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gods; and so it comes to pass, that, in this life, when the soul, by the power of music or poetry, or the sight of beauty, hath her remembrance quickened, forthwith there is a struggling and pricking pain as of wings trying to come forth-even as children in teething." And if an old heathen two thousand years ago, discoursed thus gravely of the romantic part of our nature, whence comes it that in Christian lands we think in so pagan a way of it, and turn the whole care of it to ballad-makers, romancers, and opera-singers.

Let us look up in fear and reverence and say, "God is the great maker of romance. HE, from whose hand came man and woman-He who strung the great harp of Existence with all its wild, and wonderful, and manifold chords, and attuned them to one another-He is the great Poet of life." Every impulse of beauty, of heroism, and every craving for purer love, fairer perfection, nobler type and style of being than that which closes like a prison-house around us, in the dim, daily walk of life, is God's breath, God's impulse, God's reminder to the soul that there is something higher, sweeter, purer, yet to be attained.

Therefore, man or woman, when thy ideal is shattered-as shattered a thousand times it must be-when the vision fades, the rapture burns out, turn not away in skepticism and bitterness, saying, "There is nothing better f or a man than that he should eat and drink," but rather cherish the revelations of those hours as prophecies and foreshadowings of something real and possible, yet to be attained in the manhood of immortality. The scoffing spirit that laughs at romance, is an apple of the devil's own handing from the bitter tree of knowledge-it open the eyes only to see eternal nakedress.

If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship-a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul-if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly considerations have gone down like drift-wood before a river flooded with new rain from heaven, so that you even forgot yourself, and were ready to cast your whole being into the chasm of existence, as an offering before the feet of another, and all for nothing- if you awoke bitterly betrayed and deceived, still give thanks to God that you have had one glimpse of heaven. The door now shut will open again. Rejoice that the noblest capability of your eternal inheritance has been made known to you; treasure it as the highest honor of your being, that ever you could so feel-that so divine a guest ever possessed your soul.

By such experiences we are taught the pathos, the sacredness of life; and if we use them wisely, our eyes will ever after be anointed to see what poems, what romances, what sublime tragedies lie around us in the daily

walk of life," written not with ink, but in fleshy tables of the heart." The dullest street of the most prosaic town has matter in it, for more smiles, more tears, more intense excitement, than ever were written in story or sung in poem; the reality is there, of which the romancer is the second-hand recorder.-From "The Minister's Wooing."

AFTER THE RAIN.

The rain has ceased, and in my room
The sunshine pours an orange flood;
And on the churches dizzy vane
The ancient cross is bathed in blood.

From out the dripping ivy-leaves,
Antiquely carven, gray and high,
A dormer, facing westward, looks
Upon the village like an eye:

And now it glimmers in the sun,
A globe of gold, a disc, a speck:
And in the Belfry sits a Dove

With purple ripples on her neck.

T. B. Aldrich.

TRUSTEES OF INSANE HOSPITAL.

THE Governor has appointed under chapter 218 of the general laws of 1859, the following persons as Trustees of the Insane Hospital:

For three years from April 4, 1858: Leonard J. Farwell, Madison. Edward P. Allis, Milwaukee. Levi Sterling, Mineral Point.

For two years from April 4, 1859: Chauncey Abbott, Madison. John P. McGregor, Portage.

For one year from April 4, 1859: Thomas Hood, Madison. Charles D. Robinson, Green Bay.

Mathematical Department.

Another Solution of Problem No. 16.-Since 34 acres will pasture 12 sheep four weeks, 12 sheep ×4=48 sheep will eat the same in one week. By the problem 10 acres will pasture 21 sheep 9 weeks, therefore, 31 being of 10, 31 acres will pasture of 21 sheep 9 weeks, or 63 sheep one week. We have now found that if to 3+ acres of grass we add its growth for nine weeks, it will pasture 63 sheep one week, but if we add its growth for four weeks, it will pasture only 48 sheep one week. It is, therefore, evident, that the growth on 3 acres for (9-4)=5 weeks will pasture (63-48)=15 sheep one week. Hence of 15 sheep 12 sheep will be fed one week on the growth of 3 acres for four weeks, or 3 sheep one week on one weeks growth. Now 48-12-36 the number of sheep that the original quantity of grass on 31 acres will pasture one week. From the above we learn that the original quantity of grass on 3 acres will pasture 36 sheep one week. Hence the original quantity of grass on each acre is just to 12 times its growth per week. Therefore, 24 acres+18 weeks growth=23 times the original quantity of grass on 24 acres.

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Hence, x36×21÷18=36 the number of sheep required.

L. CAMPBELL.

[By a mistake 35 was given instead of 36, the true answer in Mr. Whitcom's solution of this problem.-ED]

Solution of Problem No. 20.-Let r = the radius of the base, the height, s=the solid content of a segment. Then (Davie's Legendre B. 8. 17. scho. 7) we have □*~2+10x3=S.

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In problem 20, D=40, and S-sphere; hence, (2) becomes x3—60x2=-10666,6666 etc., which solved by any of the usual methods, gives x=15,482+inches-height of each end segment; hence, the height of the middle segment is 40-2x15,482— 9,036-inches. A. W. WHITOOM.

* This sign is used here to represent the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference -ED;

Solution of Problem No. 17.-Let x, xy, xy2, xy3 represent the four numbers. Then by the conditions of the problem xy3-xy=24, and xy3+x : xy2+xy::7:3, or y3+1 : y2+y::7: 3. Hence, (dividing the first couplet by x+1, y2-y+1:y::7:3, and by composition y2+1: y::10: 3. Hence 3y2+3=10y, hence y2-10-1, hence y=3 and by the first equation, 27x-3x=24, or x=1, and the numbers are 1, 3, 9, 27. C. C. B.

Problem No. 22.-The base of a right angled triangle is equal to the perpendicular diminished by its square-root, and the area is equal to one acre; find the base and perpendicular.

Problem No. 23.-Required the greatest rectangle, that can be cut from a triangle, whose sides are respectively 13, 14, and 15 feet.

Problem No. 24.-Required the greatest cylinder that can be cut from a given cone.

Problem No. 25.-A hollow paraboloid whose height is 19 inches, and whose greatest diameter is 7 inches, contains 60 cubic inches of water. Required the diameter of the sphere which will just be immersed in the water,

Problem No. 26.—A, B, and C carry a stick of timber of equal size from end to end. A and B carrying together by a bearing pole and C alone at the end. Where must the cross pole be placed that each may carry his proportion of the the timber. BEAR CREEK.

Problem No. 27.-The altitude of a cone is to the radius of its base as 4 to 3, and the entire surface is to its solidity, as 1 to 80; required the altitude.

Problem No. 28.-A thin triangular plate, of uniform thickness, is supported in a horizontal position by three props at the angular points. Required the pressure upon each prop in terms of the sides of the triangle.

[We are obliged to get our engraving done in Milwaukee, and we failed to get the diagrams illustrating the several solutions which we have on hand in time for this Number. They will appear in our next issue.— ED.]

Editorial Miscellany.

TOWN LIBRARIES.-The able exposition of the advantages of the town over the district library system in the present Number, by the State Superintendent, Mr. Draper, is worthy of the careful consideration of every friend of popular enlightenment. That the old system was a failure, so far as nine-tenths of the State is concerned, is evident to all, and that the township system has succeeded in other States, and secured the best results wherever established, is conclusively shown by the ablest educators East and West.

That there will be opposition to the system in some localities, on account of the increase of taxation consequent upon its establishment, is to be expected, yet we think when the whole matter is carefully considered, the real benefits estimated, and the smallness of the tax on individuals taken into account,* all opposition will cease, and the Town Library Law will be looked upon as a most wise and beneficent measure, and the hopeful anticipations of the Superintendent be participated in by all who believe that intelligence and virtue are the basis and safeguard of our institutions.

NEW SCHOOL Law.—The bill prepared by Mr. Pickett, and which was introduced into the Assembly too late in the session for any definite action to be taken upon it, proposed an entire change in the system in the following respects: First, as to the division of territory into districts. The present district is to be retained, for the purpose of electing, annually, an officer styled director. Each organized town, and every city and village containing a certain number of children over 4 and under 20 years of age, constitutes a union district.

Each county (as near as practicable) constitutes a Superintendent district, and finally the State at large is considered as a single district for school purposes. Second, of School Boards.

We give entire the sections of the bill relating to this subject:

SEC. 5. There shall be elected in each school district, as hereinafter provided, one officer to be called Director, and in certain cases one or two Associate Directors.

SEC. 6. For the management and control of schools in the union districts there shall be organized in each a Board to be called the School Board, which shall be composed of the Directors, or Directors and Associate Directors of the School Districts or district situated therein, and a School Inspector who shall be ex-officio Secretary of the said School Board,

*Only ten cents on one thousand dollars,

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