The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-08-25
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OF Adirondasks and. the mountains Of
New England; these that cut the Mo.
hawk gap through which the Erie canal
carries it, lsads Of grain to eastern mar.
kets.
These glaciers were like rivers, their
middle portion moving more swiftly
than near the banks. Another glacier
called sheet glacier covered the western
part of Greenland and - 1t moved slowly
its edges ovsrhanging the sea broke of,
forming icebergs.
He also explained how ocean currents
warm the shores Of continents near
which they flow, not by warming the
atmosphere but by pushing warm water
against the shores and thus melting the
Ice.
Miss Hughey illustrated her talk on
Emphasis" by reciting the poem by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox beginning,
Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone"
and also that of Walter Scott,
"Breathss there . man with soul % dead,
Who never TO himself has said,
This 10 my own, my native land"
By the time Miss Hughey had finished
a dark cloud was observed coming rap.
idly from the west, and the Institute ad-
iourned Just in time to escape drench.
ing in the downpour which occurred
about twelve.
In the afternoon Philip Berg gave one
of his violin solos. If anything was
needed to bringNdown the house with
enthusiastic applause it was one OF
Philip Berg'e violin solos.
The piano solo by Miss jeanette Scott
was also very fine.
Miss Faris illustrated lesson on "The
Eskimos" by drawings representing the
Eskimo boy and girl, their home, their
sled and dogs and the mode of hunting
the seal.
She read Jane Andrews fine descrlp.
ton ofthe Aurora and little poem about
the Eskimo lad.
DR.. Redway illustrated his talk on
teaching by "cause and effect" by citing
the reason for mass of population form
ing in certain sections while others were
sparsely settled; as the existence of
plant life capabilities Of the soil for cul.
ture; nesrness OF hsrbors for shipping
adaptation of certain sections for graz
ing; facilities for water power; topog-
raphy in respect to transportation and
other important matters relating to com.
merce.
A recess was given to talk over. names
for candidates. After recess Miss Mora
Harsha gave a:fne cornet solo.
Prof. McKinnon on History" said
that America had been discovered nine
times. First in 499 by the Chinese,
in 1000 by the Mortimer. in ITO by the
Welsh, in 1880 by the Venetians, in 1463
by the Portuguese. in 1476 by the Poles,
in 1880 by the Germans, in 1892 by COL
umbus, Spaniard, and again in 1898 by
Spain.
He said that the reason these early
discoveries were never followed up, was
on account of the low ebb at which
the means of navigation stood at that
time. He did not add that Spain found
navigation at high tide in America in
1898.
He gave some interesting statistics in
regard to the Simm's explorations in
1888, and the 10000 miles of railway at
present in the United States. He also
gave one item that will interest our Ohio
school boys, that the first steam whistle
on locomotive was heard in Ohio.
Nominations were made before ad-
journment.
DR.. Redway's lecture on Thursday
evening, 1.-THE Influence of Climate and
Topography on History" was not as we'll
attended as it's merits warranted, on &C.
count of the rain early in the evening.
To those who were there it was feast
OF good things in the way Of general
knowledge of the world, and the effect
of environment upon mans progress; a
mans environments influence him, yet
he sometimes rises superior to them. It
is not man but his environments which
have located almost all the industries of
the country, massing the agricultural
population in one part, the manufactar-
ing in another, the -four mills in the
north and the cotton industry in the
south. But men have risen above en-
vironment when they have irrigated un-
productive lands, when they have in.
vented machines that accomplish work
hitherto impossible under natural cir
cumstances.
He told of small machine not 80 com.
plicated as coffee mill, invented in one
of the paper mills of the East, for drying
the wood pulp of which paper is made