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/a teacher In the school taught his pupils "Mental Arithmetic** The boys and girls were expeoted to work out oooplete probleos in their heads, and then give the correct answers*
Another instructor had a physiology a lass* Sooe of the mothers objected to their daughtere* being in this class because it was so eobarrassing for the girls to study the dioativs tract, and other phases of the subject.
In diaeusaing the skeletal system, the teacher reminded th» class of the old Indian burial grounds down on the river bank, and aug ested thoy try to dig up sosae bones to classify them* A group of boys found the skeleton of a dog and took parts of it to the teacher* He explained where the bones were located in the human anatooy. The boys never revealed their trick, as the Instructor laid a terrible temper, and they wero afraid he >#ould oeverely punish them*
There was a total eclipse of the sun back in the 1690's# For several weeks, the newspapers had articles giving the day and hour it was to occur* i’eople fron the saw mills gathered around the store, thinking the world waa cosiin" to fin end. One old colored man said, *lt makes you feel like Judgment Itey has ocme”.
Oob negro went into the store to buy a dime's worth or ginger snaps* *hen the sky be an to darken, lie ran down the street, e&tia^ ginger snaps as fast as he oould crsa then into his raout;*
The eclipse occurred around ton o'clock in the sorning* The chickens thought it waa night again and went to roost) the ones that didn't get to the chicken house roosted in trees*
The aky reoained black for awhile; then it seemed as though a ray of light shone from Heaven, and the world become brighter again*