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And Mil doflaiifp to knnvoa. 

 Till- inispr hi« goM often gives me to lioUl; 



I aid to cxtiuguiHb tlie lire. 

 I am cliasod o'er the grcpu, wlicu tlio schoolboy is 

 soon ; 



I wait at tho toper's dosiro ; 

 I ride on the wave, tlio sailor to gave, 



Wlipn ho shrieketh aloud in denpair: 

 I whirl the machine, whoso arms dimly seen. 



Hiss as they fly through the air. 

 I have been tried and am cast, with felons at last; 



J am balm to tho wounded and torn. 

 I rival the oak, (16) the tell-tale I cloak; 



17. I am fa.shiou'd as high and low born. 



I constantly mind the sightless blind. 



Many garments my long arms bear; 

 By the sick man's bed, (21) by the ship's mast 

 head — 



In various forms I am there. 

 Deep in the earth, though unseen, is my worth ; 



I faithfully serve mankind. 

 I hear the whisper of the softest lisper; 



And hold that which traceth the mind! 

 When the emigrant lands on far-off strands, 



Perchance he trcadoth on me. 

 On the rich man's table, (27) in the horse's stable, 



My forms you may frequently see! 

 Kow I challenge your mind my secret to find, 



Though I travel along by your bed. 

 I come from tho south ; (30) I may dwell in your 

 mouth ; 



Or may rest on the top of your head." 



6. Policemen's caps. 



7. Money-bowls. 



8. Water buckets and engino-plpes. 



9. Cricket balls. 



10. Mugs. 



11. Life-buoys and boats. 



12. Machine-driving belts. 



13. Indestrnctible vessels for the use of prisoners. 



14. Balsam for.slight wounds, instead of sticking i)laKter. 

 1.5. Ornamental mouldings. (16.) Coating of the Tele- 

 graph wires. 



17. Medallions and casts of celebrated and notorious 

 persons. 



15. Cord for window blinds. 



19. Clothes-lines. 



20. Utensils for sleeping apartments. (21.) Cordage 



and speaking-tubes. 



22. Pipes for draining, &c. 



23. Acoustic tubes. 



24. Inkstands. 

 '2.5. Soles of shoes. 



26. Ornamental di.shos. (27.) Buckets and liarnoss. 



28. Noiseless curtain rings. 



29. From Singapore, &c. (30.) For filling decayed teeth 



31. Son'-wester hats. 



IcxoRAxcE OF CoMiiox Thixgs. — It is indeed to be deplored, that wliilst the clergy and 

 gentry are founding schools in almost every tillage, and duly providing " trained' ' masters and 

 mistres.ses to instruct the rising population in what is generally considered the most neces- 

 sary branches of learning, that botany, or, as your remarks last week have it, " the use of 

 the common things which surround them," should in no shape find a place in their studies ; 

 but the mere study of botany from books is not sufficient to bring the minds of young 

 children, such as are usually found in village schools, to understand plants in any useful 

 way ; their minds would become bewildered in the maze of technical terms. My impression 

 is that the instruction should consist in simple lectures, illustrated by the things themselves, 

 assisted by a simple question and answer book, got up without Latin or technical terms ; 

 and, as few schoolmasters or mistresses are at present sufficiently acquainted with the vege- 

 table kingdom to impart such instruction to their pupils, let the patrons of these schools 

 call in the aid of their gardeners, who are, or should be, sufficiently well informed to impart 

 information enough on the subject, to lead the minds of the pupils to inquire and desire 

 to know more of things with which they have every day to do : that done, books will be 

 resorted to to feed the growing desire for knowledge, and when such a system gets fairly into 

 practice, such deplorable accidents as you alluded to would doubtless become extremely rare ; 

 besides, a knowledge of botany would administer to the enjoyment of life, for, at every step, 

 the botanist meets something to attract and interest him, at every turn a friend, an old 

 acquaintance in every familiar plant that strikes his eye ; silent and unobtrusive, but 

 not the less a friend, it abstracts him for a while from the cares and anxieties of 

 H. HowLETT, Haverland. — Gardener's Chronicle. 



