THE CLAUDIAN AQUEDUCT. 
whom we are^always so glad to see. Is it not 
some bad child wearing his clothes, and calling 
himself by thojwrong name?” Quito crest- 
fallon, ho desired to go home. He felt ashamed 
that every one should be glad that his visit was 
over. Some time elapsed ere he repeated 1L 
Then he went directly to his aunt, and said, with 
n very pleasant faco, “Good Paul has come to 
see cousin Ellen. I am not acquainted with 
bad Paul.” 
Tue aqueduct of Claudius, which was intend¬ 
ed to draw off the waters of the Lake Celano, or 
Fueino, is re-established. The Lake Fucino, four 
Roman Leagues in length and two broad, is situa¬ 
ted at thirty-two miles from Sora, in the Abruzzi, 
and sixty-two from Rome. Its overflowing fre¬ 
quently desolated the surrounding country, from 
which, when the water bad retired, poisonous 
exhalations emanated. On the occasion of the 
inauguration of the channel to pour into the Lins 
the overflow of the waters of this lake, the Em¬ 
peror Claudius gave a combat of galleys, man¬ 
ned by 111,000 gladiators. An immense crowd, 
and the Praetorian Guard lined the banks to 
prevent the flight of the unfortunate combatants. 
“ The combat.” says Tacitus, “ although between 
criminals, was worthy of the bravest soldiers.” 
The spectacle being concluded, the flood gates 
were opened, but the flood did not succeed, and 
it was necessary to deepen the channel. Trojan, 
Adrian, the Emperor Frederick III, and Al¬ 
phonse I, caused new works to be executed 
which were resumed in the seventeenth century. 
In 1826, the Neapolitan Government, also un¬ 
dertook to clear and restore the Claudinn aque¬ 
duct The glory of bringing this difficult work 
to an end belongs to Prince Torlonia, who, alter 
ten years’ labor and an outlay of several mill¬ 
ions, at last saw, on the 9th of last, month, the 
waters of the Fueino move from their level, and 
flow like a torrent, to cries of “Viva, Victor 
Emanuel,” “ Viva H Principe Torlonia.” Time 
is still necessary to drain the Fueino entirely; 
but the progressive lowering of the lake will by 
degrees restore to cultivation a superficies of 
35,900 acres. It is calculated that the sale of the 
land will quadruple the capital expended on the 
undertaking. 
THE OPEN WINDOW 
THE SUICIDAL MANIA. 
The Hoi.r Word ix its own Dkkxnok: Addressed to 
Bishop Colenso, nnri oil other Earnest Seekers after 
Truth. By Rev Abiel Silver, author of “Lectures 
on the Symbolic character of the Sacred Scriptures.” 
[12mo—pp. 305 ] New York: D Appleton & Co, 1S63. 
Th« object of the Rev nuthor is to show that the Bible, 
properly understood, sustains itself against all attacks of 
open enemies or of pretended friends, like the Bishop of 
Natal, William Colenso, D. D , and “ all other earnest 
seekers after truth ” Hr. Colenso is a Bishop of the 
English Episcopal Church, admitted intuits membership, 
then to Us holy orders, and finally consecrated to the Epis¬ 
copate and sent out t.o Natal, in S E Africa, as Bishop, 
under the full declaration that he received the Old and New 
Testaments as the revealed and inspired will of God. In 
Africa he writes an examination of “ the Pentateuch and 
Book of Joshua,' in which he publishes to the world that 
for certain things in these books he dees not believe their 
divine inspiration anil authority The Bishops in Eng¬ 
land call upon him to renounce his deadly errors and be¬ 
come a true and godly churchman, or give up his otl’ice as 
Bishop, because he is unfitted to perform its services, 
even though he er,j< •} s its emoluments. Bishop Cole.vso 
refuses to do either of these reasonable services, and 
holds on in itis OfltCe and receives the pay attached to it.. 
Whatever is the importance of religion, the possession of 
the tithes has in his mind at least equal claims. If he is 
an “ earnest seeker” of the truth, he is not, according to 
common sense, an honest man. 
To Colk.nho'b attack on the first six books of the Old 
Testament, this work is designed to be a reply, on the 
principle above stated. The first sentence is, 11 God has 
given His Word to man to teach,—First, what God is: 
Second, what man is: Third, how man loses God’s imago 
and becomes a devil: Fourth, how lie obtains that image 
and becomes an angel: and Fifth, the ronsequenos of be¬ 
ing either an angel or a devil.” The illustration of these 
five points fills the twenty-two chapters of the work. The 
principle is, that the word and works of God, as tteeu in 
creation and providence, redemption and retribution, are 
entirely consistent as being tho operation of ime Beitig 
who is “ Infinite, Omniscient and Omnipresent; Unchang- 
able and Eternal; tho Creator and Sustaincr of the Uni¬ 
verse.’’ The proof is to be found in the correct exposi¬ 
tion of the Bible, the “spiritual sense” of which Bishop 
Colenso seems not j-et to hat e apprehended, so that ho 
is in a world of darkness of his own production 
If it is asked, docs the author give the clear and tenablo 
exposition of Bible truth?—the reply must be, that tho 
dogmas given in the Illustration, ore not those maintained 
by the church Catholic or Episcopal, Calvunistie or Arme¬ 
nian, or any division of Presbyterian*, Baptists, Metho¬ 
dists, Congregationalism or Lutherans, to mention no 
more. The “ doctrine of correspondences,” insisted on, 
may suggest the name ol' Swedenborg; as also that of 
“influx ” The author belongs to the Church of the New 
Jerusalem. For sale by Sikhlb & Avkuy. 
“ LrTThE Charlie is dead!” 
I repeated the words very sadly, and though 
no audible voice from the tree-lop above me had 
spoken them, I glanced upward to the windows, 
which for fourteen days had been wholly darken¬ 
ed; the shutters and curtains were withdrawn at 
last, and the fresh breeze and golden light 
drifted freely in. 
I know that on the couch where Charlie had 
tossed and moaned, parched with fever and 
smitten with grievous pain, there lay only an al¬ 
tered, stiffened shape, which we had loved and 
pitied as “our Charlie;” but the real being, 
whose gay young life made beauty all 
around it, was not there. One wiser and more 
pitying than ourselves had called the little buy, 
and in the night he had arisen, saying, “Thy 
servant beareth,” and gone outward to walk 
with the Lord. 
It was an exquisite morning in the early 
autumn. Not a cloud vailed the intense blue of 
the sky, luminous with depths of sunshine: and 
beneath every tree purple and scarlet shadows 
played, while the wind, swaying their branches, 
seemed to call up tender memories, from each 
warm, sturdy heart. “Dead!" I echoed the 
word, as, lingering by the half-open gate, I hesi¬ 
tated to enter il. lathe glad day, overflowing 
with brialliancy, what room was there f6r so dark 
a syllable? 
Charlie was the child of a neighbor—as beauti¬ 
ful and winning a little spirit as ever sojourned 
in human day. Full of restless, precious life, 
the light links of existence wore fretted away by 
the ceaseless strain and jar of the imprisoned 
soul. We knew that he must leavens; but, for¬ 
getful of previous warning, the death of my favo¬ 
rite came to mo with tho sharp pang of an 
unheralded woe. Regaining with an effort, a 
degree of composure, 1 entered the house of 
mouruiug. The hush which severe sickness im¬ 
poses, the shadows of a mystery yet to be reveal¬ 
ed, which envelop a dwelling so consecrated, 
were exchanged for the dread certainty ofhelpless 
grief. Charlie was dead! 
How many times during tho past fortnight had 
1 entered that room, whose repressed sighs and 
groans wore familiar? With what painful fore¬ 
boding had I lingered in its gloom, which typifi¬ 
ed too welI the cherished hopes that here perished ? 
As I crossed tho threshold, 1 half expected to 
hear the stifled moan of the still, weary child; 
but he breathed an air which no sickness poisons, 
and the body was at rest forever. 
What a change had a few hours {wrought iu 
this apartment! The soft, rich air of the Indian 
summer stole through the windows no longer 
guarded, and the sunshine stretched its golden 
beams upon the floor and walls—further, it slant¬ 
ed across the pure linen that floated above the 
sleeper, and to the delicate features and ’sunny 
hair gave somewhat of the glad vitality of life. 
Every leaf fluttering, every bird-note, every 
whisper of the wide world without, spoke of re¬ 
joicing. “ I shall go to him,” said my heart 
responsively, and r could almost weep tears of 
gladness that the gift of immortal youth was so 
early granted to Charlie. 
A new train of thought passed through my 
mind as, standing by the dead boy, I watched 
the play of light and shade around the small 
couch so long vailed ill darkness. 
While yet there remained the uncertainty of 
life poised in the scales of Eternity, thej turbid 
waters of affection were stirred to blackest agita¬ 
tion with every dreaded possibility. Through 
this oppressive atmosphere, every shining hope 
which centered in Charlie's existence had gleam¬ 
ed forth iu sudden, stinging remembrance—all 
the joy that, had been—the faith ontlooking to 
years of developed man hood, "fc Now coldly and 
drearily rose instead the visionaof scenes that were 
agony; the slow,cniilformality 
From the exchanges of a single mail, a few 
days since, we clipped the record of no less than 
thirty suicides, all of which occurred within the 
space of forty-eight hours. Of the thirty, eight 
were females. Fourteen were believed to have 
been caused from disappointment in love, six 
from seduction, four from a monomania in reli¬ 
gion, two —both lads of twelve years —from 
cruel treatment of parents, one from jealousy, 
and the remaining three from misanthropy, sick¬ 
ness or sorrow. IIow sad a commentary upon 
American life and its attributes this picture pre¬ 
sents, we leave those who have the welfare of 
their species at heart to conjecture. But it be¬ 
hooves every thinking man to carefully weigh 
the combination of causes whereby so many 
mortals are hurried to self-destruction. 
We fear it is getting to be a characteristic of 
our social organization, induced either through 
labor-wasted nerves, or the drowning of imag¬ 
inary sorrow in fruitless dissipation, or an inev¬ 
itable drifting toward misanthropy, either to 
indulge in a hopeless retrospection of what might 
have gladdened life, or a dismal review of op¬ 
portunities lost andvears sacrificed at the shrine 
of some foolish psMoa. As individuals, wo are 
sadly given to these gloomy retrospections. The 
worry and over-work of the mechanic, tho bust¬ 
ling activity of the merchant, the perplexing 
brain-work of the professional, only cover a 
crowd of lurking memories that sadden and tor¬ 
ture the intervals of repose. As a people, we 
let very little sunshine into our lives. Our pe¬ 
culiar organic temperaments absorb too much of 
tho dismal and too little of the bright and joyous. 
We are prone to magnify emotions that require 
but little determination, to overcome perma¬ 
nently. Suicide and insanity seldom occur 
among the Germans, although they are essenti¬ 
ally a dreamy, metaphysical and thoughtful peo¬ 
ple. They devote half their lives to amusement 
and pastime; when labor is ended, they invari¬ 
ably seek recreation and relaxation. 
When that mind dawns upon tho age, that 
shall teach us not to fritter away our lives in 
ephemeral pleasure and wasteful idleness,—and 
we heed the lesson,—then will these suicidal 
tendencies be absorbed by better and nobler 
desires. We cannot afford to sacrifice a promis¬ 
ing future for mere personal gratification. Ac¬ 
tivity, energy, industry and perseverance are the 
necessary combatants to most of the elements in 
this monomania. The cnl tivation of them brings 
us into sympathy with the world and the objects 
of civilization. We are all dying for the want of 
clear sky and warm sunshine. Our lives grow 
darker and sadder every year, only becauso we 
will not see the flowers that lie smiling at our 
feet; only because we will not listen to the sweet 
bolls of hope tinkling in our hearts the glad 
music of heaven, and the grand diapason of the 
eternal spheres. Those who are drifting into 
misanthropy must check (ho tendency so inevit¬ 
ably hurrying them on. Their selfish cravings 
must be overcome with the determination to livo 
broader, nobler lives, and participate in tho 
grand religion of humanity .—Springfield JSep. 
A ruler should reflect that Jto reign over ho 
must rein in. 
We live amid surfaces, and the art of life is to 
Bkate well on them. 
G re at opportunities are generally the result 
of the wise improvement of small ones. 
It is right to tnnko an example of men whom 
it would be wrong to take as an example. 
Tue greatest hypocrite never imposes upon 
his neighbors half so often as upon himself. 
Tue moat unwholesome bread, iu tho long 
run, is that taken out of other men's mouths. 
An old toper out West says the two most pre¬ 
cious things now included in hoops are.girlsand 
kegs of whisky. 
The New Orleans Picayune says that mosquito 
bars are the only ones that can be open after 
nine o’clock. 
Fuller calls it the misery of moderation that 
the moderate man never has any party to stand 
by him. 
Air, food, sleep, and the cheerful emotions, 
are the host restoratives to exhausted nerves. 
A young lady should take heed when an ad¬ 
mirer bends low before her. The bent beau is 
dangerous. 
Tue efforts of a strong man, aided by the 
counsels of a sensible woman, rarely or never 
fail to succeed. 
Hall’s Journal of lfmlthfin.ya that the most 
common way to a premature grave is down a 
man’s throat. 
nE that accuses all mankind of corruption, 
ought to remember that he is sure to convict 
only one. 
Grandmother used to say to grandfather:— 
“It is no use quarreling, my dear, when you 
know we must make it up again.” 
The power of fortune is confessed only by the 
miserable; for the happy impute] all (their suc¬ 
cess to prudence and merit. 
Get your enemies to read your works iu order 
to mend them; for yourjfriend is so much like 
yourself, that he will judge very much as you do. 
Character is like money; when'you have a 
great deal, you may risk some; for, if you lose 
it folks will still believe you have a’plenty to 
spare. 
Nature, forseeing that her children would be 
tampering with minerals, hid thorn in the earth, 
and covered them with herbs and plants, as fitter 
for their use. 
Death we can face; but, knowing as many of 
us do what is human life, which of us could, if 
consciously summoned, lace the hour of birth! 
French sorrow and sentiment are illustrated 
at Montmartre cemetery, where a tombstone has 
been erected with a colossal tear carved on it, 
and the words underneath, “Judge how we 
loved him!” 
A Spanish proverb says:—“A little in the 
morning is enough; enough at dinner, is but 
little; but a little at uight Is too much.” The 
Indian philosopher, equally profound, held that 
“too much rum was just enough.” 
Concerning the sweetening required in rhu¬ 
barb pies, it Pittsfield lady gives tho following 
infallible rule:—“Throw in sugar as long as 
your conscience will let, you; then shut your 
eyes and throw in one handful more.” 
Somkhody has given utterance to the follow¬ 
ing scrap of philosophy, which, if it be not good, 
is at least cool“ The poor man’s purse may be 
empty, but he has as much gold in the sunset, 
and silver in tho muon as anybody." 
If you must form harsh judgments,‘.form them 
of yourself, not of Others; anil, in general, begin 
by attending to your own deficiencies first. If 
every one would sweep up his own walk, we 
should have very clean streets. 
My heart leaps up when I behold 
A rainbow iu the shy; 
So it when ray life began, 
So lb It now I am a man, 
So be it wheu I die.— Wordsworth. 
A boy makes a huge snow-ball to show his 
skill aud perseverance, and as something to 
wonder at, not that ho can swallow it as an ice, 
or warm his hands at it; and a man accumulates 
a pile of wealth for pretty much the same rea¬ 
son. 
If the works are so perfect, how glorious must 
be the Maker of them. If the beauty of that 
which he has created is inexpressibly great, infi¬ 
nitely greater must be that Being who surveys 
all creation at a single glance. 
We do not die wholly at our deaths; wo have 
mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty 
after faculty, attachment after attachment, dis¬ 
appear; and death only consigns the last frag¬ 
ment of what we were to the grave, 
“Well, neighbor, what is the'most Christian 
news?” said a gentleman to his friend. “ I have 
just bought a barrel of flour for a poor woman.” 
« Just like you! Who is it that you have made 
happy by your charity this time?” “My wife!” 
A French writer has said, that “to dream 
gloriously, you must act gloriously while you 
are awake, and to bring angels down to converse 
with you in your sleep, you must labor in the 
cause of virtue during the day.” 
FIXING SOUNDS 
Some months ago, M. Scott, well known among 
the savans of Paris, exhibited experiments of a 
very interesting character, in thu art of fixing 
sounds. Tfie same species of natural means so 
successfully employed in photography with refer¬ 
ence to form, namely, the aerial undulations of 
which sounds consist, are, by the, construction of 
the phonograph , made ingeniously to subserve 
the intricate purposes in view. Tho representa¬ 
tion of the various curves and vibrations per¬ 
formed by an instrument of highly susceptible 
mobility, while acted upon by these atmospheric 
movements, has been perfectly accomplished; 
and although a serious difficulty seems to ob¬ 
struct the re-translation of this somewhat indefi¬ 
nite language into the regular and fixed signs for 
the verbal sounds which produced it, M. Scott is 
sufficiently sanguine about the result to give 
cause for alarm in the minds of the short-liand 
writers, whose occupation would be more detri¬ 
mentally affected by this wonderful apparatus 
for reporting, than even that of artists has been 
by the sister invention of photography.— Cassell's 
Illustrated Family Paper. 
Tins Phntatepcu ant> Book of Joshva, Critically Exam¬ 
ined. By the Right Rev. Joun William Colk.vso, J> 
D., Bishop ot‘ Natal. Part II. New York: L). Apple- 
ton & Co. 
Tins work L an attack of a Bishop on the fundamental 
doctrine of his own church, the truth of the Old Testammt. 
A distinguished preacher of that church says:—“It is the 
clear teaching of those doctrinal formularies, to which wo 
of tho Church of England have expressed our solemn 
assent, and no honest, interpretation of her language can 
get rid of it.” Fully as the errors of Bishop Colhxko 
have been lately exported, and ufleu us his objections had 
been refuted in the last century, the opposersof the relig¬ 
ion of the Bible will admire the work. We need only say, 
wlmt all thinkers must have seen, that the Pentateuch is 
the foundation of all that follows in the religion of the 
Old Testament, as well as of the Now. If the Pentateuch 
is not trustworthy, then all that follows is in the same pre¬ 
dicament. if Moses aud Joshua are not true, the Israel¬ 
ites present the greatest mystery to the world. They have 
believod a lie, and what their fathers knew to be a lie. 
This can not be. Christ, our Lord, referred to the early 
parts of the Pentateuch ns the truth; Adam, Noah, the 
patriarchs, all arc veritable in Ills teaching; Moses aud the 
Prophets are the authority accredited by the Jews, Christ 
declares and at the same time sanctions; the Apostles, 
inspired by Christ to teach all needed truth, build up the 
Christian superstructure ou Moses and the Prophets, .Jesus 
Christ being the corner stone of thu whole. As well may 
some one show, a century hence, that the principal parts 
about the Declaration of Independence and the history of 
our Revolution are fabulous. For sale by Steels & 
NATURAL CALIFORKIAN CURIOSITIES 
In thu Cuso range of mountains, iso utiles 
from Los Angelos,is Brimsj^ue Mountain, a vol¬ 
cano now iu active oper^ton. Its altitude is 
about 1,000 feet. The exterior of the mountain 
is pure brimstone, hard, but yielding roadily to 
the pick. About two and a half miles from this 
mountain are a large number of hot springs, 
with temperatures up to boiling heat. About 
three miles distant from Brimstone Mountain is 
the Iron Mountain, so called, it rises 3,000 feet 
above the ocean level, is of a reddish color aud 
contains iron ore. A few miles distant, from 
Brimstone Mountain rises another called thu 
Glass Mountain, an extinct volcano. At a for¬ 
mer period it discharged large quantities of glass 
which Is strewn over the surface of the earth for 
a distance of twenty miles or more. Some of the 
pieces weigh from one to two hundred pounds. 
All of it is entirely free from impurities, aud per¬ 
fectly translucent 
MUSCLE AND BRAIN. 
Nature is a strict accountant; and if you 
demand of her in one direction more than she is 
prepared to lay out, she balances the account by 
making a deduction elsewhere. If you insist on 
premature or undue growth of any one part, she 
will, with more or less protest, concede the point; 
but that she may do your extra work, she must 
leave some of her more important work undone. 
In primitive times, when aggression and defense 
were the leading social activities, bodily vigor, 
with its accompanying courage, were the great 
desideratia; and then, education was almost 
wholly physical; mental education was little 
cared lbr, and, indeed, was often treated with 
contempt. But now that muscular power is of 
use for little else than manual labor, while social 
success of nearly every kind depends very much 
on mental power, our education has become 
almost exclusively mental. Instead of respect¬ 
ing the body and ignoring the mind, wo now 
respect the mind and ignore the body. Both 
these attitudes are wrong. We do not sufficiently 
realize the truth, that as, in this life of ours, the 
physical underlies the mental, the mental must 
not be developed at the expense of the physical. 
The ancient and modern conceptions must be 
combined .—Hubert Spencer. 
Thu Atlantic Monthly. —The Atlantic for Jnly—tlio 
first number of a new volume—presents an excellent t». 
hie of content- Aunnlg the prominent and able articles 
are “ Doings of a Sunbeam ’—a paper by Dr Holmes on 
photography; “Our General”—a review of Gen. Butler's 
administration in New Orleans, “Outaide Glimpses of 
English Poverty,” by Hawthorne; “ The Claim* to Ser¬ 
vice by Labor”—an able argumentative paper by Robert 
Dale Owen; and an article on “ English Naval Power 
and English Colonies,” which demonstrates the gradual 
but sure progress of England toward supremacy on the 
ocean There are poetical contributions from Lonufkl- 
low, Trowbridqb and nr. Parsons. The high reputa¬ 
tion of the Atlantic 1ms been well sustained the present 
year, and we commend it to special attention on the com 
mencement of a new volume under very flattering au¬ 
spices Published by Tioknok & Fields, Boston, at $3 
per annum. 
to be—the dying 
of the funeral rites; the desolate home. “ All is 
of God;” but the struggle between natural affec¬ 
tion and the obedience which yields calmly to 
His decree, is often of great severity. 
Trembling hope and fear were alike subsided 
now, and in their stead roso the pale cypress 
blossom of peace. 
Yes. the open window, the signal of sorest loss, 
was also the avenue of richest gain; the healing 
breath of heaven, and its baptismal light, were 
they not messengers to the spirit of the denpend- 
od experience attained onlyjthrough tears? We 
clasp the hand whose grasp is loosening, with re¬ 
doubled earnestness. Our lovotories out madly 
as its idols fade; but when, finally, removed be¬ 
yond the reach of human yearning, we remem¬ 
ber who it was that said, “Thy brother shall rise 
again.” 
Long after the autumn earth had gatherer in 
the form of Charlie, like one of its own spring- 
flower lives, sweet and brief, the history quickly 
told, I recalled tho lesson of that silent ho.ur’a 
teaching—that one which deatlqwas intended to 
convey—of infinite gain. 
Not only the empty cage, when our singing- 
birds have flown—not only the dreary tomb, 
where we have laid our [dead away—were they 
not heart-broken mourners who, bending 'down 
to the sepulchre’s edge, saw tho grave cloths cast 
aside, and angels watching where he bad rested? 
“Foolscap.” —Everybody knows what “fools¬ 
cap” paper is; but. few probably know how it 
came to bear this singular cognomen. When 
Charles 1st found his revenues short, he granted 
certain privileges, with a view to recruit them, 
amounting to monopolies, and among these was 
the manufacture of paper, the exclusive right of 
which was sold 10 certain parties, who grew rich 
and enriched the government also, at tin* expense 
of those who were obliged to use paper. At this 
time all English paper bora in water-marks the 
royal arms. The parliament, under Cromwell, 
made jests of this law in every conceivable man¬ 
ner; and, under other indignities to the memory 
of King Charles, it wa3 ordered that the royal 
arms be removed from the paper, and the '’fool’s- 
cap and bells” be substituted. These, In their 
turn, were also removed wheu the Rump parlia¬ 
ment was prorogued; but paper of the size of the 
Parliament Journal still bears the name of 
“ foolscap.”—London Notes and Queries. 
Harper’s Monthly for July iij a very readable and 
well illustrated number of that popular magazine. It 
opens with an interesting and handsomely illustrated ac¬ 
count of Gen. Harrison's Campaigns—a very readable 
history. The next s a capital sketch, with suitable illus¬ 
trations, of the experiences of an American family in 
Germany, by J. Ross Browne. The number is altogeth¬ 
er a good one—the novelettes and miscellaneous reading 
being above the average. 
PHYSIOLOGY OF SWIMMING, 
The medical authorities of tho French army 
especially recommend that men inclined to dis¬ 
ease of the chest should be continually made to 
swim. The following are the effects (which M. 
le Docteur Dulon attributes to swimming) on the 
organa of respiration: 
A swimmer, wishing to proceed from one place 
to another, la obliged to deploy his arms and legs 
to cut through tho liquid, and boat tho water with 
them to sustain himself. It is to the chest, as 
being the central point of sustentation, that every 
movement of the limbs responds. This irradia¬ 
tion of the movements of the chest, far from being 
hurtful to it, is beneficial; for, according to a 
sacred principle of physiology, the more an 
organ is put into action the more vigor and apti¬ 
tude it will gain to perform its functions. Apply¬ 
ing this principle to natation, it will easily be 
conceived how the membrane of the chest of a 
swimmer acquires development—the pulmonary 
tissues firmness, tone and energy. 
Books Received. 
[Most of the works named below will be noticed in 
future numbers of the Ritual— as soon as we can give 
them proper examination.—E d.] 
A Text Book of Penmanship —Containing all the estab¬ 
lished Rules and Principle* of the Art; with Rules for 
Punctuation, Direction and Forms for Letter Writing: 
To which are added u Brief History of Writing, and 
iiinU oil Writing Materials, etc., etc , for Teachers and 
Pupils. Adapted for tue m Schools, Academies and 
Commercial Colleges, in connection with any well-ar¬ 
ranged series of Copy Books- By If. W. Ellsworth, 
Teacher of Penmanship in the I’uhlic Schools of N. Y 
c ity, and for several years Teacher of Book Keeping, Peu- 
ipaushlp and Commercial Correspondence, iu Bryant, 
etrattou it Co.’s Chain of Mercantile Colleges, [pp. 
--J i New York L>. Appleton tk Co. Rochester — 
Sickle & Avery. 
A Hisjorv of the Intellectual Development of 
Lvanpa. Ity John William Draper, M. D., LL I)., 
Profet*or of Chemistry and Physiology in the Uuiversi- 
of'New York, Author of a “Treatise on Human 
Pn> -ology, ’ &c , &c. |8vo.— pp. 631.] New York: 
Harper & Brothers —1863. Rochester — Steele 3c 
Increasing Care for the Deaf and Dumb. 
—At the beginning of the century there were 
hardly half a dozen schools for this unfortunate 
Class. Ten years ago there were ISO, with 0,000 
pupils; of these about 80 were in Germany, 45 
in France, and 22 in the British Isles. There 
are 22 institutions in the United States, with 130 
teachers — about 50 of whom an educated deaf- 
mutes— and 2,000 pupils. Those at Hartford 
and New York are the oldest, having been estab¬ 
lished in 18J7. The annual support of the 22 
institutions requires about $350,000, of which 
about $300,000 is appropriated by the legislatures 
of twenty-nine States. 
Bad Paul and Goon Paul.— Mrs. Sigourney, 
iu a beautiful little book called “Sayings of the 
Little Ones,” tells the following’story of little 
Paul:—Little Paul came to spend an hour with 
his cousin Ellen. He was usually a good boy, 
but on this occasion a strange chauge’came over 
him. Nothing pleased him: and from dissatis¬ 
faction he proceeded to cross words and aggres¬ 
sive measures. He pulled the doll from his 
cousin and threw it angrily onthe'floor. He hud 
even his hand raised to strike Ellen, when his 
aunt came in. “This cannot be[good Paul, 
Health and Strength.— A man who takes 
proper care of himself, and indulges in plenty of 
air, exercise, and, above all, recreation, ought to 
be in a high range of health and strength from 
twenty-four years to sixty-five. 
Ha! is the interjection of laughter; ah! of sor¬ 
row. The difference between them is only the 
transposing of an aspiration; in the turning of a 
breath, our mirth is changed into mourning. 
