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172 BURKE’S WEEKLY FOB BOYS AND GIRLS. MACON, GA., NOV. 30, 1807. Contents of No. 22. Washington Crossing the Delaware—illustratecLpage 169 Poetry—What the Minutes Say 170 Marooner’s Island, by the Rev. F. R. Goulding- Chapter XIV., —original 170 Silent Influences 170 Poetry—Three Links of a Golden Chain —origi- nal 171 A Little Lamp 171 The Giraffe—illustrated—original 171 Editorial— A Sunday School Paper for Nothing: More about Hunger; Use of Cat’s Whiskers; Back Numbers, etc 172 Uncle Ollapod Talks to the Boys about Base Ball original—illustrated 173 Poetry—The Children in Heaven 173 Harry’s Sermon 173 Poetry—The Mother’s Choice 174 Jack Dobell: or, A Boy’s Adventures in Texas — Chapter XV.—original 174 Charley Abbott—original 175 “ If I die before I wake,” 175 Paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer 175 Plant Something 175 Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 176 CHASE’S IMPROVED MICaaseOPE! iTlie Most Amusing Tiling in the World 1 The French, Craige, Novelty, Coun terfeit Detector, Cloth Glass, Ani malculse Cage, all combined. Adapted to all Trades and Professions, Coun terfeit Money, Cloth, Seed, Living In sects, Prepared Objects, Plants, Pictures, .fee. COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR, With directions for detecting Counterfeit Money. Price $1 25, Sent, postpaid, on reeoipt of the price, by J, W. BURKE & CO.. Macon, Ga. For County Agencies, apply to M. P. KELLOGG, President Female College, Newnan, Ga., exclusive Agent for the State of Georgia. Postage on the “Weekly.” The postage on the Weekly, when paid quarterly or yearly, at the office of delivery, is five cent* a quarter or twenty cent* a year. A Sunday School Paper for Nothing. ®NTIL further notice, we propose to send the Weekly and either one of the fol lowing Sunday School papers, for one year, to all new subscribers who remit us $2 00: The Sunday School Visitor, - (Methodist,) published at Nashville, Tenn.: The Child's Delight, (Baptist,) published at Macon, Ga. ; The Children's Guest, (Episco pal,) published at New York ; The Children's Friend, (Presbyterian,) published at Richmond, Va. ; or The Child's World, published by the American Sunday School Union at Philadelphia. These papers are all beautifully illustrated, and filled with stories and poems calculated to improve the mind and heart. Any one of our present subscribers who has paid us $2 for a year’s subscription, will be enti tled to receive either one of these papers by send ing us an additional name and $2. Back Numbers. We can still supply back numbers from the be ginning of the volume. Yearly subscribers can be supplied with the first thirteen numbers, stitch ed in an elegant illuminated cover. ts BXT R KE’9 XV E E KEY. More about Hunger. tFEW weeks ago we told you something about the cause of hunger, and promis ed, in a future article to speak farther ffjWyxi on the subject. If you will turn back yPpJ to page 124 of the Weekly you will see that we told you something in that number of how the blood was nourished by the air breathed into the lungs. The blood lias two offices to perform: it furnishes food to the tissues, or elementary portions of the animal fabric, and it stimulates them into activity Unless.the tissues possess certain vital properties they cannot be stimulated into activity; and, when stimulated, this activity brings about a waste which must be repaired. If, therefore, the stimulus is applied by the blood without equivalent nutrition, the force is soon exhausted. The blood carries in its current certain bodies called blood discs, which perform the chief part in nutrition. These discs are of two kinds —the red and the colorless. “If,” sa, s Lewes, “ we examine the blood of a starving man, we shall find its elementary composition to be precisely similar to that of the same man in his healthy state, but the proportions of that composi tion will be greatly altered ; the discs —which have been named the nutritive solids of the blood—are much diminished in quantity, and ail its inorganic (or unorganized) constituents are changed.” In other words, the blood loses its healthy character, becomes diseased, aud no longer possesses the qualities necessary to its offices. But in what way does the blood furnish nutri ment to the tissues of the body? In itself it is in capable of doing this —so much so, says Lewes, “ that if it be poured on them, from the rupture of a blood vessel, it binders nutrition, and acts like a foreign substance.” So true is this that nature has shut it up in a system of closed vessels, but as it rushes along these vessels, certain of its ele ments ooze through their delicate walls, and fur nish a material from which the tissues are nour ished. A distinguished writer on physiology compares the body to a city intersected by a vast net-work of canals. “These canals are laden with barges which carry to each house the meat, vegetables and groceries needed for daily use, and while the food is thus presented at each door, the canal re ceives all the sewage off the houses. One house will take one kind of meat, and another house an other kind, while a third will let the meat pass and take only vegetables. But as the original stock of food was limited, it is obvious that the demands of each house necessarily affect the sup plies of others. This is what occurs in nutrition : the muscles demand one set of principles, the nerves a second, the bones a third, and each will draw from the blood those which it needs, allow ing the others, for which it has no need, to pass on.” You will see at once that the absence of food from the system hinders the blood in its work, and eventually, «if the supply be cut off, stops it altogether. How long a time must elapse before death from starvation will ensue, is dependant up on circumstances, and the consideration of this part of the subject will properly come up in a fu ture article on the “ Effects of Hunger.” In conclusion, let us say to our little readers that these articles are necessarily short and in complete. Our object is simply to interest and set you to thinking and reading for yourselves. The subject is full of interest, and will repay you for any amount of time devoted to its study. Southern School Books, f F there ever was a time when it was the duty of Southern teachers to use Southern school books, that time is now, and we take pl eas . tU) tire in directing attention to the very excel- Vg lent series published by the well-established b house of J. P. Morton k Cos., of Louisville Ivy. It embraces Butler’s G ram mars, Readers and Speaker, an excellent work on Composition. D our accomplished townsman, Dr. Boxxell. presi dent of the Wesleyan Female College, and a series of Arithmetics and Algebras, by Professor P. A Towxe. Os the last named books, the Hon. R Rioiiardsox, late Superintendent of Public In struction in Kentucky, says : “ These books bear unmistakable traces of hav ing been prepared by the hand of a master. The Arithmetics, which 1 have carefully examined, I think surpass everything of the kind ever publish ed. If Mr. Towne will continue, in a manner at once thoroughly scientific and practical, to make smooth the rugged paths to knowledge of the high er mathematics, as he has so well done in the pri mary branches, millions of men, educated in part through his instrumentality, will hereafter rise up to call him blessed.” ♦<»«- Use of the Cat’s Whiskers. ®g&AVEyou not often noticed the whiskers Or" on a cat’s upper lip, and wondered whe ther they were for use or ornament? We v'o dare sa y a g rea t many of our little M G readers do not know that they are of the utmost importance to all animals of the eat kind. They are organs of touch, and are at tached to a bed of close glands under the skin, each of these long hairs being connected with the nerve ©f the lip. The slightest contact of these whiskers with any surrounding object is thus feit most distinctly by the animal, although the hairs themselves are insensible. They stand out on each side of the lion as well as in the common cat, so that, from point to point, they are equal to the width of the animal’s body. If we imagine, there fore, a lion stealing through a covert of woods, in an imperfect light, we shall at once see the use ot these long hairs. They indicate to him, through the nicest feeling, any obstacle which may present itself to the passage of his body ; they prevent the rustle of boughs and leaves, which would give warning to his prey if he were to attempt to pass through too close a bush; and thus, in conjunc tion with the soft cushions of his feet, and the fur u i on which he treads (the retractile* claw comes in contact with the ground,) they enable him to move towards his victim with a stillness even greater than that of the snake which creeps along the grass, and is not pierceived until he is coiled round his prey. * Capable of being drawn back, **4- Winter. When you hear the shrill winds of winter blow ing among the leafless trees, bless God for kind friends, warm clothes, and a comfortable home, and have a kindly thought fur those who are b.-» fortunate, remembering the words ot Holy “ He that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Loid. When you send your own name, or any other, be careful to give us the name of the p°■ j office and State also. It is best to add the fu address at the bottom of your letter.