Presently tho now recruit came after
more peanuts.
" You want to keep your eyes open in
tilts business, young feller," admonished
tho expert, refilling tho basket.
oat a peanut what don't cost him
uothin', an' when ho oncn gits tho flavor
he's gone. You'vo got to study human
nature."
' SCHOOL NOTES.
NUMBKIl 110TTOM.
Census report, 51 ; number on roll, 23 ;
highest attendance, 20; lowest attendance,
7 j nvorago attendance, 15. Tho
school houso is frame, and though small,
is comfortable. Tho teacher writes of
the furniture: "Tho desks aro entirely
too high for small children to write or
study with any comfort." This is not
exceptional. There is a lack of caro
as to tho comfort of tho pupils fn tho
furniture of almost all districts.
The trustees aro Rufus Robinson. Chas.
Peers nnd Noblo Richardson. Mr. Robinson
has visited tho school onco. Tlio patrons
of the district supplemented the
public fund with $45 for tho teachor'fl
salary.
Miss Annio II. Penio is teaching her
first session hero. Slio has read " Parker's
Talks on Teachimr," and " Currio's Methods
in tho Common School," this year.
Miss Perrlo is an energetic and painstaking
teacher, and succeeds in maintaining
good deportment and securing tlio best efforts
of nor pupils. Her respoiiFo to tlio
query as to whether sho used tho oxact
languago of the toxt book is so apt that I
must quote it. Sho says: " I do not require
tho exact languago of tho toxt
book. I think a child, if ho thoroughly
understands tho subject of his lesson,
will invariably clothe, his ideas in his
own language."
NUMIHMl UIDGE.
