Show Whatever may bo be said about our public schools noone no noone noone one can dispute that mathematics is not taught thoroughly Yesterday a teacher in the eighth grade was drilling her graduating class and she asked the cl class so if a boy boJ standing on one foot weighed seventy seventy- five pounds how much h he ha would weigh if he stood on both feet and the unanimous shout was A 1 hundred and fifty firt- pounds 1 I Who can beat that mathematics 7 It was never cr equalled pacer when a lI colored man who was packing home a barrel of flour on his mule reached a bridge and to make mako it easier for the mule and less strenuous on the bridge lie he put the barrel of flour on his own shoulder then mounted tho the mule and passed o- o over oer er without a accident The mules mule's opine opinion opinion ion was not asked for |