Mrs. Browning, Tennyson, and Disraeli–a fact which shows that
into the restricted stomach of the public-school pupil is
shoveled every year the blood, bone, and viscera of a gigantic
literature, and the same is there digested and disposed of in a
most successful and characteristic and gratifying public-school
way. I have space for but a trifling few of the results:
Lord Byron was the son of an heiress and a drunken man.
Wm. Wordsworth wrote the Barefoot Boy and Imitations on Immortality.
Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in Italy. This was original.
George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned greatly for his genius.
George Eliot Miss Mary Evans Mrs. Cross Mrs. Lewis was the greatest
female poet unless George Sands is made an exception of.
Bulwell is considered a good writer.
Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the Great and Johnson
were the first great novelists.
Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at Harvard and then studied law,
he was raised to the peerage as baron in 1557 and died in 1776.
Here are two or three miscellaneous facts that may be of value,
if taken in moderation:
Homer’s writings are Homer’s Essays Virgil the Aenid and
Paradise lost some people say that these poems were not written
by Homer but by another man of the same name.
A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems.
Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer.
When the public-school pupil wrestles with the political
features of the Great Republic, they throw him sometimes:
A bill becomes a law when the President vetoes it.
The three departments of the government is the President rules
the world, the governor rules the State, the mayor rules the city.
The first conscientious Congress met in Philadelphia.
The Constitution of the United States was established to
ensure domestic hostility.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again. As follows:
The Constitution of the United States is that part of the
book at the end which nobody reads.
And here she rises once more and untimely. There should be
a limit to public-school instruction; it cannot be wise or well
to let the young find out everything:
Congress is divided into civilized half civilized and savage.
Here are some results of study in music and oratory:
An interval in music is the distance on the keyboard from
one piano to the next.
A rest means you are not to sing it.
Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another.
The chapter on “Physiology” contains much that ought not to
be lost to science:
Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry.
Occupations which are injurious to health are cabolic acid
gas which is impure blood.
We have an upper and lower skin. The lower skin moves all
the time and the upper skin moves when we do.
The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is
avaricious tissue.
The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body.
The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking.
The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches
the heart where it meets the oxygen and is purified.
The salivary glands are used to salivate the body.
In the stomach starch is changed to cane sugar and cane
sugar to sugar cane.
The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is
developed into the special sense of hearing.
The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and
extends to the stomach.
If we were on a railroad track and a train was coming the train
would deafen our ears so that we couldn’t see to get off the track.
If, up to this point, none of my quotations have added
flavor to the Johnsonian anecdote at the head of this article,
let us make another attempt:
The theory that intuitive truths are discovered by the light
of nature originated from St. John’s interpretation of a passage
in the Gospel of Plato.
The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of
known lead with that of a mass of unknown lead.
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree