The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-12
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VANITY.

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/ Selected and Revised for the Palladium.
VANITY.
| Benjamin Franklin said. Most
people dislike vanity in others,
hatever share they have OF it
them~ elves, hut l give it fair
quarter whenever I meet with it.
being persuaded that it is often
| productive OF 90 d to the possess
T. or, and to others who are within
his sphere of action; and there
fore. in many cases, 1t would not
i be altogether absurd if man were
I to thank God tor his vanity, among
d the o,her com torts of life
THE STORY OF CINDERELLA.
I. The story OF Cind. rella is famil
, lar TO every one, and yet there are
few who treasure it up rs in any
respect true But it is said to have
had a foundation and a reality
that really need no fairy grand
mot he,, with her pusnpkin and her
rats, to make an entertaining tale.
/ 1t is as fellows: About the year
1850, a French actor, by the name
of 1 hevenard lived in Paris. He
was rich and talented, but he had
no wife, and we may believe be
had never loved any one, but gave
all his sffection to those ideal
cha racters that he could represent
SO inely on the stage. One day,
as lie was walking leisurely along
the streets of Paris, be came upon
a c. ,bbleI's stall. and his eye was
att, acted by dainty little shoe
wh ich lay there waiting for re-
pai RS His imagination began i'm
me diately to form the little foot
ths It must fit such little shoe. He
ex amined it we'll, but only to ad-
mi re it more and more. He went
to the stall of the cobbler again,
bu could learn nothing with re-
gs rd to the owner of the shoe.
II ais only increased his eagerness
an d made him more determin ed to
know to whom it belonged. Day
by day he was disappointed, but
ne was not discouraged. AT last
th little loot needed the little shoe,
and Thevenard met the owner, a
poor girl, whose parents belonged
to the humblest lass. But the
ardent actor though. not of caste
or OF family. His heart had already
pronounced the little one his wife.
He mali led the girl-with NO ques-
tion of what people would say
and he felt y enough in hearing
the tread Ut the light. nimble feet,
through his silent rooms to pay
him Tor the sacrifice OF peoples |
approval. This Is 'be story OF |
Cinderella frt 10 which the child !
Romance sprung - Educational
HSTuI:Y OF WORDS.
The history Of words is the history of
trade and commerce Our very apparel
is q dictlor ary. We are told Of the bay
onet, that it was first made in Ba. onne
in Spain ; camb,ic-, ttia, they came ircm
Camoisy damask, from Damascus; Ar
rss, from the city OF the same name
cord ~ine, or cofdoven, irom Corduva, in
SPAN currants, from Corinth, in Greece.
the guinea, that IL was or'glnall, coined
of 20 brought from Guinea, camlet,
that It was w.ven Of camel's hair. Such
has been our manuiact turing progress, as
result OF . protective tariff that we nev-
er send calicoes and muslins to India
and to the East, and ct the words give
standing witness that We once imported
these from thence, for calic, is from Call
cut, and muslin is from MosuI, city in {
Asiatic Turkey.-[IBIp.
THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Prof. Carpenter, in his recent lectures
before the Roya. Institution. states the I
general results Of the recent explorations I
of the deep sea By dredging, to be: 1st,
That there is certainly no limit to the
depth At which even highly organized /
animal life may exist. I'd, That the c
Of living creatures under the 4
sea is affected more by temperature.
than by pressure, but even where the y
climate is steadily . little below the =
freezing point at the bottom, there is +
rich abundance Of varied life. Sd, That =