River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-01-17

! IAN communications should be addressed to
/ the Editor at Esdaile, Wis.
The schools in Hartland and vicinity
re-opened Jan. Z, after a short vacation
We understand that the Ellsworth
school was recently closed on account of
scarlet fever
Fellow teachers, send in your contri-
buttons so as to keep the column full.
Anything in regard to the profession of
teaching, personal items, etc, will be
gladly accepted.
Mr. j. G. Gilbertson, a former teacher
in this county, spent his vacation with
his parents near Esdaile. He is attend
ing the medical department of the Min
nesota State University.
President Harrison's cabinet viii con-
sist of eight members, instead Of seven as
now compose President Cleveland's. The
| fiftieth congress created a department of
agriculture, and a secretary of this de-
partment will be added to the list of
CAtCuilkG OliCtlS III lllC uCAb CstOllCls
st. Paul holds each individual teacher
responsible for the discipline and man
agement of his pupils, not only during
school hours, but during the time the
pupils are on the school premises, before
and after school, and during recesses. He
is required to see that pupils 60 imme
diately from the grounds on the dismissal
for the day This puts the responsibility
where it belongs The teacher is made
self-reliant, and cannot shift the blame
to the shoulders of some one in higher
grade.
The proposition to hold joint teachers
meeting for Goodhue and Pierce counties
at Red Wing on the first Saturday in Feb
ruary, is heartily endorsed by Co Supt.
Engstrom, and the meeting promises
even at this early date TO be a success.
There is no boubt that meetings of this
kind can be made productive of much
good in bringing the educators of the
two counties into more intimate relation
ship and causing a free interchange of
methods and ideas.-AdUance San, Red
Wing, MINI, Jan. 2.
Accident has been suggester of
number of important scientific discoveries
in the worlds history. These accidents
occurred, however, before eyes that
| looked out from observant, thinking
men. Doubtless many before Calico
had witnessed a weight suspended in
air swinging with measured beat; but to
them it meant nothing. Yet, when in
the cathedral at Pisa, one of the vergers,
after replenishing the light with oil, acct
dentally left it swinging to and fro; Cali
leo, then youth of eighteen, noticed it,
and conceived therefrom his invention of
the pendulum, which he completed after
fifty years attentive study and labor.
| No live teacher will allow winter to
pass without doing some work for his own
growth What work each should do will
depend upon what he needs. He who IS
backward in language should make that
study; So also, with all the common
branches. All teachers should read more
or less, each week, in a book or books on
teaching. The manner of reading these
books is very important. 1t is not wise
to simply read book through consecu-
lively, and then lay it aside. Better to
read it topically. If some light ON class
recitation is required, look up that sub
ject and test what is taught by putting it
in practice. If your plan of teaching
geography is not satisfactory, look the
subject up in your books on teaching and
pat in practice what you find suitable. In
this way books will be read with interest
and profit.
Following viii be found few outlines
which we have used with very good sue
cess in teaching history:
l. Settlement of the Colonies:
Plymouth Plymouth.
John Carver.
Massachusetts.
Mass. Bay ss 1sSa.
John Winthrop.
?. Wars;
l Cause. Estate causes.)
? Time. 1854 to los.
II. LouisbuTg and
French and and o3 2oGt,. III crown Point &
Indlsh war. ruins Ticonderoga.
" Niagara.
| V. Quebec.
4. Treaty Paris.
5. Result State results)
8. Development Of States;
l. No. of the State
,. When admitted.
Vermont 3. Origin of name.
4. When settled
5. Where settled
4 Administrations:
l. Brief BIZ ( (aive short history
osraphy. 81 bis lite.
?. Time. 1866 to 1863
~ Reconstruction
Policy of the |
President.
? The Thirteenth /
Amendment /
S. Public Debt.
4. Reconstruction i
Policy of Con- /
n.,. 5. TIE Seeded |
o. AfaIrs States Admit
u7th Presi- ted, TED rr,en, %
'T the resident
Johnson's l. I lT9e P9g5tesnsh
.9 8 The Indian War. Il
NoN 9. The French in |
Mexico.
10. Laying Of the |