The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-10

"IIIRRINGs"-Th Copperhead papers are
always praing of "Lincolh's hrolngs," but their
candidate still persists in holding the position of
one Of Lincons hirelings, at a large salary, too.
WEAR A SmLE.-You eau, If you will, live
among beautiful flowers and singing birds or in
the miro, surrounded by fogs aud frogs. The
amount Of happiness which you can produce is in
CalCulahle it you will show smiling face, n kind
heart, and pleasant words. On the other hand, by
sour looks cross words, and fretful dispO ,itiOn
you can make hundreds unhappy almost beyond
endurance. Which will you do Wear pleasant
cOuntenauce, let joy beam in your eve, AMI love
your forehead. There is no joy % great as that
which springs from kind act or pleasant deed
and You may feel it at night when you rest, and
at morning when you rise, and through the day
when about your daily business.
ExTRAoRDINARY MEMoRY.-Seueca says of
himself, that by the mere efforts OF his natural
memory he was able to repeat two thousand
words upon once hearing them, each in It's order,
though they hadno dependence or rConneciouup) IN
each other. After which he mentioned friend
Of his, Pontius LatrO, who retained In his memory
all the OTatlons he had ever spoken, and never
found his memory fail him, even in a single
word. He also mentions Cyueas, amb ISsadOr TO
the Romans from King Pyrrhus, who In one day
so well learned the names of his inspectors, that
the next day he saluted the whole Senate, and
all the populace assembled, each by his name.
Pliny says that Cyrus knew every soldier in his
army by name; and l.. Scpio all ths people OF
Rome. Herr Won Nicublin the celebrated Ger
man scholar, was once clerk In the Bank of
Copenhagen, in which capacity he gave proof of
the miraculous power OF his memory by restoring,
hom recollection alone, the whole contents Of a
Leaf in the bank ledger which had been lost by
fraud OF accident.
RACHEL STUDYING HER PART-It seems from
the testimony of M Janin, one of Rtchel'S most
proiuse admirers, that" Muse of Israel" was
anything but the labOrOus student which might
have been inferred from the changeless style of
her acting RffpFFinU the rpyiy4 al a 9.fh
and 10 Rachel's failure when she tried the part,
NJ. Janin very cOOlly suggests that she UNDER
stood nothing about II, having never read the
Old Testament. (She died, recollect, In strict
Hebrasm, though her rooms were decked with
st. Veronica handkerchiefs, rosarles, aud cruci-
fxes.) The lively critic goes on to clench this
suppOsitiOn with fact communicated TO him,
he says, by M. Alexandra Dumas, the younger.
When Rachel was rehearsing in the elderDumas'
play, the part of "Mad'lle de Belle Isle" watch
Mars had created so admirably-at the moment
when "La Marquise" says 10 the heroine, "DO
You recollect the i'll fortune Of Fouquet 2"
Madlle Rachel made an admirable gesture.
"Good," cried Alexander the Greater, "that Is
just IT, You know, then, the story OF Fouqueti 20
81! was the answer; mot word but when
You say to me, DO you rec9llect the Ill fortune
OF Fouquet 2 of course must tremble and be
afraid. What need is there for me TO trouble
myself aboutM. FOuquet and his i'll fortune i'--
AheRauH.
STATISTICS OF SUIcIDE.--M. LegOyt, who has
written very extensive work on this subject, is
OF opinion (l) that suicides increase more rapidly
than either the population or general mortality in
all the following countries Bavaria, Hanover,
France, MecklenbuTg, Prussia, the Kingdom Of
saxony, and Sweden. (2) Contrary 10 the usual
opinion, England ranks lowest in the SCALE as
regards Frequency of suicides. Denmark and
North Germany stand highest, and France occu.
pies middle position. (3) There are generally
about thirty suicides Of women to a hundred male
suicides. "a The number increases with age up
10 about sixty or seventy years. (5) The number is
smallest in January and greatest in July. (0)
Women are more influenced by moral agencies
men by material ones. (7) Among married per-
sons the number OF suicides is Smallest; Il is
larger among the unmarried, and attains its
greatest limit among those who have been sepa-
rated or divorced. (s) In Prussia it has been
calculated, that OF every million Of inhabitants
the Protestants give 1853 suicides the Jews 81, and
the Catholics only A. (0) Suicides are far more
frequent in large towns than in other portions Of
the country. OF all the conclusions deducible
from the foregoing statistical account, the most
astounding one is that suicide is generally aud
rapidly increasingj and this the author supposes
| 20 be due TO the natural consequences Of the
intensely civilized ~ condition into which we
| are passing.