Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-02

The BRoKEN PANE. A question now universally
asked in every society in Paris is, " have you
the broken Window % This refers to an accident
of a very ordinary nature, followed, however, by
infinitely improbable result, which lately occurred in
the Rue de la Bourse, at Paris M. Moliere. boot
maker, at Mo- that street, has had fortune
thrust upon him. by cart knocking against his
shop window. Rather late at night, FESTIVE herse
backed against the iron shutters of the shop
front, with such force that pane of glass immedi
ately behind the part struck was cracked into thou
sands of splinters. Moere's first to secure
the address of the of the horse and cart, and in
the morning he about to send for glazier, whose
bill he would have charged to the person responsible
for the trespass upon his properly; but his window
was cracked in such manner window was
before, and NJ. Moere observed that every passer,by
in the street stopped to look at it, and exclaimed,
- How curious ~ g How extraordinary! W During
the whole day, crowd collected in front of the
house. 1t then occurred 10 NJ. Molere that since
his broken window appeared 10 possess such attrac-
tons for the public, it might answer his purpose to
make them pay for the qualification of their oslty
Accordingly he put up his outside shutter, and charged
one franc per head for admission TO his shop. Visit
focked to the exhibition, and in a few hours the
fame Of it spread far and wide. No: single par
tcle of the glass had fallen out but the cracks,
dating from the centre it'll wonderful regularity,
ance of gigantic cobweb. Seen from the interior
of the shop by gasight, it reflects the Prmatc coors
with extraordinary brilliancy, and may be compared
to a peacock's tall A Spectator has offered the
enormous of 4, 000 for the purchase of the fra
gile property, and the offer has been refused. M.
Moliere calculates that he shall receive that in
francs from Parisans alone, and afterwards the pane
may be removed from its iron frame and carried round
the provinces. This event has made more sensa-
ton than any that has occurred in Paris since New
Years day. The excitement is on the increase.
Crowds, too poor to pay the admission money, stand
about the house to talk the story, and malhe-
NAUTICAL students, in the QUARTER Latin are working
problems, in the confident hope of finding how to
crack another window in the way.
LEARNING VS.. DISCIPLINE. The subjoined extract
from Blackwood's Magazine, is both amusing and
instruct;ve:
Is Larning-larning farming, is the cry of father
an mother-if my boy had the farming What jenius
he'd bel In coorse, We old FOOLS your bO,chaL would
be swan among the gesings but it isn't 4" larnng'
half the world want; instead of " farming" by which
they cobwe5s picked out of dead mems brains,
if they would get some discipline. Discipline-dis-
cipline, that's the only education ever saw that
bro't boy to any good What's the CT battering
mans brains full of Greek and Latin pothooks,
that he forges before he doffs his last round jacket
puts his first g-taed blue, if We don't teach
him the old Spartan virtue of obedience, hard living
early rising ard them sort of classicsl Where's the
use of insrructing him in hexameters and pename
ers, you leave him ignorant of the value of penny
piece? What height of bretierin stupidity 1t is to
be film boys brains with the wisdom of the an
clients, and then turn him like an onaadhaun. to
pick up his vituals among the moderns.