IWhipping to the Otel-Thne II A ptblic school fifty years ago was a 'very different affair from what it is now adays. Upon my word, when I think of the whipping that went on day after day in the old /lay how Soh °id. lam astonished at it: Yet, with - the variety of coeporal punishment so freely bestowed. them was mingled s sort of ghastly sportive element, a grim humor Which did not ocinniend itself to the perception of him who . received the flaggellatkm. A merry conceit, for instance, was tint of Master Clough: That ingenious person wank/direct a culprit to Maul upon the platfortn, l near _the desk, and without bending the knees, tot* the floor with his fingers. Then a smart flourish of the rattan and a. sudden blow would cause the unhappy youth to involtintarily resume an up right position with diverting rapidity. It was really very amusing (to Master Clough). Sometimes an offender would be asked by one of the masters which instrument of torture be would choose, the riding-whip, the ruler, or the rattan: Whichever he. seemed to prefer was not the one used, but one of the others would make him smart. This little change would have a healthful moralin finence upon the scholar, teaching pa tience and resignation under disappoint ment. A pleasant illustration (to the teacher) of the irony of fate was shown in another way. When the stock of iattans ran tow (and that was not sel dom) some victim in disgrace would be dispatched for a fresh supply. knowin : that on his return be would feel the first stroke of the rod. With what ingen • ions rOnememt of torture the victim was thus made to find the weapon that should wound him ! There was another clever diversion of our kind-hearted masters which in summer, when the days sere long, oc casionally broken the monotony of school-bey life. Sometimes, of a sultry July afternoon. a Aired scholar, over come by the heat, would find the sound of voices in the room grow fainter and fainter, his head would droop and finally sink upon his desk, and he would quickly be in the pleasant land of dreams. Then it was that the master, seizing hie rattan end stealthily yet joy fully striding across' the rows of desks; would give the sleeping wretch such a rousing whack as to astonish and con found as well as suddenly awake him. I confess that these diversions of the pedagogue were not without their at. traction for us who looked on and saw the comical-contortions of the boys whose for Mer-it was at the moment to . . be under, d is cipl in e . The fact that our turn might come next did not prevent us from finding what entertainment we Might in what our master evidently en joyed. None of us bad yet read the maxims of the cynical La nochefou- cauld, but we realized that under - cer tain circumstances there*, something in the misfortunes of our 'friends that gives us a certain sort of satisfaction. Those were indeed days when flog ging was administered in no horaceps thic doses, but with a most heroic full ness of practice. -I once made a careful estimate of my own experience in that way, and came to the conclusion that I had averaged about a whipping and a half a day during my connection with the Mayhew School Of course we be came somewhat inured to this rough treatment. It was considered the pro per thing to suffer with Spartan firm ness, and he who while laid across the master's knee could calmly make col*. cal and derisive faces from his ignomi nious position, for the entertainment of his associates, without having his atten tion diverted to other parts of his body, was accounted a brave fellow. Then there was a superstitious belief that by laying one's eyelash in the hand that was about to be feruled, the accursed wood was mire to be-ehattered on coin ing in contact with the magic hair. • .B,nt I never , saw one shattered.—posion SPEED or nranis:::=-The rates of flight of the different species of wild birds Lave not; so far as we know, been measured, and it is difficult for us to tiee how this pould bp . done. :Various estimates have been made 'by different authors, but it taus! be`'remembered That these. are merely estimates, and cot measarements of speed. Speaking of the passenger - pigeon (Eclop isles rjigraterict), /triduben itsys: Their great powei of flight enables theta' to survey and pass over an ;astonishing el.tetit of ootintry it aa very short time. This is prayed dy facts uell-known in America. Thus, pigeons have been killed in the neighborhood of New York with their crops tall ot rise which they .. must have collected in the fields of Georgie and Carolina, these districts being*. nearest -in which they could pudgy have procured a supply of that kind of food. ita theis power of diges don' is so great that they will decompose fool entirely in twelve hours, they must in this cue have travelled between three and four hundred miles in six boars, which show their speed to be, at an average', about one mile in -a minute. - A velocity each as this world enable one of these birds, were it so inclined, to visit the European.continent in less thsn4lsree days.' - 'Writing of the common wild swan (O,yritts Aetericanes), he says: 'When travelling to a distance they- proceed at s grOt height, with a_ steady and well suitained flight, though by no inestis.so refills' that. of the trumpeter. swan, *if difference probably arising from the greater weight and afar extent of the latter.' A little farther on he quotes Dr. Sharpless, of Philadelphia. as saying of the same species:. 'The swan, when migrating, with a moderate wind in his favor, and mounted high in the air, certainly travels at the Tate of one hundred miles or more an hour. I have often timed the flight of the ' itonae, and found one mile a minute a .conircou rapidity, and. when ' the two birds, in a change of feeding ground, have been flying near gash other. which . 411 *; -. 41 i0 - Mtat 4 ,ity . f 4 isblY Passed *tit I,tearlt. dkinhie gig velortity.' Of itiellach Anclehi - nil's - that he believes that it !Naita "to of seventy miles an hour, and of the giolifesi . eye (Ciaegele Wares it ,can easily traverse the lanety mites an hoar,' Mani additional citation.- might , 7 they would scarcely serve to determine the question.—.Pbrest andyitrism, - - I AK roux connsawn that $I 1r Cream Balls is a care tor. Catarrh, By Fares, etc. Katy cures bare been made among my cus tomers. They one abided Ands! eve this, Cubist qf aB catarrh remectles, s Ind.' C. T. Krum, Thrall*, To Ps. Price 50 eta. 001.4, 1800. Nor. 10-2 w A FRISCO Talcs.-:-Of the many tricks of those who live by their wits to. take in the unwary, the "gold nugget pin dodge" is the most successful. This oft-practiced game ,was played last Saturday night upon a citizen. who has often prided himself as being "no fool." As be was passing „the Baldwin Hotel, he saw a seedy,' semi-respectable ing party, who was walking a feii 'atepti ahead of him, atop, and, stooping, ap pear to pick up something bright, which when held up to light, was seen by the citizen to be a nugget pin, evidently solid gold, and weighing fully .one ounce. "What a lucky find!" remark - pi the overjoyed stranger to the citizen as he gleefully held , it up• fo the latter's inspection. - 'lt's worth considerable,' continued lie, and it's a - windfall to me, for I'm dead broke. I wish I could sell it.' , 'What do yen want for or asked the tumturpeoting victim, who thought he scented a cbanee to turn an honest penny by a neat business stroke. - 'Well, I don't know what it's worth. I wish there was a pawnshop open. Give me ten dollars and yen can have iL' • 'Ten tiollars for a $2O nugget; too much,' thought the victim, and then :Can't do it,' remarked he aloud. 'Well, lam hard up. Now what will you giver persevered the stranger, who appeared to hesitate to . take less.. The slirewd citizen finally secured the pin for $4.50, only , to find when he had bier:itches° examined, that it was a good imitation of gold, but, being only made of brass, it was not worth, as mud! aspie paid for it by $4.49. The victim has cut another eye-tooth, and now declares that he would not buy a gold mine at any price from a stranger. —San Francisco Past. SIX HUNDRED Vicrtms.—The All a California says:—The Corwin landed on St. Lawrence Islanf, having orders to investigate the whole-sale starvation of the natives. At thri first village at which they larded all were dead; so, also, at the second where fifty-four dead bodies were counted, nearly all full : grown males. At :another place one` - hundred and fifty persona—men, women and children—were dead. At the next settlement twelve dead bodies and at the following thirty were found. All the inhabitants on the north side of the' island, where whisky traders add liquor,, are dead—not one escaping. The general starvation occurred two years ago last 'winter. Since then the presence of the Corwin in the, Arctic his broken up this inhuman whisky ttading. ' The empty whisky kegs were strewn all about. The total number of dead bodies found on St. Lawrence Island was dyer six hundred. The sur vivors say that white traders from Hon olulu sold whisky which the .natives 'bought and got drunk, remaining so during the season for laying in their. winter supply of walrus and seal. Photographs of these groups of dead bodies, as they yet lie about, frozen stiff, were taken. . The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser mentions what may be safely set down as the worst case of spelling of recent record. It, occurred in a !notis' of a 'sellybrasbun,'-to be held on the shores of 'Lake Eary,' and mentioned the 6c casion as a 'guble.' This word troubled the editor a good deal but with rare per spicacity he at length resolved it into 'jubilee.' Leipsic has just celebrated the 400th anniversary of the introduction of print- lug into the town which is now the great centre of German printing. The art was introduced in 1481 by Andreas Preisner, professor of theology. 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