The fact that the places in which the Resident Editor has been attending Institutes during the last three weeks have been remote from Columbus, has prevented him from giving the usual amount of attention to the number for this month, and may cause it to be delayed a few days beyond the usual time of publication. Numerous requests for the introduction of a Mathematical Department have been presented, from time to time, since the commencment of the Journal; but it has not hitherto been consistent to give it that attention which would be necessary to make it useful. The announcement made on page 336 will be received with pleasure by a large number of our patrons; and it is hoped that this feature of the next volume will awaken an interest among many who have not hitherto been subscribers.

A School of Design, Painting and Architecture, connected with Music and the Modern Languages, will be opened about the 1st of November, in Sandusky, under the Principalship of SHELDON SMITH, Esq.

It is gratifying to know that the Educational progress of our State has been such, for the past few years, as to create a demand for such a school; and it is equally gratifying to be assured that one of the first, if not the first complete institution of this kind in our State, is to be conducted by gentlemen of the most undoubted qualifications. We trust that the Union Schools of our State will rapidly increase the demand for instruction in the principles of Design, and kindred subjects, and that such institutions may meet with the favor they deserve.

We would invite the special attention of those interested, to the Notices of Schools which appear this month. We sincerely hope that the proposed Agricultural College may succeed, and can see no reason why it may not be expected to prosper in the hands of men so well qualified as the gentlemen who are to give instruction at Oberlin.

We learn from nearly every part of the State that there is a prospect of a large attendance at the Annual Meeting of our State Teachers' Association, in Cincinnati, on the 27th of Dec. next. Many, both in our own and adjoining States, who have never attended one of our Anniversaries, will be present at this.

Notices of Colleges, Schools, etc.

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Oberlin College. The Catalogue for 1854-5 presents the following summary: Students in the Theological Department 26; Collegiate, Gentlemen 82, Ladies 10; Preparatory 557, Young Ladies Course 229, Ladies' Preparatory 291, Ladies preparing for College 13: Whole number of Gentlemen 675, of Ladies 513: Total 1188. The Triennial Catalogue accompanying contains a long list of alumni and alumnæ.

Sharon College. This young Institution is located in Sharon, Noble co., 0. WM. W. MCMILLEN, A. B., is Principal. The number of Students during last year was 85: 51 males, and 34 females.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.- Troy. The Rules and Regulations adopted by the Board of Education in Troy, after an experience of two years, have been published in pamphlet form. WM. N. EDWARDS, A. M., is Superintendent and Principal of the High School; beside him, one male and eight female Teachers are employed.

Salem. The Schools of Salem, Columbiana county, are to commence under the Supervision of Mr. A. HOLBROOK, on the 13th instant. A neat circular announces the names of the Teachers, eight females, and the course of study, which is thorough and systematic.

OHIO JOURNAL OF EDUCATION.

Selections.

Tact and Talent.-Talent is something, but Tact is every thing. Talent is serious, sober, grave and respectable; tact is all that, and more too. It is not a seventh sense, but it is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. It is use. ful in all places, and at all times. It is useful in solitude, for it shows a man his way into the world: it is useful in society, for it shows him his way through the world. Talent is power; tact is skill. Talent is weight; tact is momentum. Talent knows what to do; tact knows how to do it. Talent makes a man respect able; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth; tact is ready money. For the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent, ten to one. There is no want of dramatic tact, or talent; but they are seldom together; so we have successful pieces which are not respectable, and respectable pieces which are not successful. Take them to the bar, and let them shake their learned curls at each other in legal rivalry: Talent sees its way clearly; but tact is first at its journey's end. Talent has many a compliment from the bench; but tact touches fees from attorneys and clients. Talent speaks learnedly and logically; tact, triumphantly. Talent makes the world wonder that it gets on no faster; tact excites astonishment that it gets on so fast. The secret is, it has no weight to carry; it makes no false steps; it hits the right nail on the head; it loses no time; it takes all hints, and, by keeping its eye on the weather-cock, is ready to take advantage of any wind that blows.

Take them into the church: Talent has always something worth hearing; tact is sure of abundance of hearers. Talent may obtain a living; tact will make one. Talent gets a good name; tact gets a great one. Talent conceives; tact converts, Talent is an honor to the profession; tact gains honor from the profession.

Take them to court: Talent feels its way; tact makes its way. Talent com mands; tact is obeyed. Talent is honored with approbation; tact is blessed with preferment.

Place them in the senate: Talent has the ear of the house; but tact wins its heart, and gains its votes. Talent is fit for employment, but tact is fitted for it. It has a knack of slipping into place, with a sweet silence and glibness of movement, as a billiard ball insinuates itself into the pocket. It seems to know every thing, without learning any thing. It has served an invisible and extemporary apprenticeship. It wants no drilling. It never ranks in the awkward squad. It has no left hand, no deaf ear, no blind side. It puts on no looks of wondrous wisdom, it has no air of profundity; but plays with the details of place, as dexterously as a well-taught hand flourishes over the keys of the piano-forte. It has all the air of common-place, and all the force and power of genius. It can change sides with a hey, presto movement, and be at all points of the compass, while talent is ponderously and learnedly shifting a single point. Talent calculates clearly, reasons logically, and utters its oracles with all the weight of justice and reason. Tact refutes without contradicting, puzzles the profound without profundity, and, without wit, outwits the wise. Set them together on a race for popularity, pen in hand, and tact will distance talent by half the course. Talent brings to market that which is needed; tact produces that which is wished for. Talent instructs; tact enlightens. Talent leads where no one follows; tact follows where the humor leads. Talent is pleased that it ought to have succeeded; tact is delighted that it has succeeded. Talent toils for posterity, which will never repay it; tact catches the passion of the passing hour. Talent builds for

eternity; tact on a short lease, and gets good interest. Talent is a fine thing to talk about, and be proud of; but tact is useful, portable, always alive, always marketable. It is the talent of talents, the availableness of resources, the appli cability of power, the eye of discrimination, the right-hand of intellect.-London Atlas.

Some curious questions in the obscurer branches of Science have been recently debated at the London Royal Institution. Dr. Tyndall has been examining the subject of tones emitted by masses of heated metal while cooling. He proved by repeated experiments the incorrectness of the explanation hitherto received, but was still unable to assign the phenomena to their true cause. Another was on some most extraordinary effects of motion, which the Rev. Badin Powell, though he interested his auditors in the experiments, could not satisfactorily explain. One of the effects is this: Let a beam, free to turn in all directions, be balanced horizontally on the top of a standard; then put a small wheel to one end, cause it to rotate rapidly, and the beam will still retain its horizontal position, notwith. standing the weight of the wheel. It is as though motion nullified gravity; but as some of the most ingenious English philosophers are examining into the phe. nomena, it is hoped an explanation may ere long be found. Another interesting subject is that brought forward by Professor Edward Forbes, who has started an inquiry as to the depth of primeval oceans, and who believes it possible to throw light upon it by a study of the color of fossil shells. The shallower the water the more intense the color, is the experience gained by dredging in the seas of the present period; and reasoning from analogy, we may infer the same law prevailed in earlier periods. Ehrenberg, too, contributes something more to our knowl. edge of ocean life; he has examined specimens of the mud brought up from the depth of six thousand fathoms, and finds them to contain living infusoria.-N. Y. Tribune.

Marine Improvements.-It is well known that captains of ships pursue the same tracks to different parts of the world which have been pursued for ages, but there is every reason to believe that there are much better tracks in existence, not only for safety, but for celerity. The great object of the American and Brit. ish governments is to find them out, and this can only be done by commanders of ships, when they depart from the usual chart courses, making a variety of spe cified observations, which will be afterwards tabulated and turned to account by scientific men. The course and direction of winds and currents, and the prevalence of storms, hurricanes, thunder, and lightning, and every kind of atmospheric phenomena, the various latitudes, the effect of the approach to land on the ship's compass, the limits of the influence of the gulf stream and icebergs, the deep-sea sounding, will be among the objects of inquiry. Instruments of the utmost delicacy and accuracy for all these purposes will be furnished by agents to zealous and competent commanders.

It has already been discovered that there is a harbor on the coast of South America where there can be found an unlimited supply of good water, and at which there always blows a fair wind for ships to get in and out, and which harbor is not greatly out of the way for ships to touch at, and yet unknown to the captains of vessels, because they never go out of the usual track. One of the great objects of the British and American governments, also, is to ascertain by a course of observations the best route to combine sailing on the great circle principle by courses where the most favorable winds prevail. The Hon. Captain Fitzroy has been appointed by the Board of Trade to make the necessary arrangements for appointing and instructing agents at seaports for carrying out the important objects the government has in view.

Growth of the Union.-The census of 1850, as compiled by Mr. De Bow, develops some wonderful and interesting facts in regard to the rapid growth of the United States. In 1701 the colonies contained a population of only 262,000 souls. In 1749, another estimate was made, and the result was a population of 1,046,000. In 1775, the report was 2,803,000-being nearly 300,000 less than the present population of New York! In 1790, under the first census, the population was 3,929,827. There were then seventeen States and territorial governments; in 1800, twenty-one States and Territories; in 1810, twenty-five; in 1820, twentyseven; in 1830, twenty-eight: in 1840, thirty; and in 1850, thirty-six. We have now thirty nine, having added to the list Nebraska, Kansas, and Washington. Our territorial extent, says Mr. De Bow, is nearly ten times as large as that of Great Britain and France combined; three times as large as the whole of France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Denmark together; one and a half times as large as the Russian Empire in Europe; one-sixth less only than the area covered by the fifty-nine or sixty Empires, States and Republics in Europe; of equal extent with the Roman Empire, or that of Alexander, neither of which exceeded three millions of square miles. We have an Ocean and Gulf shore line of 9,247 miles; a tidal flow of 11,213, and an inland river steamboat navigation of 47,355 miles!

In 1775, there were in the United States 37 newspapers; in 1810, 358; in 1840, 2,000; in 1850, 2,500.

The increase bas been six times greater than that of the population, and the circulation five times greater. Thus the increase of the power of the press has been thirty times greater than that of the population.

Making wood incombustible. The process of rendering wood incombustible may be effectually performed by soaking it in a strong solution of alum and the sulphate of copper; about one pound of alum and one of the sulphate of copper beiug sufficient for one hundred gallons of water. These substances are dissolved in a quantity of hot water, then mixed with the water in the vessel in which the wood is to be steeped. The timber to be rendered fire proof can be kept under the liquor by stones or any other mode of sinking it. All that is required is a water-tight vessel of sufficient dimensions to hold enough of liquor to cover the timber, which should be allowed to steep for four or five days. After this it is taken out and suffered to dry thoroughly before being used.

Zinc paint. It is estimated that one hundred pounds white zinc paint will cover, when applied in three coats, on new work, as much surface as 166 2-3 lbs. pure white lead. The white zincs, even when exposed to coal, gas, bilge water, and sulphurous vapors, retain their original brilliancy and whiteness. Apartments just painted with zinc paint may be slept in with impunity, whereas, according to the best authority, rooms should not be used for sleeping apartments for two or three months after being painted with lead.

A visitor going into a free school in New England during the half-yearly examination, noticed two fine looking boys, one of whom had taken the first prize, and the other the second. "Those are two fine looking fellows," he said to the teacher, "I suppose they belong to the higher class of society." "That is not the way we class our boys," the teacher said, "we follow the old maxim of, 'handsome is as handsome does.' The boy who took the first prize, is the son of the man who saws my wood; the one who took the second, is the son of the Vice-President of the United States.

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ILLUSTRATIONS OF IGNORANCE. Mr. Wendell Phillips, of Boston, who has traveled in Europe, states the following facts:

"In Italy you will see a farmer breaking up his land with two cows and a root of a tree for a plow, while he is dressed in skins with the hair on. In Rome, Vienna and Dresden, if you hire a man to saw your wood, he does not bring a horse. He never had one, nor his father before him. But he places one end of the saw on the ground and the other against his breast, and taking the wood in his hands, he rubs it against the saw; and he will be all day doing two hours' work. It is a solemn fact, that in Florence, a city filled with the triumphs of art, there is not a single auger, and if a carpenter would bore a hole, he does it with a red hot poker! This results not from want of industry, but of sagacity of thought. In Rome charcoal is principally used for fuel, and you will see a string of twenty mules bringing little sacks of it upon their backs, when one mule would draw it all in a cart. But the charcoal vender never had a cart, and so he keeps his twenty mules and feeds them."

A postmaster in Virginia inquired of the Department the meaning of the little "pictures stuck on the letters;" and another, from Missouri, desired the Department to sustain him in a decision he had recently made against a neighbor, who insisted that "them profiles of Washington on the letters paid the postage," and he added, in a tone of refreshing assurance, “the man thinks I don't know my duty, and I ask the Department to set him right." As for the stamped envelops, they are perfect Eleusinian mysteries to hundreds of postmasters and their clerks.

Cost of Ignorance.-Ignorance pays such a tax that we can not imagine how any body can afford to be a blockhead. McCracken works for a dollar a day, while Spring, his neighbor, commands twenty shillings. A wide difference, and all caused by Spring's knowing how to read, write and cypher. From these figures it will be seen that McCracken's want of knowledge costs him $400 a year -more than his wife and children, house-rent $120, inclusive.-N. Y. Dutchman. In Sheffield, England, a woman surprised a neighbor with the announcement that the Devil was dead! Her statement being doubted, she led her friend to the shop where the fact was stated, as she supposed, in the following form-" Satin dyed here."

NEWSPAPER ITEMS.-A few days ago, the Buffalo express train, on the New York and Erie Railroad, ran from Susquehanna to Hornellsville, 142 miles, in 160 minutes, including stops.

A few years since, Mr. Meigs predicted that cars would be run at the rate of 15 miles an hour, and people thought him crazy.

In the rural town of Fairfield, in Kennebec county, Me.. the uniform annual poor tax was $1,000. Immediately after the passage of the Maine law, it ran down to $300.

"Do you mistake me for a waiter?" said an exquisite, who was asked to pass some dish that was near him. "No, sir; I mistook you for a gentleman," was the prompt reply.

Among our forefathers, it was a maxim that a young woman should never marry until she had spun enough linen to furnish her house; and from this custom all unmarried women were called "Spinsters," an appellation they still retain in all law proceedings.