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m EDUCATIONAL COLUMN. OOVDUCTKD BT g. D. BALDWIN ./ Our school closes this week for the iikasoier vacation of about two months. With this Issue of the PLAINDEALKB, JCdncatlonal Column will close for 'IN* present. £ JDurlnf the pest week clever picking fees been more attractive than school for p large number of the pupils. •r- Teachers desiring to attend a Rood ^f|mraer school will And the one at HormaWllle, spoken of elsewhere, as good as the best. Teachers sheuld be very careful •bout the language used to pupils, as harsh and improper words are long re­ membered. If you think a pupil lias dene wrong it is jour duty to correct him, t)ut not by calling him a liar, the meanest boy in school, or similar ex­ pressions. A Summer School In Science and Language will be held in the Cook County Morma[ School, pouth Chi­ cago, beginning, July 11 and contin­ uing six weeks, under the direction of Prof. D„ S. Wentworth, this Principal of the County Normal. A very attrac­ tive course, with the best of teacher: and reasonable terms, is announced. - For circulars or Information address Prof. P. S. Wentworth, Normalville, Cook County, Illinois. Normalville is en the line of the Chicago. Rock Island ft Pacific Railroad, and only one mile south of Englewood, where several other roads have stations. The proportions of the human figure are six times the length of the feet. Whether the form is slender or. plump this rule holds good, any deviation from It being a departure from the highest beauty in proportion. The Greeks make all their statues according to this rule. The face, from the highest point of the forehead, where the hair begins, to the chin is one-tenth of the whole stature. The band, from tlie wrist to the middle Auger is the same. From the top of the chest to the highest polut of the forehead, Is a seventh. If the face from the roots of the ehin, be divided Into three equal parts, the first division determines the place where the eye­ brows meet, and the second the nos­ trils. The height, from the feet to the top of the head, is the distance from the extremities of the fingers when the arms are extended. aetlng we have a district which would speedily disappear from our map. Election for County Superintendent, instead of being held iii 1881 shall be held in 1882, and every four years thereafter. County Boards of Super­ visors are to ̂ appoint County Super­ intendents of Schools next December to serve one year. Section 33 is changed, of course; there never yet was a Legislature that did not change that section; the result is it is so complicated I have not yet had time to unravel it. Some rainy day, however, 1 will get at it and try to study out just what it does mean. I can tell one thing about it now: No petition to Township Board of Trus­ tees can be acted upon by them, unless it shall have been tiled with the Clerk of said Board at least twenty days be­ fore the regular April meeting, and a notice thereof handed to Clerk of each Board of Directors whose District is aflected by proposed change at least te:i days previous to tho April meet­ ing. C. I. ABBOTT, ran --AND DEALER IN-- WATCHES. ISXiOOHS, JEWELRY, Silverware, &c. RICHMOND, ILL. T. J. DACY. JOHN DONOVAN. The results of a systematic meas­ urement of the pupils in the public •ehools of Boston show, among other things, that the growth of children takes place in such a way that until the age of eleven or twelve years, bovs are both taller and heavier than girls of the same age; at this period of life girls begin to grow very rapidly, and for the next two or three years surpass boys of the same age.both iu height and weight;boys then acquire and retain a •Ire superior to that of girls, who have completed their growth. Again, the children of American born parents are fonnd to be taller and heavier than those of foreign born--a superiority aeemingly dependent, partly, on the greater average comfort in which such children live and grow up, and partly upon differences of race or stosk. Pu­ pils of American parentage at the public Latin school and the Institute of Technology, showed, apparently for the same reasons, superior height and weight to the generality of boys of American parentage attending the public schools;and pupils of the same •elected schools were also taller and heavier thau English boys of the non- laboring classes attending public •ehools and universities. The Weekly desires to keep St before the people that there are in round numbers 5,600,000 illiterates in the country who are above ten years of age. That of these, more than 2,000,- 000 are adults and about 1,000.000 are voters; that upwards of 2,000.000 more are from fifteen to iwenty-one years of age, and hence morally certain to remaiu in ignorance; that of the 1,000,- 000 between ten and fifteen years of age, but few will ever enjoy the advan­ tages of a common education, but will move on in the procession of the gen­ erations to recruit the ranks of pov­ erty, pauperism and crime, ac once the burden, the menace and the dis­ grace of the Republic. It desires to emphasize the truth that ignorance is not the stuff out of which good citizens are made, and that poor schools are not the agencies by which ignorance t6 to be eradicated, vice prevented and crime repressed. It is of the highest Importance that every child should not only be educated but well educat­ ed. The question is not eo much one ofquautity as of quality. A good common school must be established and supported in every neighborhood. Illiteracy must be suppressed. Every ballot must be taken to register the will of an honest, intelligent, law- abiding citizen. No republic can be a model republic whose aims and efforts stop short of this grand achievement. --Ed. Weekly. We have had no opportunity as yet to study the new school lawjto give a clipping from theOalesburg Register: The new school law received the Governors signature May SI. It makes several changes, among them the fol­ lowing: 1. Schedules are to be sent to the * Treasurer on or before July 7 of each year. Instead of two days before the first Monday in April and October. A decided improvement. 2. Laud for school sites may be con demned and taken possession of with or without the cousent of the owner, as is now the case with land for public highways. 3. Districts failing' for two consec­ utive years to maintain a public school 110 days each year, may be abolished a d tlwir »*nitory added to an adjoin. 4, u t. V. « if this claufcc retro- It is an open secret, well known to the farmers of Mc­ Henry county, that during the last 12 years ours has been the only Agricultural Warehouse in the county where everything in our line needed on the farm, from a pound of the best Barbed Wire to a Threshing Machine could be obtained at all times without notice. It was thought by those who knew us least, that the destruction of our Ware­ house by fire a year ago, would cripple us. Instead of doing so^ it has given us new life aud vigor so that we are now better pre­ pared than ever before to under­ sell our (would be) competitors. Our Spring stock is by far the largest and best in" the county, and we are selling so close that it is a rare thing to see any oue looking at our goods and going awaj without buying. Our present exhibit consists of Plows, Harrows, Spring-tooth Parrows, Pulverizers, Rollers, Stalk Cutters, 16 in. Sulky Plows Seeders, Diills, five and six Shovel Corn Cultivatprs, the best Zegal Baibed Wire, Lumber Wagons, 3 spring Milk Wagons, Platform spring Wagons, and about 300 Carriages An exami- notion of our stock will fully sustain our claims T. J, DACY & CO. Woodstock, III Would respectfully invite an examination of their stock of D1I GOODS, DRESS GOODS, YANKEE NOTIONS, &c, Which are being: offered at very low prices. Our stock is replete in all the variety of Goods for the season, and we feel satisfied we can offer Goods at Lower Fins, lhan can be found, elsewhere.-- Onr stock of Hats, Caps, READY-MADE CLOTHING, Boots, Shoes, Groceries &;c.. Is full and complete, and we are confident we can please you both in quality and price. Call and be convinced that these are facts. PERRY & MARTIN. McHenry. Max eh 22d, 1881. NewClardware Store. O. C. COLBY & CO., AT THEIR TWO STORES, In McHenry and Nunda. Are now Opening the Largest Line of Hardware, Stoves, Tinware &c., ever shown in McHenry County, which we offer to the buy­ ing public AT BOTTOM PRICES. Don't You Forget! -THAT THE PLACE-- Our stock is complete and comprises everything usually kept in a First Glass Hardware Store. Our store is crammed full of Bargains and we offer the best and most goods for the least money of ^ny one in the business. WE INTEND TO KNOCK THE BOTTOM OUT OF HIGH PRICES IN BARB WIRE. The Best Barb Wire in the Market at 9 cts. per Pound. I^WCall and see us and learn that we mean business. Store in McHenry, Opposite Bishop's Mill. At Nunda in Palmer's Store. To Buy Furniture s Is at the old and reliable store of JOHN B. BLAKE, McHenry - - Illinois. -Our stock was never more complete than at the present time and for variety cannot be equaled in the county. We keep none but the very best, and our motto is and al ways has been QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS- * We can give you anything in the Furniture line as cheap as any other house in the State, and will guarantee everything first-class and just as represented. r„nic an<l tnii(l Stimulant, . uauio, without intOX" 'fUe ml'uiW and Ilcst Jletlieinc ever Jlailo. AcoBmbination of Hope, Buchu, Man° drakfte uiJ Dandelron, With alllhe boat anil luo.'-t CSura live properties of oil other Bitters, makes % the prroatest BtOOd Purifier, Liver u a tOF. au,i - ;UK' Health Restoring Agent No disease c\an possibly long exist where nop Bitters are us% «u-ied l u id l>ertomt are ihuir Tiej -cu aai vigor to th* aged and fcEra. To all wlioie e\tnployineutsVauHe irregulari­ty of Uiefcowelsoi% U"nury organs, or who ro= quire an Apj>etizer^ Bop Hitters are invi<) Icating* No matter what your or symptom* are wt.xt the disease or r mment is use Hop Hit­ters. wait until youal** but If you only Co l bad or nii.-t-rablp,*11'-*- tl)em at once* It may savy jrour lii'r.It harfM- ^ v « d hundreds S500 will be paid for a cal^ they will not euif Jiflp. D<j not auftVr '*• your friends uulTor.tmt use aud ursre thcnv^^° Uso HOP B I&em^mber, Hop Bitters is druKtfed drunken nostrum, but the n d li<»st e ever made ; the JTUEND and HOW and no person or family eliouJd L* without them. D.I.C-i* au absolute and irresistible ci Jorl>ruiilienne*s,use of opium, tobacco j narcotic./.. Ml by <! • • L«. Sei for Circular. flop Bitters Jiff. liochc-t'-r N.T REED'S I. N. MEAD ! NEAR THE DEPOT, -DEALER IN-- HARDWARE, STOVES, Tin. Copper anil Stat Iron Ware, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Scissors and Shears, Horse Rasps, Horse Shoes, Horseshoe Nnile, aud t iles of every description. Alsc everything thatis generally kept in a Ilard ware Store. Being a Practical Workman 1 shall spare no pains in trying to give satis faction to all who favor me with their patroc age. All kinds of Jobbing In nfy line will receive prompt attention. Please (five me a nail before purchasing elsewhere when in need of anything in my li»e I. N MEAD McHenrv , Oct. 10th. 1879. JOHNSBURCH ^CILT EDGE^ tONlC 13 A THOROUGH REMEDY In every case of Malarial Fever or Fevei and A(ruo, while for disorders of the Stomach Torpi dity of the Liver, Indigestion Hnd dis­ turbances of the animal forces, which debili tate, ithas no equivalent, anil can have no 8ub»titii te. It should not be confounded with triturated compounds of cheap spirit* and essential oils, otten sold under tne num« of Hitters. FOHSALE HY Druggists, Growers and Wine Merchan every tvlism MarMe_Worts HENRYRMILLER, --DKALERalN-- American and Foreip MarMe Monuments/Headstones, ETC., ETC., ETC. American & Scotch Granite Constantly on Hand. Shop Two miles North of Mc Henry, 111. Jobntbargh, Aug. 20tb. 1877 Proclamation No. 17. -BY THI- Old and Reliable Dealers in UfflUL IMPLEMENTS. E. M. OWEN & SON, Would give the people of McHenry aud Lake Counties to understand that taey are still in the business, with the largest and best stock of Agricultural Machinery Of all kinds, to be found in the market. They have in Stock PLpWS of ali kinds, Seeders, Corn Planters, Cultivators, Drills Drags, Pulverizers, Corn SheMers Feed Mills, Threshing Machines, Fon and XVood Pumps, Wind Irills, Open and Top Buggies, and in short everything usually kept in a first class Agricultural Warehouse, All of which will be sold As Cheap as the Cheapest. I^WNone but the beat of machinery kept. Call and be^convinced that we mean business. E. M. OWEN & SON. McHenry, April 13th, 1881. My stock of ? Coffins and Caskets s full and complete and will be sold at a slight margin above cost. When in want ot anything in my line give me a call and I will be sure to please you. JOHN B. BLAKE. McHenry, March 22d. 1881. THIS NEW AND CORRECT MAP Provos beyond any reasonable question that the Chicago & 2$©rthwestern R'y Is by all odds the best road for you to take when traveling in either direction between Chicago anil all the Principal Points in the West North & Northwest Carefully examine this Maj). The p r i n c i p a l Cities of the West and Northwest are Stations on this roail. Its through trains make close connections wiih the trains of all railroads and junction paints, <SW*> --\ t r Afp~ M'24 -Brdrki'nf^ iirainerS FLORENCE Quinneseo Virile Worcester Spalding Ordway .Cloud Clayion OlNJS I N FS 7/jt j 11'a A, A' I"-""-'-.!.'! tf"" ; LROr*3^"vVAi«rto». < .wT1"1^ ISOvJSfc -Alcona yakkto Sioux c^l/ / . 1 Cretyto* ( ? o? C % 5 a I c n n JNeill CityV V t Tecport cm. WEST\Eyc4"o ^ O, °// \ y 5 Ia" 0% searnet r>,Ac.\ A C . CHICAGO FE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY THE CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY Over all of i ts pr inc ipa l l ines , r u n s encii wav d a i l y f rom two to four or i |more Fast Eiprass Trains. It is tne only road west of Chicago'that uses the PULLMAN HOTEL DINING CABS, It fs the only road that runs Pullman Sleeping Cars Xorth or Northwest of Chicago. noarly!3,000 Miles Of Road- In forms the following Trunk Lines: Council Bluffs, I>enver A California Line. Winona, Minnesota A Central D&kolca Linss Sioux City, Nor Nebraska A Yankton Line. Chicago, St. Pr.ul & Minneapolis Line Northern Illinois, Freeport A Dubuque Line. Milwaukee, Green Day A Lake Superior Line Tickets over this road are sold by all Coupon Ticket Agents in the United States A Canada Remember to ask for Tickets via this road, tbe sure they read over it, and take none other tf ARVIN HUGH ITT, Gen'l Manager, Chicago W.H. STENNITT, Gen Pass Agt Chicago JACOB STORY, McHENRY. ILL. DEALER IN GEORGE W. BESLEY Drniist aii Ajothecary. McHenry 111. -DEALER IN-- Drugs, Medicines, Faints, Oils, and Toilet Articles. I have added to mv already Large Stock, a Fine Line ol TOILET ARTICLES, LAlVfPS. CHOICE CANDIES. To which he invites the attention ol thebuying public. Physicians Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give meaCali. C. W. BESLEY. McHenry, 111., Nov. 10th, 1880. E Scissors, Shears, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Spades, Shovels, Forks^ Corn Knives, Axes, Grindstones, Window Gliis.s, CRANITE-IRON AND TINWARE. J. STORY. COLBY BROTHERS! -DEALERS IN-- General Merchandise, RIVERSIDE BLOCK, McHENY, ILL. We have one of the most complete stocks of Goods ever brough4 to thi? market, consisting in partol Dry Goods and Clothings HATS AM> CAPS. BOOTS AJND SHOES, * Paints Oils Drugs and Medicines Crockery Glassware, Wooden and Willoware, ^ ' <3 Groceries Etc. Etc, JjgT'W'e have one of the finest Stocks of Teas to be found in the county, to which we invite the especial attention of the public, sat* isfied that we can suitjthem both in quality and price.