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THE H.U,RU •.EXPOSITOR.
Jan. 28..1870.
Sorrowful Histery of as Cardinal.
- Miss; Brevvater writes from Rotae :--" Of
course there are a great many distinguished
prelates assembled togethernow. in Roots,
and oneeof the greatest pleasures I:- had on
Monday moi ins was the chance of looking
at each. and ah of thein leisurely, as they
wal x, through: Scala `: Regia. ',Cardium:�l T
Prince, Schtiatzenburgh,: *.rchibislety of �
Prague, attracted the most of my attention. -
He is a tall, fine looking man, of about
fifty-five or sixty. Fifteen years ago, when...
the Cardinal was last in Rome, they tell 'me'
he' was very handsome, and I ,,an well be-
lieveit. Cardinal Schwarzenburg is tall
and 'slender, has light hair—now gray—
fair skin, beautiful temples, keen cold eye,
▪ thin lips and delicate features. We laugh-
ingly compare him to some of our intellec-
tual, cold looking, American lawyers. The
Cardinal's history iia sad one. He is a son
of that famous Prince Sch warzenhurg. who
was the comnandei in -chief of the grand
army (BohemiaN) in the w:nr of the allied
Princes against the first and great Emper-
or Napoleon. Of this General Heeien
says, in his Historical Researches ' History
consecateg the name of a Schwarzenhurg, a
Blucher and a Barclay de Tolly.' .His eld-
est son who is now Cardinal as well as:Prince
iri his young manhood was disappointed in
love. It was a sorrowful story, and the
hen' of great estates and an old and prince-
ly name sought in religion that resignation
and consolation which the loss of his clear-
est hopes required. In Holdein's ' Dances
of Death,' when Am leaves the Garden
• of Eden quietly walking along with him,:
and where our first father delves the
ground there is Death laboring close beside
him, stroke for s--:roke, not as an enemy,
but as x constant companion. And. thus it
has been with Prince Schwarzenburg.
Ever sines his youth, when disappointed
love drove him out of his palace, sorrow
has been his constant friend.His mother,
whom he loved fondly, was burned to death
at a theatreconflagration;; and a darling
sister, 'Princess Windisgatz, was shot in
the Austrian revolution ;.of 1848. The
Princess went to the widow and received in
her hurt the ball that was intended for
her husband. So no wonder I looked at
this stately, lordly Prince, and recalled his
own -sad life history, while I remembered
that of'his ancestors. When we see re-
presentatives of famous emperors, kings,
marshal's and generals, it is as if the pages
of history had taken form and flesh, es-
pecially when these representatives are such
truly regal persons as Glga Nicalaiewns, of
Wurtenburg and Cardinal Prince Sohwar-
zenbur�,. This German princely prelate
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made man`,j whom we had formerly admired,
appear shorn of their grandeur. Cardinal
'Bonaparte, for example, looked .more like a
-sage prihce than ever. The brilliant Par-
isian chemical diamond paled in the pres-
ence of the real gem."
Anecdote -. .
.k Vienna paper relates the following re-
-intar-kable incident in the life ofaxmilian
-of Mexico : When he was Austrian arch=
duke he wished to send a ship laden with
his table service and travelling effects from
Oonstatinople to Naples. : The captain of
the ship, as the night was very stormy, beg-
ged the archduke not to send the vessel out
of port then, as she would certainly be.
wrecked: "The The archduke, hoviever, would
'not listen to this, renewed the dommand,
anddeclared that he would hirnselfgo with
• the ship, and show the captain :that there
was no, danger. The captain pleaded with
the prince, asking him not to come on
board when he the captain should put out
to- sea ; .?for, according to all appearance,
the. storin would be unusually violent.
•:• " Who commands beret' asked ' the
-archduke " 1 or- you I' • Without doubt
your Imperial .Highness. " Then we
will sail to -night at -eleven I 1 will' be
ready, and send for me when - about to
start." The captain then gave orders . to
heat up the engine, and made all the . ne-
eessary- preparations for putting to sea.
Maximilian waited patiently in the hotel
• for eleven o'clock, the time . for starting ;
but nobody came ; it was , half --past eleven
-?`add still nobody appeared. Finally it was
reported to him that the ship had sailed
.according to the command of. his Imperial •
Highness an hour before ; only the arch-
-i duke himself ha I been left .behind. A
few days afterwards the papers announced
that the storm had wreoked the ship of the
•-. archduke, and not a man had been. saved.
Tae brave captain had sacrificed his own
life for that of'Maximilian's by sailing half
as hour 'earlier than he had been or-
dered.
Novel Application of Cows' Tails.
No little consternation was caused : on a
farm in the neighborhood of Kinglaseie, in
Fifeshire Scotland, lately owing, to a num-
ber of the cows belonging to the far mer be-
- ing shorn of the hair that adorned their
tails. The farmer was much perplexed
'about the affair, for he bad - strange and
Strong surmisings that the disfiguration per-
. formed formed on his " crummies" was the doings
-of some one who had no good feeling of
friendship ; yet on looking round him, ' he
could not point the finger of impeachment
to one. The matter grieved him serely,
and not a few council meetings were held
• by him and his good dame on the ` matter,
'yet without any fruitful* isene, until his
• better -half -picked up a chignon on the .maid-
servant's dress -table, and which was
'' aivned by a servant girl who had , entered
'on the duties of dairy maid at the Martin-
mas term last, when to ! it was clearly de-
'monstrated that said chignon had been
• Manufactured out of the husbandman's
cows' tails Its owner now made no 'secret
of the -affair, but stated that she had', Sup -.
• p -lied nustbera of her fair friends with auui-
lar head adornments against a coming New -
Year's, merrtsfusking.
ew-Year's_. •
A Pair. of Blep}t Lovers.
ROMEO AND LALA ROOKS—EXCITING SCENE
IN A MENAGERIE.
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The menagerie at Connersville, Indiana,
a few dap since, was the scene of terrible
• -Okditifs, , caused by the wicked old ele- •
phage=;' omeo" having concluded to free
himself -from the control of man.—It will
be rememtxlred tnat Forepaugh "Lalla
Ilooklt," the feanaie elephant formerly
longing to Dr. Thayer's circus.—Miss "Lal -
la" was taken out to the winter quarter% at
Connersville, where she behaved heiself
with becoming propriety - ui.til 'Monday
evening of last week, when she happened
to remember that according to elephant
chronology this is leap year ; so she very de-
_liberatoly freed herself of her chains and
strolled to where " dear Romeo" was stand-
ing, meditating over his happy days in the
jungles of Africa.
When morning dawned, the (keeper car -
eluded to send the handsome maiden back
to her quarters, which was very- much
against the wishes of her male friend, who
showed his resentment bythrusting the
keeper adistance of thirty feet against the
side of the house. A dog carne next, and
in the twinkling of an eye he was crushed
into a mere pulp, ready to be boiled down
in the tank of the Fertilizing Company.
The attendants finding that "Romeo" was
in just such astiate of excitement as he ex-
perienced at Hatboro, Pa, three years since
when he killed his keeper, the famous
showman, Tom Williams, determined to
put him through a course of sprouts. But
how to do it wt's for some time the ques-
tion ; for whenever any one would ap-
proach with the nece'ssa y chains. " Romeo"
would make such terrible demonstrations
as to cause a hasty retreat.
As a last resort a few loads of shot were
}soured against his trunk, which caused him
to howl with pain, and while he was weep-
ing over the great abuse shown him a
strong cable was quickly slipped around one
of his beautiful ankles, the guys were pul-
led and against his earnest protest "Romeo"
was forced to lie down on his side. Then
the order was given for all hands to belabor
him with clubs, which was done with a
hearty goodwill. as many were anxiou to
pay of old -scores ; but so stubborn was the
beast that eight . hours passed .before he
cried, "Hold. enough !" but when he did he
was as thoroughly conquered as an army
mule and promised never even to look at
Lalla-Rookh" or any other of his race as
he lived, which promise appearing to have
bean made in earnest he was rxllowed to
resume the even tenor of his way.
Journalistic Experienoee-
Tertibi8` to of a Miner.
The following is the- full aeoouni of the
recent hot ror at Lour:Swamp; Swatmp. ' The true
•name of the man ivy °,limerick Staud, He
had -lived- at= Long f w ili'about six years,
and. is supposed to haie. .• brought with hits,
'm.4,41 as°amassed since coming nnere, con-
iddtritble .moire'.." It -has been ascertained
from* person vr-i tli 'whom he was more in-
timate than
ntimatethan with most of his nei;hbors,
that he came from,Germany, was born in
Reutlingin, � Wurtcriiburg, .and- that the
only relative' living is a siker.'" Mena
Stand, a school -teacher in Mettzingen, a
town near Rets tlingin. About 4 o'clock in
t' a morning, Mr. Platt IL Smith, a near
neighbor of.Staud, discovered fire issuing
from the house of the latter, and, arous-
ing some neighbors, he hastened to the scene
of the conflagration. Upon his arrival ire
found fire issuing- from the windows and
.also from the roof. and evidently making
such headway that there was no chance of
saving either the building or its contents.
At this time the hent was so intense that
none of the 'neighbors who had then arrived
could approach near the building ; but by
the aid of sonic rails and the fence, one of
them managed to elevate himself sufficiently
to look into the bedroom window of the un-
fortunate recluse. There a horrible sight
met the gaze, for the 'body was _ at full
length on the floor, a burnt and burning
crisp. As soon as the fire had abated, Mr.
Smith Mr, Carr, and others managed to
get the bo:ly from the .wins. It was but
the trund, as the head, legs and arms had
been consumed. At the inquest, nothing
as to the origin of the fire was discovered,
and the jury found tEat the fire laud been
caused by means of a defective flue. Some
of the neighbors think that the house was
set on fire by thieves after robbing at_d per-
haps murdering Stand,
BY F. EMERAL.
I am a little at a loss (I used to be great
at a lc , when I played, poker, and.- there-
fore abandoned the game, years and years
agar to know what to write about. I have
-a conscience—a patent, metropolitan
ournalistic conscience—and,-therefore,
dare not wi ite anything that is not strictly
true. I was not always thus careful ; but
a year or two ago I had an awful warning,
and since then have never ventured to let
my imagination lead me into exaggera-
tion. -
It happened in this way. I was an asso-
oiate editor on the staff of one of our N ew
York papers, and there one day came a ne-
cessity for me to write a paragraph of about
a stickful in length, in a little less than no
time at a11. The weather being intensely
cold, my mental faculties were- active only
in the direction of forcible denunciation of
the climate. My mind thus - running on
the subject of cold weather, I wrote a few
linesstating that the Gulf Stream had retir-
ed- from the . coast. and that there was
every reason to believe that in the course
of two years at farthest, New York would
be- considerably -colder than Greenland...
Mark what followed,: and then • doubt, if
you can, the influence of the press. That
paragraph was gravely copied all over the
country, and in about three weeks after-
wards twosea captains came into port and
announced that they had found the Gulf
stream nearly two hundred miles from the
usual course. -
The confounded current had actually ta.,
ken me at any word, and had really chang-
ed its course. I repented bitterly at my
rashness, and began to look forward to the
cheerful prospect of freezing -to death amid
the curses of my congealing friends, when
some other fellow came out in another state-
ment that the Gulf stream had approached"
nearer to our shores than ever, and that
henceforth our, clisate was to become tro-
pical in point of heat I -don't believe . he -
had any more authority for his statement'
than I had for mine, but somehow more
sea captains opportunely came into port snail
..onfirmed his statement. Since then the
climate -has remained just as disagreeable
as it has always been, but I have never
dared to allude to' the Gulf stream from
that day to this, and have, moreover, regis-
tered as a vow never to Write anything
that is not strictly and, literally true.
BevenlPraot%sl Rulesfor w Teaoner.
L Never attempt to teach what you do
not perfectly understand.
2. Never tell a child -What you can make
that child tell you. '
3. Never give a piece of information
without asking for it again.
4. Never ise a hard word when' an easy
one will answer, •
5. - Never make a rule that you . do not
rigidly enforce. - . * - ;
Pi:`'Nreerr-give an unnecessary tofu and,}
Never aiIow a '. ' d In a cIa without
something to do
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How he Became Deaf.
A Vermont landlord, famous for being
deaf just when ht wanted to be, when ral-
lied upon his infirmity one day, told his
amused guests the following story :—
When a young man he.vorked on a farm
for a stingy old farmer in anadjoining town.
On leaving him, a balance of two dollars
was due George for 'wages. Having called
repeatedly for his money, thfi old mar•. had
some excuse for not paying. A'sow of the
old man's had a litter of pigs, consisting of
four ; one of them which is generally the
case, being a small runt, as they call their.
George told the old man that he would take
a pig for his money ; the old Man said he
°might have a small one. George jumped
in the per,, and seized the largest pig. The
old man shouted :
" Take the small one V' .
Let him squeal," said George ; " 1 can
hold him." WM. . CAMPBELL.
Old man, excited :
" s'the ,small one!" _ CI:JEARING; SALE
" I'lhrisk his biting," replied George.
Wld man desperate, and as loud as he
could bellow :
Take the small one !" • -
Let him squeal ; I can hoid him," ahs- 0F
wered George.
• " Take him along you deaf cuss ; I can't
make you hear anything."
George carried off his pig in triumph.
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WINTER STQCK
NOW COMPLETE
At the New York House.
A. Large Stock of
WOOLENS
AND
READY-MADE CLOTHING! -
Hair Blanching from Fright.
The question of human hair blanching in
a` single night from the effects of fear or
great trouble has recently been investigated
by Dr. Austin Flint, an experienced writer
on physology. This gentleman does not
consider the eases of Henry -IV. of France
Mai ie Antoinette or Sir Thomas Marie suf-
ficiently well defined by the • historians to
be entirely depended upon, but . scientific
observations recently made by Drs. Len-
dois and Lohmer, two . German physicians,
show that a head of hair of jet or golden'
huemay be silvered in a few hours by the,
action of fear upon the nerves and brain.
The patient was a compositor, hair light,
and blue eyes, who was brought to a hospi-
tal in Leipsie, suffering With delirum tre-
mens. He was in great terror when ap-
proached by any person, imagining that he
was made of thin glass, liable to be emaah-
ed to atoms by the slightest touch. Laud-
anum was administered, and after a sleep
of , twelve hours' duration he was well
enough to sit up. About thirty hours after
this his hair and beard began to turn gray
so rapidly as to completely astonish physi-
cians and friends., ---The whiteness in this
.instance did not result from the .absence of -
colouring matter, as it is the case with old
people, mut from the presence of minute air
bubbles in the hair ; and it was only by re-
flected light that thehair seemed gray; by
transmitted light it seemed as dark as ever.
Unscientific eyes would - not notice this,
and the hair certainly seemed to be per-
manently white, for it remained so at the
patient's discharge two months later. Ano-
ther similar case, lately reported to the
Royal Society by Mr. Erasmus Wilson,
showed the same kind of change` m a mit=
roscopical examination. In thus connection
we find a report in the Archives cls Pliyeao
gie for the present year, furnished by the
eelebrated French surgeon, Dr. . Brown
-Sequard, of a curious observation ` on him
self, which may be eaaily repeated by oth-
ers.. Finding four white hairs on one cheek
and seven on the other, in a'dark beard, he
careful iy plucked them, and two days later
he found tyro such hairs on one side -and
three '-on the other, all . white from end. to -
end. This was repeated several tiineti with
the same resalt, and he concludes that there
is no.do bt of Mile -pot i bility of .a vary rapid'
tis nefonaaction.grol ably:in r less than one.
`night of.blaek hair into white: .' .
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READY-MADE CLOTHING,
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Flannels,
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Also a large assortment of
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