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OHIO ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

Among the most interesting features in the character of our young but vigorous state, are her Humane Institutions, erected on a scale equal in magnificence to her own broad domain and appropriately located at her Capital,-the Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind, and the Insane.

We have thought that we could not in any more direct way awaken in the minds of our readers an interest in the great work of benevolence to which these Asylums are consecrated, than by devoting a small portion of our pages to some account of these institutions, a part of which belong to the educational system of the S ate.

By the politeness of Mr. H. N. Hubbell, the Principal of the Asylum for deaf mutes, we are favored with the accompanying engraving of the building, belonging to that Institution. The following description of the building and grounds is copied from the Annual Report of the Superintendent.

"The Asylum is very eligibly situated about half a mile East of the State House, at Columbus, near the centre of a square of ten acres of land. The main building is eighty by fifty feet on the ground, three stories high beside the attic. The south wing is thirty by seventy feet, and four stories high beside the basement. The north wing, (not yet erected,) is to be of the same dimensions. In the rear are two buildings, of two stories each, one thirty by forty feet, the other twenty by twenty-five, beside a shop-building sixty by twenty feet, and two stories high." These buildings have been erected at an expense of several thousand dollars, and no higher tribute could be paid to the Legislature and the people they represent, than the record of the fact, that while an old and dilapidated building suffices for the accommodation of the Legislature, and is all to which we can point as our Capitol, the benevolent Institutions are cheerfully sustained at an annual expense of nearly $50,000. The Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb was opened in the Fall of 1829, with three pupils. There are now 100 receiving instruction, and we are informed that several more might be received, for whom ample accommodations can be furnished. would urge upon the parents and guardians of deaf mutes in every part of the State, the importance of sending their children to this Institution at an early day. They may rest assured that the health and comfort of its inmates receive the best attention and all their reasonable wants are amply supplied. While in addition, they are permitted to enjoy the priceless benefit of instruction, the transcendent delight arising from the developement of mind and the tireless pleasure from the acquisition of knowledge. If sick they will have the care of a skilful Physician, but so excellent are the arrangements, so wholesome is their diet, so airy, cleanly and healthful are their apartments, so ample the opportunities for exercise and so vigilant and paternal is the care exercised over them, that it is rare that any one of them needs the care of a Physician. We have seen the pupils in the family of the Principal, in their school rooms, and at their sports, and seldom have we seen either

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family or school where more of contentment, and real enjoyment was depicted on every countenance.

The annual session in the Asylum commences on the first day of October and ends on the first day of August. Pupils are expected to remain in the Institution five years, excepting the annual vacation during August and September. Those whose parents are unable to support them are educated at the expense of the State, such need to bring a certificate from the Associate Judges of their respective counties. Paying pupils are charged $100, per year. It is very desirable that pupils should be sent at 10 or 12 years of age. Application for admission can be made to Rev. James Hoge, D. D., of Columbus, or to H. N. Hubbell, Principal of the Asylum.

ARITHMETIC.

Arithmetic is a science as well as an art, it is therefore possible for one well acquainted with the properties aud relations of numbers, when a question is proposed for solution, not only to be able after two or three trials, to obtain the required result by the application of some arbitrary rule, but to see readily, if not at once, what operations are required, and then to perform them in the shortest manner and to obtain the required result with the least possible number of figures. Hence it is well known to the observing that many of the processes required in every day practice can be greatly abreviated. The contractions in multiplication are numerous and important, but most of them may be included in a few general classes, of which we name,

1. Those based upon the decimal relation of numbers. Of these the most numerous are the cases of multiplication by the aliquot parts of 10, 100, 1000, &c., all of which are governed by one general rule, viz: Annex one or more ciphers to the multiplicand and divide that result by the denominator of the common fraction denoting the aliquot part of 10, 100 or 1000, which the multiplier equals.

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From these specimens, the rule for multiplying by the aliquot parts of 1,000, as 500, 333, 250, 166 2-3, 125, 83}, 621⁄2, &c., can be easily formed. To multiply by 9, 99 or any number of nines, annex to the multiplicand as many ciphers as there are nines in the multiplier and subtract the multiplicand from that result. The process of multiplying by eleven may also be shortened. To multiply by 15, annex a cipher to the multiplicand and add half the multiplicand to that result. Other classes of contractions may be named hereafter.

The article on Reading intended for this number is deferred to make room for the foregoing engraving.

In addition to the regular articles on the branches taught in our schools, the Journal will contain from time to time general or incidental information pertaining to these branches, such as every Teacher should be prepared to communicate to his pupils in connection with their daily recitations.

THE DOMINICAL LETTER

is a subject which is named in most of our Arithmetics, though few of them give any explanation of it or any rule for finding it. A few remarks on the subject may therefore be acceptable both to Teachers and their older pupils. It will be readily seen on a moment's reflection, that, if our year contained only 364 days, or just 52 weeks, every year would commence on the same day of the week with the preceding, and had this been the case from the commencement of the Christian era, and had the first year of this era commenced on Sunday, the first of January in every year from that time to the present would have occurred on the same day of the week, and consequently any month would have commenced on the same day of the week in every year, and the same would be true of any day in any month.

But it is well known that our year consists of 365 days, or that common years are reckoned as containing 365 days, and every fourth year, (called leap year,) as containing 366 days. Hence the variation from the circumstances above supposed.

To obviate the inconveniences arising from this variation, and to enable any person, by a single calculation, to ascertain on what day of the week any year will commence, or any day of the month or year occur, the following plan has been adopted.

The first seven letters of the alphabet are applied to the days of the year in such a manner, that A shall stand for the first of January-B, for the second-C, for the third-D, for the fourth, &c. By this arrangement it will readily be seen that A will stand for the first, the eighth, the fifteenth, the twenty-second and the twentyninth of January; B, for the second, the ninth, the sixteenth, &c. From this fact, knowing the number of days in each month, it will be easy to determine what letter should be applied to the first day in each month; and, (assuming the number of days in February to be 28,) a simple computation will show

that A will stand for the 1st of January, G for the 1st of July,

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Hence it will be desirable to fix in mind the order of these letters, or to associate with each the month, for the first day of which it stands. To effect this, is the object of the following couplet:

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Good Carlos Finch And David Fryer,

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