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CORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Educational. 
CORTLAND NORMAL SCHOOL. 
The accompanying cut and following ac¬ 
count of the Cortland (N. Y.) Normal and 
Training School, are from - 
Randall’s “ History of 
the Common School Sys¬ 
tem of the State of New 
York," published by Ivi- 
son, Bushman, Taylor 
& Co., and heretofore com¬ 
mended in the Rural 
New-Yorker: 
Organized in 1868, under 
the act of 18G6. The Nor¬ 
mal School building is a 
spacious brick edifice,three 
stories in bight, above 
the basement. The first 
story contains two study 
rooms for pupils in the 
lower grades of the Train¬ 
ing School, and, connected 
with each, four reoitatiou 
rooms, three ante-rooms, j 
and two cloak rooms. Up- 
on this floor is also a cen¬ 
tral hallway, with two 
large cloak rooms, a din¬ 
ing room, parlor, library, 
and office, together with 
rooms for the accommoda¬ 
tion of the steward and 
his family. The second 
story contains the chapel 
or study room for the Nor¬ 
mal Department, the lab¬ 
oratory, two private rooms 
for teachers, two cloak 
and six recitation rooms, 
ami two halls leading 
from the chapel to reci¬ 
tation rooms. Upon the 
third floor are the gymnasium, well sup¬ 
plied with apparatus for calistheuic ex¬ 
ercise*, two bath rooms, and dormitory ac¬ 
commodations for lady boarders. 
The grounds are commodlously located, 
near the centre of the village, and are ample 
for walks and drives, pleasantly laid out, 
and remote from noise or disturbance. 
The eo.it of the building and grounds, de¬ 
frayed by the corporation of the village, 
was about $89,500; furniture, $6,500; aud 
library and apparatus, $2,000; in all, about 
$98,000. 
The Board of Trustees consists of the 
Hon. Henry S. Randall, LL.D., [one of 
the Editors of Moore’s Rural New-York¬ 
er,] President; Hon. R. II. Duell, Secre¬ 
tary; Charles C. Taylor, Treasurer; Trus¬ 
tees, Hon. Horatio Ballard. Arnold Staf¬ 
ford, Henry Brewer, Norman Chamberlain, 
William Newkirk. 
The 8chool was opened March 3, 1869, 
under the charge of the following Board of 
Instructors: 
James H. Boose, Principal Department Meta¬ 
physics and Didactics. 
Norman F. Wright, Principal Department An¬ 
cient Languages. 
Frank 8. Capen, Principal Department Mathe¬ 
matics. 
Thomas B. Stowell, Principal 
Dept. Natural Sciences. , 
Martha Hoc, Superintendent 
Intermediate and Prlmaiy 
Dents., Teacher of Methods 
and Objects. 
Helen E. M. Babcock, Modem 
Languages and History. 
Miss M. Marsh, Vocal Music. 
Mary Morton, Drawing. 
Helen K. Hubbard, Principal 
Intermediate Dept. 
Margaret Hunter, Principal 
Primary Dept. 
Miss M. F. Hendricks, Teach¬ 
er of Beading, FJocution, 
and Gymnastics. 
Miss Mary F. Hull, Critic in 
Primary Dept. 
The object of the Normal 
School is to qualify young 
men and women to serve 
as teachers in the Publio 
Schools of the State; and 
of the Training School, to 
provide a practising school 
for the Normal students. 
The latter comnrises a 
Primary, Intermediate, 
and Academic Depart¬ 
ment. 
The whole number of 
pupils iu attendance dur¬ 
ing the year was about 800. 
— In previous numbers 
of the Rural we have 
given views and descrip¬ 
tions of the Jamestown, 
Potsdam, and Brockport 
Normal Schools, and shall 
in future issues give en¬ 
gravings and accounts of the Albany aud 
Oswego schools of like character. Hence 
those of our readers who shall have the vol¬ 
umes of this journal for 1371-72 will have 
illustrations of all the Normal School build¬ 
ings in this State, with historical sketches 
of these valuable educational institutions. 
SNOW AND SNOW-FLAKES. 
Such a common and simple substance as 
suow seems hardly worth writing about, as 
every one iu America is supposed to be fa¬ 
miliar with it. Common as snow-tlakcs are, 
they are the most wonderful aud beautiful 
CORTLAND NOIfM.VL AN O 'CHAININTO SC1TOOU. 
BE OBSERVING. 
Improvements and inventions have 
originated with thoughtful and observing 
people. Thoughts are suggested by many 
common things that produce great results. 
This was the case in making paper, so 
needful for so many purposes, from straw. 
It is said that Judge Henry Pettirone of 
Pennsylvania was passing by the contents 
of a leach tub, among which was a handful 
of straw that had been placed at the bot¬ 
tom. Taking a. little of the straw in his 
hands the idea suggested itself to him that 
it possessed all the qualities of strong liber, 
which the lye had softened until it was in 
a semi-pulpy state. He took this straw to 
a paper maker, who manufactured straw 
colored paper from it with such success 
that ho was induced to continue the ex¬ 
periments. These experiments have been 
improved by others, so as to make a very 
desirable and useful article. 
Teach the young to be observing. They 
are free from care, ami it will teud to im¬ 
prove their minds, strengthen their mem¬ 
ories, and develop their reason.— H. e.s. 
[The above is sound, and should be heed¬ 
ed by parents and all others engaged in 
training the jmung.—E d.] 
things iu the world—as well us the most 
powerful. Whether we look upon snow in 
the avalanches of the Alps, the huge drifts 
in the gorges of the Rocky Mountains, in 
the valleys of Vermont, or on the plains of 
the West, or whether we regard a single 
flake under the magnifying-glass, it proves 
alike interesting. When snow is formed in 
a very still atmosphere, it takes the shape of 
the beautiful figures represented in our il¬ 
lustration. The crystals are all in the form 
of six-rayed stars, differing from each other 
iu their conformation. The study of snow 
will afford much amusement, and, in con¬ 
nection with it, one should read some good 
work on the glaciers of the Alps, and other 
parts of the world, which are principally 
formed of snow. 
-- 
John Hopkins, a Maryland Quaker, who 
began life In Baltimore as a small grocer, is 
now the richest man South of Mason and 
Dixson’s line. He has given a great deal of 
money to the John Hopkins University, sit¬ 
uated on the outskirts of Baltimore city. 
He is still engaged iu business. 
-- 
What three great authors would a person 
name who witnessed the Chicago fire ? Dick- 
eus, Howitt, Burns. 
MOSAIC POETRY. 
1 only know she came and went 
—Lowell. 
Like trou tlets in a pool; 
—Hood. 
She was a phantom of delight, 
—Wordsworth. 
_ And I was liko a fool. 
—Eastman. 
“One kiss, dear maid,” 1 said, and 
sighed, —Coleridge. 
"Out of those lips unshorn,” 
—Longfellow. 
She shook her ringlets round her 
head, — Stoddard. 
And laughed in merry scorn. 
—Tennyson. 
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild 
sky! —Tennyson. 
You hear them, oh ! my heart? 
—Alice Cary. 
’Tis twelve at night, by the castle 
clock, — Coleridge. 
Beloved, we must part! 
—Alice Cary. 
" Como back! come buck !” ho 
cried in grief, Campbell. 
“ My eyes are dim with tears; 
Bayard Taylor. 
How shall 1 live through all the 
days, —Mrs. Osgood. 
All through n hundred years?” 
—T. S. Perry. 
’Twas In the prime of summer 
time. —Hood. 
She blest mo with her hand; 
-Hoyt. 
We stray’d together,deeply blest, 
5s! —Mrs. Edwards. 
Into the Dreaming land. 
— Cornwall. 
The laughing bridal roses blow, 
—Patmore. 
To dress her dark-brown hair; 
- Bayard Taylor. 
No maid may with her compare, 
Bra Us ford. 
Most Beautiful, most rare ! 
—Head. 
1 clasped it on hor sweet, cold 
hand, —Browning. 
1 The precious golden link; 
I —Smith. 
1 calmed her fears, and slio was 
calm, —Coleridge, 
“Drink, pretty creature,drink!’’ 
—Wonts worth. 
And so l won my Genevieve, 
—Coleridge. 
And walked in Paradise; 
—Hervey. 
The fairest thing that ever grew. 
Atween me and the skies. 
—Wordsworth. 
—Osgood. 
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SNOW FLAKES, MAGNIFIED. 
ur ^tani-i^Ucr, 
BEFORE AND AFTER. 
A THRILLING ROMANCE OF THE 
WAR FOR THE UNION. 
Written Expressly for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
BY TWO WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS. 
[Continued from puge 00.] 
IV.-The Mystery of Susan. 
“ Where’s Mr. Brayton?" said Minnie 
Taylor, holding a holly wreath at arm’s 
length. “ He promised to hang these 
wreaths for me, but a man is never where 
he is most wanted!" 
“What heresy Is that, Miss Minnie?” 
nulled out Harry Trav¬ 
erse, from acroHstho room. 
“ Ah, hmv do you do, 
Mr. Traverse? I was 
saying that men are always 
to be depended upon!” 
“Oh, Min, What, a story! 
Harry, she wasn’t, saying 
any such thing; she was 
talking In a most cruel and 
unjust manner about your 
much abused sex.” 
“Well, Maggie, I de¬ 
pended upon you to stand 
by me; your defection 
proves that there is no 
faith to be placed in wo¬ 
man. I will bang my 
wreath myself,” and the 
gay girl climbed a step- 
ladder aud put the holly in 
the place assigned it. 
“ Now, Maggie, answer 
my first question. Where 
is Mr. Brayton?” 
“ I don’t know, dear; lie 
went out a moment ago. 
Harry, did you see him 
as you came in ?” 
“Yes, I met him. He 
was hurrying to overtake 
Susan. He spoke to her 
a moment after I passed 
him. I heard their voices.” 
“How Btrange. Harry! 
What can it mean ? I did 
not know that Susan ever 
saw Mr. Brayton before.” 
