MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
COMMUNION HYMN. 
THE WINTER IS ENDED, 
wire of faith, love to Uon tails grovexmg lu me 
earth. The farther upward we move the ball 
the faster it performs its work ; the nearer to¬ 
ward Heaven we move the love to God on the 
wire of faith, the quicker we are to do our 
Master s bidding. 
The hands continually point to the circle that 
marks the divisions of time ; likewise our aspi¬ 
rations continually point us to that “ bright 
circle clothed in white, with palms in their 
hands.” As the key is turned in opposite di¬ 
rections, so we have faithful monitors turning 
our thoughts in direct opposition—hope and 
memory,—one saying, “ forget the past; antici¬ 
pate nothing but the sweet;” the other, “re¬ 
member the past—anticipate the bitter with the 
sweet. 
Office of the “ School Girls’ Wreath,” Jordanville. 
BY RBV. N. L. FROTHINOHAM. 
The long, cold winter has come to an end at 
last, and the farmer’s sons who have for a season 
been released from their daily toil, and, it is 
hoped, spent the time profitably in storing up 
mental treasures, must break up their pleasant 
associations at the school-house, and return to 
the duties of the farm. Seed time and harvest, 
summer and winter, cold and heat, succeed each 
other as certainly as the sun performs his an¬ 
nual revolution in the heavens ; each moment, 
as it rolls past into the ocean of eternity, leaves 
a place for its counterpart in the next annual 
cycle, which will be followed successively by 
others in their turn, 
“ Until the latest syllable of recorded time.” 
But not to us always will these successive 
moments come, and never again finding us oc¬ 
cupying the same position on the stage of life ; 
infancy merges into childhood, childhood into 
youth, which is superseded by manhood, and 
this again by old age. The school days, which 
the generation of pupils now enjoy, will not 
tarry with them long; and it becomes each and 
all, to see to it for themselves, that ghosts of 
murdered opportunities will not rise up to haunt 
“ The Son of God gave thanks, 
Before the bread he broke, 
How high that calm devotion ranks 
Among the words he spoke ! 
Thanks ’mid those troubled men ; 
Thanks, in that dismal hour ; 
The world’s dark prince advancing then 
In all his rage and power. 
Thanks, o’er that loafs dread sign ; 
Thanks, o’er that bitter food ; 
And o’er the cup that was not wine, 
But sorrow, fear and blood. 
And shall our griefs resent 
What God appoints as best 
When He, in all things innocent, 
Was yet in all distressed ? 
Shall we unthankful be 
For all our blessings round, 
When in that press of agony 
Such room for thanks he found ? 
0, shame us, Lord !—whate’er 
The fortunes of our days,— 
If, suffering, we are weak to bear, 
If, favored, slow to praise.” 
pics. As such, aud as such only, it is commended 
to the notice of your readers, with the hope 
that it may not be found destitute of merit: 
LETTERS OF DISTINCTION.—SEC. I. CLASSIFICATION. 
Prin. 1st. —Letters according to their general 
forms are Roman or Italic. 
Prin. 2 d.—Letters according to their specific 
forms are Capitals or Small Letteis. 
Prin. 3d.—Capitals and Italics are used to 
distinguish some parts of a composition above 
others. 
CAPITALS.-SEC. II.—INITIAL CAPITALS. 
Prin. 1st. First Words .—Initial capitials are 
used in the first word of 
} s (-_Every book, discourse, essay, letter, note, 
or distinct piece of composition. 
2d_Every chapter, section, paragraph, dis¬ 
tinct period, or complete sentence. 
34 _Every distinct head in the division of 
discourse when formally enumerated. 
4 th_Every direct and exact quotation. 
5th—Every line in poetry. 
Prin. 2d. Important Words. 
are used in 
1 st_All words that represent the leading 
subjects of discourse. 
2 d_All the prominent words in the titles of 
books. 
Prin. 3d. Particular Words. —Initial capitals 
are used in 
1 st—The words I and O. 
Prin. 4th. Specific names. —Initial capitals 
are used in 
1 st—All names of the Deity, either direct or 
indirect, and in the pronouns he and thou when 
used as substitutes for his name. 
2 d_All individual names of persons, sects, or 
parties. 
All anxious cares which torture and distress 
the mind arise from unbelief; they are contra¬ 
ry to our profession, dishonorable to our God, 
and hurtful to the peace and comfort of our 
souls. Therefore they are forbid by the gospel 
of grace, in the love, to the children of God.— 
But believer, thou hast not so learned Christ as 
to pass away a life of careless indolence and 
thoughtless inactivity. Ho ; vigilance, indus¬ 
try, and fervency of spirit, is a suitable frame 
ever to be found in. “ Hot slothful in business, 
but fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.” Care¬ 
ful and diligent in the use of all means in thy 
power, both to procure the subsistence and wel¬ 
fare of thy body, as well as to keep up the live¬ 
liness and vigor of thy soul. Careful and dili¬ 
gent, yet without care that hath disquietude 
and distress. 
As to the things of this life, it is sufficient to 
answer all thy anxiety, and silence thy every 
fear and doubt; “ your heavenly father,” saith 
Jesus, “knoweththat you have need of them.” 
He feeds the birds ; will he suffer his babes to 
starve ? Thou shalt have all things needful for 
life and godliness; if such a sinner as I may 
of men, but there would be a general elevation 
of the whole to a higher level. The single 
mountain peak would not rise so much above 
the plain, but the upheaval of the latter would 
place it nearer the summit; the crest itself 
would be none the more distant from the heav¬ 
ens, but the circumjacent fields would partici¬ 
pate in a higher and a purer atmosphere. 
Let the farmers’ sons and other pupils of our 
winter schools, as they now retire for a season 
from the precincts of the school-room, not hang 
up their intellectual armor to rust upon the 
wall for an entire season, so neglected that it will 
take the whole of next winter to polish it 
again and render it fit for service, but let them 
exercise themselves in it daily, at longer or 
shorter intervals, as time and opportunity pre¬ 
sent, Masters and instructors are convenient, 
but not absolutely necessary. A review of the 
past winief’s studies cau be made during the 
summer, so that at least the burden may be 
taken up next winter just where it was set 
down at the end of this, without being obliged 
to go back any further before starting again. 
More than this can be done by an earnest 
scholar ; he can make progress even in the in¬ 
terval, and start next season at an advanced 
station on the road of learning. Will our 
young friends make the effort, and verify oui 
-Initial capitals 
always do when moving quickly through the 
brash, that being the only position in which 
tfiis large organ could be conveniently borne at 
kucli times.” 
T This beautiful bird, of which the above is a 
representation, is a native of Hew South Y\ ales. 
It resembles the common pheasant in size, but 
its limbs are longer in proportion, and there are 
other considerable points of difference. The 
wings are short, concave and rounded, and the 
qifill feathers lax and feeble ; the general plu¬ 
mage is full, deep, soft and downy. The tail, 
however, is very remarkable; it is modified 
into a beautiful, long, plume-like ornament, 
representing, when erect and expanded, the 
figure of a lyre; hence its name—the Lyre-bird. 
This ornamented tail is restricted to the male 
bird. It consists of sixteen feathers ; of these 
each side is broadly but loosely 
THH HUMAN BKAIN. 
the outer one on 
webbed within, its outer web being narrow ; as 
it proceeds it curves outwards, bends in, and 
again turns boldly outwards and downwards, 
both together resembling the framework of an 
ancient lyre, of which the intermediate feathers 
are the strings ; these feathers, except the two 
central, which are truly but narrowly webbed 
on the outer side, consist each of a slender shaft, 
with long filaments, at a distance fiom each 
other, and springing out alternately. The ap¬ 
pearance of the feathers, the length of which is 
about two feet, is peculiarly graceful ; their 
How beautifully the trivial is introduced in 
the Bible sometimes ! We only smile inwardly 
at the quaint simplicity of the story of that 
“ Shunamite ;” and the solicitous care for the 
small comforts of the “ Man of God,” brings a 
touch of nature down across the centuries to our 
own hearts. There is pathos, read it in what 
mood you please, in the verse :—“ Let us make 
a little chamber, I pray thee, in the wall; and 
let us set him there a bed, and a table, and, a 
stool, and a candlestick.” 
We only feel as we might feel if we came 
suddenly upon a furnished chamber in a buried 
city, which suggested that others lived and 
loved, and slept, milleniums ago, just as we do ; 
and wanted stools, and candlesticks, and little 
conveniences, for all the world like ourselves 
and our neighbors. And how often we have 
been touched by the quiet pathos of the account 
of the death by a sunstroke of the Prophet’s 
pledged word:—“And when the child was 
grown, it fell on a day, that he went to his father 
to the reapers. And he said to his father, * My 
head, my head.’ And he said to a lad, carry 
him to his mother; he sat on her knee till noon, 
and then died.”— Selected. 
-All names of things distinctly represent¬ 
ed as persons. 
4 th—All specific names of places or geograph¬ 
ical objects. 
5 th_All common geographical names joined 
to some proper name to make it more specific. 
gth_All names of points of compass used as 
specific names of sections of country. 
7 th_All names of the months of the year, and 
the days of the week. 
8 th—All specific names of historical eras, 
well-known events, remarkable physical phe¬ 
nomena, and noted written documents. 
Prin. 5th. Titles. —Initial capitals are used in 
1 st—All titles of honor, office, or respect at¬ 
tached to specific names. 
2 d—All titles used in direct address as sub¬ 
stitutes for specific names. 
34 _All common epithets joined to specific 
names, as distinctive titles. 
Prin. Gth. Adjectives. — Initial capitals are 
used in 
1 st_All adjectives derived from specific 
names. 
2 d—All adjectives specifically indicative of 
religious sects or political parties, whether de¬ 
rived from proper names or not. 
SEO. HI.—CAPITALS ENTIRE. 
■Capitals entire are 
Catching Elephants. —The manner of catch¬ 
ing them is simple enough, and with the 
stealthy, cat-like peculiarities of the Moormen of 
Ceylon, is attended with little danger. When 
a herd has been discovered, in which there are 
young ones, they watch them till mid-day, 
when tiey are either drowsy or asleep, and 
then creeping up behind with ropes, fasten 
their liinl legs together ; they then setup loud 
yells to frighten away the old ones. The course 
of educition afterward pursued is very simple, 
but speedy and effective ; they are left tied, 
with no water or food, for three or four days, 
when these requisites are administered as spar¬ 
ingly as possible; in a week they become so 
tractable as to kneel down at the word of com¬ 
mand. 
It has, in all ages, been a prerogative of 
Christianity to plant and foster domestic feel¬ 
ings and felicities. We would figure the relig¬ 
ion of Jesus as walking among men, and offering 
them two great boons ; in one hand she holds 
the treasures of immortality, in the other are the 
mild blessings of home. Philosophy has ever 
been high, remote, and unparticipating ; in her 
glittering robes she treads in majesty along the 
high places of the world, amid a light that 
scarce mingles with earth’s atmosphere, but falls 
on the eternal snow, a cold, intellectual light, 
which has never yet brightened the cloud of 
unspeakable sadness resting on her brow. A 
high task is hers, and we shall pay her all 
honor; but let us dwell rather with Christianity 
in the valleys and in the clefts of the rocks, 
where she spreads the nuptial couch, and lights 
the household fire.— Bayne's Christian Life. 
Prin. lsL Distinction. 
used in 
lst_All title-pages of books, running title of 
pages, headings of chapters, sections, and im- j 
portant divisions. 
Prin. 2d. Speciality.— Capitals entire are used 
interchangeably with Italics in 
1 st_All terms to be defined or names of 
things to be technically described. 
Prin. 3 d. Emphasis. — Capitals entire are 
used in 
1 st—All words, phrases, or sentences designed 
to be remarkably emphatic. 
ITALICS—SEO. IV—ITALICS ENTIRE. 
Prin. 1st. Distinction— Italics entire are used 
interchangeably with capitals in 
1 st_Headings of important divisions or para¬ 
graphs. 
Prin. 2d. Speciality. —Italics entire are used in 
1 st_Words of marked specification or partic¬ 
ular notice. 
Prin. 3 d. Emphasis— Italics entire are used in 
1 st_Words, phrases, or sentences designed to 
be emphatic. 
Prin. 4th. References. 
in 
1st_Titles of books or documents given as 
references. 
Prin. Gth. Specific names. —Italics entire are 
used in 
1 st—Specific names of newspapers and vessels. 
Remark.— The few exceptions occurring un¬ 
der any of these rules, are reserved for a distinct 
section. The same is true of examples illustra¬ 
tive of both principles and exceptions.—F. S. J., 
in New York Teacher. 
W hy is the guinea so called ? Because the 
gold with which it was first coined in the reign j 
of Charles II. was brought from Guinea. For 
this reason also, the guinea originally bore the 
impression of an elephant. 
The term sovereign is not new in English 
coinage. In the time of Edward Y I. there 
were both sovereigns, and half-sovereigns and 
nobles, as appropriate attendants on the sover¬ 
eign. 
most caution, taking care only to advance when 
it is scratching up the leaves in search a food. 
To watch its actions it is necessary to lemain 
perfectly motionless, not venturing to move 
even in the slightest degree, or it vanishes from 
sight as if by magic. 
These birds build in old hollow trtnks of 
tress which are lying on the ground, or in the 
holes of rocks. Its nest is of large size, formed 
outwardly of sticks, deep and basin-shajed, and 
lined inwardly, with the inner bark of trees, 
dried grass or dried leaves. The female lays 
When I gaze into the stars, they look down | 
upon me with pity from their serene and silent 
spaces, like eyes glistening with tears, over the 
little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all 
as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up 
by time, and there remains no record ot them 
any more ; yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius, and 
the Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, 
clear and young as when the shepherd first no¬ 
ticed them in the plains of Shinar [—Carlyle. 
application of our test;—our ciock is composed 
of a number of wheels, each having a duty to 
perform. So we are composed of a number of 
bodies joined together, each acting in a certain 
sphere. Each wheel has a number of notches 
in its circumference, which act upon the other, 
compelling motion; so each one of us has 
thoughts and feelings fitting us, which act upon 
and with one another. Each wheeThas a pivot 
upon which it rotates ; we each possess an im¬ 
mortal mind, upon which hinges all our thoughts, 
constraining us to perform the part assigned us 
by our maker. Each pivot requires an occa¬ 
sional oiling ; so each mind needs lubricating 
occasionally with the oil of patience’and per¬ 
severance. 
A steady and continued motion in the clock 
requires the weights ; continued action in us re¬ 
quires the weights Influence and Example. As 
the cords become necessary to bind the weights 
to the wheels, so the cords of respect and affec¬ 
tion are requisite to attach to us the weights of 
influence and example. The pendulum, wire 
The World we Live in—Is a rough world, 
an awkward world to get through ; but it might 
be worse. It might be better, if every one 
would try in earnest to make it so. I was walk¬ 
ing some time ago with a countryman, whom I 
observed, every now and then, to kick aside any 
particularly large or jagged stone that lay loose 
upon the horse track. “ I don’t like to see a 
stone like that in the road,” said he, “and not 
move it. It might trip up a horse and break a 
rider’s neck, and ’tis very little trouble to kick 
it aside.” Oh, that all passers through the 
world would but act on the same plan ! 
Expression of countenance, although it gives 
beauty to men, makes women pay dearly for its 
stamp, and pay soon. Hature seems, in protec¬ 
tion to their loveliness, to have ordered that 
they who are our superiors in quickness and 
sensibility, should be little disposed to laborious 
thought, or to long excursions in the labyrinths 
-Landor. 
-Italics entire are used 
of fancy. 
Remember that true fortitude surmounts all 
difficulties, and that you cannot pass into the 
temple of honor, but through that of virtue. 
Christianity is a form of divine life propaga¬ 
ted by contact and example. 
