Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-25

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BEHAVIoR IN CHURcH-Mr Beecher is
making very lively paper of the Christian
Union. Hero Is paragraph on behavior in
church, which has secular application:
We may classify the petty ciVilities of church
life thus:
|. .Smels.-VioleDt perfumes, especially those
containing musk, are disagreeable to most per.
sons, and to some positively distressing. There
ls no smell so universally pleasing as no smell.
Never scent yourself when going into crowded
assembly, The same is true OF tho residuary
smell of tobacco which hangs about the gar
nents and afflicts the breath Of those who hap.
itually smoke. But tobacco almost invariably
makes men self'induIgent and regardless of
others convenience. More brutal yet are those
who go to church reekiDg. like Dutchman's
soup, with the smell of onions. There are scores
ofpeople who have lost all profit of Sunday SER
vice by the slckeniDg smells which surrounded
them.
,. Somds.- Whispering in church during
the service is an affront to politeness. Much
OF the coughing which goes on in church arises
from the poisonous gases and personal effluvia
which exists in unventilated churches But
the power of the will over the muscles which
10 the coughing is very great. A needless
person will cough twice as much as is needful-
will cough at the worst time possible, will cough
plump upon the necks of those before him, in
stead of embalming the sound in his handkcr-
chief as with little skill and politeness, he
might easily do. We would not forbid men
who cannot sing to make joyful noise'-
but it should be softly noise. In all cases
when it is mans duty to sleep in church it is
bis duty also to snore with the soft pedal down.
8. Night.-Every one likes to see tho min
ister. 1t cannot be done through your body.
True, you cannot help being before somebody
unless you are on the back seat. But, with
little thought, you may very much help those
behind you. A conduct which shall divert the
attention OF others from the SERVICE such as
ostentatious playing with watch or opening
and shutting it, reading books or papers, or
looking about inquisitively is impolite.
PRUSSIA PROPER is now a constitutional
monarchy, hereditary in the male line of the
house Of HoheDzollern. The constitution,
which is derived from grant by King Frederick
William ~. brother of the present sovereign,
modified by subsequent grants. and has only
been 10 existence since lS4S, vests the exec.
utive and part of the legislative authority in the
King. In the executive branch be is assisted
by council of ministers appointed by himself.
The legislative bodies consist Of the Her
renhaus, which is the Upper Chamber, and
is composed of the princes of the royal family;
sixteen "mediatized' friends the heads OF
the territorial nobility: eight life peers eight
titled noblemen elected by the resident land
owners in the eight provinces; representatives
of the universities and the heads of chap
ters'; the mayors of towns having more than
$4,000 inhabitants, and persons nominated at
the pleasure of the King. The second cham
Der is composed OF 432 members, chosen for
three years by general but not universal sui
frage.
Every Prussiau subject is enrolled in the
army upon reaching the age of twenty, and
serves three years in the regular army, four
in the reserves, and nine in the "Landwehr,'
or militia. Even at the age OF fifty he is not
exempt from military duty, but is then enroll
ed in the "Landsturm,' or home guard.
On peace footing Prussian regimen. con-
sists of three battalions, numbering SIS each;
10 war, the battalioDs are increased to l l,O02
each.
PRUSSIA proper contains 24,O43, 296 in
habitants; the North German Confederation,
including Prussia, 90, 377; the population
of the South German States is 8,Gll ,522,
under the military leadership of King William
3S,52l, 900 That of France is 3S,l92, ,094.-
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The PLAINS OF ABRAHAM. These plains,
Just beyond the western walls of the city, are
the greatest attraction at Quebec. 1t was
here on these grassy slopes that Wolfe over
threw, in 1859, the power of France in North
America The noble and pathetic drama is
familiar to ail-how Wolfe, floating on the
water of the little cove in his barge, as he NOV
cd to the assault, repeated Grays "Elegy in a
Country Churchyard," and was heard to mur-
mur, 81 would prefer being tho author OF that
poem TO the glory of beating, the French to-
yonder slope which permits access to the
heights, and how he fell in the moment OF
victory. AS you wander idly over the peaceful
fields to day, the drama seems to DO again
enacted before your eyes the grassy upland
swarms with French and English. shouting,
yelling delivering close volleys, and then rush
ing in to hand to hand encounter; again the
smooth-tore muskets rattle, the clumsy oul
verns rumble, Wolfe is leading his men, TO
fall anon with his body pierced with three
bullets, nearly at the same moment when
Montcalm too is struck for In this bitter
struggle the two leaders are both to surrender
their brave lives.
On the field rises marble shaft bearing the
inscription. "Ierc died Wolfe victorious -
In the chapel OF the Ursuno convent, within
a Montcalm LcDestiu, en- lui derobent 10
Eictoirc, Ia recompense par une mort gioc-
reuse ,-DcstiDy,in depriving him ofvictory,
leqmted him with glorious death j. And
the great Englishman, his opponent, died
KorlouSiy too, murmuring, God be praised
then l die happy !" when assured that the day
was won, The soldier spoke there; and soon
afterwards the brave and gentle spirit, who had
gone into battle repeating the tender lines of
Grays 'E!cey," and coveting tho peaceful
ylorns of poesv s,lrrrn1ar,1 b;..o,I - OoJ