New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

Education. The Springfield Journal, referring to that part of Gov. Lincoln's late message, recommending the establishment of a Seminary for the systematic education of school masters and school mistresses, says:-

" We do not speak unadvisedly-we appeal to every educated and intelligent school committee in the State, to prove that the great body of men who offer themselves as school teachers, are not qualified for that important post; and to prove further, that such men (unfit as we know them to be) are placed in our schools, because there are no fit men to be had! A man who is now keeping a large school within six miles of our office, and who has kept three seasons-before, at $26 per month, lately gave the following answers to the following questions :

Q. How many New England States are there?
A. Twenty-three.
Q. Which is the largest State in the Union?
A. Philadelphia is the largest, but New York does the most business.
Q. What part of speech is the word best e. g. he is the best man in town?
A. A regular neuter verb-indicative mode, present tense, third person singular, and agrees with he-a verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person!
Q What is seven times nine?
A. Eighty-one.
Spell benefit.
A. Bennifit.
Spell beneficial.
A. Bennificail.
Spell Wednesday.
A. Wendesday.
Q Spell Tuesday.
A. Teuaday."