the wood, laurel bushes in the very regality of bloom, are very beautiful to you; but they are color and form only. They seem strangers to you. They bring back nothing from time. They point to nothing in the future. But the wild brier starts a genial feeling it is the country cousin of the rose, and that has always been your pet. You have nursed it and defended it; you have had it for companionship as you wrote; it has stood by your pillow while sick; it has brought remembrance to you, and conveyed your kindest feelings to others. And so a wild rose, a prairie rose, or a sweetbrier that at evening fills the air with odor (a floral nightingale, whose song is perfume), greets you as a dear and intimate friend. You almost wish to get out as you travel, and inquire after their health, and ask if they wish to send any messages by you to their town friends. 13. This flower is like some friend; another reminds you of mignonette, and mignonette always makes you think of such a garden and mansion where it enacted some memorable part; and that flower conveys some strange and unexpected resemblance to certain events. of society; this one is a bold soldier; that one is a sweet lady dear; the white-flowering bloodroot, trooping up by the side of a decaying log, recalls to your fancy a band of white-bannered knights: and so your pleased attention strays through a thousand vagaries of fancy, memory, or hope. 14. It is a matter of gratitude that this finest gift of Providence is the most profusely given. Flowers can not be monopolized. The poor can have them as much as the rich. It does not require such an education to love and appreciate them as it would to admire a picture of Turner's or a statue of Thorwaldsen's. 15. And as they are messengers of affection, tokens of remembrance, and presents of beauty, of universal acceptance, it is pleasant to think that all men recognize a brief brotherhood in them. It is not impertinent to offer flowers to a stranger. The poorest child can proffer them to the richest. A hundred persons turned together into a meadow full of flowers would be drawn together in a transient brotherhood. 16. It is affecting to see how serviceable flowers often are to the necessities of the poor. If they bring their little floral gift to you, it can not but touch your heart to think that their grateful affection longed to express itself as much as yours. I never take one from a child or from the poor, that I do not thank God in their behalf for flowers. 17. And then, when Death enters a poor man's house! It may be it is an only son, and his mother a widow, who, in all his sickness, felt the limitation of her poverty for her darling's sake as she never had for her own; and did what she could, but not what she would had there been wealth. The coffin is pine. The room is small. The attendant neighbors are few. is coarse. The shroud 18. O, the darling child was fit for whatever was most excellent; and the heart aches to do for him whatever could be done that should speak love. It takes money for fine linen, money for costly sepulture; but flowers, thank God, the poorest may have: so put white buds in the hair, and honeydew and mignonette and half-blown roses on the breast. If it be spring, a few white violets will do (and there is not a month till November that will not give you something): but if it is winter, and you have no single pot of roses, then I fear your darling must be buried without a flower; for flowers cost money in the winter. 19. And then, if you can not give a stone to mark his burial place, a rose may stand there; and from it you may every spring pluck a bud for your bosom, as the child was broken off from you. LANGUAGE STUDY. I. Write the analysis of: reject (jacere); secure (cura); pervert (vertere); profusion (fundere); defend (fendere); enact (agere); express (premere). Write the analysis of: association; imperfect; blindness; unworthy; manhood; enjoyment; minutely; prodigality. II. In paragraph 4 are three simple sentences, one complex sentence, and one compound sentence: select those of each type. III. The piece is a mingling of the descriptive and the reflective styles. Select what you think the best touches of description. Select the thought that comes home to you most. Which is the most pathetic passage? Note the happy mingling of long and short sentences, and of periods and "loose" sentences. Point out a period; a "loose" sentence. Show inversions illustrating the indirect or rhetorical order of words. 69.-Glimpses of Science. ABOUT ELECTRICITY. ae-count'ed, considered. al-ternate-ly, by turns. a-năto-my, an account of the structure of the human body, obtained by dissection. çir'euit (sir'kit), continuous eler- PREPARATORY NOTES. (2) Gilbert (1540-1603), an English physician and natural philosopher. (4) Guericke (ga'rik-eh), a German natural philosopher, and the inventor of the air pump (1602–1686). — (4) Hawksbee (——— -1730), an English scientist. — (6) Du Fay (1698-1739), a French scientist.— (14) Galvani (gäl-vä'ne), an Italian philosopher (1737-1798). - (16) Volta (1745-1827), an Italian scientist. (21) Wheatstone and Cooke, two English physicists of the present century. — (21) Steinheil, a Bavarian scientist. (21) Morse (1791-1872), a celebrated American electrician. I. 1. So long ago as the time of the Greeks it was already known that amber, when rubbed, will attract or draw towards it bits of straw and other light bodies; and it is from the Greek word electron, - amber, — that our word "electricity" is taken. 2. Until the sixteenth century, however, no one had made any careful experiments upon this curious fact; and it was Dr. Gilbert, an English physician, who first discovered that other bodies besides amber will, when rubbed, attract straws, thin shavings of metals, and other substances; and he also proved that the attrac tion was stronger when the air is dry and cold than when it is warm and moist. 3. You can easily try this for yourself by rubbing the end of a stick of common sealing wax on a piece of dry flannel, and then holding the rubbed end near to some small pieces of light paper or feathers. You will find that these substances will spring towards the sealing wax, and cling to it a short time. 4. After Gilbert's time very little notice was taken of these facts, till Guericke invented the first rude electrical machine in 1672. He made a globe of sulphur which turned in a wooden frame, and by pressing a cloth against it with his hand as it went round he caused the sulphur to become charged with electricity. His apparatus was very rough, but it led to better ones being made; and, some years later, a man named Hawksbee substituted a glass globe for the sulphur and a piece of silk for the cloth, and in this way electrical machines were made much like those we now use. 5. Guericke also discovered that an electrical body attracts one that is not electrified, but repels it again as soon as it has filled it with electricity like its own. He was also the first to notice the spark of fire and crackling sound which are produced by electricity when it passes between two bodies which do not touch each other. 6. Soon after this, a Frenchman named Du Fay showed that substances filled with different kinds of electricity attract each other. Both these men thought |