Semi-weekly Louisianian., 1871-09-14
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~ Henry jenkins, Of Yorkshire,
Eng, died in 1870, aged 169.
-DSYo render inevitable evil as
light as possible is to be in reality
what may be called both happy and
wise.
p~Men of genius are often dull
and inert in society; as the blazing
meteor, with it descends to earth, is
only stone.
~The chief secret of comfort
lies in not suffering trifes to vex
one, and in prddently cultivating
an underground of small pleasures,
since very few great ones are let on
long leases.
~ How easy it is to please and
to be pleased, as we'll as edited, if
one will take the fragrance of the
rose instead of the thorns, and hold
the knife by the handle and not by
the edge.
pTThe only way for man to
escape being found ont is to pass
for what he is. The only way to
maintain a good character is to
deserve it. 1t is easier to correct our
faults than to conceal them.
DgThe term "Round-Heads"
originated during the war which
brought Charles l., of England, to
the scaffold. The adherents of that
monarch were called Cavaliers"
and the friends of the Parliament
"Round-Heads.' In cutting their
hair round bowl or wooden dish
was placed on the head, and the
hair cut by the edges or brims of
the bowl.
Ddy-The Public Debt Statement for
the 1st of September shows a reduc-
ton of the National Debt during
the past month of So, ,2O6,279 60, or
at the rate of over 100000, 900 per
annum. Since the 1st of March,
1868, bonds have been purchased
and Cancelled by the Treasury De-
partment to the amount of $219,-
1896, 200, at a net cost estimated in
gold of 500, ,G72,O ,OGG. Let us con-
tinue this regular and systematic
J. reduction of the national indebted
ness, and we shall find no difficulty
in funding the principal of the Debt
at four per cent in very few years,
thus largely reducing interest and
the burden of taxation.
pagThe Rev. II. H. Garnett, the
leading preacher of New York city,
tells curious story of Mr. Holley,
who is now at the head of the Epis-
copal church in Hayti. Mr.. Holley
had been writing so successfully for
q Masonic journal in this country
that the editor, who was ignorant
of his color, sent him word that he
would like to have his picture to
copy it into the magazine. Mr..
Holley, "kert dark" for a while,
and then, when he had written all
he had wished to, sent his picture
to the editor. 1t was not reprinted,
and he never heard anything more
from that magazine.
Missouri Weekly ReUie,r.
There have been, since the con-
quest, besides the present sovereign,
four queens of England who have
reigned in their own right, not
counting the Empress Maude,
daughter of Henry l., or the Lady
Jane Grey, whose quasi reign lasted
only ten days. There have been
thirty-for queens, the consorts of
kings, exclusively of four wives of
kings who died previously to their
husbands ascending the throne.
OF thirty-five actual sovereigns of
England, four died unmarried,
three kings and one queen.
py-Both Charles l. and Charles III.
found occasion to raise money by
the grant of annuitics chargeable
on particular branches of the rev.
enue, and Kings of England who
reigned before them were borrowers
of money. But the National Debt,
as it is now known, did not COM
mence till the reign of William I'LL,
and in the wear 1fgf Tn 1897 II