Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1883 — PRIZES FOR SCHOLARSHIP. [ARTICLE]

PRIZES FOR SCHOLARSHIP.

Grand Offers to Those who Graduate From th“ Common Schools. The following letter from one of the publishing houses in Indianapolis been received in my office. It contains rare offers to the more advanced pupils of district schools and should be carefully read by all who expect to complete the Common School course of the county during the present year: • Indianapolis, Ind., ) Dec. 5,1883. I D. M. Nelson, Co. Sup’t Jasper Co., Ind. Dear Sir—Being interested in the success of the Gradation of the Dist. Schools, and recognizing the benefits attending a healthy degree of emulation among pupils, we offer for the school year of 1883 and ’B4, the following prizes for scholarship: Ist—Grand Gold Medal. 2d—One set Peoples’ Encyclopedia. 3d—One Unabridged Dictionary. The conditions are as follows: 1. Pupils competing must be attendants of District schools —that is, schools over which the Township Trustee has charge, and in which all six grades are taught in one room. 2. Competitors must be graduates from the District schools. Date of diploma to be spring of 1884. 3. Not more than one set of papers will be received from any one county. 4. Papers mnst be fastened together in the following order: Orthgraphy, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, History, Constitution of thfe United States, Physiology and Composition, 5. .All papers shall have name of applicant, Township, County, and P. O. address on front of cover. As to Questions—Questions for graduates, for spring of 1884, will be furnished by the committee appointed by the Superintendents’ Convention, which consists of the following members of the convention: State Sup’t J. W. Hol comb; W. H. Ernst, of Wells county;*O. P. McAuley, of Owens county: Jarnos Kilroyof Posey county; J. L. Shauch, of Rush county, and F. E. Cooper, of Lake county. Examination of manuscripts —Manuscripts will he examined by four County Superintendents appointed by the State Sup’t, who will decide all questions and make the awards—a majority being necessary to a choice. In case of a tie vote on any point it shall be refrrred to the State JJup’t, whose decision will be finaL Awards to be made at the June Convention of County Superintendents. Respectfully, LEVY BAKER <fc CO. Examinations will be held next spring in each of the townships of the county according to the plan laid down in the manual. questions used at these examinations will be those prepared by the State committee, and those who pass this examination successfully will have a chance to win one of the prizes offered. As only one set of manuscripts can be sent from each county, the County Board of Education, at its May meeting, will devise a plan for deciding upon the comparative merits of the manuscripts of all who graduate, ana the one evincing the highest scholarship will be forwarded to the committee who make the awards. Zhese are no mean offers and Levy Baker <fc Co. mean what they say. Let the pupils of Jasper make the attempt and ■I am satisfied, from what I have seen, they will not be 1 found wholly wanting. If

they should get none of the prizes they will have made advancement which will repay them. If they are successful it will be not only an honor to them but to our county as well. Very Respectfully, D. ML NELSOX County Sup’t. “The last time I wont to Boston,” confided a thin consumpt-ive-looking, traveler on the Eastern road to the New Haven Register, “the conductor grew monotonous. He insisted on examining my ticket at every station and grew restless as we past watering troughs. This time,” the traveler, continued, as he looked anxiously toward the car door, “we play a change of programme and the boxes are all taken.” As the conductor entered with a pompous “tickets please,” the stranger quietly presented a single-tripjtickei for the next station, ghe next time he entered, the unknown handed him a mileage ticket, following it later with a sportsman’s ticket for Labrador, As the conductor was passing him on the next round, the traveler pressed an emegrant’s ticket for Puget sound into his haud, and then tried to get him to take a first-class passage to Sing Sing with sleeper check, “didn’t I just punch a Puget sound ticket for you?” demand ed the astonished conductor. “Must have been another jarty,” quietly replied the traveler, burying himself in he Harper’s. Again, “tickets, please,” echoed through the car, and the stranger confronted the conductor with a “Florida for the winter” excursion via the Richmond boats. “See here,” said the enraged official. “What does this mean? I have punched tickets for you for all parts of the globe. Haven’t got a ticket to Patagonia, or a Heng Kong cattle show excursion, have you? If you me any more' tickets to punch I’ll punch your head.’ “Yes,” replied the passenger, with painful dignity. “1 usually travel on this,” presenting a director’s pa ss, “but we understand tnot passengers on your train get lame in their arms showing their tickets, and have no time to take in the scenery; so I am instructed to notify you that there is a good vacancy on the night freight unless we hear of an improvement,” and the director returned to Puck, and the frightened conductor passed two tramps 100 miles, not daring to call for tickets. Save Your Old Rubbers- “ What are worn out rubber shoes good for?” The question was asked of Stockwell, a junk-dealer in Ann street, who had recently advertised in the New York Sun that he would pay cash for this commodity. “Do with ’em,” repeated the dealer; “I sell ’em* to the biggest rubber manufacturing firms on Broadway. Any old rubber is good to be melted up and made over into rubber over-shoes again. They look as good as new, but they ain’t, any more than shoddy cloth is as good as new woolen cloth. If you buy cheap rubbers, ten to one you are wearing shoddy rubber*. The trade isn’t a ye«,r old yet, but I should say 500 tons of the stuff is sent to the rubber factories. I have cases and bags and barrels of old rubber boots and shces sent to me from all over the country, north, south, and west. I give 3 cents a pound i for it. WL ’ rubber is high I pay for transportation. When it is low the seller pays.”