“ How is it that prestige is now so often printed 
in Italics, na if it were a French word, and pro¬ 
nounced presteezh, with the accent on the second 
syllable? Prestige is a legitimate English word, 
formed in the same manner from the Latin as r es- 
tige, and pronounced so as to rhyme with it. It is 
a common affection to oall a singer an artiste, as 
if using the French orthography made a difference 
in the thing. If a singer be an artist, call him so 
boldly in. English; if he be not, cull him a per¬ 
former, a vocalist. The phrase en route, I see, lias 
lately come much into use in the newspapers, in¬ 
stead of the English word on the way. If a mem¬ 
ber of Congress be on bis way to Washington, ho 
is said to be en rotite for Washington. Now, no¬ 
body who is not acquainted with French knows 
how to pronounce the words m mute, and this 
gives those who have a smattering of the language 
a decided advantage and an opportunity to show 
off their accomplishments — thoy therefore say 
en route. 
“I might enlarge this list, bnt yon must think it 
long enough for the present. If I am allowed, I 
may speak at another time of other corruptions 
which have crept into our newspaper dialect.”— 
Buffalo Com. Advertiser. 
NOTES ON SQUASHES 
[Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] 
SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG TEACHERS. 
Haviwo endeavored to relate some portions of 
a boy’s experience at city gardening, in the Rit¬ 
ual, please givejno an opportunity to express a 
few notions (drawn from dinner table criticisms,) 
concerning certain members of the "Squash 
Family,” for the purpose of calling upon Yonng 
Ruralists tq furnish their opinions. We may, in 
this manner, compare notes,— get out the facts,— 
work understanding^,— cultivate nothing but the 
best . A great deni of ground is cumbered with a 
vegetable growth which is comparatively worth¬ 
less, and much time almost squandered in its pro¬ 
duction. 
Winter Squashes. —The keeping property has, 
until withiu a few years, been considered tho fust 
requirement in a winter squash, but as quite a 
number of varieties may now bo readily preserved 
until spring, the quality is the principal object of 
consideration. In our notoBwe have steadily held 
this in view. 
Hubbard, —The best of all the squashes for table 
use. Size, from eight to sixteen pounds. Have 
tested them boiled and baked. L’refer the latter 
mode of cooking, as thoy are then dry us a sweet 
potato, and very much resemble that esculent, in 
texture and flavor. A very little admixture of 
foreign varieties in the seed sadly Ueterioriates 
their value. 
looker's Premium .— Seed obtained from Michi¬ 
gan. Large, ranging from ’25 to 40 lbs. in weight; 
pumpkin-shaped; orange-colored, with slight rus- 
Bet-spots, externally; llesli, deep orange. For pies 
rate this a good squash — of rather flue flavor 
and containing considerable saccharine matter.— 
Not lit for table — size, objectionable for family 
use. A fair keeper. 
•Whether this old-time famous 
governing a school,” says Herron Hell, and in 
this, probably all will be agreed. Mismanagement 
on the part of the teacher will insure confusion 
in all the operations of the pupils. If a teacher 
fail in government, thongh he may have excellent 
qualifications, and a good ability for imparting 
instruction, his labors will be almost entirely use¬ 
less. Rut good teachers have different methods 
by which they accomplish so necessary a result; 
and while a teacher should not fail to appropri¬ 
ate to himself whatever may be useful of the ex¬ 
perience of others, independence and self-reliance 
are as essential in school-teaching as in any of the 
various vocations of life. The spirit in which 
any particular plan of action is carried out, very 
often determines whether success or failure will 
be the result, consequently one teacher cau act 
successfully in accordance with a particular plan, 
while in tho case of auother teacher, if ho follow 
the same plan, a failure will be tho result. Doubt¬ 
less many young teachers have failed to secure 
good reputations,— to their own chagrin and dis¬ 
appointment of their friends,—simply because 
they attempted to imitate some one instead of act¬ 
ing out themselves, and relying upon their own 
good sense for guidance in the peculiar circum¬ 
stances in which they were placed. 
"After governing the school right, teaching 
commences,” is the doctrine rfflvanced by Hebron 
Bell. This may be correct, and yet there be " a 
more excellent way.” "Satan finds some mis¬ 
chief still for idle hands to do,” is just as true in 
the school-room as out of it, and is the principle 
which loads me to advocate the following theory. 
Do not turn the attention of the school to govern¬ 
ment, unless it seems necessary to make a very few 
general rules. Ascertain at once the branches 
which your pupils have already studied,— the ad¬ 
vancement which they have made,— and without 
delay, begin the work of awakening an interest in 
the studies to bo prosecuted. The energy and in¬ 
genuity of the teacher should be engaged in ac¬ 
complishing this. 
A great portion of a teacher’s reading should 
be on subjects connected with his calling; then 
he will be able to give additional interest by illus¬ 
trative facts and anecdotes. Young persons are 
influenced more powerfully by example, than by 
any other mr-aus, and if you manifest an interest 
in subjects before your pupils, they will, without 
doubt, be interested ulso. Thus see that all are 
busy, and Interested as much as possible. No ex- 
TRJUNTOJNT U\A.IjIjS. 
The ravine, through which tho creek passes, is 
often 100 feet deep, with banks of stone almost 
perpendicular, and presents scenery wildly pictur¬ 
esque, and beautiful, and, when the water is high, 
of great grandeur. 
Willis says Trenton Falls “is the most aijoy- 
ably beautiful spot among the resorts of romantic 
scenery in our country. The remembrance of its 
loveliness becomes a bright point to which 
dream ami reverie oftenest return. It seems to 
be curiously adapted to enjoy, being, somehow, 
not only the kind, but the size of a place which 
tho (after all) measurable, arms of a mortal heart 
can hold In its embrace. Niagara is too much, 
as a roasted ox is a thing to go and look at, 
though one retires to dine on something smaller.” 
Trenton Falls, a very good view of whioh 
we give in the engraving, is one of the most 
romantic spots in the State, just the place for a 
summer resort. Tho Falls arc upon West t'anada 
Creek, a branch of the Mohawk, 22 miles above 
its junction with that river. Its name is hardly 
proper, as it is a tremendous torrent,—a series of 
falls and cascades. There are G separate falls. 
The first, called the Upper, 20 feet perpendicular; 
the 2d, the Cascades, 18 feet; the 3d, the Mill dam, 
14 feet; the 4tb, the High fails, which have 3 
separate cascades, of 48, II, and 37 feet; the 5tb, 
Sherman’s, 3f> feet; Gth, Conrad’s, where is a mill 
Tue Public Scuools of New Jersey.— The 
annual report of the State Superintendent of the 
Public Schools of New Jersey, was presented to 
the Legislature last week. The following is an 
abstract:—The school system of New Jersey em¬ 
braces the Normal and Model Schools, at Trenton; 
the Farnurn Preparatory School, at Beverly; and 
1,690 Public Schools, established in the various 
cities and townships of the State. The Normal 
School is reported to be more prosperous than 
ever before, and the number of pupils greater — 
being 140 at the last term — and 216 have been 
sent out for service as teachers. In the Model 
School the average attendance is 215. The whole 
number of pupils registered was 131,748; average 
attendance. G5,475. Total arnonnt of money raised, 
$550,732 45. The School Fund, January 1, was 
$411,769, being an increase of $10,474. 
battle of the 8th of January, by Thomas Dunn 
English, this vulgar fiction is very effectually dis- 
jjosed of: 
No cotton bales before us, 
Some lbol that falsehood told; 
Before ii9 was an earthwork, 
Built from the swampy mould. 
Major Plauchc, by the orders of Gen. Jackson, 
as soon us it was discovered that a few bales of 
cotton had been used in making the parapet, and 
that they greatly endangered the strength of the 
works, and exposed the ammunition to explosion 
by the flying particles of burning lint, had the 
| bales taken out and thrown into tho river. 
secured without heating any pan. oi il ho mu.»» 
to make it absorb oxygen. But in most of our 
dwellings, the heating apparatus iB placed in the 
room itself. How, then, Bhall we manage to 
warm tho air without diminishing its oxygen? 
We should recollect that we have only to do with 
the air on tho outside of our heater? All the air 
that goes inside is safe, (unless the concern is a 
smoker,—and a smoker, on black feet or white 
ones, is a nuisance anywhere,) and purifies, rather 
Boston Marrow. 
variety has degenerated, or whether the Hubbard 
effected its ruin in our estimation, we are not en¬ 
abled to say. At all events, the decision of the 
“ board” was not at all favorable. 
Custard .—This squash was reported as possess¬ 
ing everything to he desired; and the house-wife 
so fortunate us to be able to spread it before her 
family, in any of the various modes of which culi¬ 
nary skill is capable, would never after display 
her powers upon any other kind. Baked, it was 
quite moist ami coarse,—boiled, very wet and 
stringy, — in a pie miserable. Some one bus 
said, anything will make a pie if you put in a suf¬ 
ficiency of eggs, milk and sugar,—we only wish 
“someone” had been compelled to devout the 
pies made from our famous Custard. 
Si mmer Squashes. — Wo have tried only two 
I varieties, and in these found opposite character¬ 
istics— representing the indifferent and the ex¬ 
cellent in quality. 
Crookneck .—This variety is too well known to 
need any description. 
Pine. Apple .—The general shape of this squash 
can be seen l.y reference to the RURAL, of Jan. 7. 
The earliest and best of the summer kinds. Fit to 
eat when it has attained the size of a Rhode 
Island Greening, and will keep until the middle of 
January. Ours gave out at that time, from the 
fact that the appetito craved the last — not be¬ 
cause decay had put iu any claim. Color, when 
['Written for Moore’s Rnral New-Yorker.) 
A CHAPTER ON FUEL. 
In the article entitled "The Best Fuel,” on page 
401 of the Rural, are, as it appears to ns, some 
errors; and on a subject so directly concerning 
the million, both in purse and health, small mis¬ 
takes are matters of importance. We do not 
propose to combat the assertion, that coal requires 
a stronger draft than wood. The assertion is a 
very general one, and in a few circumstances may 
The truth is, the quantity of air requi- 
be true 
nitc to the combustion of fuel, depends not .-.u 
much on the oxygen contained iu fuel, as on the 
affinity of the fuel for oxygen, and its poverty as 
a conductor of heat The writer speaks of making 
charcoal, but charring and combustion have but 
little similarity. Tho one is a partial decom¬ 
position by heat, driving off the oxygen and hy¬ 
drogen, and leaving the carbon. The other is a 
decomposition l.y chemical affinity—the oxygon 
of the air uniting with the carbon of the fuel, and 
forming carbonic acid. 
But, the error of most importance is, that in 
burning fuel, “ the oxygen necessary for its com- 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 14 lottuis. 
My 2, 6,11,14 Is a largo body ot water. 
My 4, 7,12,10, 8, 4 is an article much used by both sexes. 
My 5,12, 10 Is an article worn by men. 
My T, 3, 10, 10, 8,1) is a domestic animal. 
My 4,13,12. 7, 1 Is an ugly reptilu. 
My 10,1,6,11, VI, 10,10, 2, 8 is a kitchen utensil. 
My whole Is tho nntne of an Arctic Adventurer. 
Hooper's Valley, N. Y., 1800. L. H. Whitk. 
nr Auswor in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
GRAMMATICAL ENIGMA. 
room, leaving it closely oppressive.'’ Here is a 
doctrine at open issue with the fixed laws of 
atmospheric pressure, and with the first princi¬ 
ples of ventilation. Can the writer suppose that 
the air in the room is decomposed before entering 
the stove or grate, and only the oxygen taken in, 
leaving the nitrogen to oppress the lungs? Barely 
not. Or can he suppose a room so tight and so 
strong, that it can stand the atmospheric pressure 
of 14 pounds on every square inch of its six sides, 
while the air within is drawn out and passes 
through the fire and up the chimney, against the 
pressure of the atmosphere above it? Such a 
chimney must be "powerful to draw.” We think 
a very little exhaustion of the air in the room 
would make the chimney resemble one we have 
often seen, which was said to draw the wrong 
way, and so strongly that* on one occasion, it 
drew a large turkey, that happened to be flying 
over the bouse, down into the fire below. Every 
one should know that the more air passes into the 
fire, the more comes into the room from without; 
so the fire is a ventilator. 
But onr chief object in this article is to state a 
few principles in wanning our dwellings, sus- 
one way or another. Prove, by kind words and 
acts, that you are interested in the welfare of those 
committed to your care, and you will certainly be 
potent in the school-room. Your scholars, if in¬ 
terrogated iu regard to your government of the 
school, will be likely to reply, "Well, I don’t 
know,— haven’t thought much about that,— but 
every thing is passing off finely, and we are hav¬ 
ing a pleasant time.” 
Thus you will be, by an indirect, instead of a 
direct, method, undisputed sovereign in the 
school-room. Borne of the most powerful demon¬ 
strations in geometry are those in which the in¬ 
direct method of reasoning is employed. Many 
schools can be governed in the way pointed out, 
without a case of discipline, — only hardened 
characters would fail to be conquered. If you 
thus succeed in interesting your pupils and win- 
ningtheir love, you will have a certain triumph,— 
a triumph of the most brilliant character. 
Wadhams’ Mills, N. Y., 1860. Ei.latii. 
I am composed of 17 letters. 
My 10, 6 is a verb. 
My 5,11 is an adverb. 
My 1, 8, 14,10 is a relative pronoun. 
My 4,13, 3 is an adverb. 
My 2, 5, 12, 16,17 is a perfect participle. 
My 7,2, 14,10, » is a noun. 
My wholu has been answered many times. 
Leicester, Liv. Co., N. Y., i860. 
nUT Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
POETICAL ENIGMA,—TO THE GIRLS. 
Hold On! —Hold on to your tongue when you 
are just ready to swear, lie, or speak harshly, or 
use any improper word. 
Hold on to your hand when about to strike, 
pinch, steal, or do any improper act 
Hold on to your foot when you arc on the point 
of kicking, running away from study, or pursuing 
tho path of error, shame, or crime. 
Hold on to your temper when you are angry, 
excited, or imposed upon, or others are angry 
about you. 
Hold on to your heart when evil associates seek 
your company, and invite you to join in their 
games, mirth and revelry. 
Hold on to your good name, it is more valuable 
or fashionable 
THE TRUTH OF HISTORY. 
Six letters form a female’s name; 
Forward and back they are the same. 
When you omit the first and last, 
Another lady’s uamo tbou hast; 
Read back and forth, and you will find 
They are the same,—the same combined. 
The second, third, and fourth displayed, 
Or else the fifth, the fourth, the third, 
Will be the name of some tine girl 
That dearly loves, In dance, to whirl. 
The fifth and aixth, or second, first, 
An exclamation was, iu erst. 
Now, girls, who will expose these names? 
And then point out the one Bhe claims; 
Then send the answer here to me, 
And I will come with priest to thee. 
Oak field, Kent Co., Mich., 1800. H. A. Rowley 
JQf Answer in two weeks. 
In a recent issue of tfic Rural we made brief 
mention of the death of Gen. John B. Blaucue, 
an estimable citizen of New Orleans, who lought 
in Jackson’s memorable battle. In a notice of 
his death the N. U. Delta remarks as follows: 
An incident with which the name of General 
Blanche is connected has been made the text of 
one of the most invincible errors that has ever 
crept into history. It is a striking illustration of 
the difficulty of arresting a false statement which 
CORRUPTIONS OF LANGUAGE. 
A correspondent, for whose opinion in such 
matters we have great respect, says: 
11 While you were speaking of the barbarisms in 
speech, the other day, T wonder very much that 
you did not take notice of the use of commence, 
instead of the good old Baxon word begin. There 
boarding-school girl who, after she has 
to yon than gold, high places, 
attire. 
Hold on to the truth, for it will serve you well, 
and do you good throughout eternity. 
Hold on to your virtue—it is above all price to 
you, in all times and places. 
Hold on to your good character, for it is, and 
ever will be, your best wealth. 
is scarce a 
written begin, does not scratch it out and substi¬ 
tute the hideous Gallicism commence, because she 
imagines it is the finer word. Of late it has got 
into the kitchen, as well as into the boarding- 
school. Onr house maid, Biddy, tho other day, 
came home from church in a driving snow-storm, 
saying, 'it commenced to snow before I got to 
church, ma’am, and while I was there it com- 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
A gentleman has three gardens, of different form,— 
one in a square form, one in the form Of a right-angle- 
triangle. and the other in the form of a rectangle. It is 
required to Bud tho urea from the following:—The side 
of the square i» double that of the shortest side of the 
rectangle; the shortest side of the rectangle is equal 
to one-half the base ot the triangle; and the perimeter 
of the triangle, plus tho perimeter of the rectangle, is 
equal to the perimeter of the square, increased by twenty- 
five. S. G. Cagwin. 
Verona, Onei. Co., N. Y., I860. 
VST Answer in two weeks. 
The Lesson ok the Garden. —A garden is a 
beautiful book, written by the finger of God; 
every leaf is a letter. You have only to learn 
them — and he is a poor dunce- that Cannot, if ho 
will do that — to learn them, and join them, and 
then go on reading, and you will find yourself car- ( 
lied away from the earth to tho skies by the beau¬ 
tiful thoughts—for they are nothing short — that 
grow out or the ground, and sci-m to talk to a man. 
And then there are some flowers, they always ( 
seem to me like cver-dutiful children; tend them t^i 
ever so little, and they come up and flourish, and < 
show, as I may say, their bright and happy faces * 
to you.— Jerrold. A 
im-nced tu drift.’ Of late, I see the word endorse, 
in the metaphorical sense of approve, adopt, sanc¬ 
tion, has become so much into use that its repe¬ 
tition is absolutely nauseating. If a man agrees 
so on; this one poor word being made to do duty 
for twenty othei'3. The gilt of fluency is certainly- 
possessed by our public speakers, but, as a gene¬ 
ral rule, they have a very meagre vocabulary, and 
they and the newspaper writers ring the changes 
upon the same word with a perseverance which, 
as the saying is, ‘ would do them honor in a bet¬ 
ter cause.’ 
render it warmer. Now, if you will cut off your 
steam, and send through the same pipes air heated 
to the temperature of steam, and sufficient to heat 
the room to the same temperature, no mortal 
could tell the difference, 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c„ IN NO. 528, 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Be kind to all, both 
rich and poor. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem:—A owned 78 acres; B, 
90; C, 108; D, 138. 
It is not, then, in the 
steam, hut in the large amount of heating surface, 
— so large that the requisite amount of heat is 
