Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1884 — Ingenious. [ARTICLE]

Ingenious.

One of the schools in the royal university at Tokio is held in a building so constructed that three sides or wings of the structure inclose a large court. This space is carefully levelled, and -in this sand is the map of Japan, laid out with the utmost mathematical accuracy as regards distances and directions. Th&sands represents, of course, the seas which surround the empire of islands ; and the loam which represents the land is diversified with hillooks and elevations to represent mountains and table-lands, and corresponding depressions for valleys. The location of cities is distinctly marked, bays and gulfs are seen, and'all the little interior isshown in the proper proportion of their size and distance from the main island.

But most striking of all is the fact that little channels are marked in the earth to represent rivers, and when it rains, water actually flows in these little streams from the highlands to the ocean of sand, precisely as it does in the larger streams they imitate, : The student can thus see at a glance all the superficial physical features of his country, can locate water-sheds and courses, trace the extent of mountain ranges, and visit distant cities, with less stretching of the imagination than is required of the scholar in American public schools. Arizona has extensive white pine forests.