Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-11-28

OF Blomingvsilc, where lac viii teach the following
branches os,hegmphy, kalgpphy, ncachsgra-
ply, Reading and Geography, Nune,ics, Optics,
katortrics, tiydfoetallcs and rneuNatirs. Algebra
tiaxions. and SsSeoponine Constructions, tho Ma
thema,ics anaytcally. alphabetically, aud geometrl.
caliy, Demoaology, Psychology and Mythology,
Ontologv and Dentolugy. Also, ALI the ancient and
modern Languages, together with whatever is com.
pretended in the most extended cycle ii the cycle
I'ed,a ct nat and science. Great attention paid 40
the morals of the papils, and the mos, rplite pc,
teciions and gonuisctons Of the polished counter
lnst'lled. Terms moderate
II was true the faithful services Of
young Lincoln were forgotten. Parents
were anxious TO procure for their children
the blessings of an education which they
had not themselves; and, with pitable
credulity, which is still an American cha.
racteristc, exalted foreigner over one
identified with their own interests and ho-
nour. The Royal Professor was engaged.
and the inhabitants OF the village of Bloc.
mlngvile expected the goddess of Wisdom
to break shower OF knowledge over the
place, ms Jupiter had formerly done show
or of gold over the RhoJians. Plain En-
glsh aud useful knowledge were eschewed
and to please the importantly OF the
chldren--to pay proper respect To tho
teacher, whose dignity might not brook
plain learning SO well, and, furthermore,
to crafty the foolish vanity OF parents
boys who could not tell the difference be-
tween centre and circumference, or dislin.
gush between noun and an nterlecton,
were forthwith put into Latin. The chill
dren were delighted with the chanse--,hc
change of teachers and the change Of les
sons. Each one looked with contempt on
his former studies and the teacher who
superintendent them aud looked forward
to the period when they should become
royal professors themselves, an have royal
times Of 1t, and take very parnassus by
storm.
Time passed on, and the inhabitants OF
Bloomlngviile congratulated themselves
on having secured the services of SO able
IA Professor. He was regarded as the grea-
test philosopher OF the age. lie not only
understood all the discoveries made since
| the flood, but made some himself, with
which he contemplated soon to astound
the natlves--not OF our humble, little will.
age, but of the world. lie had also formed
very long and learned theories, which
were exceedingly mystiied, aud so the
people did not understand them This,
however, was u proof Of the correctness
OF the theories, as any which they would
have understood, could not have been
correct. OF these theories, | will cite
one OF the shorest and most plain, that
my readers may judgeof the deep sagacity
ofthe Professors enquiries into the nature
OF truth.
| That the days are longer in the sum-
mer than the winter is u natural fact
that all bodies expand with heat, and
contract with cold, is a natural law ~ that
the days in the summer are expanded by
/ the neat, and the days in winter are con-
tractcd by the cold is a natural inference.
| Was there ever deduction more natu-
raj The above was the theme of one Of
the Professors lectures, delivered in the
school-room few evenings after he had
come to the village: and after detailing
some interesting experiments which he
and his young friend, Lord Stanhope, had
made in London with Meomeior in.
strument which, the Professor said, gave
the COMMUNICATION and ratification of
heat to determine the phenomena of,hc
long days IN summer, and also some ex.
permenis which he and Earl Musgrave
had made, with spyromeicr--an nstru.
ment that show. the radiation OF cold, 10
explain the phenomena Of the short days
IN winter, he was enabled to demonstrate
the truth Of the above law and differences
to the entire satisfaction Of his astonished
auditors.
lie boarded at the village tavern, and
lodged IN the upper room Of the school,
which was building of story and a-balf
and here, late al night, when every light
in the village was cxtinguished, would b.
seen the CLEAN Of Professor Hardigan's
lamp. He was polite enough to drop ia
oil an evening, and see his neighbors for
a few minutes but such, he said, were
his studlous habits, that he enjoyed social
intercourse as The desert of life, but hard,
abstruse study as the substantial meat
At first he called on his friend and couu-
try woman, Mrs. Marguerite Lawson, al.
most every evening; but, after Clara's
return, his visits were more seldom, and
less lengthy which was strange, as the
intelligent like TO mingle with those OF
kindred spirit; and certainly she was the
best fitted to comprehend and enjoy the
Professors profound eru1ition. When
he did visit her aunt, Clara used her inge-
nuity to draw him out on particular sub
jects, that she might silt his pretensons
somewhat; but aunt Marguerite and the
Professor were both so fond of talking,
that she could scarcely edge in word at
all, much less enter into thorough un-