JAN. 16. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
WHITTLING. 
While recently passing one of the school-houses 
in “the rural districts” I was very forcibly struck 
with its general appearance and surroundings.— 
The house, itself, is of a form which at once com¬ 
bines the necessary economy of a sparsely popu¬ 
lated district with the intelligent wants of the pu¬ 
pils—still maintaining a sufficient adherence to the 
rules of architecture to pre?erve a conformity of 
parts. It is finished in a simple and tasteful man¬ 
ner with a turfed play ground in front and enclosed 
by a fence painted the same color as the house. 
The play-ground is surrounded by rows of shade 
trees on either side, with a few near the house, 
which in the summer time keep the school-room 
cool and pleasant by their shade. The school room 
and all about it spoke, in a language as plain as a 
school-room ever speaks, of the interest which the 
parents and friends of those, who pass a most val¬ 
uable portion of their lives within its walls, must 
have centered in them. In language which could 
not be mistaken, it seemed to say—the patents and 
guardians of those who are educated here have a 
just appreciation of the wants of the expanding 
mind and take the most successful method to meet 
those wants. 
I caught a glimpse of the neatly painted desks 
and well kept floor and said in my own mind,—this 
must be the “true excellence” in school manage¬ 
ment. Evertliing looked so inviting to a youthful 
mind that I could not well imagine how a single 
pupil could absent himself from so pleasing a place 
during the hours of school. 
mmamm 
THE AFRICAN BLACK-MANEI) LION. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
PRESERVATION OF BIRDS. ANIMALS, &c.—No. III. 
COLORING TUB LEGS. 
Thk feet and bills of some kinds of birds, as 
ducks, geese, &c., lose their color in drying. This 
must be remedied by coloring them with sealing 
wax dissolved in alcohol, of the color required, or 
by mixing two or more, and laying it on with a 
small brush, imitating nature as near as possible. 
vVhen the bird is perfectly dry cut off the wire on 
the top of the head with cutting pliers. 
MAKING EYES. 
It is often difficult to procure glass eyes. I have 
obtained large colored eyc^ at Barnum’s Museum 
in New York city. The instruments for making 
them are a glass blower’s table-lamp and bellows, 
round pincers six inches in length, closed by a ring 
to hold the wire forming the support of the eye.— 
I They are made from cylinders of glass, such as 
glass blowers use of the required colors. After the 
wick has been scattered so as to procure a clear 
blue flame, the bellows is directed to the middle of 
the wick. Then apply the cylinder to the extremi¬ 
ty of the flame, and when a portion is melted apply 
a piece of small iron wire to the melted glass of the 
color you wish the eye. Take the quantity neces¬ 
sary for the size of the eye, turn it in the flame and 
it will form a globe. After it becomes round, a 
speck of black glass is placed in the centre for tho 
pupil. Expose it again to the flame, and when 
properly blended take a glass cylinder and put on 
enough clear transparent glass to cover the whole. 
Apply it to the flame, keep it burning till it is 
The above engraving is taken from “Lake Nga- to slink behind my heels. Immediately afterward, an awful moment of suspense; and my situ; t Apply it to the flame, keep it burni 
,,U, cuu.u ;».,«!« uluredi ..um au phasing a pmee mi; or> Explorations and Discoveries during Four a tremendous shout of ‘ Ongeama! Ongeama!’ was was critical in the extreme. Bull my presence of and formB a ’feet g i 0 be, when it may cool 
iring the hours of school. Years’Wanderings in Southwestern Africa.” The raised by the natives on the bank above, followed mind never for a moment forsook me—indeed, I __ lo ’ The bla(jk glaaa eyes w hich most small 
However much the general appearance of this sce ne it depicts is thus described by the author, by a discharge of fire-arms. Presently, however, felt that nothing but the most perfect coolness and ^ quadrn p eda rC q U ire, are easily made.— 
pleasant spot interested me, there was one feature Charles John Andersson: 
which was truly displeasing. Even to the passer- “One day, when eating my dinner, I was inter- 
all was still again; for the lion, after showing him- absolute self command would be of any avail. 
self on the outskirts of the brake, had retreated 
by those niches, and notches, and crevices in the rupted by the arrival of several natives, who re- into it 
boards of the fence and clapboards of the house— lated that an ongeama , or lion, had just killed one 
the desolation wrought by that rogue of a penknife of their goats close to the mission station (Rich- 
“ Once more I attempted to dislodge the beast; 
but, finding the enemy awaiting him in the more 
seemed painful. It is from other and similar dis-1 terfeldt), and begged of me to lend them a hand in open country, ho was very loth to leave his strong- 
“I would now have become the assailant; but as 
—owing to the intervening bushes, and clouds of 
dust raised by the lion’s lashing his tail against the 
ground—I was unable to see his head, while to aim 
at any other part would have been madness, I re¬ 
figurations of the choicest efforts of nature and art destroying the Least They had so often cried hold. Again, however, I succeeded in driving him trained from firing. While intently watching his 
that has caused it to be thrown in the face of ‘wolf,’that I did not give much heed to their state- to the edge of the brake, where, as in the first in- every motion, lie suddenly bounded toward me; 
Brother Jonathan as a nationality. rnents; but, as they persisted in their story, I at stance, he was received with a volley; but a broom- but, whether it was owing to his not perceiving me, 
Considering “ Youth the seed time of life,” and last determined to ascertain its truth. Having stick would have been equally efficacious as a gun partially concealed as 1 was in the long grass-or 
that the habits which you now form will cling to strapped to my waist a shooting-belt, containing in the hands of these people; for, out of a great to my instinctively throwing my body on one side 
you throughout your whole life, 1 do conjure you, the several reauisites of a hunter-such as bullets, number of shots that were fired, not one seemed to -or to his miscalculating the distance-,,, making 
my young friends, to refrain from the practice of 
strapped to my waist a shooting-belt, containing 
the several requisites of a hunter—such as bullets. 
ips, knife, etc., I shouldered my trusty double- have taken effect. 
using your knives in cutting or marring your desks barreled gun (after loading it with steel-pointed 
or anything about the school-room; and the same balls), and followed the men. 
“Worn out at length by my exertions, and dis- 
his last spring he went clear over me, and alighted 
on the ground three or four paces beyond. In- 
gusted beyond measure at the way in which the stantly, and without rising, I wheeled round on 1113 
concerning other public property. It is unmanly! “ In a short time we reached the spot where the natives bungled the affair, I left the brake, and, re- knee, and discharged my second barrel; and as 
It is heathenish! If whittling is such a pleasant Hon was believed to have taken refuge. This was joining them on the bank above, offered to change his broadside was then toward me lodged a ball in 
pastime, how much more sensible, how much bet- in a dense tamarisk brake, of some considerable places with them; but my proposal, as I expected, his shoulder, which it completely smashed. On 
ter it would look, saying nothing about the actual extent, situated partially on and below the sloping was forthwith declined. receiving my second fire, he made another and 
destruction of property; to procure a nice piece of banks of the Swakop, near to its junction with the “ As the day, however, was now fast drawing to a more determined rush at me; but, owing to lire 
soft wood, and then cut, and shave, and scrape at Omutenna one of its tributaries. On the rising close, I determined to make one other effort to cle- disabled state, I happily avoided h,m It was how- 
your leisure, than to stealthily deface and mar that ground, above the brake in question, were drawn stroy the lion, and should that prove unsuccessful ever, only by a hair’s breadth, for he passed me 
to which we have no right, with the conviction all up in battle array a number of Damaras and Nan,a- to give up the chase. Accordingly, accompanied with,n arm’s length. He afterward scrambled into 
the time that we are doing wrong. o. v. s. quas, some armed with assegais, and a few with by only a single native, I again entered the brake the thick cover beyond, where, as night was then 
Pike, N. Y., Dec., 1807. guns. Others of the party were in the brake itself, which I examined for some time without seeing approaching, I did not deem it prudent to pursue 
Procure a jeweller’s blowpipe, a lamp with an half 
inch tube for the wick, filled with good sperm oil, 
and get a piece of charcoal that you can conviently 
hold in your hand, scoop out a small round hole, 
and with an awl bore a hole through the centre of 
it. Procure some small black glass beads, and a 
piece of iron wire four inches long, one end of 
which file to a sharp point. Then, lay four or fivo 
beads in the hollow of the charcoal, and apply tho 
blowpipe to the flame of the lamp, holding it 1 ack 
a little at first, or the full heat of the flame will snap 
them. In a few seconds they will unite and foim 
a round globe; keep your eye steadily on while 
melting to discover any air bladders, and if so, con¬ 
tinue the heat, it will expand the air, and burst the 
glass which will again assume its globular form. 
In tin instant, take up your pointed wire and insert 
it in the globe. When cooled a little, put the other 
end of the wire through the hole in the charcoal, 
but keep the glass from touching it. Again apply 
the heat carefully, as at first; then bring it near tho 
ground, above the brake in question, were drawn stroy the lion, and should that prove unsuccessful, ever, only by a hairs breadth, foi he passed mt end 0 f tbe fl amc and in a short time it will be com 
_ , _ • _ 1L _ _ A_ „j:.,«L. nr i 1 1 1 i n orm’o Ion fril* TTo nflnnufl rrl «r»rnmh1i»rl into . . 
up in battle array a number of Damaras and Nama- 
quas, some armed with assegais, and a few with 
guns. Others of the party were in the brake itself, 
to give up the chase. Accordingly, accompanied within arm’s length. He afterward scrambled into 
by only a single native, I again entered the brake the thick cover beyond, where, as night was then 
which I examined for some time without seeing approaching, I did not deem it prudent to pursue 
endeavoring to oust the lion. But, as it seemed to anything; but on arriving at that part of the cover him. 
pleted. But, should you discover any particles of 
charcoal taken up by inserting the wire, keep it in 
the flame a little longer, and they will disappear.— 
When cool, cut off the wire, leaving the eighth of 
an inch on the eye. Use mote beads for larger 
Written for Moore’s Rumi New-Yorker. me that the ‘beaters’ were timid, and, moieover, we had first searched, and when in a spot compara- “At an early hour on the next morning, how- ^ jnch on the eyP# Use more beads for larger 
THE TEACHERS’ PROFESSION somewhat slow in their movements, I called them tively free from bushes, up suddenly sprung the beast ever, we followed his ‘spoor,’ and soon came to aiz0i , and witb a i it j e practice you can make any 
_ ’ back; and, accompanied by only one or two per- within a few paces of me. It was a black-maned the spot where he had passed the night. The sand rC q U j r ed. 
Contrary to the opinion which has somewhat sons, as also a few worthless dogs, entered the lion, and one of the largest I^e ver remember to here was one patch ot blood; and the bushes im- insects. 
generally prevailed, there is not, among all the di- brake myself. It was rather a dangerous proceed- have encountered in Africa. But his movements mediately about were broken and beaten down by InRCCtg of lbc p getle trihe niay be killed by put- 
versified callings of men, one more important, ing; for, in places, the cover was so thick and tan- were so rapid, so silent and smooth withal, that it his weight, as he had staggered to and fro 111 bis tjn „ them j n a t ; n box with a little camphor, and 
elevating, and commanding, than that of a teacher, gled as to oblige me to creep on my hands and was not until lie had partially entered’the thick effort to get on his legs again. Strange to say, ^» (hcm oyer 1fae flame ()f - a lamp for a 9ll()l t 
The highest achievement of the most able and ac- knees, and the lion, in consequence, might easily cover (at which time he might have been thirty however, we here lost all clue to the beast. A Tlmv are set bv nutting a pin through the 
generally prevailed, there is not, among all the di- brake mysen. it was tamer a dangerous proeeeu- nave eneouiuereu ui Ainca. j>uu ...----- --_ * " i nBC cts of tho Beetle tribe may be killed by put- 
versified callings of men, one more important, ing; for, in places, the cover was so thick and tan- were so rapid, so silent and smooth withal, that it his weight, as he had staggered to and fro 111 bis tjn „ them j n a t ; n box with a little camphor, and 
elevating, and commanding, than that of a teacher, gled as to oblige me to creep on my hands and was not until lie had partially entered’the thick effort to get on his legs again. Strange to say, ^» (hcm oyer 1fae flame ()f - a lamp for a 9ll()l t 
The highest achievement of the most able and ac- knees, and the lion, in consequence, might easily cover (at which time he might have been thirty however, we here lost all clue to the beast. A Tliey are set by putting a pin through the 
complisbed legislator is simply the enactment of have pounced upon me without a moment’s warn- paces distant) that I could tire. On receiving the large troop of lions, that had been feasting on a ^ thfi thoraXi which should pass under- 
plain and just laws. His best and noblest work is, ing. At that time, however, I had not obtained ball he wheeled short about, and, with a terrific giraffe in the early morning, had obliterated his ^ ^ between the first pair of legs. The antennro 
which spoke it into being. But suppose the best suddenly, and within a few paces of where I stood, over the wrist of my right hand, I dropped on one prosecuting the search, we had unfortunately taken 
fortune possible to attend the labor of the legisla- I heard a low, angry growl, which caused the dogs knee, and, thus prepared, awaited his onset. It was exactly the opposite direction.” 
tor,still his works are ephemeral and destined soon ■ ■■ - - - - --——..-•.. ■ . 1 - 
to perish. Not sued the fate of the teacher. His THE FIRST ERROR OF TEACHING. I c\>j\ ft /AA ♦ j In one year’s coinage, amounting to eight millions 
to perish. Not sued the fate of the teacher. His THE FIRST ERROR OF TEACHING. c%u.y ^ ,.v * /aa» In one year’s coinage, amounting to eight millions 
labors produce no learned tomes of lifeless statutes, - £141 i wilf0» of sovereigns, the greatest variation from the 
but living, intelligent, active,self-interpreting men; The first error is teaching men to imitate, or re- weight allowed is stated at only six grains, or 
men who are not only self-regulating, but whose peat, rather than to think. We need to take but a ~ one-half of the remedy. Each sovereign must 
example attracts, excites, vivifies and directs all very cursory glance at the great theatre of human A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINA. contain a portion of this remedy, to allow for wear 
within the sphere of their influence. Characters life, to know how deep a root this radical error has ; ri public use; and this extraordinary subdivision 
such as these produce ami reproduce their repre- struck into the foundation of education. Look China is the most populous and ancient Empire 0 f m etal is invariably obtained. The usual deliv- 
sentatives through indefinite ages*, may not every abroad among inen, and ask y ourselves how many in the woild. It is 1,390 miles long and 1,0.10 wide. P ry of new coinage at the bank contains one hun- 
principle of truth, every seed of virtue which the of the moving multitude inquire into the springs Population from 300,000,000 to 300,000,000. The drcd j ourneyaj which is counted by weight only; 
faithful teacher has implan ed in the soul of his of action; how many seek to know the causes and capital is Pekin, with 2,000,000 inhabitants; next that is, two hundred sovereigns are counted into 
pupil continue to germina’e and bear precious consequences of those scenes in which they them- Nankin and Canton, 1,000,000 each. China produces 0 ne scale, and the delivery is weighed in parcels 
fruit so long as that soul itself shall exist? Per- selves are actors; or, to descend to details, how tea, 50,000,000 pounds of which are annually ex- which balance these two hundred, and this is all the 
haps the most truly renowned name in the whole many attempt to understand the true principles of ported from Canton, the only place which foreigners coun ti n g the new coinage receives. The regulari- 
history of man, the name which appears most business in which they are engaged, how many are allowed to visit. Silk, cotton, rice, gold and ty and precision of the manipulations at the mint 
likely to attain an earthly immortality is Socrates! can correct a blunder arising merely from the ap- silver, and all the necessaries of life are found in obviate the necessity of any other further exami- 
The highest glor\—in his own estimation—while plication of a principle. Analyze this boasted lib- China. The arts and manufactures in many branches nation, either as regards the gross amount or the 
he lived; and in the world’s estimation since his erty of ours; look again upon republican society are in high perfection, but stationary, as improve- weight of an individual piece. When the currency 
his death is that he was a teacher of youth. There in the freest land upon earth; separate the living ments are now prohibited. The government is a returns to the bank from the public, it becomes 
are some, who do not appreciate the teachers’la- agents from the mere automata in this game of life, despotic monarchy. Revenue, $200,006,000; army, necessary to ascertain if it has been reduced below 
hors; hut he must not be discouraged for these and tell me how many of the latter—how many of 800,000 men. The religion is similar to Buddhism, the standard weight, and this imposes an arduous 
The first error is teaching men to imitate, or re- 
men who are not only self-regulating, but whose peat, rather than to think. We need to take but a 
example attracts, excites, vivifies and directs all very cursory glance at the great theatre of human 
within the sphere of their influence. Characters life, to know how deep a root this radical error has 
such as these produce and reproduce their repre- struck into the foundation of education. Look 
A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINA. 
China is the most populous and ancient Empire 
sentatives through indefinite ages: may not every abroad among men, and ask yourselves how many in the world. It is 1,390 miles long and 1,030 wide, 
principle of truth, every seed of virtue which the of the moving multitude inquire into the springs Population from 300,000,000 to 300,000,000. The 
panying engraving that all can understand the 
operation, yet, in this, as in most other .things, ex¬ 
perience must be the guide. 
\ 
will meet with a reward sooner or later. the former! And if you are not pleased with the the chief god bieng Foh. The Chinese inculcate 
New Boston, Kent Co., Mich., 1857. Mary. result, tell me whether this is a decree of nature, or the morality of Confucius, their great philosoper, 
_ i ,, _ a fault of education; whether you believe if men who was born 550 B. C. 
WHAT KIND OF WORDS TO USE were taught to be independent thinkers, and that The great wall and canal of China are among the 
- ‘ while they revered all that was good, or glorious, m jghtiest works ever achieved by man. The 
Use simple, familiar Anglo-Saxon words, in or valuable in the works of their ancestors, that foreign commerce of China amounts to $36,000,000 
•eference to those of Latin and French origin._ they, too, had an indwelling spirit whose high pre- or « 4 q qqo.OOO annually, the whole of which is tran- 
WHAT KIND OF WORDS TO USE. 
preference to those of Latin and French origin._ 
The latter may seem finer and more high sounding, 
but the former are stronger and more expressive, 
and you will be able to set forth more clearly in 
them what you have to say. If your thought is a 
they, too, had an indwelling spirit whose high pre- or 540 , 000,000 annually, the whole of which is tran- 
rogative it was to extend the conquest of mind, sacted ’ witb appointed agents, called Hong mer- 
they would cease to inquire and remain dull floats chant9- Foreigners are allowed to live at certain 
the standard weight, and this imposes an arduous 
duty on the officers of the bank. The amount of 
gold paid daily from the hank counter is put down 
at an average of thirty thousand pounds. 
HISTORY OF KEYS. 
A paper was lately read before the British Asso¬ 
ciation of Science, on the history of keys. The 
<v 
MODS OP FASTENING INSECTS TO TIIK SETTING BOARD. 
After setting, give them a coat of the corrosive 
upon the ocean of beings! 
But if you would know what the effects of think- 
stations or factories below Canton. The chief trade leather as the first means by which property was 
is with England. The first American ship reached secured prior to the advanced stage of civilization, 
author pointed out a strip of bark or a thong of sublimate prepara ion previously described, applied 
leather as the first means by which property was carefully wi h a camel-hair brush. This must le 
liberally api lied to insects, as they are particularly 
light, heat; to sit, to stand, to go, to run, to stagger, witn no small share ot arts and sciences, but who Accord } ng to Mr. Dunn, the opium smuggled into was made to the primitive locks ana keys 01 wooa 
are Anglo-Baxon words; as are most of those used have added not a sin S le Particle to knowledge, nor chinaj to ° the in j nry of the people, amounted to of the ancient and modern Egyptians. The iron acid must be used with gieat caution, as i a 1 etlects 
to express habitual actions, and designate persons taken one step in improvement; whose only policy $ 50 ,000,000 annually for several years past, much keys of Egypt were described, and illustrated by are about as instantaneous on the human subject as 
and objects familiar and dear to us. Wemay.sayin is to prevent innovation, and whose only power is of which was paid in specie, which found its way examples from Thebes; and the curiouhtaSt point- on the insect, rhey are set by pins and bi aces, but 
Latin-English, - Felicity attends virtue,” but “ Well to Perpetuate succession. Here is another people, tQ London _ The Chinese language has nearly 40,- ed out, that nearly similar specimens are met with these must not touch the wings, but be ready to 
being arises from well-doing 1 ’—Saxon-English—is whose population does not exceed one-tenth that oon characters or letters. in Western Africa. After a brief notice of Greek act as requiiec. t is umui to t<i e two <> le.anie 
a far better wording of the same idea. Mark the Ohio, whose place can scarcely be found on the 
strength, expressiveness and majestic movement of ma P> w Ho commenced barbarians, yet who have 
the following lines from Byron’s “Destruction of ff' ven the world new sciences and new arts, and --- 
Sennacherib,” in which nearly all the words are w hose mighty men infused into language an acC0UI1 4 0 f the interesting operations con- 
Anglo-Saxon: “Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” nected with the gold coin of this institution, it is 
Kor the Angel of Death spread his wingson the blast, who re-conquered their conquerors by the spirit of B tated that the new coinage first arrives at the bank 
And breathed in the face of the foe as be passed; eloquence, and whose renown has filled the earth, from the mint in what are called “journeys,” a 
And the ejes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, What makes this mighty difference? The one single journey weighing fifteen pounds, and con- 
And their hearts beat but once, and forever lay still! learned to repeat, the other to think. — Conn, taining seven hundred and one sovereigns. The 
The French and Latin elements of our language, School Journal. officers of the mint are allowed twelve grains 
of course, have their place and use, and cannot 1 e -«-*♦--— “ p i U8 » j n every pound weight of metal, for the ir- 
lett out; but the Anglo-Saxon should furnish the j T no t wisdom, bnt ignorance which teaches regularities incidental to working it into coin; but 
staple of our common writing and talk. —How to mC n presumption. Genius may be some'.imes ar- they usually work to within one-half of that allow- 
Write. rogant, hut nothing is so diffident as knowledge. ance, which is technically called the “ remedy.”— 
GOLD AT THE* BANK OF ENGLAND. 
In an account of the interesting operations con¬ 
nected with the gold coin of this institution, it is 
keys, attention was directed to the Roman era, and 
a minute description was given of the fixed and 
moveable locks, the dentated, piped and branched 
keys, and of the variously formed bows surmount- 
species and set one with the wings expanded, the 
other closed. In the large species of these insects, 
the contents of the abdomen'must be extiac:ed at 
the vent, and filled with chopped cotton wet with 
who re-conquered their conquerors by the spirit of stated that the new coinage first arrives at the bank keys attached to linger rings, and of the false or 
eloquence, and whose renown has filled the earth, from the mint in what are called “journeys,” a skeleton key of the Roman housebreaker. The 
What makes this mighty difference? The one single journey weighing fifteen pounds, and con- Anglo-Saxon ai>d Norman keys were then dwelt 
learned to repeat, the other to think.— Conn, taining seven hundred and one sovereigns. The upon, and the various forms and fashions of the 
School Journal. officers of the mint are allowed twelve grains key-bows, from the thirteenth century, down to a 
-•*-••*■-— “ plus ” in every pound weight of metal, for the ir- to a later period, were described. 
It is not wisdom, bnt ignorance which teaches regularities incidental to working it into coin; but *‘' “ ‘ 
men presumption. Genius may be some'.imes ar- they usually work to within one-half of that allow- Deliberate with caution, 1 ut act, with decision; 
rotrant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge. ance, which is technically called the “remedy.”— yield with giaciousness, or oppose with tiimne.-'P. 
ing the stems. Mention was made of the small arsenical soap, as it will produce discoloiation. 
The corrosive sublimate must be applied by pres¬ 
sing it from your peueil on the edge of the wings. 
Bee that it extends over every part Email insects 
require nothing but a little gum water to stick them 
to your setting board, ( 'atnrjillnrs can be presei'- 
ed in spirits and placed in phials. By following 
the above directions, pour ingenuity can apply 
them to any insect The operation is shown in the 
engraving. 
