The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-16

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with the socialist reformer!
$50 the voice, frightened into silence, holds its
peace.
81 he solutions begin again.
"Our situation Is serious; the river is deep, and
the current fast. LET'S try and find lordine-
place. There, you go lrst No, thank you; after
you. Let's wait for winter, then, and Well cross
on the ice No, six months is too long to wait; dig
tunnel rather, and pass underneath. Or, suppose
we take monstrous burning glass, and vaporize
the river Or, again, If there were only enough Of
these that talk going by the BRIDGE
we might fill the bed with their carcasses and thus
get over dry-shod. The stream is very deep, and
the current runs fast. What on earth shall we dor
On, pass law and declare the river null and void;
forbid II to flow under heavy penalty II seems to
me mat the tide is beginning TO turn. Try to
lump across, you who swim 80 well. Try it your
Ina, IN subject to the cramp What's that dark
Pia0e' therej IL looks monstrous like the bottom.
No, Its growth of treacherous seelge. grass, which
would catch and hold US fast
rom .ile 70 time the voice. gathering fresh
courage as ulne wears and no solution appears
proposes the passage by the bridge Each time il
Is drowned by ridicyle and clamor.
Nevertheless, when night and darkness shall
come-when all the solutionists shall have had
their say-they will perhaps finish by following
the advice OF the warning voice and by over the
bridge, which was built and put there for the pur-
pose.
''That is to say, when they shall have given up
revision and the raft of umbrellas; propagation
and the Red Sea miracle the candidacy of the
Prince de Joinyille and the wings of Icarus the
tunnel Legitimacy and walking on the water;
Orlcanism and burning glasses; then shey will
resign themselves to the safe and easy passage Of
fered by the bridge--that is, to the solution held
out by the lave and the constitution if those
that suggest this plan have TO be called anarchists
and demagogues to the end of time"
There have been some interesting trials made in
the Seine of a new swimming machine and life
preserver called the Uogue1. The beauty of this
invention is that it does not in the least eInbarrass
the movements of the wearer, who may take any
position he likes, and may be sure of staying in il
Thus person may walk in the water stand up,
(sinking perpendicularly little below the wast,)
drink, eat, smoke, sleep. With the common life
preserver-a blown-up girdle, blown up, indeed.
by the new discovery-the wearer was as often
drowned as saved. For if it became entangled i'm
the feet the head at once sank, and thus suocaten
was inevitable. But the simplicity of the new con-
trlvance Ia such that man may arm himself with
his gun and his powder horn, take walk of mile
so in some lake where the shooting is good and
make dreadful havoc among the wild ducks of
the locality. On Sunday last party of expert
mentors walked couple of miles in the Seine, ac-
companied by a crowd of spectators ON the two
banks, fleet of small boats, and brass band.
The invention really looks if it might make
revolution in navigation. If M Alphonse Karr's
soutionsts had only thought of ordering a few
out having recourse to the bridge, which they held
in genuine dislike.
mentioned some time ago that M. simonides, a
Greek savan, was in the hope of discovering the
original manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles.
He learned, from certain archives in his possession,
that deposit of classic antiquities had been made
in one of the lies des Princes, Constantino2e.
A search was made here in the presence of the
Turkish Minister of Commerce. The deposit was
found, but the Acts of the Apostles, unhappy
not there. Two manuscripts were brought to light,
however, of considerable interest to antiquarians
They were buried here by Greek monk during
the domination of the Franks at Constantinople in
the thirteenth century. One is the original Of a hymn
by Aristotle, and the other map of the Princes,
islands. The hymn is written in Carian charac-
tiers, which closely resemble the Phenician. The
manuscripts will be published by the French print
er at Constantinople.
The officers of the octroi-duties at the various
gates of Paris-often made singular discoveries of
ruses de guerre invented to cheat the customs
Everybody remembers that lady, in an interest
ing situation, used to enter by the Barrier du
Tr6ve during the instruction of June. An argus
eyed police agent one day thought she smelt re-
markably strong of gunpowder, and, after few
moments eearch, found out that it was nothing
more than aid and comfort for the enemy. Some
thing like this has just been put stop to at the
Barriere de Passy Several times day there
passed through this entrance withered old Jewess,
with a face like a knife blade, hands and arms
bony and eshess, and legs and feet dry, hard, and
skeleton like. Besides this, she seventy six
years old. Strange to say, the body of this lady
presented an entire contrast to her extremities.
She had a remarkably round form, we'll devel-
oped chest, and, in fact, general embonpoint. One
of the officers duty at last had his suspicious
awakened and he invited the Israelite to walk into
the office for instant. The roundness of the la
dy's form was very soon accounted for Her bosom
consisted for the time being, of five hundred cigars;
her waist of twenty pounds of snuff and still lower
down goodly stock of cavendish and corpo-
raj. She was conducted forthwith to the prison of
ST. Lazarus. 1t will go pretty hard with her, for,
of all crimes against the State, to meddle with its
tobacco monopoly is the first punished and the last
pardoned.
Henri Herr, the pianist, returned to Paris two
days ago, after absence Of five years. During
that period he has made professional tour through
"the two Americas and California;" in the Ian
guage of the geographical newspaper that makes
the announcement. FRANCO.