Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-02-11

marbles Drougnt from various parts
of Greece and its colonies The
Assyrian galleries are a suite OF
three long rooms, with tie collec-
ton Of sculptures excavated on the
site Of ancient Nineyeh and its VI.
cinity. They run through the peri
cd from b. Z. $50 to the supposed
era Of the destruction of Nineveh,
lB. G. 625. There are also remains
Of Babylon. The antiquities ascend
as high as B. c. 1000, and down to
the Mohammedan invasion, A. d.
$40, illustrating their religious, civ
il, and domestic life. In one Of the
Egyptian galleries is the famous
Rosetta stone. 1t is a table Of
black basalt, having three inserip-
tions two 6g them in the Egyptian
iIanguage, bat in two difIeFeps char
acters, and the third in Greek
The inscriptions are Of 1le same
purport in each, being a decree Of
the priesthood at Memphis in hon
or of Ptolemy Epiphanes, about the
year B. c. 196. This stone fur
nished the key to the Interpretation
of the Egyptian characters, and
opened sealed book
There are also British and medi-
eval collections, the minutie Of all
of which bring us home to the ev-
cry day life aud customs of these
nations. To see and touch these
remains of antiquity links the past
with the present, and bridges the
great gulf that separates them
They prove the unity Of humanity,
and show the human race in all
times actuated by the same senti-
mcnts.
The domed reading-room of the
Museum will hold eighty thousand
volumes, and will accommodate
three hundred readers This tnsti-
tuition is but single illustration of
the facilities afforded in London
for study and researches. Others
of a similar character are the Kew
Botanical and the Chiswick Horti-
cultural Gardens, and the Crystal
Palace at Sydcnham.
After the close of the Worlds
Fair at London, in 1851, the i'm
mense glass and iron building, over
one third'of mile long, was pur-
chased by a company, which re-
moved it to Sydenham, a few miles
south east of London, and there
arranged it with extensive grounds,
for social and scientific uses Its
lofty arches and payillions are
plainly visible from the city, and it
is a conspicuous object en- route for
or returning from Paris. aeaaa
The view from the terracein front
of the building commands almost
the entire grounds, Before US de-
scend broad fights Of steps to an
avenue fanked by fountains and
basins of water, in which float many
species ofwater-fOwl. These foun-
tains and others in the grounds
play On gala occasions, and are a
great attraction, and interspersed
among flower beds, bowers Of
shrubs and grass-plots, present a
most beautiful aspect, The grounds
are planted with. rare and curious
trees. There are also the valley Of
rhododendrons and cedars the
park and archery grounds, where
may be seen young gentlemen and
ladies, boys and girls, practising
with bow and arrow; the lake and
boat house, where rowing is learn
ed aud praetised; the rOsery, with
its arches of roses; the beautiful
water,temple; banks oof earth with
strata illustrating geology; the
quarter of extinct animals, where
are constructed fac SMILES of the
immense animals that inhabited the
earth prior to the creation'of man,
On every part of the grounds is
something beautiful, instructing or
amusing. Our Central Park affords
facilities for the same thing, and
might be made school of science,
to be studied by sunlight and be-
meath the Heavenly canopy. May
the day soon dawn when we Shall
turn our schools outofdoors. The
pleasure ofacquiring knowledge is
a sufficient reward for the pains. -
Our school rooms disgust children.
They might properly be called,
aManufactories of Dolts." Cram
ming a child is not educating but
inspire him with a love Of fknowl-
edge, instruct him in habits Of thot
and study, and the Universe be-
comes his schoolroom, with God
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