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"Fannie's Pets." "The Wee Puppies." "Fun in the Woodshed." "Cats and Dogs." "The Puppies' First Caller." "A Surprised Cat." "Bare Armed Josie." "Nettie Loves Puppies better than Flowers." "The Frightened Puppies." "Out in the Barn." Teacher.-Now you may write the names of all the things you can tell me about in this picture, and I will write as you tell me, but no one must tell of anything that any one else has told about, and it must be only one thing, and what you are going to tell about that one thing. Do you know just what I mean? Pupil.-Are we to tell you about it now? Teacher.-How many think so? (No one but the inquirer.) Why did you ask? (to the pupil.) Pupil.-Because you said we were to tell what we were going to tell about the thing. Teacher.-What did I mean? Another Pupil.-That we should say something more than that we were going to tell about the little girl. Teacher. How many think that was my meaning? (All hands up.) Now for your answers. UPON THE BLACKBOARD. What the kitten is thinking about. About the high-headed puppy's face. Why Carrie dropped the flowers. Why doesn't the littler puppy hold up its head? The little girl's hair. Why cats don't like dogs. What kind of puppies these are. Teacher. Now each of you may select one of these things that he did not give me himself, and write three things about it, and when I say "change," then you may hand it to the scholar in front of you; those in the front row passing theirs to those in the rear row, and after reading what has been written he may write three more things about the same subject and then change as before; and after reading the six, write three more. Then we will have some of them read as a whole. A MINIATURE EARTHQUAKE. BY GEO. W. COLEMAN. the first time, a description of an earthquake. How their little minds have worked attempting to grasp the idea of an earthquake! What conjectures they would form concerning the promised illustration! How could it help stimulating regular attendance and punctuality? The following is what the teacher had in mind when she made the promise: Weave together five stout toothpicks as indicated in the cut. Lay the figure thus formed on a large tin tray or a platter, and cover it lightly with fine, dry sawdust, being careful to leave exposed the end marked a. The surface will naturally be quite irregular, and can be made more so very readily if one desires to represent the earthquake as occurring in a very mountainous region. With bits of charcoal represent cities and rivers. Further elaborations will suggest themselves to a wide-awake teacher. When all is ready, apply a match to the uncovered end,-lo, and behold, all is chaos, and that, too, in the twinkling of an eye. By the use of fire the illustration is made more perfect, for the children have learned that the center of the earth is a ball of fire, a supposition furnishing a basis for at least one theory concerning the origin of earthquakes. Many variations of this idea are possible. Instead of E can imagine a teacher saying to her class, after, sawdust use light bits of paper, and term the exhibition a having read the following paragraphs: "Now, chil-home-made pyrotechnical display. If the teacher wishes dren, this is Monday morning and a splendid time to make good resolutions. Let us try to go through the week to picture an upheaval of a larger tract of territory than this combination of little sticks could possibly represent, and thus render it easier to indicate topographical features, he has only to secure larger sticks, use more sawdust, and expend a greater amount of pains.-Jour. of Educat'n. without being obliged to put down a single tardy or absent mark resulting from negligence, carelessness, or any other fault. Of course we will not count those occasioned by others' faults. Then, when Friday afternoon has come, and if you have made a good record, I will give you an illustration of an earthquake on a small scale." Imagine, if you can, how this would pique the curiosity of a class of children just reading in their geography, for AUTOGRAPH ALBUM VERSE. BY WP. T is an easy matter for teachers to be finical in most ot things that pertain to their pupils' amusements or diversions. We are too apt to forget the impulses that stirred us when children, and to place a severe judgment on those acts and expressions that, in our riper judgment, strike us as being supremely silly and uncalled for. It may be that we often err in our opinions; every year we find occasion to readjust our former decisions on matters that are practically of small moment, but we like to be supreme in our contempt for the frivolities of youth. There are, however, some decisions we never have need to reconstruct, and one of these "unreconstructibles" is in reference to the "sentiments" connected with the name written in the so-called autograph albums. Every year, there is the time for writing our names in these albums, and every year, in looking through these books, do we find the same old "sentiments" with the name of a schoolmate tagged on after them. These verses or epigrams are invariably nauseating in their sentiment and expression, and the writers of them are always ashamed of having |