The Miami School Journal from Paola, Kansas • 8

KANSAS HISTORY. Seventy-five horse power. Experi Males 53 ments indicate that 100 horse power There are hundreds of children who 55 66 Females Average daily attendance will soon be reached. count of Bro. Shively's news table in the last Journal we went to work and got up one of our own.

We have a very good selection of books and papers; We, like Uro. Mehl read the will attend school for years without acquiring the information concerning 6. How Is a break in submarine cable 1ST ntlMARY. located? A. By measuring the elec Total enrollment 107 their own State contained in the fol Males 53 tricity needed to charge the remaining Journal! school.

We have organ- lowing brief sketch which we copy unbroken part. ized a literary society in school, choos from the Lawrence Journal. It may 7. How many miles of telegraph ing our president and other officers be read and re-read with profit by both wire in operation in the united States? from among the scholars. We meet old and young: i Females 54 Average dail attendance 66 The following are the names of those who were present every day in their respective departments: Grammar Ursa Dunlap, Jennie A.Over a million, or enough to encircle every Friday after the last recess.

One In 1603 President Jefferson bought the globe 40 times. of my scholars, Rosa Barrett, has not 8. How many messages can be trans- been absent or tardy in four months. from Napoleon the province of Louisiana, including nearly all of Kansas, for a little more than $23,400,000. In 1804 Kansas become a part of mitted over a wire at one time? A.

She walks two and one-half miles to and Amy Dolphin, Elgie Pine, MarT Four, by the quadruplex system, in and from school each day. If we had garet Dunaway, Mason Dunlap, Dale Hillabold and Frank Hughes. daily use. more of such scholars it would lessen Louisiana, and the laws of the district 9. How is telegraphing irora a mov Intermediate Nellie Smith, lillie the teachers work 50 per cent.

were made by William Harrison ing train accomplished? A. Through Mettie Lasher and Osa afterwards President acting with Frank Heath. La grippe spoiled my Johnson, a circuit from the car roof, inducing a report. Hughes. judge of that territory.

current in the wire on poles along the 2nd Primary Auna Kolbohm, Myr In 1805 Congress changed the district of Louisiana, embracing Kansas and tle McWherton, Johnny Hughes and WRITTEN REVIEWS. I am fully convinced of the advant track. 10. What are the most widely sepa Willie Helms. Missouri.

In 1812 the State of Louis age of written lessons and reviews. A rated points between which it is possi- 1st Primary Willie Seaman aact iana was formed, and the remainder of scholar may not express himself elegant- ble to send a telegram? A. British Charley Weaver. mer- Iy on paper, but he is almost certain to Columbia and New Zeland, Yia Promotions were made at the close. have studied more carefully, and to re ca and Europe.

the territory was changed to the territory of Missouri. In 1818, by a treaty with Spain, the western boundary of the Louisiana purchase was adjusted. II. a (Irof cf nimJri4- of the third month which causes thfr 11. How many miles of telegraph cite more attentively.

Written lessons graat disparity that exists between the wire in operation in the United States? strongly tend to make him exact, and reviews help him to aoid the habit of asfipndpfl thft Missouri river. In 1820 studying merely to recite. total enrollment and the average dailyr attendance also the aparent inconsistency of the general total enrollment, and the apportioned total enrollment. Oxtwatomie Graphic. (tansrress o.issM act enabling the When a pupil has made the acquaint CT people of Missouri territory to become ance of some of the branches of a sub A.

More than 170,000, over which 1 ,055,000 messages are sent daily. 1 2. What is the greatest candle power of arc lights used in lighthouses? A. Two million, in the lighthouse at Houstholm, Denmark. 13.

How many persons in the United a State, and prohibited slavery in all ject severally, he can then view them Louisiana purchase north of thirty-six collectively to much better advantage. degrees, thirty seconds north latitude. HONOR ROLL. Occ honor roll this month is brief on It will aid his understanding to con The next vear Missouri entered the trast the unlike, and his memory to States are engaged in business depend Union as a slave State. St.

Louis then account of and hence but few cared to report, fearing it would not ins solely on electricity? A. Estirnat compare and associate the like features. had a population of less than 5,000. This is especially true when the several ed 250,000. in 1S23 the first wagon train passed look well.

Everyone- know3 the diffi 14. How long does it take to trans through Kansas to New Mexico, which parts are interdependent upon one an other. port a message from San Fransisco to -was the beginning of the commerce of culties teachers have labored under the past month, and thft following list of pupils-neither absent! nor tardy shows I have been trying the following plan Honer Konc? A. About iitteen mm- tlm nla ins. In addition to.

the native 7 with moderate success: About once utes, via New York, Canso, Penzance earnest endeavor. Indian population, Indians from other States were given reservations in Kan each week I give my meue advanced Aden, Bombay, Madras, Penang, and scholars a written lesson or- review in Singapore. No. 48; Minnie No. 10.

14. What is the fastest time made by each of the branches they study usual ly without their previous knowledge or Ollie Averill, Beula Luck. an operator sending messages by the Morse system? A. About forty-two suspending the programme. When Myrtb Averill, Johnnie Forrest, they come to recite, I give them paper, words a minute.

Clarence Forrest. No-S. aad about ten questions on the lesson, 16. How many telephones- are used in the United States? A. About Herbert Barnard, Rose Barrett.

then under consideration, stating them specifically so their answers may be 000. No. 29. Primary. 17.

What war vessel has the most short. I gsade the paperaafter school LouicBruner, Jessie uthat, Morris Symonds, Myrtle Mills, complete electrical plant? A. United sas. Until 1854 the only white settler in Kansas were those connected with Indian missions and traders, or whites who had married Indians and adopted their mode of life. The Santa Fe trail, a wagon road to New Mexico from Missouri, was established in 1825.

Kansas was organized as a territory in 1854. The law of 1 820 declaring her free the new law opened it to freedom or to slavery, as the settlers might choose. The north and south entered into a contest to people the territory, and the contest led to a civil war called the border troubles, which cost many lives and $20,000,000 in" money. In 1861 1 Kansas was admitted to the Unions? free State. The war was waf and return them with the necessary recording the- standing of the pupils in a pocket class, record which States man-of-war Chicago.

OscasrAddy, Emma Mills, Dick. Douthat, John Dienst, 18. What is the average cost jper mile so ruled that it shows the record made EvaaRoss. of a transatlantic submarinejcable? A. About $1,000.

by each in all the- branches he studies, and, finally I take the average 19. How many miles of electric rail of the records of each pupil, ia each way are there in operation in the Unit ed States? About 400 miles, and much branch and embody it in a monthly re Na.ei. Willfe Spears, Lawrence Clinton Capper, Perry Capper, Edgar Capper. No. 54.

Primary. Pha Lewis, Florence George, Willie Dickinson. ore under construction. port to their parents. In marking papers one should have alL of thena spread before him and proceed to mark the Jt Y'hat strength of current is dan-k' oO human life? A.

Five hundred volts, but depending largely on physical conditions. Age of Steel. first answer through alS; the same with undaunted fury till the close ladyTe-bellion in 1865, and nearly able bodied man was the Amy or took the second and so oa until all are marked. S. Jones.

part in the struggle some way. It is during the past fifteen years that em REPOK.T- igration has been drawn to this State, and during that period she has grown mora ranidlv than anV other State in GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE SCIIOOL TER3I. w- J. 1 the Union. From the daily registers of the dif ferent departments the following sum ELEOTRIUAL.

mary is taken as a report for the first half of the school beginning Sep 1. How strong a current is used to tembers, 1889: Total enrollment S44 Males 165 send a message over an Atlantic cable? A. Thirty cells of battery only, equal to thirty volts. 2. What is the longest distance over Females 179 No.

54. Advanced. Ja-linnie Welch, James Wilson, Willie Wilson, Blanche No. 86. Edward Everett.

No. 66. Tottie Findley, Clyde Findley, Edna Findley, Jessie Findley No. 34. Gertie Beaver, Dolly Beaver Maud Morrison, Lora Tipton, Paul Anderson, Maynard Hand, Wilse Morrison, Ave Tipton.

No. 15. Isaac Culver, Leslie Hays, Facie Hays. No. 92.

Lou Casida, Myrtle McDowell, Mamie McDowell, Hattie Casida, Alice Gordon, Cordie Beck, Charlie Smeltzer, Lula McDowell, Oscar Cardin. No. 76. Edith Starry, Lida Town, Minnie Odell, Sadie Starry, Eddie Starry, Annie Wetty, Edward Wetty. No.

56. Hattie Jones, John Shelton, Walter Shively. No. 80. Orville Elliott.

whinh conversation bv telephone is Average daily attendance 230 TEACHERS' SAYINGS. A.Lane. The la grippe did it. H. S.

Crawford. Our reading table is booming, la grippe subsiding and attendance increasing. C. S. Jones.

Bad weather and grippe last month, but we are making a fine record this month. JohnB. Bomar. We are booming and everything is lovely. F.

A. Prather. I wish to particularly commend the article on Assigning Lessons in the last Journal by Miss Biggs. Want of thoroughly learned lessons is the worst fault of our schools. C.

A. Shively. Too much grippe last month, but we are sailing again and everything is lovely. Josie Ilennigh. La grippe is the cause.

Some of my pupils had not been absent or tardy this term until they were taken sick, Mrs. J. M. Firebaugh. I will say that about six of my pupils are responsible for 90 percent of the tardiness in my room.

E. H. Curtis. After seeing theac- The above was appropriated among the different departments as follows: daily maintained? A. About 750 from Portland, Maine, to Buf falo, New York.

3. "What is the fastest time made by GRAMMAR. an eAer.tria railway? A. Mile a min- Total enrollment Males Females Average daily attendance INTERMEDIATE. 75 32 43 48 88 44 44 50 -u4j, by a small experimental car.

Twenty miles an. hour on street rail way system. 4. How many miles of submarine ca ble are there in operation? A. Over 100,000 miles, or enough to girdle the earth four times.

5. What is the, maximum power, generatad by an electric motertf Total enrollment Males Females Average daily attendance 2ND PRIMARY. Total enrollment 108.