Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-09-10

useful views in perspective, adorned our sorry
walls. No old mahogany ease clicked in I
corner, beating time for the class, and the
hour upstriking loud that it should not be
defrauded of its dues No glazed globe,
gliding round on easy axis, spun under Its
brassy equator to the antipodes on its sides
being touched. No bright zodiac was there To
exhibit Its cabalistic figures in pleasing ara
besques. In place Of these and other well
known objects, here stood line of dirty
inuch-inked desks, with an equally dirty row
OF attendant forms subiacent alongside. Their,
WAS a scantng-it seldom exceeded LASH
of ricketty rush-hottom chairs distributed a
long intervals along the wall ,,oal-blacl
slate, peggo1 high on its wooden horse .
keyless cupboard, containing the various i'm
.Fiements of learning, dirty buster, pewter
plate with oretaceous deposits, slop-basir
and a ragged sponge and then, unless he
had included the cobwebs of the ceiling, (not
usually reckoned up in the furniture of I
room,) no other movables remained. One
conspicuous fixture, however, there was, 4
gigantic Dutch stove. This numbering par.
allelogram, fagot-fed from tho corridor be.
hind, projected several feet into the room,
and shonc bright in the glaze of earthenware
eInbla2onments Ground it we would some
times congregate i'll the intervals of class in
winter to toast our hands and hind quarters.
as we pressed against the heated tiles, with
more or less Yigor according to the feryency
of the central fire; and iii summer either 10
tell stories, or TO con over tile pictorial His
tory OF the Bible, which adorned its frontis-
piece and sides. We cannot say that every
square exactly squared with even our school
boy notions of propriety in its mode of teach
ing religious subjects there was a Dutch
quaintness in the illustrations. which would
sometimes force smile from its simplicity
at others shock, from its apparent want of
decorum and reverance. Preeminent of course
among the gems from Genesis, Adam and
Eve, safe in innocency and 'naked truth. ;,
here walked unscathed amidst menagerie of
wild beasts-Mere, dressed in the custome If
their fall, they quilted Eden. and left il in
possession OF tigers, bears, and crocodiles.-
Hard by on asimaller tile, that brawny ssknaye
OF clubs, Cain, battered down his brother M
the altar; then followed long picture gallery
OF the acts OF the patriarchs and another
equally long of the acts of the apostles, Bnt
queer as many Of these misconceptions might
seem, they were nothing to the strange AZ.
tempts made at drasnatizing the parobies ofl
the New Testament. 9. y stout man. stag
gerilig under the weight Of an enormous beam
winch grows out of one eye, EMPLOYS bis
Fingers, assisted by the other, to piol, out y
olacK speck from the corner Of his neighbor.
here, an nnclcan spirit, as black as any sweep- /
Issues from the mouth of his victim win
wings and a tail Here again. the good a.
marian, turbaned like Turk, is bent ovar
the waylald traveller, and pours wine mud nj,
into his wounds from the months ~ ~
Florence TASKS; there, the grain Of mustard.
seed becomes tree, sl.eltering already large
ayiary in its boughs; tho woman. dancing i,
hoFnpipe with the Dutch broom. has sws- +,
her house. and 10! the piece Of s,,,u y
was lost, in her hand a serv- !. .''@s
hrds. hide his lords talent |
~ 49,. overlooked by magpie and
der z -" "te "tteh'Ne WITNESSES oil the !
4osit and many others too numerous to
mention. So much for tie empty school
room without boys Tile reader who has
peeped into ii untenanted, shall now, ii he
peases, be introduced, dunn ferret opuS full and
alive, should he not be able to trace out
very clearly the system at work, he will at
least be no worse off than the bee-fancier,
who hears indeed the buzzing. and sees a fine
and rellux current Of his winged CONNECTIONS |
ers entering in and passing out, but cannot
investigate the detail Of their labors any fur
Their. In the Yyerdun, as in the hymenop-
terusapiary, we swarmed, We buzzed, dispers-
ed, reassembled at the sound Of the bell.
iiocked in and 1ocked out, all the day long
exhibited much restlessness and activity,
evincing that something was going on, but
rtat it would have been hard to determine. ~
Here the comparison must drop. Bees buzz to
some purpose they know what they are |
shout; they help one another; they work or
derby and TO one end
How skillfully they build the cell,
How neat they spread the wax,
and labor hard TO store il well
With the sweet food, &c. &c.
2 lnnone Of these particulars did we resemble /
the "busy bee" This being admitted, our
object in offering few words upon the course
Of study pursued at the chateau is not with
any idea Of enlightening the reader as to any
thing reallyacquiredd during lifelong ten hours