MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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Written for Moore’s Butral New-Yorker. 
CORRECTNESS. 
Among the many “ improved methods ” and 
modern theories of teaching, we may often 
find the great fundamental desideratum, cor¬ 
rectness, most lamentably overlooked. Elo¬ 
quent appeals ar e written and uttered to in¬ 
duce teachers to strew with flowers the toil¬ 
some ascent leading to the Temple of Learn¬ 
ing, and to assist the industrious little one by 
a variety of arts and stratagems. 
Although the great business of instruction 
cannot have too many helps and aids, yet the 
true discipline afforded by entire correctness 
must ever supersede the mere expediency of 
superficial acquisition. For example, the 
little child, who in his early home-training is 
not taught to think, is sent to school—a so- 
called good school, where he studies the ele¬ 
ments of science and gains the foundation of 
his education. He is a bright boy, and shows 
well for his teacher in a variety of answers, 
but upon close questioning he is found desti¬ 
tute of clear, definite and unmistakable ideas 
upon any subject—even his conception of the 
simplest things is vague and uncertain. lie 
has learned his lessons with only the necessa¬ 
ry thought to pass the recitation without se¬ 
rious blunders. He is sent to College, and 
passes on through life with the crowd, but his 
plans are indeterminate and unsettled,—his 
opinions wandering and superficial. He sees 
only by glimpses, and forms his judgments 
solely from surfaces. His opportunities have 
not returned their full equivalent—his useful¬ 
ness is limited by a want of strict discipline 
and correct thought and teaching in child¬ 
hood. 
We see another child with equal abilities, 
who is taught to feel constantly the use and 
importance of finished ideas,—of complete 
thoughts. His teacher is a correct and pro¬ 
found teacher, and a conscientious man. Each 
recitation betokens careful consideration and 
fall understanding, and thus is fixed the habit 
of correctness for life. This boy arrives at 
manhood with a vast storehouse of facts to 
aid him in any business for life. He has data 
to which he may refer,—he is a cultivated, 
systematized man, with intelligent and just 
opinions. He even seeks the truth, and its 
clear light is embodied in all his conduct and 
course. He may not display brilliant talent, 
but he is unwavering and independent. We 
can justly trace all thi3 to his instruction, and 
gain full evidence of its merit and desirable¬ 
ness. Perchance the teacher did this. How 
teeming a commentary upon some humble 
educator’s faithfulness and self-cultivation 1— 
How full a volume upon his untold responsi¬ 
bility and oft unfelt accountableness! Those 
elevated ideas and defined thoughts of which 
the youngest child is in a degree capable, can¬ 
not be imparted by an untaught, frivolous 
mind. 
How unspeakably essential, then, to employ 
educated and experienced teachers for our lit¬ 
tle children ! Far out in the wide country, 
where children are few and schools distant, we 
find often the homes of genius and the nurse¬ 
ries of talent and enterprize, but with a care¬ 
ful choice of teachers, who were themselves 
severely disciplined, how infinitely more abun¬ 
dant and effectual might they become ! Let 
our school houses be cheerful and inviting— 
let them be kept immaculately clean—let the 
innumerable details of unflinching military 
order be maintained—let every improvement 
of maps, slates, books and pictures be sought, 
but beyond and above all, may these be per¬ 
mitted to minister to absolute correctness of 
thought and feeling; then shall the true end 
of all instruction and education be secured. 
Teachers, heed well your own qualifications, 
—remember that the chrysalis committed to 
your care ought to become something more 
than a butterfly, or a heedless miller, to per¬ 
ish in the first attracting light. l. a. t. 
North Fairfield, O., 1855. 
ThbDarvel Calculating Girl. —The Ayr 
Advertiser has an account of a recent public 
examination at Leith of the little girl whose 
wonderful powers of calculation have attracted 
so much notice. The gentleman in charge of 
the child allowed any one present to propose 
questions to her. Among the queries thus 
submitted were :—How many times does a 
clock strike in the month of June? 4,680 
was the prompt reply; in the year 1855 ? 
56,940 ; in a life time of 75 years ? 4,270,500. 
She was now asked the value of 113 yards of 
linen at 2s. 9%d. per yard, and in 35 seconds 
she gave the answer, £44 0s. 3%d. Being 
requested to show the modus operandi, she be¬ 
gan aloud with 313% make 959, the 4’s in 
959, 234 times and % over, and so of all the 
other denominations. She was now asked to 
cube 795, and give the quotient of that pro¬ 
duct divided by 19. The product, 502,456,- 
875, and the quotient, 26,445,256 11T9, were 
both correctly given. In the performance of 
this last heavy question, her teacher begged to 
be allowed to give her the square upon the 
board to assist her memory. She did not 
avail herself of it. 
If ever I am an instructress, it will be to 
learn more than to teach.— Deluzy. 
THE WORLD’S PROGRESS. 
A correspondent of the Nashua (N. H.) 
Telegraph, in writing from Worcester con¬ 
cerning the Oread Institute, its studies, stu¬ 
dents, and examination, says : 
“ There was another remarkable feature to 
this examination. The young lady who re¬ 
ceived the highest honors, who passed the best 
examination, and who is regarded by her as¬ 
sociates as a wonder of intellectual cultivation, 
is Miss Rosalinda H. Palmer, a Nashua fac¬ 
tory girl; and who, on leaving her school, has 
again entered the mill to earn money for the 
support of her indigent parents and younger 
sisters. Think of that, ye animated bundles 
of ribbons and flounces, who are butterflying 
around the dry-goods stores, and nursing your 
white fingers upon some father’s purse or the 
hopes of some future husband! There is a 
plainly-dressed girl, now tending her loom on 
the Jackson Corporation, in the corner of 
whose brain all that you ever knew or read of 
might lie as insignificant and unnoticed as a 
private in the great army of Xerxes.” 
All right, except the claim of her being a 
Nashua girl. Miss Palmer now belongs in 
Worcester, has lived here several years, and 
will return here. She is one of the young la¬ 
dies who is placed against any three college 
graduates in New England, for examination 
in Rhetoric, Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics, the 
higher Mathematics, Natural and Physical 
Sciences, Languages, English Literature and 
History, by Mr. Eli Thayer, Principal of the 
Oread. We could spare a number of talented 
and accomplished young ladies if Nashua in¬ 
sists upon it, and have enough remaining for 
a sufficient reputation in this respect, but we 
are not willing to part with the credit of the 
residence of such as Miss Palmer.— Worcester 
JEgis. 
EDUCATION. 
Education should follow Nature and aid 
it. How does Nature proceed ? It acts 
slowly, and develops itself moderately in the 
different periods of the child’s age. Nothing 
forced ; nothing violent; nothing precipitant. 
Thus ought Education to be. The soul of 
the child is not an empty vase, which receives 
passively what is destined to fill it. It con¬ 
tains a fruitful germ, proper to be developed. 
It has in itself a force and energy to assimilate 
to itself the principles which come from with¬ 
out. It is by the exercise of the natural fac¬ 
ulties that they develop their highest degree of 
perfection. The mother commences the de¬ 
velopment. The father and the teacher con¬ 
tinue it. Social education finishes it. 
Physical nature reaches this end slowly but 
surely. It is not always so with the educa¬ 
tion of the child. Deplorable causes some¬ 
times interrupt it. But Education has, over 
Nature, this advantage ; that man is submit- 
ed to its influence at nearly every period of 
his life, when physical nature has finished its 
work upon the body at perhaps twenty years 
of age. But one capital point should never 
be lost sight of. It is this:—If a young man 
has been badly raised, he will not resist, after 
he has reached the age of a man, the trials of 
life. If his first education has not solidly 
formed his character, settled his heart, en¬ 
lightened his spirit, and his conscience, like 
furious tempests, these trials will overwhelm 
him.— Prof. J. B. Angeliz. 
The Teacher. —Not the -warrior, then, nor 
the statesman, nor yet the master-worker, as 
such, but the teacher, in our day, leads the 
vanguard of humanity; whether in the semi¬ 
nary or by the wayside, by uttered word or 
printed page. Our true king is not he who 
best directs the siege, or sets the squadrons in 
the field, or heads the charge; but he who can 
and will instruct and enlighten his fellows, so 
that at least some few of the generation of 
which he is a member, shall be wiser, purer, 
nobler, for his living among them, and prepare 
to carry forward the work, of which he was a 
humble instrument, to its far grander and 
loftier consummation. 
Far above the conqueror of kingdoms, the 
destroyer of hosts by the sword and the bay¬ 
onet, is he whose tearless victories redden no 
river and whiten no plain, but who leads the 
understanding a willing captive, and builds his 
empire*, not of the wrenched and bleeding frag¬ 
ments of subjugated nations, but on the realms 
of which he has discovered, and planted, and 
peopled with beneficent activity and enduring 
joy. —Horace Greeley. 
Teachers’ Daily Journals.— Every teach¬ 
er should keep a note-book or journal, upon 
which he may briefly enter such thoughts of 
value as are suggested to him by his daily ex¬ 
perience in the school-room. When the labors 
of the day are over, he may recur to and ex¬ 
pand these thoughts at his leisure. Those 
who are unaccustomed to this practice can 
scarcely estimate what they lose by neglecting 
it. There is a freshness and a practicalness 
in the ideas thus collected, which can never 
belong to any thought conceived or committed 
to paper in the privacy of the study. The 
daily experience of the school-room is the best 
of all teachers. Its suggestions are constant 
and of the greatest value, and those who are 
anxious to profit by them will adopt some ex¬ 
pedient in order to retain them for future re¬ 
flection at leisure.— N. Y. Teacher. 
Musical Education.— Music has been in¬ 
troduced into the course of studies at Har¬ 
vard. Mr. L. P. Homer, of Boston, appoint¬ 
ed Instructor. Dwight’s Journal says that 
the institution is not “ anything in the nature 
of a musical professorship.” 
A wealthy planter once said, “ I had rather 
be taxed for the poor boy's education, than for 
the poor man’s ignorance ; for one or the oth¬ 
er 1 am compelled to pay for.” 
The prosperity of man lies in this one word, 
“ education.” Convey humanity to this foun¬ 
tain of happiness and you bestow everything: 
all meanB of power and greatness.— Koslay. 
Jjtosmgs, 
SIC VITA—SUCH IS LIFE. 
It is curious and deeply interesting to ob- ^ ^ 
serve how much of the advance which man- 
kind has made in some of the most essential 
CLIMBING AFTER COCOAS. branches of material improvement has been SIC \ ITA—SUCH IS LIFE. 
x ,. .,, 71 ir cu. „ effected within the last quarter of a century; - 
In his ‘-Adventures on the Mosquito Shore, . , .. th han(i j n how manv ( i CDart . t At the East end of this aisle-church of st. Mary 
M- Bard wives interesting descrintions of & J ’ a°u he ° • 8 f u- ’ 1D ° Overy, London-stands a monument, a portion of whose 
mr. .bard gives interesting descriptions or men ts human intelligence reached its culmi- inscription consists ot the first verse of the following 
various tropical trees and fruits. He thus nating point ages ago. It is not likely that beautiful poem which is thought, and with much prob- 
illustrates and describes the manner m which the world will ever see a more perfect poet Mary o, :ery _ ^ Taylor, p. 99. 
his Indian boy, Antonto, procured a supply than Homer, a grander statesman than Leri- Like to the damask rose you see, 
nf ronna.mifa • cles, a sublimer or more comprehensive phi- or the blossom on the tree. 
of cocoa-nuts : 
losopher than Plato, a sculptor equal to 
Phidias, a painter superior to Raphael. Cer¬ 
tain it is, that the lapse of twenty or five-and- 
twenty centuries has given birth to none who 
have surpassed them, and to few who have ap¬ 
proached them. In the fine arts and in spec¬ 
ulative thought, our remotest ancestors are 
still our masters. In science and its applica¬ 
tions the order of precedence is reversed, and 
our own age has been more prolific and amaz¬ 
ing than the aggregate of all the ages which 
have gone before us. Take two points only, 
the most obvious and the most signal—loco¬ 
motion and the transmission of intelligence. 
At the earliest period of authentic history 
men traveled as fast as in the year 1830.— 
Nimrod got over the ground at the rate of 
ten or twelve miles an hour; Napoleon could 
go no faster. Between 1830 and 1840, we 
raised the maximum of speed from tea miles 
to seventy. 
The first six thousand years did nothing, or 
next to nothing—the next six years did every¬ 
thing; reached the limits of possible achieve¬ 
ment in this direction ; for no one imagines 
that any greater 3peed is attainable or would 
be bearable. Again : it is probable that 
Abraham sent messages to Lot just as rapid¬ 
ly as Frederick the Great or George III. 
transmitted orders to their Generals and Ad¬ 
mirals. In 1794, the old wooden telegraph 
was invented, and made a certain though a 
partial and slight advance. But, with this 
exception, the rate at which intelligence could RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANHOOD. 
be conveyed had remained stationary at that _ 
of ordinary locomotion on horseback up to The responsibilities of men in public sta- 
1840. In 1840 we communicated at the ve- ,. o „ . , , 
locity of twelve miles an hour. In 1850 we *‘ ons “ f eT8I J e rade ar8 far , mor8 
communicated over immeasurable distances in ^ an are accustomed to feel. Aside from 
inappreciably infinitesimal subdivisions of the direct consequences of their acts, there are 
time. The experiment was made, and a mes- other and indirect results vastly greater in 
_ sage was transmitted from Belgrade to Liver- good or evil influences upon mankind. The 
To obtain the cocoa-nuts, which otherwise ^°cj' tho 3oil3 f ermine *“ 
could only have been got at by cutting down p ar i 3 . Here, too, at a single leap, we have deci310n > not only wrongs the individual 
and destroying the trees, Antonio prepared to reached the ne plus ultra of earthly possibili- against whom that decision is made, but he 
climb after them. He had brought a kind of ty. In ten years—nay, in five—we have inflicts also an irreparable injury by the moral 
sack of coarse netting, which he tied about cleared the vast space between the speed of a influence such an act has upon the communi- 
his neck. He next cut a long section of one horse and the speed of lightning.— North Am. t He brings the immutable principles of 
of the numerous tough vines which abound m Review. / ®. . , . , , y 
the tropics, with which he commenced braid- truth and justice into contempu and reproach, 
Like to the damask rose you see, 
Or like the blossom on the tree, 
Or like the dainty flower of May, 
Or like the morning of the day, 
Or like the sun, or like the shade, 
Or like the gourd which Jonah had ; 
Even so is man, whose thread is spun. 
Drawn out and cut, and so i3 done ! 
The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, 
The flower fades, the morning hasteth. 
The sun sets, the shadow flies, 
The gourd consumes, the man—he dies. 
Like to the grass that’s newly sprung, 
Or like the tale that’s just begun, 
Or like the bird that’s here to-day. 
Or like the pearled dew of May, 
Or like an hour, or like a span, 
Or like the singing of a swan; 
E’en such i3 man, who lives by breath ; 
Is here, i3 there; in life, in death ; 
The grass decays, the tale doth end, 
The bird is flown ; the dews ascend, 
The hour is short, the Span not long, 
The swan's near death ! man's life is done 
I,ike to a bubble on a brook. 
Or—in a mirror—like a look, 
Or like a shuttle in the hand, 
Or like a writing on the sand. 
Or hke a thought, or like a dream, 
Or like the gliding of a stream ; 
E’en such is man, whose life is breath. 
Is here, is there; in life, in death ! 
The bubble’3 burst; the look’s forgot; 
The shuttle’s flung ; the writing’s blot : 
The thought is pass’d ; the dream is gone ; 
The water glides—man’3 life is done ! 
ing a large hoop around one of the trees. Af¬ 
ter this was done, he slipped it over his head 
and down to his waist, gave it a few trials of 
strength, and then began his ascent, literally 
walking up the tree. It was a curious feat, 
and worth a description. Leaning back in 
this hoop, he planted his feet firmly against the 
trunk, clinging to which, first with one hand, 
and then with the other, he worked up the 
oittlis (Lontcr. 
For Moore’s Rural Uaw-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ACROSTICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 32 letters. 
truth and justice into contempt and reproach, 
and levels a deadly shaft against the throne of 
the Most High. The Legislator who lends 
his voice and vote to the passage of an un¬ 
righteous law, is guilty of moral treason to 
the State, and aid 3 in sapping the foundations 
of the government under which he lives.— 
While that government is pure, while all its 
acts and resolutions are adopted with an eye 
hoop, taking a step with every upward move- My 1, 5,15, 2,12, 26, 6,18 is a county in Ohio. gin „ le to the o 00 d of the race it ig the 
_XT _KiL ir -i A ctn O ni I ~ J ~ ir.’ L.’ ° ° 7 jT 
ment. Nothing loth to exhibit his skill, in a My 2, 14, 26, 8 , 21 is do. in Michigan, 
minute he was sixty feet from the ground, My 3, 6 , 17, 18, 26, 27, 6 , 7,12,1, 29 i 
leaning back securely in his hoop, and filling j^- ew York. 
leaning back securely m ms noop, ana miing j^ ew York. 
his sack with the nuts. This done, be swung M 4 6 17 2 4 , 17,12, 31, 21, 23 is do. inN.Y. 
his load over his shoulders, grasped the treem My 5> 31? 2 23 is do in New York. 
his arms, let the hoop fall, and slid rapidly to - ’ 1 ’ ’ 0 ' 0f . -7 j ' w Y 
the ground. The fho’.e occupied less time “r 6 , !*- J°- f . lsdo “ 1 ' J 
than I have consumed in writing an account *’- v 14, 11, 13, 1. is do. mV Y. 
0 j •(. My 8 , 9, 10, 17, 12, 11 is do in Michigan. 
- My 9, 8 , 21, 10, 12, 31, 21 is do. in New York. 
REMARKABLE OAK TREE AT BRIGHTON. My 10, 5, 9, 18, 19, 23, 27 is do. in New York. 
The Commissioners appointed by the Leg- 2 ^’ 26 ’ -d ' 2 ~’ 5s c '°' 
islature in 1837, under the administration of in * orK - 
Gov. Everett, to make a zoological and botan- My 12, 26, 22, 31, 8 , 11 is do. in Michigan. 
' _ “ . sentative of the Deity on earth ; and he who 
,i, -, , - is o. in antonly, and for a private advantage, does 
1 21 °3 is do inN Y an ything to bring it down from the lofty po- 
Npw YotTv ' sition it occupies, is guilty of an enormous 
ical survey of Massachusetts, found the largest My 13, 24. 31, 22, 12, 10, 5 is do. in Ohio, 
and oldest white oak tree of their survey at My 14, 26, 14, 26, 1, 12. 10, 12 is do. in N.l\ 
Brighton. The survey was completed in nine My 15, 21, 29, 5, 7, 7, 5 is do. in Ohio, 
years : the result published in a thick octavo My 16, 8 , 30, 10, 12 is do. in New Y'ork. 
volume, drawn up with great care and fidelity My i 7) ^ 3 ^ 32 , 8 , 11, 27, 31 is do. in N. Y. 
by George B. Emerson, Esq., the Chairman, M 18? 12? 22) 03 , 26 is do. in N. Y. 
and a copy of the same was sent to every town ^ - 109-1 01 1 9 22 ^4 10 21 is do in N Y 
in the Commonwealth for preservation. As fp • ’ vZ vLi 
the great tree referred to has just been cut c ■' 1 J°Z 
down, having decayed beyond the hope of re- 8,1 ’ A ' 18 8 °; ln 
covery, we give here the description of its My 22, 24, 11, 13, 3^, 8 , 26, 4 is do. in N. Y. 
enormous size and great age, from the pen of My 23, 21, 16, 30, 9 is do. in Michigan. 
Mr. Emerson, one of the Commissioners. My 24, 31, 12, 9, 10, 18 is do. in New l T ork. 
“ The picturesque ruin of a white oak is My 25, 5, 8 , 6 , 5 is do. in Kentucky, 
standing in Brighton, where Nonamtum street My 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 is do. in N. Y. 
crosses Washington street. At the surface of My 27, 1, 10, 21, 31 is do. in Hlinois. 
the ground it measures, this first of October, My 28> 5j 3> 7) 6) 17> 3j 7j 5 is do . in y. Y. 
1845, twenty-five feet and nine inches in cir- My 9 ^ 21 , 2 2, 27, 19 is do. in New York. 
cumference ; at three feet, it is twenty-two feet 
four inches ; at six feet, fifteen feet two inches. 
It tapers gradually to the height of about 
twenty-five feet, where the stump of its ancient My 32, 8, 9, 10, 4 is do. m New York, 
top is visible, below which point four or five My whole is a kind of map of the 
pretty large branches are thrown out, which New Y'ork. J. u 
rise twenty or thirty feet higher. Below, the Rochester, x. Y. 
places of many former limbs are covered over giT Answer next week. 
by immense gnarled and bossed protuberances. -- 
The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large Por Moor «’ 9 R nr » l New - York9r - 
opening on the south-west, through which ARITHMETICAL QUESTION, 
boys and men may easily enter. It had prob¬ 
ably passed its prime, centuries before the first 
to attain a greater length than the twelve Greek and Eastern churches, 60,000,000, and 
thousandth part of an inch. In a cubic inch p ro testants, 90,000,000. 
of a certain kind of mold, consisting entirely _ 
of animalculae, more than 41,000,000 distinct Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 292: 
beings were estimated by Ehrenburg to exist; £ w 
a fact which, when taken in connection with J * 
others of the same nature, renders it highly Answer to Mathematical Problem in No. 292: 
probable that the living beings of the micro- 18 days. 
scopic world surpass iu number those which ~ ' * " ’\ m , 
are visible to the naked eye. Patiencb is the key ot content. 
Answer to Mathematical Problem in No.292: 
My 7, 14, 11, 13, 32, 8 , 9, 19 is do. in N. Y'. The speaker who utters an unrighteous 
My 8 , 9, 10, 17, 12, 11 is do in Michigan. sentiment, and the writer who pens an immor- 
My 9, 8 , 21, 10, 12, 31, 21 is do. in New York, al paragraph, scatters with a malignant hand 
My 10, 5, 9, 18, 19, 23, 27 is do. in New York, firebrands, arrows, and death. The orator of 
My 11, 24, 26, 20, 10, 14, 11, 27, 31, 29 is do. public occasions, and the writer for the pub- 
in New York. . ... lie press, have need of special grace and wis¬ 
ely 12, 26, 22, 31, 8 , 11 is do. in Michigan. dom f rom 0Q high, in order to give publicity 
2 ^’ 22, if 2 ’^ Z f‘°' to ideas that shall elevate and not degrade— 
90 ’ 26 ’ 7 1 ’ 1 t 10 A 12 . 1S ^ : mN,Y ‘ that shall lift the souls of their fellow men 
My lo, 21, 29, 0 , 7, 7, 0 is ao. m Ohio. . . v , , ... „ , . , . , . 
Mv 16, 8 , 30, 10, 12 is do. in New York. mto the h S at of trath aQ<3 righteousness,;and 
My 17, 5, 81, 32, 8 , 11 , 27, 31 is do. in N. Y. Eot ? lun g e tliem into the P i1; of des P air - 
My 18, 12, 22, 26, 26 is do. in N. Y. But aside from all the responsibilities in- 
Mv 19, 21, 31, 12, 22, 24,10, 21 is do. in N.Y'. cumbent upon us as public men, there are in- 
My 20. 2, 14, 10, 21 is do. in New York. finitely greater ones resting upon us as private 
My 21, 31, 27, 26, 21, 6 is do. in Michigan. individuals. In our domestic and social rela- 
My 22, 24, 11, 13, 82, S, 26, 4 is do. in N. Y. ti ons> w ho can estimate the amount of good 
My 23, 21, 16, 30, 9 is do. in Michigan. or ev q consequences that flowfrom our exam- 
My 24, 31, 12, 9, 10, 18is do. in New Yoik. pjgg aQ j conduct? No man can avoid, if he 
My S: 27, S 28,' m“sm“ S^Udfln X. Y. d f ^ «• “ ““ sha f* 
My 27, 1 , 10 , 21 , 31 is do. in Illinois. of P nTate Ilfe - the comfort of *S ai P arents ’ 
My 28, 5 , 3 , 7, 6 , 17, 5 , 3 , 7, 5 is do. in N. Y. the sta 7 and 3u PP ort of the ^^hold, the 
My 29, 21, 22, 27, 19 is do. in New Y’ork. educator and exemplar of childhood, the asso- 
My 30, 22, 19, 23, 10, 30 is do. in New York, ciate of equals. 
My 31, 8 , 6 , 17, 11, 14, 9, 1 is do. in N. Y'. Observe that young man just entering up- 
twenty-five feet, where the stump of its ancient My 32, 8 , 9, 10, 4 is do. in New York. on the threshhold of manhood. His parents 
top is visible, below which point four or five My whole is a kind of map of the State of ^ ye t j n the vigor of life, and need no sup- 
pretty large branches are thrown out, which New York. j. m. m c. Qr j. f rom him ; hi 3 vows are not as yet con- 
rise twenty or thirty teet higher. Below, the Rochester, x. \. secrated at the matrimonial altar; and not 
places of many former limbs are covered over fiA? Answer next week. ,, , . , ... 
by immense gnarled and bossed protuberances. -—» - even yo QD ger brothers and sisters are living 
The trunk is hollow at the base, with a large Por Moor *’ 9 B nr »i New-Yorker. to receive good or evil impulses from his ex¬ 
opening on the south-west, through which ARITHMETICAL QUESTION. ample. Has he no responsibilities even then 
boys and men may easily enter. It had prob- ~ resting upon him ? Is there no intimate 
fthlv nacqp,j its Drime centuries before the first A merchant bought a number of yards Oi . , , • ,, , • 
arny passea us prime, ceumncs ueiui-e uic ursL : , companion and equal, with a heart impressi- 
Ensrlish voice was heard on the shores of cloth for 60 per cent, of its real value, and . , - , . , r , 
Massachusetts Bay. It is still clad with sold it at a loss of 20 pet cent. He receiyed ble wlth S ood or eyl1 from hls exan T Ie ’ “ d » 
abundant foliage ; and, if respected as its ven- $200.20 less than its real value. What did souI Hiat will be led up to the lofty temple of 
erable age deserves, it may stand an object of h e receive ? honor and greatness or depressed to a level 
admiration for centuries to come. Answer next week. with the fiends ? Will any one say even this 
77 TT" " ,, .----youth has not responsibilities sufficient to 
all liytag crcatnns. swarms by myriads in a T “* lat88t estimates of the population of mate a strong man tremble ? Whereyer we 
drop of water ; for it has been computed that the world make it eleven^ hundred and fifty are, in whatsoever position we maybe placed, 
within this small space no less than 500,000,- millions, viz., Pagans, 676,000,000; Christ- however isolated from the strife and turmoil 
000 could be comprised ; and this calculation ians, 322,000,000 ; Mohamedans, 140,000,000, 0 f active life, there still follows and rests up- 
is not to be regarded as unworthy of confi- and Jews, 14,000,000. Of Christians, the on us a weight of responsibility, both public 
dence inasmuch as the monad is never found church of Rome numbers 170,000,000. the and iyate that each and every one of us 
to attain a preater length than the twelve non nno owwi r J 
Patiexcb is the key of content. 
must fearfully answer for at the last day. 
Truth is an inexhaustible fountain, from 
which nobody knows how tnueh he draws.— 
Koslay. 
Woe to him who smiles not over a cradle, 
ani weeps not over a tomb.— Deluzy. 
