Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1881 — NIORMAL ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NIORMAL ITEMS.

Notwithstanding the relapse last Saturday, Mr, Garfield is reported im j I roving. _____ And now Lapham is elected to fill vacancy occasioned by resignation < f Conkling. [f Sam Scott should keep the pocket book he found it will be because the Icsei does not take the papers. Conkling’s k-’ter commending the steadfastness of the friends who stood by him o the end, felly explains how “Mr. C: n Ung takes bis defeat very mildly.” The Monticello Times, Democratu > C J. Reynolds, publisher, came to hand Fi idav last, it makes a good appearance and hope it may do effective work in the cause of Democracy. .. The Utiea |N. Y.] Observer says •‘That Elbridge G. Lapham does not succeed Mr. Conkling; he merely keeps his seat vacant. The grt atest commonwealth of the Union is plunged down to the rank of dumb N-bray kaska and Minne ota and Kansas in the Senate, while tiny Delaware with her Bayard and small Vermont with her Edmunds tower into National prominence. 1 his is truly the Small thing.. The State of New York, in this hour of half-breed tiiumph, has reached the lowest depth cd' official humiliation. Below what we have to d y it is not possible to go.

The Normal has just completed its third week. It shows a steady, healthy growth both in interest am’, numbers. Six new names have been added to the enrollment since our last commu nication which now reaches forty or more. W. Boyd Johnson. George 2. An trim, Samuel P. Thornton, James V. Pierce, Henry Roney, and, last bu. not least, Lee Glazebrook, are the latest arrivals. This is a strong force, stronger in force of intellect than i: numerical strength. Right glad to have you among us, boys ! The ideja of a County Norm;.! is l: long-u- air experiment, but has become a permanent thing in tm_- educational .ystem of the .cotin ; ■ There are nany reasons a s -- sion of the Normal ‘.!lbe I-- • cv.-ry summer and be wen sustain- - by the teacher *of the county. CLief am mg thds is the fa tth it tbs C ty SupcriH'cnder.t ta.:-.s :.r. ;•••.- pai t in it and bus immeumte com--, of that wrrk er bran fst ■ tim in 'st kre'.-tb-' or •.-...er-s i.. . ' • ; - J- ' • - _*. 1. —’ ~-* - . , i f ; p ’•*(i< 9 jQ(i i human nature and th1 iws of mental development than to one who could make an average or . ixtv per cent., or even more, and did not know anything about'the mind ami its proper training. Teachers, what more useful subject is there foi you to st tidy, and more interesting too, than the study of the mind, anu lu>w better study it than under the Superintendent who knows how to handle it practically ? Gibbon says, “The laws of a nation form the most instinctive portion ot its history.” The members of the history class are investigating United States History by making a study of her laws and find it quite interestingThe- Grammar class are worrying over the Constructions of infinitives and participles. Next week they will take up analysis. The Physiologists under Prof. Hoop' er are getting into the merits of their subject by illustrations with the organs of animals. The Misses Nettie and Ruby Bruce were compelled to quit school for the present on account of the serious illness of their mother. Nobmalite.

There ought to be a fine exhibition at the Fair in September or the agricultural productions of Jasper county. The Board of Directors certainly have been lioeral towards this class. They have abolished the 10 per cent, fee heretofore charged articles competing for premiums in the divisions of this department. In some of the divisions the list has been largely extended, and in most the premiums are increased in number and size. As it will cost nothing this fall to enter field and garden products, needlework, natural and artificial flowers, the products of the dairy, for exhibition and premiums, and as the premiums are liberal, there ought to be a spirit of generous emulation among

men and women, under these conditions, to contribute to the attractiveness of Floral Hall. It will be little extra trouble to bring a peck of corn, of oats, a half-bushel of potatoes, a piece of needle-work, a few pots cf flowers when one comes to see what Others have brought to the Fair. It Will cost nothing to show these things, and they may be awarded valuable prizes. It would be in the highest degree commendable to the enterprise and industry of the people to have better display than ever in lloral Haji tills season.

Union Township Items Weather warm at present. Plies and mosquitoes by the swarm. The late rains are reviving the com fields on the ridges. Sunday school leunion at the Pleasant Valley school house next Sunday. The Morning Star Society, of Union, and the two societies of Keener will be represented. A general turn-out expected. Miss Minnie Gephart, of Monticello, is visiting her sister in this township. Union has four representatives at Normai, in Rensselaer. Others ex pect to attend the last part of the term. We have a poor opinion of the soli ity of young men who work all week and spend their earnings on Sunday for a “livery rig” just to win the smiles of a young lady. Boys, be a little more economical. “Lay up something for a rainy day.” Its the “livery rig” gratification, not you, the ladies care for. One can’t help but note the differ. > rente made by the Barkley correspondent to the Republican between a Democratic Trustee who votes fo l Republican candidate for County Superintendent and the Republican | Trustee who votes for a Democratic i candidate. In all fairness. Mr. coriomlent, if the republican truste e is a traitor to his party, is not the Democratic trustee equally a traitor • his? Your line words of commonlatioD, Mr. correspondent, are rathe r i “gauzy."—ln fact, so much “soft ■ -iap.” Ami your words of condemnation the outgushing of disappoint- ' ed radical greed for office. More hay will be put up in Union mis season than usual. Several parties intend to put up from IUO to 150 tons. i Several cattle buyers passed thro ! Union last weeK. GRAPE ISLAND. ' July 25, 18.8 L