1. Of the asteroids hitherto discovered, Ariadne has the shortest period, 1191 days, and Hygeia the longest, 2051 days.

2. The inclinations of the orbits of Massalia and Themis are less than one degree, while the orbit of Pallas is inclined nearly thirty-five degrees.

3. The orbits of Polyhymnia and Nysa are very eccentric; the eccentricity of the latter approximating that of Faye's comet.

4. Victoria was so named by Mr. J. R. Hind, (of England,) to indicate the country in which it was discovered. The discoverer insists, however, that apart from this coneideration, the name "is perfectly consistent with com ventional usage amongst astronomers in reference to small

planets; the rule hitherto followed requiring a female uame, taken either from the Greek or Roman Mytholo gics." Some American astronomers, however, objecting to this name, have called the planet Clio.

5. The twentieth asteroid was discovered on the evening of September 20th, 1852, by Mr. Chacornac, of Marseilles. The discoverer delegated his right of naming the planet to his friend, Mr. Valz, who proposed to call it Massalia. Subsequently, however, it appeared that the same asteroid had been discovered by Professor De Gasparis, on the 19th of September, a day before it was recognized as a planet by Chacornac; but the former, instead of exercising his prerogative as first discoverer, courteously acquiesced in the choice of Mr. Valz.

The designation Massalia-the orignal name of Marseil les-was given to the planet in order to mark the site of its discovery. Its adoption, however, was a departure from the rule which had been previously obscrved.

The twenty-first asteroid was discovered at Paris, and accordingly (Mr. Valz having established the precedent) it received the name Lutetia.* The name Phocea was selected for the 25th, because it was discovered at Marseilles-this city, anciently Massilia, or, as it was called by the Greeks, Massalia, having been founded by a colony from Phocæa, a city of Asia Minor. The forty-fifth was called Eugenia, as a compliment to the Empress of France; and the fifty-fifth, Alexandra, in honor of Alexander Von Humboldt.

7. Pandora was discovered at the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y.; Euphrosyne, Virginia, and the fifty-ninth, at Washington, D. C. These are the only members of the group discovered in this country.--Indiana School Journal.

The ancient name of Paris.

The English literary journals are debating vigorously the relative merits of Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries.

LORD BROUGHAM'S TRIBUTE TO THE SCHOOLMASTER.

"The conqueror moves on in a march. He stalks onward with the 'pride, pomp, and circumstance of war' --banners flying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering, and martial music pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded and the lamentations for the slain. Not thus the schoolmaster, in his peaceful vocation. He meditates and prepares in secret, the plans which are to bless mankind; he slowly gathers around him those who are to further their execution; ho quietly, though firmly, advances in his humble path, laboring steadily, but calmly, till he has opened to the light all the recesses of ignorance, and torn up by the roots the weeds of vice. It is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march; but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.

"Such men-men deserving the glorious title of teach ers of mankind-I have found laboring conscientiously, though perhaps obscurely, in their blessed vocation, wherever I have gone. I have found them, and shared their fellowship, among the daring, the ambitious, the ardent, the indomitably active French; I have found them among the persevering, resolute, industrious Swiss; I have found them among the laborious, the warm-hearted, the enthusiastic Germans; I have found them among the high-minded, but enslaved Italians; and in our country. God be thanked, their numbers everywhere abound, and are every day increasing. Their calling is high and holy; their fame is the property of nations; their renown will fill the earth in after ages, in proportion as it sounds not far off in their own times. Each one of these great teachers of the world, possessing his soul in peace-performs his appointed course-awaits in patience the fulfillment of the promises-resting from his labors, bequeaths his

memory to the generation whom his works have blessed -and sleeps under the humble but not inglorious epitaph, commemorating 'one in whom mankind lost a friend, and no man got rid of an enemy !"

“THE TRUE TEACHER NEVER GROWS OLD !"

"Never grows old!"

The seal of years may e'en be ret

Full many times on cheek and brow;
The hand its cunning may forget;

The voice may fail that thrills us now;
Each winter hoardeth up some snows
To cast upon the bending head,—
Who careth how the garner grows
When not a heart-flower can be dead?
When summer is eternal where

Full sympathy with youth chimes in
From hour to hour, till all the air
Throbs with the odors it can win!

"Never grows old!"

He groweth younger day by day,

Who knows the love of trusting youth;
The faith that shameth fraud away,-

The hate of wrong, the love of truth,—
The love that weeps at others' woes,
That joys another's good to see,—

The hope that, soaring, earthward throws
The glorious dreams of what shall be.

Never grows old!"

Time never makes the true and good

Grow old with years, but brings to those
A "second childhood's" holy mood,
That gives to life a solemn close;

As sun-set, on some hallowed day,
Out-flushes e'en the beauteous dawn,

As if to shadow forth the ray

That 'waits the blest when life is gone.

The sacred calm, the joyous rest,

The filial waiting for the word

That calls them home, pervade the bre: st;
Nor fear of age, nor death, is stirred.

Every good scholar is not a good teach er.

L. C.

DUTIES OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS TOWARDS THEIR TEACHERS.-No. 6.

I have said that teachers should be liberally paid for their services.. There is no class of persons to whom the State is more largely indebted for her high position, morally and intellectually, than to the teachers of her common schools; and yet, in proportion to the value of labors performed, no class of individuals are so poorly compenbated..

The great question to be solved by Prudential Com mittees, in the selection of a teacher, has not been, "Are you competent? Are you experienced? Have you the recommendation of a good moral or religious character?" but, "What do you tax a month?" and the importance of having a good teacher is often absorbed in the desire to obtain a cheap one. The consequences of such a policy are often more disastrous to a school than if the money of the district were thrown away. The most that can be said of money thrown away is, that it does no good; but money spent in the employment of an incompetent teach er, not only does no good, but does an absolute injury. A single illustration will suffice.

A young female was employed a few years since in a certain county in this State, to teach school. She never dared to present herself for examination, and I ascertained, by a brief visit to the school, that she was actually teaching the grossest errors in every department of study there pursued, or allowing them to pass uncorrected. She was doing the best that she was capable of doing. She was paid at the rate of twelve-and-a-half cents per day for her services, and boarded. This was in a district where the wealthy farmers counted their acres by hundreds, and their dollars by thousands. With them a cheap school was the great desideratum. They have had it, and their children are now reaping the bitter fruits of such economy. It is to be hoped, for the welfare of future