MAY 8. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MmM #Ik 
- _ be pursued, to some extent, in connection, by the 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. * igher classes in Common schools. It cannot he —■ 
r’r’rjT ()C Tf • a T r ri vt rr> aenied that Geography at present occupies a very For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
U /U< insignificant place in the education of youth. The COMPARISON OF THE TEMPERATURE OF 
H. A. WARD m Russia. impression seems to be that the mastery of this WINTER FOR 21 YEARS. 
In my last I spoke of the curvilinear line de- eSbe'tco^Hshrdt ;! 1118 “"T* ?!!“* BT 
scribed by the Gulf of Finland, Lakes Ladoga and Ia a acC 0 “P llshe i d by tbe intellect 
Onega, &c, which I suppose to have been a Russo- Too «°l T *? “ ^ ^ yGar3 ° f SCb ° 01 Hfe * 80 mnCh has been 8aid of the warmth of last 
Finland Sea, and whfch separates the Plutonit ^ lgly ’ at an a f "hen the memory is weak, winter, and of course, of the great dilference be- 
rocks of Finland from the Neptunean of Russia.- h f amount of ^formation contained in tween it and preceding years, that I have drawn up 
It was the line of a deep fissure or rent in the solid ordlnary text-book of Geography is.poured the following tabular view. It enables each to 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
COMPARISON OF THE TEMPERATURE OF 
WINTER FOR 21 YEARS. 
BY PROF. C. DEWET. 
enables us to discover this design in everything the nostrils and ears. This they repeat until the 
la we can dissecW-in all living creatures and necessary doso has been taken, 
tne parts thereof, to millions upon millions always Used in anv of the three wuua •* 
tending to life and happiness. Who can examine sensible effects 7 mentioned, ita 
of 6 Se law^h °r ° l thG P ° Wer ° f thG Creat0r ’ aUd C ° nrae ’ With * be TnantUytak^n, w^tlTconsUtif 
of the law which rules over his work, and not feel tion of the taker, and with the frequency of it 
-=r“ ng, “ “ l! '“ r,8 *“ E “ el “ ? ” «*»«•' and rriZ“.cti„ B „f 
— Spectator. 
SILVER AND ITS USES. 
the drug is upon the nervous system. 
When taken in a moderate dose, the usual results 
of this action are, that the mind is exhilarated, the 
ideas flew more quickly, and a pleasurable or com- 
-—.vwuwtiuu uumaiucu in «uu years, taat l nave drawn nn m . , . ***« picaouiuuie 
an ordinary text-book of Geography is.poured the following tabular 'view. It enables each to mendLhithT's'T 8 ! 8 ’ 0 ^ fre( l nent fortable condition of the whole system is 
rocks occur in many places, from the island of pi18 scb ° o1 career - The consequence is, that, while tinned to March 1858. Under each month is the metals, because thev found t •* i, 
Hochland around to the very borders of the White i* 03 * 30110013 boast their prodigies of mathematical coldest temperature and the mean heat of the rusted - moreover thev could n t r ^ 
"«» Which they haveVpearedl 'S “ 8 ” d <• >0 he month fonha, winter. Appended are f„„r coln m „. J2J” they’ 
quantity, and have so exerted metamorphic action t Z' JU.'" ” of “? ooL A tesoher lately f»r‘Re number of times below cypher at any or ail brighter. Allusion is made to this fL in the 
on the sedimentary strata with which they have “ th .f a clasa of seven or eight of his ° f the three hours of observation, 7 a. k., 2 p. it, Book of Job, to illustrate the triumph of a good 
come in contact, as to render them wholly unre- G8t pu P lls ’ alL ^ e P m the study of Algebra, not and 9 p - M - The mark - before the figure for the heart over misfortune. g 
cognizable. But other strata regain or rathpr ° ne W8S able t0 tel1 in wbat States tb e cities of temperature means below zero. • , , . " _ , 
have not lost, their normal character!, far to tl„ Cinchmatl New Orleans are; or, p.o Js,. r.a - land "L“. °j S',™ 14 “f"*' 
South, so that it is evident that these, the lowest of rSV “sT? ITT "HT "“=2"^ e.rfy ehel'al 
Feb. I Marcil i 
, -- mcoc, UlC lUWUBt UI it • „ . 
Russian Sedimentary rocks, are of the age of the thl p s ^“ a fair s P eci menof their general igno- 
Lower Silurian. Of these I make a few remarks, ianceof F ,eo g ra phy. It is the experience of most 
because the chief part of the rocks of your State persons that > ofteD > in their reading, they come 
belong to the Silurian formation, or like those on U . P ° n name ; 3 of towns > islands, rivers, &c., the loca- 
which the Silures dwelt in England tl0n ° f wbicb tbe Y are able only to guess at; and 
been established, viz:.the Ze uJ ^the UnmiL i ° thl 88 P ecie8 of ka <>- 1 ^ 8 e must 
Grit, Orthocralite Limestone or SeTa, and theC ^d StoTe P !^ 
tamerus Limestone. The last is the uppermost or t caQ L _\ ? g ° neml readlDg - 
newest. The lowermost stratum, or Green Clay f U ■ “ k f U0 greater benefit an institution 
has been pierced at Revel, in Esthonia, 200 feet ° earning can bestoff on its pupils by way of 
without reaching the bottom of it. In this layer I menta en l ar gement than an acquaintance with the 
believe, Mr. Pandit, a Geologist of St. Petersburg 8abjects embraced under the head of Political 
aver igS- 4 A* 1 - 7 ] -818.4 029.0 
lg 36-7 3 28.2 -4 21.2 -126.2 2 30 7 
37- 8 lll.'iO.O 6131.6 lllfi 4 -3 36 3 
38- 9 122.7 -126.1 0,27*6 1 34*0 
314-0 2128.2 -3 19.5 3 32.2 12 34*1 
«H1 2^25.6 -3 27.9 0 24 3 -3 28*9! 
,8g0.g 8 29.6 7 31.0 10 39.*8 
Itu 4' !I - 6 - 313 - 1 ® 23.3 
4*2.3 -1120.9 -2 28.6 14 34.4 
ure and profit to be derived from general reading. 
I can think of no greater benefit an institution 
of learning can bestow on its pupils by way of 
mental enlargement than an acquaintance with the 
subjects embraced under the head of Political 
44- 5 2)29.9 0 28.1 3 28.1 12 38 4 
!> 6 23.8 4 27.. r ) -1 22.8 4 3-1 8 
14129.4 4 24.6 0 25.3 11 28*4 
47- 48 1W28.4 -2 30.7 6 28.5 6 32*2 
48- 19 12 34.4 -9 23 1 -7 22 1 12 34*6 
- 2 28.1 12 29.3 4 28.*1 14 36.*6 
18 ?, r', ife- 6 - f, “’ 7 - 3 2 31.5 1786.8 
«*i2 -6 23.7 8 20.7 6 27.0 10 31 9 
®2-53 16 34.3 0 25.3 9 31.6 7 33 9 
53-54 8 27.3 1 25.9 ! 6 24 1 1633*2 
-6 24.7 3 27.6 -2017.8 3 30*2 
65- 56 6 29.3 -816.51-8 17 9 -6 24 2 
66- 67 -2 24.0 -16 14.9 4 3316 130*0 
57-58 lt> .33.3 13 31.8 -220.9 031*9 
__ Silver is found in all parts of the world, and Eng- 
Number of times bo- lan f yield3 lts share - Bishop VTatson, one of our 
^ * cr <>- earl Y chemical writers, says that the silver which 
Dec.jJan.iFeb. March was P rocuie< l from the mines iu Cardiganshire by 
l ~ yir IIu &b Middleton, amounting to £ 2,000 value per 
•• * 3 month, enabled him to construct that valuable 
:: *5 :: .; work which we call the New River, for the purpose 
;; 3 ;; •{ of supplying a portion of London with water. The 
.j •• Bishop also mentions that a mint was established 
*i .. .*; at Aberystwith for coining silver. In the English 
;; j -j • j mines this metal is found mixed with lead, from 
-j •• •• which it is separated by a very simple process, in- 
.. i 5 " vented by Mr. Pattison, of Newcastle. The mixed 
*2 *i ;; ;; metal is melted in an iron pot, and is then allowed 
3 .. .: :: tocool. The silver “sots” before the lead, and is 
.. .! .! I! tben separated by simply straining it through a 
1 •; t colander. 
..473 
.! ” *i ;; Silver can be beaten out into leaves so thin that 
one grain of it can be made to cover a surface of 
more than fifty square inches. Wire also can be 
COMMON WHITE POPPY. 
Dr. Madden describes his sensations when under 
believe, Mr. Pandf, a Geologist of St. Petersburg «"»'™ced under the head of Politicl ~ 2f «L 03 i£ - -J 2 
has discovered, during the last year, the ecale^of ®' , l onol * ly - eAvoeatee ° f mathematical dieei- “X£ 2 T- 5 «l M »•» | more S M,^.a U ,^Tn h w” 0 'V ' ! „ iff 
of Brachiopode, first discovered in Ra^Tbnt •» * ^ -Pr«»n,.,ive began to be quite dry, and indeed a drourh bad oonnou wry, yorny. 
since found in England, In 1854, Erenbero dis- f’. C ! V ein . men as a personal interest and responsi- 8 I )reiU ( >'ei the land, not in much severity, because it may be well to mention them oji ,? Ua 1 * C f’ Dr. Madden describes his sensations when under 
covered in this rock or sands of this Grit, definite blh * 7 m understanding questions of currency, so “ uc]l ' vater entered the earth in the winter were, a determination to exist in’,! m ' bas ’ as lfc the influence of the drug in ono of the coffee- 
remains of Foramenifera, a class of animals never reveaae ’ taxatlon > foreign policy, military defense, months, and in the first half of March, that the than in the metallic state in whi h ° ^ f °« m house3 at Constantinople:—“ I commenced with 
before found in strata older than the Upper Juras- and th ° °, ther iQtere3t3 trusted to the 3p ” ng3 ^ not destitute. see and ^* n J hl ^ one grain. In the course of an hour and a half it 
sic, until Murchison and De Terneuil discovered gove ™m e nt; and how will oue more successfully » m obvious from the table, that from 1841 to and overcome its “nobiUtv ” vet it i! ° ? pi ' odu ced no perceptible effect. The coffee-house 
them in the Russian Carboniferous system, and , . C ° un atl0n suc b knowledge than by ’ ’ ie co d > ex cept in two instances, was not assume its natural state that 3 80 P^one o k ee per was very anxious to give me an additional 
some American Geologists in the Ohio Carbonife- stud y ing 30 “ e standard work ou Political Econo- rauch beW c YP h er; that from 1854 to 1857 was a restore it to its pristine’ t it^? T pil1 oftwo g raia s. but I was conteuted with half a 
rous. One cannot fail to reflect on the dangerous f 7 ’ und f r tbe instruction °f a teacher competent severe period; and that the winter of 1858 was rel- chemistry shows its great m/" 1 18 bere that one; and iu another half hour, feeling nothing of 
speculation about the frst advent of animals, espe- t0 ® xpl f in , obscure P oints? The P p osent time is ativ , el y warm , like many of those preceding 1854 peculiar property of a mateHai t! „ P g a the expected reverie, I took half a grain more, 
cially very small ones, in the Sedimentary series, P artlcularl Y favorable for the introduction of this back to 1840. Of the 23 winters, the cold of seven arts and manufactures. So wp ^ ^ making in all two grains in the course of two hours. 
speculation about the frst advent of animals, espe- t0 8xplain , obscure Points? The present time is a Ovely warm, like many of those preceding 1854 peculiar property of a . sapling a the expected reverie, I took half a grain more, 
cially very small ones, in the Sedimentary series, partlcularl Y favorable for the introduction of this back to 1840. Of the 23 winters, the cold of seven arts and manufactures So we SP *°+w making in all two grains in the course of two hours, 
and also on the extensive diffusion of the same 8Cien ? e in to the schools, since the great dividing hft si been but once in each below cypher, and that the main instrument in the photooraru: “. '"Sn After two boU1 ' 3 and a bulf from the first doso, my 
fossils in the same rocks, in Europe and in the 'B^mn of Protection or Free Trade is completely m five the temperature did not fall to cypher. In ver is dissolved some salt is added Ln l/v f-I’ 8pirite became sensibly excited; tho pleasure of 
United States. 8 nck ® n oat of part J politics; and “ Smith’s 1830 the thermometer fell to eight below, and not and the result is that vour shadow n ^1 ^ the 3enf) ation seemed to depend on a universal ex- 
Passing the next, I remark on the Upper, or Pen- ^ ealth of Nations” may he suggested as the most a g a, nfii(l it fall so low till 1849. It is also apparent iblyprinted. The poets mav well lil-en pausion of mind and matter. My faculties appeared 
tamerus Limestone. It is characterized by Pen- f° rtunate text-book to adopt, as both schools of Po- tb at the warmth of the last winter was not greater rivers t» “silver threads covering thr ° ° W i 1Hg en,ar g ed ; everything I looked at seemed increased 
tamerus oblongus (and P. lands also says Lyell,) llllcal Ec °nomy claim to take their doctrines fram that “ an that of severa ' w b i(; b preceded it before 1854. of the earth-” but such tvnes »! !!! ! VC in TOlume ' 1 made my way home as fast as possi- 
the former shell (as well as the latter) abounding in work ' Th en, the way in which, under the manage- lhe . c ° ld of Decem ber has twice in 23 years ex- comparethem with the painting Jr lirf ble, dreading at every step that I should commit 
the Clinton Group of the New York Geological ment of a ca P able teacher, lessons in Geography ceeded that of 18 57 a little; and the heat of Janu- by a sunbeam on a fabric imhnpd uritv ’I’™ UCC<1 80me extravagance. In walking, I was hardlysen- 
Survey, reckoned by Lyell in the Middle Silurian, and Pohtical Economy might be made to lend in- ary ,ias not been quite so great as in the last . . . v tn silver. sible of my feet touching the ground; it seemed 
and by Murchison in the Lower Silurian series. terest to each otber > the latter affording theory and Januar Y- but the last February was four degrees , „ caret “!' 7 the good housewife marks as if I slid along the street impelled hv somo in- 
and by Murchison in the Lower Silurian series. ’ terest to each other . the latter affording theory and January > but the la3t February was four degrees hpr f. aiD ’, 1earcbllI Y the good housewife marks as if I slid along the street impelled by somo in- 
Some change of level appears to have placed tho tbe ^ ormer furnishing illustration, can be easily below the mean for 23 years, while that of March f . B k ie we vnows how it is thus preserved visible agent, and that my blood was composed of 
districts, of which I have been speaking above the imagiaed - As the student learned the situation e( l ualed the mean.' Gold as the mean of last Feb- fat .. perhaps 18 not aware of the some ethereal fluid, which rendered my body 
reach of the sea, which left extensive Upper Silu- and reaourcesof acountry, its progress in Agricul- ruar Y ^s, only once was the cold below zero, and 1 p ndel " ble ink w nothing more than lighter than air. I got to bed the moment I 
rian deposits in the Isles of Dago, Oesel, and Goth- ture and the Mechanic Arts, the extent of its com- on { on tbree ot h er da Y 8 did it come down near , ° a 1V ® ceat piece, for which she reached home. The most extraordinary visions of 
land. The strata in Esthonia and at St Petersburgh merce > th e educational state of its people, the con- t 0 r!? at ? 01n \ , . takes !!! cents * S ° i metlme8 a little fa n g us delight filled my brain all night In the morning 
dip slightly to the south and south-east. The Pen- ditions on wbich l aad is held there, Ac., Ac., I>o- , , ^°J e tabl ® ha9 been pre P ap ed with much J 3 " p *“ abode on the human skin; it grows I rose palo and dispirited; my head ached; my 
tamerus Limestone, separated in the United States litical Economy would teach him to find in the , rbe peault to wh ich it conducts is the uni- f 3 . but does not cause much pain; never- body was so debilitated that I was obliged to ro- 
by several distinct groups from the Devonian or institutions of that country the causes of its greater Jfv 6 awS of dl3tr >bution of heat and " 18 30 insidiousthat if not carefully main on the sofa all day, dearly paying for my first 
“ - - uurn tuo YUUIiill OT -ILrt KlUciU3r 1 i mi- • - _y - ■» u 11 i „ . J aiampiax uu lijlo ouut au uay. 
Old Red Sandstone, is here directly overlaid by the or lesa udvancement from poverty and weakness to cald * dhere 18 a mean temperature, on both sides ed it would destroy life. The doctor comes, essay at opium-eating.” 
Devonian System, wealth and nnwAr. of which there is a considerable, but not PYt^naivA rubs ^ over a little caustic, and health i« 
Written for Moore's Rural I^ew-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHY.—POLITICAL ECONOMY. 
Turning over the leaves of an old Geography 
the other day, and noticing the picture of a cara- 
THE POPPY-OPIUM. 
Devonian System. wealth and power. A of which there is a considerable, but not extensive ruDS u ° p er Wlth a little caustic, and health is These after-effects are the source of the misery 
--- south Livonia, N. T., 1858. ‘ range - Summer, and even spring, does not occur re3tored - ^ you ask what this caustic is called, of the opium-eater. The exciting influence of the 
Written for Moore's Rural New-York M ---~- m winte ^ Yet . there is a common error in the the an8 ' ver 18 “ nitra te of sUver.’’-S eptimus Piesse. drug is almost invariably followed by a correspond- 
GEOGRAPHY.-POLITICAL ECONOMY “ MORE HASTE LESS SPEED. ” community that the season is an extreme in some ing depression. The susceptibility to external im- 
•- ' -- respect, and that there never was such weather, or SSW) ^ i pressions, and the muscular energy are both lesa 
Turning over the leaves of an old Geography Ret * Db * DETrEY > recently delivered a lecture in 8U ., a 8ea8on in one ’ 3 3ection of country. The PmUR sBMltMllSL ened * A de3ir0 for re P 03e en3ues . and a tendency 
the other day, and noticing the picture of a cara- ^ a ^ tiinore > on “Slowness as a Law of Progress,” in , * e 8bo . W8 ’ and more extensive and wide-spread ^ to sleep. The mouth and throat also become dry; 
van moving across a plain, the camels laden with w bich he had some very just things. One of these 0 bservatd °n 8 show also, that hotter and colder, - the thirst is increased; hunger diminishes; and the 
merchandise to be carried to another part of the ^ a3 a fair bit atthe impaiience of delay, so common dr * er and more wet, changes follow each other not THE POPPY.—OPIUM. bowels usually become torpid. 
country in which it was produced, and, most likely * n ° Ur day ’ aa man ^ ested iu the popular processes regtdar or fluBe equable cycles, but in consecu- -- Coleridge was for many years a slave to opium, 
destined finally to a foreign market, I could not ° f education - He said the same speed was exbib- tive recurrence within g ivea periods, and that an t Thb use of the common white poppy ( Papaver but after a terrible struggle in which he suffered 
help contrasting the feelings with which one reads it€d witb cbil dren in the schools, and they were extpenie one or more seasons is followed by a hiomeniferum) as a soother of pain and a giver of untold agonies, he succeeded in conquering the 
of the agricultural, mechanical, commercial and pre3sed beyond reason. It has become a rivalry variation in the opposite. sleep, has been familiar from the earliest periods, habit which had nigh proved his ruin. While en- 
other customs of different nations in youth, when between teachers, which could instruct the chil- 0n tbis P rinci P le Climatology is founded. These Pei *baps no preparation from the vegetable world g a S ed in the desperate effort it was suggested that 
he looks at them only in a geographical relation dren tbe most ra P idl Y> and they were “put through” cbanges bave been regularly recorded long enough ha3 been m . ore beneficial, and more sadly abused be should enter a lunatic asylum, and of this, and 
and those he experiences in later years when they — tbat was tbe term —Virgil and Euclid; but he t0 * e . ad t0 an a PP roximati on to some general con- tban tbe dl ie d juice of the poppy head, known as his feelings, he thus wrote, in a letter to a friend, 
claim his interest as studies in Political Economy dou bted if either Yirgil or Euclid was put through c ^ U3 ^ on3 ’ and one i3 tbe relative stability of the cli- tbe dru g. Opium. For some of the facts in relation How extreme his own misery and sense of impo- 
The romance that youthful eyes see in the mode of tbem * mate a given section of country. An accumu- to U3e > we are ind(J hted to Johnston's Chemistry fence, when he could write of himself:—“ There is 
conveying goods on the backs of camels_a ro- To say that he “doubted” was a very modest way lati on of regular observations will place this part of Common Life. In Eastern countries the poppy no hope. O God, how willingly would I place my- 
mance heightened by a knowledge of the wonder- of ex P r esssing the truth. Every one who has ° f pbysical geography on such scientific basis as 18 used to make an exhilarating drink. Tho Tar- self under Dr. Fox in his establishment; for my 
ful capabilities of that animal, its peculiar aidapta- given attention to the subject knows that, in this tbe sub J ect wil1 admi <» The existence of many tars of tbe Caucasus, who, though professedly case is a species of madness, only that it is a de- 
tion to the hardships and privations of desert countr Y> the cases of thorough learning are rare 3 U PP 03ed causes for the moderate weather of the Hahomedans, drink wine publicly, make it very ningement, an utter impotence of the volition, and 
travel, its power of enduring fatigue and of pass- ex c e Pti°D 8 , white shallowness and smattering are last winter is absurd. To notice only one of them, beady and inebriating, by hanging the unripe not of the intellectual faculties. You bid me rouse 
ing days without water—disappears before a view the general rule * The main point with teacher and viz *’ that tbe Gulf Streara has approached nearer to beads of P°PP ie s in the casks while the fermenta- myself. Go bid a man, paralytic in both anas, to 
of the economical condition of the people whom pupil is to get on —no matter how, but only to get 0Ur Atlantic shore: what then has made the win- tion ia going on * A decoction of poppies, also rub tbe m briskly together, and they will cure him. 
necessity compels to use such means of transport on * Even wben the teacher is aware of the value ter warmer oa our Pacific shore also? It is as called koke ' r,iaar > is sold in the coffee-houses of the <Ala s!’ be would reply, ‘that I cannot move my 
instead of the quicker, cheaper, and easier com- of delay ’ not onIy in securing accuracy, but even at P robable that the man in the moon has shaken out Per3iai1 citie s, where it is drunk scalding hot, and arma i3 m y complaint and my misery.’ ” And 
mercial methods of cultivated nations. the best means to speed in the end, he is overruled the hot 881188 of his pipe towards North America P roduces amusing effects. As it begins to operate, evea grater misery he paints in another letter 
Again, the school-boy’s imagination glows over b Y the urgency of addle-pated parents, who cannot to moderate the cold. c . D> the drinkers quarrel with and abuse each other, written in the same year. “Conceive a poor, miser- 
pictures of the wildness and freedom of savage 8ee why their children should not be “ put through” I{ochester > A P ril 5 . 1858 - but without coming to blows; and afterwards, as able wretch, who for many years has been attempt- 
life. Ashe reads of Indians living in wigwams as many books as those of their neighbors are — Note.—S ince the above was in written the drouth its effect increases, make peace again. One utters ing to beat off pain, by a constant recurrence to a 
and subsisting by the delightful arts of hunting Christian Intelligencer. ' has been removed by copious rains over the coun- highflown compliments, and another tells stories; vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell 
and fishing, paddling their canoes up and down -___ try, reaching us on the 12th and 13th of April. but a11 are extre mely ridiculous both in their words employed iu tracing out for others the road to that 
and subsisting by the delightful arts of hunting Christian Intelligencer. 
and fishing, paddling their canoes up and down --►*-*--- 
fctreams and along the coasts of lakes and seas, Public Schools in Philadelphia.— It appears 
se dweilers m the forest seem to him the happi- Bom the Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Phila- 
■ d people and their life one long holiday. So, delphia Public Schools that at the commencement 
ol V n Ti TL°i^ e g ! orious fun t0 be ^joyed if of the present year, three hundred and six schools 
y, reaching us on the 12th and 13th of April. but 8,11 are extl *emely ridiculous both in their words employed in tracing out for others the road to that 
-—— __ and actions. _ heaven from which his crimes exclude him! In 
REVELATIONS OF THE MICROSCOPE. But it is the dried or concrete juice of the poppy short, conceive whatever is most wretched, help- 
- head that is generally and extensively employed less ’ and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a 
One of the most beautiful works which have as a narcotie indulgence, and in this condition it noti on of my state as it is possible for a good man 
one could be wrapped in warm furs and glide over wer ® under the care of the Comotrolle™- witi lately been Published, is a series of photographs is known as opium. This important drug is oh- have *” 
the ice in a sledge drawn by reindeer, like the for- nine hundred and fifty-five teachers—sevent m fr ° m ° bjeCt3 magnified in the microscope. The tained by making incisions into the capsules or Wil not the young learn from this terrible exam- 
tunate Laplander; or, seated in a sleigh behind a males and eight hundred and seventy seven f P 6 i last number is devoted to the bee, whose stings ex- seed-vessels ofthe poppy plant when they are nearly P Ie °f °»e of the most gifted sons of genius, never 
fane team of dogs, share the excitements of winter There were 29,650 boys, and 27 871 eirls orWW cel . the lancet in the elaboration, care and finish ripe, allowing the milky juice which exudes to to form habits that may, in the end, prove their ruin. 
travel with the/avored inhabitant of Kamtcshatha, in all, receiving instruction at these schools ' ’ ~ of lts manufacture; whose hairy tongue is a living thicken upon the capsules for twenty-four hours, --^' < * 
give that restless, heated little individual iu the The eross exDendit.,™ i 1Q hair glove, most elaborately designed to collect and then scraping it off. The incisions are made Indelicate Words,—T o the young I would say, 
school-house a high opinion of the advantages against an nntia e in 18d7 had been 5184,625, the materials for honey; and whose powerful wing downwards, through the outer skin only. never use unbecoming words or indelicate Ian- 
possessed by those far-off races. Afewyears later, in 1855. The interest uvoT $ 5 f’ 78 ! If “ mecbanical contrivance of the most As a narcotic indulgence, opium is used in one g ’ ia f* ?? 8 b ° t 7 S a peryerted mind ’ and does not 
“; nd “ led with grand images of national paid for school houses T ¥ ^ ^ one °i may or other of three ways. It is swallowed in the solid 3 P p ak well of he company you keep Indelieate 
those f prosperity ’ be tarE3 for a moment to annual expense per pupi for su^rent ^ 6 thG b6G ha3 tw ° WlngS 011 each side - state in the form of pills; or in that of fluid tine- WOrd3 ° irend tbe ear + ° f “° desty ’ and , make your 
those barbarous people, and sees only the sad limi- also paid per pupil $5 !6 tor ^ 2 T f T ^ &Te At tbe edge of one wing runs a stiff nerve which tures, such as our common laudanum; or it is an ofrence to aR good people * A va,n 
teUonsof their lot; their few resources of living, seventy-four 06 ^^^ ^ 111 tha mmroscupe is a bar. Along this bar at fre- smoked in minute pipes, after the manner of tobac- a “ d ^gar young man is loathed and abhorred by 
of 6 fh bablllty to famine and disease, the insecurity nine cents for incidentok 8emi * circular barbed co. The first practice prevails in Mahomedan a11 - although or he sake of h,s fnends, he may 1 * 
of their lives and of the little property they possess of each pupil including f eXPGD3e hooks ’ llke tbe half of a rin g , so placed that the countries, especially in Turkey and Persia- the 30 ™times tolerated by decent and respectable so- 
mmo thG geUG1 ' al *4^88 5 S8.55 pe/annir ^% Is y t g Tse withia tbe -mi-circles second among Chnin nations" when iniividuals A !° id the ‘ a11 a11 faiat f°* 
unprovemenL But, perhaps, no one thing so con- we find 56,546 pupils n ^^ ^ ^ PG1 ' mitS tt to bappeQ become addicted to the practice; the 81 °“ t0 + ? at > 3 unbecoming and improper; unless 
th 5„ C0 rf the wonder and admiration of uneta^d^o^the^^SiSS^ play freely as the rings of a window curtain move third in China and in the islands ofthe Indian you do ^ Y°u never will be respected. Never 
*»-«»ass: ^'*»* — -£»• s. _ 
sees tn u ,° n; WhilG m ° dern p °hGcal Economy _. ' P * JJesign 13 a . human word implying in its very half to three-fourths of the whole weight They 
national'defer! 7 & dUm * y &Ild expensive mea us of Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct imperfection ’ yet U is the only term then evaporate the dissolved extract to dryness, 
national defense. opinions. The want t ml , which we can apply to the purpose which runs and make it into little pills. One of these they put 
ance association of the sciences of opinions of little value. m ° S pC ° P 08 t rough formations like that of the bee’s wing.— into a short tiny pipe, inhale a few puffs at a time, 
It is the microscope with its minute search that or one single long puff, and return the smoke thro’ 
,11 your friends should hear. 
“ Indecent words allow of no defence, 
For want of decency i» want of gense." 
Paris, Stark Co., Ohio. S. C. Roach. 
The apprehension of evil is many times worse 
than the evil itself; and the ills a man fears he 
shall suffer, he suffers iu the very fear of them. 
