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The POWER OF ARTILLERY.-The recent
conflict between the French and Prussians has
been decided-like all modern conflicts are
now-mOre by the power of artillery than by
mere hand engagements. New inven-
lions in the instruments of warfare have placed
mere physical strength altogether in the
minority. 1t used to be the boast that the
British soldier was superior in the matter of
q bayOnet charge to any other soldier in the
world. Now, however, times are changed.
The result of victory depends not on the
over of men Individually, but on The power
IF the artillery collectively. Yet this leads US
Ito an old reflection, namely, whether the men
Of the present day are equal or inferior in
stature to the warriors of ancient times. The
generally accepted belief is that the men of
the present day are quite as stout and stalwart
as they were in the old historic ages long gone
by. Even in Lord EglintOun's famous tourna-
ment not few of the knights found some
difficulty in finding armor large enough for
them to wear. And going even farther back,
if we take the Egyptian mummy cases in the
British museum, few OF them would contain
an average sized Englishman. So much for
antiquity. The Romans and Greeks of old
were shorter, slighter race than the Gauls,
from whom they at first sprang, aud shrank in
time. The sentries eufocated at POmpeii are
quite as short as the smaller French linesman,
without the broad well set look so often
observable in the latter sturdy little race.
And without fear Of vanity on the part Of
degenerated race, We venture to think that a
brigade OF our British guards" would have
made short work Of even the picked men Of
Roman legi0n.-Once Week.
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A SARcopHAGUs SAID TO CONTAIN THs IKE,
MAINS OF THE APOSTLE PAuL.-The hayward
at Philadelphia was the scene OF considerable
commotion on Friday last, occasioned by the
removal of a veritable sarcophagus from the
hold of the United States steamer Richmond,
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and flowers to figure whose general outline
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generally excellent. The foot of the tomb
contains no inscription or device. In fact,
there is nothing about it calculated to lead to
the supposition that it is sanctifed by holding
the dust and bones of the apostle. The sarco-
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Mycene, and was purchased by one OF our
United States consuls for the Metropolitan
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THE FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS.
BY EDMUND C. sTEDxAS.

Wither away, Robin,
Whittier away?
Is it through envy Of the maple. leaf,
Whose bushes mock the crimson of thy breast,
Thou wilt not stay?.
The summer days were long, yet all too brief
The happy season thou hast been our guest;
Whittier away?
Whittier away, Bluebird,
Whittier away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing,
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern fight? ali, why,
Thou, too. whose song first told us Of the
Spring?
Whittier away?
Whittier away, Swallow,
Whittier away?
Csnst thou no longer tarry in the north,
Here, where our roof so well hath screened
thy nest?
Not one short day?
Wilt thou-as If thou human vertigo forth
And wanton far from them who love thee best
Whittier away?
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The ST. Louis Democrat has invented a
very happy name for the advocates of the
passive policy'-that is, Democrats who
would make no nomination for the Presidency,
but wait for disaffected Republicans to make
one in opposition to General Grant and then
fall in. 1t calls them "Possumites. The
same journal closes an editorial an the pro-
posed coalition thus Then, indeed, will all
things be lovely, and the anserine bird hang
serenely and loftily. Sempiternal Blairs shall
softly WOO the unregenera.ed Ku Klux, no
longer mighty to destroy. but strong to save
The lion Of the Brodhead letter shall lie down
with the lamb of Civil Service Reform, aud
both shall play 'possum together"
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The new theory of defence in France is
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