MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER] AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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IE ACHE RS’ INSTITUTE. 
The County Clerk of Monroe county has 
published a notice pursuant to the law of 1847, 
calling a Teachers’ Institute, to be held in 
thi3 city commencing on the 15th of October 
next. A committee has been appointed as 
directed by law, consisting of our City Super¬ 
intendent, R. D. Jones, Russell C. Bates, of 
Parma, and E, L. Mason, of Penfield, under 
whose management the institute will be held. 
It is expected there will be a session of two 
weeks, and that competent lecturers and able 
instructors will be in attendance to make the 
institute both interesting and profitable. 
This is the first Institute held in Monree 
county under the law, and efforts will be put 
forth to render it a paying institution, so far 
as mental discipline and the advancement of 
educational interests are concerned. 
Written for Moore’s Rnral New Yorker. 
TEACHER’S TRIALS. 
The day has gone finely. Lessons all 
prompt and well learned, and the teacher who 
has been striving to make an impression, feels 
that this day is not lost. What an irrepara 
ble lo3S, when we suffer our time to pass 
away unimproved. Lost time—it will dis¬ 
turb the reveries of the evening of life—it will 
alfect our happiness through all the period of 
the soul’s existence. But one day has turned 
to some account, and the teacher go83 home 
with a glad heart. Ah, the true teacher la¬ 
bors for something more enduring than 
money. lie labors to make an impression — 
an impression for good. And such impres¬ 
sions are lasting monuments to his industry 
and perseverance. 
There may be those who think merely of 
the pay ; who toil from morn till night—no, 
not from morn till night, but through the 
whole space of “ school hours,” because they 
get money for it. There may be such — but 
of such is not the true teacher. The teacher’s 
business is to guide in the development of 
mind—to nourish and strengthen the youthful 
intellect with wholesome and nutritious ali¬ 
ment. Unless he is successful iu this object, 
the money he gets for teaching seems far les 3 
valuable. 
The first and not the least trial of the 
teacher, is a consciousness that he cannot 
fully reach the consummation of hi3 wishes. 
The plans he has laid for the improvement of 
his pupils, are frustrated. Those lessons 
which he deems the most profitable and inter¬ 
esting to his scholars, are either very imper¬ 
fectly learned, or else there is an uncommon 
apathy in his clas3, which destroys all the fair 
hopes he has placed upon the result of his fa¬ 
vorite lesson. 
Then he i3 tried, and then he endeavors to 
devise some other means for the improvement 
of his pupils. Sometimes he thinks of an in¬ 
structive and profitable lesson, upon some 
general subject, and Iose3 no time in commu¬ 
nicating it to his school. This seems to fall 
like seed upon barren soil. Then his ambi¬ 
tion is cooled, and he regrets that he has again 
failed iu his attempts to make an impression. 
But these are unavoidable trials, I suppose— 
they can only be softened, and not completely 
avoided. You may see their traces upon the 
teacher’s brow—and they leave inroads upon 
his heart. But to day things have gone on 
swimmingly. Scholars are all wide awake, 
and eager to catch the words of instruction as 
they flow from the teacher‘s lips. No drones 
to-day — all have done their proper share of 
work. As the teacher shuts the door, aud 
turns the key, he thinks the school-room 
much pleasanter than when he stood in the 
same place last night. He congratulates 
himself upon the probability of suiting every¬ 
body in his labors to-day. 
But who is that coming, with hurried step, 
away in the distance? Some friend, no 
doubt, to take him by the hand, and congrat¬ 
ulate him upon the success that has attended 
his labors one day. It must be some counte¬ 
nance radiant with smiles and sunshine, for 
no other messenger could greet him in this 
hour. 
Reader, did you ever “ teach school ?” Did 
you like your business ? Did you make it all 
sunshine ? Or did the “ shady side” frequent¬ 
ly throw its somber hues over your spirit? 
Did you ever occupy exactly the place of the 
teacher above described ? Then you have 
been hurled precipitately from your fancied 
eminence of success, down amid the dark wa¬ 
ters of uncertainty. 
How short-lived is human bliss, and espe¬ 
cially how exceedingly volative is the bliss 
of school-teaching. To-day there is light, to¬ 
morrow there is darkness. But perhaps I am 
drawing a false picture. Berhaps some can 
“ spin an even thread.” If there are such, 
they may be regarded as very fortunate ex¬ 
ceptions to the general rule. 
By this time the stranger in the distance 
has approached so near as to render it quite 
certain that he cannot be more than a “ friend I 
in disguise.” The teacher’s hand trembles 
upon the gate, while his eye3 turn in the di¬ 
rection of the man, now come within speak¬ 
ing distance. It is Mr. Jones, who lives off 
in one corner of the district, and has aa amaz¬ 
ing smart boy whom the teacher whipped 
yesterday for fighting. Mr. J ones accosts 
the teacher in rough, unfriendly terms, and 
tells him, with a s’gaificiint cant of his head, 
that he must never do the like again, unless 
he is prepared for a “ drubbieg” himself. His 
boy is not one of the fighting kind, and never 
troubles another boy unless he is first intru¬ 
ded upon. Toen he has taught him not to 
bear an insult, without resenting it. Won¬ 
derful boy—how very soon he will be a rnan. 
Most parents have very smart children nowa¬ 
days, but somehow or other there are dull 
men and women. 
Mr. Jones does not wait to say “ good 
night,” but hurries off, leaving the teacher to 
his own somber reflections. But there is, 
after all, a consciousness in hia heart, that he 
has not transcended the proper limits of duty. 
This gives him back partially the quiet and 
comfort with which he closed the labors of 
the day. 
Just as he i3 seated by his own peaceful 
fireside, (do not startle, dear reader, at the 
strange and perhaps new development, that 
teachers have peaceful firesides,) Mrs. Talker 
comes in, and wants to know why Jane was 
kept after school last night? “ Now Jane 
is a good girl, and never needs any correction 
at home. She says she got her lesson as well 
as any scholar iu school. I wish you to un¬ 
derstand, sir, that I want my girl hereafter 
when school is out.” 
The teacher’s dignity takes a sudden fall, 
and by the time the supper is announced, he 
is quite “ off the hooks,” and can’t eat — has 
a nervous headache, and retire3, hoping for 
better things to-morrow. Did they come ?— 
We shall see. J. W. Barker. 
Niagara Falls, N. Y., 1355. 
INSANE MANIFESTATIONS. 
Among other employments and diversions, 
by which the minds of the lunatics in onr 
State Asylum at Utica are kept in activity, 
and gradually led back in many instances to 
a normal tone, i9 the editing and publishing 
of a periodical. This literary production of 
insane men contains many good, and not a 
few amusing articles, among which, in the last 
number, is the following hit at our teachers, 
a delegation of whom visited the institution 
during the sitting of the late Convention at 
Utica : 
“ We had the pleasure of seeing several 
large companies of the Teachers as they were 
conducted through our halls by the Superin¬ 
tendent and Assistant Physicians, and were, 
we confess, agreeably <3 Lap pointed in their 
appearance. The fancy that the “ school 
marms” of our younger days were to be re¬ 
produced in each female of our teacher visit¬ 
ors was soon dissipated. Instead of the lank 
visage, reflecting in its numberless wrinkles 
every trace of anguish which the well-used, 
bony fingers had pinched, slapped, snapped 
and thumped into the countenances of vicious 
juveniles ; instead of the prudish concealment 
of charms long faded, under slatternly garb; 
of skinny arms prone to threatening positions; 
of voices pitched only at scolding key, and 
sharped—instead of all these, we saw smooth 
and rosy cheeks, plump arms and snowy 
necks, voices of music and movements of 
grace. 
After visiting several of our halls, they 
were conducted along the air walk, towards 
the immense fan which effects the ventilation 
of the building. Along this dark Cave of 
the Winds, from which Hvolus breathed the 
more tempestuously as they advanced, groped 
our visitors. And here, we suppose, as though 
they were not the belongings of grave educa¬ 
tors, hats and bonnets were blown off and 
trampled, while other bonnets were crushed 
agaiust other hats in their search; and, with 
a strange constancy of accident, quite pecu¬ 
liar to the place, were continually coming in 
contact with each other throughout the pas¬ 
sage.” _____ 
Michigan Agricultural Collrgf.— The 
affairs of this new State Institution are mak¬ 
ing progress, and much enthusiasm is begin¬ 
ning to prevail throughout the State in re¬ 
gard to it. It will be a strictly manual labor 
school, each pupil, if iu health, being required 
to labor at least three hours a day. A tine 
farm of 673 acres, embracing almost every va¬ 
riety of soil and timber, has been purchased at 
the price of $15 per acre. It is located three 
miles east of the State Capitol at Lansing.— 
The Board of Education meet early in Sep¬ 
tember inst., to consider plans for buildings, 
Ac.— Michigan Jour, of Education. 
“ I was Mistaken.” —A lively writer has 
said : “ ‘ 1 was mistaken’ are the three hard¬ 
est words to pronounce in the English lan¬ 
guage.” Yet it seems but acknowledging 
that we are wiser than we were before, to see 
our error, and humbler than we were before, 
to own it. But so it is ; and Goldsmith ob¬ 
serves that Frederick the Great did himself 
more honor by his letter to the Senate, stating 
that he had just lost a great battle by his own 
fault, thau by all the victories he had won — 
Perhaps our greatest perfection here is not to 
escape imperfections, but to see aud acknowl¬ 
edge, and lament and correct them.— Jay. i 
The name of the architect who buil Is most 
of the castles of the air is “ To-morrow,” and 
Hope lays the foundation. 
Sk 
THE WALRUS, OR MORSE. 
The Walrus, or Morse, is an amph bious 
animal inhabiting the Polar Seas. It is called 
by various names, such as sea horse, sea cow, 
sea elephant, &c , all of which a-e misnomers, 
as it resembles none of those auima's in any 
particu'ar, except the elephant, iu so much as 
two tusks protruding do vnward from the up¬ 
per jaw form such a resemblance. It ba3 no 
legs like a land animal, but is furnished with 
limbs and feet before, and flippers like a seal 
behind ; its body is long and tapering, thick¬ 
est towards the Deck ; the whole body is cloth¬ 
ed wi'h a short hair ; the toes, and the hands, 
or feet, are covered with a membrane, and 
terminated by short and sharp pointed claws. 
On each side of the month are large bristles 
in the form of whiskers ; its tongue is hol¬ 
lowed, the concha of the ears are wanting, 
Ac.; so that, excepting the two great tusks, 
and the cutting teeth, which it is deficient in 
above and below, the walrus in every other 
particular perfectly resembles the seal; it is 
only much larger aud stronger, being com¬ 
monly from twelve to sixteen feet in length, 
with a proportionable girth — whereas the 
largest seals are no more than seven or eight 
feet. The walrus, also, is generally seen to 
frequent the same places as the sea’s are 
known to reside in, and are almost always 
AGE-BRIEFLY CONSIDERED. 
— 
But few men d'e of old age. Almost all 
die of disappointment, passional, mental or 
bodily toil or accident. The passions kill 
men sometimes even suddenly. The common : 
expression, “ choked with passion,” has little 
exaggeration in it; for even though not sud¬ 
denly fatal, strorg passions shorten life.— : 
Strocg bodied men often die young—weak 
men live longer thau the strong, for tkestnmg 
use their strength, and the weak have none to 
use. The latter take care of themselves, the 
former do not. As it is with body, so it is 
with mind and temper. The strong are apt 
to break down, or, like the candle, to run ; 
the weak burn out. The inferior animals, 
which live, in general, regular and temperate 
lives, have generally the r prescribed term of 
years. The horse lives tweney-five years ; j 
the ox fifteen to twenty; the lion about 
twenty ; the dog ten to twelve; the rabbit 
eight; the guinea-pig six to seven years.— 
These numbers all bear a similar proportion to 
the time the animal takes to attain its full size. 
"NYhen the cartilaginous parts of the bone 
become ossified, ihe bones ceases to grow.— j 
This takes place in man at about twenty 
years on the average ; in the camel at eight,! 
in the horse at five ; in the ox at four ; iu the 
lion at four ; in the dog at two ; in the cat at 
eighteen months ; in the rabbit at twelve ; in 
the guinea pig at seven. Five or six times 
these numbers give the term of life; five is 
pretty near the average ; some anima's great¬ 
ly exceed it. But man, of all the animals, is . 
the one that seldom comes up to his average. 
He ought to live a hundred years, according 
to his physiological law, for five times twenty 
are a hundred ; but instead of that, he scarce 
ly reaches on the average four times his grow¬ 
ing period ; whilst the dog reaches six times; 
the cat six times ; and the rabbit even eight 
times the standard of measurement. The 
reason is obvious—man is not only the most 
irregular aud the most intemperate, but the 
most laborious and hard worked of all ani¬ 
mals. He is also the most irritable of all an- ] 
imals ; and there is reison to believe, though 
we cannot tell what an animal secretly feels, 
that more than any other animal man cher¬ 
ishes wrath to keep it warm, and consumes 
himself with the fire of his own secret reflec¬ 
tions .—Blackwood s Magazine. 
The Lost Planet. —Probably the most 
valuable astronomical paper read before the 
American Scientific Association, at its late 
session, was that of Professor Alexander, on 
the lest planet between Mars and Jupiter.— 
He pretends to have discovered its form, orbit, 
and conditions. It was, he says, a disk—not 
a globe, like the other placets—beiDg only 
eight mile3 from pole to pole, while its equa¬ 
torial diameter was seventy thousand miles, 
or nearly nine times as large as that of the 
earth. Rolling through space with a rapidity 
hardly excelled by any other of the planetary 
bodies, this thin slice of a planet could not 
long hold together. It burst and split into 
fragments, some of which—thirty U n num¬ 
ber—we have discovered, and christened by ■ 
various heathen names. If Prof. Alexander’s 
discovery be confirmed by the ca’dilations of 
other astronomers, his scientific rank is safe, j 
found together. They have the same habi. 
tudes in every respect, excepting that there 
are fewer varieties of the morse than of the 
sea 1 ; they likewise are more attached to one 
particular climate, and are rarely found ex¬ 
cept in the northern seas. 
They were 'ormerly very abundant in the 
northern seas and oceans, but have been hunt¬ 
ed so perstverirgly for their ivory and oil as 
to have been entirely exterminated from many 
localities, and greatly reduced in numbers ev¬ 
erywhere. Captain Cook saw a herd of them 
floating on an i:e island off the northern 
coasts of the American continent. “They 
lie,” says he, “in herds of many hundreds,up 
on the ice, huddling over one another like 
swine ; and roar or bray so loud, that in the 
night, or in foggy weather, they gave U 3 no¬ 
tice of the vicinity of the ice before we could 
see it. NYe never fou- d the whole herd 
asleep, some bring always oa the watch.— 
These, at the appr ;a.h of ihe boat, would 
wake those next to them, and the alarm being 
thus gradually c .mm iaieated, the who'e herd 
would be a -va ed BT they were seld m in 
a hurry to get away, till after they had been 
once fired at. They then would tumb’e over 
one another into the sea, in the utmost con¬ 
fusion.” 
Eating.— The younger a man is the more 
he may eat at a time, and the less frequently. 
Cornaro ate twice a day in youth; iu old age 
four times. This is wise; there is labor in di¬ 
gestion. Old age ; s exhausted with lull meals ; 
they are excessive labor and exercise. To eat 
as the birds eat, little and often, is best for 
very young and old people; they are both 
weak in digestion. But a certain regularity 
is suitable tor man ; he is constitutionally fit¬ 
ted for it. Even birds take a rest, and chil¬ 
dren go to sleep in the day time. Man makes 
a compromise, and establishes a system of 
routire which serves the same purpose. The 
quantity is not alone to be considered, bat the 
mode and the time of taking if.— Blackwood's 
Magazine. 
Coxcord, N. H., is about to have a free 
library, the city government having passed 
au ordinance providing for its establishment 
and maintainance. It is thought the natives 
of Concord who reside in Boston will con¬ 
tribute as much as $2,000 towards the good 
work, and intimations have been received of 
assistance from other quarters. 
For Moore’s Raral New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 23 letters. 
My 1, 25, 6, 4 is a county in Illinois. 
My 16, 15, 2, 9, 5, 13 is the name of a county 
and lake in New A'oik. 
My 5, 22, 13, 19, 9 is a county in Michigan. 
My 12, 13, 23, 11, 2, 13 is the name of a town 
in Northern Illinois. 
My 10, 21, 14, 13 is a river emptying into the 
gulf of California. 
My 1, 13, 25, 28, 13, 16 is a river emptying 
into the Missouri. 
My 17, 7, 13, 25, 5, 26 is a cape in South 
America. 
My 3, 19, 8, 15, 13, 2, 2S is a county in N. A'. 
My 18, 2, 27, 6, 25 is a county in Southern 
Illinois. 
My whole is the name of a flourishing Col¬ 
lege, and its location. G. w. 
Ontario, HI., July, 1S55. 
Answer next week. 
Fei- tha Raral New-Yorker. 
MATHEMATICAL QUESTION. 
A. and B. together own 120 sheep. A. gives 
half of his sheep to B , and then B.’s number 
is to A.’s as 8 is to 44 5. Again B. gives one- 
third of his whole number to A., and then 
A.’s sheep is to B.’s sheep as 6 is to 4 2-7.— 
Now how many had each before the first 
change, after the first change, and after the 
second change ? d. m p. 
Union, Munroe Co , N. Y. 
JIT Ans wer next week. 
Answer to Philosophical Enigma in No. 298: 
Prepare for winter ere it comes. 
Thb following baa iiiful poem is said to have been writ 
ten by King James I., though by some it is ascribed to 
Bishop Andrews : 
If any b9 distressed, and fain would gather 
Some comfort, let him haste unto 
Our Father, 
For we of hope and help are quite hereaven 
Except thou succor us 
Who art in Heaven. 
Thou showe3t mercy, therefore for the same 
We praise, Thee singing 
Hallowed be Thy name. 
Of all our miseries cast up the sum. 
Show us Thy joys, and let 
Thy kingdom come. 
We mortal are, and alter lrom our birth, 
Thou constant art, 
Thy will be done on earth. 
Thou mad’st the earth, as wed as planet 3 seven, 
Thy name is blessed here 
As ’tis in Heaven. 
Nothing we have to use, or debts to pay, 
Except thou give it us ; 
Give us this day 
Wherewith to clothe us, wherewith to be fed, 
For without Thee we want 
Our daily bread. 
We want, but want no faults, for no day passes 
But we do sic— 
Forgive us our trespasses. 
No msn from sinning ever free did live, 
Forgive us, Lord, our sins 
As we forgive. 
If we repent our faults, Taou ne’er disdainest; 
We parcon them 
That trespass against us; 
Forgive that is past, a new path tread us 
Direct us always in Thy faith, 
And lead us— 
We, Thine own people and Thy chosen nation, 
Into alt truth, but 
Not into temptation. 
Thou that of all good graces art the giver, 
Suffer us not to wander, 
Bat deliver us 
From the fierce assaults of world and devil, 
And flesh, so shalt Thou free us 
From all evil. 
To these petitions let both church and laymen, 
With one consent of heart and voice, say 
Amen. 
NATURE’S LESSONS OF RELIGION. 
The Mowing, by J. G. Whittier, is in¬ 
stinct with lessons of Religion, apparent to 
every eye in Nature’s scenery, and audible to 
every reader: 
There is a religion in everything around us; 
a calm and holy religion in the uabreathing 
thipgs of nature, which man would do well to 
imitate. It i3 a meek and blessed influence, 
stealing, as it were, unawares upon the heart. 
It comes—it has no terror, or gloom in its ap¬ 
proaches. It has nothing to rouse up the 
passions ; it is untrammeied by the creed and 
unshadowed by the superstitions of men. It 
is fresh from the hands of the Author, and 
glowing from the immediate presence of the 
great spirit which pervades and quickens it. 
it is written oa the arched sky. It looks out 
from every star; it is among the hills and val¬ 
leys of the earth, where the shrubless moun¬ 
tain top pierces the thin atmosphere of eter¬ 
nal winter, or where the mighty forest fluctu¬ 
ates before the strong winds with its dark 
waves of green foliage. It is spread out like 
a legible language upon the broad bosom of 
the unsleeping ocean. It is this that uplifts 
the spirits wiihin us, until it is tall enough to 
overlook the shadows of our place of proba¬ 
tion ; which breaks link after link the chain 
that binds us to mortality, and which opens 
to the imagination a world of spiritual beau¬ 
ty and holiness. 
THE HRICE OF SUCCESS. 
Effort is the price of success in every de¬ 
department of human action. From the at¬ 
tainment of rudimental knowledge to the sal¬ 
vation of the soul, every step in our progress 
is made by undaunted toil. The boy drones 
over his book, a slave to listless laziness, 
thereby securing for himself a place at the foot 
ot society. The Christian who, like Bunyan’s 
Timorous and Mistrust, flees at the voice of 
lions, is undone. The man who shrinks from 
difficulty in his business or profession, who 
refuses to climb because the rock is sharp and 
the way steep, must ma'ie up his mind to 
slide back and to lie in the shadows below, 
while others use him as a stepping stone to 
their own rising. For this, such is the con¬ 
stitution of society, there is no help. The 
poet wrote truly who said— 
“Thou must either soar or stcop, 
Fall or triumph, stand or droop : 
Thou must ekher serve or govern ; 
Must be slave or must be sovereign ; 
Must, in fine, be block or wedge, 
Must be anvil or be sledge.” 
To shake off an indolent spirit, or stir one’s 
self to exertion, to reach constantly upwards, 
to struggle for a firm foothold on the most 
slippery places, to wrestle manfully, even when 
principalities and powers are our foes, to re¬ 
fuse submission to any evils, however frown¬ 
ing, are conditions we must either fulfill, or 
sink to littlenesss, to uselessness—perchance to 
ruin. Therefore, with a brave heart and an 
unconquerable spirit, every man should ad¬ 
dress himself to the work of the day ; striving 
with pure views and religious trust for an in¬ 
crease of his talent, and for a victory, which 
will enable him to stand unabashed in the last 
day. He who thus strives need fear no fail¬ 
ure. His triumph, though delayed for a time, 
shall come at last. 
Trere is nothing substantial and satisfac¬ 
tory but the supreme good ; in it the deeper 
we go, and the more largely we drink, the 
better and happier we are ; whereas, in out¬ 
ward acquirements, if we could attain to the 
summit and perfection of them, the very pos¬ 
session aud enjoyment palls. 
