Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-04-10

the Chicago Board of Education to
restore the Bible in public schools.
Eminent Catholics favors it. A com
mittee from all the prominent sects
has been appointed to select non
sectarian passages.
Small boys often ask their par
ents; "How deep is the sea ? The
answer depends entirely upon the
sea. The following table, compiled
by one who has investigated, may
help one to the solution of one of
the small boys problems. Average
depth in yards Pacific, 4,252; At
lantic, 4,O26 Indian, s,65s Antarc-
tic, 5000 Arctic, 1890 Mediterran-
can, I, ,476 Irish, 240 English Chan
mel, ITO; Adriatic, as Baltic, al
Round Table.
Idleness standing in the midst of
uninterrupted tasks is always proud.
Work is always tending TO humil-
ity. Work touches the key of end
less activity, opens the infinite, and
stands awe-struck before the inn
mensity of what there is to do.
A Report in the Bombay Guard
ian indicates what influences are at
work to demoralize India, and undo
the work of missionaries in that
land. All vessels bound for west
and south missions stop at Madam
Here is the list of liquors which pas.
sed through in one week. It is ta-
ken from the daily returns posted
in Liverpool: 100000 cases of gin
"a, 900 butts of rum $4,000 cases Of
brandy 2S, 900 cases of Irish whis.
key 800, 900 demijohns of rum &c..
600 barrels of rum; 10000 barrels
of gin $4,000 barrels of absinthe
40, 900 cases of vermouth.
What is true of the so-called
learned professions is true to-day oi
every line of business. In order tC
succeed the man must be able to use
every faculty to the best advantage
He must have not only sound
mind, but trained mind. He mus
be able to think in the right way
and to act at the right moment. Ii
the early stage of his career in busi
ness a young man will not appreci
ate what he has missed by not going
to college. Assuming that he en-
tered an Office or store at seven
teen, and that his friend entered col
lege at the same age, he will feel a
twenty -one greatly the superior o
his friend in business ability. Blu
five or ten years later the one wh'
had the college training will proba
bly, be found to be working NOR,
easily, with greater confidence, ant
with exactly as much or more sue
cess than the friend who had fou
years the start.A-Outlook.
The college president who one as
tonished some Of his students b!
saying that he had no doubt that h
used his dictionary much more fire
quently than any of them, said onl.
what is probably true of almos
every professor and author of abili
ty and scholarship. AS Horace, tn
prince of Roman lyric poets, en-
joined upon the young men of hi
day who were ambitious of poeti
honors to turn the pages of tn
Greek classics, their models, by da,
and by night, so the successful mod
ern scholar, taught by experience
might well say, not only to ever
aspirant for distinction in literar,
pursuits or the learned professions
but to every one possessed of a
honorable ambition to become an in
telligent and influential citizen
"Turn the pages of your 'dictionar
and your encyclopaedia with untir
ing resolution and patience. PEI
haps there is no other achievement
which so distinctly marks the turn
ing point in the" students career
and every teacher worthy of tn
name is, above all student as tina
which crowns his efforts when h
first acquires that strength of will
that mastery overall the forces G
Incidence, which enable him {
make it matter of habit and o
conscience to refer promptly to tn
dictionary or other book of referenc
ON every necessary occasion, trust
ing nothing TO guesswork, and moth
ing to a lazy resolution to look 1t u
at some more convenient season. =
, Canada Ed. Journal.
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