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it is a fact that similar results may be obtained in smaller es- 

 tablishments. There exists a poor woman who has devoted 

 herself to the education of unhappy orphans without any 

 other resource than pubhc and private charity. She has 

 eight of these orphans, and supports them as well as her- 

 self with twenty nine francs per month. Her dwelling 

 costs her four francs per month, so that there remains only 

 a batz per day for the maintenance of each individual. The 

 children are, nevertheless, in good condition, and nothing 

 in their exterior indicates misery. This wonder of econo- 

 my is still surpassed by the ability with which this respecta- 

 ble woman supports her authority and instils into her chil- 

 dren habits of order and neatness and the love of labour. 

 She has been led instinctively to adopt the Lancasterian 

 mode of education by assigning to the elder the instruction 

 of the younger children. Would it be difficult to find in 

 each district females thus qualified, who might serve for 

 two or three villages, and who might be fui'nished with lodg- 

 ing, fuel, and a small lot of ground which the pupils would 

 cultivate ? Government might encourage such establish- 

 ments by granting a premium to the communes which 

 formed them. The following is an instance similar to the 

 above. 



The widow Rumph, aged 70 years, residing near Bethe- 

 ny, supports, with less than thirty francs a month, five boys 

 and three uttle girls. These children are remarkable for 

 their lively and happy countenances, their good condition 

 and polite behaviour. The widow Rumph has been the 

 mother of fifteen children and has nursed thirty two at her 

 own breast. — Idem. 



33. Medicine. 



M. Re, Professor of Materia Medica in the veterinary 

 school of Turin, has discovered that the lycopus europoeus 

 of Linneus, called the herb of China by the inhabitants of 

 Piedmont, where it grows abundantly, especially in marshy 

 places, possesses the same properties as the quinquina and- 

 may be conveniently used as a suhstiiwie-— Idem. 



