Year: 1873

upon too little knowledge of the require
ments of youth in its effervescing state. If
growth and health are considered in their
true bearings, children cannot make too
much noise. The school-mistress who en-
forces silence on her pupils is committing,
'unintentonally, of course, an offence against
sreason, worthy only of convent Every
burst of laughter, every shout, nay, every
moderate fit Of crying conduces to health, by
rapidly filling and empfyng the lungs, and
changing the blood more rapidly from black
to red-that is, from death to life Andrew
Combe is great authority in such matters
as these, and he tells story of great
charity school, where the pupils were forced
to be so silent that a large portion of them
fell i'll. Without doubt this is one good
reason why children of delicate constitutions
cannot GO through our public schools with
out breaking down. They are kept too
still. Often too, teachers are disposed TO
insist on posture SO erect as to be abso-
lutely injurious; for the body has more parts
than one, and while to sit upright is good
tcr The chest, i: Is if long continued, an in
tense strain on the spine. The truth is,
children should not be subject to monotony
of any kind. They should speak and be
silent, sit erect and loll. very much as ma
ture inclines grown people TO do. 1t is time
that more attention is paid to the Kinder
gaTten system in schools, and less to the
States prison one so generally in vogue
Erchange.


EFFECTS OF TAR on FRUT TREEs.-l
wish TO state curious effect Of tar upon
fruit-trees which came under my observation
this year, and hope it may prove warn
ing to all your readers who may think of
painting trees to prevent the hares or rab-
bits from barking them, or for any other
purpose. These trees were painted from
the ground upward, one or two feet; and
almost every tree-pear, apple, peach
ounce, and all-ceased to grow painted
while that part of the bod dy above the paint
ed portion continued to grow, expand, and
thrive as if nothing bad happened :,
branches, and leaves all looking very thrifty
A few of the trees died suddenly while in
full leaf; the others are now fne-looking
above but the body, where the tar covered
it, looks as though it had IA laced jacket OF
iron around it for one year, and is half an
inch more or less in diameter. think the
whole orchard will finally die; for some of
the trees, from weakness of the stem below
and growing weight above are topping over.
Does this not show that the entire bark of a
tree as we'll as the leaf, is an organ of respra-
ton? shall continue my observations, and
give You the result.-R n j. Wilson IN
Southern Farm Home.


NATURAL DURATION or LIFE. According
to Prof Farady, the crime of suicide is very
common in this age of the world, for he es-
Inmates that all who die under one hundred
years of age may be charged with self mur-
der; that Providence, having originally in
tended man to live century, would allow
him to arrive at that advanced period if he
did not kill himself by eating unwholesome
food, allowing himself to be annoyed by tr-
tes; giving license ro passions and exposing
himself to accidents.


Flouline advanced the theory that the du-
ration Of life is measured by the time of
growth When once the bones and epiphy-
.sis are united the body grows no more, and
it is at twenty years this union is effected
in man. The natural termination of life is
five removes from the several points Man,
being twenty years in growing lives-or
should've times twenty years; the camel
Is eight years in growing, and lives five times
eight years. the horse is five years in grow
ing, and lives twenty-five years, and so
with other animals.


FARMERS AND PoLTrcs. The Turf,
Field and Farm saws: According TO the
late census, 80 600 900 people inhaLit the
United States. Of these II, ,500,0 900 earn
their bread by some kind of labor. And of
The 1880, GOO of bread earners, S ,922 All
are engaged in agricultural pursuits In
other words. nearly half of all the people
whe work in the great nation hive of indus
try are hlers of the soil. And yet the
farmers exert comparatively small in
fluence in legislative affairs. This is not as
1t should be. Those who add so much to
production certainly should have a strong
voice III framing rules for the government
of the community. Some of our laws bear
oppressivel yon the agriculturists But the
farmers are chiefly TO blame They must
organize and fix upon some harmonious plan
OF action, if they would make their in
fucnces properly felt.


REMEDY FOR CODA distinguished
physician across the Atlantic used to tel
his class that there was no more cerar
remedy for cold in the head than alb
solute abstinence, for from twenty-four to
thirty-slx hours, from every form of liquid
and If the suggestion be strictly followed it
Is good. We have tried it and know. But
itrequires some moral courage. 1t is how
ever, well adapted to professional men who
are liable to be called at even the most in
convenient times from warm bed.


To POLISH TlNs.-First rnb your tin:
with damp cloth; then take dry -four and
rub it with your hands; afterwards take ar
old newspaper and rub off, and the tins vii
shine as vel! as if half an hour had beer
spent rubbing them with brick dust O
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