New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-06-22

| visible when, to the great amusement Oh Inc
audience. one of the soldiers on the second
| balcony exclaimed in stentorian tones,
Lieutenant, cap on, Muller comes The
soldier was abiding to the Prussian State
Minister Won Muller, who objected, at a
Berlin art exhibition, that a distinguished
picture, representing nude goddess De
exhibited. Il
Before the commander of the fortress Oh
Mayence appeared, short time ago. an In
| ha bitant of Sachsenhausen, town situated
| on the Main river, opposite the city OF
Frankfort requesting him for two captured
French guns, in order that he might be able
! to fire salutes at the coming peace jubilee
The commander, looking with surprise at
the man, asked him - But do you under
stand how to Ere e'sz'' Certainly" was the
answer, 81 was town gunner for many
years" but, my friend" continued the
officer, ado you also know that firing is
dear, each shot costing one form! p forty
cents in gold). The patriot replied: "Never
mind that Ny wife has spent one hundred
forms for her waterfalls and braids; there
fore, may quite as we'll spend one hundred
and one forins for firing salutes." To tins
the commander of the fortress could make
no reioinder The patriot received the guns,
which he had to ship twenty miles to Saeh-
senhausen, and Justify fired away at the
peace celebration of his native town, over
the Main line, which was created by the
German war of 1866, and is now removed
By the accomplished German national unity.
When provision train arrived frem
Germany at one of the railroad stations In
France last winter. the soldiers on fatigue
duty were ordered to carry the filled sacks
from the cars to the magazine. Among the
soldiers was the son of wealthy merchant
of Cologne, not accustomed to hard work,
while the non-commissioned officer in COM
mand was, before the French-German war,
porter in the business of that soldiers
father With assumed official gravity, and
a sort of satisfaction and humOr. the nom
commissioned officer saw the soldier painting
along, and kindly ordered him to take
shorter steps,. When the young merchant,
after he had carried the first sack, returned
to the freight cars, bathed in perspiration,
he was ordered to halt by the non-cOm-
missioned officer. Then the latter, putting
his own helmet ON the soldiers head, and
girding him with his sword, said: II could
not abstain from the fun of seeing you carry
sack. But we shall now change roles.
You will be for an hour non-cOmmissiOned
officer. You ought to know that your Ia
borer, notwithstanding his high military
rank, likes to carry sacks for you also in
the field And that was done. When the
fatigue was over, and the sack carrier be-
came non-commissioned officer again, the
soldier said to him: Corporal Michael, you
will carry no sacks any more at Cologne; /
now appoint you superintendent of my
fathers warehouses" Both are now at
home again, the former private soldier keep
ing books in his counting room, and the
former non-commissioned officer superin-
tending his employers warehouses.
On account of the large number of pa
tients who daily came to his house to con-
suit kim, the renowned physician DR.. OPP
polzer, professor of medicine at the Uni
versity of Vienna, who died April II last
aged sixty-two, could not listen long to each
of them. This circumstance gave one day
rise to a very amusing quid pro quo. Dr.
Carl Vogt, the equally renowned German
noted also as a follower of the
English naturalist Darwin, in his theory of
the origin of man, when on a journey, So
journing at Vienna, wanted to see DIR. Op-
polzer whom he had never met before. He
evening, when the prescription hours were |
over But the usher, not wishing that the |
doctor should be troubled any longer by |
patients that evening, declined to admit |
Vogt, who is a very fat man, and who, |
therefore, was mistaken by the usher for a |
patient. While Nogt was still talking to
the usher DR.. Oppolzer, whose attention |
had been attracted by the loud converse
ton, appeared in the door, coming from his
office room, On seeing Vogt, and mistak-
ng him, too, for patient, he tapped him
IN his belly and said, II am here already;
you may go to the watering place of Ma
'ienbad; the water there will cure you"
But" replied VOgt, greatly astonished,
and endeavoring to correct the mistake.
Dr.. Oppolzer, however, continued, assuring
DR.. VOgt that Marienbad was the best
place to cure his fairness and in
7iting him to call again after his cure should
be effected. The funny scene was con-
,luded to great mutual amusement and sat
sfaction by protracted interview of the
wO eminent scholars