Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-26
out that that Egypt is our great-great
SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES.

SCHOOL TEACHERS SALARIES.
The ex-governor then referred to tho
financial question. This break was re.
cceiY,d with deafcning cheers as IL re.
ferred to the teachers salaries.
ut is hard" he said, for your salaries
to be raised ladies' If | was in the
Legislature I'd vote every school-ma'am
in the county to be raised to $500 a year
for her services.
The last tax paid was the school
tax. 1t was the smallest and the last.
II is always last and least to be paid of
all the taxes. We will raise the charac-
ters OF school teachers by raising their
salaries. How many school-ma'ams make
bricks without straw Let us educate
the young and rising generation. There
Is no time to lose. The average life is
~, so they say. Subtract 81 from SO,
and you see what a little time there is
LEFT. Now | am not got going to enter
tain yon any longer. Laughter,] Now
am going to introduce my friend,
whose name is Taylor. Nowl with
the ex-governor's inimitablc bowl friend
Taylor come out r.
The speaker, the Hon. Thomas M.
Taylor, expressed himself as simply
overcome by Mr.. Biggs' florid and ex-
travagant praise. However, he had no
personal objection to it if the audience
intcrposed none. For over an hour the
witty and eloquent speaker intensely
amused the audience with an almost
endless serio.comic discussion of his
humorous lecture on "Cranks."
INSTITUTE NOTES.
AT the close of the lecture at the
Opera House a musicale and literary
entertainment was given by the lady
teachers staying at the Maxwell House.
There was a very large attendance of
county teachers. The programme in
cluded: Vocal solo, Douglass, Tender
and True" Miss A. r. Wint, Iron Hill;
recitation by Miss Lydia j. Durham,
1orltlyn; "Lasca," by Mrs. Florence p.
Boss, Wilmington; recitations, Miss
Fannie Medill, Miss I,cba Coyle, VIII
mington, and Miss Fannie Briscoe, New
ark; piano solo, Miss Lille Sentman;
recitation, Arthur Mackey, McClellands.
vile; violin and piano renditions by
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Maxwell. Miss
Flora Corkran of Newark was ac-
companist for the evening.
THE MERRY EIGHT.
On the eighteenth of November.
Twas a bright and sunny day,
We seated ourselves at the table
Feeling quite happy and gay.
There were five merry lasses,
Ana three sedate old men.
-Four OF the crowd wore glasses,
And one man came from Port Penn.
This was onr respected super"
A man exceeding tall
Who when we stood beside him.
Made us all teel very small.
Another among us was heavy,
And his hair was very black;
He had an excellent appetite,
And liked the fowl that could quack.
Another man who was with us,
Was one who was also tall;
He was q fair young gallant,
Though last, not the least of all.
The girls were all quite handsome
One caught the governors eye;
But, alas, at the dinner table
She got drunk upon mince pie.
Another bright jolly teacher,
In II stone school spent each day,
She laughed from morn till even,
But this was just her way.
Another on steep hill side
A little school did keep,
But only in the day time,
For she went home to sleep.
Another digniiied teacher,
Whose hair was crown Of gold
Left the transom open
And in her head caught cold.
In that same school upon a hill
There was another teacher,
She left the girls to help themselves :
And taught the boys TO squeeze her.
This formed our merry party,
The gayest in the lot,
So gay that the hotel keeper
Wished that the institute was not.
School text book venders from Phila-
delphia and New York are attending
the institute.
Over the doorway of the hotel where
the writer is staying there is little
marble slab with the ancient legend,
"David Witherspoon 1761." Strange to
say there is not single person in this
neighborhood whose name carries to the
present generation that worthy old New
England family patronymic. In the
Presbyterian churchyard one of the
oldest gravcstones bear it. But that is all
there is of record. The story is that a
son of Witherspoon committed n frightful
murder in the present parlor of the hotel.
There is rumor, although very diff
cult to be authenticated that the college
football team and that of the d. L. O.,
will meet here, as neutral ground, to
fight out their old engagement.
Four miles from here is the spot where
the new Odessa Railway Company is to
break the first sod for the new enter
prise. There is rumor in town to-day
that this was effected without hindrance
yesterday. 1t is stated as n precedent
for the bruitcd injunction that 25 years
ago the railroad between Clayton and
Smyrna had to be moved from too close
contiguity to the county road. 1t said
that one of the road commissioners
remarked yesterday that were he put on
the stand he could not consciontiously
say that the new railroad will be u de-
triment to public travel
MInDLETowy, Nov. l9.--This is the finest
day Of any since the institute commenced.
The weather is perfect. The cold, sharp
wind Of yesterday has gone Everything Is
bright and cheerful and educational work,
so far rs appearances go, sswingng along
in perfect style. Interest in educational
matters continues with unahatcd zest. All
the sessions are well attended by the
county teachers.
In the evenings too the town is alive
with improvised receptions, teas and musi
Gales. The teachers nrc receiving every
attention from the residents.
Professor A. Thomas Smith of West
Chester State Normal School conducted
devotional exercises at the opening Of this
mornings session. Professor Il. B. Handy
was the first speaker. lie took up the sub
ject of "AEithmetic'' as il should be taught
i'll the common school. lie thought that
tine custom is to go too much by rote and