longer settled. But they are beginning to clear 
away the forest, and find it a pleasant region to 
live in. One of these sand hills its named, by 
the Indians, “The Sleeping Bear.” It Is some 
three hundred l’eet long and forty feet high, and, 
aa you see it from a distance, looks some like a 
great bear with its head between its paws and 
the water coming up almost to its nose. It 
made me think of the name some Dutchman 
gave a mountain on the Hudson river, “An¬ 
thony’s nose,” aud the great hill, two thousand 
feet high Jutting out into the water and rising 
up very steep, does look, as the steamboats pass 
it, a little like a monstrous great nose. 
As we get beyond tlm “Sleeping Bear” the 
lake is narrower, until we como to Mackinaw,— 
ft beautiful island, where are Indians, fishermen 
who catch white-fish and salmon, a little village 
and a fort where soldiers used to stay, but do 
not much now. It is delightful to roam over 
the island, aud up the rocks west of the fort you 
cau look over the lake a long way. The salmon 
comer at night; they live on bread, dripping, 
herrings, when they are cheap enough, and Udn 
beer or tea, and contrive to have a bit of meat 
on Sunday. When work Is slack they pawu 
their clothes, or whatever is worth pawning, 
^aciotts Cbojiic 
FINGER AND SIGNET RINGS 
If. Y. STATE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION, 
Not only do women wear rings, but ou any 
street of city or village may be seen daily the 
heavy gold, with stones of varied colors and as¬ 
tounding size on the fingers of mCn. In the 
past, men of rank wore rings more than now. 
In this country we are too busy, and not enough 
given to the antique, to make collections of 
finger rings, lint European cabinets are rich in 
each curiosities; reaching hack to the days ot 
the glory of Venice, and even to the times of 
Roman power. 
The Hotel deCluny, at Paris, has such a col¬ 
lection, not only of rings, but of necklaces, 
jewels, crowns, &c., of great wealth and historic 
Interest. The Londesboro’ collection is the best 
in England. At an early day the ring was proof 
of both nobility and authority, and even rich 
tradesmen had their “mark” on the ring,, used 
as their signature. Of these in the Londesboro’ 
collection is Fig. 1, with the private, signet on 
its fiice, and the owners initials on Its side, of 
exquisitely chased green and red enamel. These 
“marks” were merely devices adopted by each 
person for bis own use, combinations of initials 
Fm. 12. 
Here are three Moorish rings, for the Moors 
were skilled iu the tine arts quite as well as the 
nations of Europe. Fig. 10 is of silver, set w ith 
five turquoise and four rubies; the center tur¬ 
quoise with each kind alternating around it. 
Fia. 11 is silver, set with a bloodstone and a tur¬ 
quoise on either side. Fig. 13 is a silver signet 
tdug, with the owners name engraved on a 
cornelian. 
These are all in the Londesboro' collection, 
and doubtless if any of our readers over visit 
England, they will wish to visit a museum so 
rich in artistic antiques. 
the topics thus introduced. An address by Dr. 
Wilbur, partly a criticism on the stereotyped 
modes of classical education awakened much in¬ 
terest. A report by Prof. Howe on the “ Proper 
Limits of the Free School System,” called out a 
stirring discussion. An animated debate was 
had also, on a resolution recommending t hat the 
metric, or decimal, system of weights and meas¬ 
ures, be studied iu schools where practicable, as 
valuable from its adaptation to common use 
over the world; the resolution was adopted. 
Other subjects of interest and value, which we 
cannot mention, were examined. 
The change In the school law, made last win¬ 
ter, by which all rate-bills are abolished and a 
school tax put in their place was a subject of 
gratulation, as helping to raise the standard of 
education, more especially in country districts. 
The importance of graded Union Schools in 
towns and villages was dwelt on, and the signs 
of the times point toward the substitution of 
these free schools of a higher grade iu place of 
private academies, and to the scholars going up 
under one system, from the primary classes to 
the higher College grades. 
Iu Michigan they yet have the rate-bills, but 
their Union Schools are more numerous and per¬ 
fect than ours. Villages of from 1,500 people up¬ 
ward, and all the leading towns as well as cities, 
have fine buildings costing from $15,000 up to 
§75,000 with schools in which pupils can tit for 
the University. In these there Is no tuition 
fee for scholars residing In the district, hut 
those from outside, pay moderate foes, less 
somewhat than the usual terms In private 
academies, of which there are but few in that 
State, the excellence of the Union Schools ma¬ 
king them needless. The 8 tate University, un¬ 
der the Common School Law, has no tuition fee 
from students in the State, but is the People’s 
College. It has now 1,250 Students and 20 Pro¬ 
fessors, with a high standard of scholarship. By 
this plau the older pupils in country districts, 
can go to these Union Schools more advanta¬ 
geously than to Academies, and the spirit of the 
school is broadly democratic, while the country 
district school is not injured, but rather bene¬ 
fited by being a purt of this graded system. 
The abolition ot' our school-rates, by the late 
change in the law, puts us in advance in that re¬ 
spect, and should make it all the more feasible 
to avail ourselves of any excellencies we may 
find in other States. The tendency In higher 
schools and colleges to pay more attention to 
Natural Sciences, and to Buch studies as the new 
conditions of our modern life call for, and to 
give students more latitude of choice as to the 
branches they may pursue, was manifest in the 
Association as we find it elsewhere. 
On the last afternoon ft paper on Studies for 
Ladies’ Colleges, by Dr. J. C. Gallup, called 
forth an animated discussion, of which the gen¬ 
eral tendency was in favor of more thorough 
and varied education for womeb. Mr. Bar¬ 
ringer of Troy, recommended the higher, as 
well as the primary, education of the sexes 
together. Miss Sherman of Lyons, made a 
speech, sensible and pointed, on the need of 
physical education, that women might finish 
their studies with more health and capacity to 
work as teachers or otherwise. Mrs. H. E. 
Randall of New York, also read simply and 
An Order for a Picture,” by 
MURDER AND SUICIDE 
The news items of the daily journals seem to 
indicate an alarming increase in the number 
of murders and suicides throughout the count, 17 . 
Whether this Js a real or only an apparent in- 
crease—due to the facta being reported about the 
question which statistics alone 
The Journal of Commerce has 
same time, is a q 
can determine. '*■ 
some truthful reflections on the alleged fact: 
One of the great earthly benefits conferred 
upon the world by Christianity was the new 
value that it put upon human life. Until Chris¬ 
tianity came, human life was something which 
men threw away like a worthless weed. Murder 
and suicide were the all-prevailing crimes of an¬ 
tiquity. Men not only took other lives without 
3 feeling of remorse, but tossed oil their own 
with the same indifference. The gladiatorial ex¬ 
hibitions were possible only In a pagau world. 
Men trained slaves as “gladiators” and hired 
them out to be killed at bo much a head. The 
slaves themselves went into the contest, with the 
recklessuess and resolution of bull-dogs, and 
Fig. t. Fro. 2. 
Venetian jewelry was rich and exquisite —ex¬ 
celling all other. In the Londesboro’ collection 
Is one, Fig. 3—claws grasping a sharp-pointed 
diamond, much sought, for writing ou glass. 
With such a diamond, doubtless, the graceful 
courtier, and ready man of the world, Sir Wal¬ 
ter Raleigh, wrote on a window pane of Queen 
Elizabeth's palace, “Fain would I rise, but 
that I fear to fall”—to whtch she added; “If 
thy heart fail thee do not rise at all.” Thus en¬ 
couraged he rose to fortune and high achieve¬ 
ment, but reached a prison at last, though hardly 
for bis own fault. We have, la Fig, 4., the sig¬ 
net ring of Sir Thomas Gresham, an early mer¬ 
chant-prince Iu London, a man of signal ability 
and character. It opens horizontally, forming 
two rings linked together, with the inner side 
of each inscribed with the half of a scripture 
passage, as the fashion was, Quod Dens conjunxit 
and Homo non seperct , make up the text in this; 
| “ What God hath joined let no roan separate.” 
German Temperance Proverbs.— Bacchus 
has drowned more than Neptune. 
Temperance is the best physic. 
The ass that carries wine drinks water. 
Wbeu the wine is In, the wit is ont. 
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. 
There is no truth In wine. 
Ever drunk, ever dry. 
Where drink enters wisdom departs. 
Temperance Is honorable. 
Temperance is a feast. 
Don’t Do It.—M y son, a bad boy is trying to 
persuade you to go to forbidden places. Don’t 
do it. 
My son, you have lately learned to do a bad 
deed. Don’t do it any more. 
Mv sou, doing wrong is the worst thing you 
can do. Don’t do it. 
My son, you have been guilty of a fault, and 
you are being tempted to bide it. Don’t do it. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
THE LIGHTNING KING. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS, 
nr s. n. noLMics 
the Lt’htniug King 
Sat— have you seen 
And have you heard his lightning sing? 
And how he speaks both near aud ftir, 
To speed or stop the railroad car ? 
His lightning horse does never tire. 
Yet runs astride the inaglc wire; 
You see him not, but hear him kick, 1 
From being spurred by A. L. Dick.* 
Like Alexander on his throne; 
He speaks in quiet undertone; 
But yet ’tU power combined with will, 
Although It’s done so very still. 
’Tis wondrous strange the way It’s done, 
And how one’s thoughts so swift can run, 
For nought is seen, or little heard, 
Still, far away they hear each word. 
In days of yore, the heathens’ miml, 
Whose superstitions made them blind, 
Would look with awe, and quake with fear, 
Lest Satan’s Imps were coming near. 
But now, it makes their children laugh, 
To learn these pranks of Telegraph; 
As, commonplace they hear its clatter, 
With “we don’t care of what’s the matter.” 
The first who found this lightning horse 
Is said to be Professor Morse ; 
With science’s aid and mother wit. 
He caught its power by the bit. 
With speed of thought the far-off know 
The latest news for weal or woe; 
Through ocean’s bed it wipes out space, 
And marks an era to our race. 
Syracuse, N. Y., July, 1867. 
of New York Central Railroad 
These were called gimmel rings, from the 
Italian gemdli, twins, and were much used as 
wedding rings. Their make will be seen by an¬ 
other Londesboro’ specimen, Fig. 5 and 6 . The 
closed ring, os 
Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 60 letters. 
My 33,15,10, 84,10 is a river In South America. 
My 44, 28, 40, 38, 30, 21, 40, 23, 33, 49 is an animal. 
My 4, 37, 29, 33 Is much used. 
My 7,15,43, 3,36 is an article of dress. 
My 20, 24, 88 is u river in Europe. 
My 29, 47,13, 0, S3,12, 33, 42 Is a quadruped. 
My 50, 45, 20,3L 23,9 is a troublesome weed. 
My 6,34, 0 is a beverage. 
My 39, 22, 17. 27, 43, 25 Is a uoua. 
My 2, 29, 5, 32,14 is a musical instrument. 
My 48,1, 8, 35, 45, 30 is an article of dress. 
My 2, 84,19 U a transitive verb. 
My 11,18, 47, 41,9, I t Is very Inflammable. 
My whole is the middle verse in the Bible. 
A. H. Bates 
worn is rig. o. It is sot w 
sapphire aud amethyst, the elaborate design 
rlched with enamels. Fig. 5 shows the r 
parted, with its inscriptions. 
SUNDAY IN LONDON 
Fro. 5. * to. e. 
A mystical ring, from Londesboro,’ is Fig. 7, 
very curious; the outside plain and set with 
ruby and amethyst. Pressing tbc 3 e stones a 
Bpring opcn 3 and shows a surface engraved with 
mystical signs and names of spirits; Asmodiel, 
Nachiel, Zamicl, Ac. Worn without suspicion, 
such a ring might be used by some devotee of 
occult sciences, some seeker for the philoso¬ 
pher’s stone, or the elixir of life, or for power 
over the unseen world of spirits, as a mark of 
introduction to his brother heretics in day n 
when it was not specially safe to be known as 
straying from the beaten path. 
yet eloquently 
Alice Caret. 
A committee was chosen “ to memorialize the 
Trustees of Cornell University, to extend the 
privileges of that distinguished school to all, 
without distinction of race or sex.” 
On the whole, the meeting was of value and 
interest to the educators of the State, and to all. 
Much work was done, good order prevailed, and 
the President, S. G. Williams of Ithaca, filled 
his place excellently. 
“ Menadock,” in his London letter to the 
New York Times, draws the following picture 
of Sunday In a portion of the Euglish metrop- 
. large portion of the poorer classes in 
Sunday Is the great trading day—a 
which they make the bulk of 
From au early hour until 
and more or less through the day, whole 
Areola, Indianu. 
Answer in two weeks 
For Moore'a Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Lte steoh woh veol eht pglrsn-etml 
Jroceie ni yearl fwrsleo; 
Elt heost OWb vlco eht mmrsue 
Yeoju ehr cutdarine wobser, 
Rhe soier nad rcb boolsenwd, 
Hre gotsesnrs ulif fo elge, 
Tub eth doglen snitt fo mutuna 
Veah a shamtecsl march rof cm. 
Liberty, N. Y. 
Answer in two weeks. 
For a 
London, 
weekly fair on 
their purchase! 
noon, and more or less vuruugu u<*j, 
streets and quarters of the metropolis arc turned 
into noisy, open markets. All the shops are 
open, costermongers throng the sidewalks, gro¬ 
ceries, bread, meat, clothing, fish, vegetables, 
crockery ware, cheap jewelry, all sorts of things 
bought by the lower classes are cried and sold. 
The crowd, three-fourths women, is impassable. 
It is ragged and dirty as well. The noise is deaf¬ 
ening. In vain the church bells are ringing; 
they are not heard or not heeded. At l o’clock 
the public houses are opened, aud the thirsty 
crowd rushes into them lor gin and beer. The 
squares and streets of the fashionable quarters 
are as quiet as auy one could desire. The shops 
in the better class of business streets are all 
closed, except confectioners’ and tobacconists’, 
—cigars and sugar-plums being necessarily sold 
on Sunday; but just turn out of Holborn into 
Leather Lane, or visit the New Cut, in Lambeth, 
and a half-a-dozen other localities, ou Sunday 
morning, and you will see and hear what no one 
•Gen. D 
Telegraph 
LAKE MICHIGAN 
Too Fast.— As educators, we are advancing 
too rapidly. We must make haste slower. We | 
must strive to roll back this impetuous tide that 
threatens to sap the very foundation of our edu¬ 
cational system. Our colleges, academies aud 
public schools are true types of the spirit of the 
age. Our Htudents, snuffing the popular breeze, 
cannot wait to be scholars. High on the brow 
of too many of our would-be scholars you can 
trace this insignificant inscription, “ not trans¬ 
ferable; good for this trip only.” Our young 
men are not willing to tarry at Jericho until 
their beards be grown, but are pressing on to the 
Holy City. To their minds, Jerusalem is the 
place where men ought to worship.— Illinois 
Would’NT it be pleasant, this hot weather, to 
go on a steamboat the whole length oi Lake 
Michigan ? T hrcc hundred miles or more, from 
north to south, and when you are 
out on the 
center of the lake, land is forty miles away, out 
of sight just as much as though you were on 
the middle of the Atlantic. 
Years ago we went this voyage several times, 
and it is pleasant to think of it Starting from 
Chicago when it is very warm, as soon as you 
get out onto the lake the fresh air is delicious. 
1 __ a 
Behead a part of the Human system, auu leave a 
conjunction. 
Behead an animal, and leave a pleasant beverage. 
Behead a flying animal, and leave a preposition. 
Behead what we often sec by the roadside, and 
leave a loathsome disease. 
Behead a p3ri of an apple, and leave a mineral sub¬ 
stance. 
South-west Oswego, N. Y. E - p - p - 
jigr" Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
QUESTION. 
Ip the velocity at the surface and middle of a stream 
be 36 inches per second,what is the mean velocity ? 
New Loudon N. Y. 8. G. Cagwin. 
jag'" Answer in two weeks. 
Fig. 7. 
The matrimonial ring, about A. D. 1600, was 
generally inscribed with a “posy” ot one or 
two lines of rhyme. 
Fig. 8 is like the badge of the Order of the 
Garter, with a buckle in front, and the motto of 
the Order outside; inside “I’ll win and wear 
you.” Fig. 0 has “ Let Llkinge lasteinscrip¬ 
tions being always inside. 
The water is very deep, more than a thousand 
feet in some places. It is very clear too, aud in 
places near the shore where It is not very deep, 
by looking down the shady side of the vessel so 
that the sun may not dazzle your eyes, you can 
see large fish swimming about, ten or fifteen leet 
below the surface. The water is nice to driuk, 
and all the boats use it. 
After sailing some twelve hours or more 
northward, and meeting a good many vessels, 
we get in sight of trie eastern shore, on the 
Michigan side. The shore is sandy and some¬ 
times there are great hills of sand washed up in 
curious shapes by the water, and behind them 
Ion if rauges of forests with very few houses in 
sight. The farms and villages are back from the 
shore, and most of the people live in the more 
1 southern part of the State, which has been 
The University of Wisconsin.— The Univer¬ 
sity of Wisconsin has been reorganized under 
recent acts of the Legislature of that State. It 
has four departments of instruction, as follows: 
1. A College of Letters, embracing a four years’ 
course in mathematics, ancient and modern lan- 
g rages, literature aud science. 3. A College of 
Arts, embracing a three years' course in mathe¬ 
matics, modern languages and literature, and the 
natural sciences in inelr application to agricul¬ 
ture and the arts. 3. A Preparatory Depart¬ 
ment. 4. A female Department, embracing a 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 911. 
-It is an ill wind 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma 
that blows nobody good. 
Answer to Mathematical Probl 
share, 93.2602 + acres ; each danghte 
acres. 
