St. Mary's beacon., 1854-02-02


~ 80 p ord 1
- - - ls;saass
IsI]l .IUNE AND ei.NEI
: lIi5wis psopssslsns ros EGG
] land, two hundred millions fdr Austria,
anfts msisons ;gor' Prussia. loty millions;
| iar Frante, eighty millions :: fof Naples.
fifty ipsiIIjohs !: for Rassis, twenty-five
.ssaill;tas: 4or several Geraan courts, four
amillens for Brazil, twelve millions ex-
clasae Of various ether large sums. The
pgem4kable success of the RothschiIds,
settirk aside .he great opportunities
awhiel they have enjoyed from favorable
7cissu3 3stances, may be attributed otheir
strict kihererice to two fundamental max
ims.s The first, in compliance, with the,
dsingbnjunctions OF the founder Of the
house is the conducting Of their opera
tons eSiifely in common. Every prope-
sition 0fmagnitude made 20 one offhem
sis submitted 10 the deliberations of an.
No pfejetsi Is adcpted.until thus fully dls-
cnssed, sad Il is thea executed by united
sefEesfs- 4 second principle l., not to
aim at exbrbitaift profts--ts set definite
+liuaitsto svery operation--and. 80 far as
hunan.prsdence and. foresight can do. TO
render ID ipdependenl sr accidental infiu.
ences. Id this maxim lies one Of the
main secrets OF their strength" .a
ha.s saaBlA .. "a. ~ aaat +. '.s
Dckt CHrLDRkS NO fact can be
| palmer than this, u i impossible to judge
4aeorrectly ofthe genius or The intellectuzl
liability Of the future man. by the indica.
tions Of chiLihood. Some of the mas,
eminent nen.9f all ases were remarkAkls
only Tor dulnrss in their youth: Sir Isaac
Newton, IN his boyhcod. was inattentiss
! TO his study, and ranked very Nv II
school until the age of twelve. Wheh
Samuel syythe. the Dublin schooimasttr
attempted "a, o,educate Richard Brinsley
f'Sheridan, hetpronoIncsd the boy an - in
corrigibIc dunce.''7 The mother of Sher
idan fully conquered in this verdict, ant
declared him the most stupid Of her sons
! Goldsmith Fas dull IN his youth. an.
Shakespeare, GibISn, Dayy, and Dryde,
do not appear To haye exhibited III thei
4 childhood even the common elements o
future snccess. so .... 'sE te'.' !.
pa When Berzel, the eminent SwedisI
chemist. Ieft school for fhe university
! the words Indifferent In behaviour an,
of doubtful hope" were scored agains
iii+ name and after he entered the uni
: versisy be narrowly escaped being turne'
bark. On one of his first visits to nj
! Aboratory. when nineteen Years old. D
! was taunted with the inquiry whether h
| Understood the difference between
! laboratory and kitchen wslter SCOT
! had the credit Of having the .'thicke.
-fskull In the eschool, though Dr.. Blair tsl
the teacher many rays Of future ,geniu
shone through the same " thick skull.
Milton and Swift were Justly eeIebfs
ted for stupidity incldldhooi. The grea
Isaac Barsow's father used to say that,
It pleased God to take from him any o
his children. he hoped Il might be Isaac
as the least promising. Clasius, th
great matffematician a his age: wa. .
7 stupid in bis boyhood. tAst' BIS teacher
could make nothing Of him tiIl they trie'
him IN geometry. Carracci, the celebra
ted painter, was 50 inap. in his youth
that his masters advised him to restfic
his ambition 70 the grinding Of colofs
Zone Ofthe most popular authoresse'
! Of the present day" says an Englisi
J writer, could not read when she va
seven. Her mother was rafhef uncom
ffortsblt about Il, but said Is every bod.
! did IssSh with opportunity, she suppose.
! her child would do % at last. BY eigh
/. teen. the apparently slow genius paid th'
heass, but iheyisable. debts Of her faths
from the profils .of her frst work. and
I before thirty, iszd pabIi-fed thirty voi