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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-03
THE FAIRMONT INSTITUTE.
The Last Day Of the Teachers Insti
Infn-

Special Telegram 10 Tie Register,
FAIRMoNT, W. VA, July 2.-Aiter
devotional exercises by Rev. A. Il. ROhr-
baugh, Prof. Payne continued the discus
sion OF Educational Values begun yes
terday, classifying them as u Practical,
(2l Disciplinary, (3) Culture.
Prof w. IL. White gave a lecture on
Teaching and School Management"
After an instrumental duet on the piano
by Miss Cora Fisher and Miss Cora Ogden,
Prof Payne discussed the Analogy Be
tween Mental and Physical Growth" The
following statements were made: (D In
both mental and physical growth food is
essential; knowledge is the food of the
mind
,. The kind of growth depends upon the
quality rather than upon the quality Of
food, and upon what is assimilatcd rather
than what is taken; in both cases appetite
is essential to health.
3. In both eases there may he Surleit,
starvation, and indigestion or dyspepsia.
4. The first step in the digestive process
is resolution, and the second assimilation.
:. The celebrating instrument Is auto
matte and the process Of growth uncOn-
scious. The process of mental growth can
be stimulated by the direct act OF the Will.
6. The assimilation of the aliment pro-
duces power and addition 10 structure.
The first lecture in the afternoon was
by Prof Payne. His subject was The
Old Education and the New He gave
several contrasts of the two styles, with
the reconciliation of the different contrast.
The contrasts were as follows:
TuEoLp. THE NEW.
l. Art l.. Nature.
, Authority. . Liberty
5. Memory. j. OpSerNauoh.
4. Reason. 4. sense,
Prof C. Miller addressed the Institute
in behalf of the W. c. T. L., advocating
the adoptiOn of text book on
the effect of alcoholic stimulants and mar
cotics. Rev. DIR. w. r. White spoke ON
the same subject.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
and the report was unanimously adopted
Closing remarks were made by PrOts. ThOs.
C.. Miller, A. l.. Wade, W. II. Payne, e..
A. Sipe and Supt B. S. Morgan.
County Superintendent Carpenter an
nounced teachers examinations at Man
nington July 18th, Pennington July 18th,
Fairmont July 14th.
Music, ''The Sweet BY and By" and
the Institute adjourned.
Enrolment, ia females and l56 males;
total 275, the largest number ever enrolled
in the State.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05
Industrial Education.

There is new kind of school and
coming. Books we must have. To
learn, we must read. But we may read
all about boats. and yet we can never
learn to sail boat till we take the
tiIcr in hand and trim the sail before
the breeze. The book will help wonder
fully in telling us the names OF things
i'm the boat and. il we have read about
sailing. we shall more quickly learn TO
sail; but we certainly never shall learn
TIL we are in real boat We can read
in a book how to turn heel in knitting,
and may commit TO memory whole
rules about "throwing off two and purl
four and all the rest; yet where is the
girl who can learn to knit without hav-
ing the needles in her hands,
This then is the idea of the new
school-to use the hands as we'll rs the
eyes. Boys and girls who 60 to the
ordinary schools, where only books are
used, will graduate knowing n great
deal; but a boy who goes to one of
these new schools, where, besides the
books, there are pencils and tools, work
benches as well as wnting-books. will
know more. The other boys and girls
may forget more than half they read,
but he will remember everything he
learned at the drawing-table or at the
workbench, rs long rs he lives. He
will also remember more OF that which
he reads because his work with his
hands helps him to understand what he
reads.
remember long ago a tear-stained
book of tables of weights and measures,
and n teachers impatience with q
stupid child who could not master the
where the tables were written on
blackboard-thus: "two pints are equal
to one quart" and on u stand in the
school-room was a tin pint measure
and n tin quart measure, and box OF
dry sand. Every happy youngster had
chance to fill that pint with sand and
pour the sand in the quart measure.
Two pints filed it. He knew it. Did
he not see it, did not every boy try it9
All! Now they knew what it all meant.
1t was rs plain as day that two pints
of sand were equal to one quart of sand;
and with merry smiles those six-year-old
philosophers learned the tables of meas
ures; and they will never forget them.
This is, in brief, what is meant by in
dustrial education. To learn by using
the hands,-to study from things as
well as from books. This is the new
school, these are the new lessons. The
children who can sew, or design. or
draw, or carve wood OF do joinering
work, or cast metals, OF work in clay
and brass, are the best-educated chill
dren, because they use their hands as
well as their eyes and their brains.
You may say that in such schools all
the boys will become mechanics, and
all tho girls become dress-makers. Some
may, many will not; and yet whatever
they do, be it preaching, keeping a
store, or singing in concerts, they will
do their work better than those who
only read in hooks. Charles Barnard,
IN 81. Nicholas
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05
Romance of Newspaper Man.

The other day learned of n romance
in the life of newspaper man, former
ly of Chicago, but now located in a
more western city, that is rather pccu-
liar. Some years ago the young gen.
tcman was in Minneapolis. While
crossing street one day he saw that o
street-car driver had started his car
just rs lady placed her foot upon the
steps. She was in danger of falling,
and the newspaper man supported her.
A few days afterward they met at the
residence of mutual friend and were
introduced. Their previous meeting
placed them on friendly footing nj
once. They met frequently afterward,
AMI soon their acquaintanceship ripen.
ed into love. The lady WAS very
beautiful widow. In due course of time
they were married, and after the event
the happy husband learned for the first
time that his wife was worth $4,000. 49,
ST. iuW r ee"-!"resS
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05

or lie Tue vuIue "a ms discovery 4
somewhat damaged, however, by the
fact, as he asserts, that whenever he be.
ging to dig for 1t the treasure is surrep.
titiously shifted by the malign influence
of the spirit of the defunct pirate.
M. Paul de Cassagnac, the most
belligerent editor of Pays, was recently
accused of having been struck with /,
broomstick. He replied in his own
journal: 81 may, with disdain, serve
us target, as happened to me the other
day, to men who aim at me from dis
lance with revolvers; but should kill
rs would dog the man who came to
strike me within the reach of broom
stick. Therefore, rs the hero of the
broomstick is still alive, his story is a
falsehood and he is a braggart.
Magnesium, which has more than
once been abandoned us source Of
light, appears likely to be employed
again, process having been discovered
for producing pure magnesium by cleo
trolysis, and ut n price much less than
that ut which it was formerly obtain
able. At the works in Bremen, where
the manufacture of magnesium is car
ried on, prizes arc offered for the con-
struction of tho best magnesium lamps
having clockwork movement
Donaldson, the swimmer, recently
swan the Mohawk ut Schenectady tied
hand and foot. A young athlete thought
that ho could do the same, and after n
friend had well tied him he started to
cross the river. Half way across he
gave out and went down. His frighten-
ed friend in boat tried to get him in
to the boat, but couldn't. Neither could
he unite the ropes. Meanwhile the
swimmer was taken with severe cramps.
Finally the man in the boat tied rope
around the swimmers neck and thus
towed the half drowned athlete to shore,
where it took considerable rubbing and
stimulant to reduce the cramps and get
the youth in good condition again.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05

Chcops did to get rid OF these future
pretenders, nor how they escaped his
persecution; and this-as Herr Lepsius.
in his predatory notice. remarked-is all
the more unfortunate because the papy-
rus evidently hands down a tradition
OF facts. Thus we may learn from 1t
that Chephren was son of Cheops; that
the fifth dynasty originated in the town
OF Sachebu; that the three first Kings OF
it were brothers, and that the eldest was
priest at Hcliopolis before ascending to
the throne. The papyrus in question is
the Oldest known document in the popu-
lar tongue.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-11-05

sui human weakness for pets. we are
abundantly supplied with bench-legged
fees, terriers. pugs, Observation-Disclosures,
mastifs, and bulls. II some unexpected
calamity should cause them all to go
wild. after the fashion of their predeces-
sors, they would be an uncommonly
tough crowd to deal with.-Atianta
Consultation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
THE TEAR-KERCHiEF.
A Tyrolese Custom Which Is Both I'M
pressive and Peculiar.

A Tyrolese Custom Which Is Both Inn
pressive and Peculiar.
In some portions of Tyrol a peculiar
and beautiful custom still prevails.
When q girl is about to be married, be-
fore she leaves her home to 90 to the
church, her mother hands her ker-
chief, which is called a tear-kerchef.
1t is made of newly spun linen, and has
never been used. 1t is with this ker-
chief that she dries her tears when she
leaves her fathers house, and while she
stands at the altar.
After the marriage is over, and the
bride has gone with her hrSband to
their own new home, she folds up the
kerchief and places it unwashed in her
linen closet, where it remains I'M
touched. The tear-kerchief has only
performed half of its mission.
Children are born, grow up, marry,
and move away from the old home.
Each daughter receives from the
mother new tear-kerchief. Her own
still remains where it was placed in the
linen closet on the day of the mar.
riage. Generations come and go. The
young rosy bride has become wrin-
killed. old woman. She may have sur.
vived her husband and all her children
All her friends may have died off, and
still that last present which she received
from her mother has not fulfilled its
object. But it comes at last. At last
the weary eyelids close for the long
long sleep, and the tired, wrinkleC
hands are folded over pulseless heart
Then the tear-kerchief is taken from
its place and spread over the placic
features of the dead, never to be re-
moved until we are summoned to come
forth on the resurrection morn. - Terai
| SiLtinqS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
SEASONADLE HINTS.
Some Pretty Conceits In Jewelry. Toys and
Candlesticks.

Some Pretty Conceits In Jewelry, Toys and
Candlesticks.
Finger rings were never more worn
than at present.
Bracelets and necklaces are both
worn very narrow.
Ornamental safety pins, set with
Jewels, are worn in the laces, bonnet
strings and ribbon bows of dressy tot
lets in Paris.
Gemmel, or double rings, and triple
gypsy rings, each ring set with differ
ent stone, are sought for by present
makers of iewelry.
The plush pug, mounted on casters,
is the favorite toy dog for babies. 1t is
so soft that it can not hurt the little
one, so durable it is not easily hurt
itself and can run all around the cradle
or baby carriage.
Taste and custom go together when
wool dresses are de rtg0eWr for morn.
| ing, travelling and utility wear, wool
and silk or velvet combinations for
afternoon promenades and unceremo-
NOUS calls, and silk and velvet nlnsh
and lace costumes for reception. dinner
and evening wear.
Among silver candlestick novelties
are pair representing Don QuixotC
and Sancho Panza in grotesqsely
elongated forms. That is to say, the
| Don's long legs are made immensely
longer, while his long sword, made the
same length, serves for the third leg o
the candlestick. Sancho Panza in the
meantime, with exaggerated shor
body, is mounted on his mule, which
has its two grotesque long front legs
slightly straddled; its two hind legs
also heightened, placed close together
with the tail clinging to the same, thu
giving the three-legged pedestal effec
to correspond with the match piece
N Y Sim
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
wAsHINeToN's soYHooo.
A Story That Cons-as the Anecdole {
the Little Ratchet.

the Little Ratchet.
There is q story told of Gorge
Washington's boyhood -unfortuA tely
there are not many stories-whichEs to
the point. His father had taken great
deal of pride in his blooded horses land
his mother afterward took great Hsins
to keep the stock pure. She had Few
eral young horses that had notyet tfen
broken, and one of them in particular,
a sorrel, was extremely spirited. No
one had been able to do anything With
it, and it was pronounced thoroughly
vicious, as people are apt to pronounce
horses which they have not learned to
master. George was determined to
ride this colt, and told his companions
that if they would help him catch it. he
would ride and tame it.
Early in the morning they set out for
the pasture, where the BOYS managed
to surround the sorrel and then to put
q bit into its mouth. Washington sprang
on its back, the boys dropped the bride
and away flew the angry animal Its
rider at once began to command. the
horse resisted, backing about the field,
rearing and plunging. The boys be-
came thoroughly alarmed, but Wash
ington kept his seat, never once losing
his self-control or his mastery of the
colt. The struggle was sharp one;
when suddenly, as if determined to rid
itself of its rider, the creature leaped
into the air with q tremendous bound.
1t was its last. The violence burst a
blood-vessel, and the noble horse fell
dead.
Before the boys could sufficiently re-
cover to consider how they should ex-
tricate themselves from the scrape,
they were called to breakfast: and the
mistress of the house, knowing that they
had been in the fields, began to ask
after her stock.
pray, young gentlemen" said she,
''have you seen my blooded colts in
your ramblesp | hope they are well
taken care Of My favorite, l am told,
is as large as his sire"
The boys looked at one another, and
no one liked to speak. OF course the
mother repeated her question.
"The sorrel is dead, madam" said
her son. II killed himr'
And then he told the whole story.
They say that his mother flushed with
anger, as her son often used to, and
then, like him. controlled herself, and
presently said quietly:
at is well; but while / regret the
loss of my favorite, rejoice in my son
who always speaks the truth. "-Heze-
kiah BatterUortt, IN ST. Nicholas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

There is place in Scotland where
certain class of people who :
SSlnce nGloers ehe s sne public should be
sent. 1t is called nilliecrankie.- PITS
burgh Chronicle.
Jones Cat the circus) - Hello,
Smith, you here?" Smith-''Yes, /
had to take care of my little Boy
Jones' where's the boy?" Smith
He was taken sick at the last moment
and couldn't come" IN 7. Herald.
Never Judge men by appearances.
A man may look as bold as lion and
be Major General of militia, and yet
make his wife go down stairs first when
he imagines he hears burglars in the
house. -Philadelphi0 Herald.
"a Reader" asks the editor of the
New York Journal: ''How many peo-
pie have lived on this earth since the
creation of ADAM" 1t is such conun-
drums as these that make the editorial
head turn prematurely gray.-Bastos
Transcript
An eminent statistician has calcu-
lated that man spends nine dollars
per annum more than woman. This
may be accounted for on the groand
that man generally has to buy his
wife's clothes as well as his own
Philadelphia Call.
-''Can you tell me whose picture is
on ten-dollar bills?" asked caller of a
country editor. II don't know; /
couldn't even tell you whose portrait is
on one-dollar bills" replied the pen
pusher, with an eight-line plea sigh
N. Y. Journal.
General Toombs' ''last words" will
hardly do to put in the list of the last
words of great men. Said the dying
Georgian to his grandson-in-law, "Lend
| me $780," and that was the final utter
ance of the old man. philadelphia
Press.
-Brown-''I don't see how you can
find time to go to church every Sunday.
| I'm sure can't, I've so much to do"
Fogg-"Yes, suppose you do turn of
a good deal of work Sundays. | wish
l could do it; but the fact is | can't go
without my sleep as well as you can. p"
| Wonder what he meantp-BoSt0n Tran
script
| The secret of matrimonialfelicity
Il
| My wife isn't much of beauty,
But a Housekeeping body 8 she;
| Efficient in housekeeping duty
And makes the house pleasant for ne.
| She wears the most tasty apparel,
And she's perpetual JOY,
And we've never in life had a quarrel,
| For she cooks like an angel, my boy.
| Boston Courier.
MAN says as how / haint smart
enough to learn nothin' in school"
said lazy scholar to the teacher, when
he didn't have his lesson. "Ah, Johnny,
my boy, that is a great pity" kindly
replied the good teacher, "but viii
try to make you smart" and she laid a
hickory across his back with sufficient
force to produce excellent results OIL
city Derrick.
1t was a case of breach of promise.
The defendant was allowed to say a
word in his own behalf. yes" he
said. 81 kissed her almost continually
every evening called at her house. "
Lawyer for defendant-The you con-
TESS it? DISADVANTAGES, / do confess
it; but | had to do it. Lawyer on
had to do ftp What do you mean ?
Defendant-That was the only way /
could keep her from singing The jury
gave verdict far the defendant
without leaving their seats Chicago
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
FRIENDS IN HEAVEN.

"A brownhaired, blue-eyed wee one
Grown weary, and tired of play,
climbed up ON my knee to ask me
In her simple, childish way:
kHave you any friends in Heaven,
That you sometimes want to seeY'
Can you guess how the question thrilled me
like minor melody
II thought as / sat in the twilight,
with that wee one on my knee,
sOf my little blue-eyed baby
Whose summers numbered three;
She went from my arms TO heaven
One spr ng-time years ago,
And left in my heart that sorrow
That only mothers know.
y thought how the baby's father
Grew lonesome, and longed to hold
Once more on his breast our baby
With hair of sunset gold.
AND one summer eve he left me
10 search for our baby of three,
And know full well he found her,
But he never came back to be.
do ever want to see them?
oh child of the violet eyes,
my heart has gone on before me
10 the hills of Paradise.
Some day / shall feel their kisses
Drop balm on my weary heart,
Mine only, and mine forever,
Though earth and Heaven apart.
-Eben e. RcTfOrd. in Home VisitoT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
SOUTHERN SPORTS.
Turtle-EsS and Alligator Hunting on Pen
sacoIa Harbor's Breakwater.

Turtle-EgS and Alligator Hunting on PEN
sacola Harbor's Breakwater.
Santa Rosa Island is a sand key Of
the Gulf of Mexico, forty miles long
and varying in breadth from fifth of
a mile to over mile across. 1t is the
breakwater of Pensacola Harbor, and
receives the shock of the rolling seas of
the gulf, which often break against it
in fury while the waters of the bay
within are still as millpond, and
scarce ripple washes the beach of the
city front, seven miles away, though
the water at the city is as salty as that
in the center of the gulf. The sea
beach of the island is gently-sloping
expanse of white sand, back and forth
on which the advancing and receding
waves will glide for hundreds of feet.
You can stand where no water is one
moment, and the next be struggling
waist deep against surging wave that
is climbing up the strand. This beach
is the incubator of the great turtles of
the gulf Its gradual incline, the
easily excavated sand beyond, and the
warm southern exposure, adapt
it to their approach, the making
of nests and Matching of theiI
eggs. So they. resort to it for this
purpose, and in due time the young
turtles are Matched, unless the eggs are
captured by the various creatures, biped
and quadruped, who seek them in the
season. From Pensacola over to the
island is about seven miles, and as thu
land breeze of the night sets fair acros;
the bay it is pleasant trip of moon
light nights to run over on sail-boat
land ON the bay shore, walk across the
island, which is not third of a mile
wide opposite the city, and seek fol-
'turtle crawls" on the gulf beach, Oh
bathe luxuriously in the surf. The
'crawl'' shows on the sand where thu
under shell has been dragged along
and following this up to a point abov'
the wash of the highest waves the mes
is found, usually about two and a hal
feet below the surface. A single mes
will contain from one hundred to three
hundred eggs. At Sabine Pass, OF
Santa Rosa Island, alligators are fount
by the ten thousand, and are killed il
large numbers by hunters who frequen
the place. - Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-01-23
Iron Jewelry.

We read that iron jewelry is being
extensively worn, and that one knows
not which most to admire, the elegance
of the finished work, the skill of the
molder or the fine quality of the metal
that may be induced to assume such
elaborate forms. Some of the articles,
as breaches, have beauty of network
almost rivaling italian filigree in gold,
yet it is nothing but cast iron. The
polish is perfect and not easily furnished,
even when exposed to the action of the
carbonic acid of crowded, ill-venti-
lated room. The luster is a clear,
blush, almost transparent sheen, from
which the light is reelected as from the
diamond. The polishing of the facets is
performed upon an ordinary buff-wheel
dressed with crocus. Iron Age.