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1 OUR OWN. i Snow Fall. Softly, gently, all day long, Silently the white snow fell. Pure as the notes of an Angels' song, This gossamer robe, I love it well. W.

In the good old times, when "readin, writin and rithmetic," was all that was required to be taught in the public school, all that was necessary in a teacher, was to be "Apt to teach Ye parts of speech, And strap ye urchins well." Aristotle, the greatest of Plato's scholars, established a school in Athens, more than three centuries before the christian era. He taught by lectures, and his school was called the Lyceum. This word retaining in mauy respects, its original idea of instruction by associating together, is to day, the most popular name for a Literary Society. Every Literary should be a. Lyceum a place where every one is instruct II.

S. Harvev is teaching the Lostine school. Geo. 0. Harvey and Ezekial Stanley, are v.

working on the new school house, at the Ottawa mission, Ind'n Ter. Erasmus Haworth, class '81, is still at Lawrence attending the University. Prof. C. T.

Pickett, is Principle of tiie Pub-He Schools at Lincoln Centre. C. C. Chenoweth is attending school, at the State Aggricultural College. Richard and Rosa Haworth are attending the State University.

Prof. J. II. Brown is Principle of the Public Schools, at Willis Lawrence is teaching the Timber Hills school. N.

P. Carter has become an M. D. and is practicing medicine, in Biountsville, Indiana. R.

L. Carter has gone to Grant county, the place from whence he came the Beech-root region of Indiana. C. W. Harvey is president of the Teachers' Association, held in Galena.

Levi P. Carter, the Tom. Edison of our society, has just finished a new self-inking printing machine, which is on exhibition at this office. Willie and Eugene Scott are lying in a crit-icle condition, caused by a runaway. Eugene's ankle was put out of place, and Willie is suffering from his severe bruises, mainly in his back.

It will be several months, before the' will join us again. J. A. Carter and Delphina Stanley were married, the oth inst. at the residence of the bride's parents, according to the order of Friends.

We wish you a long and happy life, Through this dark world of ours May the thorns and thistles be removed, And your pathway strewn with flowers. ed, by his own labors and the labors of his associates. -Every literary society, should take measures to collect a library, at the earliest possible moment. Many subjects brought before the society, remind its members of the need of information concerning them. If there are books within reach, it will be easy to procure the needed information at once.

The Ionian Society with its library of 300 volumes, finds the range of subjects, treated by its essay writers, very much enlarged, and the general intelligence of its members more rapidly developed, since the library was procured and placed in reach. Of the numerous colonies, sent out from an-, cient Athens, none was more important than Ionia. It even excelled Athens, in the cultivation of literature and philosophy. It gave to the world the poets, Homer and Anacreon, and the philosophers Thales and Pythagoras. The beautifuliuame of this colony, is, the one chosen for the Casket.

It has long been the name of our literary society, and although we ara 'colonized" far away from, the literary centres of our country, we trust we may follow the example of our ill'istrous namesake, and by, steady application, achieve success in our chosen field. Why is A. B. Lamb like a protracted meeting. Because, he is followed by a benediction (Benny Dixon) MISCELLANEOUS.

There are no works of fiction, in the library Cornell University. Earlhamite. 0 Of the 34 largest refracting telescopes in the world, 15 are in the United States. Nearly a million and a half copies, of a whole or a part of the new 22 languages, were given away at the Bible stand in Paris -luring the Exposition..