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PHYSICAL EDUCATION, 
UV L. J A.BVXS WILTON, 
health. No illustrations are needed to prove 
the fact. The observation of every thinker is 
sufficient. The poet has said ; 
“A thing of beauty ts a joy forever.” 
It has been said, too, that the pristine beauty of 
the humau species consisted in perfection of en¬ 
velopment, physically, mentally and morally. 
If so, then the species must have deteriorated. 
We will not discuss the question, but proceed to 
deal with .realities and facts, which must be]pa¬ 
tent to every observer. 
The ancient Greeks and Romans saw beauty 
and strength in the human form, and cultivated 
the powers of the body to a high state of per¬ 
fection. They regarded man as the ihighesi 
order of created being, and only inferior to the 
gods themselves. In their literature we tind 
their warriors, counsellors and heroes compared 
to the gods. A beautiful and virtuous woman 
was 6aid to be like a goddess. 
Wc, too, pleased to be called “but'a little 
lower than the angels,” delight in the culture 
which elevates us to a higher rank in the scale 
of being. The ancients cultivated with a zeal 
almost reaching to worship the form which in¬ 
cases tills divinity of being. We make the op¬ 
posite mistake, and cultivate aud worship the 
spirit, regardless of the form, or of the culture 
of the casket which holds and nourishes the 
spirit. We cultivate the tnind and intellectual 
faculties, seek to promote moral development 
and reforms, by all means which wc can make 
use of, forgetting that the highest mental and 
moral development is dependent upon the phys¬ 
ical condition and education. Ono portion of 
our bodies WC educate, and that too much. The 
brain is over-fed with facts and theorems, over- 
exereised with formula’, aud over-worked with 
analyses and deductions, or merely, as is often 
the ease, over-fed with a multitude of books, 
ions and ologks without a proper exercise of its 
powers of digestion; while the body, perhaps 
over-fed in Jho 6 amc way, without proper exer¬ 
cise aud care, is lett to its own growth. A sym¬ 
metrical growth of mind or physique seems to 
be out of the miest.inn' and vet nature meant 
that all our faculties should grow together to a 
perfect and harmonious beauty. But we find 
one person all mind, with a weak body, a pale- 
faced nervous creature, who is sure sometime to 
show an unsymmetrieal character from this ner¬ 
vous organization which study and mental habits 
have induced; for a healthy mind cannot exist 
in an unhealthy body, and sooner or later out of 
ap, at A. The I pass through the door, E, they emerge into a 
e Incontinently large, well-lighted apartment, H, which is cov- 
for in alighting ered with wire net, and they can there roam 
e, B, which is round and bite each other at pleasure. 
> trip the catch, At the side of the trap there is another door, I, 
the cover then through which the prey can be removed at any 
i world forever, time. Animals caught alive in traps are much 
e point where a more valuable for their fur than when maimed 
the entrapped or shot outright. 
if safety to some This is an exceedingly useful and efficient 
see his way Into trap, for by the aid of it numbers of animals can 
door, E. This be caught at once without the formality of set- 
>f catches, F, on ting the trap for each one, and the trapper may 
or, D, and cause leave it for days and be certain, when he visits 
trap for another it, of finding a goodly company assembled, 
ie trap door, D, I This invention was patented Bee. 27, 1S64, 
jl, so that it can- | by J. M. Flautt. For further Information, 
As the animals address him at Reedsbury, Wis. — Sei. Amer. 
Tub value of the fur trade on this continent 
is enormous, and annually increasing. If trap¬ 
ping animals was reduced to something like 
certainty, the yield oi “pelts” would be very 
much enlarged. In the cDgraving published 
herewith, we have shown a new self-acting trap 
for catching animals. That is to say, when one 
animal Is caught he immediately sets the trap 
again; so that “ one more unfortunate " is in a 
short time brought to share his captivity. 
The sagacious fox seen in the back ground 
peering into the depths of the trap—the marten 
lookiug up to it with awe, and the fitch on the 
tree inspecting the already caged individual be¬ 
low him, will soon, individually and collectively, 
be brought to join him, for with animats as with 
human nature, cariosity is a predominant trait. 
In this trap the animal gains an entrance by 
sugar-plums, tea, cotree, rich cakes, biscuits, 
pastry, and whatever its morbid appetite may 
crave. At five or six years of age it is sent to 
school, learns easily, is stimulated to study by 
the flattery and praises of fond friends, or the 
prospect ot prizes. Perhaps at Sabbath School 
it Is required to learn and recite thousands of 
verses a year, to read the Biblo through once a 
year, or to do something equally as difficult to 
the young mind. Wc would not say one word 
against the Sabbath School and its noble work. 
But this system of mental cramming, which, wc 
are sorry to say, has crept into this institution, 
is a murderous one, aud we will not hesitate to 
condemn it wherever found. 
Then, again, comes the college training, with 
its continued series of crammings, indigestious 
and dyspepsia Everybody mast .be educated, 
these days, at a college or boarding school. We 
will glance over some of the work done there 
and see Its effects upon the physical character. 
Here is a schedule of studies: 
Three pages of Algebra in advance, the same 
in review. One page, at least, is of problems. 
Three Propositions in Geometry, advance, three 
in review. Eight pages Outlines of History, ad- 
tile roseate tinge d l!u' cheek, and the expres¬ 
sive lines of the features; but Disease is a sculp¬ 
tor too, and with his powerful allies works 
mercilessly against art and beauty. We cannot 
expect a beautiful, rich-tinted and fragrant 
flower from a diseased plant, lacking sunlight, 
air aud moisture. Nor can wc expect a child to 
grow into a noble, perfect, symmetrical man or 
woman, in person, or character, without sun¬ 
light, pure air aud water, exercise and sleep. 
If in our systems of education we were to in¬ 
culcate a taste and desire for physical beauty and 
health ; if we were to teach our girls especially, 
how to beautify themselves in heart, mind and 
person by a faithful adherence to, and under¬ 
standing of the laws of health, teaching them 
how to care for themselves in Order to promote 
the highest degree of health and physical perfec¬ 
tion, howto rear their children properly when 
they shall become mothers, and how to educate 
them for the highe- aud truest enjoyments and 
duties of life, we should do a more glorious 
work than most of our schools, reforms aud 
missionary labors are now accomplishing for 
our race. 
Ings siione yellow- in the craning- ann, and the 
whole prospect was one of thriving security, 
delightful to view, though wanting in the pecu¬ 
liar luxuriance of vegetatiou offered by the val¬ 
ley of Djowf. A few Bedouin tents lay clus¬ 
tered close by the ramparts, aud the great num¬ 
ber of horsemen,footmen,camels, asses^ peasants, 
townsmen, boys, women, and other like, all pass¬ 
ing to and fro on their various avocations gave 
cheefnlness and animation to the scene.— Lon¬ 
don Spectator. 
A Remarkable Cone ikmatton. —Sir Henry 
Rawllnson has been distinguished for his success 
in deciphering the arrowheaded Inscriptions 
brought to light by the modern explorations of 
Nineveh and Babylon, though all scholars have 
not accepted his interpretation. Twelve years 
ago he read on a Nineveh monument that two 
Assyrian kings, one of whom was eontemporary 
with Jehu, king of Israel, visited a cave from 
which the Tigris flows, and there found the in¬ 
scriptions of the two kings, preserved on the 
rock till the present time. This remarkable dis¬ 
covery establishes beyond doubt the authenticity 
of the interpretation of those old writings which 
have thrown so much light upon Scripture his¬ 
tory.— Atnerican Messenger. 
Civilization and the Hitman Brain. —At a 
late meeting of the Ethnological Society, Mr. 
Dunn read a paper on the “Influence of Civili¬ 
zation on the Brain of Mau,” in which he con¬ 
tended that education and moral culture pro¬ 
duce changes in the form and size of the brain, 
which are manifested by the conformation of the 
skull. By the Influence of civilization ho main¬ 
tained, the skull of the negro may be altered 
from its original type, and may be rendered equal 
in its phrenological developemets to the skull 
of an European. On the table were placed casts 
of the skull of an individual at different periods 
of adult Hte, to show the ebauges that had been 
produced ia tea years. 
AN ARABIAN CITY 
The sun was yet two hours’ distance above the 
western horizon, when we threaded the narrow 
aud winding defile, till we arrived at its further 
end. Here we found ourselves on the verge of 
a large plain, many miles in length and breadth, 
and girt on every side by a high mountain ram¬ 
part., while right in front of us, at scarce a quar¬ 
ter of an hour’s march, lay the town of Uayel, 
surrounded by fortifications of about twenty 
feet in height, with bastiou towers, some round, 
some square, and large folding gates at Intervals; 
it offered the same show of freshness and oven 
of something like irregular elegance that had 
before struck ns in the villages on our way. 
But this was a full grown town, and its area 
or more, 
propositions of Couie Sections, advance, review 
four. Those are not estimated lessons, but such 
as we have actually known. For these three 
lessons a day, at least eight or tea hours of study 
were necessary. Three hours were spent iu 
recitation, three In meals aud social recreation, 
two in writing abstracts and preparing essays, 
writing letters, <fec. The remaining eight, when 
by chance eight hours remain, must suffice for 
sleep and physical exercise. 
Who can wonder that gills, subjected to such 
a coarse of mental discipline should be weak, 
nervous, excitable and unsymmetrieal in char¬ 
acter as in health aud physical development! 
So much must be learned in so little time, that 
a sacrifice must be made somewhere; and the 
poor body, which was deslgucd to be an orna¬ 
ment, as well as a casket for a beautiful soul, 
grows ugly w ith disease and induced deformity. 
Disease, nature’s fearful avenger, Induces mor¬ 
bid desires and passions which result in down¬ 
right depravity. And by disease, thus induced, 
wc become more ugly, really deformed, less 
vigorous in miud as well as in body. Wo have 
given that to nourish the brain which ought to 
nourish both body aud brain, and uow a reaction 
must occur, for the laws of nature cannot be 
violated with impunity. We have endeavored 
to cultivate the miud aud render it beautiful. 
We Imagined, perhaps, that Thought would be 
the sculptor who should chisel lines of beauty 
upon face and form, that noble purposes and 
truths would deepen the lucid lustre of the eye, 
HOW TO PROSPER IN BUSINESS, 
In the first place, make up your mind to ac¬ 
complish whatever you undertake; decide upon 
some particular employment and persevere in it. 
“All difficulties are overcome by diligence and 
assiduity.” 
Be not afraid to work with your hands, and 
diligently too. “A cat in gloves catches no 
mice.” “ He who remains in ihe mill grinds, 
not he who goes aud comes.” 
Attend to your own business and never trust 
it to another. “ A pot that belongs to many is 
ill stirred and worse boiled. 
Bo frugal. “That which will not make a pot, 
will make a pot-lid.” “Save the pence, and 
the pounds will take care of themselves.” 
Rise early. “The sleeping fox catches no 
poultry.” “Plow deep while sluggards sleep, 
and yon will have coni tv# sell and keep.” 
Treat every one with respect and civility. 
“ Everything is gained and nothing lost by cour¬ 
tesy.” “ Good manners insure success.” 
Never anticipate wealth coming from any 
other sonree than labor; aud never place depend¬ 
ence upon becoming the possessor of an inherit¬ 
ance. “ He who waits for dead men’s shoes 
may go a long time barefoot.” “ He who runs 
after a shadow has a wearisome race.” 
Above all things, Never Despair, “ God is 
where he was.” “ Heaven helps them.” 
Follow implicitly these precepts, nothing can 
hinder you from accumulating. 
Horses Feeding one Another.—M. de Bous- 
sanelle, captain of cavalry, in the regiment of 
Beauvillers, relates, in his “ Military Observa¬ 
tions,” “ That an old horse of his company, that 
was very tine and full of mettle, had his teeth, 
all of a sudden, so worn down that he could not 
eh*w his hay and corn; and that he was fed for 
two months, and would still have been so, had 
he been kept, by two horses on each side of him, 
that ate in the same manner; that these horses 
drew hay from the same rack, which they chewed, 
and afterwards threw before him ; they did the 
same with the oats, which they ground very 
small, and also put before him ; this ” added he, 
“ was observed and witnessed by a whole com¬ 
pany of cavalry, officers and men.” 
mine our rank oi m&nnooa aud superiority to 
the brute creation. 
Many at them begin in the nursery from which 
a fond, but ignorant or unthinking mother ban 
ishes the best invigorator and cxhilarator, the 
pure air. Then, often, she wraps the child in so 
many garments as to compress the chest and abdo¬ 
men, and prevent a free movement of the limbs 
and muscles, as well as to preclude a free per¬ 
spiration. Perhaps the child is of a delicate con¬ 
stitution, has inherited from t he mother's habits 
of mind an apprehensive fear and distrust, a 
peevish fretfulncss aud irritability, an unhappy 
and unpleasant miud. She does not know that 
this is the child’s nature, derived from hqr own 
habits of mind, the broodiugs and depressions 
t.o which she yielded herself perhaps years before 
its birth, but she imagines the poor thing is sick 
and doses it with this or that which some one, 
equally ignorant, suggests, keeps it iu the house 
because it is so delicate, aud pampers it with 
might readily hold 100,000 inhabitants, 
were its streets and. houses dose packed like 
those of Brussels or Paris. But the number of 
citizens does not, In fact, exceed twenty or 
twenty-two thousand, thanks to the many large 
gardens, open spaces, and, even plantations, in¬ 
cluded within the outer walls, while the im¬ 
mense palace of the monarch alone, with its 
pleusure-grounds annexed, occupies about one 
tenth of the entire city. Our attention was 
attracted by a lofty tower, sonto seventy feet in 
bight, of recent construction, and oval torn 
belonging to the royal residence. The plain all 
around the town is studded with isolated houses 
aud gardens, the property of wealthy citizens, 
or of members of the kingly family, and ou the 
far off skirts of the plain appear the groves be¬ 
longing to Kafar, Adwah and other villages, 
placed at the openings of the mountain gorges 
that conduct to the capital. The walls and build- 
Stebne used to say, “ The most accomplished 
way oi using books is to serve them as some 
people do lords, learn their titles and then brag 
of their acquaintance.” 
