On getting the monster (in shape) home, and Goldsmith states, in his Natural History, that putting him into a natural position, the appro- this fish attains a length of five feet, and that priateness of his appellation was sufficiently "its mouth is generally a yard wide." In Marobvious. Whoever will take the trouble to ex-tin's Natural History it is stated that they are amine the "Angler," Lophius piscatorious, as found throughout Europe; that they measure delineated in the pictorial illustrations in Web-four feet length; that they have broad, transster's Quarto, will obtain a tolerably accurate versely-cleft mouths, and that they are armed notion of the creature's general appearance. By with long beards, or cirrhi, and with movable measurement, I found him about three feet long prickles upon their shoulders. They doubtless and something more than one foot broad. The deserve their reputation for voracity, as some size of the head is enormous in proportion to that have recently been cast upon our shores that of the fish, constituting nearly one-third are said to have had ducks, and perhaps other of the length of the animal and about one-half wild fowl, which were found undigested and enthe bulk. The staring, fiendish eyes are situat- tire in their maw. On I. F. C. Editors' Department. "The Mistake of a Life-Time." WE are not aware of any more fatal mistake than that of a mis-chosen profession in the intellectual or scientific world. In a town not far off, ed near each other on the top of the head. the top of the nose are two beard-like appendages six inches or more in length with which this species of fish, while lying concealed in the mud, is said to entice its victims within the reach of its ferocious grasp, by moving them so as to excite their curiosity and hope for food. When the jaws are closed the lower projects there was once a laboring, toiling, anxious man beyond the upper, and their opening, measured in a public school. The general remark was, that laterally, is nine inches. They are capable of he was a good scholar, and "all that," but he could n't seem to govern." What is that but a a vertical separation of eight inches by means of a joint in the front of each, which allows the virtual acknowledgment of his entire unfitness for the selected business. What would you say of a mouth to contract laterally when opened. Each man who offered himself as your coachman, who, jaw is furnished with three irregular rows of after a short trial, had shown that he "knew all teeth, the two inner rows of which are capable about a horse," but "could n't seem to drive?' of lying flat in the mouth by means of a closely A physician has spent a number of years in the articulated joint on the inner side at the base. perusal of the learned authors of anatomy and When erected they stand firmly, with an incli- surgery; has been a constant attendant upon disnation backward into the mouth, so as to ren- tinguished lecturers; has seen many nice exploits. der the escape of their victim almost impossible in amputation, &c., but when called into a field of when it has once been brought between the his own, "can't seem to cure." Now, in these supposed cases, you say they have murderous jaws. At the base of the tongue are not taken their proper sphere. This is just. two bony plates shaped like the letter V, with Then, we say that a teacher who fails in controltheir openings pointing down the throat, and ling the spirits and minds of his scholars, has not their apexes nearly in contact in front, which properly estimated his own ability. To govern a also contain two rows of teeth upon each of school is not to keep each spirit in awe of the their branches. Two similar plates directly teacher, but it is to blend each aspiration, impulse, above, and armed in the same manner help to desire with your own, then lead and they will folguard the portal to his greedy maw. The long-low. To govern any school, one needs much est teeth project about three-fourths of an inch healthy "common sense." Keen perception will add much to one's comfort from the cartillaginous jaws. They are conical in the general conduct of his school work. Wise in shape, very sharp, moderately re-curved, strategy is needed to keep more inexperienced gradually tapering and very strong. It is not heads from outwitting the principal one. In fact, common to see a more formidable looking mon- to be a thoroughly successful school teacher is to ster than this, when viewed in front with his be fit for almost any sphere of life. Whereas, jaws distended. The rapidity with which it this class of persons are spoken of as tapers from the head toward the tail, its large nothing else." Every teacher who is a "good scholar," but pectorals like flippers at its sides, its slimy, "can't seem to govern," had better, at once, yield scaleless, mud-brown skin, and its spine-like up the profession, for it will suffer in such hands. bristles, all conduce to give it an aspect which While he who professes to have acquired the powwarrant the English name by which it is desig-er and "thoroughly succeeds" is by far the more nate d. dangerous of the two. "fit for Robert S. Fieiden. THE death of Robert S. Fielden, which occurred on the evening of the 28th instant, although for weeks anticipated, shrouds many hearts in sadness and touches many a tender cord in this community. The few years of his residence here sufficed to draw around him a circle of friends such as seldom falls to the lot of man, and they mourn "the strong staff broken" and the most endearing ties sundered. His Ma Mr. Fielden's noble, generous and high-toned traits of character hardly need be referred to here. Of singularly amiable disposition and winning manners, he secured the esteem of his associates, even before the engaging qualities of his mind and heart grappled them to him with hooks of steel. As a Christian he sought humbly to follow the footsteps of his Divine Master, and exemplified his profession by a godly walk and conversation. In the Masonic fraternity, of which he was a most devoted and thoroughly appreciative member, his name will Mr. Fielden was born in Amesbury, Mass., on the 21st be the synonym of all that is worthy in a brother and deof March, 1830, and removed, at the age of nine years, sirable in a friend. He was one of the original officers to Great Falls, N. H. Here he enjoyed the usual educa- at the institution of What Cheer Lodge, a member of tional privileges of a country boy, which he applied to so the Chapter and of St. John's Encampment. good advantage that, at the age of seventeen years, he sonic associations at Charleston were of a most gratifying commenced teaching school during the winter months, character, and exerted an important influence upon his while during the summer he still assisted his father in welfare during the trying scenes of the past two years. the cultivation of a farm. Afterwards coming to this He was then High Priest of a Chapter, and by special city, he entered Brown University for a partial course, dispensation of Franklin Lodge, a few lines, that, with and was also one of the earliest pupils in that excellent feeble breath, he recently dictated for transmission to his training school for teachers, the Rhode Island Normal brethren, whenever peace shall be restored to our disSchool. In the latter institution he also rendered valua- tracted country, show how warmly in his heart burned ble service as an instructor in vocal music, an accom- the fire of Masonic love for those with whom he had held plishment in which he was thoroughly proficient, and of sweet communion, and how purely and fervently he praywhich, to the last, he was passionately fond. Mr. Field-ed that each one might be able, on the last day, to stand en commenced his career as a teacher in this city, we the test of the Grand Overseer's square. believe, in an evening school at the Haymarket. His Mr. Fielden leaves a widow and two little girls to success there was so marked that the city decided to ap- mourn a husband tender and true, and a father whose point him to a vacancy in the mastership of the Summer memory will be their dearest legacy.-Providence Daily Street Grammar School. The circumstances attending Journal. the existence of this vacancy were such as to render the situation an exceedingly arduous and perplexing one, and it was here that our lamented friend won his first AN EXCELLENT RELIGIOUS PAPER.-We are laurels. In a short time he had secured the good will of happy to notice among our exchanges the Congrethe teachers, parents and children, and established such gationalist, published by Galen James & Co., of a character with the School Committee that, upon the completion of the Bridgham School House, no one but he Boston. We say what we think we know in classwas considered eligible for the responsible position of ing this among the first, if not the first, paper in organizing that school upon the new system proposed, the country. It is largely circulated in New Eng and to that post he was assigned. The result clearly in dicated the good judgment of the Committee. The land and elsewhere. It has an able corps of corBridgham School became a model; committee-men neg lected their assigned duties to visit it on examination respondents, including "Spectator," at Washingdays; and educators from abroad came here to criticise, ton, and Chaplain James and Quint, in the army. and went away approving it. While Mr. Fielden was thus climbing to an eminent Its selected articles are richly adapted to the wants position in his chosen profession, indications of the in- of our religious community. A single article from sidious disease that has now proved fatal began to be the racy, bold and faithful pen of Gail Hamilton manifest, and his physician talked of the necessity of a change of climate. At this time, Mr. Grimke, a com- will well repay the price of a year's subscription, mittee of the Charleston (S. C.) Board of Education, who which is yet only two dollars. It is the best re had been on a visit to Boston to examine the schools and endeavor to secure a teacher to organize a new public ligious newspaper with which we come in contact. school upon the most approved system, stopped in this city for a day before his departure southward. Learning his errand to the North, a gentleman said to him, "You have not seen the best school in New England yet," and Wheeler & Co., No. 379 Washington street, Bosforthwith took him to the Bridgham School. Mr. Grimke A CURIOSITY.-We made a short call on C. H. remained at the school until the hour for his departure ton, a few days since. These gentlemen are agents from the city. He returned to Charleston and reported, for Dean & Munger's Patent Slated Goods. It and immediately C. G. Meminger, now the rebel Secreta ry of the Treasury, came on to Providence, and offered was really entertaining to see what soft and yet such flattering inducements to Mr. Fielden, that, coupled durable slates may be, as it were, petrified from a with the warnings of his physician, led him to adopt the thin pine board with a few dashes of the brush. painful course of sundering his pleasant relations here, and accepting the proffered advantages of the southern We saw slates, for school purposes, of all sizes, city. At Charleston Mr. Fielden's position at once became, also, a globe covered with this slating. This is an in the highest degree, pleasant and agreeable. He as excellent appliance for map-drawing. Mr. Wheelsumed charge of the Phillips School, in a new building er is a gentleman throughout, and will show you of approved construction, and the official reports of the school authorities attested his success in the most grate- his curiosities with pleasure. ful terms. When the first mutterings of rebellion began to be heard, a foray upon northern teachers was inaugu WE have received the Register and Circular of rated in the South Carolina Legislature, which elicited a response from the School Board of Charleston that proved the State Normal School at Salem, Mass., for the that they, at leat, were not disposed at that time to sac- Fall and Winter Term, 1862-3. The whole numrifice the interests of the rising generation at the be hests of those fire-eaters who best illustrated the value ber in attendance during the term is 96. of education by their want of it. The state of Mr. Fielden's health would not warrant his coming north at The recollections of the principal of this school, that time, and when the season was far enough advanced Alpheus Crosby, A. M., when a teacher of ours, he could not. The kindest appreciation of his feelings makes us feel to congratulate any who may avail was manifested by the people of Charleston, and he was treated with the most marked consideration. His school themselves of such ripe scholarship and rare qualhouse was burnt in the great fire that laid waste so large ities as a gentleman. God speed the cause of a portion of that city, and his health failing utterly, he last summer came North via Richmond and Fortress Normal Schools. Monroe, and has now passed away amidst the scenes of his earlier triumphs, surrounded by friends whose devo A notice of the "Theory and Art of Penman tion and fidelity no lapse of time or change of circum-ship," in type, is crowded out of this number. stance could abate. Adapted to the Wants of Schools and Academies. BOOK I. A PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY On the Basis of the Object-Method of Instruction ; Illustrated with numerous Engravings and Pictorial Maps. By FORDYCE A. ALLEN, Principal of the Chester County Normal School, West Chester, Pa. Quarto, 56 pp. Printed in Oil Colors. Retail price, 40 cents. Sent for examination, post-paid, to any teacher, on receipt of 25 cents. THE CLEVELAND (0.) TESTIMONIAL: To the Board of Education of Cleveland: GENTLEMEN:- - We the undersigned, teachers in the public schools of Cleveland, having examined ALLEN'S PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY on the object-method of instruction, most respectfully ask that you may introduce that work into our schools. DR. THOMAS STERLING, Principal High School. W. W. CUSHING, Principal West St. Clair Grammar School. C. F. DUTTON, Principal Hicks Street Grammar School. One of the best evidences of the approval of the work here, is found in the fact that the Board of Education of this city, at the urgent instance of the teachers, unanimously adopted it for use in all the Primary and Secondary Public Schools of this city. L. M. OVIATT, Superintendent of Instruction, Cleveland, Ohio. BOOK II. AN INTERMEDIATE OR COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, On the basis of the " Object-Method" of Instruction, embracing Physical, Political and Mathematical Geography, and so far as expedient, Ancient and Modern History: philosophically prepared and arranged for Common Schools. By FORDYCE A. ALLEN. (In preparation.) воок III. SMITH'S NEW GEOGRAPHY, Containing a concise Text and Explanatory Notes. Based on a combination of the Analytical, Synthetical and Comparative Systems. With more than one hundred Maps, of Religion, Government, Civilization, Races, Countries, Roman Empire, Vicinities, Rain, Wind, Seasons, Isothermals, Solar System, etc., etc., and combining, with much new and valuable matter, many features not found in any other work of its class. By ROSWELL C. SMITH, A. M. Retail price, $1.00. Sent to teachers for examination on receipt of 50 cents. 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