Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-10-04

4 TAXING ToLL.-The St. Louis Reveile is
publishing tale purporling to give some ad-
ventures in the life of young physician, from
which we take the following extract:
a snow having fallen the young folks o
the village got up a grand sleighng party to
a country tavern at some distance; and the
interesting Widow Lambkin sat in the same
sleigh, under the same buffalo robe, with my
self.
1 'Oh-oh don't = she exclaimed as we came
to the first bridge catching me by the arm, and
turning her veiled face towards me, while her
little eyes twnkIed through the gauze, in the
moonlight
| Don't what g asked I'm not doing any
thing
Well, but thought you we're going to
take toll, replied Mrs. Lamhkn.
/ Toll = | rejoned, what's that
Now, do tell !! exclaimed the widow, her
clear laugh ringing above the music of the
bells, DIR. Mellows pretend that he does not
know what toll isl
/ Indeed | don't, then,' said laughing in
| turn
/ Don't know that the gentlemen, when they
! go a-sleighing, claim kiss as toll when they
cross a bridge Wei never'
| But shall tell all The struggles of the
widow TO hold her veil were not sufficient to
lare ii, and somehow, when the veil was re-
moved her face was TUNED directly towards
my own, and the snow glistenng in the moon
light, and the horse trottng on of himself, the
toll was taken for the first time in the Lille of
Dr. Mellows.
Soon we came to a long bridge but the
widow said it was no use to resist and she
paid up as she reached it.
/ But you won't take toll for every span will
you, docto-r she asked, 10 which the only re.
/ ply was practical negative to the question:
Did you ever, reader, slcigh-ride with wild.
ow and take toll at the bridges I"
| Napoleon BOnapmtc'S Poreriy IN car
lB Ete.-M. Thiers, in the History Of the
Consulate, relates some very strange
and previously unknown particulars re.
spectlng the early life and penury Of Ma
poleon Bonaparte. 1t appears that after
he had obtained a subaltern'S commission
in the French service, and after he had
done the State good service by his skill
and daring at TouIon, he lived for some
time in Paris in obscure lodgings, and in
such extreme poverty that he was often
without the means of paying ten SOUS
five pence) for his dinner, and frcqueat-
ly went without any al at all. lie
was under the necessity of borrowing
small sums, and even worn-out clothes
from his acquaintanccs lie and his
brother Louis, afterwards King of IIol-
land, had at one tire only one coat be
tween them, so the brothers could only
90 out alternately, time and about AT
this crisis the chief beneflctor of the fu-
turc emperor and conqueror, " at whose
mighty name the world grew pale, was
the actor Talma, who often gave him
food and money. Napoleon's face, after
wards so famed for It's classical mould,
was, during this period of starvation,
harsh and angular in its liniamcnts, with
projecting check bones. His meagre
fare brought on an unpleasant and un-
slightly cutaneous disease. of type So
vlrulent and malignant that it took all
the skill and assiduity of his accomplish
ed physician, Corvsart, to expel it after
a duration gilmore than ten years. The
squalid beggar, then the splendid En-
| peror aiterwards-the threadbare habili-
mcnts-the imperial mantle-the hovel
and the palace--the meagre food and
gorgeous banquet---,he friendship Of a
poor actor-the homage and terror Of the
world-an exile and a prisoner-such
are the ups and downs Of this changeiul
life, such the lights and shadows of the
great and mighty.