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ALBUM VERSES.
BY JOHN ORKKNLEAF WHITTIER
The dark-eyed (laughters of the Sun,
In morning's golden hours,
O’erhung the Persian’s shrine alone
With dewy wreaths of flowers.
Not vainly did those fair ones cull
Their gifts, by stream and wood ;
The Good is always beautiful,
The Beautiful is good.
We live not in that simple day,
Our Northen blood is cold ;
And few the offerings which we lay
On other shrines than Gold.
With Scripture-text to blight and ban
Life's fancy-blossomed flowers,
The heavy-footed Puritan
Goes trampling down the flowers:
Nor thinks of Him who sat of old
Where Syrian lillies grew,
And, from their mingling shade and gold
Ilia holy lessons drew.
Vet, shall our Father not the less
With flowers his green earth sow,
His clouds with sunset glories dress
And paint for us His bow.
Then, lady, let this scroll of thine
Where Love his gilt has brought,
Become to thee a Persian shrine
O’erhung with flowers of thought.
LOVE.
BY THE r#TE THOMAS IIOOD.
There is dew for the flow’ret,
And honey for the bee:
And bowers for the wild-bird,
And love for you and me!
There are tears for the many,
And pleasure for the few;
But the world passes on dear,
There'B love for me and you!
There is Care that will not leave us,
And Pain that will not flee ;
But on <m hearth unaltered
Sits Love, ’tween you and me!
Our love, it ne'er was reckoned,
Yet good it is and true;
it’s half tiie world to me, dear,
It's all the world to you !
UNION.
Why liuk wo not our trembling hands,
And all our Joys and sorrorrß blond,
Since crossing o'er the de.-ert sands,
We have a common aim and end 1
The rich, the poor, the bond, the free,
This lesson surely ought to }<:&?&,
That gliding down life’s stormy sea,
Their barques to oue broad haven turn.
The same rough tide impels beneath ;
The same fixed light shines out above;
Our common fate is pain and death ;
Our hope the same—why not our love 1
Ah! let us break the chain that binds
Each single shallop in the foam,
And bravely trust the common winds
To fill our sails and waft us home!
WASHING DAY IN GERMANY.
The Boston Traveller has extracts of a let
ter from an American lady in Gennany to
her mother, from which the following ac
count of the German washing day, or wash
ing week, is copied:
“It is one of the chief glories of German
housewifes, to possess abundance of linen,
and for the purpose of displaying their
wealth, they put off their washing till all
is used up—some three weeks, some six,
some half a year, and those who are more
affluent have washing but once a year.
“ Every house contains a lSclncartz
vnsthkammer,’ where the dirty clothes are
kept hung up on poles or lines in the air.
When the drawers and presses are nearly
empty, two or three washerwoman are
hired, who come at two in the morning,
take each a cup of coffee and some bread,
which is repeated at the usual time. In
the forenoon they again have bread, with
wine or cider; dine at twelve; at three nr
four they have again a cup of coffee with
bread, and then wash till supper, at eight.
(What would our working women say to
so many hours’ incessant labor!) They
wash in very large oval tubs, at which
four or five cart stand at once. So it goes
on for several days, according to the num
ber of clothes. The remainder of the week
is spent in ironing—sheets, pillow-cases,
•and all the ungathered clothes are mangled,
and towels, stockings, children’s handker
chiefs, &c., are only folded. During the
whole week, no woman in the family can
think of any thing but the wash, and by
the end of it, some have sore hands, (for
they use ley) and all are out of humor.
When I tell them how much less
ance our week's wash makes, they ac
knowledge it is a better way, but say they
fear people would think they had but two
shirts apiece, if they were to wash every
week. Another answers, that if the Amer
icans wash every week, they can do noth
ing else, for on washing week no one can
hink of any thing beside. It made me
hink of the old lady who wondered how
people could comb their heads every day,
when she could hardly bear to comb hers on
thanksgiving day.”
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ZIITO, THE SORCERER.
Very extraordinary things are related of
Ziito, a sorcerer, in the court of Wcnces
laus, king of Bohemia, and afterwards em
peror of Germany, in the latter part of the
! fourteenth century. This is, perhaps, ail;
! things considered, the most wonderful spec
‘ imen of magical power any where to be
found. It is gravely recorded by Dubravi
us, bishop of blmutz, in his history of Bo
hemia. It was publicly exhibited on occa
sion of the marriage of Wenceslaus with
! Sophia, daughter of the elector Palatine of
Bavaria, - before a vast assembled multi
tude.
The father-in-law of the king, well aware
of the bridegroom’s known predilection lor
theatrical exhibitions, and magical illu
sions, brought with him to Prague, the cap
ital of Wenceslaus, a whole wagon-load of
’ morrice-dancers and jugglers, who made
1 their appearance among the royal retinue.
Meanwhile Ziito, the favorite magician ofc
the King, took his place obscurely among
the ordinary spectators. He however im
mediately arrested the attention of the stran
gers, being remarked for his extraordinary
deformity, and a mouth that stretched com
pletely from ear to ear. Ziito was for some
time engaged in quietly observing the tricks
and sleights that were exhibited. Atlenglh,
while the chief magician of the elector
! Palatine was still busily employed in show
| ing some of the most admired specimens ot
his art, the Bohemian, indignant at what
appeared to him the bungling exhibitions
of his brother artist, came forward and re
! proached him with the unskilfulness of his
i performances. The two professors pres
j cntly fell into warm debate. Ziito, provo
ked at the insolence of his rival, made no
more ado, but swallowed him whole before
the multitude, attired as he was, all buthis
shoes, which he objected to because they
were dirty. He then retired for a short
time to a closet, and presently returned,
leading the magician along with him.
Having thus disposed of his rival, Ziito
proceeded to exhibit the wonders of his
art. He showed himself first in his proper
shape, and then in those of different per
sons successfully, with countenances and
a stature totally dissimilar to his own ; at
one time splendidly attired in robes of pur
ple and silk, and then, in the twinkling of
an eye, in coarse linen, and a clownish
coat of freize. He would proceed along
the field with a smooth and undulating mo
tion, without changing the posture of a
limb, for all the world as if he were car
ried along in a ship. He would keep pace
with the king’s chariot, in a car drawn by
barn door fowls. He also amused the
king.s guests as they sat at table, by cause
tap, when they streched out their hands to
the different dishes, sometimes their hands
to turn into the cloven feet of an ox, and at
other times into the hoofs of a horse. He
would clap on them the antlers of a deer,
so that, when they put their heads out at
j the window to sec some sight that was
I going by, they could by no means draw
them o back again; while he, in the mean
time, feasted on the savory cakes that had
been spread before them, at his leisure.
At one time he pretended to be in want
of money, and to ask his wits to devise the
means to procure it. On such an occasion,
he took up a handful of grains of corn, and
presently gave them the form and appear
! an ce of thirty hogs, well fatted for the mar
ket. He drove these hogs to the residence
of one Michael, a rich dealer, but who was
i remarkeable for being penurious and thrif
jty in his bargains, lie offered them to
| Michael at whatever price he should judge
reasonable. The bargain was piesently
struck, Ziito, at the same time, warning the
purchaser ilint he should on no account
drive them to the river to drink. Michael,
however, paid no attention to this advice,
and the hogs no sooner arrived at the river,
than they turned into grains of corn as be
fore. The dealer, greatly enraged at this
trick, sought high and low for the seller,
that he might be revenged on him. At
length he found him in a vinter’s shop,
seemingly in a gloomy and absent state of
mind, reposing himself, with his legs stietch
ed out on a form. The dealercalledoutto
him. but he seemed not to hear, kinally
he seized Ziito by one foot, plucking at it
with all his might. The foot came away
with the leg and thigh ; and Ziito screamed
out, apparently in great agony. He seized
Michael by the nape of the neck, and
dragged Ifim before a judge. Here the two
set up their separate complaints, Michael
and Ziito, for the irreparable injury he had
suffered in his person. From this adven
ture atone the proverb, frequently used in
the days of the historian, speakingof aper
son who had made an improvident bargain
—“ He has made just such a purchase as
Michael did with the hogs.”
* SMALL JRESULTS.
Who of our readers cannot remember
digging up garden seeds when a child, to
see if they had germinated, even with but
a twenty-four hours’ rest in the rich mould ;
and who of them has carried this disposi
tion through life! We mean an impatient
restlessness to see ‘ * what good can come ”
of any favorite plan or pursuit in business
or in study. We are all of us told from
the time we write round hand in copy
books, or use Latin grammars, that “ Per
severance ensures success” and in the dis
position to which we have referred, perse
verance is certainly a missing element.
At school the proficiency of such people
was never according to their anticipations.
They would expect to read Virgil the first
Latin term, or to speak French like a na
tive in four lessons. Greek and German
required entirely too much patience to be
thought of; mathematics were abandoned
for a like reason. Or if disposed to culti
iiiiiiii® waiiai ©Baanuio
vate a taste for music, the practice of the i
gamuts was an insurmountable obstacle;;
and to tell the truth, we ourselves used to
question when bothering between major
and minor modes, chromatic and unharmo
nic scales, “ whether,” as the elder Weller
sagely expresses it, it was “ vorth goin ”
through so much to gain so little.”
So of a knowledge of business; so of
the investment of capital; so also of that
close application and watchful economy,
without which it is impossible to succeed
in any pursuit. The restless man is never
satisfied with present progress; he is al
ways wondering that he does not realize
at once the fortune others accumulate by a
life-time of active energy; and changing
’ from this business to that, or from one part
■ of the city to the other, until his unstable
| ness becomes a proverb, and the wished-for
success never is attained.
Wehave another reminiscence of childish
days. Os a little fairy tale published in
Mrs. Child’s delightful Juvenile Miscella
ny. A fairy becomes indolent, discontent
ed, and falls under the censure of the more
industrious community. She is ready to
despair of succeeding at anythimg, of ac
complishing the smallest end, when in
some way she is pointed to nature for an
example. She sees the coral palaces, un
der the deep blue sea, and admires their ex
quisite beauty. She wonders what hand
could have reared all these beautiful arch
es, and carved the delicate branching net
work. Surely it mustbe some vast power
that she has no conception of; but see, a
little insect crawls and flutters before her,
and a voice whispers that the workman is
that very tiny creature, whose industry
has reared such a wonderful monument.
Then a little bird comes cleaving the air
on soft pinions, and alights on its nest, lined
so warmly and fitted so admirably for the
comfort of its family. What a miracle of
skill and ingenuity it seems to her! But
other birds hop hither and thither with bits
of stem, a plume of down, or a silken
thistle-seed, and again the voice chaunts
softly—
“ Little by little the bird builds her nest,”
Various other of nature’s work-people pass
before her, and the fairy at last goes back
humbled, yet inspired with persevering en
ergy, which is content to labor without
speedy results.
We have learned many a lesson from
fairy love, and perhaps you too, dear read
er, are not too old or too wise to despise
the lesson. It is no little victory over na
tural tendencies when we have learned
hot to despise the day of small things. —
Neal's Gazette.
A NEW FACT DISCLOSED.
We were not aware, until recently, that
the books of newspaper publishers are con
sulted to quite a large extent, by people in
business, to ascertain the pecuniary stand
ing of persons. Debts for newspapers
come due once a year; and persons who
pay up regularly for their papers, are re
garded as prompt men, and worthy of con
, fidence. We had a person come into our
office, a few weeks since, and ask, ‘ Do you
send the ‘Trumpet’ now to 1’
We replied, ‘ Yes, we certainly do.’ ‘Well,’
said the man, ‘he owes me thirty-nine dol
lars, and I can’t get it. I don’t think he"s
good.’ We looked secretly at his account
and found him all paid tip. We then re
plied to the enquirer, ‘that man is good;
your debt is safe; he may have forgotten
it, or something else may hav% prevented
his paying; but he is good.’ The man’s
eyes brightened. Said he, ‘I have been to
several printers, and could not find where
he took a paper. I thought of you, and
said 1 would come here.’ Said he again,
after a pause, ‘ This is the way we find out
whether people are good. We ascertain
what faper they take, and contrive some
way to peep into their account. Men who
are good are sure to pay for their newspa
pers; and if they do not pay for these, we
think them not good.’ We were forcibly
struck by such an idea. ‘ Well,’ said he,
‘{-will send up my bill to , by ex
press.’ (These expresses by the way, are
one of the best inventions of modern times.)
In a few days the person came in again.
Said he, ‘I sent up my bill.’ ‘Well, did
he pay you!’ ‘ Yes, sir-ee,’ (said he) and
opened his hand and showed a roll of
hills. ‘ There,’ said he, ‘ give me a prin
ter’s books after all to tell whether a man’s
good—they’re a complete thermometer, sir,
a credit thermometer; we always know a
man to be bad if he don’t pay the printer.’
He then made a polite bow, and retired.—
Trumpet.
A TRUE GENTLEMAN.
It is curious to observe how much peo
ple’s politeness varies according the po
position of those with whom they have to
do. We have seen the same man who
would hasten to give up his seat in an om
nibus to a well dressed young lady bloom
ing with health and beauty, resolutely
keep his place, when a poor woman, sick
herself, and with a sick child , asked for ac
commodation. We have seen young la
dies at church spread out their gowns so
as to occupy the entire bench when some
aged but humbly clad woman approached,
but make room in a moment if some giddy
creature approached who was quite able to
stand. So in stores, at public assemblies, and
onthe streets, it is wonderful to see how dress
and fashion get all the courtesy, —while
true worth, if dressed “in hoddin gray,” is
elbowed by almost every body. Yet there
are a few exceptions—there are a few real
ly polite people. Our heart warmed, the
other day, to a good old Quaker, whom
we saw assisting a poor Irish woman with
her child, across a crowded crossing. “He
is one of Nature's gentlemen,” we said.—
Kent's Gazette.
CONUNDRUM.
Q. What dish is always in a hurry ?
A. A hasty pudding.
Til]Si
FARMING,
An excellent friend of ours, who is very
judiciously and spiritedly improving a fine,
large estate of his in Georgia, after giving
a good account of the fine stock, imple
ments, and seeds we sent him, proceeds to
say :
“ I have looked .through the Agricultu
rist, but find no mention of the probable
benefit or proper application of plaster of
Paris to com. (a.)
“ Would you advise me to soak my seed
corn eight hours in saltpetre, then roll in
plaster ? ( b .)
“ 1 intend to try, this season, fifty acres
broken up, last September, with the large
plow, but shall use the cultivator only in
tending the crop. I think the deep, close
plowing among corn, adopted in this region,
does as much injury as good, as the plow
breaks the young roots and prevents their
spreading, (c.)
“ Can you give me a plan, and furnish
me with all machinery complete for a
strong, stationary horse-power, to be used
for a thresher and also for a corn and cob
crusher 1 ( a nd.)
“ I got no clover from 30 acres sowed
last March; and of 40 acres sowed last
November, only a small portion looks well
now, although it came up finely. I shall
try 40 acres with oats this spring, but if it
fails, I will then lime and plaster the
land where the clover shows above the
ground.” (e.)
(a.) Farmers at the North occasionally
apply about a gill of plaster around each
hill of corn, at the first or second hoeing,
the same as with ashes. Some say that it
is very beneficial to their crop, while oth
ers contend that it does little or no good.
We know, however, that the application
of plaster is sooner or later beneficial to
the land, and to every kind of crop, as it is
consistent with acknowledged principles
that it should be so; besides, it is more ad
vantageous to some soils and crops than
to others, the light sandy or gravelly soil,
for instance, and the clover and other legu
minous crops. But we think our corres
pondent would derive more benefit from
bis corn, from tho application of wood ash
es, oyster-shell lime, fish, or crushed bones,
as these substances contain more of the
elements necessary for the growth of corn
than plaster. It is affirmed that plaster
attracts ammonia and moisture from the at
mosphere, as well as from rain water and
snow, which would alone make its applica
tion to the soil and crop beneficial, even if
it contained, (as it does,) no fertilizing pro
perty within itself. It also assists to fix
the ammonia in the manure applied to the
land, and in this may act advantageously.
(ft.) Take 1 lb. of saltpetre, dissolve it
in 6 to 8 quarts of water, and soak the seed
from 8 to 24 hours as convenient; then
roll in ashes or plaster, and plant. Thus
prepared, corn comes up sooner, grows
more vigorously, and is not so liable to be
attacked by grubs or birds.
(c.) In this we agree fully with the wri
ter. If the plow be used at all, it should
not run more than two inches deep, except
when the corn is quite young; but we
think it generally safest and best to use the
cultivator. It is certainly the most expe
ditious operation of the two.
(and.) Taplin’s horse-power is best for our
correspondent, and this may either be sta
tionary or movable. For cut and descrip
tion, see volume seventh, p. 32 of the Ag
riculturist ; also p. 40 of our catalogue.
(e.) Asa general rule, we think that the
southern climate, except in the mountain
ous regions, is too hot and dry for a pro
fitable growth of northern grasses ; never
theless, they are a subject of fair experi
ment, and we are glad to find our corres
pondent so pe-severing in testing them.
We hope he will try a few acres with lime
and plaster together, also alone. We are
of opinion, however, it would be most
beneficial to apply them in the months ol
November, December, January, or Februa
ry ; and the sooner, beginning with No
vember, the better.
Jn southern grasses, there is room for
great improvement; but whether this can
be best effected with the foreign or native
plants, we will leave to the discussion of
southern farmers themselves. It is an in
teresting and important topic, and w - e in
vite communications from them for ourcol
umns.—Amer. Agriculturist.
UTILITY OF FROGS.
I remember of reading somewhere that,
many and many years ago, a number of
frolicsome boys were one day watching
frogs, at the side of a pond, and that, as
any of them put their heads above the wa
ter, they pelted them down again with
stones. One of the frogs appealing to the
humanity of the boys, made this striking
observation: “Children you do not con
sider, that though this may be sport to you,
it is death to us.r It is to be feared that
the same propensity to maim and torture
these poor, innocent reptiles prevails to
some extent with the youth at the present
day. But this is cruel—wicked—wrong ;
for the usefulness of frogs about our gar
dens and fields can scarcely be too highly j
estimated, as their food consists almost ex- 1
clusively of worms, slugs, insects, and oth- !
er small living things, which they seek
among the plants and grass on the land.
Frogs, like the toad, it is well known,
are hatched from eggs, laid early in the
spring in shallow pools or near the edges
of sluggish streams, which, when taken
together, are called “ spawn,” and often re
semble a mass of boiled sago, sprinkled i
with a large number of small dots. The
young tadpole, which is hatched from them, j
passes through several metamorphoses, and
at the end of some weeks, becomes a 11 gap- I
ing, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.” If
you examine his tongue, you will observe
that, instead of being rooted at the throat,
! as in other animals, it is fastened to his
! under lip, with its point directed towards
the stomach. Nevertheless, this singular
arrangement is well suited to his purposes,
for his tongue, as an organ of prehension,
is very effective, being flat, soft, and long,
| and covered with viscous fluid, which ena-
I hies him more readily to catch and secure
his prey. When he wishes to use it, he
lowers his under jaw, ejects and retracts it
with the rapidity of light.
Instead of torturing these poor reptiles,
it is recommended that every lad in the
country, give place in some snug corner in
! the garden for a vessel holding a few gal
lons of water, buried nearly level with the
surface of the ground, in which may be
put one or more frogs, to be petted and
cherished like any other domestic animal,
and where its curious and interesting hab
its may be studied at leisure. Rana.
jnsm A IB ‘gas £33*
ORIGIN OF MECHANICS’ INSTITU
TIONS.
[The importance which now attaches to Me
chanics’ Institutions, and their rapid mul
tiplication throughout the civilized por
tions of the world, render the question
of their origin one of no small interest.—
We have thought that we might gratify
many of our readers by furnishing them
authentic information on the point; and
from the evidence contained in the follow
ing article —condensed from the Encyclo
pedia Britanica —it will appear that the
honor of establishing these valuable as
sociations, is justly due to Dr. Birkbeck,
of Glasgow.]— Ed. Gazette.
“ It has been a subject of very conside
rable controversy, to whom the honor of
having originated those institutions ought
to be attributed. Some have contended
that to Professor Andereon, the founder of
the institution in Glasgow which bears his
name, it is alone due ; because, in addition
to the clauses in his will, which especially
provide for the formation of a class of
manufacturers and artificers, he had, for a
period of thirty years, while Professor of
Natural Philosophy in the University of
that city, opened a class to which manu
facturers and others had access, for the
purpose of becoming acquainted with the
fundamental principles of experimental
physics. Others, again, have affirmed, that
although Professor Anderson had such an
intention in view when he framed his will,
it was only through the exertions of Dr.
Birkbeck, the second Professor of the An
dersonian Institution, that the project was
carried into complete and prac'ical effect.
It appears to us, however, that to Profes
sor Anderson is certainly due the merit of
having originated the idea of instructing
that previously neglected, but valuable
portion of the community. But while we
give to lhat admission all the weight to
which it is entitled, we are of opinion, that
in so far as regards the usefulness of the
idea when carried into effect, the merit is
due to Dr. Birkbeck. Professor Anderson
was in the frequent habit of visiting and
spending several hours in the workshops
of the mechanics of Glasgow; and freely
entering into conversation with them.—
Among others, he was often found at the
workshop of our illustrious countryman,
James Watt, then a watch-maker, in Glas
gow ; and it was in consequence of the
avidity with which the workmen availed
themselves of the theoretical information
which, on these visits, he was in the con
stant practice of imparting, that he first
conceived the idea of bringing within their
reach those principles of science, the at
tainment of which had hitherto been con- j
fined to the higher and wealthier classes, i
“He then commenced within the walls
of the University, a course of Lectures on
Natural Philosophy, for the especial bene
fit of that class of society, and divided the
course into two branches; one meeting
four times a week, in which the mathe
matical principles of the sciences were
considered apart from experimental illus
tration ; and the other, which met twice a
week, consisting entirely of those branches
which admitted of such illustration, and in
which the principles of mathematics were
! less called into operation. This latter class
was regularly and numerously attended by
’ a great many manufacturers and others en
! gaged in operative occupations, and was
j continued for several years, with great suc
: cess. He called it his antitoga class, in
j contradistinction to his regular academic
; attendance, which was denominated the
toga class. It was in consequence of the
decided improvement in the arts and man
ufactures of Glasgow, which, from that
j time, became very evident, and which Pro
: fessor Alden justly attributed to his in
| structions, that he conceived the truly phi
lanthropic intention of bequeathing his am
ple fortune for 1 the good of mankind and !
the improvement of science.’ In the pro
visions of his will, there was an especial
reference to the formation of classes upon
the principle of that which he had himself j
so successfully taught within the walls of ]
the University.
“ Professor Anderson died on the 16th
of January, 1796 ; and at a meeting of his
executors, held on the 23d of March fol
lowing, it was resolved to carry his inten
tions into immediate effect. Accordingly,
on the 21st of September, of the same year,
Dr. Thomas Garnett was elected first Pro
fessor of Natural Philosophy.
“ The lectures, however, were at first
only popular. Dr. Garnett, in 1800, was
appointed to the chair of Natural Philoso
phy in the Royal Institution of Great Brit
ain, founded at the suggestion of Count
Rumford and Sir Joseph Banks; and Dr.
George Birkbeck was elected in his stead.
It was then, upon the suggestion of Dr.
Birkbeck, that the trustees were enabled to
give full effect to Professor Anderson’s fa
vorite idea, as expressed in his will, of af
fording instruction in experimental philos
ophy to the artisans of Glasgow. Such
was the origin of the first mechanic’s class,
which has now been taught for upwards
of thirty-six years, with increasing suc
cess and advantage to this interesting class
of students.
“ But important as was this era in the
history of the class which was thus insti
tuted, it was not until upwards of twenty
years afterwards, that the example was
followed by any other city in the kingdom.
At length, however, in 1821, the School of
Arts, for the instruction of mechanics, was
formed in Edinburgh; and within a year
or two afterwards, the example was fol
lowed, and another institution of the same
nature was originated in Glasgow, in con
sequence of some differences which had
arisen between Dr. Ure, (Dr. Birkbeck’s
successor in the Andersonian Institution,)
and the students who attended his operative
class. A great many of these left the An
dersonian, and founded the Mchanics’ In
stitution, of which Dr. Birkbeck, at their
solicitation, consented to become the patron.
About the same time, the London Mechan
ic's Institution was founded; and within a
very few years after this period, there was
hardly a city of any note in the kingdom
which had not institutions of a kindred
description.”
PRINTERS.
The Troubadours re-strung their lyres to
sing the heroic odes “worked off” in the
old black-letter —Luther and Melancthon
found in the printed Bible a mighty ally,
whose flaming sword drove off their op
pressors, while from it the light of reveal
el truth shone on the blindness of the
masses—great and wonderful improve
ments in Mechanics were chronicled, and,
being known, were perfected—Europe read
with avidity of the discoveries made by
Columbus of the lands whereof Plato and
Seneca had spoken, far to the westward
beyond the “ Pillars of Hercules”—The
calculations of Galileo guided other astron
mers in fixing upon earth the laws which
rule the firmament of Heaven —the philos
ophers of Greece and the heroes of Rome
were called from their tombs, as it were, to
improve and instruct succeeding genera
tions, who found in printed books the once
!ocked-up treasures of universal antiquity.
Indeed, it may be said that theclang.ol the
first press brought Minerva from the clois
tered halls where she had remained in
monkish seclusion, to cultivate the mental
faculties of the masses and to elevate their
mental tastes. And the “ribs” of that
press were thus a commencement of the
railway of intellect, upon which so many
richly loaded “beds” are now hurried by
the giant power of steam. High were the
honors, my friends, paid to Printing in
those palmy days of its infancy.
And Printers, then, were honored, as
well as honorable men. Frederick the
Third, of Germany, granted an armorial
bearing to the “ Typothetae,” and it was
the right of the members, by virtue of a
clause added to the sumptuary laws of
those days, to wear gold and silver jewels,
and the furred robe, and the slashed doub
let, and the sword. No man was taught
the “art and mystery” who was not well
versed in his vernacular tongue; and most
Printers were so distinguished for their
scholastic attainments, that the fraternity
occupied a prominent place in the Republic
of Letters.
We find that Ulric Geering was honored
with the especial favor of Louis the Elev
enth, of France, and that he received from
the famous College of the Sorbonne at Pa
ris, the “privileges of hospitality”—that
is, apartments in their spacious edifice, and
a seat at the table of the learned Doctor,3
of the Law and of Divinity. Robert
Etienne was the favorite of Francis the
First, who used to pay frequent visits to
his composing-room, and gave him a “font”
of Pica, the matrices of which are now at
the Royal Printing Office in Paris. Nor
could the gallant monarch have found a
more learned man among his subjects than
this same Printer Etienne! He was not
only profoundly versed in Latin, Greek
and Hebrew, himself, but, marrying the
daughter of Ascencius the Printer, Petro
nella, who was a woman of rare talents,
Etienne had no other language spoken in
his household, save that in which was the
work then on his press, whether it was
Latin, Greek, or the French mother tongue.
— Ben. Perley Poore.
Labor. —Why, man of idleness, labor
1 rocked you in the cradle, and has nourish
|ed your pampered life; without it, the wov
en silks and wool upon your back, would bo
in the silk-worm’s nest, and the fleeces in
the shepherd’s fold. For the mennost thing
that ministers to human want, save the air
of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even
the air, by God's wise ordination, is breath
ed with labor. It is only the drones who
toil not, who infest the hive of the active
like masses of corruption and decay. Work
on, man of toil! thy royalty is yet to be ac
knowledged, as labor rises onward to the
highest throne of power.
0 cnrral SUnmtiscmrnts.
GAZETTE
JOB PRINTIN G
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