Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-12-08

that a SIX you, or you will be taxed beyond your
patience, and find it hard to shake off a troop of
Improbable acquaintances. Not to all girls
who have made your heart futter, lest you
kindle flames you will not be able to feed--lest
you write soft things that will look ridiculous
in your biography--lest your offended damsel
should be down upon you for breach of prom
Use. Not to all your cousins, lest your classics
be neglected, and your business suffer. A
classmate in college was reprimanded by the
professor forsneglect of college studies. The de-
linquent plead that the circle of his correspond
ence was so large that he could not find time to
attend to his Euclid.
Write punctually to those with whom you
have business connections. A great many, who
lack neither industry nor resolution, find it ex-
tremely hard to write a business note Of halfa
dozen lines. Like rail cars, it is easier to run
forty miles on their track than rod out of the
way on either side \ friend of ours, who had
suffered much for lack of letters from his vessel
when on her voyages, gave a package Of old
letters, directed to himself, into the hands of
the captain, with positive orders for him to drop
one into the post-ofce of every port where he
touched. The post-mark on the corner an
swered his purpose.
Write to your sister. Your letters are a
Injury to her that she prizes above her jewelry
and they cost you nothing, or near it. Be at
charges for sheet..of paper and a thimblefnll of
ink The cigar you are smoking cost as much
as the postage of it. The cigar ends in ashes
and smoke--the letter strengthens the family
tie, and adds strand to the blessed cords that
bind the members of common home together
Write TO your mother. If you are in good
company, she will see it in your letters, and
be comforted in your absence If you neglect
to write, her affection has hard struggles with
her fears to assure her that you have not gone
astray. Have not time? Take time from the
backgammon board, from the calls of ceremony
from the society of companions, from sleep,
from meals. When you have no time to write
to your mother, you have not time to look at a
crowd gathered in the street He that made
time gave you time enough. What have you
done with it!
Write to your father. Your postponement
thickens the white hairs on his reverend head.
Are you buster than he! and he writes to you.
He will not misinterpret your silence--hc can
trust his boy. He knows you are on busy
tide--the stream runs fast. He will forgive
you if you do not recognize him waving his
good wishes from the bank. But he must 90
up soon--and when you have time to look, his
manly form may have departed. Give him the
coslless solace of frequent letters, that he may
know to the last that he is not forgotten.--
Write to him to-day m Y. Times.
LOUIS NAPoLEoN.-With the character of
Louis Napoleon the Americans generally are
very well acquainted. His has been life of
the most extraordinary and improbable romance
far exceeding the most extravagant concep-
tions of the most fertile and vivid imagination,
of any poet or novelist that ever put pen to pa
per. The Brookln Advertiser relates case in
point, as follows:
awe knew him whilst he was residing in
New York, at lodging house in Reade street,
then kept by gentleman who now occupies a
high official position under the French Govern
ment. At that time he was very poor, and very
dissipated. Notoriousy prohgate in his habits
and without the pecunary ability to indulge to
the full bent of his inclination the culpable pro-
pensities which characterized him, he was fre-
quently expelled from certain places in which
he obtruded himself, and more than dozen
times was the occupant of cell at the old Jail
in the Park, long since torn down.
Not long prior to his leaving the U. s., he
was arrested for misdemeanor committed by
him at the disreputable house of woman
whose establishment he often visited, and the
writer of this article was employed profession
ally by him to save him from the threatened
consequences Of his recklessness and indiscre-
ton. We little supposed at that time that the
thoughtless gay young man who was then our
client (and who is still indebted to us for coun-
sci fees and disbursements would become EN-
peror of France.
HAsTY AND CooL.-There is story of q
young man who was invited to dine with gen.
tleman of rather sudden temper. The dining
room was on the second floor and the principal
dish a fine roast fowl When the old gentle