Edifice. We might have gone on to Bellefon-seen the wavy line of the crest of the Seven taine, from which point there is a good stage Mountains; at the northeast, and three or road; or we might have stopped at Lewiston, before reaching Tyrone, and have taken the morning stage to the College-distance about 25 miles. But stages were long since out of fashion, even in Wisconsin, and we were not going back to them in the old Keystone State, whose age is beginning to be reckoned by centuries.

Up the mountain, by the winding, stony path, stopping only to admire the grandeur of the scenery. No wonder the dwellers in the mountains scorn the allurements of the monotonous plain. God is more visibly in the mountains, and the soul of man is more natarally controlled by the mysterious power of that felt Presence.

four miles distant, rises Nittany Mountain; the Penn Valley stretches away almost as far as the eye can reach, to the southwest; while in the dim distance are just visible the blue tops of the Alleghanies. "Now I understand" said I, "why this place was chosen. There is evidently a good variety of soils on the large and handsome farm; this spot is the centre of Centre county; and these sublime surroundings are so well adapted to aid the institution in the development of the intellectual powers of its pupils, and in the growth of a sturdy virtue, such as the future farmers of Pennsylvania must needs have."

The College Building is a substantial stone structure, 234 feet long, and five stories high, exclusive of a high and well lighted basement. The central portion is 180 feet deep; the two extremities, each 81 feet deep; the said wings being connected with the central part by "curtains" whose front line of 48 feet is ten feet in the rear of the front line of the centre and wings, and whose depth is 56 feet. According to the details kindly furnished us, "the entire building embraces 165 dormitories, each 10x18 feet, and 9 to 11 feet high; a library room 24x46; a geological and mineralogical museum, 24x46; an anatomical museum, 26x36; a museum of agricultural productions, 24x20; a chemical laboratory for beginners, in the basement, 24x56, and two laboratories on the first story, each 20x40, for more advanced students; two lecture rooms, each 26x34; four recitation rooms, each 20x34; and several smaller rooms for apparatus for special scientific investigations, and for store rooms; also a large room 80x28 for a chapel, and two rooms, each 56x20, for society halls;

The descent was easier than the ascent, thanks to the clever Methodist clergyman whose team carried us on. Cultivated farms, with poor fences and uninviting dwellings line the winding, undulating way. Over another ridge, slight, however, and clothed with luxuriant crops of wheat and grass; through a beautiful grove of natural timber, and, all suddenly, appeared the imposing edifice of the Agricultural College. Up to this moment I had been all the while wondering why the institution should have been hid away in so inaccessible a place. I wondered no longer In the first place, it is at the geographical centre of the State. This is well, if nothing more important must be sacrificed to that centrality. In the next place, it is really quite accessible by the established routes, and will every year derive new advantages, in this respect, from railroads constructing and projected. And thirdly, the magnificent scenery. in the midst of which it stands, is, of itself, enough to have warranted the location. The a space 80x48, on the first floor, appropriated Penn Valley, in which it is situated, and which is about ten miles wide at that point, is one of the most beautiful in the world. On the northwest, at a distance of some six miles, lies the long range of the Bald Eagle mountains, already referred to; at the southeast is

to culinary and dining uses; two reception parlors, and commodious apartments for one professor with his family, and for the family of the steward."

The entire building is to be warmed, when all the arrangements are complete, by hot air

furnaces, of which there will be sixteen of the largest size; and the ventilation is effected by flues extending from each room to the top of the building. Upon the top is a neat cupola, from which the view of the surrounding country is most magnificent.

selves of the fruits of scientific investigation for the better management of the farms of which they may have charge.

4. The Course for Graduates; intended for the accommodation of graduates of this and other institutions who may wish to continue their studies, whether in the laboratory or in any other department, beyond the ordinary Full Course.

The other buildings on the premises include two frame dwellings, one for one of the professors, and the other for employees of the institution; a wash house; a carpenter shop and tool house; a blacksmith shop; a large, double-deck barn, with the modern improvements and accompaniments; a piggery, gran-There are also Superintendents of the Farm, aries, &c.

The Faculty consists of five professors, two assistants in Analytical Chemistry, and a teacher for the Elementary Department.

the Nursery, the Garden, the mechanical department, and of the culinary department. The President, Dr. Evan Pugh, has the re

The improvements on the farm are as yet but little in advance of what they were at the date of purchase, owing to the necessary con-putation of being a scholarly gentleman of centration of effort and capital for the completion of the edifice. The lands are being properly partitioned with reference to systematic culture, however, orchards and nurseries are being planted, and approved breeds of stock are being introduced.

energy and zeal in the cause for the promotion of which the institution was established, and large results are anticipated from his management. We regret that his absence from the county, on the day of our visit, pre

vented an interview that had been much desired on our part. Prof. Wilson, Vice President, extended to us a warm welcome, howev

Instruction was given, during the past year, to 142 students; 24 of this number being embraced in the Preparatory Department, 22 iner, and kindly gave us all desired information. the 4th Class, 48 in the 3d, 29 in the 2d, 8 in The ultimate control of this College is vested the Graduating Class, and 8 in what might be in a Board of Trustees, thirteen in number; denominated the class of Resident Graduates. nine of them being elected members and the The number would have been much larger, it remaining four members ex officio. The elecis believed, but for those advances of the tions are determined by the Executive ComSouthern army into Pennsylvania which call-mittee of the State Agricultural Society, and ed into the service of the State so many of three delegates from each of the County Agher patrictic young men.

The courses of study are:

1. The Full Course; embracing four years, and including the branches ordinarily taught in colleges, except the classics.

2. The Partial Scientific and Practical Course; which differs from the first only in that it omits the higher mathematical branches, and includes a wider range of natural science.

ricultural Societies; three members being elected every year, and each member holding office for at least three years. The ex-officios are the Governor and Secretary of State, the President of the institution, and the President of the State Agricultural Society.

The financial condition of the Pennsylvania College of Agriculture is, perhaps, better than that of any similar institution in this country. Begun as the Farmers' High School of 8 The Practical Course; designed for those | Pennsylvania, and relying, at first, upon vol. persons, young or old, who, while they are uatary contributions, it has had, since 1855, unable to take a thorough course of instruc- the date of incorporation, severe trials to pass tion, are, nevertheless, auxious to avail them-through. The State was, at last, induced to

conditionally appropriate $50,000 in aid of the enterprise; and in 1859, while the buildings were still incomplete, the school opened with 69 students on the first day; the number rapidly rising to 119. The condition referred to was, that a like amount should be raised by subscription, which was only accomplished after much delay and most provoking disappointments.

"Slovenly Husbands.”

Are farmers more slovenly than other men It may be they are, who work in the dirt? No man who has used but I don't believe it. the gifts God has given him, and he isn't worthy the name if he hasn't, would be so utterly regardless of the feelings of his wife as to enter the parlor where guests are assembled, in the same garb he wore in the barnyard.

In 1861, the State again appropriated the Do farmers soil their clothes more than masum of $50,000, and this time without imposing conditions as before. A farm and build-sons and painters? I think not. It is a difing site were generously donated by Gen. ferent kind of dirt, but it is dirt, nevertheless; James Irvin, and other two hundred acres and I know many in all three professions have since been added. The scrip, authorized whom I call model husbands, as far as neatto be issued by the Interior Department, equi-ness is concerned. No one wishes to see them valent to 780,000 acres of Government land, "dressed up while about their work." It has lately been awarded to this institution. wouldn't be sensible for them to do so. No So that now it has the promise of a total of sane woman would think of donning a silk property, including the congressional endow. dress before entering the kitchen for the purment, represented by about $1,150,000. pose of making pastries; but in a neatly fitting calico dress, protected by a large bib does the honors of the kitchen. And when apron, with her sleeves well rolled up, she these duties have been duly attended to, a change of attire makes, in some eyes, a very different person; but I see the same cheerful countenance that was presiding over affairs in the kitchen in the early part of the day.

With such a foundation and such a beginning, and with so great and wealthy a State, moreover, to further sustain it, there would seem to be full warrant for the prediction that within a short period the Pennsylvania Agri. cultural College will have taken high rank among the leading Industrial Colleges of the world.

THE HOME.

THE BABY SOUL.

The baby new to earth and sky,
What time his tender palm is pressed
Against the circle of the breast,
Has never thought that "this is I.”
But as he grows he gathers much,

And learns the use of “I” and “me,!'
And finds "I am not what I see,
And other than the things I touch."

So rounds he to a separate mind

From whence clear memory may begin,
As through the frame that binds him in
His isolation grows defined.

This use may lie iu bloed and breath

Which else were fruitless of their due,
Had man to learn himself anew
Beyond the second birth of Death.

-In Memoriam.

It is just so with the model husbands I know. "Of course," when at work they are clothed in working habiliments; but on returning to the house for dinner or supper, in a small room prepared for the purpose, they remove those unsightly boots, and slip their feet into slippers which their amiable wives or lovely daughters have prepared; and, after doffing the blue suit of frock and overalls, and performing the necessary ablutions, with hair neatly brushed, a linen coat donned, they are quite as presentable as if they had just come from the office or counting-room.

Do you say this is an Eastern picture? It is, but one which, I am happy to say, I have also seen in the West.

Slovenly husbands, who try your wife's patience and mortify her so often, do you say

you can't waste so much time? Time is pre- children receive. I do not mean those who cious, I know; but you will be more than grow up wild, without any discipline whatevcompensated for the little y ́u lose, by her er, unless a knock on one side and a correshappiness, saying nothing of your own. Try ponding one on the other, to produce an equiit a while. Have some place in the wood-librium, be dignified with that name; but I house-ah! I forgot that the wocd-house of a refer to what is given by the self-styled deWestern farmhouse is wholly out of doors-voted mother.

Mother, how are you training your sons and your daughters? To habits like their father's Her parents, by whose advice she had dared to annoy and render unhappy some other be- to impart the very embryo thought and feeling in the future? Or are you endeavoringing; her brother who has played with her, by to make of them what you wish their father was? Do you say you can do nothing with such an example before them? Who moulds the child, if not the mother? Often, very often, have I been pained at the training some