Why A Schoolmaster Left Town

A Virginia City man, says the C'kroncfe, who formerly taught school in loney Lake valley, has been telling )au De Quille whyhe lcft that rural rejion. WJiile employed as a teacher, it iooms he " boarded aronnd," and one night, while at the house of an oíd anchmau, gave one of his boys some xtra instrootions in geography. The Id man overheard hini telling the boy bat the earth turned around once in iwenty-fourhours, and "kicked " agaiust j. He said he had heard such stutí" : alkod, but thore was nothing in it, as he ou)d prove. He filled a tin cup with water, and set it on the top of his gatejost, saying: " Now, young feller, if the world flops ver, as you say, the water will be all ut of that cup in the morning, and you will be right; if the water is still in the up, I'll be right, and the world don't op over." The water was found in the cup, and be old man trinmphantly exclaimed: " Thar, give mo common sense any imfi agaiust book-larnin'." Word went foith in the neighborhood j bat tho teacher was an ignoramus, and j ie was invited to take a walk. A I )orter asked tho teacher if that was the inly reason the farmers had for bouncng'him. He said it wasn't- that he had ncurred the deadly hostility of one of be school trustees by luughiug uproarously at a qut stion put by tho old man. j ?he honest farmer had got hold of his I on's geography, it appears, and there i md reacl thnt the earth hnd rotntory 1 tion. He called on the schoolmaster next day to ease hia inind in regard to an agrieultural problem Trbich this liad Bnggested. " Say, profess," he remarked, " I've bin a readin' in Tom's joggcrafy that the yearth liez got a rot-tatery motioii, and I thought I'd jest ax you ef maybe that wasu't tho cause of the pcrtaty rot ?"