ion of the power and wisdom of the Creator, y in their hearts, "There is no God." noiseless. ya-dez), a well-known even small stars. wo bright stars in the he "Dipper." A line them points nearly to star. the axis of the earth would touch if extended. trans-fig-u-ra/tion, change of form. Ju'pi-ter, the largest planet, and next to Venus the brightest. Ma'gi-ans, priests among the Persians. ce in the heavens where con-stel-la/tions, groups of stars. Andromeda are northern constellations (2). — The Blue ew miles south of Boston (5). Providence? Boston? Asia (pronounced ā'shě-å) ? the moon in the last quarter (1); spectral luster (1); celestial LXIX. ANIMAL TELEGRAPHY. WILSON. RGE WILSON, a Scottish writer on scientific subjects, was born died in 1859. During the later years of his life he was Professor rsity of Edinburgh. ERE are other and older telegraphs than those e formed by electric wires. Even the lower or at least such of them as are social and greave carried the art of telegraphy to wondrous 1 ages ago; and one has only to watch them ly, to be amazed at their telegraphic doings. vatch a troop of crows who have learned that Blyth will hold a plowing-match on his grounds, e in consequence summoned their brethren to of Worms. How unconcerned they look, as if vere nothing to them! How grave, as if they it towards them, and in a moment t backs seem turned to you will giv wings, which appears an involuntary reality as significant a danger signa railway, and is sufficient to clear the 3. Nor are those wise crows excep sparrows are not so idle that they d to each other when crumbs are falli rich man's table. The doves, though cent, do not spend all their time in c in pruning their rainbow feathers: t Dove Express, and by a peck, or a ru can direct each other to the fields wheat is germinating best, or to the green peas are fullest and sweetest. ste of arsenic or strychnia, the supper table is and the mouse telegraph signals danger. it otherwise with larger animals? The deerthe elephant-hunter, the chamois-shooter, the er, have all a similar tale to tell us of their prey. There is not a single tribe of gregarious great or small, which has not some swift, subct system of signals, by which the wants of the ity are expressed and its woes cured. d even among solitary creatures, who that has geometric spider sitting at his central bureau, eiving signal after signal along his spoke-like as not thought he heard him reading off the "Fly market tight," "Blue-bottles looking up," easy," "Thunder in the air"? hy, the art of communi- | bureau (-ro), office. - central bu- telegraph. reau, the principal officer's desk or office, as in a department of gov us, living in flocks or t-ing, sprouting. k-er (-stawk'er), one who er by approaching them ernment. är'se-nic, a strong mineral poison. strych’ni-à (strik'-), a deadly poison got from certain plants. Worms (2). "Diet" has two meanings: (1.) food, and (2.) a deassembly or council. A famous council, which summoned Martin appear before it, met at the German city of Worms, in 1521, wn as the Diet of Worms.". ecclesiastical convocation (2), ly of the clergy. — geometric spider (7). The garden spider ometric net, one constructed on geometrical principles, with A straight lines. the 3d paragraph an allusion to something related in the New t. Give the meaning of "title-deeds" (5). SAXE. JOHN GODFREY SAXE deserves, perhaps, to rank ists as inferior only to Lowell and Holmes. He was Saxe's bright wit, his keen and playful satire, a happy expressions, lend his verse a quite original ch 1. WHEN Solomon was reigning in his Unto his throne the Queen of Sh (So in the Talmud you may read th Drawn by the magic of the mona To see the splendors of his court, a Some fitting tribute to the mighty I 2. Nor this alone: much had her High What flowers of learning graced t What gems of wisdom dropped with What wholesome lessons he was In pleasing proverbs; and she wish To know if Rumor spoke the simple 3. And straight she held before the mo In either hand, a radiant wreath o The one, bedecked with every charm Was newly culled from Nature's o The other, no less fair in every part, Was the rare product of divinest Art 4. "Which is the true, and which the f Great Solomon was silent. All an Each wondering courtier shook his p While at the garlands long the mo As one who sees a miracle, and fain. For very rapture, ne'er would speak h is the true?" once more the woman asked, sed at the fond amazement of the king; se a head should not be hardly tasked, learned liege, with such a trivial thing.” 11 the sage was silent, it was plain ening doubt perplexed the royal brain. thus he pondered, presently he sees, 1 by the casement, so the story goes, e band of busy, bustling bees, ting for honey in a withered rose. onarch smiled, and raised his royal head: the window!"—that was all he said. ndow opened at the king's command; ory teaches (every tale should bear e useful lesson to enrich the mind, book of Hebrew laws | liege (leej), sovereign. zement (5). "Fond" originally meant foolish. It is used here at the king was thoroughly mystified. Ay in prose the story of King Solomon and the Bees. |