Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-26
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
Edited and Conducted by
H. F.. LANGENBA UGH.
Trees OF the Far West.

all straight, commonly from lOur 10
twelve feet in diameter, and clusters, or
groves of them much larger are found.
One near Crescent City measures fifty
feet in circumference, many in the same
grove close by are nearly as large. They
generally are about two hundred and sew
eGty five feet in height, the bark is often
ten inches thick The wood is sort, brit
tie, and durable the leaves resemble those
of cedar, and are few and scattering.
These forests are situated on low hills,
composed of stiff yellow clay. A perscn
traversing through any part will encoun-
ter continual jungle of fern and bushes,
in places partially relieved by patches OF
delicious berries in others he will see ex-
posed to view the giant trunks which fell
many centuries ago, and whose branches
have continued to grow downwards as
well as upwards ever since, forming often
as many as six or seven large trees on q
huge roof. that once was a mighty tree
growing the upright way.
Many of these old trees having fallen
crosswise of each other, deep and danger
Gus pits are formed between them, the
bottoms of which, on account OF the fern
and the darkness, cannot be seen; and as
the sun is seldom visible, owing to the
dense fog that ever prevails here, j. Is
consequently wet or damp every day In
the year. Few there are who care TO
traverse these forests for pleasures sake.
Next is the the red fir, by some called
spruce, and which rightly merits the name
of the Monarch of the Forest Its gener-
al shape is like that of all the fir family,
cone or sugar-loaf shape; the color of the
wood is nearly like that of the red wood
a thin girdle of white on the outside, the
central reddish lis foliage is dark green
very thick in some places they grow 10 a
height of three hundred feet, and are ten
to twelve in diameter 1t is one of the
most common, valuable, and beautiful of
all the trees that grow west of the Rocky
Mountains.
IMAGINATION.
1t has seldom or never been noticed
how important, among the intellectual
qualifications for the study of history, Is
a vivid imagination-a faculty which,
consequently, skillful narrator must
himself possess, and to which he must
himself furnish excitement in others.
Some may perhaps be startled at the re-
mark, wLD nave been accustomed to con.
slider imagination as having no other office
than to feign and falsify. Every faculty
is liable 10 abuse and instruction, and
Imagination among the rest; bu. it is a
mistake TO suppose that it necessarily
tends to pervert the truth of history and
mislead the judgment. On the contrary,
our view ofany transaction. especially one
that is remote in time or place, will neces-
sarfly be imperfect, generally incorrect,
unless it embraces it.
TITLES OF NOBILITY IN ENGLAND.
The following is list of English no.
bility, commencing from the queen down.
ward, in the order in which they come.
All the children OF the queen and the
royal princes and princesscs take the
precedence Of the rest of the nobility.
Next in rank is the Arch bishop of Can
terbury, who is the Primate of all Eng
land, and receives an annual income of
e15, ,00o-S75, 900. Next to him stands the
Arch bishop Of York. He is "Primate OF
England" and rejoices in the comfortable
income of f10,0OO-s5O,0CO. Then come
the dukes of whom there are twenty-nine
that is twenty in England, four in Scot
land and twelve in Ireland. After mar.
quises come earls. This is the oldest
title of nobility there is-it is so old, in
fact that NOBODY can tell who was the
first earl. The next order is that of Wis
counts, comparatively of recent origin and
borrowed from France The bishops ol
the Church Of England follow next in
rank, and last Of all come the barons
many of whom, however, can boast OF
antiquities much greater than that of any
duke or marquis. In the old Saxon times
barons were called thames; but William
1. changed the Thane into Baron, at the
same time that he made the old "alder.
man" into the present "earl." Barons are
very rarely mentioned by the proper title
but are usually spoken of as lords, and
addressed as my lord" All these above
mentioned are members of the House o.
Lords, as it is usually termed, but more
correctly speaking, the House of Peers
Baronets and Knights are not peers.
RAILROADS.
The first railroad constructed in thl.
country, was in 1897. from the Quincy
Mass, quarries to the Neponset river, {
distance of three miles. In the following
year the Delaware. and Hudson cana
company built q road from their mines Il
Honesdale, the terminus of the canal
The latter is the first road on which
steam was used, the first using horses
The Charleston and Hamburgb Is. C..