Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-22

should suddenly constitute its chiefest
sin.
A facsimile Of the London Gazette of
1866 has been published in London. 1t
contains full account of the great con-
fagration in that city from September
3 to 10, 1866, when 1920 dwelling
houses, 81 churches, chapels, 4 bridges,
city gates, the Exchange building,
Custom-house, Newgate prison and
Guildhall were destroyed by fire.
M. Amedee Achard and Paul de Cas-
sagnac, French journalists, are at issue
as to whether or not Napoleon cried at
Sedan. Achard says, "he smoked" in
fact everything smoked at that time,
and Theirs came after Sedan. Aehard
says further that the Emperor was in
uniform" Cassagnac insists " he was
in plain clothes" while the world be-
lieves the Emperor was well dressed "
and in tight place.
On the steppes of Tartary, mare S
milk is an ordinary beverage Of the peo-
pie; and drink called koumiss " is
made therefrom by fermentation. A
similar beverage has been produced in
Germany from cows milk, and showed,
on analysis, that it contained alcohol,
carbonic acid, Tactic acid, with butter
and caseine in infinitely divided state,
as well as sugar and other residues of the
milk. 1t is stated to resemble mixture
of cream and champagne, in flavor.
Journalism presented curious phase
in the year 1928, The National Journal
of that date published the following toast
given at a political meeting;
John Quincy Adams: May he be
taken sick on Mondayl send for a doc
tor on Tuesdayll get worse on Wednes-
dayll! no better on Thursday die on
Friday!llll be buried on Saturday MN
and 90 to hell on Sundayllllllr
1t is needless to state that the veneer
able grandfather of the present candi-
date for the governorship Of Massaehu-
sets obstinately refused to verify the
above Christian invocation.
What is sin, and what purity2 What
is virtue, and what vice2 What is right,
and what wrong? A man who has never
afflicted himself with these queries-who
has never held the scourge of this in
quest over his own mind-who has never
used the shifting rod of this judgment
upon his own heaft-knows too little OF
human nature to be either counselor
Of others or q monitor to himself Nor
are we ever able to survey the conduct
even of the weakest, the faultiest, and
the guiltiest of men or women, without
being suddenly estopped by that pene-
trating maxim, Judge not that ye be
not judged for with what judgment ye
judge ye shall be Judged" And so we
can only pity, and dare not condemn,
even the lowest of the fallen, and the
worst of the bad
Solomon says: "a merry heart doeth
good like a medicine" The inference
is unmistakable. The wise monarch
thought that medicine" does good.
Probably Solomon supposed he had suf-
ficient grounds for such a conviction.
He had large family, and as he was
not in the habit Of sparing the rod, very
likely he succeeded in persuading some
of the juvenile members to swallow GER
tain unpalatable doses which he thought
necessary for their health; and very
likely he then thought he observed good
results from the administration. It is
not improbable that the Jewish king,
having retired for the night after some
sultry summer day, with every window
of the royal palace widely open to catch
the faintest zephyr, had been reused in
the small hours to find that the chilly
northern blasts from the hills about Je-
rusalem we're driving in at the open
easement, and that the infant Rehoboam,
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