The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-08-21

NJ Paul liegr9pd who died 40 bgoh,
burgundy, Is ibo age Of seventy,
loaves the f5loy IL memoir, whereby
he proves ho has not lived
All that is suffering, sorrow, ennui
despair, desire, regret, should be de
Quoted from life, because we should
ourselves have deducted it, had heaven
permitted When three years old |
was weaned at SIX | could speak,
but badly at seven | split my skull
at nine | was cured. | must there
fore. extinct niue years from my eKls-
tenoe for surely to drink q nurses
sour milk not TO be able 10 speak.
or badly, and 10 split ones skull, IS
not living. At the ago of nine ! be
can my studies Owing to n cracked
skull. my head was . lard one, and
| proved stubborn 10 tuition. | re-
CURED Two yeota labor to spell the
alphabet, was inlebied TO the letter
Il alone for about four score hundred
Iashes the other twenty three letters
made complete uart5r If me.
At the aee Of twelve could read,
bet my body was mingled with alpha
bet sears. An alonpt was made to
fagrh ne Latin, and | lost my French
in The experiment. At fifteen | knew
nothing 1T all, and a forced diet OF
brend and wator had reduced me to u
skeleton. Six years moro had there
fore to be deducted. AT sixteen my
further made me u notary's clerk. --
There commenced n new species OF
martyr1om. pot mp Mt SIX, swept
The office lighted The stove, was drnb-
bed by The taller clerks ard my father,
overwhelmed with complaints about
me, deprived me Of my dinner. This
life led for five yoars, and from my
| life | viii positively datuct them.
At twenty my father, quite DISCUS
ted With bis son, put inc on board
ship at CherIonrg. | washed the
decks, climbed up The topnast, mend
81 The sails, and received thirty lasfes
Il day upon my back This was en-
dured for four years At tweuty-four
my father made me haberdasher,---
mariied Madamoisele UrsuIe De
vousina, u turner's daughter her ror-
ton consisted Of 10000 ilyres, mort
gagged upon sugar estate ut 81 DO
mibao The day after The wedding !
| found that my wife bad wooden leg,
made by my falhor-io-Iaw, The tuner
| The poor woman made THOUSAND
apologies for her infrmiiy, md par
donnd her opt.ofregard 10 her marriage
portion. The st Domingo blacks
rose araiust the whites, burnt the
marriage portion, aud the wooden leg
was MI that was left 10 me.
At thirty / lost my wife in copse.
quenca Of serofulons disease. ]
spent SIX years Of marriage repentlng
eyey minute. | therefore deduct
these six years from my life. Having
as everybody else, slept a third part
Of my life, de luet tweuly-four years
Of sleep, and am below the right
reckoning, for | nm u great sleeper ,---
A year lost adding minute to minute,
in searching for the keys Of my desk,
which | was constantly mlsIay'ng'--
Does one live when one looks for q
key ? Three years lost in having
myself shaved, powdered, DC. five
years in suffering toothache, two IN
Examinations Of the chest, with relapses
and conyaescence.
Three years lost in saying, "Wbats
o'clock ~ " We have bad bad wea-
tber today" How do you do 2"-
low is yonr lady ~ g | have a
bad cold" Marlborough Sen vat
en- guerre-what mud in the street
what a winter this year ?" Six months
lost in having tho mud brushed off
one, aud six in brushing ones hat
One year Of endurance Of the entire
acts Of theatre. One year lost IN
Iistning to the modern dramas, the
chef d @n0re of genius not understood
One year lost in complaining OF salt
and tastloss soups, of outlets too much
or to undoue, Of indigestion, or hard
eggs. Total, II years. | beg leave
to declare that in giving up the ghost
| do not give up anything worth keep
ing.
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