The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-04
sTROUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA, FEBRUARY A. 1869

be so numerous that only the most learn
ed ever become acquainted with them at
all. Numbers are supposed to have ori-
ginated from angles, as one angle would
represent one idea, which is equal to L;
two angles would represent two ideas,
which is equal to 2; three angles would
represent three ideas, which is equal to
3, &c. explained decimal notation, gave
the derivation of twenty, as follows, twain
Saxon word and ten-twain ten which
had become worn down to our present
twenty. Hamilton, he says, has it, that
there is no philosophy IN mathematics,
for the reason that it is only putting to-
gether and taking apart, but if we look
little further into the matter, we may find
the philosophy in the comparison of num-
bers. He thought we should teach child
rem expeditions methods of performing
examples in addition, subtraction, and di-
vision. Prof. Sanders conducted an ex-
ercise in spelling, which, if it did not
rebound to the credit of the teachers, was
at last wholesome lesson to them, and
by which they will, no doubt, profit
Mr.. Sitgreaves delivered a lecture on
School Management. He said teachers
must have purpose, their hearts must
be in the work if ladies, they dare not
run the schools and the young men at
the same time. Teachers should not ad-
vertise their business by their appear
ance. Mr.. Sitgraves would not prohibit
whispering entirely, would allow talking
in low tones.
I O'Clock, r. M-Lecture, by DR.. A.
r. Jackson, subject-"Egypt and the
Holy Land" Egypt is the land of ina
gination. Its hieroglyphics have been
the subject of speculation for 1900 years.
In America any thing having an anti
quity of 500 years is old in Egypt, l.
600; and in Rome, 1000 years is old
But Egypt boasts of an antiquity over
forty centuries, ,-Cleopatra's Needles at
Alexandria, which all school boys have
been taught to believe were erected in
honor Of Egypt beauteous Queen. We
are told by the lecturer, that they were
not erected to her memory, but that they
had graced some city fifteen centuries
earlier-only one Of them is standing at
the present day. Pompey's Pillar also,
which is popularity believd to have been
erected in honor Of that famous Roman
General, was said by the lecturer to have
been erected to the memory of Diocletain.
The scenery of the Nile, about the Delta,
is peculiar, banks..20 feet high, surround
ed by green fields, no fences, but divid-
ed by ditches,-land under water three
months in the year, the deposites thus
left, the means of enriching the land, >
here and there Arab villages to be seen,
surrounded by beautiful groves of Palms
An Arab village at at distance, and
Arab village close by are pronounced quite
different affairs. If we would remember
the East as the land of romance, We should
view it from distance. The Camel, he
pronounced as humbug, he looks well
in picture, is gentle from lazineSs, do
cile only when he wants to eat-an un
gainly animal and only fit for Arabs
They sprinkle the streets of Cairo. 4
pig or goat skin mounted on an Arab con
stitutes the street sprinkling machine
The Holy Land is not less debased anC
degraded than Egypt. Everywhere ii
seen desoation and decay. Beiront, the
finest city of Syria, with its $4,000 in
habitants, owes all its prosperity to the
foreign element in its population. The
Dragomau, or travellers guide, as describ
ed by the Doctor, is an important per
sonage. He must know everything anC
do everything, if interpreter and com
missariet, must be able TO account for
headache, and is expected to know th'
amount of fcas at each stopping place
The beauty of Jerusalem is all on the out
side-its streets are only ten feet wide
OF Jericho, the lecturer said it was dill
fcult to believe that it was Jericho
Fleas are its principal inhabitants, an
these are very irregular in their habits
staying up all night every night, an
, very full of vivacity. Lecture by Pro
fessor Sanders. Theme, Uniqueness.-
We live in world of variety, Suns, Stars
Clouds, all unlike mountains and vallie.
plains, oceans, prairies, all show variety
5 placid lake, rill, river as we'll as low san
| bank and frowning bluff. Among the o.
3 ganic products we have the lofty ceda
| and the lowly moss, the pine leaves al
spines, while the leaves Of the gallip(
!, pine will cover a company Of soldiers
: The whale sports in ocean, the animalcul
h in drop. No two grains of sand are
5 like, they are as diverse as boulders :
4 Nature never cast two articles out OF tn
n same mold, when the first is finished ST
S breaks the mold. The different races
n men differ in their heads, their eyes, the
n fiugers and in their lanuages, of whic
s there are from three to four thousan
G from the harsh sound of the Esquimo
d the soft delicate Italian. This variety
.. Nature is continual blessing, make d
e the flowers roses, who would not miss Il
f violet, make all men alike, like row
J. pins, what a desert of faces, and what te
m rible mistakes might there not appear b
to fore morning. Mankind differ In the