Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-09
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ings. OF these, ] need only mention Alexander
Won Humboldt, the world renowned patriarch
OF natural sciences, the intellectual mirror of
the physical cosmos the living wonder of the
age. In his eighty-seventh year-iur he was
BORN in 1863. the Same year with Napoleon and
Wellington, and within few months of the
elder Scalehermacher, and the younger uegel-
he still speaks and writes with the freshness of
youth and the vigOr of manhood, and seems to
defy the wasinglpowers of time upon the mortal
frame He was never married but to science He
talks with the same rapidity and fuilneSS of in
formation as ever, reads and answers some four
thousand letters annually, dimes almost daily
with the King of Prussia, and performs, con-
trary to the wishes of his royal friend, the du.
ties of chamberlain in his turn, refusing the in
diligence of chair; he is inceSsant in polite at
tentiun to friends and distinguished strangers
during the day, and spends the half of the
night in severe scientific labor, allowing his
body only few hours Of rest.
w hat melancholy reflection that such
monster OF all the mysteries of nature, the daily
companion of pous king, and, in u moral
point of view, a kind-hearted, benevolent and
aniable gentleman of the highest finish, should,
like Germany's greatest poet, Goethe, content
himself with the wonders of nature, without
rising to natures God, and remain Indifferent to
the mysteries of grace. Imay do him injustice,
but cannot remember to have read the name of
God-not to speak of ChriEt-in the three vol
umes 50 far published of his Cosmos, except in
an approving quotation from lost work of the
heather Aristotle, preserved by the heather
Cicero, (de ndtura Dcorum', ii. 37.) We mean
the sublime passage that put to shame many
noutinally Christian philosopher: "Noby does
Aristotle observe, that if there were beings who
had always lived under ground in convenient,
nay, magnificent dwellings, adorned with statues
and pictures and everything which belongs TO
prosperous life; if then, these beings should he
told Of the being and power Of the Gods, and
should come up through open assures from their
secret HbOdes to the palaces which inhabt;
liz they should suddenly behold the starry heav-
ems, the changing moon, the rising and setting
of the stars, and their eternally ordained and
changeahle course, they would exclaim with
truth There are gods and such great things are
their works"
How much is it to he desired that this truly
remarkable man, before closing his unrivalled
scientific career, should bow down in childlikc
alteration and faith before the one and true God,
whose living presence alone gives strength, or.
der, and beauty TO the works Of his hand, and
whose glory shines from the starry heavens
above us, rom the solid earth beneath US, mud
from the rational will within US, from the book
of nature, and the book of history but, bright
est of all, from the book of books, and the face
of His only begotten Son, full of grace and
truth.
TIM Royal Lovers AFTER MARRrAoE.-Tf
one may judge from the following account the
married life of Queen Victoria's eldest daugh-
ter gldes on as smoothly and pleasantly as pos.
sible:
The little lady really loves her lord more
dev0tedly than is often the case in her rank of
life and there many anecdotes in circulation
illustrating the artleSs manner in which she
displays her attachment. The other day the
Prince went over to POtSdam ION Important
i''r'rer-,'' l.. e. drilling and manoeuvring his
brigade of Guards; but he had scarcely been
absent few hours when he was recalled to
Berlin by Geographic dispatch from the Prin-
cess, begging him to return Immediately. He
FASTENED ack in the utmost Alarm fancying
something dreadful had happened, and was
quite relieved by her receiving him in her usual
health aud spiritS only stating when question
cd why she had sent fol him in SO violent a
hurry, that she chad felt such longing to see
him again;" land besides" she added OH her
husbands demonstrating with her for calling
him away from his professional duties, mamma
always telegraphs for papa when she wants
him"
This reference TO what he mamma does, the
little Princes considers sufficient justification
for any offence she may commit against the
starch etiquette of the Prussian Court. One
day she put on her bonnet aud walked acroes
the street to her iather-in-law's without even
iootman behind her, to the indispensable horror
of ler ObWhCfmeigtsrin, or duenna-n chief, who
exclaimed that no Prussian Princess had ever
been guilty of such breach of decorum. "But
mamma does so at Osborne returned Vic the
Second, land if mamma does, why should not
u ?" Her affabity and good nature have made
her generally popular, though she almost raised
rebellion in the kitchen lately by insisting that
the female donestics should all wear caps
Now, the German maid servants are remarkably
proud of their hair, and never think of putting
on cap for fear of spelling their luxuriant
tresses. Great was the cOmmution, therefore,
when the Princess issued her orders to that eff
feet; but the little lady was memorable. SIN
mammals establishment they all wear caps
she said, "and so they must in mine" Since
the departure of her lnother-in-law, the Princess
of Prussia, from Berlin, she has much more of
her own way than she used to, the Queen being
SO entirely taken up with attending TO the King,
that she is not able to interfere with her, and
the Prince yielding, like a gallant husband, to
all the innocent caprices of his fair young wife.
a REWARD IS oFrERED5- For the detection of
my person counterfeiting, initiating, or the ven
der of any such counterfeit or imitation of Bar
Aoce's Holland Bitters. The genuine, highly
concentrated Holland I}itteys is put up in half
pint bottles only, having the name of the pro-
prietor, B. Page, Jr blown in them, and his sig