_STUDY OF CHEMISTRY._

Numbers there are, far above the lower classes, who still consider the
elements of all things as consisting of earth, air, fire, and water;
an error which classical-learning, no less than the expressions of
common parlance, tends to perpetuate. Let us hope that the days are
at hand, if not already arrived, in which the acquirement of such
fundamental knowledge will be looked upon as at least equally
necessary with the study of languages, and the cultivation of taste
and imagination.--_Library of Useful Knowledge_.

[Footnote 10: For a Report of this discovery, see MIRROR, vol. xiii p.
409.]

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THE GATHERER.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.--SHAKSPEARE.

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ORIGIN OF THE WORD WORSTED.

Worsted, in the county of Norfolk, though formerly a town of
considerable trade, and much celebrity, is now reduced to a village,
and the manufactures, which obtained a name from the place, are