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with the view of engaging in useful i many employs 3,000 operatives, occulabor. But they have persistently re- pies buildings which cover twelve
fused every offer of the kind. acres of land, and has a capital of
$16,000,000.
THE cost of supporting the army I 0
in the Southern States during the
present year, is estimated by the OUR BOOK TABLE.
Treasury Department at $35,000,000 Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. have
to $40,000,000. sent us 1. Culture Demanded by Modern
TIN MINES IN MissounR.-The Life, a series of addresses and arguSt. Louis Times gives some account ments on the claims of scientific eduof recently reported deposits of tin in cation, by well known savants, with
Missouri. Several thousand acres of an introduction on Mental Discipline
land have recently been entered in by E. L. Youmans.
Madison and Iron Counties, upon The author of this excellent work
which the owners hope to find tin- in his introduction, directly, and we
lands, which have heretofore been think successfully, assails the time
considered as almost worthless be- honored curriculum of our schools of
cause of their hilly, rocky character, learning, as inferior in every respect
and their remoteness from river and as a means of mental discipline to a
railroad communication. These lands system of culture based upon scienhave been entered and purchased by tiflic education. He maintains that
parties respectively from Detroit, St. the traditional scheme of study inLouis, Chicago, Wheeling and Pitts- volves an enormous waste of power,
burg, about in the order named as to gives a false preparation for life, and
quantity, U. K. Booth, of Detroit, has long since ceased to be adapted
taking the lead. The St. Louis to the intellectual necessities of
parties have three Cornwall miners modern times, which appeal for
at work, exploring with very favor- change, for progress and for action.
able results. These views are supported in an ar gument of great lucidity, and are il THE New York Shipping List says: lustrated by a compilation of lecThe importance of the attempt now tures on various scientific subjects,
being made in Illinois to manufac- from the pens of many of the most
ture sugar from beets is illustrated distinguished professors and men of
by the fact that the sugar imports of learning of the nineteenth century,
the United States during the fiscal and by an appendix containing citayear ending on the 30th of June, tions from the works of such men as
1866, were valued at $39,595,677 in Sir John Herschel, Herbert Spencer,
gold. This industry has been emi- Dr. Draper, Sir Charles Lyell, Dr.
nently successful in Europe, and Faraday, and others.
there is no good reason why it should To preceptors and to students innot also succeed in this country. terested in the question of modifying
Nearly 400,000,000 pounds of beet the system of instruction hitherto
sugar are now annually made in advocated with so much tenacity, and
France, Germany, Austria, Russia of bringing forward a discipline betand Belgium. One factory in Ger- ter adapted to the needs of the times,