customed usual good upon the Roman territories. His attended him in this expedition; he their army, and besieged their capital. reduc tion of this place would have been scarce ing were it not mention an action of the Roman general, that has him more credit with posterity triumphs united. A all his other who had the care of the children belonging to the principal ing found offered to put surest The whose time of the city, havto decoy them into the Roman camp, into the hands of Camillus, as the to a speedy surrender. was struck with the treachery of a wretch of inducing the it was to protect innocence. He for some the traitor with a stern air; but at find ing words, "Villain," the noble Roman, "offer thy to creatures like thyself, and abominable me; what though we be the as well as in cence, but to of your city, yet mankind, which should from us in war ; we fight not against an age of innomen,-men who have used us , in deed, but yet whose crimes are virtues when with thine. such base arts let it be my duty to use only Roman arts,-the arts of valour of arms." So hands tied he immediately him to be stripped, his him, and in that ignominious to be whipped into town by his own scholars. This generous behaviour in Camillus more than his GOLDSMITH. arms; and the magistrates of the town immediately to the senate. HUMOROUS ACCOUNT OF THE BREAKING UP OF AN THIS recital, the master observed, is painful; but I shall endeavour to proceed in it. My sorrows commenced with the dispersion of my pupils, who, not having taken up the sword, were no otherwise engaged in the quarrel than by books. And when the enemy entered, not contented with Alexander to ravage the terrestrial globe, they had the cruelty to demolish it in a few mi nutes; and next, like the giants of old, they attempted the celestial, and succeeded also in this. All the elements of Euclid afforded no demonstration to them of the errors of their conduct; his propositions were torn out, and scattered about the ground. The philosophy of Newton shared the same fate. In vain did the air-pump assure them with its last gasp that a perfect vacuum was not to be made by them, though they were determined to make a void. The eloquence of Cicero could not save him from laceration. Next fell the languages, and every part of speech in the grammar begged for quarter. The nouns suffered a general declension. The pronouns, as they frequently stood in the place of the nouns, shared a similar fate. The verbs were reduced to the optative mood, perpetually wishing to be in any tense rather than the present. In vain they tried the imperative mood, but ne occidè would not do. The supines lay helpless on the floor ready to give up the ghost, and every participle participated with the verb in all its sufferings, the whole being passive. Adverbs and conjunctions tried in vain to rally, and join their forces against the common foe. The prepositions could no longer stand their ground before the nouns to govern them, though armed with the pro and con of each subject. And, during the whole havoc, the interjections were uttering the most melancholy plaints, as Alas! Ah! Oh! Woe is me! Youth's Monthly Visitor. SKETCHES IN NATURAL HISTORY. THE treacherous Spider, when her nets are spread, She issues forth, and runs along her loom; And drags the little wretch in triumph home! WHILE moonlight, silvering all the walls, DRYDEN. And tips with white his powdery plume, BUTLER. SEE! from the brake the whirring Pheasant springs, His painted wings, and breast that shines with gold. BEHOLD, ye pilgrims of the earth, behold! РОРЕ. THOMSON. THE tawny Eagle seats his callow brood Amidst the gathering clouds and sullen storms; The fairest of the fold he bears away, MRS BARBAULD. THE fiery Courser, when he hears from far Eager he stands,-then starting with a bound, DRYDEN'S Virgil. THE Ostrich flies :—her scattered eggs are found and it can be to speak. At first, it obstinately perse; all instruction, but it seems to be won verance; makes a few attempts to imitate the first and when it has acquired the articulation of one word distinctly, the rest of its is generally learned with great ease. The following anecdote is of this species:—“ A of a bird belonging to King Henry of West the Seventh, who then resided at his minster, by the Thames, had learned to talk many from the passengers happened to take the water. One day, sporting on his perch, the poor fell into the water, and immediately as loud as possible, A boat! a boat!-twenty pounds for a ! A waterman, who happened to be made for the place where the taking him up, restored him to the happened to be a , , hearing the the man insisted that he ought more equal to his services to his pounds, it. ; the knave a to have a SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION OF WATER IN CITIES. THE supply and distribution of water in a large city are well worth observing. From a general reservoir, a few main pipes issue to the chief divisions of the town: these send suitable branches to every street; and the branches again divide to the lanes and alleys: while at last a small leaden conduit rises into every house, and, if required, carries its precious freight into every apartment. A corresponding arrangement of drains and sewers carries the water away again when it has answered its purpose, and sends it to be purified in the great laboratory of the ocean. In former times large bridges, called aqueducts, were constructed for the purpose of carrying water into towns; and many such buildings still remain in various parts of the world, especially in China. But since it was discovered that water rises to the level of its source when carried in pipes, even though it should have to cross valleys on the way to its place of destination, a single pipe of large dimensions is found quite adequate to carry water from the fountainhead to the reservoir in the city. English citizens have now become so habituated to the blessing of a supply of pure water, that it causes them no more surprise than the regularly returning light of |