Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-12
NORMAL NOTES.


of the waters of wisdom that they rath-
er disturbed the pedagogical equiIibri-
UNI of their teacher. This is no more,
however. than might be said of the sec
Ond, third and fourth reader classes
and their teachers, Misses Patton, Nc
Gregor and Dicks.
Several normalltes mostly 'femmes'
still cling to the use of dog tallow mix
ed with bergamot as a dentifrice, and
the instructors have decided that they
will publish the names of such persons
as references to form a Gum Chewers'
Directory.
The normalites are now considering
the advisability of changing the dress
of Earl Rouse to suit his talents. They
think he would make good browny.
A young historian who had evidently
been studying bookkeeping, tried to
make his Johnston account balance,
and so put j. E. Johnston on the Cop
federate side and A. S. on the Federal.
Irma had little lamb,
VanHoose he had a wheel
Our poet here saw that the job was too
great for his powers so he turned it
over to the prose scribbler, who though
he knows he cannot do the subject JUS
tlce will merely state that the lamb got
lost and VanHoose, returning at dusk
from run on his wheel, affirmed that
he believed he had seen tile aforesaid
lamb only a short distance off. He
therefore went in search of the same.
and 1t was then he showed that his
bump of stick to it-lveness is most alb
normally developed, for his boarding
place saw him no more till eleven
O'Clock. All this time lie had been
presumably hunting that (?) lamb Not
only this, but he seemed bound to find
that lamb after dark for he tired the
same plan again and we know not how
long he will keep on trying. Prof. Van
HooSe is rather tOuchy on the subject,
however, and when a certain person
told him that he believed he could get
night glass for him he jumped at the
conclusion that the certain person was
engaged in the same business, but dill
gent inquiry failed to discover the least
semblance of grounds for such suspic-
ions and the Professor is consequently
compelled to let his fancy hug his ex-
ploded, but still cherished, fantastic
decisions, whose chimerical phantas-
magoria his noumenal perception re-
fuses to dispel.
Verify, verify, the ways of man are
strange, but of woman, in this case at
least, doubly so. In the reading class
.es they had reached that place where
they must have exercise in reading Sc
lectiOns of an Oratorical nature. In
stead of sticking to the time honored
1.-The atrocious crime of being young
man" or ''Give me liberty or give me
DEATH" Prof. Kenwell, following the
custom of everyone who has in the least
the spirit of progress and desiring to
get something which they had not had
before brought up for use in the read
ing class, the speech of all speeches,
which is acknowledged by all to be the
most mastery oratorical effort of recent
times, chose Bryan's Chicago speech
Hereupon three members of the read
ing classes felt insulted that such a
thing should be read in class and got
up and left the class and carried and
spread their disaffection in the halls
and the rest of the building. While it
is certainly the privilege of everyone to
agree or disagree with political speech
yet no one can deny that Bryan's speech
will take high historical rank as
far as oratory is concerned and it is q
matter of regret generally that those
particular three, especially that voter
who claims by his profession to be
progressive and broad minded, saw fiji
to make of themselves a spectacle OF
mOss-backism, bigotry and uncivility
1t is the decided wish of the entire
number of teachers with whom we
have talked that no temporary certifi
Gates should be granted and with the
exception of sickness as a cause for moi
taking the coming examinations, Co
Supt. Shell has yielded to their express
wish and will grant none.
Since our last the following have en-
rolled. Total enrolment 125:
Frank Mccoy Matte Thayer