Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-30


common, the conditions of a frst-rate quar-
rel are furnished ready made. Relations are
very apt to hate each other just because they
are too much alike. 1t is so frightful to be
in an atmosphere Of family idosyncracies; to
see all the hereditary uncomliness or infrmi-
ty of body, all the defects Of speech, all the
failings of oftemper, intensified by concentra
ton, so that every fault of our own finds it,
self multiplied by reflection, like our images
in saloon lined with mirrors. Nature
knows what she is about
know the families that have wav of
living through everything, and know the
other set that have the trick of dying without
any kind of reason for it. know the years
when the tevers and dysenteries are in earn
est, and when they're only making believe.
| know the folks that think they're dying as
soon as they're sick, and the folks that never
find they're sick till they're dead.
Some women unquestionably suggest the
image of serpens; men rarely or never. |
have been struck, like many Others with the
ophidian head and eye of the famous Rachel.
Keep your temper, if you can, for one an
cry man is as good as another. Treat bad
men eractiy as fMey were insane.
A man always loves woman, and wo
the contrary.
A scholar is in large proportion of cases,
the son OF scholars or scholarly persons.
Good ministers will tell you they have
parishioners who beat them in the practice
of the virtues.
An overworked woman is always n sad
sight, sadder great deal than an overwork ed
man, because she is so much more fertile in
capacities of suffering than a man
1t is wonderful how men and women know
their peers. If two stranger queens, sole sur
vivOrs of two ship wrecked vessels, were cast,
half-naked, on rock together, each would
at once address the other as "our royal sis
ter"
Remember that nature makes every man
love all women, and trust the trivial matter
of special choice to the commonest accident.
DIAMoNDs.-Says writer in the Atlantic
Monthly:
Diamond anecdotes abound the world
over; but we have lately met with two brief
ones that ought to be preserved
Cartier bookseller in the reign of Louis
XIV, left, at his death to each of his chill
dren, girl of fifteen, the other caps
tain in the guards,-a sum Of five hundred
thousand francs, then an enormous fortune.
Mademoisee earlier, young, handsome, and
wealthy, had numerous sutors, One of these,
a NJ. Iiquet, Councillor of the Parliament
sent here on her fete-day a bouquet, in which
the calices Of the roses were of large dia-
monds The magnifcence of this gift gave
so good an opinion of the wealth, taste, and
liberality of the donor, that the lady gave
him the preference over all his competitors
But sad was the disappointment that follow
ed the bridal The husband was ratherpoor
than rich; and the bouquet, that had cost
forty FIVE thousand fruncs, (nine thousand
dollars had been bought on credit and was
paid out of the brides fortune
The galants of the Court of Louis XIV.
carried extravaganza as far as the famous
Egyptian Queen. She melted a pearl,-they
pulvcrized diamonds to prove their insane
magnifcence. A lady having expressed
desire to have the portrait of her canary in a
ring, the last Prince de Cont requested she
would allow him to give it to her; she ac-
cepted, on condition that no precious gems
should be set in it. When the ring was
brought to her, however, II diamond covered
the painting. The lady had the brilliant ta-
ken out Of the setting, and sent it back to the
giver. The Prince, determined not to be
gainsaid, caused the stone to be ground to
dNst, which he used to dry the ink of the let
te" he wrote to her on the subject
CooGIE SLAVERY IN pERu-The Lima cor
respondent to the Panama Star and Herald
writing under date of Feb 4th, gives the
following picture of the condition of the Chi.
nese in Peru:
A vessel with 600 Chinese emigrants arriv-
ed at Callao lately, who are now offered for
sale, and VIII fetch $500 or S4O0 a head
These poor people have made contracts to
serve eight years, believe, at So per month,
which contracts are then sold to the highest
bidder. The treatment of these men in the
hacendas is horrible; they get sclnty and
bad food are frequently cheated out of their
wages, are put in irons and lashed for triAing
otfenses; often when they are unable to work
on account of illness in which case they mev
er get medical attendanee-thus they are
forced to work until they die of exhaustion
Their overseers are generally former slaves,
negroes and mslattos, who find pleasure in
intlc'ing the same ar greater tOrtures than
those they have had to suffer themselves be-
fore and thus one may imagine what terrible
lot awaits these poor coolies in Peru. Slaves
were much better treated, because slaves
were property which lost in value if deleri-
Dated 10y bad treatment but out Of HE wretch
ed Chinaman hey try TO get as much work
as po osible in these eight years, no matter if
he dies or not. They have got no protection
whatever, from such a corrupt Government
as the Peruvian is.
The WORLD RENOWNED KoHiNooE.-A We
netian diamond-cutter (wretched, bunglng
Hortenso Borgis y reduced the great Kohl
moor from its primitive weight-nine hun
dred carats--to two hundred and eighty.
Tavernler saw this celebrated jewel two hun
dred years ago, not long after its discovery.
1t came into the possession of Queen Victoria
in 1919, three thousand gears say the Eastern
sages. after it belonged to Karna, the King of
Anga On the lGth of July, 1852, the Duke
of Wellington superintended the commence
ment of the recruiting of the famous gem,
and for thirty eight Iys the operation went