throughout the
state. Local managers are requested
to preserve this outline and make it
the basis of their work the first month
PAGE. Read pages 10 to 1856. What
teacher ought to know: The branch.
es of study, and degree of attainment
in each. "a teacher who has ceased
to be an active student has lost the Sc
cret of his greatest power" Right
views of education are essential to
good work. Teaching to be studied as
other arts are, what mistakes are
made? Must have well defined objects
to work for. What is education? Ed
ucate the whole man. Mistakes in
this matter, aud how they are to be
divided. The limitations of educa-
ton. Aim of liberal education.
What is aptness to teachl Making
musings. The pouring in process.
excellent way. Waking up mind. It's
processes. Its advantages. Use and
abuse of oral instruction.
GENERAL HISTORY. Read to page so.
I. 1t will be impossible to get clear
idea of the history without carefully
studying the geography. The map Of
the Assyrlan empire will give clear
notion of the relative position of
Chaldea, Babylonia, Capital, Babylon)
and Assyria, capital, Nineyeh.) The
geographical questions PIP. As and 70,
will require the use of the general
map facing page 10 in addition. II.
OUTLINE. t'haldea. Assyrian kings.
The latter Babyionian empire. SOcie-
ty in Assyria and in Babylon; The
writing; Cylinders; Libraries and their
contents; Monuments; Wall; Palaces
and hanging gardens of Babylon; Ag
ricuture; woven stuffs; metal work;
vases: terra Gotta; glass. Manners
and Customs. A Chaldean home; a
morning in Nineveh; royal lion
hunt; royal banquet. The Ph@ui-
clans. Carthage. Ph@necian civlli-
zation. III. HELPS. See introduce
ton to the volume to understand the
races referred to. Ninr0d: 1.-The
enormous circumference of the capt.
tai of Assyria was quadrllateral IN
shape, and still may be recognized,
marked by a series of mounds in
regular line scattered over the plain.
These artificial hills, serving as the
base of great edilices, and where their
ruins are still buried, are met with in
various parts of Assyria, to the num-
Der of several hundred. Three only
have as yet been eXcayated, and these
contained the palaces of Khorsabad,
Nimroud, and Kuyundjik." The Del
uge: Berosus (uote p. 49, gives his
tory of the Deluge very like that i'll
Gen. vi-viii. The most valuable ac-
count comes from the library of King
Assurbanipal. The hero SamZi is
warned by the God Hea to build a
ship and put in it his household, his
wealth, and the beasts of the field.
Samzi relates how he coated the ship
within and without with bitumen, how
the sun-god and other gods sent rain,
and how the rain food destroyed all
life from the face of the earth" On
the seventh day there was a calm, and
the ship stranded in the mountain
Mir. After seven days SamZi let
out dove and then swallow, both
of which returned, but a raven did
not return. Then they left the ship
and made libation. Hea intercedeS
with the sun-god that there be no sec
ond deluge. our Babyt0niGn tables:
IF thus in our language we are AIRY
an, in our letters Egyptian, we have
only to look at our watches to see that
we are Babylonian. Why is our hour
divided into sixty minutes, our min
utes into sixty seconds! Would not a
division of the hour into ten, or fifty,
or hundred minutes have been more
- civ fNr on
the dial of our watches simply be-
cause the Greek astronomer Hipparch-
us, who lived in the second century B.
c., accepted the BabYlonian system
of reckoning time, that system being
sexagesimal.
The Babylonians knew the decimal
system, but for practical purposes
they counted by soSsi and sari, the
sosS1ts representing 80, the saros 60x60
or 8 600 From Hipparchus, that sys-
TEN found its way into the works OF
Ptolemy, about 40 A. D., and thence
it was carried down the stream of civ
ilization, finding its last resting place
on the dial-plateS of our clocks.
Prof Mae Muller. Writing: The
custom of engraving inscriptions on
stone. as we'll as on baked clay, the
two methods of perpetuating their an
nails adopted by the Assyrians, is of
the highest antiquity. The divine
commands were first given to man on
stone tables; Job is made to eXclaim
xix, %, 24,): "Oh that my words
were now written! That they
were craven nth an iron pen and
lead in the rock forever" and Ezekiel,
when prophesying ON the river Chebar,
was directed to ''take q tile and por-
tray upon it the city of jerusalem
Ldudrd-Bddi6ec, not on the maps,
lay a little northwest of Damascus
MoLock. First Moloch, hOrrid king,
hesmeared with blood of human Sacri-
flee and parent tears; though for the
noise Of drums and cimbals loud, their
children's cries unheard that passed
thro' fire to his grim idol. Paradise
Lost Blk. l. 392. See also. 2 Kings,
%. 10.
PHYSIOLOGY. Read chapters four,
five and six. Use the glossary at the
end of the book for all words not fully
understood. Be sure that you find on
your own person every part mention
ed in the text, and try all the expert
Hl6DLS SliS9GStSNl. z. - tidoSiAJ biAS ~
rious Joints of the body; feel in your
forearm the movement of the radius
and ulna in turning the hand from the
palm down to palm up; trace the
shape of the finger bones in your hand;
the contraction of the biceps muscle;
the muscle which purses out the lips;
the tendons in the wrist; the burrows
and grooves in the palm of your hands;
the qualities of the epidermis; the fol
licles, etc. Examine yourself thor
oughly on the text by means OF the
questions at the bottom of the page.
How many experiments do you find in
these chapters! Think out ways OF IL
Illustrating chapter V, sections I, 10, ID
and Ia. Can you think out further in
chapter vi, sections 5, I, IA, 10, and
I6!