“A darling literary curiosity.... The collection is made by a teacher ... and all the examples in it are genuine; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored in any way.”

It is to be noticed that there is a curious sympathy in point of error on both sides of the Atlantic, for seventeen of the mistakes quoted in this book as being made in the Public Schools of America appear in similar or identical words in an Article on “Boys’ Blunders” in the Cornhill Magazine of June, 1886, which was written by a Master in an English Public School.

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Dr. Blimber’s establishment was a great hothouse in which there was a forcing apparatus incessantly at work. All the boys blew before their time. Mental green peas were produced at Christmas and intellectual asparagus all the year round. Mathematical gooseberries (very sour ones) were common at untimely seasons and from mere sprouts of bushes under Dr. Blimber’s cultivation. Every description of Greek and Latin vegetable was got off the dryest twigs of boys under the frostiest circumstances. Nature was of no consequence at all. No matter what a young gentleman viwas intended to bear Dr. Blimber made him bear to pattern. But the system of forcing was attended with its usual disadvantages. There was not the right taste about the premature productions and they didn’t keep well. When poor Paul had spelt out No. 2 he found he had no idea of No. 1, fragments whereof afterwards obtruded themselves into No. 3 which slided into No. 4 which grafted itself on to No. 2; so that whether twenty Romuluses made a Remus, or a verb always agreed with an ancient Briton, or three times four was Taurus a bull, were open questions with him. But however high and false the temperature at which Dr. Blimber kept his hothouse, the owners of the plants were always ready to lend a helping hand at the bellows and to stir the fire.

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As the greatest compliment that could be paid a writer would be the assumption that the material contained in this little volume was the product of that writer’s ingenuity or imagination, it seems needless for the compiler to state that every line is just what it purports to be,—bona fide answers to questions asked in the public schools.

Mark Twain, with his inimitable drollery, viiicomments in the Century Magazine for April, 1887, upon English as She is Taught. Even this master of English humor acknowledges his inability to comprehend how such success in the literature of fun could be attained, not only without effort or intention, but through heroic struggles to set forth hard facts and sober statistics. That the English public may have the benefit of Mark Twain’s comments, his paper is, with his consent, here reprinted in its complete form. Although this involves a certain amount of repetition—comment and illustration being too intricately blended to separate—it is a repetition or résumé of the best things in the book, such as the wise reader will hardly grumble at.

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In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson, one finds this anecdote:

Cato’s Soliloquy.—One day Mrs. Gastrel set a little girl to repeat to him [Doctor Samuel Johnson] Cato’s Soliloquy, which she went through very correctly. The Doctor, after a pause, asked the child—

“What was to bring Cato to an end?”

xiiShe said it was a knife.

“No, my dear, it was not so.”

“My aunt Polly said it was a knife.”

“Why, Aunt Polly’s knife may do, but it was a dagger, my dear.”

He then asked her the meaning of “bane and antidote,” which she was unable to give. Mrs. Gastrel said—

“You cannot expect so young a child to know the meaning of such words.”

He then said—

“My dear, how many pence are there in sixpence?”

“I cannot tell, sir,” was the half-terrified reply.

On this, addressing himself to Mrs. Gastrel, he said—

“Now, my dear lady, can anything be more ridiculous than to teach a child Cato’s Soliloquy, who does not know how many pence there are in sixpence?”

In a lecture before the Royal Geographical Society, Professor Ravenstein quoted the following xiiilist of frantic questions, and said that they had been asked in an examination:

Mention all the name of places in the world derived from Julius Cæsar or Augustus Cæsar.

Where are the following rivers: Pisuerga, Sakaria, Guadalete, Jalon, Mulde?

All you know of the following: Machacha, Pilmo, Schebulos, Crivoscia, Basecs, Mancikert, Taxhen, Citeaux, Meloria, Zutphen.

The highest peaks of the Karakorum range.

The number of universities in Prussia.

Why are the tops of mountains continually covered with snow [sic]?

Name the length and breadth of the streams of lava which issued from the Skaptar Jokul in the eruption of 1783.

That list would oversize nearly anybody’s geographical knowledge. Isn’t it reasonably possible that in our schools many of the questions in all studies are several miles ahead of where the pupil is?—that he is set to struggle with xivthings that are ludicrously beyond his present reach, hopelessly beyond his present strength? This remark in passing, and by way of text; now I come to what I was going to say.

I have just now fallen upon a darling literary curiosity. It is a little book, a manuscript compilation, and the compiler sent it to me with the request that I say whether I think it ought to be published or not. I said Yes! but as I slowly grow wise, I briskly grow cautious; and so, now that the publication is imminent, it has seemed to me that I should feel more comfortable if I could divide up this responsibility with the public by adding them to the court. Therefore I will print some extracts from the book, in the hope that they may make converts to my judgment that the volume has merit which entitles it to publication.

As to its character. Every one has sampled “English as She has Spoke” and “English as She is Wrote”; this little volume furnishes us an instructive array of examples of “English as She is Taught”—in the public schools of—well, xvthis country. The collection is made by a teacher in those schools, and all the examples in it are genuine; none of them have been tampered with, or doctored in any way. From time to time, during several years, whenever a pupil has delivered himself of anything peculiarly quaint or toothsome in the course of his recitations, this teacher and her associates have privately set that thing down in a memorandum-book; strictly following the original, as to grammar, construction, spelling, and all; and the result is this literary curiosity.

The contents of the book consist mainly of answers given by the boys and girls to questions, said answers being given sometimes verbally, sometimes in writing. The subjects touched upon are fifteen in number: I. Etymology; II. Grammar; III. Mathematics; IV. Geography; V. “Original”; VI. Analysis; VII. History; VIII. “Intellectual”; IX. Philosophy; X. Physiology; XI. Astronomy; XII. Politics; XIII. Music; XIV. Oratory; XV. Metaphysics.

You perceive that the poor little young idea xvihas taken a shot at a good many kinds of game in the course of the book. Now as to results. Here are some quaint definitions of words. It will be noticed that in all of these instances the sound of the word, or the look of it on paper, has misled the child:

Aborigines, a system of mountains.

Alias, a good man in the Bible.

Amenable, anything that is mean.

Assiduity, state of being an acid.

Auriferous, pertaining to an orifice.

Ammonia, the food of the gods.

Capillary, a little caterpillar.

Corniferous, rocks in which fossil corn is found.

Emolument, a headstone to a grave.

Equestrian, one who asks questions.

Eucharist, one who plays euchre.

Franchise, anything belonging to the French.

Idolater, a very idol person.

Ipecac, a man who likes a good dinner.

Irrigate, to make fun of.

Mendacious, what can be mended.

xviiMercenary, one who feels for another.

Parasite, a kind of umbrella.

Parasite, the murder of an infant.

Publican, a man who does his prayers in public.

Tenacious, ten acres of land.

Here is one where the phrase “publicans and sinners” has got mixed up in the child’s mind with politics, and the result is a definition which takes one in a sudden and unexpected way:

Republican, a sinner mentioned in the Bible.

Also in Democratic newspapers now and then. Here are two where the mistake has resulted from sound assisted by remote fact:

Plagiarist, a writer of plays.

Demagogue, a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

xviiiI cannot quite make out what it was that misled the pupil in the following instances; it would not seem to have been the sound of the word, nor the look of it in print:

Asphyxia, a grumbling, fussy temper.

Quarternions, a bird with a flat beak and no bill, living in New Zealand.

Quarternions, the name given to a style of art practised by the Phœnicians.

Quarternions, a religious convention held every hundred years.

Sibilant, the state of being idiotic.

Crosier, a staff carried by the Deity.

In the following sentences the pupil’s ear has been deceiving him again:

The marriage was illegible.

He was totally dismasted with the whole performance.

He enjoys riding on a philosopher.

She was very quick at repertoire.

xixHe prayed for the waters to subsidize.

The leopard is watching his sheep.

They had a strawberry vestibule.

Here is one which—well, now, how often we do slam right into the truth without ever suspecting it:

The men employed by the Gas Company go round and speculate the meter.

Indeed they do, dear; and when you grow up, many and many’s the time you will notice it in the gas bill. In the following sentences the little people have some information to convey, every time; but in my case they failed to connect: the light always went out on the keystone word:

The coercion of some things is remarkable; as bread and molasses.

Her hat is contiguous because she wears it on one side.

He preached to an egregious congregation.

xxThe captain eliminated a bullet through the man’s heart.

You should take caution and be precarious.

The supercilious girl acted with vicissitude when the perennial time came.

That last is a curiously plausible sentence; one seems to know what it means, and yet he knows all the time that he doesn’t. Here is an odd (but entirely proper) use of a word, and a most sudden descent from a lofty philosophical altitude to a very practical and homely illustration:

He should endeavour to avoid extremes—like those of wasps and bees.

And here—with “zoölogical” and “geological” in his mind, but not ready to his tongue—the small scholar has innocently gone and let out a couple of secrets which ought never to have been divulged in any circumstances:

xxiThere are a good many donkeys in theological gardens.

Some of the best fossils are found in theological cabinets.

Under the head of “Grammar” the little scholars furnish the following information:

Gender is the distinguishing nouns without regard to sex.

A verb is something to eat.

Adverbs should always be used as adjectives and adjectives as adverbs.

Every sentence and name of God must begin with a caterpillar.

“Caterpillar” is well enough, but capital letter would have been stricter. The following is a brave attempt at a solution, but it failed to liquify:

When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they xxiimust put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry.

The chapter on “Mathematics” is full of fruit. From it I take a few samples—mainly in an unripe state.

A straight line is any distance between two places.

Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

Things which are equal to each other are equal to anything else.

To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by the number of the feet. The product is the result.

Right you are. In the matter of geography this little book is unspeakably rich. The questions do not appear to have applied the microscope to the subject, as did those quoted by Professor xxiiiRavenstein; still they proved plenty difficult enough without that. These pupils did not hunt with a microscope, they hunted with a shotgun; this is shown by the crippled condition of the game they brought in:

America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey.

North America is separated by Spain.

America consists from north to south about five hundred miles.

The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but is about as industrious.

The capital of the United States is Long Island.

The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfunlan and Sanfrancisco.

The principal products of the U. S. is earthquakes and volcanoes.

The Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelphia.

The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia.

xxivCape Hateras is a vast body, of water surrounded by land and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Mason and Dixon’s line is the Equater.

One of the leading industries of the United States is mollasses, book-covers, numbers, gas, teaching, lumber, manufacturers, paper-making, publishers, coal.

In Austria the principal occupation is gathering Austrich feathers.

Gibraltar is an island built on a rock.

Russia is very cold and tyrannical.

Sicily is one of the Sandwich Islands.

Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and green.

The width of the different zones Europe lies in depend upon the surrounding country.

The imports of a country are the things that are paid for, the exports are the things that are not.

Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days.

xxvThe two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.

The chapter headed “Analysis” shows us that the pupils in our public schools are not merely loaded up with those showy facts about geography, mathematics, and so on, and left in that incomplete state; no, there’s machinery for clarifying and expanding their minds. They are required to take poems and analyze them, dig out their common sense, reduce them to statistics, and reproduce them in a luminous prose translation which shall tell you at a glance what the poet was trying to get at. One sample will do. Here is a stanza from “The Lady of the Lake,” followed by the pupil’s impressive explanation of it.

xxviThe man who rode on the horse performed the whip and an instrument made of steel alone with strong ardor not diminishing, for, being tired from the time passed with hard labor overworked with anger and ignorant with weariness, while every breath for labor he drew with cries full of sorrow, the young deer made imperfect who worked hard filtered in sight.

I see, now, that I never understood that poem before. I have had glimpses of its meaning, in moments when I was not as ignorant with weariness as usual, but this is the first time the whole spacious idea of it ever filtered in sight. If I were a public-school pupil I would put those other studies aside and stick to analysis; for, after all, it is the thing to spread your mind.

We come now to historical matters, historical remains, one might say. As one turns the pages, he is impressed with the depth to which one date has been driven into the American child’s head—1492. The date is there, and it is there to stay. And it is always at hand, always deliverable xxviiat a moment’s notice. But the Fact that belongs with it? That is quite another matter. Only the date itself is familiar and sure: its vast Fact has failed of lodgment. It would appear that whenever you ask a public-school pupil when a thing—anything, no matter what—happened, and he is in doubt, he always rips out his 1492. He applies it to everything, from the landing of the ark to the introduction of the horse-car. Well, after all, it is our first date, and so it is right enough to honor it, and pay the public schools to teach our children to honor it:

George Washington was born in 1492.

Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1492.

St. Bartholemew was massacred in 1492.

The Brittains were the Saxons who entered England in 1492 under Julius Cæsar.

The earth is 1492 miles in circumference.

To proceed with “History”:

xxviiiChristopher Columbus was called the father of his Country.

Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America.

The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country.

The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in the bushes and then scalping them.

Captain John Smith has been styled the father of his country. His life was saved by his daughter Pochahantas.

The Puritans found an insane asylum in the wilds of America.

The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void.

Washington died in Spain almost brokenhearted. His remains were taken to the cathedral in Havana.

Gorilla warfare was where men rode on gorillas.

John Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get fugitives slaves into Virginia. He xxixcaptured all the inhabitants, but was finally conquered and condemned to his death. The Confederasy was formed by the fugitive slaves.

Alfred the Great reigned 872 years. He was distinguished for letting some buckwheat cakes burn, and the lady scolded him.

Henry Eight was famous for being a great widower haveing lost several wives.

Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days.

John Bright is noted for an incurable disease.

Lord James Gordon Bennett instigated the Gordon Riots.

The Middle Ages come in between antiquity and posterity.

Luther introduced Christianity into England a good many thousand years ago. His birthday was November 1883. He was once a Pope. He lived at the time of the Rebellion of Worms.

Julius Cæsar is noted for his famous telegram dispatch I came I saw I conquered.

Julius Cæsar was really a very great man. He xxxwas a very great soldier and wrote a book for beginners in the Latin.

Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup.

The only form of government in Greece was a limited monkey.

The Persian war lasted about 500 years.

Greece had only 7 wise men.

Socrates ... destroyed some statues and had to drink Shamrock.

Here is a fact correctly stated; and yet it is phrased with such ingenious infelicity that it can be depended upon to convey misinformation every time it is uncarefully read:

By the Salic law no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne.

To show how far a child can travel in history with judicious and diligent boosting in the public school, we select the following mosaic:

Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599.

xxxiIn the chapter headed “Intellectual” I find a great number of most interesting statements. A sample or two may be found not amiss:

Bracebridge Hall was written by Henry Irving.

Snow Bound was written by Peter Cooper.

The House of the Seven Gables, was written by Lord Bryant.

Edgar A. Poe was a very curdling writer.

Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotten gin and wrote histories.

Beowulf wrote the Scriptures.

Ben Jonson survived Shakespeare in some respects.

In the Canterbury Tale it gives account of King Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas Bucket.

Chaucer was the father of English pottery.

Chaucer was a bland verse writer of the third century.

Chaucer was succeeded by H. Wads. Longfellow xxxiian American Writer. His writings were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred years elapsed.

Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it.

In the middle of the chapter I find many pages of information concerning Shakspere’s plays, Milton’s works, and those of Bacon, Addison, Samuel Johnson, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Smollett, De Foe, Locke, Pope, Swift, Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, Wordsworth, Gibbon, Byron, Coleridge, Hood, Scott, Macaulay, George Eliot, Dickens, Bulwer, Thackeray, Browning, Mrs. Browning, Tennyson, and Disraeli—a fact which shows that into the restricted stomach of the public-school pupil is shoveled every year the blood, bone, and viscera of a gigantic literature, and the same is there digested and disposed of in a most successful and characteristic and gratifying public-school way. I have space for but a trifling few of the results:

xxxiiiLord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man.

Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy and Imitations on Immortality.

Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in Italy. This was original.

George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned greatly for his genius.

George Eliot Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross Mrs. Lewis was the greatest female poet unless George Sands is made an exception of.

Bulwell is considered a good writer.

Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great novelists.

Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied law, he was raised to the peerage as baron in 1557 and died in 1776.

Here are two or three miscellaneous facts that may be of value, if taken in moderation:

Homer’s writings are Homer’s Essays Virgil the Aneid and Paradise lost some people say xxxivthat these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of the same name.

A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems.

Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer.

When the public-school pupil wrestles with the political features of the Great Republic, they throw him sometimes:

A bill becomes a law when the president vetos it.

The three departments of the government is the President rules the world, the governor rules the State, the mayor rules the city.

The first conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia.

The Contitution of the United States was established to ensure domestic hostility.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again. As follows:

xxxvThe Constitution of the United States is that part of the book at the end which nobody reads.

And here she rises once more and untimely. There should be a limit to public-school instruction; it cannot be wise or well to let the young find out everything:

Congress is divided into civilized half civilized and savage.

Here are some results of study in music and oratory:

An interval in music is the distance on the keyboard from one piano to the next.

A rest means you are not to sing it.

Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another.

The chapter on “Physiology” contains much that ought not to be lost to science:

xxxviPhysillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry.

Occupations which are injurious to health are carbolic acid gas which is impure blood.

We have an upper and a lower skin. The lower skin moves all the time and the upper skin moves when we do.

The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious tissue.

The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body.

The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking.

The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart where it meets the oxygen and is purified.

The salivary glands are used to salivate the body.

In the stomach starch is changed to cane sugar and cane sugar to sugar cane.

The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is developed into the special sense of hearing.

xxxviiThe growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to the stomach.

If we were on a railroad track and a train was coming the train would deafen our ears so that we couldn’t see to get off the track.

If, up to this point, none of my quotations have added flavour to the Johnsonian anecdote at the head of this article, let us make another attempt:

The theory that intuitive truths are discovered by the light of nature originated from St. John’s interpretation of a passage in the Gospel of Plato.

The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead.

To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 62½ pounds.

The spheres are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides.

A body will go just as far in the first second xxxviiias the body will go plus the force of gravity and that’s equal to twice what the body will go.

Specific gravity is the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume of or that is the weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal volume.

The law of fluid pressure divide the different forms of organized bodies by the form of attraction and the number increased will be the form.

Inertia is that proberty of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.

If a laugh is fair here, not the struggling child, but the unintelligent teacher—or rather the unintelligent Boards, Committees, and Trustees—are the proper target for it. All through this little book one detects the signs of a certain probable fact—that a large part of the pupil’s “instruction” consists in cramming him with obscure and wordy “rules” which he does not xxxixunderstand, and has no time to understand. It would be as useful to cram him with brickbats; they would at least stay. In a town in the interior of New York, a few years ago, a gentleman set forth a mathematical problem and proposed to give a prize to every public-school pupil who should furnish the correct solution of it. Twenty-two of the brightest boys in the public schools entered the contest. The problem was not a very difficult one for pupils of their mathematical rank and standing, yet they all failed—by a hair—through one trifling mistake or another. Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the “rules” but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. Their memories had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple.

There are several curious “compositions” in the little book, and we must make room for one. It is full of naïveté, brutal truth, and unembarrassed xldirectness, and is the funniest (genuine) boy’s composition I think I have ever seen:

ON GIRLS.

Girls are very stuckup and dignified in their manner and be have your. They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in a far distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to church on Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boy’s hands and they say how dirty. They cant play marbles. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I don’t beleave they ever killed a cat or anything. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they al-ways now their lessons bettern boys.

From Mr. Edward Channing’s recent article in “Science”:

xliThe marked difference between the books now being produced by French, English, and American travellers, on the one hand, and German explorers on the other, is too great to escape attention. That difference is due entirely to the fact that in school and university the German is taught, in the first place to see, and in the second place to understand what he does see.

Aborigines—

a system of mountains.

Aboriginal—

what was original before.

Aboriginate—

to settle down in a place.

Alias—

a good man in the Bible.

Alienate—

to put together.

 

to make a citizen of.

 

to make a foreigner.

 

to live in another country except your own.

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Amenable—

any thing that is mean.

Ammonia—

the food of the gods.

Animosity—

a sudden surprise.

 

kindness.

 

thoughtfullness.

 

an emblem or sign.

 

great liveliness.

Aristocracy—

to be stuck up.

Armistice—

one who takes part in battle.

Asphyxia—

a grumbling fussy temper.

Assiduity—

state of being an acid.

Audible—

worthy of applause.

Auriferous—

giving light from yourself.

 

pertaining to an orifice.

Beneficence—

a state of insanity.

Burglarize—

to make burglars.

Capillary—

a little caterpiller.

Cassowary—

a kind of dromedary.

Centaur—

a three legged animal.

Conjugate—

to all wrinkle up.

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Conservative—

a person interested in politics who does not like Mr. Gladstone.

Corniferous—

rocks in which fossil corn is found.

Crosier—

a staff carried by the Deity.

Culinary—

cunning or cute.

Delineate—

to deface.

 

to make lean.

Demagogue—

a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

Egregious—

the art of learning.

 

feeding on flocks.

 

a good many sheep together.

Emissary—

a foreign missionary.

Emolument—

a softening.

 

a structure.

 

a great increase.

 

a headstone to a grave.

Epicac—

a man who likes a good dinner.

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Equanimity—

evenness of time.

 

carefullness.

 

being equal all round.

Equestrian—

an equal.

 

a competetor.

 

one who asks questions.

 

one who walks on foot.

Erudition—

act of wiping out.

 

state of being erude.

Espionage—

a kind of cabbage.

Eucharist—

one who plays euchre.

Exhilarate—

pertaining to happiness.

Franchise—

any thing belonging to the French.

Freebooter—

a man three feet high.

Idolater—

a very idol person.

Ignition—

the art of not noticing.

Impetuosity—

to get into a pet.

Implacable—

not able to be placed.

Ingratiating—

grating up the ear.

Interloper—

one who runs away to get married.

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Irrigate—

to disturb.

 

to turbulate.

 

to make fun of.

 

to emit sparks.

 

to contest in law.

 

to ask in return.

 

to dispense with justice.

Knickerbocker—

something to ring with.

Matins—

something to wear on the feet.

Medieval—

a wicked man who has been tempted.

Mediocrity—

the science of the Medes.

Mendacious—

what can be mended.

Mercenary—

relating to money matters.

 

one who feels for another.

 

hostile to life.

 

one living on charity.

 

one who suffers.

 

pertaining to the eye.

 

relating to habits.

 

strong, bold, brave.

 

6one who delivers a message.

 

one who sets on fire with hostile intent.

Miscellaneous—

all mixed up.

Munificence—

waste.

 

thanksgiving.

 

brightness.

 

great wealth.

 

a tragedy.

 

a beautiful city.

Non-conformist—

a decenter of ancient times.

Ominous—

power to be all present.

 

power to eat all things.

Parasite—

a sort of bird.

 

one who speaks well.

 

an example.

 

a kind of umbrella.

 

the murder of an infant.

Party-colored—

a fine kind of a dress to wear to a ball.

Pennyroyal—

relating to money.

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Perennial—

every seven years.

Plagarist—

a writer of plays.

Plagarism—

fire worship.

Prism—

a prim precise person.

Publican—

a man who does his prayers in public.

Quarternions—

a bird with a flat beak and no bill living in New Zealand.

 

the name given to a style of art practiced by the Phœnicians.

 

a religious convention held every hundred years.

Republican—

a sinner mentioned in the Bible.

Reticence—

tardyness.

 

retirement.

 

a review.

 

something of the eye.

 

great slowness.

Satiate—

to make tasty.

Sibilant—

the state of being idiotic.

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Starveling—

a small child who doesunt have enough to eat.

Subtlety—

gentley.

 

profanity.

 

brittleness.

 

softness.

 

vagueness.

 

easily coaxed.

 

light and airy.

 

is sprightness.

 

a settlement.

 

great doubtfullness.

 

stepping through easily.

 

state of being easy broken.

Technology—

according to the text.

 

a plagarism nearly obsolete.

 

something which teaches you to be very tecknical in your remarks.

Tenacious—

ten acres of land.

Vacillating—

ticking like a pendulum.

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Vermicular—

the intestines of a worm.

She is related to him by animosity.

A great many people alienate from their country to this.

The ring is quite an auriferous article.

He is a very auspicious boy.

She dresses very auspicious.

The belligerent powers receive a salary.

We call him a charger because he charges so much.

Chronology is the science of the brane.

He had a chronic disease—something the matter with the chrone.

The coercion of some things is remarkable, as bread and molasses.

We should never commiserate a person even if we dislike them.

Her hat is contiguous because she wears it on one side.

The girl was delineate in her work.

John said he would delineate the book.

The washwoman dilated the clothes.

10He was totally dismasted with the whole performance.

The officer is to be tried for dissertation of his office.

The place was left in a state of dissertation.

He dominated or ruled the paper.

He is a great duplicate because so very deceitful.

The men marched out in an egregious procession.

He preached to an egregious congregation.

He gave a correct elimination of the word.

The captain eliminated a bullet through the man’s heart.

He stood on a high emissary.

There was a small emolument of water in the vessel.

He was exhilarated to a better place.

We should endeavor to avoid extremes—like those of wasps and bees.

You should fascinate the vine to the wall.

I have a gauzy hen at home.

He treated her with ignition because he did not notice her.

11The marriage was illegible.

They tried to imbecile the animal.

The leopard is watching his sheep.

I liquidate you from all blame.

John liquidated his bread with milk.

The strawberry crop was magnanimous.

The magnanimous of Milton was wonderful.

He has a very mental intellect.

He was a member of the mediocrity.

The child gave a mercenary account of the accident.

She has just returned from the mercenary.

This examination makes me feel very nauceous.

The stomach contains nausea.

Her fright was palliateable because it made her pale.

The doctrine that like can be cured by like is called panacea.

You will see how pecuniary he is when I tell you he is going to marry for money.

The family is placed under pecuniary circumstances.

12He was pecuniary or tight in his money matters.

My perennial tuition is due to-day.

The earth perennially revolves round the sun.

He enjoys riding on a philosopher.

You should take caution and be precarious.

The propensity of this room is very small.

She was very quick at repertoire.

A great many persons are quite resonant.

The naughty boy resources his mother.

People become full of retisense when they are silent.

Minerals crystallize in rhododendrons.

You need not try to satiate my pathway.

She seceded the velvet to her dress.

The serfdom at Cony Island is very high.

The men employed by the Gas Company go round and speculate the meter.

The supercilious girl acted with vicissitude when the perennial time came.

He prayed for the waters to subsidize.

The birds subsidize in the summer for the most part on fruits.

13He is a very tacit scholar because he is easily taught.

He temporized the zinc nicely.

We ought to temporize our health.

The tenacious girl was good in church.

Herod was called a tetrarch because he was so fond of tea.

There are a good many donkeys in theological gardens.

Some of the best fossils are found in theological cabinets.

The telescope is very transparent because you can see through it.

He landed safe on vice versa.

The earth makes a vicissitude around the sun once a year.

They had a strawberry vestibule.

Zoology is interesting to those who like the study of words.

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Capitals begin every line of Deity.

Capital letters begin at breviation.

At the beginning of every capital letters should be used.

Capital is used at beginning of parigraf.

An interrogatt sentense must Begin with a Capitel Letter.

A deceletive sentense ends with a perod. An intorogative one ends with an intorogation point.

15Every sentence and name of God must begin with a caterpillar.

When you speak of yourself you should begin it with a capital letter.

When they are going to say some prose or poetry before they say the poetry or prose they must put a semicolon just after the introduction of the prose or poetry.

A quotion is something spoken by people.

A quotation is asking a question.

An Exclamation Point is what causes supprise.

Brackets set things off so they wont have anything to do with the sentence.

Grammer is how to talk good.

Grammar gives us the languish.

We study Grammer to get the senses.

Grammer is to tell us the parts of speeth.

A common noun is small things.

A proper noun is peoples names.

A pronoun is a word when we cant get a noun.

A pronoun is a word which is just as good as a noun.

The two kinds of Pronouns is I and O.

16The plural is formed by turning book into books.

Person in Grammer tells us whether he is a man or a woman. It is always an animal or something that isent alive.

Gender is the distinguishing nouns without regard to sex.

A verb is something to eat.

An intransitiv verb expresses an act not done to another as James did not strike John.

The Moods in English Gram. are the Indicative, Potential, Subjugated, and Infinitif.

The optative mood is a mood in a verb when any body knows you have done any thing.

The sign if shows the potative mood.

Adverbs should always be used as adjectives and adjectives as adverbs.

The horses run fastly. This is an adverb.

The comparative degree expresses that one thing is up higher than another and the Supulative is the highest of all.

A dependent sentence is one that hangs from its clause.

17All sentences are either simple or confound.

To conjugate a sentence is to tell all the things that it means.

The word governed by another word is called its regiment.

Rhythm is a horse trotting on a road.

Rhyme makes two words sound just alike.

A figure means something different from what it says.

Can in poetry is sometimes used for cant.

Prose tells things that are true right along just as they are and poetry makes it up as you go along.

A preposition is a word that shews the position of one thing with kind regards to another.

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Arithmetic is the signs of numbers.

A factor is a number which divided by another number equals the number of parts.

A Prim Facktor is a Factor that stands for a Facter.

The sins of Division are a short horizontail line between two doits and a curve line between the Deviser and Divident.

The sines of Division will be like the quocient.

19Multiplication is the process of takeing one or more many times to multiply the produck if the work is write.

A common fraction is made up of two parts with a separation between them.

A vulgar fraction has one fraction over the line and the other under it.

The Denomator is the bottom of the fraction. The Numerator tells how many there are in it.

A Decimal Fraction is one with a point.

A straight line is any distance between two places.

Parallel lines are lines that can never meet until they run together.

A Horace uncle line is a line that isn’t crooked.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

A hexameter is inscribed in a circle.

A foursided figure is a trapezium which is the general name for a kite.

A parallelogram has all its sides parallel.

20The base of a triangle is the sum of its two sides.

Things which are equal to each other are equal to anything else.

To find the number of square feet in a room you multiply the room by the number of the feet. The product is the result.

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(American.)

The three natural divisions of America are Europe, Ashea and Africa.

North America is separated by Spain.

The countries of North America are Britschish, Washington, Canada Nina and Mexica.

America is divided into the Passiffic slope and the Mississippi valey.

America consists from north to south about 500 miles.

Amireca is in the torade zone.

22The climit of America is very worm.

The climate of America is modrant—modern in the middle.

The principle mountains of America are the Alagany and on the cost range on the eastern part all.

The Rocking Mountains are the graitest in America.

The great Lakes of America is champagne.

The great lakes of America are Siperior, Ontarria and Hurryon, Michigan.

The principal mts. of America are lamb beaf veal.

The rivers of America are ohio Artic an drandartic.

The United States is quite a small country compared with some other countrys, but is about as industrious.

The capital of the United States is Long Island.

One of the leading industries of the United States is mollasses book-covers numbers gas teaching lumber manufactures paper-making publishers coal.

23The chief products of the United States is troupil freuts an tobacto. The climit has 2 sesons a rainey and a dry.

The names of states on the Gulf of Mexico is United States.

The five seaports of the U. S. are Newfunlan and Sanfrancisco.

The principal seaports is cotton wool shoes.

The principal cities of the United States are Bath Lynn Lowell Lawrence.

The principal products of the U. S. is earthquakes and volcanoes.

The manufactured products of the United States is fish and agriculture and imports.

The principle products of New England are dairying shipbuilding wine coffee tropic fruets and cloathes.

The exports of New England are lumbering fishing ice cutting wood chopping.

The prinicpal sports of New England are cotten tobaco ice.

The principal occupation of New England is shipping goods.

24Mineing is mostely carried on in new Englyn.

The climit of New English is hot worm and coal.

The coaste city’s of New England are New Haven and Seaport.

The coast cities of New England are Boston.

The Vermont state is south west of Mass.

The New London State is near the Meremack River.

The principal mountain range in England is Kartardin.

Providence is the leading commercial city of New England situated on the Southern part of the cost of Maine.

New York is bounded by Montreal.

The capital of New York is New Hamshire. Its principle cities are Portland an Susquehana.

Philadelphia is the capitol of New York and it is in the south West Part.

Washenton is in the Northron part of New York.

New York was once called the Emperor state because it once had a Emperor.

25Aduculung and Mineing is the chief industry of New York State.

The Rocky Mountains are on the western side of Philadelphia.

The Rocking Mountain is east of Mass. Algany east of Rocky Sirranevada east of Algany.

The Alaginnies are mountains in Philadelfia.

The Arondack Mountains are north of Canada.

The White Mountains are in England.

The Yosemity Valley is the highest mountain in the world.

The Mississippi River runs soulth and empies into Mexico.

Mason and Dixon’s line is the Equater.

Cape Hatteras is a vast body of water surrounded by land and flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Canada is south of New York.

The City of Canada is Columbia in the westarn part of Columbia.

26Two cities in Canada are andruscogin and kenibek.

Stock rason is the occupation of canada.

The rapids of St. Lorence is caused by the canoes of the Indianes.

British America is overturned by queen Victorier.

Alasca is governed by the Britished America.

The productions of Central America is fish.

Vancoover is the North West United States.

Cuba and Newfoundland is Southeast of America.

The climate of Mexico is very barren being hot or cold.

California is the capitol of San Francisco.

The occupation of Greenland is speering the seel.

The oppacation of the Greenland whisky lemon bannanars.

The occupation of the people of Greenland seals and the people of California gathrin gold.

The people of Greenland people do seal fishing 27and whailing of Alaska people are gathring furs of the Indies people fishing and shouting.

(European.)

Charlemagne and Pepin were countries of Austria.

In Austria the principal occupation is gathring Austrich feathers.

France is parallel to America on a line running east and west.

The Bay of Biscuit is on the coast of France.

The principal industries of Germany are manufacturing, agriculture, and the cultivation of the intellect.

Germany has very little clubbable land.

Russia in the time of Peter the Great was a very cold country and its inhabitants lived in Siberia.

Russia is very cold and tyrannical. Boany Airs is in Russia.

St. Petersburg is in the Gulf of Finland.

The Baltic Sea is between Sweden and Norway.

28Portugal is separated from Spain by the Mediteranian Sea.

Sicily is one of the Sanwich Islands.

Constantinople is called the queen of the Adriattic.

The Persian Gulf is the eastern part of Persia.

The Great Desert of Sarah was formerly discovered in Africa.

The two most famous volcanoes of Europe are Sodom and Gomorrah.

Terra del Fuego means Land of the Furies.

The Straits of Magellan separates North and South America.

Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

No northwest passage has ever been discovered around the Cape of Good Hope.

One of the chief exports of England is live meat which grows in great quantities.

Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and green.

Gibraltar is an island built on a rock. It has 15,000 inhabitants.

29The Straight of Mabel Manden seperates the Rock of Gibralter from the ocean.

The width of the different zones Europe lies in depend upon the surrounding country.

The north tempered zone is the best one.

The frigide zone is the most hottest.

Latitude is a thing by which we can tell where a country is on the globe, like Africa.

Latitude are supposed lines which pass horizontally around the globe and longitude are supposed lines which pass perpendicularly in the same way from one circle to another.

The imports of a country are the things that are paid for. The exports are the things that are not.

Pine apples grow on pine trees.

Climate lasts all the time and weather only a few days.

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A Letter.

I was in Cony island. I was in the musium. I saw a bear. I saw a gypsy. I saw a niger man.

We go fishing every mourning. We get a big basket full and do other lots of refreshing things.

I expect to go to the country this summer with my mothers and farthers.

I have had a lovely time the last three 31weaks. I chop wood and bild fires and go errents and have got two fire crackers saved up for the forth of July.

I write a few lines to letter you know I am a getin on. I went to a excurseon yesterday and I went in barefoot and gethered shels.

A Bird Story.

The little spring has built her nest in the oke tree. Every mourning the mother bird gets up early to find food for her nesterling sense the April came. One day it rained and the little burds sat and looked at the rain as it flowed beneath their feet.

About the Birds.

The little birds are in there houses and rain began to power and when the rain began to stop the little flyed out and the little birds sat up a tree of a bransh and then they churp and 32some birds come to have a nice time when the grass is green as green pante.

On Man.

Man is an animal that stands up. He is not very big and he has to work for a living.

On Fashion.

Sensible people wear sensible fashions and insensible people insensible fashions.

A Rainy Afternoon.

It rained hard so I could not go owdoors, so I went out in the shed and sod some wood.

On the Cow.

The cow she eats the grass. Wen she eats enought she will lie down in the shade. She is generally chewing. This chewing is called cud. The sheep has no upper Teeth. It there for belongs to the Cow’s Family. The cry 33of a cow is called Low. Her youn of a Cow is called a calf. The Cow gives us milk. Butter and cheese are made out of bread. The flesh of the Cow is called beef and the Calf veil. We make from their skin shoes. The name of the Cow is called Soldt lether. The name of the calf is called calf-skin.

On Laughter.

Laughter is something I know everybody can do. Some people laugh until the tears come from their eyes and then they have a crying spell and then when that is over they have a laughing spell. When people cry it will make them look very peculiar so most of people very seldom cry. It is the laughing they generally do.

On Occupation.

I think if I should become a shoe manufacturer I should succeed as it is a very profitable occupation and shoes are necessary to all classes 34and consequently a large trade is a general thing.

On Umbrellas.

The matereal at the top of an umbrella is placed on a skeleton of whales which meet all together in one place. They do be covered with silk, alpaca and Satan.

On Indians.

Indians go out naked in the summer an they take ahold of their scalp locks and cut off the other side of their heads. They wear it on their sides. Indians food consists of corn and food. They use smoking instead of tanning. They paint their skind in the color of animals.

George Washington.

George Washington was the first president of the United States born in Virginia in the year. When George was a little boy he would 35never tell a lie. Because he thought it was not nice. It tis not nice nether. He studied all kinds of things to be a president.

Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln was born in Wales in 1599. His father was a wool-comer, but Abraham did not like that trade. One day Abraham was standing on the railroad and a man by the name of Guitue came behind and shot him. Then he got put in jail for it. But it was not nice of him because he shot him on the railroad.

On Reading.

Reading makes us intelligent; and learn about things we would otherwise hear nothing.

It is pleasant to recapitulate stories to persons who probably have not had the opportunity of reading them and it therefore passes many a dreary hour away and makes many a person renew his happiness by hoping for such 36a favorable end as some characters as are described in the book.

If we did not have the capacity of reading we might wait all our lives and never secure the desired information, but if instead of waiting for some one to tell us we take the book or paper or whatever it might happen to be and read it for ourselves we will be much better satisfied and also have the consolation of knowing we discovered it for ourselves and did not have to wait for other people to come and furnish us with the desired information.

In reading there is a large amount of knowledge attained for it enlarged the mind while reading and continues until we pass away.

When we read we come across words that when we hear them spoken of we are entirely ignorant of them.

The untutored mind is often surprisingly 37expanded in reading for only a short while a little every day. Then when we hear certain subjects spoken of we do not wonder what it all means.

Reading the talents of others helps us to compose something that may help us in future life. Without reading we should not know any thing about our forefathers or how we came to be civilized. What would we know about religion if we did not read our Bible and find out how religion originated?

On Girls.

Girls are very stuckup and dignefied in their maner and behaveyour. They think more of dress than any thing and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in afar distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to Church every Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands 38and they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or any thing. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys.

On Timidity of Women.

Timidity is a disease very prevelent among our American women. It is thought by them to be an ornament to their charms.

How many young women faint by the sudden appearance of a rat from its hideing place. Oh! they do declare it’s impossible to live where these dreadful creatures make their homes they ask Ma cant she and wont she please to try to secure some remedy so they can be destroyed. You will see the young ladies leap up over stones and steps of great height so as to escape the barks of the dog, if 39they are walking with a friend of the male kind they will cling to the masculine arm and beseach him to walk so that she might loose sight of that horrible creature known as a dog.

I do think their cases of timidity that cannot be governed such as cases of intemperance fighting and death. We dont want to see any man come along the street destitute of reasoning and come reeling suddenly by you. Also the expectation of death when we see a loved sister going away from a cherished circle.

It cannot be endured, but I have no objections for these cases but the preceding ones are ridiculous and I beseach you to reject it remembering you shall have to undergo greater trials than those related.

On Poverty.

How many persons possess it! They are persons whose poverty cannot be endured they 40had enjoyed preceding years in wealth and by some mishap in the family they became poor and how can they endeavor to forget that time when their happiness could not be expressed but now their troubles shall be discovered.

Poverty is a case that cannot be hidden it must be let known so that the possessors may obtain condolence in some way. Places for poor persons are not of much importance for the care of them is not worth mentioning.

Some poor persons with a great deal of poverty would rather walk from house to house in search of some nourishment than inhabit those institutions but what a number of times they are driven from the door with the contemptuousness of the rich how many slang words are said to them.

If our comfortable friends should remember those persons casting away food raiment and apparel they would be less cases of poverty and when sickness overtakes such persons lend 41a helping hand their consciences would less smite them.

On Politeness.

Politeness is to say and do the kindest way. I think it is easier for girls to be polite than for boys, but I am not sure as I have never been a girl. Politeness is used in all parts of the United States.

On the Play of Hamlet.

Hamlet was a young man very nervous. He was always dressed in black because his uncle had killed his father by shooting him in his ear. He could not go to the theatre because his father was dead so he had the actors come to his house and play in the front parlor and he learned them to say the words because he thought he knew best how to say them. And then he thought he’d kill the king but he didn’t. Hamlet liked Ophelia. He thought she was a very nice girl but he didn’t marry her 42because she was going to be a nunnery. Hamlet went to England but he did not like it very much so he came home. Then he jumped into Ophelia’s grave and fought a duel with her brother. Then he died.

Hamlet was exceedingly sensitiveness. He denunciated his mother because she entered the matrimonial condition and showed her two photographs which he said one was Hesperus and one a satire. He made her experience great regret. He was engaged to Orphelia but had to neglect her as he was obliged to give his attentions to revenging his father’s death. His uncle was the murderer of his father, Hamlet’s father. He had a very mournful existence and was a great philosopher.

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“A balance of power”—making the poker stand up straight in your hand.

“Weeping birch”—the kind of stick that makes you weep.

“Eating cares”—troubles because you are tired of eating.

“Spoiler’s hand”—your father’s hand because he spoils you.

“The balm of childhood”—what makes children stop there crying.

44“He issued a papal bull”—the news written on the board outside the office.

“I would that my tongue could utter”—means its to much trouble to write out his ideas.

The way we pass a lifetime is to us but as if we were asleep and we do not remember all that happens but the happy moments. When we are dead then we see what we have done in a different way.

Don’t say life is only an empty dream. If 45our souls stop living and go to sleep it cannot be so for we would die. The last thing we are to attain to I think is the grave.

Your the same as dead when your asleep and things that are making you pleasant now will one day make you sorry.

Do not tell me that life is a dream, because when I sleep things will not be like I think they are.

This means that you know without being told in rymes, that life and soul shall die away and be nothing.

Don’t tell me in sorrowful verses life is only 46an illusion, the soul is wicked that slumbers, and things are very deceitful.

Great men have not made flights very suddenly. They have slept with their companions while they were toiling to keep the heights they had attained.

The heights that great men have kept out of reach were not attained by means of sudden flight. While their companions were sleeping they were up at all hours of the toiling night.

In the lexicon of Youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there’s no such word as Fail.

In the early days of youth which destiny 47waits for a better chance, there is no such word as fail.

The lexicon of youth which is fated for a bright manhood, should never fail.

The sentence means, in the beginning of youth the fate that is kept for a bright manhood must not be a failure.

There was no such word as fail when I was a boy, but now I am a man.

If you study while you are young your knowledge will be preserved and you can not fail.

The word fail never appears in the natural 48teachings of youth and is kept for bright manhood.

In a youth’s translation which is kept back until a riper age, there is no such word which says fail.

The youth who is in his lexicon and about to spring into a bright manhood, the word fail he knows not.

To fail is impossible for youth in the lexicon which is reserved for it.

The man who rode on the horse performed the whip and an instrument made of steel alone 49with strong ardor not diminishing, for, being tired from the time passed with hard labor overworked with anger and ignorant with weariness, while every breath for labor he drew with cries full of sorrow, the young deer made imperfect who worked hard filtered in sight.

The man who loves his nature he holds connections with his form in a visible manner; he speaks a different language for his lively hours. Nature has a glad voice and smile and beauty. He goes into his darker musings with a mild and healing sympathy and not with a sorrowful 50feeling that steals away their sharpness before he is aware of it.

To him she speaks the love of nature and of various languages, and she smiles with healing sympathy and steals away his gayer hours and eloquence of beauty that steals away their sharpness before he knows of it.

Was it not for Tradition we would not travel this far. We are still walking to brighter steps 51by shining our brains. What little intellect we have, if it was well shined, it might do a great deal.

Man is guided by two spirits, evil and good, and if the evil spirit (before he was a good one) had been a good one, man would not have been created.

Man’s path guides two angels. One is old and one is young. Ones names Memory and one is Tradition. One floats round and hunts for things on the earth. Memory clings to the cheek and shines the lamp that Reason holds. Tradition helps us to walk and we brighten up Reason’s lamp.

Two great Powers or Forces guide men and women in this world whether they be young or 52old, and these powers are still growing through numbers of years.

We lean on Mearcy and Tradition. But whatere it may be, the sound is sweet with vast mysterious accords. Then Power or Mearcy glares above us, and there looks down upon us with extreme splendor.

Memory still shines reflecting that light our senses tell us of, or that is within our brains, if we have any. And I suppose we are all gifted with a little.

Had an angel never committed sin, we never would have been created and guarded by a heavenly spirit.

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(American.)

Christopher Columbus went to sea untill he was 14 years of age. He dreamed there was a place named America and after much adversity he finally discovered it.

Christopher Columbus was called the Father of his Country.

Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America.

54Columbus set sale in three small ships called Nina, Pinter and Santa Anna.

The first land Columbus discovered was Gibraltar.

Columbus was the first white man who discovered America.

Columbus knew the earth was round because he balanced an egg on the table.

Columbus perished in sight of land.

The West Indians was the first discovered by Christies Columbies.

The west Indaines was discovered in 1692 by Chrissor Columbius.

The Crusaders were the first to settle America.

The American colonies were settled by Dutch navegators who founded them.

The first English settlements were made in the Gulf of Mexico.

Slaves were introduced to this country by Spain and Portugese people.

Kink Louis decleared ware against Kink William who commanded the English Fources. 55A party of French and Indains came to Sketiney and the Indains tomahorks was frozen. It was a very bobloody war. For Fourty years the war was but it did not last longe. The war ended in 1776 because Kink Phillip discovered the dead. It was called his war because he was the cheaf mouver of it.

Virginia was named from Queen Virgin who was called Elizabeth.

The Indians were the first Americans and they settled over a vast expanse of the county.

Salem witch craft was a son of Massasoit.

The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country.

The Indians pursued their warfare by hiding in bushes and then scalping them.

Captain John Smith has been styled the father of his country. His life was saved by his daughter Pochahantas.

The Puritans found an insane asylum in the wilds of America.

They were called Puritans because they were more quiet than the Episcopalians.

56Miles Standish discovered Plymouth and it was named in his honor.

Roger Williams called the settlement Rhode Island in honor of God’s merciful Providence shown to him.

William Penn was born in Boston in 1607. He was the first white man who founded Pennsylvania. He founded Pennsylvania because his name was William Penn.

William Penn discovered Philadelphia and laid out its streets.

The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void.

Benedict Arnold was greatly regretted by the Americans as well as by the English.

Benjamin Franklin is the finest Example of a selfmad man that American History affords. He commenced life as a tallow chandelier boy and step by step became a Great Genius.

George Washington was born in 1492.

At White Plains Gen. Washington murdered several hundred men.

57Gen. Washington is famous for the Washington Monument.

Washington wrote the Declareation of Independence in 1492.

George Washington inherited consumption in the army.

Washington died in Spain almost brokenhearted. His remains were taken to the cathedral in Havanna.

The Mexican war was the war of Texas with the United States.

Gen. Scott fought bravely at the battle of Wingfield.

When the Wig party was in power there was striks all over the laborers.

Slavery was caused by the admission of Missouri into the Union.

The Missouri Compromise compelled slaves to enter all the different states and territories.

Gorilla warfare was war where men rode on gorillas.

The Border Ruffians were founded to prevent 58all emigrants into Kansas and they sacrificed considerable lives.

John Brown was a very good insane man who tried to get slaves into Virginia. He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally conquered and condemned to his death.

The confederasy was formed by the fugitive slaves.

(English.)

England was named by the Angels.

The Celts were driven out of England into Whales.

Julius Caesar invaded England 400 years B. C. The English condition was in a rude state. They joined in games such as cock fighting.

The Brittains were the Saxons who entered England in 1492 under Julius Caesar.

The Britains came from Brittany. They were a brave and warlike people and lived by fishing and manufactures.

The Britains conquered Julius Caesar and drove him ignominiously from his dominions.

59The Britons founded the Druids. They ust to hold religious services out of doors.

The Druids were supposed to be Roman Catholicks.

The Crusaders were fanatics who fought in tournaments.

The Habeas Corpus Act said that a body whether alive or dead could be produced in court.

Alfred the Great reigned 872 years. He was distinguished for letting some buckwheat cakes burn and the lady scolded him.

Rufus was named William on account of his red hair. He established the curfew fire bell.

William the Conqueror was the first of the Mormons.

Edward the black Prince was famous for founding chivalry.

Chivalry is a fight on horseback between two horsemen in an open plain.

A night errant is a man who goes around in the night in search of adventures.

60The Middle Ages come in between antiquity and posterity.

The War of the Roses was between the white and the red.

Henry Eight was famous for being a great widower having lost several wives.

Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days.

Queen Mary married the Dolphin.

Elizabeth was called the Virgin queen because of her many accomplishments and she had a great many fine dresses.

The unfortunate Charles First was executed and after he was beheaded he held it up exclaiming Behold the head of a trater!

Cromwell was only a parallel with Bonaparte.

Queen Victoria was the 4th son of George Third the Duke of Kent.

John Bright is noted for an incurable disease.

Lord James Gordon Bennett instigated the Gordon Riots.

Joan of Arc lived in New Orleans where she was discovered and burned by the British.

Cardinal Richelieu was one of the most famous soldiers of France. He was cut down on St. Bartholomew’s Day.

St. Bartholomew was massacred in 1492.

The French Revolution was quite rapid. It made some changes in the government and many persons were slain.

Bonaparte gave away many thrones to his brothers and sisters.

Louis Napoleon besieged all Paris who elected him emperor.

By the Salic laws no woman or descendant of a woman could occupy the throne.

Luther introduced Christianity into England a good many thousand years ago. His birthday was November 1883. He was once a Pope. He lived at the time of the Rebellion of Worms.

The history of Rome is wrapped in antiquity.

The Gauls were a very brave people of the Tapean Rock.

Carthage was founded by Dido nearly one hundred years ago.

Hannibal at the early age of six years was raised to the command of the army.

Spartacus fought a war of several years against the Romans.

Cataline was defeated and slain by his entire army.

Pompey gave the Romans a splendid campaign.

Trajan was persecuted by the Christians.

The seven hills of Rome were the Capitoline, Palitine, Alpine, and I cannot remember those I have not written down.

The Colliseum was erected on the top of an inaccessible hill somewhere about the time of Nero. When it was burning down he played a tune on his violin.

63In his military character Julius Cæsar probably never surpassed any other hero.

Cesar succeeded in wresting the crown from Mark Anthony.

Julius Cæsar was quite a military man on the whole.

Julius Cæsar is noted for his famous telegram despatch I came I saw I conquered.

When Julius Cæsar crossed the Hellispont it was the turning point in his carear.

The Crusaders were conquered by Julius Cæsar.

Julius Cæsar was really a very great man. He was a very great soldier and wrote a book for beginners in the Latin.

Cleopatra was caused by the death of an asp which she dissolved in a wine cup.

The reign of Augustus took place in the Christian era. He caused it to be introduced into the kingdom.

The emperor Vespasian destroyed his son Titus after a tremendous siege of six months.

64Domitian was so cruel that he was noted for his killing flies.

The Roman priests were chosen by the gods and some by a special diety.

The toga was a robe that flowed over the body very neat and graceful.

The Forum transacted the principal business of Rome.

The Gordian knot was a very hard knot which Nero tied and by it he kept the Roman empire in subjection.

When a Gladiator was killed he held up his finger and if the spectators wanted him to live they held up their thumbs.

(Grecian.)

Greece is a country noted for its handsome people. They are all sculptures.

Greece is divided into periods.

The only form of government in Greece was a limited monkey.

Egypt and Rome were the principal divisions of Greece.

65The inhabitants of Greece lived in huts, eating the skins of wild beasts and dressing themselves in berries and acorns.

Helen was the daughter of Troy a very beautiful woman and wrote the Illiad giving a long account of it.

Lycurgus was a legislature. He abolished commerce and dress.

Lycurgus was so strict he turned all the women into men they were bold and corageous.

Athens was the capital of Africa and the arts flourished.

Darius attacked both sea and land.

The introduction of Asia made the Greeks have great manners and wealth.

The Persian war lasted about 500 years.

Socrates was no use at fighting. He destroyed some statues and had to drink shamrock. Socrates was a great ridiculer.

The Lacons talked Laconic.

Philip when ten years old was sent as a hostess to Thebes.

66Greece had only 7 wise Men.

Alexander surpassed all others in his rapidity extent and splendor. He was a model example to the career of others.

Ruins are almost always very historical for they show how much money the inhabitants must have spent on them. Ruins often give us the dates of their erection and are very useful in fixing the date of some event.

Elijah was a good man who went up to heaven without dying and threw his cloak down for Queen Elizabeth to step over.

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(American.)

Lowell, Taylor and Irving stand foremost among the literature of the day.

James Russell Lowell, Henry Longfellow, Whittier and Horthorn have all written pieces of some note.

Bryant while still a child wrote thanatopsis and then became editor of a paper and lived for many years after.

A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems.

68The Brasebrig Hall and of the Spy was also written by Bryant.

Washington Irving was a great poet and prose.

Bracebridge Hall was written by Henry Irving.

Washington Irving is noted for his sketch pieces. He also wrote the lives of men.

Cooper’s writings belong to that class of literature called bell lettres.

Snow Bound was written by Peter Cooper.

R. Waldo Emerson which is good for solid everyday use in extracting mottoes.

Emerson was first a minister but as he couldn’t agree he decided to become a poetical and essay writer.

Longfellow confined himself to poetry.

Longfellow wrote the “Reck of the Hesperus” and “Outer Mare.”

Longfellow has indeed told the tale of Evangeline fully well.

H. Wadsworth Longfellow is the most prominent writer in North America. Heawather is 69one of his principle poems a indian tale. Longfellow’s poetry is characterized by universalism.

J. Greenleaf Whittier whose poetry proves that he was a man into or upon whom the beauties of nature never passed unnoticed.

Whittier is the author of the famous sonnet, “Sonnet on my Blindness” and the “Marble Form.”

Whittier wrote Tam O Shanta about a Witch in Salem.

Oliver Wendell Holmes writeings are inclined to humerous.

Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer.

Hawthorn has written a quite large selection of stories.

The Scarlit litter and the Spie was written by Hawthorne.

The House of the Seven Gables was written by Lord Bryant.

In the house of Seven Gables it is the story of seven devils who lived in the house. A house situated in Massachusetts.

70Hauthorn wrote the Dear Slyer.

Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotton gin and wrote histories.

Mrs. Southworth’s works are among those classed among the Sentimental and are very much admired by people of that class.

Joseph Rodman Drake his principal work is lines to my mother’s picture.

Edgar A. Poe was a very curdling writer.

Marmion was written by Poe.

Rev. E. P. Roe writes religiously.

Webster is noted for his getting up the dictionary. He also wrote other things besides this.

Mrs. Beecher Stow wrote a very natural and symathetic uncle Tom’s cabin.

The author of uncle Tom gives good discriptions of the people and places with whom she is dealing.

Dread is a story of the disimal swamp.

Samuel Johnson an American writer. His writing is proved and accepted, being exciting and meretorious.

71Wordsworth was an American writer whose works are such as will ever be admired.

Locke De Foe and Gibbons were all American novalists and I have forgotten their works.

(English.)

Beowulf wrote the Scriptures.

Cadmus wrote pierce ploughman.

Adam Bede a prominent writer of his time for he threw his soul and body into his writings.

King Alfred wrote translations from the Bible and it is regarded as a very fine production yes one of the finest of the period.

Ben Jonson survived Shakespeare in some respects.

Fox wrote a very good book of Marters.

Ben Jonson was a Shakesperian Dramalist. He was a very rare writer as one of his friends declared.

Spenser’s Fairy queen shows the trials of a Night and the triumphs of a Vertue.

Chaucer was the father of English pottery.

72Chauser was a bland verse writer of the third century.

Geoffrey Chaucer was a great young boy. His farther was lether seller. As time passed on he was an extraordinary writer of his time.

Geffrey Chaucer fix the date of his birth at 1340 suppose to belong to the high class of people from his sir name Chausier French he was armed a knight only very respectfull people could be armed knights.

Chaucer began his writings during the reign of Queen Anne and they are deserving of merit being the first of her reign.

Chaucer was an English poet who instructed Queen Elizabeth and she mourned greatly for him when he died. His principal Work was concerning the inhabitants of Bath.

When Chaucer was 21 years of old he engaged in war. He fought valliantly and was unharmed. He also wrote a great many other works on Fowl.

Chaucer displays his fame which shall always be distinguished from time immemoriable. 73His satyrical stanzas are deep and show that we have found a man of value. The Canterbury Tales are undertaken by several journeymen. The Jolly Man was the amusement for the multitude. We had 32 going on the journey but each had no time to Tell a Tale, so they did not tell tales.

King Arthur was to flourish as magnificence in Canterbury Tails.

Peter Simple was one of the Canterbury Tales.

In the Canterbury Tale it gave account of king Alfred on his way to the shrine of Thomas Bucket.

The Canterbury Tales are 24 volums. It concists or happens in an In in Canterberry and the people which is not uncustomary.

In the Canterbury Tales the Night of Fextivity arrives and each contributes by singeing or resitation. He is Inspired by angels who bids him sing of the origan of Man.

Now Chaucer must have been a very keen intelligent man to thus class various characters 74and put them in their right place as to have harmony. His mind was always planning.

Chaucer we find him gazing at his empty purse and apostrophizing it in despare and in terms that show his abject poverty.

Samson Augusta was one of Chaucer’s principal works as it contained his life giving a full account of it. He also wrote something about Paradise.

Chaucer was succeeded by H. Wads. Longfellow an American Writer. His writings were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred years elapsed.

Shakespere is an English author who is uncomputed.

Shakespeare was a fiction and allegorical writer. His father married a lady of means but they became greatly reserved in circumstances. His most intimate friend was Ben Butler who was also a great fiction writer.

Shakespears translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it.

Shakespere wrote Mackbeth, Orthello and 75Merchant of Vennice, it is a wealthy Jew and Arabella has many suters.

Hamlet one of Shakespeares best Tragedies in which Romeo and Juliet are the principal characters. It is a didactic poem.

Hamlet set to the stage by so many eminant artists bears strongly the character and mind of the writer. It has been judged not much over much and still holds the palm.

In the play of Hamlet Shakespere tries to show how brewing over trouble makes people insane.

In Hamlet the king gave a gladitorial combat in which Hamlet and Laertes is to take part. They all lie dead in the arena.

The soliloquies of Hamlet throughout the play are notorious.

Hamlet is very famous for the piece he used to speak about to be or not to be.

The play of Julius Cæsar consists of five acts each act being a Sene. He being the center around which all the rest are concerned is the main character.

76King Lear is a play where King Lear has three daughters and is very ungrateful.

The merchant of Venice is old Shylock who lives in Venice.

Macbeth was terrified by the ghost of Bancroft.

Amanda was the heroine of the Tempest.

Shakespeare’s sonnits are on my blindness and ode to Imortallity.

Frances Bacon was born in England and was a chemist, being of a very experimenting sort of nature. He was a friar or Monk.

Bacon wrote many things in defense of philosophy and was received by the people. He also wrote a great many histories of all the countries.

Some of the folks say that Lord Bacon wrote a good many of Shakespeare’s plays for him.

Francis Bacon wrote under the name of Ovum Organum.

John Milton was a great of the Elizabethan age. He Graduated from Colledge and devoted himself to literary persuits. His principal 77works are Paridise lost and regained this poem is very great when we consider the circumstances which it was written under having been born blind he translated it to his daughter and after all that it was sold for 5 lbs.

Milton was called the blind poet and justly so as he was born blind. His brain worked and worked until it gave to the world a masterpece of poetry in Paridise Lost. It is his greatest effort though he is the author of several others.

John Milton’s parents paid great attention to his litarary talents. John was a mere boy when his parents noticed him displaying great genius and love for writting and they then set to work to have this spirit advanced.

John Milton’s parents could not send his son to school so long as he desired to. So he was sent to work at a early age to procure a means of livelihood, he was willing to do almost every thing to get along, so as to take part in some literary pursuit. So providence favored his attempts.

78Milton’s father was a Pureitan but still wished to give his son a good education. He spent a few years with a privit tutor and then went to reside in his father’s palace where he studied music and mathematics.

Milton showed great aptitude for love of learning, so that his education was carefully looked into. He was very popular with the puritan party because he was such a very puritan.

Milton had a very intellectual mind.

The early part of Milton’s life was uphill work. He rose in favor towards the central part.

John Milton was always poor. He never became rich. He had a great many trials and suffering and povety.

Milton formed a type of the Puritan ascendency.

John Milton wrote translations and very sublime writings.

Milton is divided into three periods. L’Allegro was a novel written by him the greatest 79of English novelists since Shakespeare. Ill Penserose was written by him.

Three times Milton gave his hand and was united in matrimony.

Milton’s married life was not happy. He married three wives in succession.

Milton’s wife would not live with him. His life was to strict for her. At last thinking that he ment to get a Divorce as he was writeing on that subject she returned to him.

Milton wrote “Miltons Paradise” lost and “Paradise” regained in which Satan is represent as rebelling against our Saviour just as sinners and those who have sinned but have been converted.

Milton’s principal work is the exclusion of the bad angels out of heaven.

Paradise lost begins rather low at first, but ends in one great climax.

John Bunyan lived a life of scantity.

The principal works of John Dryden was Lives of the poets, belonging to Literature.

Addison is the author of child Harold.

80Sam Johnson was so queer in his writings that he was always called Johnsonese.

Fielding his works have been regarded with great success.

Richardson had the honor of standing among the first of his time.

Sterne may be regarded as a formost writer of great praise.

Smollett is a writer of great renown to some but others have never considered his genius.

Peter the simple was written by Hume so as to describe a man who was not very bright.

By DeFoe’s genius he managed to get hold of the necessities of life and so managed to live.

John Locke was a writer of England who wrote very extremely on Political Economy.

John Locke’s works were ministerial.

John Locke’s writings are sarcastic and cold. He wrote a white Devil essay.

John Locke was not of a poetical turn of mind.

81John Locke’s works are full of energy and lack no little want of thought.

Alexander Pope is an English Novalist and deserving of special praise when we consider his misfortunes in bodily ailments. No other is so instructive as Pope’s essay on man it shows deep knowledge of man caracter.

Alexander Pope the worthy successor to dryden to the Throne of Poesy. He was sick by deformed in body.

Pope’s life was quite bitter. He had a great deal of sarcasm and wrote a very fine essay upon Man. This was considered his master stroke.

Pope was deformed in many ways so much so that his mother was to be his servant at any moment he spoke. His writenings are famous for the lucid arrangement of matters and for much genius.

Pope writes a poem about a maid of honor has beautiful hair cut off and let to fly in the wind for which poem he is reproved and he tries to correct its falts.

82Pope wrote Dunciade in which the thrown of the dunces is given to his litterary enimes. He wrote the Guardeen.

Pope belonged to the lake school and later on his writtings were free from the bitter sattire which shown out of his later works.

Pope’s masterpiece was essay on man in which he wrote his ideas. The quotations I do not think can be improved upon.

In the Rape of the Locke there is a Story depicted in it.

Jonathan Swift belonged to the English Church but was not much of a ornament from a religious point of view.

Jonathan Swift belonged to what is called the lake school of Poetry.

Swift wrote a Ulogy on His own death a touching poem is his lines to Stellar on her death.

Swift wrote the tale of a tub between Catholics and Protestants.

Swift wrote the famous poem of Twistam Shanty.

83Jonathan Swift’s mind was from far away back tainted with insanity.

Swift wrote Gullifer’s travels which was discription of what he was supposed to see on a journey which he was supposed he took.

Oliver Goldsmith’s Histories are not very good but his other works are classed among the 1st.

Burns chief poem was called “Tamoschanta.”

Tam OShanter is a sort of a ghost story told by an old man. A superstitious something that people believed in those days.

Cowper had a melchomcally or sad disposition but wrote feeling lines.

Child Harold is Cowper’s most famous work. This was the only novel he ever wrote not being much of a novel writer. Robinson Cruso was William Cowper.

Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy and Imitations on Immortality.

Gibbon wrote a History of His travels in Italy. This was original.

84Lord Byron was a great novelist. He also wrote a few poems.

Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man.

Coleridge has caused them much joy and pleasure as he has written a large number of charming and illustrated works.

Thomas Hood wrote the Song of the Shirt a very laughable and prety writing: About a lady riding.

Sir Walter Scott was the greatest poet Scotland ever produced his principal work was ye banks and brays he also wrote a poem entitled Ivan Hoe.

Sir Walter Scott ranked equal with any in point of genius as they did in popularity.

Scott’s great powers of discription and makes his works appear as if they happened all over again. Marmion is one example where the rattling of the chains and so on are brought back to us again.

Marmion is a neatly written tale.

Marmion was a beautiful maiden who had 85many trials and afflictions. It is filled with illusions to Nature.

Marmion was a story of country life described Marmion as a riding forth to gain glory.

Kenilworth is a story nicely delivered of the literature of the day.

Scott was the author of Watts on the Mind.

Scott was great in prose, poetry and misfortune.

Macauleys was a great poet having been educated in a village he then became an editor of an evening paper and among his best works are the clock on the Stairs. Macauleys and Wittier are compared because both labored for the good of mankind.

Lord Macauley was born in London at a time when there was the greatest need to England of a good historian.

Thomas B. Macauley’s was a man of stern but gentle parents. He had every amusement that parents could bestow on a child.

Thomas Babbington Makorley graduated at Harvard and then studied law, he was raised 86to the peerage as Baron in 1557 and died in 1776.

Macauley wrote Comeration Odes to a grecian earn under the willow.

Thomas B. Macauley was the author of Pilgrims Progress.

Maclauley’s writings are all essays. He has loose and peodic sentences nicely arranged. He is very carefull always to perfect harmony.

Macauley’s writings are noted for brilliant thought but not for very much accuracy. His works received a large sale.

It is a question is not Macauly sometimes to oratorical.

George Eliot is quite an authoress.

George Elliot is a writer of some worth.

Geo. Elliott is the best lady Novalist in English.

George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned greatly for his genius.

George Eliot gained renown by her work on Jane Ayre.

George Eliott Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross 87Mrs. Lewis was the greatest female poet unless George Sands is made an exception of.

Dickens is a great novelist he makes us fall in with his caracters.

Dickens is one of the Greatest American Novilist.

Dickens is noted for his multiplicity in telling stories.

Dickens is a very smart man and a portrait of character.

Dickens gives an incite into human life.

Dickens is the most human writer Old Curiosity Shop was written by David Copperfield.

Bulwell is considered a good writer.

Lord Lytton former Bulwer placed himself at the head of English poets.

Thackeray’s genius is original.

Thacerey is a Great Genius. He gives us the fashionable life.

Mrs. Browning wrote sonnets to the Pottery Geese.

88Mrs. Brownings Song of the Shirt is in almost every reader.

Tennyson is a very populus poet.

The greatest writers of the present day are Lord Beconsfield who wrote the “History of Cyprus” and Miss Braddon who wrote “Peverel of the Peak.”

Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson were the first great Novelists.

The most important event in the life of Horace was his birth in 45.

The Iliad is called an Epic poem because it was first written in the Epic dialect.

Homer’s writings are Homer’s Essays Virgil the Aneid and paradise lost some people say that these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of the same name.

Sanscrit is not used as much as it used to be as it went out of use 1500 B. C.

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The name of the great philosopher of modern times was called Eurekia.

The principle of Diogenes was that he could move the world if he could find a place big enough to stand in.

Franklin proved that electricity and lightning are rods.

Temperature is measured by a machine called a hydrometer.

Sun melts ice by the law of cohesion of atoms.

90An inclined plane is a plane that inclines.

Drops of water are generally spherical for various reasons known only to the gracious Providence who has formed them.

Affinity is a liking evinced between two objects, contact not being necessary. One person may have an affinity or liking for another.

Capillary attraction is the attraction between hair. A person’s hair is affected by fright. The hair of some animals is attracted by lightning.

A body will go just as far in the first second as the body will go plus the force the gravity and that’s equal to twice what the body will go.

Specific gravity is the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume of or that that is the weight of the body compared with the weight of and equal volume.

Inertia is that proberty of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change its own condition of rest or motion. In other words it is the negative quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient latescence.

91The air pump is an instrument used for forcing water into a pump and expelling it by means of a vacuum. It ascends in the water downwards.

The law of fluid pressure divide the different forms of organized bodies by the form of attraction and the number increased will be the form.

By convection the body is heated instantaneous, as gunpowder.

The reason a body falls when not supported is that there is not enough air under it to keep it up and so it has to fall or the specific gravity is not great enough to hold it up.

The difference between latent and sensible heat is that it feels sensible.

If you listen closely you can vibrate a pitchfork.

If an experiment be successful the result will be inevitable.

Thermal unit is the heat required to raise a pound of water through one foot.

If we were on a railroad track and a train 92was coming the train would deafen our ears so that we couldn’t see to get off the track.

Tides are caused by the reflection of the sun and moon upon the water.

Sir Isaac Newton founded the “Laws of Gravity.”

A simple pendulum is an imaginary point hung on a thread.

The vibrations of a pendulum is determined by the time they take.

A noise is a collection of sounds which means nothing but a clatter.

Sound is that form or motion of the mind which effects the oratory nerves.

A sound is not like a noise because it has essential things to depend upon and a noise has not.

To get gold from its ore it is polished and heated.

Metals are changed in their elements by fussing them together.

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Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry.

Disease is any affection of any organ of the body.

Disease is more common to some people than to others.

Disease is sickness caused by the introduction of some foreign generally insect substance as cholera.

When you have a illness it makes your health bad as well as having a disease.

94All mechanical work is injurious to the health.

If a sawyer does not wear spectacles he will be sure to lose his sight.

Occupations which are injurious to health are carbolic acid gas which is impure blood.

A stone mason’s work is injurious because when he is chipping he breathes in all the little chips and then they are taken into the lungs.

A bootmaker’s trade is very injurious because the bootmakers always press the boot against the thorax and therefore it presses the thorax in and it touches the heart and if they do not die they are cripples for life.

The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious tissue.

The body has an infinite number of bones joined together by the joints.

The spine is quite an important bone.

The spinal column is made of bones running all over the body.

We have an upper and a lower skin. The 95lower skin moves all the time and the upper skin moves when we do.

The upper skin is called eppederby and the lower skin is called derby.

We should never eat because the food does not digest.

Digestion belongs to the lower animals.

Digestion is the circulation of the blood.

Digestion is reducing our food to plump.

Digestion is when food is taken into the stomach.

The digestive fluids are the nerves muscles and bones.

The organs of digestion are the stomach liver spleen and utensils.

The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body.

After swallowing the food undergoes mastification.

The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking.

The gastric juice digests the stomach.

There are three salivary glands. The lacte 96als in the intestines. The lymphatic in the stomach. They change starch to grape sugar in the mouth.

Eating rapidly the food does not give the saliva time to get into the mouth.

The salivary glands are used to salivate the body.

Perspiration is caused by the culinary glands.

The chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart where it meets the oxygen and is purified.

The thoraic duct leads from the exterior ear to the drum.

The thoraic duct is a tube in the back of the neck.

When food is swallowed it passes through the windpipe and stops at the right side and some of it goes to make blood.

In the stomach starch is changed to cane-sugar and cane-sugar to sugar-cane.

We all have a very important elementary cannal.

97The heart is a comical shaped bag.

The function of the heart is between the lungs.

The heart is suspended from the fifth pair of ribs.

The heart manufactures the blood and the liver keeps it going.

Whenever the heart is emptied by the action of the lungs it causes disease.

When the heart beats it stirs up the blood and that digests the food.

The work of the heart is to repair the different organs in about half a minute.

The nerve centers are the cartilages of the nerves.

The optic nerve is the principal nerve used in digestion.

The optic nerve is the nerve located at the base of the brain.

The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is developed into the special sense of hearing.

Nerves always give us the toothache.

98Neuralgia is caused by nerves trying to pierce the bones.

The bones need constant oiling. This oil is called cartilege and runs from all the glands in the body.

The eyes are set in two sockets in a bone which turns up at the end and then becomes the nose.

When the blood circulates in the brain it is called intermittent.

The blood flows through the alimentery canal into the abdominal canopy.

The blood is putrefied in the lungs by inspired air.

The blood corpusels interfere with the liver and prevents circulation.

The three coverings of the brain are the diameter, the perimeter and the trachea.

When the intestines become congealed they are followed by instant death.

Albumen is a classification of articles of food.

Albumen is a whity substance existing in the white of an egg to a great extent.

99Alcoholic beverages greatly obstruct the breaking down of the body.

The heart lungs and blood is very dangerous.

The cow has a pulse as well as anybody else.

The cow has a pulse but you can not feel it at his wrist.

A cow has no pulse but the higher animals sometimes do.

All animals that have feet are called quadrupeds.

The molars are the teeth that grow outside the head.

The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to the stomach.

We are vacksinated for the smallpox and verylord.

Fat is found in the creases of the body.

An anatomical figure is to illustrate diseases of the skin.

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A Sidereal day is the time from the sun leaving the sky till he appears again.

The farther the sun is up the longer it takes it to set and the days are longer in summer than when the sun is low down.

The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead.

To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a meridian and multiply by 62½ pounds.

101The size of the earth is found by finding the horizontal parallax of the sun.

Abberation is if we saw a star and shot at it, the shot would not pass through the center but through the side.

The moon is 240 miles from the earth.

The moon’s nodes are the corners of the moon’s orbit.

The reason for believing that there are mountains on the moon is due to the shadows reflected on the earth.

The libration of the moon show the north, east, south, and west sides of the heavens.

The motions of the moon are found by watching the sun spots.

There can be an eclipse of the moon when the sun gets into the moon’s shadow.

Juniper is a very bright star.

Venus, Jupiter and perhaps the earth was known to the ancients.

Mars moves in his orbit at the rate of sixteen seconds a mile.

The earth is 1492 miles in circumference.

102The spheres are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides.

Eclipses are caused whenever the obscuration of a body is passed by the shadow of some other body.

The planets shine with a steady light but the stars sprinkle.

The stars would cover up the whole heavens if they were all spread out so astronomers have concluded to arrange them in constellations.

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The world would be in a state of cosmos if it had no system of government.

Congress is divided into civilized half civilized and savage.

The Constitution of the United States was established to ensure domestic hostility.

The Constitution of the United States is that part of the book at the end which nobody reads.

The first Conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia.

104A bill becomes a law when the President vetos it.

The three departments in the general government are the White House, Custom House and United Treasury.

The three departments of the government is the President rules the world, the governor rules the state, the mayor rules the city.

There are two political divisions in the United States the democrats and republican.

The number of Senaters from each State is determined by the number of votes.

The Articles of Confederation were made by the Confederates and the Constitution by all the people.

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Musical sounds differ because some are nicer than others.

Pitch is the length of the key board of a orgin.

An interval in music is the distance on the key board from one piano to the next.

The value of a whole note depends on where it comes.

A hole note requires three beats.

A Rest means you are not to sing it.

We always sing five lines and four spaces.

A dotted note holds on longer.

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Elocution is opening the mouth wide open.

It is a very important thing to breathe.

We should always breathe with the musels of the diagram unless we have catarr or a cold in the head.

Vigorous breathing gives you wind in the lungs.

Strong breathing prevents bilious deficiencies.

By breathing any slight adhesion of the lungs is torn away.

Good breathing prevents contagious diseases from settling in the systum.

107Breathing is very good for reading for when you are reading you carnt breathe at all and so it is good to breath a good deal before.

Articulation is caused by resperation.

Distinct articulation can not be made unless we have a tongue our lips and our teeth.

Vowel sounds are made by keeping the mouth wide open and consonant sounds by keeping it shut.

The Asperate quality of voice is when you try to say something in a whisper.

Force is more loudness sometimes than others.

Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another.

Inflection is when the voice goes up and then comes down again it is a period.

A retorical pause is when you have to take breath.

Stammering is caused by some detriment in the speech.

Physical exercise makes the vocal muscles operate stronger.

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The study of Mental Philosophy teaches us that we are all sensible beings.

The imagination is that part of the mind which looks forward to that which it does not lay its visible eye on.

An energy is perfected when it is tantamount.

The Canons of Induction were invented by Sir Humphrey Davy.

Hamilton made a long and exhausting analysis of sense perception.

109Reid considered externality to be something hard.

The theory that intuitive truths are discovered by the light of nature originated from St. John’s interpretation of a passage in the Gospel of Plato.

Man’s moral life first originated in his perception of the world of Nature.

Herodetus tells us that the Egyptians were the first men who had immortal souls.