River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-09-05

A GREAT PowER.-More than thirty
two thousand copies Of Webster's Una
bridged Dictionary have been placed in
the Public Schools Of the United States.
Who can tell what a great power of in
tellectual stimulus and development to
the young mind the constant use of and
reference to that number of the great
work viii be. fin these schools there is
an average of fifty pupils in each, it would
bring more than million and half of
pupils under its daily influence. What
an effect this must have in coming Years
on the power Of thought and language
thus developed. and truly has
Noah Webster been called The School
master of the Republic.
There is no more cheering feature for
the American literature of the future
than the indications of free and untram-
melled spirit in taxing subjects from our
own life and the scenery of our own Ian d
Still more important will be the influence
upon the people themselves, in turning
their attention to their own country, and
in their learning to appreciate 1t the
more. We have not many traditions to
weave into stories, but we have Nature in
her freshness and beauty, and pure
domestic life moulded by freedom Of
thought. Harris Patton, ". 4.
All exercises such as copying words (;
spelling by letter or by sound; the use OF
words in sentences; memorizing pieces or
lessons; and exercises introduced for the
practice of connecting ideas with words,
are means of securing the results to be-
obtained in primary reading.-Mdnual
Review the lessons often and always
on essentials. However well anything is
learned for the time being, it will fade
away and pass into oblivion if not called
up again and again. Repetition is abso-
lutely essential to habit, skill, readiness,
thoroughness, and accuracy,-Pdge.
A few teachers have sent us notice of
their school-engagements for the fall and
winter terms. for which we feel thankful
We wish others would do the same.
Send us anything of special interest for
the column at any time and oblige.
Short biographical sketches of the
great men in our history are both inter
esting and valuable, if they show how
by their character and abilities, they i'm
proved the condition of their nation and
of the world.-Page.
Anyone DESTROYS Of obtaining good
practical bsuiness education will find the
many advantages offered by Beeman's
Actual Business College of Red Wing
Mimi, to be fully equal to that of the
best schools of this kind.
The amusing things Of life play most
important part in bringing about general
happiness and general good. Every man
and every woman is better for hearty
laugh once in while.
The one who will be found in trial ca
pable of great acts Of love is ever the one
who is always doing considerable small
ones.
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is where
they should be; butput foundations under
them.
Do not allow a pupil, when reading, to
be interrupted by corrections, or made
nervous by appraised hands.
Do not try to make pupils learn by
whipping them for unlearned lessons.
In written exercises, train pupils to
correct one onother's work.
A newspaper is the only instrument
which can drop the same thought into
ten thousand minds at the same NOM