train reached Palatka the hog was eating waste corn at Vertree's stable. On another occasion the writer of this was sleeping in camp, and around lay a pack of hounds who had often proved that a bear at bay brought no terror to their hearts, and who carried scars honorably earned in strife with the wild cat and panther. But a number of these razorbacks came around in the dead of night, and when the dogs attempted to drive them off, they charged like warriors true and tried. They swept off the dogs and charged over the hunters. Blankets, guns, cooking utensils, and fishing rods became things of the past, and stout men took refuge in the boats. Then, to save the dogs, revolvers entered into the fray, and finally the fierce grunters moved off in search of pastures new. With the early dawn came a long, lean man who carried a rifle as long as himself, and he assessed the damages which the hogs should have paid, and carried off the slain, which the victors did not want.-Pulaski News. ADMIT THE GIRLS. The action of the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge in appointing a committee to report upon the admission of girls to that institution deserves more than a passing notice. The admission of girls to the University will be a great innovation in Louisiana, but it will be no new thing in America. A large majority of the colleges in the United States ad mit young ladies on the same terms and conditions on which young men are admitted. This is especially true of the Industrial Colleges established under the Federal grant of 1862. In twenty-six States girls are admitted to the Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges. No one can deny the exact justice of giving the young la dies a share in the benefits of such colleges. The law making the grant does not limit it to male schools There is nothing in the provisions of the act of Congress that neces sarily implies that the colleges to be established shall be for the exclusive benefit of males. Then why should not Louisiana girls be admitted, at least to the Industrial Department of the University at Baton Rouge? The arts and sciences taught there as well as the practical trades will be of as much advantage to girls as to boys. Will anyone deny that a lady may properly become a chemist, an architect, an engraver, a carver, moulder, teleg rapher, etc., etc.? The admission of girls would require the enlargement of curriculum on the practical and industrial side. New branches and new arts should be introduced. But this is precisely what the grant of Congress was intended for, an Industrial School. Indeed, there has been much complaint that the funds appropriated by Congress for industrial purposes are used to support the academic side of the University. The farmers of the State, whether justly or not, feel that their sons and the sons of workingmen generally, are not deriving the aid and advantage from the munificent endowment of Congress that they are entitled to under the letter and the spirit of the granting act. An extension of the industrial studies so as to meet the needs and tastes of female students would argely remove these complaints. The admission of girls would increase the number of students and fill the classes and lecture rooms of the professors. It would make the University more popular with the young men. It would cause many police juries, which have refused to send a beneficiary to avail themselves of that right in order to benefit some worthy' girl. It would put Louisiana en rapport with the most progressive States and attract a favorable notice throughout the world to our educational syste... By all means let the Board admit the girls. Justice as well as generosity demands it.-A. A. Gunby, in Louisiana Edu cator. ARITHMETIC.-PERCENTAGE. JOHN MCLOYD, PENNSYLVANIA. The teacher who carefully followed our lesson last winter will find no trouble in applying the reasoning therein out. lined to this work. We assume that the student of the lesson knows the meaning of all the terms. If that be true the knowledge that in every complete base there are 100 per cent. or 100 hundreths will make this lesson very easy. Let us impress upon the learned that when we ask to know what 22 per cent. of 100 sheep would be he must think of 100 sheep as 100 per cent. because it is 100 hundredths of the number subject to competition. If this be understood all queries in percentage will be easily analyzed. Let us take the simple problem. Find 8 per cent. of $600, and resolve it into this 100 per cent =$600. 866 The analysis may run as follows. X. Analysis. Since 100 per cent equals $600, 1 per cent will equal 1 one hundredth part as much as 100 per cent (hence place 100 on left of statement line) and 8 per cent will equal 8 times as much as 1 per cent will equal (hence place 8 on right of statement line) Now rejecting the common factor 100 from 100 and 600 we have 1 on left of line and 6 x 8 on right. 6 x 8 divided by 1 equals $48 or 8% of 600. Prob. 2. A man threshed 750 bushels of wheat and received 37.5 bushels for doing the job, what per cent did he charge for threshing? 750 100 per cent. 37.5= X 100 per cent is the number to be increased or decreased 2. Because the younger the child, the more easily he may be led to an unconscious and free expression of thought. The child should early be introduced to good literature, because the taste for good reading is worth more than the ability to read. The requirements of the first two years, excepting number, consist largely in learning symbols for ideas already known. Good reading is needed to furnish new and interesting ideas during this period. There is a tendency in some primary schools to neglect literature for elementary science. Fact and fancy should go hand in hand, and any system of instruction or of textbooks which does not recognize this truth is one-sided and ncomplete. A moral truth appareled in attractive story will find its way to a child's heart when precepts are unheeded and preaching antagonized; hence the ethical possibilities of the story. The power to reproduce stories orally is a valuable preparation for all advanced study requiring the reproduction of the thoughts of others. There is an anecdote related of two students who agreed that they would train themselves to master a lesson at a single reading. Their marks fell, but they persevered and not only regained their former standing, but acquired exceptional power.-Public School Journal. A NUMBER DEVICE. An exercise in primery number teaching that has been tested with remarkable success is that of story telling. The teacher may begin a story, introducing every now and then combination of numbers which are recorded upon the board when mentioned; after getting the pupils interested in the story, let them use their imagination at any point to direct the course of the story. The combinations on the blackboard will serve as a guide to recall it. There are many benefits resulting from such an exercise. Besides being an excellent number lesson it serves as a language lesson and the children are acquiring a habit of continuous attention which single concrete examples cannot accomplish; they forget their surroundings in their interest in the story, and throwing off the restraint give full play to their powers.-Shutt's Hand Book of Arithmetic. MAKING A SPOOL OF THREAD. "To make a spool of thread," says a manufacturer, "is a complicated process. Only the very best Sea Island cotton can be used for this purpose. The cotton is taken in the raw state and torn all to pieces by a machine called a 'breaker.' It then goes through several other machines by which it is carefully combed and freed from impurities. A machine called a 'slipper' then takes it up and twists it out into white yarn. This is carefully combed again, and it is then taken into another department, where several small strands of this yarn are twisted into one fine one. Three of these are then twisted together, and you then have six cord thread, which, after it is bleached, is ready for the market. Another interesting thing is the number of the thread. Every lady knows the size of the thread that she requires for doing a certain piece of work, but very few of them know how it came to be so numbered. You see, when cotton thread was first made 840 yards of it weighed one pound. This was called No. 1, and if a pound contained just twice this number of yards it was called No. 2, and so on." THE PEABODY BOARD. From the hand of the President, Hon. Robt. C. Winthrop, we have received a copy of the "Proceedings of the Trus tees of the Peabody Education Fund at their Thirtieth Meeting, New York, October 7, 1891." For almost the first time during the existence of the Board, the venerable President was not at the meeting. And that reminds us to say that during the past month two members of the Board, Ex-President R. B. Hayes and Hon. J. L. M. Curry, have visited many of the schools of the South, including the Peabody Normal College at Nashville. THE COLUMBIA DAILY CALENDAR. An old friend in a new dress, and an article that has come to be one of the indispensables of an editor's desk comes to hand in the Columbia Daily Calendar for 1892. The calendar is in the form of a pad containing 367 leaves, 5% x 25% inches; one for each day of the year, to be removed daily, and one for the entire year. Each slip bears a short paragraph pertaining to cycling or some kindred subject. At the bottom of each leaf is a blank for memoranda. Bright pupils are dangerous material in the hands of ambitious teachers. J. H. ALLEN. THE CROSS TEACHER. AFTER LONGFELLOW. The teacher is cross and quick and fiery; My back is sore and my life is dreary, My mind still wonders how he struck so fast, Be still, pained back, and cease repining, QUESTIONS FOR LITTLE LFARNERS. What kind of a bridge does winter build over a river? What qualities has a cat or a dog that a child would do well to copy? Why does pussy make so little noise when she walks about? Name some toy made of wood, tin, iron, rubber, glass, paper. Who has a toy made of some material we have not named? Name some toy to be used out of doors; in the house. What is the stove made of; the window; slate pencil? Who can name some object that looks like a triangle? Who can name some object of irregular shape? Who can make a sentence of two words? of three words? Tell me something some animal can do that a man cannot do? Tell me something a man can do that no animal is able to do? I. 2. EASY QUESTIONS FOR LITTLE ONES. In what town, county, State, country, do you live? 3. Who is President of the United States? 4. In what part of your town (or township) is your schoolhouse situated? 5. In what direction is your home from your school? 6. How far do you think it is from your home to your school? 7. In what direction is the nearest large town or city from your house? 8. In what direction does the front door of your schoolhouse face? 9. How many feet wide is your school-room? 10. Which is wider, the school-room or the road in front of the school-house?- Goldthwaite's Geographical Magazine. Charlie has just learned to read, and he tries his new accomplishment at every opportunity. The other day he was One of the chief aims of the teacher should be to arouse the interest of pupils in their study. Any legitimate method or device that will secure this result must be regarded as valuable whether new or old. One of the first essentials, as we take it, to secure this result is that the teacher himself must be interested in his work. He who teaches to "kill time" will usually find that the students in his classes wait with quite as much eagerness as himself for the signal which closes the recitation and the school for the day. Indeed, a teacher who is not interested in both the mental progress of his pupils and their welfare in general ought not to hold the place. Educational News. It is said that the ouly words in the English language that end in "ceed," are "exceed," "proceed" and "succeed" that only four English words end in "cion"; "coerccion," 'suspicion," "internecion," aud "epinicion"; that only four end in "dous"; "hazardous,"jeopardous," "stupendous," and "tremendous "-Florida School Journal. The only two words that contain all the vowels in success ion, are "abstemious" and "facetious". "I hold all scholarship that ever man had to be infinitely worthless in comparison with even a very humble degree of spiritual advancement." These words of the great scholar, Arnold, of Rugby, deserve to be written in letters of gold. They remind us of the words of the learned and saintly Archbishop Leighton, who said, pointing to his books: "One devout thought is worth them all."—Christian Advocate. The old gentleman has his inning once in a while. "Are you there?" tenderly whispered a young man in Newcastle, Ind., to a girl who had agreed to elope with him. "You be sure I am," responded the "old man" as he downed the young fellow with a club. Somehow the old man of this generation is a bit pearter than he used to be. The next issue of THE JOURNAL will contain a sketch of Tulane University of Louisiana, by Prof. Alcee Fortier; "How to Teach Orthography," by Superintendent Griffin, Troy, Ala.; "Practice Teaching in Normal Schools," by Dr. William H. Payne; and other original and selected articles. A Bad Actor.-Editor: How was that new actor? Editor-What's the matter with him? Critic-I think he must have studied elocution. -Street & Smith's Good News. In Ellensburg, Washington, the other day, a Chinaman walked down the street whistling "Annie Rooney," and was followed by an Indian playing "Home, Sweet Home," on the harmonica. BOOK NOTES. [All books noticed in these columns are for sale by the Wheeler Publishing Company, Nashville.] The series of Information Readers, of which we have just received No. 2 from the Boston School Supply Company, is significant of the profound change which school methods and theories have undergone within the past decade. The information Readers are issued in response to the increasing demand for reading books that, while enlarging the vocabulary of the young learner, shall tell him something of the busy work-a-day world around him. In Every-day occupation the right sort of information is presented to him in most alluring guise. We regard the publication of these books as exceedingly well timed. Intelligent parents are everywhere questioning the wisdom of a curriculum that stuffs the child's memory with cube-root rules, and leaves the child ignorant of, for instance, the hygenic values of ordinary kinds of food. Such knowledge is not ashy fruit, but living seed. It gives reality and purpose to the coming life; it tends to make foresight do the bitter work of experience; and it substitutes wise and early resolve for late and unavailing regret. No grammar school should be without these books. The author has entered on an attractive field, and he instructs his young readers without tiring them. In presenting his facts he has constantly borne in mind that primal truth of psychology, that, to make facts of educational value, they must be associated, and be available as standards of measurement and comparison. Every teacher should have at least one book written by Bill Nye-this writer has the whole series. "Remarks by Bill Nye" is the latest and the largest. There is no medicine equal to this for relieving the weary teacher of nervousness"that tired feeling" of which the patent medicine man speaks The book is two inches thick and costs only fifty cents. The author himself admits that "this is my greatest and best book." Your pupils will be grateful if you read it. In English Words Prof. C. F. Johnson has made a singularly interesting book, and one which is not only sure of a cordial welcome, but it is likely to become immensely popular in the class room. The author does not claim to go into his subject deeply, his aim being rather to introduce it to the reader in such an attractive way as to prompt him to a further and more serious examination into the origin and relationship of words and their uses. In this he has succeeded admirably. His book is scholary in substance, popular in form, and interesting as a good story. The chapters on the "Method of Word-forming Instinct," and "Groups of Words with a Common Root," are thoroughly enjoyable. In the former, speaking of the rustic poetry frequently to be found in the names of flowers, he tells us "Chaucer's daisy is the eye of the day. Buttercup and golden rod are equally descriptive. Rosemary is ros marine, from some fancied resemblance between the flower and sea-spray. It has been altered from ros marine by reason of a popular etymology connecting it with rose of Mary. Rose is from an Arabic word which passed into Greek, thence into Latin, thence into English. Foxglove embodies a pretty Foxglove embodies a pretty conceit. The asters have a star-like form. Geranium is from the Greek geranos, a crane, the flowers having a fancied resemblance to a stork's bill in color Pink comes from a Cel tic word meaning to pierce, as in 'to pink with a rapier,' and the name was given on account of the 'pinked' or serrated edges of the flowers.' Some interesting facts are noted in connection with the origin of geographical names: "A very odd name of a village in one of our wester states is Yreka, which the future etymologist will no doubt explain as a corruption of Eureka. In reality, it was suggested by the sign of a bakery, which printed in large letters on a window curtain, was legible from the inside, but from the outside appeared Afloat on the Nile. By E. H. Blashfield and E. W. Blashfileld. Illustrations by E. H. Blashfield; engraving by Peckwell, Witte, Klotz, C. I. Butler, State. Varley, Heard, and M. J. Whaley. The Oak of Geismar. By the Rev. Henry van Dyke. Illustration by Howard Pyle. Espero Gorgoni, Gondolier. By F. Hopkinson Smith. Illustrations by the author; engraving Pettit, State, Putnam, and Heard. A Charge for France. by John Heard, Jr. Illustrations by L. Marchetti; engraving by Packwell. Winter Lilacs. By Mrs. James T. Fields. A Painter of Beautiful Dreams. By Harold Frederic. Illustrations from paintings by Albert Moore; engraving by King, Kruell, French, Wolf, Packwell, Andrew and E. H. Del'Orme. The Wrecker-Chapters XII.-XIII. By Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. (Begun in August to be continued.) With a full-page illustration by William Hole. Peter Rugg the Bostonian. By Louise Imogen Guiney. Illustration by Howard Pyle. A Little Captive Maid. By Sarah Orne Jewett. tion by Herbert Denman; engraving by Witte. Illustra Il The Land of Poco Tiempo. By Charles F. Lummis. lustrations after photographs; engraving by G. and E. H. Del'Orme. Peleus to Thetis. By Bessie Chandler. borders by Herbert Denman. With decorative A Fresh-water Romance. By George A Hibbard. A Ballade of Dawn. By Hugh McCulloch. The Point of view. The Virtue of receiving-Mr. Spencer as an instance-Men's Work. WE DO NOT BELIEVE GREATEST EARLY AMERICAN NOVELIST. in a bill-board style of advertising in a staid and dignified jourual such as this; and usually WE DO NOT TALK LOUD; But this is an occasion on which it is to your advantage and to our advantage and to everybody's advantage that WE SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD! 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