Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — A $20.00 BIBLE PRIZE. [ARTICLE]

A $20.00 BIBLE PRIZE.

The publishers of Rutledge’s Monthly in the prize puzzle department of their Monthly for January offer the following easy way for someone to make $20.00: To the person telling us how many times the word Moses is used in the New Testament Scriptures (not the New Revision) by Jan. 10th. 1882, we will give szo.oo in gold as a. pylze. The moDey will be forwarded to the winner January 15th, 1882. Those who try for the prize must send 20 cents with their answer, for which they will receive tile February num ber of the Monthly, in which will be published :ho name ami audit*s <>: the winner of the orize, with the correct mistier thereto. Cut this out: i: may be wc rth $20.00t0 you. Address Rotlhiiok Publishing Company, East on, Pa.

Teachers Monthly Reports. The following Teachers Monthly Reports have been receive and filed in my office to date: MARION TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1, J. F. Warren, teacher, Reports 1 and 2; Dist. No 2, J. C. Pierson, teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 3, Melissa Mitchell, teacher, reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 4, Lelia Fnlton, teacher, reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 5, Emma. Given, teacher, delinquent; Dist. No. 6, Alda Fulton, teacher, report 1: Dist. No. 7, Eliza Kirk, teacher, delinquent; Dist. No. 8, Alice Johnson, teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 9, Amanda Parris, teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 10, Carrie Funston, teacher, reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 11, Albert E. Coen, teacher, reports 1 and 2. CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. Dist. No. 1 Myra Price teacher reports 1 aud 2; Dist. No 1 2 Thom. Babb teacher reports 1 and 2; Dist. No 3 Elmer Snoddy teacher reports 1 and 2; Dist No 4 Clark Price teacher report 1; Dist. No. 5 Lillie Bartoo teacher reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 6, School house burned; Dist. No. 7 J H Snoddy report delinquent; Dist. No. 8 Ollie Henricks teacher reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 9 Susie Edwards teacher,, report 1; Dist. No. 10 Carrie Irwin teacher, reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 11 Mary F. Shields teacher, reports 1 and 2. BARKLEY TP. Dist. No. 1 R P Benjamin teacher, report delinquent; Dist. No. 2 Clara Coen teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 3 E R Pierce teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 4 W Boyd Johnson teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 5 Henry C Roney taaclier, report 1; Dist. No 6 A M Munden teacher, report delinquent.: Dist. No. 7 Josie Parkison teacher, reports 1 and 2; Dist. No. 8 Jacob McDonald teacher, report 1: Dist. No. 9 Eva Burk teacher, report not due; Dist. No. 10 May Miller teacher, report 1.

JORDAN TP. Dist. No. 1 Nettie Bruce teacher, report not due: Dist. No. 2 Alice Irwin teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 3 Anna L. Lam son teacher, report not due; Dist. No 4 Ida Coons teacher report not due; Dist. No 5 Ruby Bruce teacher, report not due; Dist. No. 6 Charles Horner teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 7 Frances Adams teacher, report not due; Dist. No. 8 Abram McElfresh teacher, report not due. WALKER TP. Dist. No. 1 *W L Eleener teacher, report 1; dist. No. 2 Jas F Antrim teacher, report 1; dist. No 3 *W D Bringle teacliea, report 1; dist. No. 4no school this winter; dist. No. 5 Geo B Antrim teacher, reports 1 and 2; dist. No. 6 William Churchill teacher, report 1; dist. No. 7 Lottie Holle teacher, reports 1 and 2; dist. No 8 Mary M Hilton teacher, report 1 .

UNION TP. District number 1 John E Alter teacher, report 1; district number 2 James W Pierce teacher, report 1; district number 3 Jennie Gant teacher, report not due; district number 4 Sadie McDonald teacher report not due; district number - 5 David W Shields teacher, report not due; district number 6 Rosa B Coons teacher, report not due; district number 7 James Brusnahan teacher, report 1. HANGING GROVE TP. Dist. No. 1, James W. Douthitt, teacher, report 1 and 2 ; Dist. No. 2, Chas. Peregrine, teacher, report 1 ; Dist No. 3, *Emma Orcutt, teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 4, Mattie L. Lane, report 1 and 2 ; Dist. No. 5, *Belle Smith, teacher, report 1 and 2 ; Dist. No. 6, Clara Crawford teacher, report 1.

GILLAM TP. Dist. No. 1, F L Hunt teacher, report 1; Dist No 2, Charles W Fans teacher, report 1; Dist No 3, Arvena Bouk teacher, report 1; Dist No 4, Melvin A Osborne teacher, report 1; Dist. No. 5, Milton A. Makeever, report 1; Dist. No. 6, M. B. Faris, delinquent.

NEWTON TP. Dist. No. 1, Mattie Benjamin teacher, report 1 and 2 ; dist. No. 2, Charles P Hopkins teacher, report 1 and 2; dist No. 3, 8 B Moffit teacher, report 1 and 2; dist No 4, John W Dewees teacher, report 1 and 2; dist No 5, P F Boberts, report 1 and 2. KEENER TP. Dist. No. 1, ♦Walter Harrington teacher, report 1; dist No 2, ♦Maggie Bierma teacher, repost 1; dist No 3,♦Willy C Tyler teacher,report 1; dist No. 4, Merrill M. Tyler teacher, report not due; dist No. 5, Chattie M Sayers teacher, report not due. MILROY TP. Dist No 1, James B Erwin teacher, report not due; dist No 2, Chas S Cox teacher, report delinquent; dist No 3, Amsie C Pillars teacher, not due; dist No6,*Orwin Striokler teacher, report not due; dist No 5 j ♦Samuel B Thorton, report 1.

WHEATFIELD TP. Dist. Nc 1, *Sanford Makeever teacher, report 1; dist No 2, Tillie Cason teacher, report 2; dist No 3, F G Helmick teacher, report delinquent; dist No 4, Sadie M Muffley teacher, report 1. KANKAKEE TP. Dist. No. 1 Douglas Clark teacher reports 1,2, and 3; dist. No 2 Amos Cadwallader teacher, reports 1,2, and 3; dist. No. 3 Lee E. Glazebrook teacher, reports 1 and 2 REMINGTON SCHOOLS. # High School dept. M. P. Bolles principal, report delinquent; Inter mediate dept. A. A. Stearns teacher reports 1 and 2; Second Primary Agnes Nelson teacher, reports 1 and 2; First Primary Mary F. Blood teacher, report 1. Those teachers whose names are marked with a s'ar(*)are teaching their first terms. All delinquent reports should be forwarded at once. D. B. Nowels, County Superintendent.

An Irishman who was about toflgbt a duel, insisted that he should stand six paces nearer his antagonist than lie die to him, as he was nearsighted. Heroism in theft: “These defendants are dismissed. The Court they stole a large amount—enough to entitle them to admiration. Call the next case.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.* “What rascal has got my knife?” he asked, and a moment afterward added: “O, I've got it myself!” but for the life of him he could not tell what the boys were laughing so heartily at. Perfectly water proof: Preacher (arriving drenched]—“What shall I do, Mrs. McGregor? I am wet through and through." Ola Scotchwoman—- “ Get into the pulpit as sune as ye •can. Ye’il bo dry eno’ there."— Anon “I can’t think that all sinners will lie lost,” said Mrs. Nimbletuug.— "There’s my husband, now. He is a bad man—a very bad man; but I trust lie wiid be saved at last. I believe he has suffered his due share in this life.” "Amen 1” shouted Nimbletuug from the back seat.—Hartford Evening Post.; Science and sympathy: Mrs. Agassiz found one morning in one. of her slippers a cold little slimy snake, one of six sent the day before to her scicmilic spouse and carefully set aside by him for surety under the bed.— She screamed: “There is a snake in my slipper!” The savant leaped from his couch, eiying: “A snake! Good heavens, where are the other five?” Celluloid is a complex combination formed by mixing gun-cotton and camphor.

A hornet’s nest —being the finest woody substance known—is the besc polisher for glass lenses. Ihe hair of the beard was sometimes added to the seals of ancient deeds and characters. • According to seamen a green hue of the ocean indicates soundings; an indigo blue, profound depths. The coffin of Lambert, the celebrated “great man,” was foui feet and a half wide and two feet and a half deep. A 1 .hough sound sleep is considered a thing to be desired, yet no sleep is wholesome from which we are not easily roused. The wings of some insects are so thin that fifty thousand of them wo’d not form a heap over one-fourth of an inch high. Grant some men a kindly favor and they are constantly sueing for another. Their rule is that one good turn deserves another. “Amantha ” he murmuied, with pa thos in his voice, “why do you shrink from my embrace as the startled fawn trembies at the rustling of the leaves?” “I’ve been vaccinated,” she said. The number of variations made in the Gospels and Acts by the revisors number 14.601, aud in the entire Testament, 36,10]. “Will you tell me,” asked an old gentleman of a lady, “what Mrs. —’s maiden name was?” “Why, her maiden aim was to get married of course,” exclaimed the lady.