West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-05-08

NnL and Gle upper skin mOVos when
we do. " Another child sly:. Tho
heart Is comtc0i shaped BAG " A
tiSrd, that 1.-The upper skin is called
| cppedcrby, and the lower skin is called
"cro"i' while fourth cnumeratcs the
organs of digestion aS stomach.
WcnSttS, liver and Splecu.N
Another school furnishes Us with some
choice specimens of general informa-
uon, geography, history and gran mar
| With reference TO the first. we are tol,i
that 1.-The fr,t day in Lent is called
Matr.mony,' moreover, that "Nlatri-
mony is necessary to salvat:on;" and
that "our ncighbor" is .thc person
next door In geography, for instance,
"a volcano is a largo mountain with "A
| hole at the top and fireplace nj the
bottom. and sometimes the fire comes
out at the top and destroys the cities at
the bottom, If there are any \ wator-
shed Is mountain like a cave. bV which
| the river flows. A StepTe is a mount.
am IN France and last. not least. we
learn that 1--WE can O. from London to
Liverpool by the Brighton & South Coast
Line. Equally ingenious and curious
are the answers in grammar One boy
discovered there are three kinds of "gS"
the hard 20, the sof, 90 and the
refugee. Beau has for the feminine,
arrow peacock, ''pcacockcss;' and
German, "Gerwoman;' the fcmin ne of
bachelor is old maid. widow" of COS
ling, 'gandcreSS;' and of foN, hare Z"
The plural of colloluy is colleagues,
colloquise;' and the chief parts of teach
teacher, taught
In English history. more surprises
await us. king Stephen was the
| first English martyr who was martvrcd
IN England; he was burned alive i'm St
| Albans in llolborn. Magma Charta
was IA great man, and ne was called
Magma Charta because he used to 90
about preaching The Hcptarchv
was called the United States. il appears.
| at one time; and il al may not be
! generally known that saint Thomas a
| Beckett was taN-gathcrcr, and one day
he Fuarreled with the Black Prince,
and wanted to Kill HIM. One sapicnt
histor an observed that the "Tr,aty of
| Utrecht WIS fought between the Iulus
and the English Some remarkable
and original information was given, too
! regarding Chauccr. Spencer and Swift.
The first named person, II seems. wrote
''.Espp Fables the second wrote the
wealth of Nations while the third.
who lived in Johns reign, was Il great
astronomer and Joker.
But il is i'm sacred history that many
| bright pupils surpass themselves in
| leaving the region of facts and boldly
! plunging into sea of speculation. In
the opinion of one " the PharisccS were
bad people who used 10 wash" Pontius
Pilot another affirmed, was one OF
the Arabian Nights; and third genius
/ fIr r..sg.f a . L..
of the Old Testament was called Latin. ("
10 the question: "Who wrote the
Ca'cchism?' one said: est Paul"
another, Moses and third "One
of the prophets TO whom did -.
Philip prcach?' was one of the cues.
tions put. "To the unicorn, was the
answer.
Here is the pith of a talented young.
ster's paper on the Good Samaritan. "
a cert.ng man went down from
icrslam to jerikcr, and he fell among
thieves and the thorns sprang up aud
choakcd him -whercupon he gave tup-
pins to the host, and praid take care on
him and put him hon his hone hass.
And he past by on the other side. -
! his and the following are not, ms
might be supposed, American eXagger-
atiOnS, out authenticated instances of
examiners experiences
The last specimen is i'm answer to the
questions '.Who was Moses" -"Ie
lived in a bark maid OF bulrushcs. and
he kept a golden calf and worshipt
bra'zen snakes and he het nothin but
gwhales and manner for forty years.
He was kart by the air while riding un-
der bow Of a tree and nc was killed
by his son Abslon as he was hanging
from the bow. His end was peace. -
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