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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 teach

essential 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 ob

being wasted upon dry, unimportant de serred, or wherever favorable opportunitails in these studies. These may be more ties present themselves for impressing upi successfully 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 E, to implant firmly in the mind general

mass of our public schools must end. 5 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 rudi-
ments 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 espect 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 e give them such an idea of their little bod-it less true in the mental. The senses be.

ies and the laws governing their healthful come exceedinglý acute, sometimes pain

action, that medical schools would be less fully so under the influence of certain į plenty, or more sparingly attended. In diseases. The memory, the fancy, the

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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 fa vored puThe strangeness of the thing vanishes as pils and children, the world will bare 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 Proc

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,

In the meadows all alone, be to the pride of a parent or teacher, to

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 me

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 erer,

And never a cloud be 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.

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CHIPPEWAY COUNTY.

Superintendent's Department

. Chippeway

,

$123 90

257

179 90
172 20
131 60
389 20
39 90

be :Jackson,

- Lindina

912 80

108

Bad Ax,

APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUND
INCOME-1856.

CLARKE COUNTY.-
Tak Adaus County. No. Children. Apportionment. CRAWFORD COUNTY.
Big Spring,

152
$106 40 Eastman,

246 20. Grand Marsh,

99
69 30 Highland,

188
89
62 30 Marietta,

556
Lemonweir,
226 158 20 Prairie du Chien,

57 834

233 80 Utica, FB | Lisbon,

141
98 70

1304

75 60 Lyndon, Plymouth,

137

95 90 COLUMBIA County.

139 Quincy.

127 97 30 Arlington

130 Springville,

255 91 00 Caledonia,

538 Wancedah,

144

100 80 Columbus,

191 Vecedah,

317 133 70 Courtland,

87 Chester,

343
60 90 Dekorra,
Fort Winnebago,

288
1977 $1383 90 Fountain Prairie, 359

216

Hampden,
BAD Ax COUNTY.--

465
325 50 Leeds,

227

317 Bergen,

176

123 20 Lewiston,

99 Hillsborough,

336 69 80 Lodi,

224 Jefferson,

253 156 80 Lowville,

149 Kickapoo,

316 104 30 Marcellon,

165 Virogua,

361.90 Newport, 517 Otsego,

274 1630 1141 00 Pacific,

91

676

Portage City, BROWN COUNTY,

363 Depere, 237 165 90 Randolph,

276 Green Bay,

560
392 00 Scott,

270
Green Bay City,
692 484 40 Springvale,

160 Holland,

82
57 40 West Point,

384
W
294
Howard,

205 80 yocena, Lawrence,

148

103 60 Morrison,

6541 New Denmark,

44

30 80 DANE COUNTY.-Wrightson,

41
28 70 Albion,

343
Burke,

250 2098 1468 60 Blue Mounds,

417 BrzFALO COUNTY.

Blooming Grove,

162

Berry
Belvidere
Buffalo,

250
175 00 Black Earth,

231

844

Bristol, CALTHET COUNTY,

118 Charlestown, 198 137 60 Cross Plains,

423 Lima,

64 40 Cottage Grove, 92

531 Manchester,

264
184 80 Christiana,

282 New Holstein, 251

175 70 Dane,

212 Portland

239
167 30 Dunn,

294 Stockbridge, 826 228 20 Deerfield,

481 Woodville,

11

7 60 Dunkirk,
Fitchburg,

323

346 1381 966 70 Montrose,

88 90 178 50 376 60 221 90 240 10 201 60 251 30 151 20 251 90 221 90 235 20 177 10 221 20 115 50 191 80

63 70 473 20 254 10 193 20 189 00 112 00 268 80

4578 70

148

240 10 175 00 291 90 103 60 113 40 161 70 233 80

82 60 296 10 871 70 197 40 148 40 215 80 336 70 226 10 242 20

487 952 305 288 331 399 799 400 565 146 315 289 474 364 208 329 1023 914 387 152 272 124

840 90 216 40 213 50 201 60! 231 70 279 30 -5.59 30 1 280 00 395 50 102 20 220 50 202 30 331 80 254 80 145 60 230 30 716 10 639 80 270 90 106 40 190 40 86 80

$183 40 212 80 385 00 158 90

3970 40

167 30

84 70 372 90 427 70 221 90 417 20 196 00 185 50 367 50 251 30

2702 00

67 90

547 40 221 20 143 50

86 10 142 10 231 70 212 10

96 60 192 50 208 60 100 10 265 30 145 60 72 10 85 40 133 00 246 40 137 90 158 90 174 30 35 70 84 70

3721 20

418 60 708 40 599 90 478 10 593 60 6541 50 487 90 631 40

10459 40