Litchfield enquirer., 1877-08-09

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 THE TRANSPORT OF ENG1AND's OBE1IsK.
 "A correspondent of London newspa. per writing from Egypt, gives us this fur ther news ofi''Cleopatrais Needle" "The preparations for the transport of Eng. lands obelisk are being. actively carried on under the superintendence of MT. Way man Dixon. The case in which the stone is to be conveyed was brought out by one of Messrs. Moss's ships last week, and the neighboring ground isI strewed with the iron plates of all shapes and sizes, all ready to be put together as soon as suffis cient space had bsHnv cleared round the prostrate stone. Fifty men and boys were at work. yesterday, clearing away the soil the men digging the boys carrying soil in straw bucketss and already a mound of excavated stuff has arisen which overtopsi the trees that line the road close by. t The sea, only twenty yards away, one bolster Ous night last winter, made a convenient, breachin the ssa-wall, and very little wid- ening is needed for thenpassage of the iron case which, when ready. is to be roll ed into deep water 8 hundred yards from shore. The stone itself is quite clear, and can be more closely examined sthani its up- right sister. The hieroglyphics are worn, duO Ou Ou0 S1uOs w nOu tu0 OUGAA6A was erect, faced the dssert; and vas ex- posed to the sand4lade1i winds; they are almost il1sgible. The edges also have been clipped, and will slightly jag ged appearance Stillall this will have diminished prominence when the stone is raised, and our obelisk,swin no doubt form an object of beauty as well as of in- terest when 1t stands in it's home on the
 HhaV ho lYp hox1S towed through all the threatening dangers of storms in the Bay of Blscay and fogs in the English Channel. A curious check to progress occurred yesterday. The base of the obelisk could not be found. The sis- obelisk that is erect was excavated to see what base there ought to be. and a large square block of granite was found. Orig inally at the four corners where four bronze animals, on which the obelisk had rested; but. three of these supports had gone, and stones had been thrust beneath in their place. After this investigation a search was..organized for the missing base
 but as yet it has not been discovered. It will be unfortunate if new block of granite has to be used" lasmrr,yag .......
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 l READ 4Ia ALoJo,-Reading aloud seems almost gone out of fashion, except among those who do it in some way professional ly. It is no longer really taught in schools or it is taught in very few, A single gen. eration has seen it pass away, The reason of this is two-fold and strange For it is first the great diffusion of education, and next the great increase in reading Read- ing aloud cannot be taught in large class es, and consequently in public schools and in large private schools 1t has fallen into neglect. Not that there is no pre- tense made of teaching it, although, even of this there is comparatively little; but there has ceased to be that individual practice before the teacher, guided by his example as we'll as informed by his in- structloti, which used to be regarded as exercises. This is much to be regretted. reading aloud. In fixing his attention, in power of bringing the pupils mind into 8 flexible adaptability to the thought pre-, sented to,it, there is no exercise that will take the place of reading aloud. A person cannot read anything aloud well, with proper infection and emphasis, without thoroughly understanding, it. A pupil CaAuOV ShAP OFOA what he knows that he is likely to be cal led upon to read aloud. 9, His among the very best of educational disciplines. Be- sides this, with competent teacher it, is. I need hardly say, the very best 1nieans of acquiring that clear enunciation which is one of the greatest beauties of speech, and which any observant person will find largely lacking in the younger people of the present. day. Good English speaking and good English writing comes, except in cases of rare inborn faculty. chiefly by the reading aloud oi good English authors under the supervision of a teacher who himself or herself speaks good English and understands those authors. Of such teachers how many may be found in our public or in our private schools? of such teaching, or of the attempt at such teach ing, how much?-RichGrd GrGnt White. | 1 The men on tha Lake shore road at