miscellaneous.
WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY.
At the annual general meeting of the Teacher's Training and Registration.., Society, and of the Bishopsgate Training College, the other day, Prof. Goldwin Smith took laudable advantage of the opportunity to impress on those present what science teaching really means. ''«• In respect of the teaching of science," ho said, " he had constantly brought before him, the wide gulf fixed between the two different kinds of what persons call knowledge. The one was a mere learning to repeat a verbal proposition, and the other was knowing the subject at first hand — a knowledge based upon a knowledge of the facts. That which they had constantly to contend against in the teaching of science in this country, ,was that teachers had no conception of that distinction, for they thought it • quite sufficient to be able 'to repeat them as accurately as they themselves did. If he might offer one suggestion to the governing body of the college, it was that so far asthey taught science, all they should aim at giving real and practical scientific instruction ; that it should be confined to those things about which there was no dispute ; and that the teacher should be instructed that his business in teaching was to convey clear and vivid impressions of the body of facts upon which the conclusions drawn from those facts were based."
Though we may not change the cottage For a mansion tall and grand, Or exchange the little grass plot For a boundless stretch of land — Yet there's something brighter, dearer, Than the wealth we'd thus command. Though we have not means to purchase Costly pictures, rich and rare — Though we have not silken hangings For the walls, so cold and bare— We can hang them o'er with garlands, For flowers bloom everywhere. We can always make home cheerful, If the right course we begin; We can make its inmates happy, And there truest blessings win. It will make the small room brighter If we let the sunshine in. We can gather round the fireside, When the evening hours are long; We can blend our hearts and voices In a happy, social song : We can guide some erring brotherLead him from the path of wrong. We may fill our home with music, And with sunshine brimming o'er, If, against all dark intruders, We will firmly close the door: Yet, should evil shadows enter, We must love each other more. There are treasures for the lowly, Which the grandest fail to find: There's a chain of sweet affection Binding friends of kindred mind. We may reap the choicest blessings From the poorest lot assigned.
Since slang, says the Neio York^ World, has taken such a firm foothold in Parisian literature and conversation, the grammar has been systematically revised, so that now the verb " to go " is the indicative present as follows : — Singular, first person, I git ; singular, second person, thou dustest ; singular, third person, he, she, or it, vamoses. Plural, first person, we light out ; plural, second person, ye or you slup ; plural, third person, they sherry; their nibs.
" A tall, lank, religious-looking man had been beating us out of his fare for several days," said a car-driver to a Philadelphia Press reporter the other day. "He would offer a hundred-dollar bill for his fare. We couldn't change it, and he would go free. One night I got an idea in my head. " Jack," I says to the conductor, " if that fellow rides with us again, and offers the hundred-dollar bill, you bring it to me." I had a little money saved, and I got a friend to change one hundred dollars for me into five and ten-cent pieces. The next day the old man turned up again with his hundred-dollar bill. My mate took : twenty-four cents out of the bag for four fares ! which were owing, and then handed the 'rest bag and all, to the land ihdividual in change for the bill. He vowed and protested he wouldn't take such change, but my mate said he knowed him, and that he wasn't going to play the hundred-dollar-bill game on him any longer, and. so the lank individual got out, shakunder fiis arm. The next day I took off and went to return the hundred dollars to the bank. I handed over the bill. The cashier takes it up, looks at it, and ssys : " Here, young man, this won'i do ; it's counterfeit" You should have seen my actions for the next ten minutes." The Prince of Wales has set his heart on reviving the gaiety of London, and goes to work as if he meant it. Every night he may be seen at one or more theatres, every morning flashing along the causeway in his low phaeton, every afternoon riding or driving in the park. He evidently feels the great want of life and animation, and the dullness which has been eating into the very heart of trade, and rendering the middle-class population so completely dependent upon each other that the upper class has been regarded as of no use in the general movement. The Prince aims at nothing less than to restore the balance, and render the upper ten as dependent on trade as trade, has hitherto been dependent on them. Tn the South of Abyssinia, upon the testimony of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, monkeys are still taught several useful accomplishments. One of these is that of officiating as torch-bearers at a supper party. Seated in a row on a raised bench, they hold the lights until the guests have departed, patiently awaiting their own supper as a reward for their services. Occasionally an obstreperous animal will interrupt the festivities by throwing his lighted torch among the guests, but he is promptly caned into submission.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1624, 30 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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962miscellaneous. WE CAN MAKE HOME HAPPY. Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1624, 30 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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