The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-04-02
THE BRAIN HACKERS
AND THEIR PROFOUND QUER-
IES.-SHOOL EXAM
INERS STILL
Tormenting Us and Teasing the
Teachers.
Helpful Suggestions to the Culzzed
Applicants.
Tho Help Out of the Tangle.

In the late examination we ina
this by Prof. Rickets:
"Why was Johnston impeached?
Whose vote invalidated it? Why?
The question is misleading, is absurd.
As we'll ask "Why was Johnston be-
headed? And what has become of the
head? The Examiner is funny or is
ignorant. johnson was not impeached.
The attempt was made by gang OF
revolutionists, bent upou the over
throw of the government, TO impeach
him, but the infamous and cowardly
attempt failed, No "vote invalIda-
ted' it. The vote of majarity of
of Senators prevented the infamous
scheme of Jim Ashley from being
carried out, and "why?" as Radical
Ratified Rickets has in his head, he
was not impeached, was because
majority of United State senators,by
their votes, not by one mans vote as
Rickets has in mind, would sanction
the infamy the destructionists of the
government had in view. When Ex-
aminer ricketts, propeunds q. 5.
History questions to the class, he
should be historically correct, and he
should not invite political discuss
ion unlees he is in the Board for
political purpose.
Again he asks "why does the con-
stltutlor put the Vice President over
the Senate?" This is silly. Why
did the constitution provide for any
thing? Besides the vice president is
not always the presiding officer OF
the senate, and we suppose that is
what the examiner meant by ''put
over" He Is in certain conditions
"put over" the Army. The why of
this, too, might be asked, since fool
questions are in order.
But dropping Rickets whom We
love and are 10th to leave, We en-
brace the Goodly Goodwin. He pre-
sents question that is to our liking.
1t takes us into our element. The
Commodore is at home in navigation,
and it is our deli ght to assist the
land Iubbers of the class who may be.
puzzled with this marine movement.
The question is: "What waters
would you cross and in what direction
would you sail in going from Bremen
to Yokahoma?'
The question is hardly a fair test,
because no two teachers, and most
likely no two Commodores might
have the same notion as the proper
direction. We know how we might
make start on the trip. We know
how once We did make part of the
trip.
Leaving Bremen the traveller would
most likely try to make Lancaster, in
order to procure supplies, crackers
and bologna. But reaching Hooking
he wouldn't cross it because he
couldn't. Such was our experience.
We fell back on the hills, reached
Rusbcreek, a roaring river at Fred
Roof ford, ferried over. This was
the only water we crossed. And had
we been bent on going to Yokohoma,
Fred Roofs boat would have foated
us to the Gulf and then we could
have "sailed" by way or Cuba or
Venezuela as the spirit moved us,
doubled CapeHorn or passed through
the Pillars of Hercules, crossing lots
of seas and CULTS and bays, and bodies
of water not named in the books.
We might be long time sailing
then, Prof, and it might take a big
book to contain all the interesting
PARTICULARS. So We cant help out the
class and rest with giving this above
mention as pointer when they take
to skiff, crossing Rushcreek on the
way from Bremen to Yokahoma.
But to go back to some unfinished
work.
We had been asked to assist the
class in answering the question OF a
previous examination, "What is the
difference between flesh and meat?''
We had stated on authority that "all
flesh is grass" and that the meat of
John the baptist was ''locusts and
wild honey but this seemed to be get
ting too wide apart, the relation OF
timothy and grasshopper, white clover
and honey is close, to be sure, but
the difference is not clear.
Outside aid has come to our help.
Our veteran Ash Cave poet whom
we have in emergency, and who ha:
been feeding on be,ch buds and
polk stalk grass, in a kind Of Camp
Four fit of poetic ecstacy, sends u
this:
"If flesh is grass as they all say
Then Rickets must be bale Of straw
The poet writes note to explai'
that to make the couplet rhyme woul(
be to make a wrong deduction, ha.
at fhis time being entirely too val
liable commodity to use in the jus
oomn.rison with the value of the ex