Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 15, 1873, Page 11

| THE CHICAGO, DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1873. 11 HYGIENE OF THE EAR. Why Children’s Ears Should Never Be Boxed. The Ear Often Impaired by the Atiempt to Clean It. From the Peaple's Magarine, Children's ears ought never to be boxed. We pave seen that the passage of the ear is closed py » thin membrane, especially adapted to be in- finenced by every impulse of the air, and with,_ nothing but the sir to support it internally. Whst, then, can be more likely to injure this membrane than a sudden and forcibls compres- sion of the airin.front of it? If aay one de- signed to break or overstretch the menbranc, ho could ecarcely devise a more effective means than to bring the hand suddenly and forcibly down upon the passage of the ear,” thus driving the air violently before it, with no possibility for {ts escape but by the membrane giving way. And far too often it does give way, especislly if from any previous disease it has been weak- ened., Many children are made deaf by boxes on the ear in this way. Nor is this the only. way : if there is one thing which does the nerve of hearing more harm than another, it is a sudden jar or ehock. Children and grown persons aliks may be entirely deafened by falls or heavy blows upon the head. And boxing the esrs produces a similar effect, thongh more slowly and in less degree. 1t tends to dull the sensibility of the nerve, even if it does not hart the membrane. 1 kmew s pitiful case, once, of & poor youth who died from s terriblo disoase of the ear. He had. hsd a discharge from it since he was & ohild. Of course his hearing had been dull : and what had nappened was that “his father had often boxed his ear Jor inattention! ~ Most likely that boxing on the ear, diseased as it was, had much to do with his dying. And this brings me to the second point. Children should never be blamed. for being inattentive, until it has been found out whether they are not & little deat. This is easily done by pmq_i them at few yard's distance, and trying whether they can understand what is said to them in s rather low tone of voice. Each ear should-be_tried, while the other is stopped by the finger. Idonot say that children are never guilty of inattention, eapecially to that which they do not particularly wish to hear; but I do say that ves many children are blamed and punish for inattention when they really do nof hear.: And there is nothing at once more cruel and ‘more hurtful to the character of children than” to be found fsnlt with for what is really their misfortune. Three thi ehould be. remem- bered here: 1. That slight degrees of deafness, often lasting.only for s time, are very common' among children, especially duriog or after colds. 2. That s slight deafness, which does not pre- Sent.a person from hearing when he is ex- pocting to be spoken to, will make him very dull to what he is not expecting; and, 8. That there {s s kind of deafness in which s person can hear tty well while listening, but is really very PR ot hosring when not Listening, ‘Among the canses of injury to the esr must mnfortunately be reckoned bathing. Not that this most healthful and important pleasure need, therefare, be in the losst disconraged; but it- should be wisely regulated. Ez?ins too long in the water certainly tends to produce deafness as well 28 other evils; and it is a practice against which young ons of both sexes should be mmfiy on their guard, But, independently of this, wimming and flun% are attended with & certhin danger from the difiiculty of preventing the entrance of water into the esr in these itions. Now, no cold fluid should ever enter theear; cold water is always more or less irri- tating, and, if used for syringing, rapidly pro- dnces giddiness. 1In the case of warm water its entrance into the ear is dess objectionable, but oren this is not {ree from dissdvantago, Often the water lodges in the ears and produces an un- comfortable sensation #ill it is removed ; this ghould always be taken as & gignof danger. That the risk to hearing from unwise bathing is ot a fancy, is proved by the fact, well known to - lovers of dogs, that those auimals, if in the habit of jumping or being thrown into tho water, so their heads are covered, frequently become deaf. A Inowledgo of_tho danger ie & sufficient guard. To be safe it is only necessary to keo& the water from entering tho .ear, this caunot be accomplished otherwise, the hesd may be covered. It should be_added, howsver, that wet hair, whether from bathing or wash- ing, may bo cause of deafnoss, if it be suffered to dry by iteelf. Whenever vwetted, tho hair should ba wiped till it is fairly dry. Nor ought the practice of moistening the hair with water to make it cur), to pnss.w‘ithum. romonstrance. To BveTe bl th W T dren, oo, care should be taken that all the little folds of the onter ear are carefully and gently dried with & s0ft towel. i > Probably the most ent way in which the ear is impaired is by tha attempt to clean it. It ought to be understood that the passage of the ear does not uinire cleaning by ue. Nsture nndertakes that task, and, in the healthy stato, falflls ic perfectly. = Her meéans for cleansing the ear i8 the waz. Perhaps the reader has never wondered what becomes of the ear-wax. I will tell him. _ It dries up into thin fine scales, 22d these peel off, ono by one, from the surface of the passage, and fall out imperceptibly, leay- g bolind therm a. pertactly clean, smooth sur- face. In health the passage of the ear is never dirty : but, if we Iflflm%fifl) clean it, we infalli- Dly suske it 80, Here—by a strange ack of jus- '.i&eb 88 it_wonld seem, which, however, has no doubt & deep justice at the bottom—the best people, those who love cleanlinees, suffer most, and good and carefal nurses do a mis- chiaf negligent ones avoid. Washing the ear out with sosp and water iabed ; it keeps the wax moist when it ought to become dry and ecaly, in- creases its quantity unduly, and makes it absorb the dust with which the air always abounds. But the most hurtful thing is introducing the Gorner of the towel, screwed up, and fwistiog it round. ‘This does more harm to- ears than all other mistakes together. It drives down the wax upon the membrane, much morsthan it geta itout. Letany one who doubts this make & tabe like the prssage, eepocially with the curves which it possesses ; lot him put s thin mem- brane at one end, smear its inner surface with a snbatance like the ear-wax, and then try to got it out with a towell But plan does much' more mischief than merely prossing down the war. It irritates the psssage, and makes it past off emall flakes of skin, which dry up, 3nd become extremely hard, and these alsoare presasd down mpon the ‘membrane. Often it is not only deafness which ecsues, but pain and in- tion, and then mattcr is formed which the ‘mass prevents from escaping, and the mem- brane becomes disensed{”md ‘worse may ollow- The ear should never cleaned out with the scralred-‘llxr comerof atowel. Washing should cxtend only to the outer surface, aa far asthe e [ a -picks, again, are bad. If there is any de- uium’\’g,sg them, it shows that the earia un- bu.lflg; d it wants goothing, not picking. Aud there js another danger from introduc- id thing into band “may get s g\[mb, msy --go- too far, any is _the membrane that has thus been broken by & bod- Hn. Bportsmen sometimes have their mem- brane yinsmeq by turning suddenly while getting aheage. And it even happens thata bey a¢ school may put s pen close to another's ear, in play, and call to him to make him tum bishesd ; and the pen piorces the membrane. Yery lond m.:-ad:h sy cause deafness, tm:l. Ar- e, 0 eager sportsmen, and very zealons volunteers, ixEcung danger from this cause. It is well to stop the eara when exposed tolond sounds, if possiblo ; also to avoid bel- s when ‘the bella are about to ring. 4°'man who wss _once shut up in ome bocame sione-deaf before the peal T dome. The sound of g:nn ismors injurions to those who are in & confined ® ‘E‘mwflh them, and also if the mouth be open. m’)}” from loud sounds, also, is much more t 'y to occur if they are mnexpected ; for, if fory re anticipated, tho membrane is prepared = theny; without our knowledge, by its musclea; Yoints on the Rhine, it is, or was, the custom d the captain of the steambost to fire 8 has pomon, to exhibit tho echo. When this been done without due warning, it has Proved mare than onca cause of lasting desf- mfl" Bonetimes these loud sounds rupture the th 0, sometimes they deaden tho nerve: the former s tho leass evil. lsa bl ! practice, aleo, to put.cotton-ool foaked in Iatdanum or chioroform into the ear fmthorelistst toothache, It may bo some- # 8 el , for the nervous connection be- {hocn tho toot and the ear is_very cloge. But hb:“ i8 far t4o Gelicate 2nd valuable an organ top Used 8 \ medinm _for the application of mmmmsremedn.a for disorders of other and Jess Portant part, and landanum, and more es- Crotm, is & powerful irritant. The is the more reason for g them thoroughl; in hand ; for prolonged pain in the h lngmg from the teeth, may itself injure the ing. ‘When » 'child's ear becomes painful, asit often does, avarytbmg‘:ihaq!d be done to soothe it, and all strong, Irritsting applications rhould be avoided. Pieces of hot fig or onion should not be put in ; but warm flannels should be applied, with poppy-fomentation, if the pain doea nob 800n subside. How much children suffer from their ears, anpitied because unkmown, it wonld probably yring the hearts of thoss who love them suddenly to discover. It is often very hard, even for medical men, to asceriain that the cause of & young child's distress is seated in the ear, and froquently o suddon discharge from it, with a cessation of pain, first reveals the secret of a mysterious af which_bas really an inflammation of the drum. The watch- fulness of a parent, however, would probably suffice to detect tho cause of suffering, if di- rected to this point, as well as to others. If children cry habitually when -their ears aro washed, that should not be neglected ; there is, most likely, some cause of pain. Many mem- branes are destroyed from discharges which take place during teething.” Whenever there ia a Ginchargs of mattor from the ear, it would bo right to pour in warm water night and morning, and g0 at least to try and keep it clean. Butb in- to the treatment of disesses of tho ear it would not be suitable to enter here. i _— e —— - GERMAN NOVELISTS. Auerbach, Freyiag, Heyse. ffrom St. Paul's Magazine, I know no modern sutbor who haslaid human nature so universally undor contribution, sod with such uniform success, as Spielliagen. ‘His canvas is crowded with figures all true to nature, ‘but all more or less typical. The inheritor of ancestral imbecility, whose talk is of dogs and horses; and whose virtue consists in a constant readiness to stake his own valueless, sgainst some fellow-creature's valuable life—the profes- sor whose seething hrain boils over at last in & mednees replote with strange and startling wis~ ‘dom—the young girl who, possessed of physical Qesire, tempta to a lovo whose fruit is bitternesa of sorrow—the beauteous matron who, also lov= ing, sheds the charm of holy self-denial over an intercourse that else had passed the bounds of friendship—above all, the poor, perplexed na~ ture, which, full of noble impulses and lofty aspirations, is yet the thrall of self and inde- cision—these are buf & few of the characters, which, drawn with realistic hand, yet revesl to us'an ideslisy who sims' at something higher than the reproduction of mere externalism, who is ever conacious of the mystery of life and the surpassing interest -of psychological develop- ‘ment. That Splelhagen has many faults it is. impos- gible to gainsay. . His novels are too long and too loosely put together. In this respect he might lesrn much from his English rivals. ‘In epite of the flowing beanty of his style, they leave an impresaion of clumsiness and want of finish. His genins is in fact too rubust and im-_ perious to descend to petty technicalities. He pursnes an ideal with gigantic strides, but with-. ont much attention to e of movement. But in spite of these and other faults, he contests at this moment the literary supremacy of Germany with Auerbsch and Froytag, and in many im- pportant qualities is superior to either. In Auerbach, again, the same strong convic- tion of the superiority of mind over matter, of the invisible over the visible, of fulinchulo over incident, confronts one at eve; - “Take, for example, the “Villa on the Rhine.” In what does the real interest of the book consist ? - Not assured in its ‘‘ action,” for of this.there is but little, and that little tame, and, except at the very end, commonplace. It is interesting salely as 8 study of charactar—as amioato analy- sis of poychical development; aud, viswed in this wa¥, it is & work of marvelons capacity. In dmo‘at every %flrfi:‘; lll.; :7:::3 n:‘ll devalop& ment is_posaiblo, growth an o malflll:oof the inner nature traced witha gubtlety and a vigor positively astounding. "In reading it we bocome at once awsre that slf of life which is external—ita so-called adventures —the moving accidents by fgod. and field, are indeed, in the strictest logical cense of the term, but accidents—not bound up with its essence— not even endued with the inseparability of prop- ertiee—in no wise constituting its truest and deepest interest. It is in the region of the gpirit, in the subtle play of emotion, in the gradual development of character, in the dox- torons unraveling of the tangled skein of human motives, that Auerbach, like every true romancist, ‘l;omi can find » congenial sphere for his sbili- e, That such & work should find small acceptance Splelhagen, in Engiand, I can well believe. In the first place, Auerbach's type is inimiteble in its mas- sive implicity and child-like originality, It is the ?nmsi and most pellucid medinm—with the Sl e aptivanaltie Al of Gosthe dn his romancist ever transmitted the rays of human thouflxt and feeling. And all this islost in & translation. But there aro other reasons going far deeper to account for the fact that, whilst a sensational novel runs through manifold edi- tions, this d work of the Gorman noveiliat has, in England, remained cumgl.ufivaly un- el 1 do not refer to the fact that there are s certain numberof people in England sho counld and would resd itin the original; this num- ber s _small, indeed; for the parrot-like Inowlodge of' Gorman acquired by an English school-gir], and the ponderous misapprehension ot it attained by the academician in the infruc- tuous seclusion of his study, are alike insuffi- cient for the x‘am r understanding of such a work. The root of the matter lies fardeeper. There is in the English nature of the present day s disrelish for sught but the sensational, the morbid, the artificial; and itis simply imposei- ble that the loverof mere external incident should resd such a work with interest. Itis written for men and women of the nobler typs, ot for puling clerks and lackadaisical soubrettes. Bpite of Freytag’s enormous popularity, the highest place ‘among German writers of fiction cannot be assigned to him. Hia creations are manly and objective, but theylack those finer tonohes which reveal tho insight intosouls, Thig is very ewadent if we contrast his “Debit and Credit " with Auerbach's *Villa on the Bhine,” In each alike the interest centres in the histo; of two young people. But in Auerbach’s worl the interest 1s internal and m ical; in Frey- tag'sitis external and physi The Iatter true to the Horatian maxim, which itself is so often untrue to nature that & character shonld todh Fhony 1 . Iooked after “in and for them- Wltes, 'ang, if toyhache spreads to the ear. that remain to the end as it stood in_the beginning. His Anton Wohlfahrt and Veitel Hzig, though We are introduced to them both af an age whon character is seldom formed, undergo in the whole course of the story no other change than such 26 in Inevitable to physical growth and larger in- tercourse with men. The fact is, Freytag has perception but no instinot, He paints marvel- ‘usly well what o sees, but has no power to feel toward the invisible. There is, however, another well-known name in modern Gorman_literaturo which is attached to works at once distinctly German and extraor- dinarily besutifal. I mean, of course, Heyse. Tt is true that a celebrated German ritio has said, comparing him with Spielhagen : * Spiel- hagen is like a grand antique statue, lacking, perhaps, this or that interior member, but Dever withaut that which gives expression and majesty to the.whole—the head. Heyse, on the contrary, is a modern Etstuctte, exquisitely finished in other respects, but unfortunatel without the head.” t I venture to thin that, in paseing this severe jr ont, the .critic has_been_ unconsciously. luenced by the fact that all Heyse's works are diminu- tive, They ere miniatures, and possesa all the elaborate grace and finish which we as- Bociate with such productions. -But they are noy hoadleas and meaningless images; on £he con- trary, overy one of them_is a perfect psycho- Togital smrifi. Tiinow of nothing in_any Ntera- atare more beautiful than somo of those short stories go full of a tender grace and an inimita~ ble pathos. Alss! that 1t should. be e0 -im- ossible to convey any adequate ides of them to e English readér. Not only has” Heyse's style 8 pecui\lr and delicate aroma which abso- lutely defles_translation, but; in the whole range of English literature, there is no_suthor with whom he could be cm:ipnrqd in such .a manper as to enable the English reader ta form ‘an’ intelligent estimate of his geniua, ‘He does not exclndo himself from his writings —you see him ever standing in the midst of his creations, with the ssme ponsive brow and calm, deep-walching eyes, and, for the most part (for ho is by nature hopaful and Joy- ous), the same placid smile upon his lips. S0 he stands, the very embodiziéot of human sympa- thy, never rising to kb& angels nlr mjh:;g to the ‘devils, bat always on tho just lovel of average hufi'u:'nity; pre] yn;ed to see and welcome all that there is around of good and noble; prepared to pity, yes, shocking as it may eo even some- times to pardon, much of error and of sin. B8uch is Heyse. I’ufhlpam;x: at’nc&e&i jnjx;.\!cés& one has no right to place on the ma; ng})ielhlgen ar‘Aual}b&dx: Bat who oly-impartial in judging of sucl an suthar? flel creeps into oOne's. heart and storms it'with s tender force of Bymp! y whethar wp will or no, And few works, in have such a directly softening And humanizing | s thesa little tales of helpless passion or requited love. . Their perfoction of structare and delicacy of mental analysis are eim per- fect. I have already said that it might be too much to assert that Heyse is an artist of the very highest type, but never assuredly has there bresthed a human being more_intimately pene- trated with the art-instinct. His sensibility to artistio impressions, whethar physical or peychi- cal, s unsurpassed. Hp moves.from d to Iand, and character to charscter, reflecting’ the changed scenory.of the one and the alterod pas- sionsa of the other with eqnal facility and truth. In reading him, I become anxious to know if thare is anything in this wide earth which, fo his eyes, has not in its inmost kernel some lurking sonl’ of good; if thore isany varicty of man's mysterious nature, any passion of his euffering heart, with which he cannot sympathize.—5t. Paul's Magazine. ——— THE FRENCH SALONS OF TO.DAY. Paris Corvespondence of ths Nation, * Among the most brilliant receptions of the winter have been, for instance, those of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de Remusat, and nobody was better placed to form a connectiog link between the various elements. of Bociety. Madamo de Remusat, by .her connections, is united to the oldest familics of France, but the blood of Lafagette. is in her veins—ehe iaa Liberal as well as her husband; and though they have both belonged till the present time to the Orlesuist party, -they are quite at homs in the Ropublic of M. Thiers.. Besides the diplomatic body, which naturally is always s great centre of attraction, there may be seen. in .Madsme de Remusat’s rooms the representatives-of all the old parties, ss well as Republicans evon of the -deepest . dyo.. - Count Armim, with _ his high forehoad and his inquisi- will be ‘near some Deputy of Gambetta's party; sn-Arago will be announced immediately after a Clermont-Taonnerre ; people look at_each ow!:rhkwi_flh some cn(nn m_:y. The scens is very much like & pramiers (a first repre~ sontation) at some theatre, whera the ladies of soclety turn their glasses on the ladles of the half-world, and where the young dandies stare at such mest* as Dumas the younger, About, or the most famous critics and dramstio authors. ¥ may also be compared to the ehort truce of hl‘g smli::o,‘when o olflcsr:;;a allowed rflmix and exchange newspapers cigara. o) feeling of Boatility 1o £l ranping wader the 8o manifestations of worldly politeness. I saw a 1ady, the other day, shuddsr when she hesrd tho servant announcing M. Challemel-Lacour. the Dg&uzy who wrote a¢ Lyons the famons note, #8hoot all these men,"” on the margin of a re- ort. But M. Challemel-Lacour has bean & Pro-: esaor in the university, he is a scholar, and is quite capablo of playing his part in sslon. At M. de Remusat's receptians, as well aa at all the official receptions, only.one element is miss- ing,—the Bonapartisia. are not invited by the Ministers of M. Thiers. But the Empire had last- ed 80 long that they had become qmtean impor- tant element in French socioty. e diplomats, who for years hava been in relation with them, cannot drop them completely; but it is. only in their houses that they are to be met. *_Princess Orloff, who lives in the heart_of the Faubonrg t. Germain, receives more than any othor mem- ber of the diplomstic body; and I saw, s few days ago, at one of her ronts, .the toa.famous Duc de Gramont, for the first time since the war. Al eyes were directed on him—on_the tall and majestio form of theman who bed played with the destinies of France with a levity worthy of the younger days of his famous ancestor. Not ‘was Marshal Canrobert, 80 1(::5 an intimate friend of the Emperor, atill respscted for the great courage he displayed at the battles be- fore Metz, - -You can hardly take a stap in one of these reunions without meeting some luszesfiva name_or person. Heroe is the Comte de Paris talking to some Députy on the book he has just published on the condition of the working-men in America; not. far from him glides the Duch-- esse de Mouchy, who ia-a -Murat, and who re- gretain her heart the glories_of the Imperial court. That young officer yonder, Count Beug- Rnot, was with Gen. Lecompte in_the Rue des Rosiers, on the 10th of March, when the old Goneral was shot ; he- himself barely escaped, and came back to Versailles with. his nniform in rags. The old General with the white beard is the silent Governor ‘of Paris, Ladmirault, who is answerable for the maintenance of order in the Communistic Capital. These gentlemen, cov- _ered with crosses &ud ribands of ali colors, are quite unknown; and they are seen bowing to- their Ministers, who have nof oven the little riband of the Legion of Honor. The other night, at the new Prefecture of polics, I glanced o moment through the win- dow, and ssw tha all the palaces and houses which have been burnt round tne Sainte Chapelle, and wondered bow the noble spira had been saved.” Was it possible! all these flowers, and this masic, and this quiot urbapity—was it only the dream of 32 hour ? In this palace of the police, I conld not help remembering s day when I waa riding on _the_platesu of Chatillon, et e e lan e avping hpabasi] cally. She was the wife of s policeman, had run away from Paris, and was her way to ersailles, ignorant of the fate of her husband. How distant all these memories scem_already, snd, if it were not for the awful skeletons of our g:hcea how unreal all this seems now! We :ve all heard of the bals des vistimes after the terror; we also have our balls, where the victims of yesterday meet the victims of to-morrow. ne of the finest and most hospitsble houses in Parig is the hotel of the. Countess Dnchatel, widow of one of the last Ministers of Lonis" Phillippe. The magnificent collection of pictures Wonld be enough to sttract'any body ; and be- sides, this salon has the privilegé of uniting the™ Orloanist and tho Legitimist society. It isin such places that you can better understand the difficulties of the Orleanist party, which, by ita principles, is almost drawn to the Republican #ide, while socially it has always been drawn to- ward the Legitimists. And the Legitimists, un- fortunately, have tho most untractable leader in the person of the Comte de Chambord. For many monthvhtho hope of & complete fusion bo- tween the t¥h branches of the royal family was naturally the occasion of the most cordial fusion of two societies which before had little in common The young Duchess and Marchioness of the no- ble faubourg were only £00 glad to abandon the solitary and gloomy salons where their mothers hod ished for years the fires of hatred _againet modern France, modern ideas, and 1830; the handsome Duchesse de Larochefoucault-Bis- ncis gpons:}:u h:wlxu, which m l«:mu led ike the paradise of legitimacy, o colleagues of her hsband in theChambar. The Legitizists are, socially speaking, such sn important ele- ment in French miellegthnt this fusion wasquite ao event in itself. 0 Liberals, to their great delight, found {hat there were manymen in the Legitimist camp who were very open {0 progres- sive idess ;_the Legitimists, in tholr turn, fonnd that the Liberals were not all of the school of the Commune; but this happy union did not Iast long, and the letters of the Comte de Cham- bord have again disunited the ranks of the mon- archical army. The connectiors which have been formed will, however, not be broken im- ‘mediately. e e _¥or Nut-Crackers, Fyom the Topeka (Ean.) Commonealth, A correspondent in Lyon County, who appears 10 be agitated, sends s the following, which he clips from s paper pablished in his village. _We {n go him to bo the suthor of the story, and al- ow o it whatever credit the reader may give : ¢ In the house of one of the oldest citizens of this county ia s maple ‘dining table, which hsa been in use for thirty years, Bacenflz while tho daughter was working sbout the ta le, she noticed s small heap of saw-dust, as she sup- posed, near one corner, and brushed it off, when, o her astonishment, it'soon reappeared. On oxamination, a large wood-worm, with a head half an inch wide, was found working in the table-top. All efforts to get him out roved abortive, and a considersble quantity of of water was poured into the hole. up}mm the worm to be scalded, the hole was plugg up, and nothing more was thought of the mat- ter for several months. One day, not long since, spother hang of sawdust was piled upon the table mear the former opening, Efforts were again made to capturs the denizen, and s knife- ‘biade was thrust throngh his head, but he drew back and has not since been seen. Itisnot . known how long he was, but the hole is over half an inch wide. Investigation proved the table-top to be eafen all along one sido, i The question arisea : How long mayhe have ‘been there? Could the egi have been deposited in the bark of the and laln dormant over thirty yeara? I not, how else could he have got there 7" A Famous Female Climber. We will next turn {0 _one .who was famous long before the Alpino Club existed, as baving made the ascent of twenty-five Swiss mountains. This waa Mlle, d’Angeville, who Was born in 1794, and was early eized with . the clmbmg monomanis,” for which her vigorous health an strong will early prepared her, Her -first at- tempt, leading her in the end to nz the -ascent of Mont Blanc, was to the Mer do Glace and tho Jardin. After more: than twelve hours’ stiff walking, she retumed withont fatigue to Cha< mouni.’ Lo:fln‘ng up tothé summit, thenillamnat- ed by the sefting sun, and fransported with ad- miration, she said: ‘I shall go_there.” A few months after, her desire was; ed; the Grand Platesu was resched ¢ difScalty ; but the pulsation of the he: ¢ fied air, smounting to 140 Deats in a minute, rendered the latter part painfal; but once seated on hex smowy throns, gha could. enjoy thoviaw, wrote several letters to her friends, and drank the health of the newly-born Prince, the son of the Duchess of Orleans. Pussing over many other ascents she made, here i ane of the lstest. At the age of 69, sccompsnied by s singlo guide, she climbed the Oldenbornin ten hours from the Hotel des Disblerets. The nightovertook them, and the guide declared he had lost hisroad. Mls. d"Angeville decided o wait on the spct un- til the break of day, 80 as to incurnorisk; but this- the guide sald would be too duager- ous, on account of the cold. They sepamted, «end'he went in soarch of the nearest chalet, for alantern: in two hours he returned, and then the conrageons lady saw, not withont emotion, that her resting-place Was but a few yards from s tremendous precipice. Happily, they sosn do- e ng ber travel 6 & large collec- tion of plants, mineral, autographs, aad the romtihl.pn! those she met. s:fi,'?..‘.n excol- lent mimic, and one of her amusements was to dress up in character and act a part. ‘Thus, bor- rowing that of an old beggar, she started on the tramp; the cottages trea her liberally; the cure’s servant shut the door In her faco; but in the conrse of three hours she found how good & trade it was, hoving received between four and five francs.—Chambers’ Journal. MIND-PICTURES. Tho world s ssleep and fn dreams, love ; T, ondy, have wakened o tears, For I dreamed of the beautiful past, love, Of tho past with its rose-crowned years, - When we had 1o thoaght of the mofrow,~ _Novislon o'erclonded with fears, . You remember the house on the hifl lovs, . With the ewallows’ nests up in the eaves; And the poplar-trées down by the gate, love, ‘That w] with reatless loaves ; And the flelds, where the harvestars gathered The wheat into golden shaaves 7 Thare wers gables, and pointed chimne; ‘Coot yoomis, and the wide old hall; " They are desolats now; only Echo Spesks back when the wind-volces call No dear forzs aro under tho hemlocks,— ‘Those sentinels grim and tall. I3 thio shady path down through the forest, ‘The brambles are growing to-day ; The rustic chair under the cedar While the mill, where the great wheel yas turnin . Has been swept by the freshet away, % Under an old oak, century-crowned, X sit on 8 rock that {s moesy 0d gray, And turn from watching the clouds above, To watch the Water{all's tossing spray, That falls down into tho basin below,— Just as ws watched it, ono otfier dsy. As 1 think of the promise you msde me then, * And think of the fate that stepped between,— Thehearls that throngh life should have beatas one,— 1 trace out the future that “ might haye been,” And tears fall fast o'er its nshes cold, For there are but ashes left, I ween.’ My darling! my darling! it sll comes back; ‘Bilter indecd is tho cup I drink ; Yot, if I might but dash 1t away from your ips, * T 'could bear it better alone, I think § But I sce you live on with your broken heart, And I fly lest you know how my own will slnk. Gan¥er B, Frawiw, Sl A A Dog Chases n Railroad Train for Fourteen Miles, and.Keeps Up With Xt. = .. Fromthe St. Paul Press. Yednosday last was ‘2 good day for the race” —the canine race is referred to—as the follow- ing true tale of & Minnesots dog, relsted by a relinble eye-witness, shall prove. On that day, 33 one of the trains on the Lake Buperior & Mississippi Railroad stopped at Centreville, a fow miles beyond White Bear Lake, & lady took & seat in one of the passenger coaches, ai the train started. When it stopped st White Bear Station a dog of medium &ize, and with rather a ghaggy coat, came ’n!angnide upon the platform, and was noticed to be very warm, and panting heavily; again a few miles fur- ther on, a halt was made to take water, and Conductor Bond called ~ the attention of some of the passengers to_the fact that that dog had followed them from White Bear Lake, as he supposed. 'The train was going off, and shortly doggy, was seon closo behind. ~ Passengers be- came interested, and crowded to the rear of the car to wsich the race: Occasionally, at some pool beside the track, doggy would down, take o fow drops of the cooling fluid, Varying this Sometimea with & bath, and then, with & gharp yelp or two, asif in pain at the ides of being lett behind, dash on. this way an even race was maintained until a down grade was reached, when tho train made long swift dash to gain impetus for a rising grade beyond. Doggy now_fell behind ; he tried hard, but it waa’too much for .him.;, his littla body was, however, Jjust full ofgluck and perseverancs, and to the delight of the passengers, whoso sympathy was fully sroused for the canine hero, when the up o was reached doggy made good his loss SU0 vwaght-wp with the train. Conduc- tor Bond said that he would stop and take up the weary runner, now showing signs of exhaustion, but there was no ons to take care of him or to deliver him to st the jour- "ney’s end. By this time the lady - passenger from Centrevills became interested to know what it was which so excited the passengers, and as she saw the little racer, sho immedintely rocognized him as the pet of the friends with whom ehe had been visiting at Centraville. Ho 1liad followea her to tho depot, and gallantiy si- tended her on foot on her journey, until within abeut four miles of 8t. Paul. Condnctor Bond seized the bell-rops, the train was quickly sto ped, and dn“{-u‘l’“ taken on bau&, where E: was given firat-class quarters and a free ride, whioh he had amply earned, by fairly running & fourteen-mile race with a passenger train mak- ing its usual time. 1Itis mneedless to add that do,‘;fl was a8 delighted 28 his weary little body would allow, to regain sight of the friend he had followed, and that he was the hero of the hour with all on board the train. Kaiser William’s Present to a Gere man Church in Pennsylvanis. The Titusville (Pa.) Germans are wild with ‘patriotio excitement over the arrival of the can- non, presented to the German Protestant Church of that city for bell-metal, by the Emperor Will- ism of Germsny. It is 'a bronze 18-pounder flold-piece, 7 feet 8 inchos in length, b inches bore, and weighs 1,944 poun It cost when new sbout $4,000, and is worth at least 92,000 for old metal, On_ the breech is entinved. “ Bourges, July 27, 1869,” indicating the place and date .of its man- ufacture. Infrontof the tonch-hole is the lot- ter ““N,” surrounded by a floral wreath and sur-- mounted by the imperial crown of France. The name of the gun, ‘‘Le Mauvais,” or the Fiend, is carved on the muzzle. The battle of Sedan was the firat service into which the gun was brought, ‘but it waa not fired during the battle. Itis cer- tainly one of the finest pieces of ordnance ever brought to this country, and it is well worth in- spection. Early in the day the gun was removed to Corinthisn under the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Fundling, pastor of 8t. Paul's Chureh, ' TheodoreHartz and William Hartz, two of King William's soldiers, who served at the battle of Sedan in the Nineteenth Fusiliers, un- der Maj.-Gen. Berger, handled the gun with the greatest eass, and, after polishing it, mounted it on sminiature carriage in the centre of tho hall. ‘These men stated that tho was removed on the second day after the capitulation of Bedan, from wfi‘;et ;uier;] inmnmmentlihm Mayor haa grant o privilege of firing the gun on some of the nm'm\mdmgg hills, which Mfl‘ul: done by & company of experienced artillerists, selected for the purpose, beforo it leaves the city. Four fine lithographs sccompany the gun; the firat is aoopy of King William's™ reply to Napoleon’s declaration of war, on the margin of which ara representations of the principal battles of the war, also pictires of the heroes of Germany. “The other three pictures represent tlie battle of Gravelotte, the battls of Sedan, and thp Orown Prince at Weisenburg, 4ll of which are framed and executed in the highest style of art. Jeble’s Christian Year. On the 29th of March last the copyright of Keble's famous Christian Year sxmrmf and within the five weeka following no less than ten different editions appeared from those London publiehing houses who concorn themselyea chiefly ‘with expiring copyrights. coursa these reprints are not from tho author's latest and most improved copies, but_have been taken from the firat oditions issued by the Mesars. Parker, at Oxfo in 1827, and it i8 a curions fact that, but for s careful fac- simile reprint which the Oxford publishers recently issued as & literary curiosity, it is very doubdtfal if even one of the ten un- authorized reprints could have sppeared, for the genuine original, in two volumes, i8 among the Tarest of imodern books—almost as much ized by collectors as the first edition of Mr. 'ennyEOD'S poems. 3 A second ‘edition of The Christian Year was called for five_months-after the first sppesred, and_from 1827 tothe present time one or more editions have appeared each, year, and now we believe the Oxford publishers .are selling the 155th edition! It was to the third edition, which | sppeared in 1828, that the poems were added for “Forms of Prager to beusedat Bes,” “Gun- Powdcr Treason,” “ King Charles the M £l "The Restoration of the Royal Family,” # The Acceesion,” and “ For Ordination.” . The emendationa which the author made from time to time add materially to the value of Iater editions, and dx’t ia intaresting Lo nole, 23 esch issue appeared, with what care the poet regarded every word which in the slighm mgnnnger shadowed forth tho settled convictions of his faith. It was only in the later editions, we may remark, thst pronouns, etc., baving relation to :::‘ Almighty, were printed with a capital initial or. - As an authorized edition may now be had for sixpence, and as there is a rumor in Paternoster- row that'an enterprising publisher contemplates iesuing a reprint of the origi edition at & penny, we may conclude that hencoforth Keble's Christian Year will rank with those works which are usnally heralded in i advertising columns as **marvels of ch "—T] Atheneum. ‘HUMOR. The body politio of Spain noeds spring diet— Dux and peace. —A Boston firm of clothiers have got out pat- ent trousers for boys, with copper rivets and steel kneo-plates. —The msn most likely to make his mark in the world—one who cannot write his own name, —There is mora flattery in an egg than in any- thing else.~ Nothm%m 80 given to addleation. —X little boy asked s lady who made her teeth. “My Creator,” she replied. ‘ Well,” said the youngster, **Dr.—— made my ma's, and they beat your'n clean out o’ sight.” —*“The bride wasn’t remarkably Landsome,” spe of » Kentucky wedding, *but her father threw in seven mules, and the husband ‘was satisfied” . —‘Firat Law of Natare " at Fauli—In open- ing a case of sardines, onesoes plainly that hittte fishes are not endowed with the inatinet of self- | preservation ; sardinely not! —Busineas—*‘ Here lies Jane Bmith, wife of Thomas Smith, stone-mason. This monument was put up ont of respect for her memory and as & spacimen of. his worl ip. Tombsin the samo style, $350." . —*“What is the difference between you and my old doll ?” asked a little girl of her sister's snob- bish besa. * Aw—weally, my little_deah, I can't say—aw.” ¢ Well, you have an eye-glass, and my old doll hss s glass-cye,” said tho tri- umphant urchin. —Mrs. Thaxter, in her * Reminiscences Among the Isles of Bhoals,” tells of s primitive 2nd unlettered Shoalsman who went to the main- 1and, and, discovering a frog for the first time, triumphantly asked: * What kind of a d—d bug do you call that ?" —Ope of the bluest of Bostonians, on being xequested, by @ rich and valgar soung fellow, for permission to marmy * ngo his girls,” gave this rather crushing reply : *Certainly; which would you prefer, the waitress or the coak 7" —An inquiring man thrust his fingers_into & horse’s mouth to_see how many teeth he had. The horso closed his mouth o see how many fingers tho man had. * The curiosity of each was Iy satisfied. —A Southern editor, who had written what he conceived to be some very stirring verses, called +*The King of Terrors,” waa horrified when he found them printed with the head, * The King of the Tuscasoras.” A —The hornet is beautifully defined to be the red-hot child of nature. —The reader will remember the ostler spoken of by Bam Weller, who wrote his last will and testamens ni)l(;n a stable door. A Tennessee man has published and declaredhis testamentary intentions upon a paper collar, which passed pro- bate well enough, though it was founda little unhandy for fling. ) —The advocates of capital punishment answer their opponents by saying: * Yo must draw the line somewhere.” 2 —A Peoria gentleman has & valuable library of over a thousand volumes, and he got it cheap. He took nfiigflltum] reports which were sent to im, and the backs tastefully labeled as the orks of the great authors. —+¢*Most extra-ordinary,” said Bergeant War- ren, the author of ** Ten Thousand a Year,” who was alwaya boasting of his visits at great houses; #dined at the Duke of Northumberland's on Monday, and_there was no fish for dinner.” “No," cried Douglas Jerrold, *they had eaten it up'stairs.” —The Boston Transeript says that persons who send postry to the newspapers ehould al- ways rotain copies. The Now York Times sug- gests that they should also retsin tho originals. —Teetotalors who felicitate themselves on the yrogresl of their cause will do well to digest the ollowing : An old atager was compelled by his worthy spouso to “join the cold-water army,"” which he did, promising never to tonch a drop of anything else, except in sickness. B0 far the story is oxcellent. DLut now for thé moral. The reformed individual has never been well since. —Lord Chief-Justice Cockburn haa just made s joke. A Mre, Jury being examined as a wit- ness in the Tichborne case, stated that she had Led eleven children, whereupon His Honor ob- sorved he had always understood it took twelve to make a jury. England is still echoing the laugh which convulsed the coart. 4 Arrah, Pat, and why did I marry ye? Jist tell me that; for it's meself thai’s had to main- tain ye iver since the blessed day that Father O’Flani, sint me hum to yer house.” *‘Bwate jewel,” replied Pat, not relishing the charge, “an’ it's meself that hopes I may live to see the day you're a widow waping over the cowld sod that kivers me—thin, by St. Patrick, I'll ace how you get along without me, honey.” ~—The local editor of one of our sxchanges has & bursting paragrapb, 28 follows: ‘- Delinquent subscribers should not permit their daughters to ‘wear this paper for & bustle. There being 8o much due on it, there is danger of taking a cold."” —4 Got any medicine ? " asked a boy entering s drug storo the other day. “ Yes. lots of it. What do you want ? * inquired the clerk. *Oh, 1t don’t make sny difference, 80 it wmethinfi lively. Dad is fearful bad.” ** What ails him ? asked the clerk. * Dunno,” said the boy; * bnt be's run down awful. He just sits around the stove all day and mopes ; he hasn't wallopped Eotl'mr since Christmas. I guess be's going to 0." —A bridegroom seldom ronders his mother-in- 1sw speechless, but here is an interesting cage : A self-possessed yonng man calied at a house in ‘Atlanta, Ga., a faw mornings ago, and asked to seo his wife. *‘She is not here,” raplied tho mistress of the house. ‘‘ There is nono here but the mombors of my own family.” * Well,” ho replied, ** it's one of them I want to ges. I mar- ried your eldest daughter last night.” —Amanin Cincinnati owned a pet panther. Last week he went off with his wife and family for & visit of a couple of days, leaving the pet panther and bis mother-in-Iaw o keop house. On his return his grief can ba imagined on dis- covery that it was the fi?):“h“ that was dead, not the mother-in-law. ‘Tho old Iady had talked the poor animal to death.’ —An unfortunate culprit was recontly brought ‘before an Yowa Justice charged with assaultin; and battering & maidon. Investigation show that the defendant had merely ealuted the dam- sel against her will, Bhe was in court, and gave hor testimony looking so very besutifully that the Judge was competled to make a special rul- ing. Hecould not, he paid, in conscienco fing tho man for doing what was done ; ** For,” said ‘His Honor, I have been abliged 'to hold on to the arms of my chair to keep from kissing the complainant myselt.” —A Cincinnati drummer who, with the aid of bhis feet, filled two seats on the morning train of the L, €. & L. Road, & fow dsys since, and who was t00 ugly to move, though the car was crowd- ed, was bm:upleu'lgl n;let when the conductor quistly took out his foot-rule, and after delib- erately taking ‘the me: of his feet, an- nounced, in & loud tone, hteen and thros uarter inches!” the great roar of Inughter all zu'ough the car which followed ecausing the fel- Jowe' feet to come down in a hurry, as he made himself as small a3 possible in the ono soat that he had paid for.—Indianapolis Journal. ~—Bydney Bmith,—s0 Lord Houghton in his i Monographs * tells us,—hna written dspreciat~ ingly of all playing npon words, but his rapid appichension could not altogetber exclude & kind of wit which in its best forms takes fast hold of the memory, besides the momentary amusement it excites. His objection to the m.furianzy of a city feast: ‘‘Icannot wholly value a dinner by tha test yon do;” his proposal to settlo the question of thowood pavement round St. Paul's: ““Let tho Canons onca lsy their heads together, and -the thing will be dono;” his pretty compliment to his friends, Mrs, Tighe and Mrs. Caff : “Ah! there you aze: the cuff that every ono would wear, the tie that Do one would loose”—may be cited as perfectin their way. —The Austrian gresd for money at the Ex- pogition bhas drawn out the following carrics- tures st Vionna: A stranger stalking naked from a restaurant whoro ho has left purse and ents in urnymnnt fora dinner; & waiter ringing s bill sbout ten feet long, and the guest, indespsir, jumping ou the window ; anotlier, waiter—an exquisite picture of super- cilions condescension—saying: * Here's a gl of watar sir !” while the alarmed and embarrass- ed stranger replies: *1'd like to have one, but— really—I'm afraid Ican't afford it,” Some of the dialogues represent the waiter 88 adding five or ten kreuzersafter every dish, in order to ““round off,” or make even sums, while another, sfter counting » mmall piéco of 'boiled_ btt at one florin, asks the guest: *‘ Was it good ?” and when the latter answers ““Yes,’ adds: “One florin more | 3 A SUPPER WITH RACHEL. The French at least seem dispossd to give Al- fred de Musset the place that properly be- longs to him in their literatare. This is scarcely less than a debt of honor they owe his memory, for he has till now been fre- quently, if not generally, misunderslood and falsely judged. Ths reason msy be fonnd in the fact that he differed widaly from the msjority of modern French authors. His romsatic, dreamy turn of mind made him more German, perhaps, than French in his pature, slthough Heide, in ‘his undue love of ridicule and satirs, wholly mis- understood him. Of late, his works and his gen- ius have been favorite themes with the French literary journala; they seem determined to do fall justice at last to the memory of their gifted countryman, who died May 1, 1857. His posthumous works consist of & small volume containing “* Faustine,” s dramatio frag- ment, ‘“L'Ane et le Ruisseau,” and a collection of hisJetters. Inoneof the latter we find an exceedingly graphic sccount of a supper with the renowned tragedienne, which will aid us ‘materislly in sppreciating the development and understanding she character of the greatest actress France, and perhaps the world, has ever produced. The poet requested the lady, who received the letter, to preserve it, in order that the remembrance of the evening might not ba lost. Fortunately, his wish was complied with. It was one night after a representation of “Tancred.” In the fifth act Rachel had drawvn floods of tears from her auditors, and she soarcely had strength to go through. the last sceme. After the representation she walked leisurely through the arcades of the Palais Royal, in company with anumberof her col- leagues of both sexes, toward home, when she met our young poet, whomghe invitedto join the party. Thoy directed their steps toward the residence of the tragedienne, which was near by, and whero thoy expeated to find & sumptuous repast in waiting. ey were disappointed. No preparation whatever had been been made for their entertainment, snd, to make matters worse, Rachel waa compelled to send Lier only servant back to the . theatre for some jewelry ahe had negligently left in her dressing-room. Now, Hhere was n0_ono to propare the supper, exceph Rachel herself, She withdrew for a minute, and roturned in & * modest muslin gown," a little white capa la bonne, s white aprom, snd & neckerchiof. Do Musset says sho wasaa beauti- fal 8a an angel in this coatume; but it would be hard to imagine an angel of the Rachel descrip- tion. In ber hands she carried & gehmr, on which there were threo large beefsteaks, which ehe had herself prepared. She ?uwi the dish on the table, “and crisd out: ‘* Fall to, every] then back she went to the kitchen for a 0 of sonp and a dish of. spin- ach. This wes all ahe conld find, snd was, con- soquently, all she had to offer hor guests. Thers “were no plates or spoons, &s the servant had the keys in Ler keoping. Rachel went on another tour of“discovery, and found a bowl of salad. Bana ceremonie che took the spoon end began to eat her sonp with'it. i “But, child,” said the mother, “thera ara some tin plates in the kitchen.” Out went Rachel again, and soon came back with & handful of tin plates, which she distrib- uted among ber gnesta. s “Child,” began the mother again, *these ‘beefsteaks are too much done.” “ That's very true, mother," returned Rachel. “When I was in practice, 1 cooked better. But, Sarah,” turning !nddanl&hw her sister, “‘what's the matter with you? Why don't you eat?"” “T would sooner go hun, plates,” replied Sarah, sullenly. “Humph! - It won't be long till you will want a servant at-each'elbow,” returned Rachel Then, turning to De Muset, she continued : i Would you believe that, when I played at the Theatre Moliers, I had an!; two' pair of stock- ings, aud every morning—" Faro Barah bogan to speak German in_order to prevent her sister being heard ; but Rachel was not- to be interrupted. ‘‘ Ahl stop speak- ing German! Iamnot sshamed to tell how poor we were. I had only two pairs of stock- ings, and was, therefore, compelled to wash one pair every morning, in order to haye a clean pair for the stage in the evening. And thon I do nemrly all our housework. I rozs every ‘morning at 6, and by 8 L had all the chamber- work done. Then T went to market. Iwas an economical and honest cook—waa I not, moth~ # Yes, that you were. - Inever had any fault to find with you,” said the mother. 3 « Only once,” continmed Rachel, *was I ity of pilfering. What I paid four sous for, reckoned at five, and continued to do so until I had three francs.” “And what did you do with your money?” asked the poet. s s * She bought a Moliere with 'it,” interrupted the mother. + « “Yes,” continued Rachel; I aireadyhad Ra- cine’sand Corneille’s works,and wanted Moliere’s. I bought it with my three francs, and then con- fessed my crime.” In the meantime the servant roturned with the jewelry that had been left behind, and some of the guests took leave. Sarah still persisted in continuing her fast, and in speaking German, but withont succeeding ‘In_preventing Rachel from parrating anecdotes of her youth and pov- erty. Finally, she took into her hesd to make some punch, which ehe set on firo, and then put the candles ander the table, in order that the blue flame of the burning liquor could be better seen. But only s casual word was necessary to put & stop to this merrymaking, and bring art and fioncq on the tapis. : “flow “beautifally you read the letter in the fifth act this evening!" observed De Musset. #You seemed to be vary deeply moved.” Yes," replied Rachel, “I-felt as though I swere dissolved into atoms. Nevertheless, I don't care much for the " tragedy of ¢ Tancred,’'—it is 80 unnatural! ” “ You prefer the tragedies of Corneille and Ra-. cine,” said the poet. X ] love Corneille,” ehe anawered, ¢ although he is sometimes trivial and bombastic, and then o is not always troe to nature. The verse in +Les Horaces,’ for example, ! The mistress, yos, ‘but not the -oonsort, can we change,’ always soemed to me conrse and commonplace,” - “But true, notwithstanding,” cbservad De Musset. 2 ‘* Perhaps—that, however, does got prevent its being unworthy the poet, which it surely is. Compare him with Bacine, noble, sublime Ra- cine! Oh, how I worship him! And do you kuow that I have resolved to play Plmdra?” As she made this declaration she brought her fist down heavily on the table. ‘They tell me I am not old enough, have not strength enomgh. 1 won't listen to suchnonsense! Phedrais Recine's eatest creation, and I am going to play it. They 5&“ see whother I am old enough and have af.ralleth enough or not!" “1f you fail, you will ba morry you did mot listen to advice,” interposed Sarah. “Mind your own affairs!" cried Rachel. ¢Try it T am determined to. -Not equal to the part ?— well, we shall see! A woman, being devoured by & criminal passion, snd yot prefers death to dishonor,—a .woman, who is being con- sumed by an inward fire,—it is pos- giblo that such & womezn can‘ be yound and tat like eMadame Paradol. It “wounld be con- tary to Nature. I have gone through the partat least a dozen times within the last few days, I don't know yet just how I shall play her, but I do know that I shall not fail.” Let the critics write what they plesse, they cannot and shall not turn me from my ose. They say every- thing they cau think of to injure and discourage me. Never mxndklat them. I'm determined to lay Pheedra, if there are not six people in {he ouse,” Her ill-will toward the critics waa evinced by several other remarks of a similar nature. My child,” interposed the mother, after s time, *‘you too much, You wers up this morning st § o'clock, and_your tongue has hard- iy kbean gtill all day. You will yourself sick.” 5 “ Never fear, mother; it’s anly when I am | falking that 1 feel.. thorany uly well,” roplied: Rachel ; and then, turning to De Musset : * Shall- I got the book? Bhall we go through the tragody together 2 71t you like—zes certainly,” said ho poct. lfllnh observed that it was already balf-past “Well, suppose it is? If yon want to go to bed, e;fn know the way, don't you?" re%liad Sarah, acting mpon the suggestion, retired, and Rarhel want Tato sn sdjoiaing soom for & volume of Racine. When she returned, hor whole being seemed to have changed—there was. something grand and sublime in her bearing. She looked like & heathen goddess about to por- form a sacred i The mother had fallan into adoze. Rachel tosk seat beaide.the poot, and, Dending over the book as sho opened it, said : “Ob, how I love Racine! 'T could resd him day in 'and day ont, and pever think of eating, drinking, ar aleeping! " - g bemykx':zw ead ogether, holding the book 3 1] . - i Ikt firat,” says Do Musset, * she read in monotonons tons, as though she wore xapalu‘:f- 1it: but, y she became more Tasted. "We nxga;fixod ideas over every passage. Finally, she cams to the doclaration-scene, and, slthough she used only half her voice, still sha saemed to surrender herself entirely to ber auth- or; his genius tranafigured her. Nover have I bebeld anything 5o beautifal, so thrilling ; never on the stage has she madeso deep an impression on me. e fatigne, a elight hoarseness, tha punch, the lateness of tho hour, the aimost feverish excitament she betrayed, lent to thit ung f{ace an irresistible charm. Add to all the disorder on the table before us,.the trembling flames of our two candles, and the sleeping mother, who sat in ths corner back of. flfl,—b g ‘ht“ wonLd make s picture woru;{hor : Bembrandt, or a-chapter in a romanca wo! of 5 Wilhelm Meister" 7 It was loog afier midnight when Rachel's father came home from the opera. He had hard- ly entered the room when he began to scold hor for sitting mp 8o late, and commanded her ta B:OJ) reading. Bhe closed the book violently, and cried : - “Ttisnot to be endured! I'll buy myeelt some candles and read alone in bed!” "And the big tears that rolled down her cheeks seem ta have touched the poet’s heart. Ho says' he felt for her in his inmost sonl, although it would be difficult to ses, as it seems to us, from his own represonting, that the roung lady was so very badly treated. After playing ten or twelve of the greatest female characters in the French drams with, ‘unparalleled success, she finally, on the 2lat of January, 1843, j'nn ono month before comploting her twenty-second yesr, essayed the character o Phmdra. The result showed thai ehe had not over-catimated her powers, On that meémorabls Tight in the hiatory of the Theatra Francais she achieved, perhaps, hermost bril- lisnt triumph. From this moment to the tima of her death sho was without s rival, it beiog univarsally conceded that she was tho groatest actross of her age, if not of any age. She ox- colled, however, in the claasic rather than in modern drama. She: was Greek from head to foot—in her walk, in all her movements, in her entire person. Bhe had received everything from Nature that was necessary to the personation of those char- acters in which she particularly excelled—large- ness of gesture, majesty of mier, nobility of ex- pression, and rescnance and flexibility of voice. But the great tragedienne, the incomparable Phedrs, was not without her weaknesses, and ome of the grestest of theso was her in- ordinate love of gold. ‘She was s genuine worshipper of Mammon. Her first appear- ance at the Theatre Francais was in June, 1838, when her salary was fixed at four thousand franca; this sim was incressed from timo to time, until she received forty-five thousand francs for playing twice a week for.six montha. For extra performances she received five hun- dred francs esch. Sho spent the remainder of Lh:Jm in “gtarring," earning from two hun- dred to two hundred and fifty thousand franca each season, which then, in Europs, was_about equal tosamany dollarsgowin the United Statoa. Despite this enormonsincome. it never occarred ta her that she-should provide for the indigent members of her numerous family; sha chose rather to make them pensioners ofgthe thea- tre. Her brother and all ber sisf evinced & dedire to enter the. .dramatic profession ; the consequence was, that the director of tho theatre was .compelled to engafie them at very respectablo salaries. Sarab, Rebeces,; Raj and even the youngest sister, Dina, were on the salary-list at the same time, and drew very handsome sums. This gave rise to many a bon mot, and the thestre cama to be known s the Asylum for the Felix family. The Parisians no lon;ar said, “Let ua -go to the Comedie Francaise; " but, * Let us go to the synagogue.” . What even those of her own faith tbought of Rachel's avarice was illustrated by a clever and forcible remark of Mademoiselle Judith, also = ~very talented nctress of the Comedie Francaise, who, however, in everything else, was quite un- like Rachel. They were always on bad terms. “ You ehould try to get on imore harmoni- ously with Alademoiselle Rachel,” said the director one day to Judith. ‘‘Yoa are wron always opposin; g)hfi:flflx{a»h’i h: mwr t‘.fi‘\m on your sympathy and friendshi; ona elas in the fl?ehhe. R e ligion 2" _ * Certainly we are,” replied Mademoisells Ju- dith, * but, nevertheless, there is a wide differ- ence betwaen us.” S *How 507" “Iamonly a Jewess, while Rachel, besidea being a Jowess, is —a Jow 1" - But the thestra wes not the only sonrce from which Rachel _sought to gratify her love of posasssion. Bhe, like most young women of ro- nown, had many euitors, ind sk had 3 happy faculfy of intimating to'them that she judged of the sincerity of their protestationa by tho val ue of their presonts. If they sometimes evinced a disposition to %ncfiw “ater economy than, inher_opinion, became the ardor of theirpas. sion, sho usually fonnd some mesns to'stimalate their generosity. The manner in which, on oo cccasion, sho ovem de: ceived her good friend Count Walewski, a natural son of Napoleon L, and the confidant and minister of Napoleon IIL, is vary well known. Happening to pass throngh a side-room 5 satidbnce of i sol Trions, Madacas f " o noticed & venerabls guitar, blaok with dirt, standing in one corner. % ‘“What is this piece of old trum here, ma chere? Give it to me; spggial use for it,” said Phedra, ‘ What use can you ha: i 7 e you have forit? It's good for “That does not matter—it will answer my purposa Justas well.” ki But what can you want of it " “Ob, that's my aecret,” replied Rachel. Very well, I will send itto you,” and that ovening one.of the Iady's servants carried it ta Bachel's residonge, Bus Joubert, ‘Two or three days later the old black inatrn- ment was noiiced by Count Walowski in Phaara’s boudoir, carefully protected by an els- gni sllk cover. His curiogity led him to exam- e tha contents of the cover mora closely. * Where, in Hoaven's name, did you get hold Are you not of the same re~ 1 doing: Ve & .of this old thing?" he asked. *‘That is the guitar,” Rachel replied, putting on & sentimentz] mien, * with which I once went. from cafo £0 cafo, and played and sang for sous. Mx ‘parents fortunately preserved it." ‘I8 it possible?” cried the Count,examining tha old instrument with the deepest interest. You must let me have the souvenir of your child- 00d, mon amie. 1t 1s an inestimable relic, h‘::flam’?“ not be allowed to fall into strange “For that very resson I have taken pos- seasion of it,” said Phuedra. “I would not part with it for Mt{‘f‘.honund francs.” *But I will have it, cost what it may! What shall I give you for it 7" A +Oh, you are fooliah I” (51 m give you fifty thousand francs for it— 0 **Did I not tell you just now that the gitar i ST wil you what—I will give you the diamond _bracélet we were xoé'iingy at_af B—"'s the other dsy in the bargain. Yon m,‘;:id forit imm.:il.g;xy. What say you 2" v " gigned Phmdra, **if you are eq fla‘eminad,m. i 2! "The Count was_overjoyed. Ha carried away his treasure in triumph, showing it, in his de- light, to all his friends. Buk,.unfortunately, & week had scarcely elapsed whon Madsme S—— paid a visit at the Count's residence. The ralio was, of course, shown ber, aud her exclamation of surprise, on recognizing it, vory naturally led to nn exposure of the cheat.—Applelon’s Journal. ——— The War in Somatra. By advices vis China and Japan, further do- tailg of the war in Sumatra are at hand. On the 8th of April the Dutch troops, to the number of about 800, made another attack on the mud forts, whils the ships threw shells inta it; but atter bravely standing fire about twenty minates, the Dutch were again obliged ta retire. Tha Dutch loss in the day’s action was said to be 4 officera and 7 men killed and 8) wounded; tha Achineese 1oss was believad to have been very great. On the 10th tho Dutch troops, to tha number of sbout 1,500, marched upon the fort ta storm It and, after manauvring for a while, they made a rush into it and’ found it deserted. “When the Athineess left, or where they weut, | “was not known. The Datch flag was bois and a guard left, and the force returned to their encampment. ‘The fort contained tivelve larga guns, and it wus to bo blown up. The troops fhen’ commenced their march throngh the jungle, fighting thelr way. On tho same day, {the 10th) they stormed and captured & small’ fortress, and also & church, which was stontly defended, and then pushed on toward the Sul-. tan's palace, which was strongly fortified, indeed the strongest place in Acheen. ~ On the i0th, the Dutch loss was 9 killed and 20 wounded. Capt. Engalvaart, of the Cochorn, also died that dey of sun-stroke. On the morning of the 14th, the attack on the Sultan’scastle was made. Tha conflict was very severe, and the Datch suc~ seeded in taking'a portion of it, only standing round, but in this sction their General was od, being shot through the breast. Thia calamity mm{: affected the spirits of tha Dutch army, who had great confidence in him. 1t was reported that tho Achineeso forces under arms in and around the castle ‘attacked nmg- bered 10,000, and -that tha total forve of tha Achineese is not less thau 40,000 fighting men. Many of the Datc in the expedition-had it way 2aid, begun t0 despair of its success. 1 T o i VRS