GEOMETRICAL MUSIC. · A point, my boys, is that which has no length, breadth, or dimension. -- A line has length, and yet is but a point drawn in extension. All lines have names expressing some distinguishing particular. As: horizontal, parallel, oblique, and perpendicular. _Chorus of Pupils._ Oh! dear! oh! A pretty science mathematics is to know. The lines called parallel are those which, drawn in one direction, Continued to infinity, will never make bisection. The thing perhaps sounds odd, but if you entertain a doubt, boys, I’ll draw the lines, ====== now take your slates, and work the problem out, boys. _Chorus of Pupils._ Oh! dear! no! We readily believe it, Sir! since _you_ say so! 155. In this figure rub out eight lines, and leave two squares. No side nor angle of any square must be left, otherwise that will be counted as a square. [Illustration] 156. A and B travelled by the same road, and at the same rate from Tamworth to Sydney. A overtook a flock of sheep, which travelled at the rate of three miles in two hours, and two hours after he met a mail coach, which travelled at the rate of nine miles in four hours. B overtook the flock 45 miles from Sydney, and met the coach 40 minutes before he came to the 31-mile post from the Metropolis. Where was B when A reached Sydney? ENGLISH HISTORY. A school examination paper contained the question:--“Write down all you know about Henry VIII,” and one of the small boys answered as follows:-- “King Henry 8 was the greatest widower that ever lived. He was born at Anne Domini in the year 1066. He had 510 wives besides children. The first was beheaded and afterwards executed, and the second was revoked. She never smiled again. But she said the word ‘Calais’ would be found on her heart after death. The greatest man in this reign was Lord Sir Garret Wolsey--named the Boy Bachelor. He was born at the age of fifteen unmarried. Henry 8 was succeeded on the throne by his great-grandmother, the beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots, sometimes called Lady of the Lake or the Lay of the Last Minstrel.” 157. Two boys, A and B, run round a ring in opposite directions till they meet at the starting point, their last meeting place before this having been 990 yards from it. If A’s rate to B’s be as 5 to 3, find the distance they have travelled. THE VALUE OF HOME LESSONS. Two teachers of languages were discussing matters and things relative to their profession. “Do your pupils pay up regularly on the first of each month?” asked one of them. “No, they do not,” was the reply; “I often have to wait weeks and weeks before I get my pay, and sometimes I don’t get it at all. You can’t well dun the parents for the money.” “Why don’t you do as I do? I always get my money regularly.” “How do you manage it?”