Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — A School Boy’s Accomplishments. [ARTICLE]

A School Boy’s Accomplishments.

’ A bov enters school at 6 and attends five hours a d&y ten months in the year for eight years. At the end of that time, if he is able to keep up with the procession, he' will have read five reading books (not counting unnecessary changes), ascertained a few of the difficulties of English orthography, completed most of the ordinary school arithmetic, learned a little - grammtCr and geography, a very little about composition, committed and recited a few selections of prose or verse, and will have acquired a poor handwriting. These are the solids x>f his education.—. Chicago Herald. Dr. Frank Hamilton, in the Popular Science Mbnthhj, insists that safety lies alone in open fire-places, stationary wash-bowls and the banishment of all sewer connection to an outbuilding entirely separated from the living rooms. Authorities are quoted to prove that no plumbing can exclude sewer gas and that no traps can be considered, safe. The total salmon pack of the Frazer river canneries this year is estimated at 54,000 cases.