continually rises, it long succession of fair weather will probably
succeed.

5. A fluctuating and unsettled state in the mercurial column indicates
changeable weather.

The domestic barometer would become a much more useful instrument, if,
instead of the words usually engraved on the plate, a short list of the
best established rules, such as the above, accompanied it, which might be
either engraved on the plate, or printed on a card. It would be right,
however, to express the rules only with that degree of probability which
observation of past phenomena has justified. There is no rule respecting
these effects which will hold good with perfect certainty in every case.

This volume, we should add, is by Dr. Lardner, the editor of the
_Cyclopædia_, and is a good model for his collaborateurs.

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REFLECTION.

It is better to reflect ourselves, than to suffer others to reflect for
us. A philosopher has a system; he views things according to his theory;
he is unavoidably partial; and, like Lucian's painter, he paints his
one-eyed princes in profile.

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