Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-09
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Edited and Conducted by
j. f. LANGENBA UGH.


at least in your head Every faculty you
have will vote you into office, if you only
eniranchise it, and form confederation
between the lreemen in your brain and the
freemen at the ends of your arms
Chances. plenty of them, fall under our
eyes, if we have only eyes to see them
and hands to pick them up. The falling
OF an apple was nc opportunity for New
ton TO solve the secret of the skies. a
floating sea-weed, drifting by the vessel
when the crew were uttering mutinous
threats, was the chance seized by ColJln-
bus to naclfy ali ;ncipient rebellion, aud
to inspire his men with the promise OF a
new continent and new world of enter
prise.
The picking up of airr in a street of
Paris by poor boy, as he was going from
IA great bank saddened at the denial of his
application for place, was the founding
of the success and prosperity of one of
the great barkers of the queen city of the
world That simple act, illustrative of
the economical spirit asserting itself over
present grief, was observed from the win
dow; the lad was recalled, and the refu-
sal recalled at the same moment-indus-
try, patience an,f honesty did the rest 4
chance remark from peasant giil, in an
obscure country district in England, fall
ing upon the ear of the young observing
thinker, DR.. Jenner, gave vaccination to
the world. and saves hundreds of thou
sands OF lives annually.
y pewter plate founded the PeeFfamily.
Robert, IN The poor country about Black
| Ourn, seeing large family growing up
about him. ielt that some source of in
come must be added 10 the meagre pro-
ducts of his little farm. He quietly con-
Quoted experiments in calico printing in
his own home One day thoughtfully
handling pewter plate from which one
of the children had just dined, sketched
upon its SMOOTH surface the outline of a
parsly leaf, and filling this with coloring
, matter, he was delighted to find the i'm.
preston could be accurately conveyed to
! the surface of cotton cloth. Here was
the first suggestion. toward calico print
| ing &onf metal rollers. The parsley
.eaf' on the pewter plate, opened <...s a
world of industry TO Lancashire, and Rob
ert Peel, to this day, is called in the
neigbborhood of Blackburn, Parsley
! Peel "
! Richard Arkwright,the thirteenth child
in hovel, with no knowledge of letters
an underground harbor, with a vixen
for a wife, who mashed up his models and
threw them out-gave his successful
spinning model to the world, aud pus a
sceptre in England's right hand, such as
Victoria never welded. A jumping tea
kettle lid is SAID to have put the steam
into that boys head who gave us the
great giant Of modern industry. A kite
and key, Il Franklin's hands, were the
grand parents of our telegraphs, and all
the blessings of modern inventions apply
I ing electricity. A swinging greasy lamp,
Just filled with oil by a verger in the Ca.
thedral Of Pisa, caught the eye of Galileo
ut eighteen years of age, taught him the
secret of the pendulum, made many dis,
covery in astronomy and navigation pos
sible, and gave us the whole modern sys-
tenn of the accurate measurement of time
Don't say you have no chancel You
have the same chance, and better than the
worlds greatest and best men have en-
joyed. "Men uniformly over-rate riches
and under rate their own strength ;the fol
mer will do far less than we suppose, and
the later far more" "The lengerI live,
says one of earth's noble sons, 1.-The more
am certain that the great difference be-
tween men, between the feeble and the
! powerful, the great and the insignificant
is energy-iaUinci6le determination-a pur
pose once fixed, and then death or oictory r.
That quality will do anything that can bt
done in this world, and no talents, nc
circumstances, no opportunities will bt
worth much without it.
THE RELATION OF ART TO VIRTUE.
There is class of persons who hold
that the chief business of art is to give
expression to thoughts and feelings of &
religious and moral nature. A hundred
years before Plato, Confucius said
"Wouldst thou know if people be vel
governed, if its manners be good or bad
examine the music it practices" Yet al
though the condition of the fine arts in {
people may serve as a test of their devel
oDment in civilization, and in some de
gree of their character also, yet it by NJ
means follows that the special end anC
purpose of the artist must therefore bt
the moral improvement of mankind.
Art and beauty are lnseparable. Goe-
the indeed speaks of art, as being ar
long before it began TO be beautiful, but ht
here alludes to the practical arts of utility
before decoration was thought of. Gradu
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