The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-10-31
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: PERMANENT VALUE OF kNoWLEpcE
f One Of the most agreeable conse
e quences Of knowledge is the respec
) and Importance which it communi
> Gates to old age Men rise in char
I acter3often as they increase in years
e they are venerable from what they
a have acquired, and pleasing from
e what they can impart. i, Ifthey out
: live their faculties, the mere frame it
) self is respected for what it once con.
!, tanned; but women (such is their un
) fortunate style of education) hazard
everything upon one cast of the die
: when youth is gone, all is gone. No
human creature gives his admiration
for nothing; either the eye must be
I charmed or the understanding gratifi-
ed. A woman must talk wisely or
Hook we'll. Every human being must
! put up with the coolest civility, who
, has neither the charms Of youth nor
the wisdom of age. Neither is there
the slightest sommisseration for de-
: cayed accomplishments; no man
:. mourns over the, fragments Of a dance
J, or drops a tear on the relics of must
cal skill. They are flowers destined
| toperish; but the decay Of great tai
, ents is always the subject Of solemn
pity; and even when their last memo
| rial is over, their ruins and vestiges
are regarded with pious Affection
: Sydney Smith.
Schools FOR TEAcHERs.--At the
), late annual Convention Of the Nor
! folk (Mass.) County Association for
, the Improvement Of Common Schools
!, the following excellent resolution was
/ passed. s5 aa9 2sa
Resolvcd, That in the opinion Of
! this Convention the Institution of
5 Normal Schools is to be hailed as the
| commencement of a valuable work
which will signally promote the cause
of popular Education-and that the
). inhabitants of the several towns, OF
: committees of the same, by encourag
: ing the attendance at these Schools
5. of suitable persons, with a view tc
: their future employment as Teachers
in the District Schools, will confer
f an important benefit on their town
!, and on the community at large.
| JUAN FERNANDEz.---The Philadel
Z phia Gazette gives the following ex
: tract Of a letter from an officer Of the
5 U. S. sloop Falmouth, dated May l {
$ 1889.
f ''Just arrived at the Island of Juan
! Fernandez, Robinson Crusoe's Is
: land.) Have been on shore; took q
; round turn, found but one family: ii
: consisted of eight persons, babies, in
/ Guided. The Island, no doubt is sus
| ceptible of a high state of cultivation
: bat has been neglected. Some time
! ago many convicts from Chill wereaor
: it, but there are none now. | motto
1 ed great many dogs, and about TWEEN
t ty horses, which had probably beer
left on the island by those who hao
. charge of the convicts.'
, GAMBLING FOR THE BENEFIT OF EDU
r cArloN.-We4 learn from the Post thai
yesterday afternoon, Edward Ray
& mond, broker in Washington street
! was brought before the Police Cor
i for examination, upon a charge of sci
!, ling three hundred lottery tickets
' The principal witness az ainst him wa
: Thomas Thompson, retail dry good
), dealer in Washington street, nea
a Raymond's office. He said that h
f had bought over one thousand ticket
: of Raymond within a year, at price
r varying from one dollar to l6 dollar
4 apiece, according to the scheme. H
+ purchased tickets almost every day
/ sundays excepted. All the ticket
l were on the School Fund Lottery ii
e Rhode Island. He further testified
t|that he had recently failed, and tina
Z his creditors wished to know what ha,
: become of his property, and he tol,
e them that he had expended it all ii
0 lottery tickets, except SO much as h,
! spent for his living. For the want 0
4 bail in the heavy sum of ten thousane
! dollars, for his appearance at the MI
: nicipal Court, he was committed t
i jail.--Boston Jour. sasa
; SINGULAR PHENoMENoN.--We ar
g formed, on good authority, that Capt
7 Thomas Of the brig Edward, of Alex
andria, I'd. c. arrived at Triest
lin May last. He states, that in pass
4 ing south of Sicily, he sailed over. tn
$ spot which was occupied by the vo
t canic island in 1888. After sailin
b about Is miles on a due east course
d he suddenly perceived the water a
t around him to be as white, asif the bot
tom had been chalk OF. coral. 1t wa
! SO white, that every thing appeare
Y bright with the reflected light, SO tina
0 one might see to PICK Up a pin O