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BURKE’S WEEKLY
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
MACON, GA., MARCH 7, 1868.
Contents of No. 38.
Jack Dobell; or, A Boy’s Adventures in Texas—
Chapter XXlV—original P a = e 281
“ Mamma. Feel my Wings Grow”—original 282
Poetky—Gathering Snow Drops—illustrated 283
Ellen Hunter: A Story of the War—Chapter VIII
—original
Editorial —Jack Dobell; The Magic square;
Valuable Farmer’s Paper; To Correspondents 284
Grandpa’s Philosophy for Young Folks—original 284
Our Four-Footed Frieuds, No.lll—original-with
illustration 285
The Little Strangers—original 285
Poetry— Doing Good 286
Marooner’s Island ; by the Rev. F. R. Goulding.
Chapter XXl—original 286
Poetry—Remember the Poor 287
Do not Meddle wish the Powder—original 287
“That’s How,” 287
Our Chimney Corner—illustrated 288
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Jack Dobell.
HIT jfrE publish in this issue the concluding
tpjllyl chapter of “Jack Dobell, or A Boy ; s
Adventures in Texas,” and we hazard
¥ nothing in saying that a more admi
rable story for boys has not ap
peared in any periodical in this coun
try. We trust that the author will, ere long, fulfil
his promise, and give us the “ Adventures and
Exploits of Big-Foot Wallace, the noted Texas
Ranger.”
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BURKE’S WEE KL Y .
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
Grandpa’s Philosopliy for Young Folks.
have said that Water is a wonderful
kIP I'l ’ s composed of two gases —
oxygen and hydrogen. Oxygen is a
component part of our atmosphere also.
It is by ibis gas that combustion is
maintained, as well as animal life.
Take away this gas and we could not have fires,
and we would perish, as if by suffocation.
Hydrogen is very combustible. If you mix
these two gases together, say in a hollow glass
ball, and apply a flame, you will have an explo
sion, and the inside of the glass will look as if you
had breathed upon it; it will be covered with va
por. This is the result of the combination of the
gases, and that result is water. We can take wa
ter and separate it into its two elements. Take a
gun-barrel, place it over a furnace, having put
some iron filings in it. Into one end insert a re
tort, holding some water ; connect by a bent tube
the other end with a glass jar, turned upside down
over a vessel of water. Be sure to keep the gun
barrel red hot over the furnace. Now boil the
water in the retort, and as the steam passes over
the iron filings the oxygen of the water combines
with the filings and lets the hydrogen pass on, and
you can collect it in the jar. The jar must be full
of water, and as the gas bubbles ascend in it, the
water is forced out. This is one method of separ
ating the elements of water. We will have some
thing to say, before long, more particularly about
these two gases.
One of the interesting facts about water is its
tendency to fly off in the form of vapor. This
subject is called vaporization. I believe that un
less there were certain forces always at work act
ing’ upon the water, it would always exist in
the form of an invisible gas. The air that sur
rounds the earth is always charged with water in
larger or smaller quantity, though we cannot see
it. It becomes visible first in the form of clouds,
for clouds are nothing else than water collected
together in the form of vapor. Whenever there is
more water in the air than it can hold in solution,
the surplus assumes the form of vapor ; that is, the
water, that was an invisible gas, condenses. If
you will examine this vapor carefully you will find
that it is composed of little round globules, like
the soap bubbles you make with a pipe and soap
suds, only so small as scarcely to be seen. Now,
when the particles of this vapor are brought still
closer together, these little bubbles, as it were,
burst, and the cloud is said to condense, and water
is formed and falls as rain.
The ocean is the great source of water. This
water rises up from its surface in the form of gas,
ascends into the upper regions of the atmosphere,
is carried by the winds out over the land, floating
on and on, till condensed, it falls down as rain.
This keeps the springs flowing, forming branches,
rivulets, creeks, rivers and lakes, all running back
again to the ocean ; rising up again, it starts out
afresh on its journey, passes into clouds over the
land, among the mountains and hills, and over the
immense plains of the earth; falls again as rain,
and thus there is a perpetual circulation of the
water that forms the oceans.
In closing this number, Grandpa would say to
his young readers that if at any time he uses a
word which they do not understand, they must
look for it in Webster’s Dictionary—an exercise,
by-the-by, that will do them good. Grandpa is
himself in the habit of taking up Webster’s Dic
tionary, and examining word after word, and be
finds it a very profitable exercise.
Nemo.
Tho Magic Square.
jJT Jt’E have received a large number of ex-
YJ' ijl planations of the Magic Square, as pub
lished in our paper of October 19th, but
none °f them come up to the require
cos ment, which was that the contestant for
'O the prize should send us “an intelli
gible account of the manner of forming the Square
as discovered by himself ,” or herself; and that it
“ must be such a rule as will enable the reader to
construct the square without referring to the one
already made.” The explanations sent, with one
exception, simply show how the Square which we
published was formed, and in the case of the ex
ception, the writer acknowledges that she works
it out by an old rule, published more than two
hundred years ago. We have in hand live rules
for forming the Magic Square, which we believe
to be infallible. Shall we publish them, or wait
until the time is up? If any of our readers still
desire to compete for the prize, of course we will
wait, but if we hear nothing to the contrary, we
shall, after a few weeks, begin the publication of
these rules, commencing with No. 1, and contin
uing from week to week until all are published.
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To Correspondents.
("qB) LAYING MOTHER,” by Clara Le
Ci/erc, is received, and will appear, with
an elegant illustration, next week.
< < The Picture,” the first of a series of
“ plays for little folks,” from our esteem
ed correspondent, Mrs. E. P. M-, 111
hand, and will soon appear. Many thanks.
An article, unaccompanied by the writers name,
comes to us from Lexington, Ky. We have no.
read it, as the writer fails to comply with one ot
our standing.
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