Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1898 — School Notes. [ARTICLE]

School Notes.

“A Pleasant FiVening ut Home.” It was a very dark and rainy evening. I had intended to spend the evening with one of my friends, but as it was rainy I decided to stay at home and read as I was very much interested in a book. I went in the study and lay down on the sofa and commenced reading. I had not read long before I went to sleep. I dreamed I was just going into a cave. There was no one going but the guide and myself, we each carried a lantern. We first went into a long passage we went quite a ways when we came to a room. It was not very large there were rocks sticking out on all sides we did not stay there long. We then went through a passage which was very narrow, we at last to«nother room. The stones were not as large as in the first but they shone like gdid. We gathered a few of the little stones and then went on. The path was all wet and muddy and the cave was so low that in some places we had to creep. I was getting quite tired when we came to an opening. I was just going out when I awoke and found it was a dream. I thought I had spent a very pleasant evening at home.

Velma Tucker.

Window Display. If you were to pass Forsythe’s building you would see in the south west window a representation of a train called the Monon Express. , The engine is made of a small telescope, with two tin buckets on top to give it a rounding appearance, a tin horn iB stuck in the first bucket for a stnoke stack, a piece of pnsto board put on in front for a cow catcher and tin cups sorve for wheels. Next is a larger telescope for a cab with buckets for whoels. The coaches, are next, they are four in number and are made of trunks with jardinieres for wheels. Tho tulegrnph poles are made of oil cloth, there are five on each side of the track, cords are for wifos and handkerchiefs are on the cords. The track is a board covered with green cheesecloth.

MATIE OWEN.