I feel tolerable well for I feel toler- in a grain of salt. ably well.

This is a miserable poor pen.

The weather is horrid for The weather is disagreeable.

That dress is perfectly awful.
We had an awfully good time.
This is a tremendously hard lesson.
Harry is a mighty nice boy.

He jumped on the chair.

There is a world of meaning locked up Pick out one of the perfect crystals and examine it with a lens. You will see that it is in the form of a cube. Lay it on a sheet of writing paper and you can see the ruled lines through it: then it is transparent like glass. Lay a grain on your tongue and it will quickly disappear: it is soluble in watery fluids. As it dissolves on the tongue, besides its saline taste, it pro

He fell onto the stove for He fell upon duces a sensation of coolness. This the stove.

proves that it is governed by the gen

He went in the house for He went eral law, that liquefation of crystals abinto the house.

sorbs heat from surrounding substances.

I am angry at him for I am angry This abstraction of heat lowers the temwith him.

perature of the body losing it, hence the The two ate it among themselves. feeling of coolness. Take a measured The three ate it between themselves. quantity of cold water and put in a Air consists in oxygen and nitrogen. watch glass or tube; then add as much He has did his problem for He has salt to it as it will dissolve. Now take done his problem. the same quantity of hot water and put Mary has came late for Mary has in another glass or tube, and dissolve come late.

as much salt as the water will take up.

John has ate the apple for John has You will find that the quantity of salt

eaten the apple.

He has sat down the gun.

She had already set down.

The horse was drove hard.

dissolved will be about the same in both instances--a fact taken advantage of in the manufacture of salt on a large scale, to seperate the magnesian and other

She hasn't spoke to me for She hasn't salts that are held in solution in hot, spoken to me.

The leaves have fell fast.

That is wrote obscurely.

The bird has flew away for The bird has flown away.

concentrated form, while the common salt is lifted out in strainers, in the crystalline form of commerce.

No other mineral salt has the property of equal solubility in hot and cold

Henry was chose first for Henry was water-a fact that is of incalculable chosen first.

value to the human race, who depend

I have began to think so for I have so largely on salt as a condiment, and begun to think so. for the preservation of the flesh of animals.

The matress was shook up.

He has forsook us for He has forsak

en us.

Take a few grains of salt and put on the wick of a burning alcohol lamp

Henry has took it for Henry has the colorless flame will turn a bright

taken it.

yellow. This proves that salt is a com

pound of the metal sodium.

Dissolve a few crystals of nitrate of silver in a test tube of distilled or clean rain water. Then drop in a few drops of one of the salt solutions you made. A dense white, opalescent cloud will form in the silver solution. This will presently subside into a sediment. Put the test tube where the sun can shine on it, and the sediment turns purple. It is chloride of silver and has robbed the salt of its chlorine. Then salt is a chloride of the metal sodium.

Chlorine and sodium are both corrosive poisons in their seperate states; but when united they form one of the most useful and wholesome of all the mineral products.

How to Get an Education.

being asked the cause of his rapid rise in his profession, replied "that when he learned a thing once, he learned it forever.”

6. Let no day pass without learning one new truth. The largest fortune is made up of cents; the highest mountain is composed of grains; the widest ocean is formed of drops; the greatest store of learning consists in individual truths.

7. Do not get discouraged. "A solid character is not the growth of a day. The mental faculties are not developed without long and laborous culture."

No one knows how much he can do till he has tried."

It is not talent that men lack, but purpose.

8. The three steps in gaining an edu

1. Resolve to have an education. cation are Intention, Attention, and "Where there is a will there is a way." Retention. You must intend to get it; Says Burke: "The lovers of wisdom you attend while getting it; you must will be wise." Matthews says: "If a retain as you get it. person does not obtain an education, it is a proof that he did not intend to have one."

2. Go to school if you can. A person can learn better at school than he can at home. At school, study is business. In study, method is everything. The best teachers can show the best methods.

3. Use the spare moments of time, when not at school, in gaining information. "Elihu Burritt acquired a knowledge of eighteen languages by improving fragments of his time while working as a blacksmith."

"Franklin became one of the wisest men of his age, by studying during the fragments of time while engaged as a printer."

Dr. Arnold declared that "the difference in boys consists not so much in talent as energy."

Sir. Thomas Fowell Buxton, says: "The great difference between men, between the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination, an honest purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.-J. A. Cooper, Prin. State Normal School, Pa.

PERIODICALLY the daily press in certain sections of the country, breaks out in complaints of the inefficiency of the common schools. This invites old schoolmasters to write for the press upon the degeneracy of the times, in matters educational. Below is a specimen of this class of criticism:

"Thirty years ago, when I was in 4. Give undivided attention when school, children of ten and twelve years you study. "Genius," says Helvetius, of age, who had had moderate advan"is nothing but continued attention." tages were not only perfect in reading, Dickens says: "The one serviceable, spelling, and the rudiments of arithmesafe, certain, remunerative, attainable tic, and could write,some of them pretty quality in every study, is the quality of well, but they had a perfect knowledge attention. My own invention, or im- of the United States, knew some thing agination, would never have served me of natural philosophy, were perfect in as it has but for the habit of patient, geography, and many were well posted daily, toiling, drudging attention." in the history of ancient Greece and

5. Be thorough. Sir Edward Sugden, Rome.-PATRON."

Saving and Having.

year, without accomplishing anything worth while. They wonder that others are successful, and they are not; that others progress and they remain stationery. The difficulty with them is that although they have never learned how to work to advantage. They have never formed the habit of regular, systematic application

Either a man must be content with poverty all his life, or else be willing to deny himself some luxuries, and save, to lay the base of independence in the future. But if a man defies the future, and spends all that he earns (whether his earnings be one pound or ten pounds every week), let him look for lean and Desultory and merely impulsive efhungry want at some future time, for it forts attended by very insufficient and will surely come, no matter what he unsatisfactory results. The first requithinks. To save is absolutely the only site is to know what you want to acway to get a solid fortune; there is no complish. Have some purpose-some other certain mode on earth. Those plan. Then see to it that the sun does who shut their eyes and ears to these not set on a day in which something plain facts will be forever poor; and for their obstinate rejections of the truth, mayhap will die in rags and filth. Let them so die and thank themselves. But, no! They take a sort of recompense in cursing fortune. Great waste of breath! They might as well curse promptly resume your work, and give mountains and eternal hill. For I can to it the benefit of refreshed strength tell them fortune does not give away and renewed vigor. her real and substantial goods. She sells them to the highest bidder, to the hardest, wisest worker for the boon.

Men never make so fatal a mistake as when they think they are mere creatures of fate; 'tis the sheerest folly in the world. Every man may make or mar his life, whichever way he may choose. Fortune is for those who, by diligence, honesty, frugality, place themselves in a position to grasp hold of fortune when it appears in view. The best evidence of diligence is the sound of the hammer in your shop at five o'clock in the morning. The best evidence of frugality is the $500 or more standing in your name at the savings bank. The best evidence of honesty are both diligence and frugality.

Cultivate Early the Habit to Work.

has not been done to carry forward that plan-to promote that purpose. Have, so far as possible, regular hours of work, and let no light interruption interfere with them. If you take a day's recreation, be sure that on the morrow you

At the end of every week, regularly review your work. Consider just how much you have accomplished. If you are satisfied with what you have done, it will bring to you a feeling of repose and content. If you find you shonld have done more, then make sure that the coming week shall show an improvement on the past.

Finally, let nothing-no matter what -aunt or discourage you. Glory in a resolute and invincible will!

The conduct of children according to the occupation of parents is somewhat as follows:

Children of laborers and mechanics (if the female parent is not silly), excellent; children of clergymen, naughty; children of grocers (wet and dry), good; children of ex-teachers, troublesome; children of policeman, insolent; children of peddlers totally depraved.

There is scarcely anything of greater importance to a young man than that he should acquire early the habit of regular application to some pursuit. If anybody dares to dispute the corMany persons who are not of an indo-rectness of this estimate, we shall publent nature live on from day to day, lish the philosphy on which it is foundfrom month to month, from year toled.

PERSONAL AND EDITORIAL.

Volume 2.

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PROF. JOHN M. BLOSS favored u with his presence at the close of our Normal, and at the beginning of our County Institute. Prof. B. is superintendent of the Evansville Schools, and a member of the State Board of Education. He stands in the front rank as an educator, having few equals and perhaps, no superiors in the state. We hope to present in the next No. of the TEACHER an article from the pen of Prof. Bloss. He may consider himself

as looked for the next number.

With this number we enter upon the second volume of the TEACHER. One year of trial has convinced us that the TEACHER Occupies ground that no other Educational Journal does in the state. It is ground that needs to be occupied. Our common school teachers are not properly approached in most of the journals of the day. They are overshot. They ought to be met on their own ground, and talked to as friend talks to friend. We hope in the year THERE have been more Normal to come we will be able to do better work for the cause of our common schools this summer and a larger atschools. Our experience during the tendance at county institutes than ever year that is past will enable us to do so. before. This speaks well for the future Great credit is due our The TEACHER is an unwavering advo- of our schools. cate of grading our district schools. worthy State Superintendent for his We intend to make this a prominent zeal and energy in the interest of the Although our public feature, giving our plan, and showing public schools. how all the difficulties of grading can school system is only about twenty be overcome. We invite the co-opera- years old, our educational representation of the teachers throughout the tton at the centennial is said to be instate. We have the assurance from ferior to but few other States. some of the most eminent educators in the state of contributions from their

PROF. SAUNDERS of the State University, at Bloomington, gave us a visit pens. We want everyone to feel that during the Normal. The students were the TEACHER is open to all for the dis-highly pleased with his diagrams in cussion of all matters pertaining to our Physiology. He certainly is a success schools. Let every teacher act as agent as a teacher in this department, and to send us subscribers, and news about honors the position he holds in the University. Porf. S. will be welcome at Bedford whenever he may wish to visit us. We tender him the freedom of our city.

schools and school teachers.

FLOYD COUNTY TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.-Isaac Miller, the Superintendent of the schools of Floyd county has just been holding a very interesting Institute at New Albany. The principal lecturers were Prof. Alcott of Indianapolis, W. A. Bell, editor of the School Journal, Judge D. W. Lafollette, H. B. Jacobs, Dr. Geo. P. Weaver, Rev. W. M. Jordan, Rev. J. S. Wood, Rev. Chas. Hutchinson, Rev. J. Gierlow, Rev. W. H. Grim and S. A. Chambers. There were about one hundred teachers enrolled, and altogether the Institute was quite a success. The programme was very good and was well followed out. PROF. J. C. CHILTON goes to Orleans, as principal.

PROF. S. B. MOORE takes the position of Professor of National Science, and Assistant in Normal department in the Bedford College. Prof. M. has proved himself to be a fine educator, and he will, no doubt, sustain the reputation that he already has, and add to it in his new field of labor. Prof. M., is genial but decided. The student will find in him a friend and counsellor.

PROF. R. A. OGG remains at Mitchell. He is deservedly popular.

W. T. FRY stays at Washington, in charge of the schools at that place.