Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1879 — Pictorial History of the World. [ARTICLE]

Pictorial History of the World.

The school law by making the history of the United States one of the common school branches, promotes this study, which is of the greatest importance considering the character of oar political institutions. The law does this because such knowledge is deemed necessary to the proper exercise of citizenship in a free country. This is Well, but comparison is of the greatest importance in historical studies. The value of our'knowledge of American history is greatly increased by its possessors being able to compare our struggle for freedom with the struggles of other nations and peoples; by being able to compare the wisdom of our country’s founders with that of the founders of the nations which have grown and decayed in the past; by being able to compare our political institutions With those of other civilized nations; by being able to compare the disinterested devotion of our patriots with that of other heroes of the past and present; by being able to compare the plans presented by our statesmen for the perfection and perpetuity of our freedom with the plans proposed sin other periods and countries. A certain amount" Of such knowledge is almost indispensable to the American citizens, but time will not allow the study of whole libraries. It can only be obtained in practical form in some standard outline of general history. Nor ban 1 well see how the teacher can properly elucidate the brief statements of our local history without some knowledge of general history and the possession of wine standard outline as a book of reference. After a perusal of the prospectus of ‘•The Pictorial History of the World,’’ for which Mr. W. 8. Beery is agent for Jasper county, I can frankly commend it to teachers, advanced pupih and citizens generally as a work well fitted to supply the much needed knowledge of other times and peoples of the world. J. 11. Snopdy. A LaPorle man recently took a cargo of 1,000 live hogs to Europe. An eel two feet eight inches long, weighing three pouuds, was caught in the Tippecanoe river at Monticello, one day last week. Judge Adams of the Indianapolis circuit court, it is announced, on Friday last rendered a decision in favorof Murdock in the matter of tlio contest for the office of warden of-tho Michigan An appeal was immediately taken by Mr. Mayne.