Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — SCHOOL REPORTS. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL REPORTS.

District No. 8, Marion township.— Miss Candace Boroughs, teacher. For month ending January 20th, 1874. Number ot pupils enrolled, 23; average attendance, 19.8. Eunice Adamson. William Bowen, Alice Baker and Gertrude Baker were perfect in punctuality, attendance, deportment and study. Primary department of Rensselaer school. Miss Celia E. Wilkinson, teacher. For month ending January 23d. 1874. Enrollment. 50; average attendance, 37. Leslie Clark, Steven Warren and Tilly Fendig perfect in study, attendance and deportment.— Master Clark’s recotd has been perfect for the last ten weeks. Second Intermediate department of Rensselaer school. Miss Eva Halstead teacher. For month ending January 23d, 1874. Enrollment, 52; average attendance; 45. Ella Rhoads, Alice Irvin, Tilda Karsner, Lida Karsner, Louie Hammond, Grant Hopkinsand Henry Smith were perfect in attendance, deportment and punctuality. School No. 1, Marion township.— W. T. Pritchard, Teacher. For month ending January 16tb, 1874. Enrolled, 43; average daily attendance, 37. John Hoys, Eddy Coen, Frank Warren, Clara Coen, Edward Warren, Albert Coen, Marquis Churchill and Charles Coen were perfect in attendance, punctuality, conduct and study. Now is the time to prepare hotbeds in which to start plants for early gardens. One writer says to make a hotbed ‘‘take fresh strawy stable manure, t horoughly shaking and mixing it up together, and if some old leaves can be added, so much the better, as the hctlied will retain its heat for a much longer period by reason of such addition. Make a bed of the manure on the ground, about a foot or so larger all around than the size of the frame to be used, and about two and a half feet high. Place the frame on as soon as the bed is made, and fill in with live or six inches of fine, light soil, keeping the frame closed for a few days until the bed has become warm; then nicely level the soil, open the drills about six or eight incites apart, the depth of the same being governed by the size of the seed to be sown. From one-eighth to threefourths of an inch will be about the right depth for the drills; after the seeds are sown, cover them lightly, shade from bright suns, and water when required.’ Give air as the plants progress in growth, and eventually remove the sash from the frame.” It may be added that an eastern or southern exposure is required, and the latter is best. It is also best if possible to make the hotbed in a location sheltered from northern and western winds. The cost of making ; a hotbed large enough to start all the ' lettuce, tomato, early cabbage, sweet potato and other plants to stock an ordinary kitchen garden, is small, while the result is that vegetables are three to five weeks earlier than if seed is not planted until the weather is warm enough to germinate it out of doors. Some of the papers last year were six or eight months behind hand in filling their orders for chromos. Talmage’s paper, The Christian at Work, has taken time by the forelock, and has scores of thousands piled up in its warehouse ready for any emergency. Agents make a note of this.— Sample copies and terms sent free.— Office 102 Chambers street New York. See their advertisement. No matter what may be said about the use of wines and liquors, it is the adulteration and trash mixtures that does the mischief. Where pure wines are used we hear no complaint of inebriation. We.never hear of intoxication from the use of Speer's Port Grape Wine, of New Jersey. This wine is held in high estimation by the best doctors in the country, for the use of the sick.—Advertisement. To Rent.— A dwelling for small frmily. Good well, good garden plat, good fences, small fruit, shrubbery, good walks, convenient to business part of town, excellent neighborhood. Would sell the property cheap and give easy terms. Enquire at this office for particulars. Furniture.—Parties having broken up house-keeping desire to sell their furniture, which includesa large cooking stove with its utensils, tables, stand, bureau, safe, rocking chairs, 6-ft step ladder, dishes, crockery, etc. Long credit given on sums ov.gr five dollars. Enquire at this office.