Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-14
JhriOUS sayings.

me LOnuOn court journal says tllatlt
is rumored in military circles that the
system of purchasing military commits
sions in the British army will be abol
ished before long and that promotions
up to and including the rank of Captain
will be by graduation but that the field
officers will be chosen by the Command
er-in-Chief according to their merits.
The Duke of Cambridge is at the present
time the head of the army. The Jour-
nal proposes another rcform reduc
ton of expenditure for officers dress
and messes, as the service Is very cXpcn-
sive in these respects.
Bayard Taylor, in recent letter from
Florence, says. 81 have been greatly de-
lighted with my visits to the studios of
the American artists So much more is
being accomplished than ten years ago,
and most of ii is SO excellent that feel
sure that our American era of art has al
ready dawncd.
Mr.. Anthony Trollope is described by
a reporter, who saw him at the impeach
ment trial, as bald, with heavy and red
dish side whiskers. He wears spectacles
with perfectly round glasses, weighs at
least two hundred pounds, and has the
general appearance of Il heavy business
man of considerable intelligence. Mr..
Trollope is now in Washington to aid in
carrying out new postal arrangement
between the United States and England,
we believe.
II. r. Tuckerman, in the preface to
his last'published work "The Ceriterion,
says: at was one of the conclusions
arrived at by Adelung that the same
language could not maintain itself be-
yond the limit of hundred and fifty
thousand square miles; but by means of
books the limits of the world alone are
the limits within which language and
the enjoyment of it, can be confined.
Letters watt sigh from Indus to the
Pole, and printed volumes carry thoughts
| that breathe and words that burn over
the great oceans, from one quarter ofihe
world to another.
The Pau MAI gazette says that ga
wise man who sits in silent self-suf1ic-
iency, listening to and criticising the
idle chat of a mixed company, has no
business there. Let him keep to him
self, or if he does join the common herd
let him remember that TO cultivate
kindness is valuable part of the bust
ness of life.'"
The Tribune says the Rev. John Hen
nv Hopkins, Jr., because of failing eye
sight is to vacate the editorial chair OF
! The church Journal, which he has oc-
cupied for 10 years. at the close of the
present month. Mr.. Hopkins, in con.
nection with this announcement, re-
marks, that his father Bishop Hopkins
: who died last winter left two treatise:
in manuscript, which will be soon giver
to the public, and says: "One of these
works will prove to be of peculiar inter
an opinion which he found he had eX
pressed in one of his previous works
that there is good ground for regarding
the Pope to be the AntiChrist. In re
, with view to a new and uniform edi
ton, he felt that n mere alteration O
| the text in a matter of so much i'm
portance was not sufficient tribute t.
the truth and his error, showing tina
he was ..mislead by high authorize
without sufficient examination on hi
own part, and going on to demonstrat
that the common Protestant notion can
: not be correct. No nobler proof could b
a given of his fearless and conscientiou
: honesty of character, than such a clos
to such a career as his"