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HIE RECORD.
[DECEMBER 27.
servant in Mrs. Taylor's house? Mrs. Carlyle
came down into the historian's study, and
found him attempting to console the philosopher, who, with his face covered by his hands,
was sobbing like a child. Mrs. Carlyle, not
knowing the cause of this terrible grief, ran
out to the gate, where Mrs. Taylor was sitting
in her carriage, and said to her,'I do hope,
my dear, you have not left your husband?'"
A London exchange tells of a good joke
which was played the other day, on an enthusiastic bandof archaeologists who were exploring the quaint old town of Banbury in search
of antique lore. The following was sent to the
secretary as an inscription copied from the
corner-stone of an old structure lately pulled
down:
"sBEOGEH SREVE EREH WOISUME VAO L
LAH SEES SE OTREH NOS LLEBDNAS
BEGNI FREH NOS GNeRES ROrYER
GANOED IRYD ALE NIFAE ESOTS SORaY
RUB NABOT ES ROKE 00o CAED IR."
After the learned heads of the savants had been
puzzled for a while, one of their number hit
upon the expedient of reading the learned inscription backward, when it was found to be
an ingenious transposition of a well-known
nursery rhyme-" Ride a cock-horse," etc.
A Cuban correspondent of the Tributne has
dined at the same table with General Burriel,
and thus describes that redoubtable officer:
" He is a man of mediufn size, and not apparently over thirty-five years old. His face is
rather that usually met in a staff-officer than
that of a great warrior. He is not a homely
man, and in no way a striking one to look at.
One might attribute firmness to him, and perhaps promptness of action; but I really cannot
see any marked indication of cruelty in his
face. Neither does it express any thing cheerful or companionable. I have not yet seen him
laugh. He talks very little."
A correspondent writes to the Spectator
Did you ever see Cowper's epitaph on Lord
Holland?
Whoever this casket unlocks,
Of its tenant may truthfully say:
He doubled with Reynard the Fox,
And gabbled with Gaffer the Gray.'
Or his lines to Lady Holland in allusion to
Moore's verses? Lady I accept the gift a hero wore,
Treat, as deserves, this philanthropic stuff,
Nor let some verses written by a bore,
Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff.'"
The Christian Union says: "It does one's
heart good, sometimes, to observe the elasticity with which afflicted persons do occasionally
rally in the midst of their sorrows, and finally
rise superior even to grief itself. The most
recent case of this kind of feminine fortitude
and recuperative cheerfulness comes to us from
Colorado, and includes the widows of the late
lamented Captain Jack. Even they, we are
told, have shaken off their mourning, and now
stand forth each arrayed in sixteen yards of
red and orange flannel, and in number nine
cavalry-boots."
The pope has formally sanctioned the founding of a Roman Catholic university in England, and Monsignor Capel has been nominated
for principal. "There can be no doubt," says
the London correspondent of the Nration
"that this university is designed to play a
great part in that reconversion of England
which is being prayed for continually at a
thousand altars, and will probably be prayed
for until the arrival of Macaulay a New-Zealander on London Bridge."
A correspondent of the Tlibun/, writing
from Paris about Sardou's " Uncle Sam," says:
"That M. Sardou has injured Americans in
the estimation of Frenchmen generally, I think
may be admitted, but he has probably injured
himself still more, and, should he write one
more such play, his prestige will be gone, or
damaged to the extent of inducing managers to
reflect well before accepting any more of his
work."
The Times urges Tweed to make use of its
columns for publishing the record of his career
of crime. It says: "We verily believe that, if
Tweed told us all he knew, he could reveal a
picture of corruption, lying, cheating, and prof
ligacy so frightful that the whole country
would stand aghast at it. Some of the very
men who now call him a thief would infallibly
find themselves by his side in jail."
" There is one deficiency in our day," says
the Saturday Review, " one remarkable want
to which we do not find the public painfully
alive, but from which it will surely suffer some
time. We mean the want of preeminent men
-men universally acknowledged as such. at
whom all the world would be glad to have a
stare, so as to be able to say, fifty years hence,
I saw him.'"
Watch-making is a work for which it would
be supposed woman is peculiarly adapted; yet
a report made at an exhibition of watch-work,
held in London recently, says that, after repeated trials, women are found "not to possess the combination of steadiness and delicacy
of hand requisite for giving the necessary finish to objects of extreme minuteness."
Professor Moses Colt Tyler declares that
"no book deserves to be called a book which
is without an index; and, if we were autocrat,
we would have all such books burned by the
common hangman afterhe had first discharged
the more immediate duties of his profession
upon the persons responsible for such a high
crime and misdemeanor."
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A WEEKLY RET7ROSPECT OFP EVENTS.
ECEMBER 4.-Two shocks of earthquake
at St. Thomas, West Indies.
Severe gales in the West.
DECEMBER. 5.-A large factory at Halifax,
England, destroyed by fire; three persons
killed by the falling walls.
News of the discovery of an organized
scheme for a filibustering expedition into
Mexico; arrest of the ringleaders.
Vernon Harcourt reelected to the English
Parliament from Oxford.
DEEwMBoER 6.-M. Bartholdi late first secretary of the French legation at St. Petersburg
has been appointed French ministei at Washington.
Conclusion of the Bazaine trial. M. Lachaud commences the address for the defense.
During a gale on Lake Huron, the propeller
City of Detroit foundered,- and it is feared
that some ten or twelve of her crew are lost.
Intelligence of another battle with the
Ashantees, in which the British troops were
defeated.
DECMBElR 7.-Death of William Edmund
Armitage, Bishop of Wisconsin, at St. Luke's
Hospital, New York.
The machine-shop connected with the extensive Bessemer Steel-Works at Baldwin, Pa.,
burned to the ground.
Fatal steam-boiler explosion at Albany,
N. Y.; four lives lost.
General Burriel returns to Santiago de Cuba
to resume command of the department.
Death, at Washington, of John C. Underwood, United States District Judge for the
District of Virginia.
Death of Seth Adams, known by his connection with the Adams printing-press, of
which he was the inventor.
DECEMBrER. 8.-An imperial ukase has been
issued, requiring that six men out of every
thousand inhabitants of Russia shall be drafted
into the army.
The extradition treaty between Mexico and
Guatemala has been signed.
Sir William Grey appointed Governor of
Bengal.
DECEMBER. 9.-Election of Mr. Arthur Mills,
conservative, to the British Parliament, from
Exeter.
Meeting of the National Convention of Colored Citizens, at Washington.
Nomination of Senator Carpenter for President of the United States Senate, pro tem.
The New-York Cheap Transportation Society meet, and recommend the government to
build a notional railroad between the East and
the West, to be operated in the interests of the
whole people.
DECE.MBER 10.-General Bazaine found guilty of the charges of the capitulation of Metz,
and of the army in the open field, without doing all prescribed by honor and duty to avoid
the surrender; condemned to death, and to be
degraded from his rank previous to execution.
The court unanimously signs an appeal to President MacMahon for mercy.
Collision on the Birmingham Railway, England; thirty persons reported injured.
Siege of Cartagena continues; fire concentrated on the forts, and bombardment of the
town suspended.
DECEMBER 11.-The Captain - General of
Cuba issues a proclamation, advising compliance with the terms of the treaty in regard to
the Virginius.
The Carlists claim another victory. Lopez
Dominique accepts the command of the government forces before Cartagena.
An intense fog has lasted for several dayt
in London, interrupting all business, and causing many accidents and several deaths by collisions. No vessels can reach the city.
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