The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-01-04
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The year did not always begin with
January. 1852 was the first year that be-
gan with January, and this by act of
parliament Always before, from the
time of Julius Cesar to l75l, the year be-
gan with March, The signs in arithme-
tic, for instance-pius, minus, etc. Plus
means more, or the same as and. The
sign plus is simply a shortening of the
sign, and by making it cross in the
hurry of writing These seem like little
things, but they are illustrations of the
subject. Take the word Eccentric !;
show them that it simply means from
the centre. So disaster simply means
broken star, and we have it from the
ancients who imagined that some star
governed our actions if ifanything should
happen TO the star, it was disaster.
Fred Grof asked How many teachers
could so illustrate these matters?"
DIR. Horne replied that he introduced
these things to set teachers to thinking
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Institute called at l:30 p. NJ. This was
the most crowded session of the County
Institute ever held in the court room of
Somerset County. Persons that received
standing room deemed themselves fortu-
nate. Many persons, ladies, gentlemen
and teachers, left the court house and
went to their homes, because the entire
building was blocked by surging mass
of humanity, each individual of which
was to the highest degree uncomfortable.
To attempt connected report of such
meeting, was to try to accomplish the
impossible.
Nobody was to blame for this state of
affairs The County Superintendent had
done all he could to enable everybody
to enjoy himself, but the County court
house was built at day when such
crowds were not known in Somerset
County.
The appended program was carried out
in detail and after what was doubtless
the most uncomfortable afternoon spent
by any one present, the Institute adj
journed
The following was the programme
Discussion: What branches are most
neglected by pupils in ungraded schools?
How NAV they be interested in them p
Opened by W. H. H. Baker.
I'll
Literature in our common schools
Prof 0m C. McClelland.
"Pure English" IN. G. Keim.
Illustration in Teaching."-Dr. Horne.
Announcements:
Music-Miss Jean Glenn.
Reading.-Miss Maggie f. Dots
Lecture" Walks in Rome."-Col. J.
p. Sanford.
EVENING SESSION.
The County Superintendent introduced
Miss Jean Glenn, Of Mercer, Pa. who sang,
Miss Ella Musselman at the piano. Miss
Glenn was loudly s7cored, to which she
responded playing the accompaniment
on the harp.
Miss DOTS recited a piece entitled
Aunt Jeinima's Courtship." Miss DOTS
was loudly encored, to which she respond
ed and said she would try to recite
Sockery Setting the Hen,' after which
Col. Sanford was introduced in his lecture
entitled, " Walks in Rome He said;
Travellers find many people that they
like as soon as they see them, and others
whom they dislike at first glance, and
they can't tell why.
once went to point in Asiatic Sibe-
ria, and all that | saw was the sun at
midnight | travelled into Abysinnia,
and could tell all that | saw that was
worth seeing in fifteen minutes.
As you come near to Rome, YOU first
see the remains of old aqueducts, remains
of the Csesars and the Pompeys. You
may travel for sixty miles under ground
and never be out of reach of grave.
Imagine that you have entered Rome.
and We intend to make journey of about
two and one-half hours, s,visiting ST. Peters
and the Coliseum. This great building
could seat $4,000 men, and not encroach
ON the arena in the centre.
The name palace comes from the Pala-
tine hill at Rome. s60O00,OO0 were spent
here in palaces. sas pavements which
an architect in New York informed me
he could not make for less than $500 a
square foot, and there are millions of
square feet in Rome.
/ saw Angeles painting Of Moses.
heard a man say he would not give any
thing to hear Ingersoll lecture on the
mistakes of Moses, but he'd give hun
dred dollars 10 hear Moses lecture on the
mistakes of IngersoIl. This picture looks
like man that could lecture on any
body's mistakes.
Here we come to sudden revolution.
Have you never found men that you
deemed as gods, and then heard them
say something so mean that you could
sink into knot hole for them. You start
to St Peters through narrow streets, and
you see beggars all around-smell breaths
freighte,l with garlic; but, by and by
YOU come to the end of the street. Here
YOU come to stone-an obelisk brought
from Carnac, in Egypt. Whittier has
said, The saddest words of tongue or
pen are these, II might have BEEN |
think that the greatest emphasis that
can be put into language is to be found
in the words, first time.
One time was broke on Lake Super
ior--I found half dollar, picked it up,
tested it, then I dropped it and went
back and found it again. Have you ever
noticed that when you read of anyone
the first time you imagine he must be
very large used to imagine that my
Aunt Polly must be 40 feet high. When
saw her she was a little bit of woman
with snuff box in her hand and plenty
of snuff ON her face, and she said HJim,
don't you want to kiss your Aunt?" and
if there was anything in the world that !
didn't banker after, that was it. If yon
lose five dollar bill everybody's ready
to help you hunt it, but if you lose a five
dollar hat and it goes ricochetting
through the streets nobody tries to help
you catch it, but the least boy will say,
Run old fatty, you'll catch it-v