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in passing the Boxwell in Ohio, or 

 teacher's examinations, anil teachers 

 find little diHiculty in retaining the 

 same school year after year so long as 

 they desire to teach in one place. Nor 

 do we stop here, things practical are 

 necessary. Business science, the liil- 

 ing out of all blank business forms and 

 papers likely to fall into the hands of 

 the ordinary people, -checks, drafts, 

 mortgages, deeds, bonds, policies, pe- 

 titions to societies, (.\:c., actual work 

 parliamentary drills, Australian elec- 

 tions, hospital work — making band- 

 ages, use of lineaments, splints, vase- 

 lenes, arnica, camphor, doing up brok- 

 en limbs temporarily), stop bleeding, 

 fainting, burns, etc. — actual drills. 

 It' s necessary to know these things. 

 Perhaps I am wrong, but I don't think 

 much of the memory of dates in his- 

 tory, history of wars, etc. Let's have 

 civics, history of U S. , and State 

 Constitutions, Rights of people, etc. — 

 something that is going to do some 

 good. 



"Do you get extra pay for such 

 work.'" you ask. "Yes." Not in 

 money, however, but our friends (.') 

 consult lawyers, write to school boards, 

 the school commissioners, to have 

 such work stoj)ped. Our scholars 

 don't however. We pay no attention 

 to these things: I have heard it said 

 that barking dogs never or seldom 

 bite. So long as the barking is going 

 on we are not afraid of being bitten. 



^^'e have presented a few specimens 

 of our collecting and some we used to 

 the Ohio State University to show 

 what can be done by children. Most 

 children are not slow to see if shown 

 when, where and how to see. 



We are accu-;ed of making murder- 

 ers, robbers and criminals in general. 

 None of our pupils have ever been con- 

 demned to be hung, electrocuted or 

 to jail, but we can point with pride to 

 teachers, scholars and solid, substan- 

 tial men and women having good 

 homes and families and all of them 

 practical Amekican Citizens. 



THE MUSEUM. 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



Oology, MoUusca, Echinodermata, 



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Walter F. Webb, Editor and Manager 

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Mitchell's Cave. 



I'. M. V.AN EPPS. 



(II.) 



Balked in our attempt to penetrate 

 the Grand Rotunda we set out for our 

 return to the upper world and at once 

 met with a series of uni)leasant inci- 

 dents. While yet in the chaotic pas- 

 sage it was noticed that the air began 

 to thicken and grow heavy with smoke. 

 This was decidedly unpleasant so we 

 hurried over the rocky way. How- 

 ever the air grew heavier with smoke 

 and noxious fumes from the fireworks 

 used until breathing began to be a 

 painful act, and each could just dis- 

 cern the blaze of the torch in his own 

 hand. Arriving at the descent into 

 the House of Goliath, one of our party 

 of five. Van \'ranken, must needs go 

 flying head foremost down the rough 

 descent thereby getting severely 

 bruised and receiving a scar which he 

 will carry through life. This place 



