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_ back to his rooms,
320°C
_ YOUTIPS COMPANION.
——
bostow, FEBRUARY 19, “1383.
: -A SKATING EMPRESS.
‘The French Empress, whose fondness for every,
sort: of out-door amusement amounts almost to
passion, no sooner learned, this winter, that th
water in the Bois was practicable for skaters, than | *
nned her pretty skating costume—| joots; a
mee ‘short, full dress of black silk, without crino-
line; full black velvet cloak, nearly. as long as the
dress, and confined at the waist with a cord and
tassels; and a little round black velvet hat and
Jume—and away she went, attended only by her
ladies, two or three gentlemen of her household,
and her servants, without consulting any of her
. sponsible advisers, or obtaining even the permission
of her medical attendants. She is getting on pretty
well in the use of skates, though she
venture to go quite alone; but] performs her alides
and eee resting her hands on the arm: of a
cou gentlemen, who accompany her
_every movement, and keep a careful look-out for
the berpendicularity of their august charge. He
majesty greatly enjoyed her escapade, but managed,
nevertheless, to take a severe col
A seven o'clock in the evening, D
who i is equally a favorite with the emperor and em-
and is more frequently consulted by them| oj
Phan either of the other physicians attached to the
imperial household, was Just fepeing into his pet
chair for a ten minutes’ doze by his fireside, after a
ard day’s work and an excellent dinner, when his
i ient drowsiness and his wife’s announcement
of the absolute “necessity” of a new dress for the
court ball (the tickets for which the doctor had just
produced from his pocket), were cut short by the
appearance of the footman, who informed the son
of Esculapius that “one of the empress’ carriage:
was at the door to take him to the Tuilleries;- er
majesty was ill, and wished to see
Rataquishing the prospect of . ‘nap, Dr. —,
of course, lost no time in obe ying the summons,
though much puzzled to imagine 2 what could be the
matter with the empress, whom he had seen that
morning, and who was then perfectly well. Her
majesty race horses are all very fleet of foot,
is whisked down the Champs
Elysee ‘and into the vestibule of the Tuilleries in a
few minutes. was at once ushered into the
empr ress’ boudoir, where he found his imperial Pa-
tient wrapped up in a a quantity of shawls, and loo!
ing extremely dole! i with handkerchief ted
over one side of her fi
“I am really very sorry to disturb you, doctor,
at so unseasonable an hour,” said the
she was sitting, “but I seem to have taken a dread-| ¢,
ful cold, and my face is swelling rapidly,” she con-
tinued, as she removed the handkerchief, “and
must be cured to-morrow, ford cannot possibly |
* put up witha swelled face.”
Jr. —— at once commenced his attack on the
enemy, whose progress, strange
in arresting. “After passing a couple
superintending the application of his prescriptions,
he quitted the palace, leaving the empress much
better, and the swelling of, the face much dimin-
- ishe
“Come back again, doctor, to-morrow morning,
about eleven, to see whether your cure is com-
plete,” said the empress, very graciously, as Dr.
— left her presence.
“J should like to know how her majesty on
have managed to take this sudden cold ; Lam
she is keeping something back would explain
the mystery,” mused
&
3
When he waited on the empress ‘next morning,
as ordered, he found her quite well. The swelling
of the face had entirely fubsided, to her majesty’s
great satisfaction and to his own.
“Well, doctor, you see 7 am doing honor to your
preacriptions,” said the empress, with a smile, as
the physician was ushered in. “I am quite well ;
but fare yon any idea how it was that 1 took cold
yesterda’
. *No, have not,” replied the doctor.
- “caught it upon the ice, in the Bois,” continued
; her majesty, Tanghing, , “and I wished, before let-
ting you know how 1 had cau rf cold, to see whether
you could cure me o1 a had failed to ar-
rest my cold (and es specially The swelling of the
face) I should have felt t compelled to keep off the
ice in future; but as I find that you can cure a
cold, I warn you that I hal skate every day while
the ice lasts. It is useless to remonstrate, doctor!”
said the empress, with a playful smile, as the
physician began to shake his head at the announce-
ment, ting is an amusement not to
very ‘often in Paris; and you know my favorite
motto—‘We must make hay while the sun shines!’
So I shall certainly go upon the ice, while it lasts,
and without any uneasiness; asI now know that,
if I take cold, you can cure me!”
So delighted was the empress with the doctor’s
successful treatment Ot her indisposition, that she
not only made it a point to go and skate on the
lake the following dey. but insisted upon the doc-
tor’s accompanying versed in the noble
art of skating, Dr. —— fain have evaded
this honor; but the empress insisted so merrily and
yet positively, upon his doing 80, that the poor man
was at last obliged to comply with the whim of his
‘exalted patient, but he had only made a few desper-
ate attempts at the execution of a straight line on
the treacherous surface, of which he cherished 80
wholesome a dread, when vee he went, measur-
ing his length upon the ice, to the great amuse-
ment of the empress, who, having received Dr.
tumble, graciously dispensed with any farther at-
tempts at skating on his part.
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Strone Jypocemesrs— A small boy # was caught | a
loes not yet| of
that
the doctor, as ‘he was whisked | y,
‘a assurance that he was none the worse for his/7
|
ot
TIE, YOUTILS
most pathetically to be released, and after using all
: e persuasion that is young mind could invent,
@ pr sige
Rete i oa'll let me out, “and send for my
daddy, he'll Say you for them, and wollop me be-
The grocer. man coul uld not withstand this
appeal and released the urchin. .
———___ ce
VARIETY..
tat
. ——
CAUGHT A TARTAR.
A Washington correspondent of the Buffalo Ez-
press relates the following anecdote of a distin-
guished General ofthe Army, and one of the many
fools who have received commissions during the
present war:
A few weeks since I was a a passenger on a train
which occasion a scene occurred that attracted my
attention, and which exemplified the fact that ret-
2} ribution is sometimes more speedy than it is ex-
Ye had proceeded on our journey for
half an hour, when loud talking and profanity at-
tracted the attention of the passengers to a part of
the car where sat composedly a man wrapped ina
liberal overcoat.
A large-sized, red- faced and very voluble person
8s years, was standing in the aisle near him,
chine violent language and gesticulations, attended
with the charge oft _Tepeated that the old gentle-
man ha en his seat during his temporary
absence therefrom, and demai nding, with language
more Pangent than polite, that it “ghould be relin-
quished to him,
In response to this demand. the gentleman,
in a yery quiet and dignified manner, assure
applicant for the seat tat, he was mistal taken—that
e had occupied that from the
could not and should not ‘relinguish it. This excit-
ed the anger of the contestant, and he became very
abusive and boisterous.
At this juncture, two persons occupying the next
seat interposed, assuring the ferocious man that he
was mistaken, that. they had entered the car at the
last. stopping place and found the seat they oceu.
pied then vacant and took it, presuming that it was
not taken. It was probably the one he had occu-
pied, and they were ready to relinquish it, and im-
mediately rose and did so.
ferocious man then seized the seat and threw
the bak over that he might face the gentleman to
whom he paid his respects in the first instance,
with | ne urpose, no doubt, of cultivating his
acquaintance more j intimately. . In performing this
manceuyre, he threw his overcoat open, as to
disclose the shoulder straps of a Captain. “This ate
ted the attention of the other party, when the
flowing colloquy, as near as I can recollect it, en-
ned :—
Gentleman—“By what right do you wear that
insignia 2” Pointing at the same time to the reveal-
ed shoulder et
Ferocious ‘Man “By the authority of the United
States Government. Tai cer of the army,
and have fought and shed n my V blood for my country,
while such rich old codgers as you are lazing about
your ease, and taking up other people’s seats in
ifroad oars, while patriots, sir, like me, do the
fg
chin came a change in the scene. The gent
man threw back his overcoat, revealing the stars of
a Major General of the . Army, and saying to
the Japtain, in a firm but dignified tone, “I am
Couch, sir, and I order you under arrest
for ungentlemanly and unofficer like conduct.
ou will proceed to Washington under my escort.
The ferocious man was tamed in a moment a
attempted to offer an awkward apology, but he was
cut short by the General, and seemed to enjoy the
comfort of his own meditations for the remainder of
the journey towards the Capitol. I heard a day or
two after, that the ferocious man was a resident of
Buffalo, and had returned home minus a commis-
sion and the i insignia which betrayed him. Evi-
dently he caught a Tartar.
B
SOLDIERS CATCHING RABBITS,
The following extract of a letter in the Taunton
Gazette, dated February 2d, shows anything but
despondency among our soldiers :
I was accidentally a witness of a most interest-
ing scene the other day, which occurred close to
the camp of the 141st New York regiment. It was
arabbit hunt, in which a whole company part
pated, and conducted it on strictly military print
ples. They first deployed as skirmishers, and e
with a stick in his hand, moved-in goo onler
through a piece of land from which most of the
ood had been taken, but heaps of branches and
les
Tinbs scattered here and there, afforded excellent
retreat for the game in question.
8 they marched along, each one beat every
bush within reaching distance of his stick, until a
rabbit was started. his was announced by a yell,
that instantly put every one on the alert, and the
scene that followed was exciting and ludicrous in
the extreme; the yell was caught up by every sol-
dier, and a chase of the most vigorous description
was the rapid result. The flankers strained every
nerve to flank or surround the rabbit, who, bewil-
dered by the tumult on every side, would double at
each point where a soldier opposed him, until his
Tetreat was effectually cut om and he was either
caught alive or felled by a blow ofa stick,
Where the rabbit was an old one, he often es-
caped by fleeing to the cover, yet vtndistarbed b
the axe, and the chase would have to be abandoned.
tood on a small hill for more than an hour,
watching them, and the shouts of the men, the ef-
forts of the quarry to escape, which was almost al-
wi rays in sight, the agile movements of the soldiers,
the roars of laughter which followed when one
less cautious or more excited than the others
stealing ries, and was locked up in a dark
closet by the grocer. The boy commenced begging
fe penned Son arms antisense
tripped
and fell his length in the bushes, while his co comp:
COMPANION.
cars between Baltimore and Washington, upon|
ions either yan over him or around him, (never
ata ping) | made altogether a most pleasing spee-| | p
we Although ten blows hit a soldier where one hit
the rabbit when he was surrounded, still the ut-
ost gaod humor prevailed, and the fallen ones
took the laugh of their comrades without the slight-
est sign of anger or ill-feeling.
t2@- A COUGH, COLD, 08 IRRITATED THROAT, if ailowed
yrogress, results a ferions Pulmonary and Bronchial affec.
fons, onentines
wns. "BRONCHIAL TROCHES
reach teat the ected pasta and give ‘simost tostant relief,
In Broxcurris, Asti
good effects resulting fom the nse of the troche and their ex.
tend
guard against worthless imitations.
d CaTasri they are beneficial. The
‘Be sure to
only the genuine
used them to be counterfeited.
Ostarx
+3 4) Brows Bronchial rochen, which have proved thetr eMescy
: Ter gs | by a tent of many years, Popiic Sreaxxns and Sixcens should
“oo " pRurr OF FAITH.) | * tue the Troches._ lita ary Ofteers and Soldiers who over-tax the
A young man of this city having spent sore
days 3 in unsuccessful attempts to procure a situa-
tion in Boston, was prompted one morning to at-
tend the prayer and conference meeting at the Old
South. The subject of remark as he entered was
the text, “We walk by faith, not by sight.” As
the meeting was open to all, the young man ven-
tured to speak. He remarked that he found that
most men walked by sight, rather than faith, Such
was his own ¢
He then stated the efforts he had made to pro-
cure employment, and his utter discouragement at
his failure; but was Bled he had yielded to the im-
pulse to attend the. meet ing, as it revived his fait]
and strengthened his purpose to walk by it. At the
close of the meeting various gentlemen manifested
interest in the young man, and. after some inqui-
ries, one, a deacon, invited him to go down to his
counting: room, where, though he had no pressing
need of his services, he would give him employ; ment
as a reward for faith. .'The deacon is a leading
member of one of “he: large: est law, banking and col-
lection offices i in that city—New Bedford. Mercury.
ee
THE BABY WALKS! THE BABY WALKS!
Joy fills the house; the baby stands
lone upon her feet.
With quivei ring, lip she lifts her little hands ;
And wonderingly doth gaze into her mother's face;
‘Thus timidly she starts upon life’s fitful race.
How many hopes, hew many fears,
How many smiles, how man
Hang o’er her dangerous walk through coming years!
mighty Gea; to thee the child is giv
ute home her weary steps at last to hea. ven.
ristian Inquirer.
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PARLOR MAGIC.
tre Tumpiive Ecc.—Put a cent’s worth of
quicksilver 4 into a quill, and seal it at both ends
ch wax boil an egg hard, and as soon as
you take it out of the water, put your quill through
} small hole in the narrow end; put the egg on the
table, a and it will tumble about | as long as the heat
a]
‘Tae Giasnux Party.—Take half a pint of spir-
its, and having warmed it, put a handful of salt
with it into a basin, then set it on fire, and it will
have the effect of making every person within its
influence look hideous.
To SusPenp A Rive By a Burnr THReap.—
The thread having been previously soaked two or
three times in common salt and water, tie it to a
ring not Jarger than a wedding ring. When
apply the flame of a candle to it, though the thread
burn to “res | it will yet sustain the ring.
Tae Featuer.—The juvenile company are
seated, round, ‘the table, and one blows a feather
gently towards his next neighbor, be in turn
lows it towards the next, and so all round.
‘The person who suffers the feather to yall incurs a
forfeit. Much amusement is created by the efforts
to keep the feather in the air.
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COULDN’T SEE IT.
They have a {clegrap! h office in the town of
In front of the office stands a telegraph
pole; « and when an important despatch is received,
the operator copies it,‘ heads it “By Telegraph, 2
and tacks it on the ole.
i
that a countryman who
but never before seen
way. Noticing the dis-
patch on the pole, ‘he sto ped to read it. After its
perusal, he was observed to glance from fe wire
to the telegram, standing thus for half an hour.
After awhile he accosted a passer- ‘by with—
“See here, mister, I'd like to know how this ’ere
thing got off that wire on to this pole? I've been
watchin’ here a good spell for another to come
along; but it don’t come. n d’ye expect an-
other, mister? I'd like to see the thing slide down
on to this ’ere pole !”
As the dispatch was headed “By telegraph, ” the
pe was sure it came off the wire down the e pole,
vow came pass
had heard of the tle
it, happened along that
SLEEP,
passions and excitements of.
reserve even powerful minds from
lexander the Great slept on the field
and Napoleon upon that of Austerlitz,
The most violent
mind cannot
sleep: thus A!
rbela,
of a stripes and torture cannot keep off sleep, as | Pre
criminals have been known to sleep on the rack.
blast furnaces, would awake if there was a -
ruption to them durii le night; and. a
miller, who had his mill stopped on that account,
passed sleepless nights until the mill resumed its
usua e. Homer, in his “Tad, ” elegantly rep-
resents, “sleep as overcoming all men, and even th
gods, xcept Jupiter alone, as being subject to its
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“HIGHFALUTEN.”
“You see, grandmamma, we perforated an aper-
ture in the a * and @ corresponding aperture in
the base; an applying the egg to the lips and
foreibly ining the breath, the shell was entirely
ischarged of its contents.” “Bles p
cried the old lady, [improvement
they do make!
‘what wonderful i improvements
in my younger days,
we just
volce, and are ex|
posed to sudden changes should have them,
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th
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Any child ¢: \d_no one, ota or young, fails to be de-
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