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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOLOGICAL TOUR. 
H. A. WARD IN RUSSIA. 
Before leaving St Petersburgh I made an ex¬ 
cursion 30 miles to the north-east to Lake Ladoga, 
the largest body of fresh water in Europe. This 
lake is about 130 miles in length, and 75 miles in 
its greatest breadth, and is some larger than Lake 
Ontario, much the smallest of our great Lakes. 
I went in a small steamer on the river Neva, 
whose low banks enabled me to see the geological 
constitution of the country along this large, but 
short river. The banks are entirely of diluvial 
gravel and sand with many granitic bowlders, par¬ 
ticularly at the upper part of the river. The coun¬ 
try is a nearly perfect level, as far as I could see on 
either side, composed of this sand-drift formation 
and covered with a heavy growth of fir trees. The 
curvilinear line, described by this northern series 
of inland seas, the Gulf of Finland, Lakes Ladoga 
and Onega, and the far-stretching White Sea, is by 
no means without significance. We have seen that 
the former lies in a depression between the Plu¬ 
tonic formation of Finland and the Neptunian 
rocks of Russia proper. That there was a former 
union here between the waters of the Baltic and 
the Arctic seas appears to me very probable, and 
in my reading upon Russian geology I have found 
nothing which conflicts with this idea. If this is 
true, their union was broken and these seas were 
formed during the Quaternary period, not by up¬ 
heaval or other change of the relative level of land 
and water, but by a simple descent of northern 
drift which filled up in several places the long sea 
which I have supposed, and thus divided it into 
the several seas and lakes which now occupy its 
site. This may be hypothesis, but I can prove it 
to be true, in one instance, from actual observation. 
Thus, the banks of the Neva down to the waters' 
edge are composed, for the whole distance between 
St Petersburgh and Lake Ladoga, entirely of 
northern drift Now then, if we subtract this drift, 
we of course unite once more Lake Ladoga with 
the Gulf of Finland, only reducing the level of the 
former, as much as is the present fall of the river 
between these two bodies of water. Does not this 
establish the former existence of a continuous sea 
between the Baltic and the east end of the present 
Ladoga? I am quite confident also that a similar 
mass of proof can be obtained to show a former 
connection between this new sea, thus formed, and 
the present Lake Onega. 
But I must leave Lake Ladoga, only mentioning 
that I saw upon its shores many large bowlders, 
which have been stranded by modern drifting ice, 
and that among them I found some isolated valves 
of Anadonta anatina, with abundant Lymnea and 
Paludina, and the larva of the Phryganea (Coddis- 
worm,) such as I found fossil in Aurerge, and 
which had here formed their domiciliary tubes of 
short sections of a fresh-water rush. 
Returning to St Petersburgh I took the cars to 
Moscow. The country was nearly level. Even the 
Waldei Hills, about midway between the two cities, 
and the highest land in central Russia, would hard¬ 
ly be noticed by the side of many of the so-called 
mountains of Western New York. 
We passed over in succession the Silurean, 
Devonian, Carboniferous and Jurassic formations 
in approaching Moscow; but the whole country 
was so covered with diluvial sand and gravel, that 
the sections made by the brooks revealed nothing 
else. We crossed the Volga at the town of Iver, 
near 2,000 miles from its mouth, and about as large 
as the Genesee, just above Rochester. I spent five 
days in Moscow, two of them at the Kremlin, Ac., 
and three in examining the museum of the Uni¬ 
versity and excursions beyond the walls. This 
museum is specially rich in remains of the mam¬ 
moth and its constant companion, Rhinoceros 
trichorinus. It has also a very large collection of 
beautiful Jurassic fossils from beds not long ago 
discovered in the neighborhood. These, the Pro¬ 
fessor of Palaeontology seemed unwilling I should 
carry away, till all had been described by him, and 
did not point out their locality to me. But seeing 
the Jurassic series lay along the river Moshwa, I 
followed up its course five miles from the city, and 
at length found the fossils most abundant where, 
at a bend in the river formed a high bank, the 
sliding earth had uncovered and borne down to the 
water a great variety of them. At a near farm 
house I made signs for a rake, with which I re¬ 
turned and raked out of the river a mixture of 
fossil Ammonites, Belemnites and Inoceramus, with 
living Unios, Anodontas, and the like. Loaded 
with a large quantity, I returned to the city, re¬ 
joicing in the riches I had acquired. 
In haste I passed to St Petersburgh, just in time 
to take the last steamer of the season, for Finland. 
Thence I may write again. h. a. w. 
Newspapers.— Judge Longstreet, the new Presi¬ 
dent of South Carolina College, thus sets forth the 
value of a newspaper: — Small is the sum that is 
required to patronize the newspaper, and most 
amply remunerated is the patron. I care not how 
humble and unpretending the gazette which he 
takes, it is next to impossible to fill it fifty-two 
times a year without putting into it something 
that is worth the subscription price. Every parent 
whose son is off from home, at school, should sup¬ 
ply him with a paper. I still remember what a 
difference there was between those of my school¬ 
mates who had and those who had not access to 
newspapers. Other things being equal, the first 
were decidedly superior to the last in debate and 
composition at least The reason is plain, they had 
command of more facts. Youth will peruse news¬ 
papers with delight when they will read nothing else. 
It is difficult to say which is the greater defect 
in a parent—strictness and firmness in his family 
without feeling and affection, or feeling and affec¬ 
tion without strictness and firmness. Under the 
one bad system, the children are apt to become 
slaves or hypocrites; under the other, tyrants or 
rebels. But true love is always firm, and true firm¬ 
ness is always love. 
The progress of some men is so rapid that they 
keep ahead of common sense. 
THE SCHOOL-MASTER. 
The School-House is a silent teacher; the place i 
where it stands, the scenery by which it is sur- j 
rounded, more or less excite the young mind, and j 
give direction to its thoughts. But the principal 
teacher is, of course, the school-master, the presid¬ 
ing mind in the little assembly of thinkers, stu- j 
dents, pupils, who occupy the house and busy 
themselves with the subjects of thought and in¬ 
struction, in the midst of that outward scenery, ! 
through the best hours of every day of the week, j 
during the freest and most susceptible years of life. 
The mere presence of superior intelligence is 
instructive; the aspect of goodness is improving. 
Knowledge and virtue are commended to us by j 
daily intercourse with a beautiful example. Good 
sense, gentleness, modesty, propriety, are illustrated 
and enforced by being embodied in a real person, 
even when he does nothing and says nothing.— 
Such a person can not be, and not do good. His 
presence represses what is vulgar, and awes what 
is wrong; we instinctively set a guard upon our 
lips, we move with greater care, we blush at the 
consciousness of unkind, ungenerous, unmanly 
feelings, when he is with us. 
And then what a difference as an active teacher, 
between a clear thinker and discriminating ob¬ 
server, and an obtuse, blundering, half-educated 
guide in our studies. What a mighty difference 
between a sour, petulant, hasty, inconstant temper, 
and that judgment, that self-command, that serene 
and sunny benignity, that self-respect and respect 
for us, which we feel to belong to a true gentle¬ 
man, and in the presence of which a thoughtful and 
well meaning child is at ease and happy. 
In a good teacher of a common school there is a 
combination of qualities, each of value, and never 
attained or preserved without pains and expense. 
Such a teacher is not easily raised, and therefore 
not common. Happy is the district that secures 
him; his price is above rubies; he is a scholar, a 
gentleman and a Christian. 
Cowper hated public schools; poor, sensitive, ; 
suffering creature, he never had a happy moment 
in school, and bardly one anywhere else. But he 
saw what sort of a man a school-master ought to 
be. In the Tirocinium, he recommends a family 
teacher: 
“ Behold that figure, neat, though plainly clad, 
His sprightly mingled with a shade of sad: 
Not of a nimble tongue, though lively in discourse, 
His phrase well chosen, clear and full of force; 
And his address, if not quite French in ease. 
Not English stiff, hut frank and formed to please; 
Low in the world, because he scorns its arts; 
A man of letters, manners, morals, parts.” 
[Pro/ - . Haddock. 
LITERARY PURSUITS. 
FEEDING HOPPERS FOR FOWLS. 
Messrs. Editors:— In the Rural a few weeks 
since, you recommended keeping food constantly 
within reach of fowls, provided proper Feeding 
Hoppers were furnished, so as to prevent waste. 
Will you tell us how to construct these hoppers?— 
1 would like a plan of a cheap one, that a boy could 
make.—M., Niagara Co., N. Y., 1858. 
Remarks. —Throwing grain on the ground for 
fowls, is a very wasteful habit, besides looking 
slovenly, as a good deal is trodden in the dirt, and 
wasted. Feeding Hoppers, where grain may be 
kept, are constructed very cheaply. A very good 
one may be made out of a common box. Remove 
the top and front side. Then take the front board 
which you have taken off the box, and saw off one 
end so that it will just slip inside the box. Place 
this board diagonally in the box, from the top 
front corner to within an inch or so of the lower 
back corner, and fasten it there with nails. A 
crevice is thus left under this board for the passago 
of the grain. Two or three inches in front of this 
opening nail a strip an inch or so thick, and this 
. will form a trough. Put slats up the front suffi¬ 
cient distance apart for the fowls to get their heads 
throughput on the top with leather hinges, and 
, the work is done. 
! Another plan we give from Bement's Poulterer's 
Companion, accompanied by engravings-that will 
i explain the manner of construction. 
THOMAS LI. BENTON. 
Thomas Hart Benton, whose portrait leads the Senate a resolution of censure upon General 
this sketch, was born near Hillsborough, Orange Jackson, made Col. B. particularly obnoxious to 
Co., North Carolina, March 14, 1782. Thomas lost his opponents, and partisan passion clothed the 
his father when he was eight years old. llis early matter with a fictitious importance, but no act of 
education was imperfect—he was for a brief period his life, probably, so fully brought out the entire 
at a grammar school, and afterwards at the Uni- man. During the administration of Mr. Van 
versity of North Carolina, but did not finish the Buren, Col. B. devoted his time to his new financial 
prescribed course of study, as his mother removod policy. In the “ Oregon Question,” we next find 
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SELF-FEKDING HOPPER. 
to Tennessee, and he accompanied her. Here he Col. B. taking a leading part. The “54 c 40' ” of This feeding hopper is two feet square, the posts 
studied law and rapidly rose to eminence in his Mr. Polk he differed from, and reviewed the whole are eighteen inches high, and two inches square- 
profession. He became a member of the Legisla- controversy, and the Administration finally ac- the upper section of the box is six inches dee])' 
ture, and served a single term. One of his earliest quiesced in his views, accepting the line of 49° as and the ends are morticed into or nailed to the 
friends and patrons was Andrew Jackson, at that the Northern boundary. 
posts. From the bottom of this square the taper- 
No pleasure is so little subject to wear itself out 
by exhausting either the materials or the faculties 
of enjoyment, as literary pursuits. It is one of 
those tastes which grow by indulgence; of which 
the objects become more and more numerous, and 
the emotions more exquisite, the greater the culti¬ 
vation which it receives. It is more independent 
of the will of others, more independent in point 
of external circumstances than almost any other 
source of enjoyment. The indulgence of a litera¬ 
ry taste is naturally attended with a perception of 
increased power, of a more enlarged dominion of 
the objects of nature, animate and inanimate, ra¬ 
tional and irrational. It is attended with the de¬ 
lightful conviction of giving a higher claim upon 
the love and esteem of mankind, and of acquiring 
a greater command over those feelings and passions 
which render men odious to their fellow-creatures. 
How naturally it combines with the best feelings 
incident to every condition of life, with what ad¬ 
vantage it engages and employs the thoughts of 
the wretched, tempers and moderates the elevation 
of the prosperous, directs the enthusiasm of the 
young, and relieves the ennui of the old, has been 
so long felt and often expressed with all the powers 
of language and genius, that it may ever be re¬ 
garded as one of the laws to which universal as¬ 
sent is attached. “If all the riches of both the 
Indies,” said the elegant and amiable Fenelon, “if 
the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were 
laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, 
I would spurn them all .”—Edinburgh Review. 
WHAT KIND OF WORDS TO USE. 
Use simple, familiar Anglo Saxon words, in pref¬ 
erence to those of Latin and French origin. 
The latter may seem finer and more high-sound¬ 
ing, but the former are stronger and more ex¬ 
pressive, and you will be able to set forth more 
clearly in them what you have to say. If your 
thought is a great one, simple words will well befit 
it; and if it is trifling or commonplace, your grand 
phrases will only make it seem ridiculous. Father, 
mother, brother, sister, home, happiness, heaven; 
sun, moon, stars, light, heat; to sit, to stand, to go, 
to ruD, to stagger, are Anglo Saxon words; as are 
most of those used to express habitual actions, and 
designate persons and objects familiar and dear to 
us. We may say in Latin English, “Felicity at¬ 
tends virtue,” but “Well-being arises from well¬ 
doing”—Saxon-English—is a far better wording of 
the same idea. Mark the strength, expressiveness 
and majestic movement of the following lines from 
Byron’s “Destruction of Sennacherib,” in which 
nearly all the words are Anglo-Saxon: 
“ For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. 
And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; 
And the eyes of the sleeper waxed deadly and chill, 
And their hearts beat but once, and forever lay still!” 
The French and Latin elements of our language, 
of course, have their place and use, and cannot be 
be left out; but the Anglo Saxon should furnish 
the staple of our common writing and talk .—How 
to Write. 
Wit.— Wit is the most dangerous talent we can 
possess—it must be guarded with great discretion 
and good nature, otherwise it will create many 
enemies. Wit is perfectly consistent with softness 
and delicacy; yet they are seldom found united.— 
Wit is so flattering to vanity, that they who possess 
it are intoxicated, and lose self-command. Though 
it is the most captivating, yet it is the most dreaded 
of all talents, the most dangerous to those who 
have it, and the most feared by those who have it 
not He who is grown rich without it, in safe and 
sober dullness shuns it as a disease, and looks upon 
poverty as its invariable concomitant— Dr. Blair. 
time a Judge of the Supreme Court, and subse- During the Mexican war the servioes of Col. B., ing part of the grain-box reaches to within one 
quently Major Generalof the State Militia. Benton from his intimate acquaintance with the Spanish inch of the floor, which should be raised on feet 
became his aid-de-camp, and during the war also Provinces, proved of much value to the Govern- about six inches from the ground; the grain-box 
raised a regiment of volunteers. It was from that ment. Upon his suggestion the policy of conduct- _^ tapers to one foot square 
service he derived the title of Colonel which has ing the war was changed, and a vigorous proseou- and to bring the grain 
clung to him through life. tion supplanted the “masterly inactivity” which within reach of the fowls 
In 1813, Col. Benton was appointed a Lieut, had previously been determined on. At one time J — — H. a cone, as shown at A in 
Colonel in the army, by President Madison, and the it was proposed by President Polk to confer upon \ ~- the annexed figure, is 
year following he was on his way to Canada to him the title of Lieut General, with full command \ I __ZL— placed in the centra of 
serve in the army, when he heard the news of of the war, in order that he might carry out his \ . : .:Msp . — / the floor, and should be 
peace, and resigned. About this time he removed conceptions in person. The project, however, was _ j& Sp's- i as much smaller than the 
to Missouri, and took up bis abode in St Louis in never consummated. The bill creating the rank funnel part of the hopper 
1815. Here he devoted himself to his profession, passed the House, bnt was defeated in the Senate. A - as to leave at least one 
In a brief period, however, he engaged in the poli- The acquisition of Mexican territory brought on inch space all around the cone which forces the 
tics of the day, and this led to the establishment of disputes concerning slavery, and the Compromises grain to the edge, where, as the fowls pick the 
the Missouri Argus. In this position he was in- of 1850,—which were opposed by Mr. B.,—adjusted grain away, more will fall, and keep a constant 
volved in many disputes and contentions, and the them. supply within reach of the fowls, as long as any is 
fatal result of one of them, we doubt not, was ever In 184G -47, the principles of “Nullification”— ’ left in tbe bo PP er - The 8 ' ata on the sides are in- 
after a thorn in his memory. His journal took a which it was supposed had been settled by the £Crowding^one^iotheT Thishopperwm 
strong and vigorous stand in favor of the admission Compromise of 1833,— again appeared in the Na- hold about two bushels of grain, and if the roof 
of Missouri, notwithstanding her slavery Constitu- tional Halls, and the struggle was renewed.— projected one foot all around it, it would protect it 
tion, and when the angry controversy was termi- Although representing a slave State, Col. Benton completely from rain. It occupies but little space, 
nated, he was rewarded for his labors by being did not, on account of the subject matter involved, and * r t °- m twelve to sixteen towl ‘ 4 can feed at the 
raised a regiment of volunteers. It was from that ment. Upon his suggestion the policy of conduct- 
service he derived the title of Colonel which has j ng the war was changed, and a vigorous proseou- 
clung to him through life. 
In 1813, Col. Benton was appointed a Lieut. 
tion supplanted the “masterly inactivity” which 
had previously been determined on. At one time 
Colonel in the army, by President Madison, and the it was proposed by President Polk to confer upon 
year following he was on his way to Canada to him the title of Lieut General, with full command 
serve in the army, when he heard the news of 0 f the war, in order that he might carry out his 
peace, and resigned. About this time he removed conceptions in person. The project, however, was 
to Missouri, and took up bis abode in St Louis in never consummated. The bill creating the rank 
1815. Here he devoted himself to his profession, passed the House, but was defeated in the Senate. 
wgl! 
chosen one of the first Senators from the new deviate from the positions he had maintained on There is only one objection to these hoppers 
State. It is from this period, 1820, that his politi- former occasions. At the earliest announcement and that is, they furnish a constant supply of food 
cal history and the great influence he has exerted of the new programme in the Senate of the United for tbe rats as web as tor tIie . fowls > an< l' this fact is 
upon public affairs may be said to date. States, he stood forth to the attack. It was the ? 00 1 n 1 ® a ™ ed b Y a11 tho ratHln * be neighborhood. 
.. . „ Indeed, they soon seem to think that the feeder is 
In the prime of life, possessing a commanding beginning of a warfare that was eventually to pros- constructed for their especial benefit, and look 
intellect, an assiduous student, industrious, tern- trate himself at home, and drive him from the seat upon the fowls as intruders, as they sometimes 
perate, resolute, and endowed with a wonderful he had so long filled in the Senate. February 19 drive them away. We now give a plan for a feed- 
memory, he was soon found in the front ranks of 1847, Mr. Calhoun introduced his celebrated reso j®fv ti';lips F f rl! m * t L e'V! r. e wbicb 
, •” , ,. . . , . , , . , , • is obtained trom the same source. First make a 
those who gave form to the councils of the Dation. lutions, which were immediately met and denounc. pi a t,f 0 rm three feet square; then take a square box 
Almost at the beginning of his career, Col. Benton ed by Col. B. They never came to a vote, but were of inch and a quarter plank, three inches high and 
became the exponent of Western interests, by de- sent to the Legislatures of every slave State, were sixteen inches square; nail this square in the 
voting himself to securing a reform in the land adopted by some, and became the basis of party aeatre °. f tbe platform; saw four strips one and a 
system of the General Government We have not conflict They were sent to his own, and were quartCr lnches 8quare f ° r the p08ts - vrhlch sb <>uld 
the space requisite to detail the measures he ad- passed in both Houses as grounds of instruction to A 
vocated, but the years 1824-26-28, found him the Senators at Washington. When received by 
earnest in endeavor, constantly doing battle for the Col. B. he denounced them as not expressive of the 
cause. The success which has already attended sense of the people, and as containing disunion 
land reform, the establishment of pre-emption, the doctrines, and announced that he would appeal — fUftMU'llliTlTT ^ 
gradation of price, the donations to works of pub- from the Legislature to the people, and imine- I I jj||| 1 j 
lie improvement, all trace their origin to his con- diately after the adjournment of Congress returned ^‘^ 1 LLHIHIII 
tinpous labors. A bill containing the features he to Missouri for that purpose. He began the can- ^^ < **<**. 
desired, was moved by him and renewed annually vass of the State, and prosecuted it in every section 
until it took hold upon the public mind. At first in a series of speeches, which for bitterness of de- 
his speeches attracted more attention throughout nunciation, strength of exposition, and caustic wit, B5| A 
the country than in Congress, for there his efforts have scarcely their equal in the English language. i f 
were counteracted by schemes for dividing the The battle over, — though the Legislature was .;~g .._ 
public lands or the proceeds of their sales among l ar g e ty Democratic, and the Bentonians possessed 
the States. His firmness and position in the Sen- the plurality— divisions prevailed, and Henry S. ”” 
ate as a supporter of the administration of Jackson, Geyer was chosen as Mr. Benton’s successor. stool feeding hotter. 
cave him creat weight with that nartv and he was In 1852 Mr. B. announced himself as a candidate be ab ° ut eighteen inches high; nail strips of p nk 
gave nim great wtignt witn mat panj, anu ne was . ,. , , ... (which are not seen in the figure) two inches wide 
thus enabled so far to impress his views upon the for Congress in the district in which he resided, tbe posts at topj to secure an d steady them; then 
President that they were embodied in one of his and was elected. Soon the repeal of the Missouri take common sawed lath, or thin strips of board 
messages, and from that date the ultimate triumph Compromise was mooted in the shape of the one and a half or two inches wide, and nail them 
of land reform became only a question of time. Kansas-Nebraska bill. Mr. Benton opposed this eachriltwhEhSlil 
In directing adventure to Western exploration, measure w ' th ab h ' 8 , fo ^ ce ’ but ^ a,ledto defeat its e P ahle the fowls to insert their heads to pick the 
Col. B. occupied much of his time, and no sooner p f 88a fL “ * B Tn W is^« f v,t te ^ Wh u I ?n a i C i?J grain * Th( ? roof lnay be formed four-square, like 
, didfttc for re-election. In 18«5(> he permitted his the PTi£fr<ivinff or it mav he mo.de Hot. or mtchinir 
had he taken a seat in the Senate than he made name to be used as a candidate for Governor, but on two^ides, fike the roof of a house, and should 
direct efforts to engage Congress and the public in Trusten Polk, his opponent, was chosen. After b e detached, so that it can be raised when required 
the great enterprise. He first elaborated the pro- defeat he devoted himself to literary pursuits, replenished with grain. 
STOOL FEEDING HOTTER. 
the great enterprise. He first elaborated the pro- " tlia ueieat ne uevotea nimsen to literary pursuits, ^, e replenished with grain, 
ject of overland connection, from the researches '! bich . be ,7 q a u- e f g v ged , e ^ en *° tb ® f hl f In order to mako u P roof a 8 ainst rats and mice, 
of Cr ark and Rogers and from the suvnestions of death * - 8 . qhirt y y ears View — a retrospect of wi n be necessary to elevate it at least three feet 
ot GLARE and ivOGEKh, and trom the suggestions ot the period during which he held a seat in the U. S. from the floor, if in a building, and this can be 
Jefi-er&on and tnc reports of trappers and voya- Senate— u A. Xteview of the Decision of the Supreme done by suspending it with wires at each corner, 
geurs. The route urged by him as preferable to Court in the Dred Scott Case,” and the “Abridge- an d attached to the timbers or rafters above. The 
all others, is through the passes of the Rocky roentof the Debates of Congress,” from the foun- wires being small and smooth, the rats and mice 
Mountains discovered bv Col Fremont known as datlon of tb ® Government to the present tune, were could not pass up or down on them. Ifitisneces- 
. ' 1 ’ • there no other mementoes of Ins career, would aary to place the feeding hopper in the yard, it may 
the Coochetope, and debouching upon California stamp him as no ordinary man. be laced on a post three feet high and fl rm i y get 
through gaps in the Sierra Nevada. Concerning his family matters we will but add in the ground, as shown in the engraving; th 
Nor was the career of Col. B. less remarkable that he was mairied after becoming Senator, to platform projecting so far from the post, it would 
upon the wide theatre of national politics. In the Kci^heth, daughter of CoL James McDowell, of be rather difficult for either rats or mice to climb 
^ . n •,i , T c . T> , Rockbridge county, Va, His surviving children up the post, and on the under side of the platform, 
currency disputes connected with the U. i. Bank, are f our daU ghters—Mrs. William Carey Jones, The fowls will soon learn to leap upon the plat- 
he addressed himself to a consideration of the Mrs. Ann Benton Fremont, Mrs. Sarah Benton form, and feed from the grain-box between the 
whole question of finance, circulating medium and Jacob, and Madame Susan Benton Boii.eau, now slats. From ten to fifteen fowls can feed at the 
exchange, and brought forward his proposition for a t Calcutta, wife of the French Consul-General.— same time. 
o ° a oii™,. it„„ Mrs. Benton died in 1854, having been struck with Any smart boy can make either of these hoppers; 
a gold and silver cunency. It was fiom this finan- paralysis ln 1834)and from the time 0 f that calamity and perhaps when they get to work, some of thise 
cial policy he obtained the soubriquet of “ Old Bui- her husband was never known to go to any place boys will make an improvement upon them. If 
lion.” The motion to strike from the journals of 1 of festivity or amusement. so. iust let the Young RuaALrsTsknow all about i 
be placed on a post three feet high, and firmly set 
so, just let the Younq RuaALisTskcow: 
