The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1888-12-27
SCOTTISH SCHOLARSHIP.
Queer Things Candidates for Teach n8
Told Il Committee.

Queer Things Candidates for Teach n1
Told Committee.
The Committee Of the Privy Council
IN Education in Scotland has been in-
rcstigating the scholarship OF tho
scotch student. and las brought out =
prodlrious amount OF ignorance min
yled with considerable native ingenuity
and shrewdness. Students In the
training school for teachers aroused
he most establishment by their
answers to simple questions, owing TO
their supposed superior intelligence
and more thorough scholarship.
.Cromwcll's eyes" says one, .'were
keen and gray. but he was God-fcar-
ing man." Another gave, rs his sole
knowledge OF Nelson. that he was
buried in St. Pauls Cathedral. amid
the groans OF dying nation. Black
guard one scholar defined as "a man
who has been shoe-black. while -
man dressed in black" and a ''police-
man. were other attempted definitions
OF the same word The word police, :"
according to one, was derived
from the Poles, on account OF
the courtesy of that race. and "char-
ity," according TO another, came from
chair, whence the Queen doleth out
gifts." One scholar defined straight
line as lone which lies in the Same
regular length from point to point"
A superficies was declared to be "thc
point taken between any two straight
lines" a circle, figure bounded by
straight line, and an isosceles tri-
angle, one shaving two opposite sides
TO one another.
Jonah was described by one student
as 1.-THE father OF Lot. He had two
wives. One was called Ismale and the
other Hugher; he kept ono at home
and he turned the other into the dos
crt, where she became a pillow Of fire
at night. Another careful reader Of
the Scriptures wrote: Moses was an
Egyptian. He lived in an ark made OF
bullrushes, and he kept golden cali
and worshiped braizen snakes, and ct
nothing but kwales and mamma for
forty years. He was caught by the
hair OF his head while riding under
the bough of tree, and he was killed
BY his son Absalom as he was hanging
from the bough."
Astronomy. as understood by one p,,-
pill, taught that 1.-THE sun goes round
on its axis. The earth's axis Is pole
put through the center OF the sun,
| which turns it round, and thus we gel
the seasons" Another pupil affirmed
that ..the Nile is tho only remarkable
river in the world. 1t was discovered
byDr. Livingstone. and rises in Nun.
go Park" Constantinople was sci
down as ION the Golden Horn-s
strong fortress Il university, and
is the residence of Peter the Great
Its chief building is the Sublime
Porte" The Druids are said to have
been IAN ancient people, supposed tc
be Roman Catholics" Gibraltar il
ian island built on rock" and Port
ugal can only be reached through st
Bernard's Pass ''by means OF sledges
drawn by dogs The Saxons. it wa,
gravely recorded by one scholar
retired to rest in the time of tn.
Heptarchy in state of nudity and lait
upon bed Of straw, they were SO emf
nently social"
THE dog" said one candidate for ,
teachers place. has four toes on hi
hind feet, and the COW has no toes ant
can not bark" 1.-THE word torrid,
said another one, Of a logical turn o
mind, '.means hot. and the word frigi'
means cold, and the word temperate
neither hot nor cold. Therefore tn
temperate zone Is neither hot no
o.d."-N J. Sun.