HERE LIES SIR ISAAC NEWTON, KNIGHT, Who by a vigor of mind, almost supernatural, First demonstrated The motions and figures of the Planets, The Paths of the Comets, and the Tides of the Ocean. He diligently investigated The different refrangibilities of the Rays of Light, And the properties of the Colors to which they give rise. An Assiduous, Sagacious, and Faithful Interpreter of Nature, Antiquity, and the Holy Scriptures, He asserted in his Philosophy the Majesty of God, and exhibited in his Conduct the simplicity of the Gospel. Let Mortals rejoice that there has existed such and so great AN ORNAMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE. Born 25 Dec., 1642; Died 20 March, 1727. A beautiful full-length, white marble statue of Sir Isaac was erected in the ante-chapel of Trinity College, where he had done his wonderful work, when scarcely more than a boy. While he gave generously during his life, he said, "they who give nothing till they die, never give at all,"--he left a personal estate of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be divided among his nephews and nieces. The world honored him at last, and has through all the years. Bishop Burnet said, "Newton had the _whitest_ soul he ever knew." His habits were of the best. When asked to take snuff or tobacco, he declined, saying, "he would make no necessities to himself." He was modest to the last, saying, "that whatever service he had done the public was not owing to any extraordinary sagacity, but solely to industry and patient thought." He said, a short time before his death: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." CARL LINNÆUS. [Illustration: CARL LINNÆUS.] It was on the 24th of July that we left Stockholm, the Venice of the North, built on her nine islands, for the famous university town of Upsala, Sweden. The ride, of about two hours by rail, lay along fine fields of wheat, blue with corn-flowers, and past comfortable-looking red farmhouses and barns.