Litchfield enquirer., 1833-08-29

Lines for .tke LGdies.-The followin
 came written in very delicate little hand
 and though it cost nine-pence. we consIde
 it worth the money twice over:
 I often hear amongst my friends remarks
 made like the following. How much poe try Mrs. Hemans has written Miss Edg- worth has done much to interest the pdb- lie mind OF the subject of education. Mrs. Sigonrney's delightful poetry has contribu- fed greatly to elevate and purify public sem tinIent in this country. If American la dies arc not excellent practical economists, and malicious in almost every situation, it will not be the fault of Mrs. Child. All these things are very just, admit, but they do not the less pique my pride and excite my emulation. No one has volun- teercd to step forth as my champion, and I am therefore resolved to assert my own claims to distinction. And to show that these claims stand on no slender founda- ton, will state few of them--you your self shall be the judge. In the first place, I have made as many garments as Dorcas did, In the second, Wi my needle aud shears" have made more "auld claes look maist as weel's the new," than you could shake your editorial head at in a week, yes, in a month. have made pud- dings, pies, and cakes innumerable, and have more than five thousand times wash-- ed sundry little sunburnt faces over and over again.
 We'll done, Dorcas! Go ahead. Wash on, and write on.-BOst. Jour.
 Formation Of tte Brdin.-The brain of man excels that of any other animal in complexity of organization and fullness of developement. But this is only attained by slow and gradual steps. Examined at the earliest period that it is cognizable to the senses, it appears simple fold of ner- vous matter, with difficulty distinguishable into three parts, while little tail-like pro- 1 longation towards the hinder part is the only representation of spinal narrow Now in this state it perfectly resembles the brain of an adult fish, thus assuming, iH transitu, the form that in the fish is perma- nent. In short time, however, the structure is become more complex, the parts more distinct, the spinal marrow het- ter marked it is now the brain of a rep- tile. The change continues; by singu- lar motion certain parts (cOrporG quGdrs- geminG) which hitherto appeared on the upper surface, now pass towards the low CT; the former is their permanent situation in fishes and reptiles, the latter in birds and mammalia. This is another advance in the scale, but more remains yet to be done. The complication of the organ in- creases; cavities, termed ventricles, are formed, which do not exist in either fishes, reptiles, or birds; curiously organized parts. such as the corpora stri0t0, are ad- ded,-it is now the brain of the mamma lia. Its last and final change seems wan- ting, that which shall render it the brain of MAN. We thus see that man, considered merely as an animal, is, by his organiza- ton. superior to every other beings sand that, in the growth of a single individual, nature exhausts, as it were, the structure of all other animals before she arrives at this her chef-d'euvre. But we have not yet done with the human brain. M. Serres has made the still more singular observa- ton, that in the advance towards the per- feet brain of the Caucasian, or highest va riety of the human species, this organ not only goes through the animal transmigra~ tions we have mentioned. but successively represents the characters with which it is found in the Negro, Malay, American, and Mongolian nations. Nay, farther, the face partakes in these alterations. One of the earliest points in which justification com mences, is in the lower jaw. This bone is, consequently, completed sooner than the other bones ofthe head, and acquires pre- dominance which. us is we'll known, it nev- CT loses in the Negro. During the soft pli- ant state of the bones of the skull, the ob- long form which they naturally assume, ap- breaches nearly the permanent shape of the American. At birth, the flattened face. and broad smooth forehead of the infant, the position of the eyes rather towards the side of the head, and the widening space between. represent the Mongolian form i; while it is only as the child advances to- wards maturity that the oval face, tle afch- ed forehead, and the marked features of the true Caucasian become perfecly deyel. oped.-Athen@um.
 I DIDN'T THINK.
 A sprighsly little girl, Nho occasionallv entertainS mo with her prattle has nf,ar