Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-30

All that now seems REQUISITE 10 Tue CUM
plete success of the system is, that some c
and efficient means be adopt
ed for the preparation of common school I
teachers. This subject was fully explain {
ed in the last annual report of the super
intendenl, and will be again embraced in
a revised draft of the whole school law, !
which the officer will shortly lay before
you. Permit me to bespeak for it your
favourable consideration, and the hope that
this want of the system may be supplied.
Three years ago there were 32,544
children in the common schools of the
State. There are now about 100000
The schools were then kept open not
quite three and half months -They are |
now open about seven months in year.
The whole amount of State appropriation
was then seventy-fve thousand dollars an
nually; it is row equal to one dollar for
each taxable, which will amount to three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the
next school year.
| Artificial Showers.
Stand back Animal Magnetism, and all
the rest Of the train of humbugs, and give
precedence to Mr.. Espy, who has peti.
toned Congress to be appointed Commits
sioner of the Storms With all the CRAWL
ty ola genius seeking patent for new
washing machine, MIR. Espy, of PhiIa-
deiphia, has sent memorial to the Sem
ate, representing that he is the inventor of
a machine with which he can raise thun-
der cloud at moments notice; ave, and
tap it too; and then extract from it such
a plentiful rain as shall not only moisten
the dry and parched earth, but swell the
Ohio river to such a magnitude that it
shall be navigable for Steamboats, at all
seasons of the year. But the mortal who
has such tremendous power in his hands,
is fool to beg patronage from any body.
Let him station his machine a! the door
+ ofthe Capitol some day. and, just as the
members of Congress are passing out af-
ter an adjournment, "pelt them heartily !"
with rain, and they will soon beg of him to
accept any favors they may have to give.
But he needs no aid from government
So great is the number of people who are
dissatisfied with the laws and operations of
, nature, that he would never lack employ
, .nen., if he can only perform what he
PROMISES A friend of ours has got on his
. premises a beautiful site for a mill; a
, large basin seems to have been scooped
; out purposely for pond and he often
= lamentS that it Is not. furnished with even
small stream Of water. The manufac-
; turers, too, will be ready to contract with
: him fora constant supply. of. water at all
seasons of the year. Then, again, there
, are country towns that wish TO be con
verified: into sea-ports. Why the man who
can construct good navigable river from
i Worcester to Long Island Sound. or Mar
' taganset Bay. SO that steamboats, can come
from the &C, an up into the Heart of the
: Commonwealth, is terribly beside him
. self TO be caught laying at the doors of the
= Capitol, CULVER among LlIiputians
q begging like sick girl for cup of wa
ter. Out on such an arrant impostor =
:, his own actions belle his professions j
Worcester Palladium.
It The Wonderful Dutch Boy.
l. We find in the Scottish Guardian o.
November 9th, the following account Of
4 Master Gustave Bassle, a Dutch bow
; whose exhibitions of extraordinary mem
DRY and mental power were exciting the
: wonder Of the people of Glasgow. Cases
!, OF similar precocious genius have occur
I red repeatedly in Europe in times past
and this account of Gustave Bassle will
e remind many of our readers of our own
{ countryman, Zerah Colburn, whose pow
Il ers of memory and calculation were al
d most as extraordinary as those of Master
II Bassle.--Neao York Observer.
This very interesting little boy is to
u give, we observe. two concluding CONFER.
s9zaones on Thursday next, the 2oth. He
q promises that he will a" omit nothing that
d can render these SceanceS both interesting
and agreeable !" and if they prove at ali
as interesting undergraduates those whic b
y he has already given, we promise great
: treat to those who may go TO hear him.
y We suspect that he is not sufficiently
e known, and that the entertainment is no,
n generally understood-at least we can ac-
n count in no other way for our having met
: so many persons who were not at any Of
t the concerS0ziones last week. Those
}, who were present, we afe sure, will bear
e US out when we say that a more extraor-
Y binary display of the powers of mind new
V er was witnessed. Indeed, it is difficult
: TO account on any known principle for the
!, very singular memory whic h the boy dis
r fpIays. We call it memory Cor want of an
It other word, but he says himself that it is
4 not by the ordinary operation Of memory,
t but by particular artificial process of he
! mind that he is enabled to answer with so
: much facility questions of a nature SO ex.
e tensive in their details, and so intricate in
S their nature, as would battle the greatest