. The North Carolina Presbyterian. wears a look so geqtleand loving, andgoes on with sach eveiness of system, thatthe child feels itself t< be, all the while,inanather will, and thjt a good will; con oATitiTiiy thiia bv hftbit and nnifltlv to b« be senting thus by habit j and quietly tolapped in authoritf, juntas it consents tobreathe in the lap f)f nature and heratmospheric laws. A<d to it becomes athoroughly governed cteature, under themere handling of its iifantile age.—BushnelVs Christian Nat^n^ Skatinp 700 Yka^ ago.—-An old his-torian of London, wriing in the twelfthcentury, when Lo
. The North Carolina Presbyterian. wears a look so geqtleand loving, andgoes on with sach eveiness of system, thatthe child feels itself t< be, all the while,inanather will, and thjt a good will; con oATitiTiiy thiia bv hftbit and nnifltlv to b« be senting thus by habit j and quietly tolapped in authoritf, juntas it consents tobreathe in the lap f)f nature and heratmospheric laws. A<d to it becomes athoroughly governed cteature, under themere handling of its iifantile age.—BushnelVs Christian Nat^n^ Skatinp 700 Yka^ ago.—-An old his-torian of London, wriing in the twelfthcentury, when London If as a walled city, andopen fields of ice were \a. the country roundabout, says : | Many young men played upon it; some,striding as wide as thejr may, do slide swift-ly ; others make the: great as a millstone,hand m hand, doping on a suddeitie bones to theirand shoving thestafi, do slide asthe air, or an arSometimes two rupand hitting one tl|aboth doth fall. Mlbreak their arms,youth desireth of itself against. Ives seats of ice as sits down, many, imd one slip- t(%ether ; some der their heels, Vitha little piked ti» bird fiyeth in of a cross-bow. with poles, either one or hurt—some tfaair legs; but this sort—exer- Of war. SKA-Biane.—Th«qwhere do sea-birds oslake their thirst; buit satisfactorily answ<ago. Conversing osea captain ssid thstseen these birds at sis, far fromthat could furnish ihem water. tion is often asked, n fresh water to ^ have never seen ed till a few days the subject, an old he had frequently any land hovering around and under a storm-cloud, clatteringlike ducks on a hot day at a pond, anddrinking in the droM ot rain as they fellThey w^Ul smell a rain-squall a hundredmiles, or even further oflV ^^d scad for itwith inconceivabU fieetsess. How longsea-birds can existwithout water is only amatter of conjectire, but probably theirpowers of enduriq; thirst are increased byhabit, and possib|]r they go without it formany days, if not
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