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THE LACUSTRIANS, 
OK PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS OF SWITZERLAND, 
The pro-historic period of European civiliza¬ 
tion is divided by Archaeologists into three prin¬ 
cipal eras, which they have called the <Stone-aye, 
the Bromerac/e, and the Iron-oyr., In the first, 
bone, horn and chiefly dint were used, instead of 
metal, for manufacturing cutting-instruments and 
arms. The industry and domestic iiabits of the 
inhabitants of this era must have licen consider¬ 
ably analngous to those of certain savages. The 
second era was characterized by the introduction 
of bronze. The production of this metal, and its 
manufacture into cutting-instruments, weapons, 
and personal ornaments, imply a mining indus¬ 
try and a skill which wore unknown during the 
Stone-aye. The discovery and working of Iron 
ore marked the third eng which was the. era of 
progress. It was the age. of Art, of Intelligence, 
and of an advancing civilization. The present 
article relates to the pre-historical eras called tin; 
ages of stone and of bronze—when the nameless 
aborigines of German Switzerland made their 
weapons and implements, whether for domestic, 
hunting, or agricultural use, of stone; or later, of 
copper, or some alloy of this metal, but never 
of iron. 
The- following account of one. of the most re¬ 
markable and important of modern discoveries— 
the discovery of a lost population, or the primi¬ 
tive inhabitants of Switzerland, is condensed from 
an article on Arehtcology in the Smithsonian 
Report for I SCI: 
The Lacustrians , as the name denotes, were 
the inhabitants of the I,akes. The first discovery 
with commendable promptitude dispatched two 
cutters to her relief. After passing near to her a 
few times, taking a full survey, and tiring a few 
guns across her stern, the steamer was boarded. 
Finally, being perfectly satisfied that all was 
right, the cutter bore away. The news of her 
approach being telegraphed to Liverpool, as she 
drew near the city, with her sails furled, and 
the American colors (lying, the pier heads wore 
thronged by many thousands of persons, who 
greeted her with the most enthusiastic cheers. 
Before she came to anchor, tlm*leek was so 
crowded that it was with difficulty the men could 
move from one part to another in the perform¬ 
ance of their duty. She. was af't> . \rd« visited 
by many persons of distinction, and then de¬ 
parted for Elsinore, on her way to St. Peters¬ 
burg. She next touched at Copenhagen, where 
she remained two weeks. From Copenhagen 
she went to Oonutndt and St. Petersburg. Not 
being able to get over the bar at the latter places, 
she lay opposite the city, six miles distant. 
Here, as at other places, she was an object of 
much wonderment. She, however, was not sold, 
as tiad been expected, Ini t sailed for home, put¬ 
ting into Errington, on the coast of Norway, on 
the passage. From the latter place, she was 
twenty-two days in reaching Savannah. On 
account of the high price of fuel, she carried no 
steam on the return passage, and tho wheels 
were taken off. 
The model of the Savannah, although a minia¬ 
ture ship compared with some of our late con¬ 
structed Bteam vessels, is by no means a bad 
one; but the propelling power is extremely rude. 
The wheels, destitute as they are of paddle- 
boxes, indicate a want of finish and a slowness 
of motion, that naval constructors of tho present 
day would laugh to scorn; but what assurance 
have they, that their own proud and wave-com- 
pelling steamers will not be pointed at, half a 
century hence, as tho rude construction of a naval 
steam marine, if not in its infancy, at least in its 
early and half-developed manhood? 
boats which served for fishing or for war. The 
water seemed then the real domain of man. 
It is in German Switzerland chiefly that the 
traces of settlements belonging to tho Aye of 
Stone have boen recognized. Western Switzer¬ 
land likewise possessed important Lacustrian 
cities—among Others that of Concise, near the 
southern extremity of lake Neuchatel: but the 
get the air, and she had stayed home to rock the 
cradle. So 1 went into her house, and stayed, 
with her while she rocked, little. Willie in the 
oradle. Sho often stays at home to take care of 
Willie, and she leases her mother to let her.” 
“We're all tolling what we like Lulu for, so I’ll 
tell what I like her for,”said Emma Hawley. “I 
like her because she always says the best thing 
she can for everybody, and she never tries to 
make out that anybody has done more than they 
have. Don’t you know, the other day, when Mr. 
Lee was going to whip Charles Harlbrook for 
throwing a stone ami hitting a boy, she told him 
alio thought, he didn’t mean to hit him, so Mr. Lee 
stopped arid inquired into it, and said he was 
satisfied the buy didn’t moan anything. She 
saves a great many of the boys whippings, be¬ 
cause she always says something to Mr. Leo that 
sets him to thinking.” 
“ I like her because she’s always so good to the 
poor little girls,” said Mariana Stone. “She treats 
mo just as well as if I was rich.” 
Little Mariana’s words had touched a chord in 
her own heart, and she couldn’t say any more, or 
sit any longer on the steps, but stole away and 
cried as she thought about Lulu. Blessed little 
Enin! May she long have a plucc in the brick 
school house, and may Alice and Boll and Nettie 
and Lizzie and Emma and poor little Mariana 
often sit on the steps and tell what they “like her 
for.” May I, too, sometimes be there to listen. 
And may all my young readers be like my dar¬ 
ling Lulu.— Trad Journal. 
an ancient village. The investigation of these 
relics, and the published result of his researches, 
by M. Ferdinand Kkli.kr, of Zurich, formed 
the starting-point of incessant explorations of the 
shoals of the Swiss lakes, which have already 
resulted in the discovery, under tho surface of the 
waters, of the remains of a hundred and fifty vil¬ 
lages; and no season passes without the an- 
wos there that the pile-work of Obermeilen was 
erected, the discovery of which was the starting 
point of all that has been since effected. Thanks 
to the relics obtained at that point, and on the 
shores of the lakes of Constance, of Pfadfikou, 
of Sompnch, of Wanwyl, of Mooaedorf, we can at 
this day sketch in broad lines the manner of life, 
of tho Laoustrian populations, and give some 
OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION. 
Prominent amid the gigantic 01 
nterprises of 
modem times, is Ocean Steam Navigation. In¬ 
volving hundreds of millions of dollars, and fur¬ 
nishing employment to thousands of men, one 
can hardly realize that it is of such recent origin, 
—that forty years ago, the wind was tho 
man¬ 
ner’s solo dependence as a motive power, when 
crossing the mighty deep. During tho past half 
century, the uncertainty attending the seaman’s 
vocation has been almost entirely removed. 
Leaving port in the yeai 1820, it was a mere 
matter «f speculation when the voyage would bo 
completed -calms leaving tho vessel almost sta¬ 
tionary for days and weeks; head-winds battling 
commander and crew in every effort toward pro¬ 
gress; or fierce gales driving them out of their 
course, oftentimes compelling a resumption of all 
plans and labors. Now, however, except in tho 
most extraordinary circumstances, tho regularity 
THE ORPHAN DUCK 
A duck’s eggs unluckily got into a nest of 
hen’s eggs. The hen kept them ail warm under 
her motherly feathers, when in due time the 
chickens were hatched 
LITTLE LULU. 
Two or three days 
after, duckling broke his egg, and waddled out. 
Tho chickens soon perceived lie was none of 
them, and what did they do—cherish the poor 
little orphan,give it a warm side of the neat, and 
a hearty snuggle under their mother’s wing? 1 
am sorry to say those thoughtless chickens did 
not treat the little motherless stranger so. On 
the contrary, they flew at him, cruelly drove him 
from the nest, and almost peeked him to death. 
In vaiu ho tried to come back to his adopted 
home, and tho old hen, I dare say, would have 
been willing to have him; but what could she do, 
since her ton foolish chickens were against it? 
Well, what became of poor duckling? A cat 
saw this ill-usage, ami she, lining a feeling cat, 
with much knowledge, quite likely, of the dis¬ 
tresses with which this world abounds, befriended 
the little duck. She took it by the neck—not to 
wring its neck, ah no! but she took it by the 
same motherly grab with which she lugs her 
own little ones, carried it to her nursery, laid it 
down beside the kittens, and there took as much 
care of it as a eat could. As for the kittens, 
they behaved in the sweetest manner; and it was 
a curious sight to see them all curled up together, 
fast asleep, duck and all, as happy as could be. 
I am sure no little friendless boy or girl need 
bo discouraged after this. God will provide him 
friends. -Child's Paper. 
with which our ocean steamers pursue their 
over every sea, in defiance of 
the wind and waves, making ports thousands of 
miles distant from the point of starting, is 
astounding. 
We are pleased to givV our readers an engrav¬ 
ing of the first steamer that made a trans-Atlan¬ 
tic voyage,—the Savannah. This vessel was the 
pioneer of the ocean steamship enterprise, and 
is a monument of praise to the far-reaching and 
prophetic eye of “Young America.” Kudo in 
her model and appurtenances, and limited in her 
dimensions compared with the floating islands of 
1*63, she excited an extraordinary degree of 
interest, at the time of Iter first voyage, both in 
America and Europe. Sho was a ship-rigged 
vessel of 380 tons burthen, and only used steam 
us auxiliary to her Hailing powers. Goal not 
then being used, it was impossible to carry fuel 
for the whole time consumed in an ocean voyage, 
and consequently it was so arranged as to unship 
her wheels and use her sails. 
The Savannah steamed for Liverpool from the 
port of Savannah, Georgia, on die 28th day of 
June, 1810, and crossed the ocean in eighteen 
days, steaming, however, during the whole time, 
but seven days. After she had left port and was 
on the broad ocean, with a fair breeze, the wheels 
were hoisted upon deck, and the ship proceeded 
on her voyage under canvass. As she neared 
tho British coast, the wheels were again adjusted, 
the sails clewed up, and tho engine set in motion. 
When about entering St. George’s Channel, off 
the city of Cork, she was descried by the com¬ 
mander of tlie British Hoot, then lying at that 
city. Seeing a huge mass of smoke ascending 
trom the vessel, enveloping her rigging and 
overshadowing the sky, he naturally inferred 
that a vessel was on fire, and 
trackless course 
THE OTHER WORLDS, 
For more than a century, astronomers have 
been arguing the question, whether or not the 
planets are inhabited. The latest controversy on 
tho subject has been between Dr. Who well and 
Six David Brewster, both eminent, scientific men, 
and their elaborate theories leave the great proto 
lem just as they found it. All the informatio n 
which science affords on the subject is, in truth, 
purely negative. It is clear enough that beings 
constituted as we are could not exist for an 
instant on Mercury, which, from its proximity to 
the sun, must have a climate as hot as that of 
the crater of a volcano; nor on Neptune—on the 
outermost edge of the planetary domain -which 
receives 784 times less heat and light than this 
pleasant little orb, whose course is through tho 
temperate zone of the solar system. In Mercuiy 
or Venus we should combust; in Neptune be 
turned into adamantine statues by the unspeaka¬ 
ble cold. Nor is there an intermediate planet that 
would be tolerable to our constitutions. Yet it 
by no means follows that they are therefore un¬ 
peopled. When we consider that space has 
more stars than earth has pebbles, and that our 
star is a very small concern as to size, compared 
with many others of the planetary family, to say 
nothing of the incomputable millions of orbs 
beyond the linos of our little group, it seems not 
improbable that they too may have forms of life 
adapted to their peculiarities, and that all the 
glorious floating worlds we see sparkling in the 
boundless Pacific above us, may be inhabited. 
But there are no sufficient data from which to 
argue, convincingly, one way or tho other. Dr. 
Don’t use Bad Words, Bovs!—“I don’ 
want to hear naughty words,” said a little boy 
“It’s no matter,” said another boy, “what Joe 
Town says; it goes in one ear and out of the 
other.” “ No," rejoined the little boy, “the worsl 
of it is, wId-ii naughty words get in, they stick, 
so I mean to do my beet to keep them out." Thai 
is right, boys; keep them out, for it is sometime!- 
hard work to turn them out when they oner 
gel in. 
in distress, and 
Trust not the man who promises with an oath 
