Martham, Norfolk.
_Extreme Ignorance and Superstition._--In a large village in
Dorsetshire, not far from the county town, an intelligent man went
recently into the house of a somewhat respectable woman who keeps a
general shop in the village, and who is the mother of a numerous family
and seeing her with a large family Bible open before her, and several of
her children collected around, while she was cutting and paring their
finger nails, and so holding their hands as that their cuttings might
drop on the leaves of the Bible, he asked her why she did this.
Suspecting, by her manner, that she had some object in view, judge of
his surprise, when she replied--"I always, when I cut the nails of my
children, let the cuttings fall on the open Bible, that they may grow up
to be _honest_. They will never steal, if the nails are cut over the
Bible!!" Do we not yet require the educator to be abroad?