The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-19

flecOtecn0nS.
Grattan's talk, as preserved bv Rogers, is often |
capital in ITSELF apart from its value as an illusra-
ton. Take the following scraps;
wv ere you twenty years old, and Captain Cook |
setting SAIL, would you go round the world with |
him? No, have no wish to see such countries as
he saw. wish to see Rome and Athens and some !
parts OF Asia; but little besides-My Uncle |
Dean Marley was famous for the best little dinners
and the best company in Dubn-but when made a |
Bishop he enlarged his table, and he lost his fame
he had no more good company-and there was an
end OF his enjoyment. He had at first about four
hundred pounds year, and his little dinners were |
delghtlul but he had an estate left him, and after
wards came to bishoprick-he had lords and la |
dies to his table-peope of fashion foolish men |
and foolish women, and there was an -end of him |
and OF US. He Marley had much of the humor
OF Dean Swift. Upon one occasion when the foot |
man was out of the way, he ordered the coachmau
to fetch some water from the we'll The coachman
saying that ut his business to drive,
and not run errands. Then bring the coach
and four, said he, and put the pitcher into it, and.
drive to the well "a service which was performed
many times to the great entertainment of the vii
lage.... Which would YOU rather pass day with
Alexander, C9zar or Bonaparte? Cezar, as l am
much interested about his time. l would ask him.
land here he enumerated many questions about his
campaigns) what were the real characters of many
of his contemporaries-and would ask him, but |
would not press the question, Che might answer it
or not as he pleased) what part he took in the Gait
line cOnspiracy....in travelling, should like the
ones, Tor my companons-l would rather be in
heavy coach than in that carried FOUR. of all
men, If could call up one, it should be Scipo Afr
canus. Hannibal was perhaps a greater captain,
but not great and good man. Epaminondas
did not do so much. Themistoces was rogue.
In modern times Washington, | believe was the
greatest man, and next to him, William the Third
Burke was so fond of arbitrary power, he could
not sleep upon his pillow, unless he thought the
King had right to take it from under him.....
Stella used often to visit my aunt, and sleep with
her in the same bed, and weep all night She was
not very handsome. Miss V--,1ds hands0me.....
Milton like best of them all. He is much more
poetical than Shakespeare and if anybody would
be public speaker let him study his prose and his
poetry-his prose is often admirable model for
the majestic style of speakng...To be a good shot
is useful 1t makes a brave man Drawer, Il timid
man half-brave ; and all are born cowards.--
But it makes bad man worse than it found him
a bully"
From Person, we take these brief examples of
table-talk:
clad | a carriage, and did see a weIl-dressed
person on the road. would always invite him in,
and learn of him what | coud.....Louis XIV was
the son of Anne of Austria by Cardinal Richelieu
The man in the iron mask was Anne's eldest SON
| have doubt of it,. Two parties must consent
to the publication of a book, the public as well as
the aut hor... Mr. Pitt cOnceives his sentences be-
fore he utters them. Mr.. Fox throws himself into
the middle of his and leaves it to God Almighty to
get him out again.. When Prometheus made man,
he had used up all the water in making other ami
mails: so he mingled his clay with tears..... OF
Macintosh He means to get interest for his prin-
cipal.....Ot Sheridan He is promising fellow.
All wit true reasoning. History of the Grand Hum
in 100 volumes folo....I love an octave; the
pages soon read-the miiestones occur frequent
ly.....lf had 8, 200 per ann: would have per-
son constantly dressed, night and day, with fire and
candle to attend upon me. (He is an uncertain
sleeper. )....I had lived long before discovered
that wit was ruth....Wit is in general the finest
sense in the world.....We all speak in metaphors.
IhDSn which pnt IN do orlT- hoe
which are worn out, and overlooked as meta
phors. The original fellow is therefore regarded
only witty; and the dull consulted as the
wise"
1t would be unfair to draw further on this little
volume. We have indicated and proved its worth.
Its fault, if it be fault, is that it is all essence
requiring, therefore, some slight knowledge and
Imagination in the reader for its full relish. No
will hereafter write of the celebrated men alluded
to in these pages without having perfect mastery
OF Rogers 'Recollections.'
How THE EMPRESS RECEIVED THE News A Paris
letter OF the 18th ultmo says: Gas the burst
upon Paris this morning courier, mounted on one
OF the Emperor's stout cobs with knotted tail. gal
loped into the quiet hamlet Of St. Cloud; he bore
large letter, which he requested should be handed
to the Empress. The drowSy porters told him the
Empress must not be aroused from her slunbers
He insisted that his orders were peremptorv-'Im-
mediate delivery. They repaired to the imperial
chamber and handed to her Majesty the despatch
rose Immediately, radiant with emotion and delight
ordered carriage to be got ready, and drove out
at once to the picturesque cottage of Neuve
PEtang to communicate the glad tdngs to her
charming young friend, the wife of General Fleu-
ry. Thence to the Princess Clothde; to the Pal
ace at MeudOn, to wake up the old Marshal Jerome
Bonaparte, who started like aged charger at
the sound of the clarion. At every post, every
village on the road the Empress stopped her car
rage to share her JOY with the soldiers and peoples
and long ere she retired from her gladstone errand
to toss her boy with wild delight and tell him his
father was hero and that he must be one in after
years, the guns from the esplanade of the lnvades
Numbered forth the news from their iron threats,
and Paris, already drunk with glory, woke to the
consciousness of another victory"
To PREsEvE Ice AND ALWAYS HAVE Ice WATER
Dir. Edttor:-Prepare double green baze or blan-
ket or flannel bag, in the shape of a pudding bag
1t may be lined inside to keep the fuz out of the
water, with layer of muslin, and covered outside
with any material for show. Put sufficient guam
tity of ice in pitcher of water, and cover it with
this bag it preserves the ice better than any other
mode, and if you use ice enough, YOU may ALWAYS
have cold water. ! have covered my ice water
in this way at bed time, and found ice in the pitcher
in the morning.
got the idea or pattern from on Irish gentle
man, many years ago, and named the article Pad
dy's Night Cap. 1t is better than any patent ice
pitcher, and can be made for mere trife
Remarks.-If a small quantity of ice is put into
pitcher OF water it melts rapidly, but large guam
tty soon reduces the temperature of the water, so
that 1T acts as a preserver OF it with cold me-
dium and in this way, under .'Paddv's Night CAP"
it is better preserved than in an ice pitcher TRY
it.-Phitd. North American.
SOMEWHAT LUDICRoUs- bravery of the Zou-
ayes Is undoubed, but there are stories in circula
ton in regard to their effective exercises which
border upon the whimsical. One writer in speak
ing of them, says that the cart of boxing with the
feet is peculiar to France, and in this the Zouave
Is instructed so that in personal rencontre his first
act IS to parry the weapon of his opponent his sec
ond to PROSTATE him with kick in the breast his
third to stab him to death with the keen bavonet
All this is the work of minute The same wr-
ter remarks that it is not surprising that two Aus
trian divisions, numbering twenty-thousand men,
admirably posted and defended by a battery. were
completely overwhelmed in a recent battle by three
battalions of Zouaves Fancy three Znuave bat
talons in the act of prostraing their opponents by
one universal kick Probably these wild sons Of
Mars wear the heaviest broganS.
RUSSIAN BABIEs.-lt is said that Russian babies
look like so many idols with their heads carved out
and the rest of the body left in a block The ap-
Pearance is caused by their being rolled up in tight
bandages, (leaving only the head out, $50 that
they may be put away out of mischief and danger.
On going into Russian house, you may find one
little fellow left on shelf, another hung to the
wall on peg, a third hung over one Of the main
beams of the roof, and rocked by the mother, who
has the cord Topped over her foot.
"Why, that is a child!' you exclaim, looking
close to be sure you not mistaken.
''Of course, what should it be?" answers the
mother
Yes. sure enough, it is a child, but so dirty that
you cannot help asking-"When was it washed?'
''Washed" shrieks the mother; ''washed! what,
wash child? You would kill it,
CHGvALRY.-After the battle of Solferino the
Emperor Napoleon rode to Cavrana where he
lodged in the same room which the Emperor Fran
els Joseph had occupied the night before. On his
way thither, with several of his staff he saw an
Austrian lieutenant dying by the roadside. He
ordered his wants to be attended to- and the diving
man, having taken his watch from his neck, placed
it, together with locket and ring, in the Emper-
or's hand, and begged him to send them to his
Young wife according to an address which he gave
The Emperor promised to do so, and sent them by
special messenger that very evening to the near
est outposts of the Austrans.
New lDEA.-At a camp meeting near Boston
the choices position for tents were sold at auc-
ton, and yielded four hundred dollars.
ARRIED,
On the 18th ultimo, by the Rev j. Ii. McCrOn LEWIS H.
kOBlNSON to REBECCA CORN ELLA, the second dauch-
ter of the late Samuel Burnham
On the l4h instant, by the Rev. Mr. Snivek, WILLIAM
THOMAS SEN ERE to Miss HENRIETTA JANE HARRISS,
both of this city.
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