J. L. P. size of the different political divisions of this department, instruction from Text the globe, their relations to each other, Books need not extend beyond a few physical social and political are absolutely months. The precepts of the living teachessential to the American freeman. And er will be needed constantly, whenever here let me protest against so much time any habits prejudicial to health are obbeing wasted upon dry, unimportant de- served, or wherever favorable opportuni1 tails in these studies. These may be more ties present themselves for impressing upsuccessfully learned in after years. It on the mind some useful hints. should be the aim of the common school Here the course of study for the large to implant firmly in the mind general mass of our public schools must end.s principles, the beams, posts and girders We would willingly extend it to meet the of the structure. The smaller timbers requirements of our higher schools, but and finishing touches may be supplied af- this may be deferred, until such time as terwards.' The most important part of these schools are not so rare exceptions the time devoted to these branches in our to the general rule. Our object is to treat -+ | public schools , should be spent in teach- of schools as they are, and not as we would ing how to study them aright. Their like to have them. We look for their imstudy must be a life work. The longer the time spent in school, the farther may Public School. provement in a fuller appreciation of the the pupil progress, but at farthest he can Platteville, Wis. become acquainted with only the first rudiments of these branches, and it is useless [For the Journal of Education. to attempt any finishing of education here. History is of daily growth and its increase PRECOCITY OF INTELLECT.. will equal the advance of the best mind. He who neglects his health is guilty of Some children seem by nature endowed a threefold crime, for upon the health of with unusual mental activity. In the the body depends that of the intellect and years of infancy they seem mentally maheart. There is such an intimate con- ture. The body small and undeveloped, nection between the physical, mental and is freighted with a giant mind. | moral powers, and the physical are so es- few years they dazzle the eyes of the sentially at the foundation, that a knowl- world, then, in å vast majority of cases, edge of the laws of health is highly im- go out and are gazed at no more. Early portant . Some elementary work in Phys- maturity is generally accompanied by iology should be introduced as soon as early decay. Is it absolutely necessary the ideas contained in it can be under that the most gifted should die in early stood and appreciated. This branch of youth? By no means. This precocity study in our common schools is sadly is of two distinct classes. The first arises neglected ; and its neglect is one that will from an unhealthy or diseased brain.be felt in after generations. We cannot That disease sometimes produces rapid expect to make thorough physicians of growth and development, is a well estab. the little ones in our schools , but we can lished fact in the physical world. Noris give them such an idea of their little bod- it less true in the mental. The senses beies and the laws governing their healthfui come exceedingly acute, sometimes painaction, that medical schools would be less fully so under the influence of certain plenty , or more sparingly attended. In diseases . The memory, the fancy, the For a P. reason, the judgment are doubtless sus-ulants. Nor is it less sinful to goad on ceptible to like impressions. In the second the powers already doing more than their class are found those who are endowed part, even if they be perfectly healthy in with unusually active mental powers, their action. which rightly checked may bless the world The fact cannot be disguised that inbut, encouraged and flattered break by tellectual murder is very prevalent in our their own weight. Is it strange that so land. Would teachers and parents cease few, who exhibit in early years wonderful to strive to obtain notoriety and worldly ripeness of intellect, ever realize in later praise by the exhibition of the unusual life the expectations they have raised ?- mental strength of their more favored puThe strangeness of the thing vanishes as pils and children, the world will have we look into our families and our schools. less occasion to mourn the early fall of Who are the praised, the petted, the those whom God designed to be a blessing stimulated! Those who need an entirely to mankind. different discipline. 'A mysterious Pror Platteville, Wis. idence' often visits those who charge upon their Creator the result of their own indis [From the N. Y. Tribune. IN THE MEADOWS. cretion, not to use any harsher term. Natural as it is, and gratifying as it may I lie in the summer meadows, be to the pride of a parent or teacher, to In the meadows all alone, With the infinite sky above me, push forward the smart and promising And the sun on his mid-day throne. youth, I can look upon it in no other The smell of the flowering grasses light than that of a positive wrong, and a Is sweeter than any rose, And a million happy insects wrong not often enough proclaimed Sing in the warm repose. against. A healthy and vigorous mind The mother lark that is brooding, cannot long retain its standing in a dis Feels the sunshine on her wings, eased, dwarfed or overtasked body. One And the deeps of the noon-day glitter or the other must yield. The body must With swarms of fairy things. be entirely prostrated and die or the mind From the billowy green beneath mo To the fathomless blue above, at first unusually active become all the The creatures of God are happy more sluggish on account of its early In the warmth of their summer love. acuteness. If we would have a giant The infinite bliss of Nature mind we must have proportional strength I feel in every vein; of body. To use a common illustration, The light and life of Summer Blossom in heart and brain. an engine of immense power will do very well in one of our ocean steamers, but But darker than any shadow By thunder-clouds unfurled, would be of little service in one of our The awful truth arises, smaller river craft, unless to ensure its own That Death is in the world! destruction with the hull containing it. And the sky may beam as ever, And never a cloud bo curled, If disease be the cause of precocity, it And the airs be living odors, is without doubt absolutely sinful to fos But Death is in the world. ter it. The mind needs depletion at some Out of the deeps of sunshine times as well as the body and the skillful The invisible bolt is hurled; There's Life in the summer meadows, physician is he who knows when to re But Death is in the world ! duce as well as when to administer stim BAYARD TAYLOR. CHIPPEWAY COUNTY. Superintendent's Department. Chippewas ; No. Child'n. App'nt. $123 90 APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUND CLARKE COUNTY,- 179 90 Lisbon, Lyndon, 912 80 Bad Ax, Bergen, Jefferson, ADAMS County. No. Children. Apportionment. CRAWFORD COUNTY.- 257 99 246 89 188 226 158 20 Prairie du Chien, 556 834 57 98 70 1304 137 95 90 COLUMBIA COUNTY.- 139 127 130 255 538 191 317 87 348 Hampden, 216 227 317 99 336 253 316 165 274 91 Portage City, 676 363 276 270 160 384 148 6541 30 80 DANE COUNTY. 343 250 417 Blooming Grove, 148 162 231 Bristol, 844 64 40 Cottage Grove, 423 531 282 212 228 20 Deerfield, 481 828 346' 88 90 63 70 Green Bay, Green Bay City, 4578 70 Morrison, 28 70 Albion, Belvidere Charlestown, 240 10 82 60 $368 90 858 256 $6349 00 11875 525 397 309 636 479 511 510 640 540 638 381 509 264 382 470 655 331 549 439 514 585 117 496 299 $270 20 Ceresco, 527 298 296 273 471 198 393 463 389 211 827 412 537 596 9070 487 352 305 288 331 399 400 565 146 315 289 474 364 208 1023 914 387 152 272 124 329 00 106 40 190 40 359 80 81 90 12,122 346 453 221 873 604 Iowa COUNTY.- Arena, Clyde, Dodgeville, Highland, Pulaski, Jackson COUNTY.- 190 White Oak Springs, 262 550 227 $183 40 3970 40 190 263 461 494 479 319 612 737 671 438 410 402 548 573 494 768 1197 167 30 84 70 359 2702 00 67 90 8696 6087 20 Berlin, KENOSHA COUNTY. 431 184 10 5672 239 121 547 611 280 263 525 3860 97 782 316 205 123 203 331 303 138 275 298 143 379 208 190 352 197 227 249 51 121 5316 598 1012 857 683 848 697 902 14942 547 40 86 10 96 60 Neshkora, Newton, Berry, 151 90 St. Marie, 1226 3721 20 253 LAFAYETTE COUNTY. 306 418 60 10459 40 |