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14. RING OUT, WILD BELLS. 1. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light;

The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

2. Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go:
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

3. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.

4. Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.

5. Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;

Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

6. Ring out false pride in place and blood,
The civic slander and the spite;

Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.

7. Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.

8. Ring in the valiant man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

From TENNYSON'S In Memoriam.

15. INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS.

When this lesson is assigned, ask pupils to find out from books of reference something about the most interesting of the inventions enumerated.

1. The mariner's compass and the galvanic battery were invented in Italy. Printing by means of movable metal types was invented in Germany. The microscope was invented in Holland.

2. Great Britain has enriched the world by the invention of the steam-engine, the locomotive, the railroad, the spinning-jenny, weaving-machines, the chronometer, the rolling-mill, the screw propeller, iron ships, and the steamplow.

3. France claims the honor of inventing photography, the Jacquard loom, the electro-magnet, and iron armor for ships.

4. The United States has contributed the steamboat, the cotton-gin, the electric telegraph, the sewing-machine, vulcanized rubber, the steam fire-engine, revolving firearms, street-cars, reaping-machines, mowing-machines, pin-machines, cut-nail machines, the telephone, some forms of the electric light, and a great number of minor but very useful inventions.

5. Great inventors rank among the benefactors of the world, and it is quite as desirable to know something about them as it is to learn about great authors, statesmen, or warriors.

6. The invention of the telescope is generally conceded to Galileo, an Italian mathematician and astronomer of the 16th century.

7. The art of printing really dates from the 15th century. Centuries before this, the Chinese had printed books by means of carved wooden blocks. John Gutenberg, a German printer at Mentz, invented a cheap method of making movable metal types. He took a partner in business by the name of Faust, and hence the invention is sometimes attributed to Gutenberg and Faust.

8. In the 18th century, James Watt, of Scotland, made so important improvements on the rude steamengines of that day, that he is called the inventor of the steam-engine. As is often the case with important inventions, the steam-engine owes its present perfection to the combined labors of many inventors and machinists. George Stephenson, an English engineer, invented a locomotive steam-engine in 1814, and so laid the foundation of railroad building.

9. Hargreaves and Arkwright, both Englishmen, invented and improved spinning and weaving machinery,

in the 18th century. These inventions, together with the steam-engine, made England a great manufacturing country.

10. Jacquard, a Frenchman, invented, in 1801, a loom for weaving carpets and other figured stuffs. Daguerre, a Frenchman, invented, in 1839, the process of taking daguerreotypes upon metallic plates, which invention soon developed into the process of taking photographs on paper.

11. Near the close of the 18th century (1792), Eli Whitney, an American, invented the cotton-gin (gin is an abbreviation of engine), a machine for separating the seeds of cotton from the fiber. This invention laid the foundation of the wealth of the cotton-growing States.

12. Near the beginning of the 19th century (1807), Robert Fulton, an American, built the first successful steamboat. A few years later (1835), Prof. S. B. Morse, an American, invented the electric telegraph; and, at about the same time (1839), Goodyear, also an American, invented the process of making vulcanized rubber, now used in the manufacture of "rubber goods."

13. The sewing-machine was invented about the middle of the 19th century (1846), by Elias Howe, an American. The two most notable of recent inventions are the telephone and the electric light.

ORAL EXPRESSION. Ask pupils to tell the class any thing they know about any of the inventions mentioned.

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WRITTEN SPELLING.-WORDS OFTEN MISSPELLED.

If you have any doubt about the meaning or the pronunciation of a word, refer to the dictionary.

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16. THE NATIONAL CLOCK.

Require the boys of the class to memorize this for declamation.

1. Every nation is like a clock, the forces at work within carrying forward some purpose or plan of Providence with patient constancy; but when the season comes that the sixtieth minute is due, and a new hour must be sounded, perhaps not for the nation alone, but for the world, then-then the clock strikes, and it may be with a force and resonance that startles and inspires the race.

2. The first American revolution was such a periodthat was the glory of it. The English Government had oppressed our fathers. It tried to break their spirit. For several years it was a dark time, like the hours before the striking of the dawn. But the Colonial timepiece kept ticking, ticking to the pressure of the English Government, the giant wheels playing calmly till about 1775, when there was a strange stir and buzz within the case. The people could not bear any more of it. But the sixtieth minute came, and the clock struck.

3. The world heard-the battle of Lexington-one; the Declaration of Independence-two; the surrender of Burgoyne-three; the siege of Yorktown-four; the Treaty of Paris-five; the inauguration of Washington- six.

4. And then it was sunrise of the new day, of which we have seen yet only the glorious forenoon.

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