The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-15
Notes Of the Castleton Normal School
Scientific Club.
SOAPS FROM OLD BOOKS.

j. Lyon, of Fairhaven, published the
works of the late DR.. Benjamin Franklin,
in 1893, from which we clip: "In short,
America is the land of labour, and by no
means what the English call Lubberland,
and the French Pays de Cocage, where the
streets are said to be paved with half-peck
loaves, the houses tiled with pancakes, and
where the fowls fly about ready roasted,
crying come eat me = "
The Americans often referred TO the say
ings of the negro when speaking Of labor;
"Boccarozza (mesning the white NAM
make de black man workee, make DE- horse
workee, make de OK workee, make cherry
ting workee, only de hog. He, de hog, 10
worzee, he eat, he drink, he walk about,
he go 70 sleep wheL &c Please, be lib like
a gentleman"
Franklin says: "The game of chess 10
nc merelyIan idle Amusement. Several very
valuable qualities of the mind, uueful in the
course of human life, are to be acquired, or
strengthened by it, 80 as to become habits,
ready on all occasions" "By playing
chess, we may learn foresight, crcumspec-
ton, and cautiUn."
In his article "a "Thc handsome and de-
formed leg" we learn, "There arc two
sorts of people in the world, who, with
equal deg ees of health and wealth, and the
other comforts of life, become the one hap
py, and the other miserable"
EXCURSION To LAKE BoMosEEN
The members of the club are soon to
take an excursion to the "Indian fields on
the shore of Lake Bomoseen, for the pur-
pose of making further explorations among
the mounds and other interesting relics of
the prehistoric race tina. inhabited that re-
gion. ALI who desire to attend this investi-
CATION are requested to leave their names
with DR.. Northop, president of the club,
who will inform them of the day.
MENTAL POWERS OF INSECTS.
DR.. A. S. Packard, jr., has written a
very interesting little work OH the mental
powers of insects, published by Estes &
Lsuriat of Boston. In certain butterfly
each composite eye is composed of 1885
simple eyes, each as perfect as the human
eye. The sense organs, situated in the va
rious parts of the body and appendages are
truly wonderful. The organs that receive
the impression OF odor are situated on the
under side of the feelers. Sense organs,
| probably ears, are situated on the fore legs
of grasshoppers. Ganglions of nerves are
situated along the thorax and abdomen as
well as in the head, and are as fully devel-
oped, from which we infer that insets are
| capable of thinking woll in tho abdomen
as in the head. In man only the nervous
ganglion of the head has the function of
consciousness. The whole series of works
| by DR.. Packard on insects are exceedingly
interesting and instructive.
| oRNITHoLoGY.
Our young ornithologsts in Castleton
have commenced in good earnest to collect
birds eggs this season. They say that one
species of hawk had laid full set of eggs
by the 14th of April. Other birds have
commenced nesting much earlier this yeal
than previous years. One individual found
a nest with three eggs in it which he car
sell for fifty cents piece. Birds are ex
ceedingly numerous this season, and oul
young scientists anticipate making large
collections. English sparrows have during
the past winter become very scarce. Somt
attribute this to the deep SHOWS, Others
say the robins have driven them away
which is probably true.