170 Cleaveland’s Notice of the Late Meteor in Maine. 
gainst the conviction of a boy for climbing a tree to witness 
a battle, the law being that all battles shall be fought with- 
out spectators (except the magistrate and constables) to pre- 
vent the artificial incitement to boxing matches, arising from 
the stimulating shouts of the by-standers. The ground of 
appeal was want of jurisdiction in the magistrate, the tree 
being on land of the appellant’s father, and the time being 
out of school hours. After a long debate, the order of the 
magistrate is confirmed. 2nd, An account of the erection 
of a tool-house, or work-shop by the boys without any as- 
sistance—* No workman having been employed either in 
the masonry, carpentry, slating, glazing, or painting.” 
There are also the answers to questions in Mental Arith- 
metic which have been made at public examinations. Some 
of them remind us of Zerah Colburn. 
INTELLIGENCE AND MISCELLANIES. 
RC 
J. Domestic. 
1. Notice of the late Meteor in Maine, by Prof. Cleaveland; 
: Brunswick, Oct. 11th, 1823. ; 
This aerolite fell at Nobleboro’, Maine, August 7th, 1823, 
between 4 and 5 o’clock, P. M. on land belonging to John 
the exception of a small whitish cloud, apparently about 
forty feet square, nearly in his zenith, from which the 
if about to fall on him, and made a noise, like a whirlwind 
among leaves. _At this moment, the stone fell among 
some sheep, which were thereby much frightened, jump- 
