St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1871-10-13

have caught tl!at nat rs you tlld, answer
ed the professor, with little chuckIin,
laugh; "it's .just in their nature to jun
, up and run after anything that passes
, All, if you English would only emplo
your irrcpressible energies in the cause 4
science, what might you not achieve
But no; you do not care TO learn"
"Do Us the justice to believe, Her
} Professor, that the nation which pro
duced Bacon and Newton has still som
reverence for science
4 "1hey were mighty men, replies til,
old gentleman, with revcrential bend o
his gray head "but | am speaking o
the nation at large, not of a few cXcep
tiOnal celebrities. Ach IIimmcl, villa
4 set they are, those English A fine life
they led me when first began to prac
tice medicine down yonder in SaNony
The first thing in the morning, king
king at my door. what is it " An
Englishman who has broken bis Icg il
trying TO climb the Teufel>horn, which
no one ever ascendcd yet | set the
Herr .Englander's leg, and leave him
pretty comfortable. Not half an houI
later king. king again. 'What now
'An Englishman who has been half
drowned i'll swimming across the Elbc
against the current for 4 wager.' | roll
the Herr Englandcr in warm blankets
and bring him round. Before | lave
well settled in my chair again, king ,
king. once more. 'Mein Gott what :
the matter p An Englishman who has
tried to run twelve miles within the hour,
because some one said lie couldn't, and
has broken down under the strain. Mcin
Herr, am sorry 10 have to say it, but
your countrymen are equally devoid Of
fear and of reason. There Is but one
man i'll England whom | can truly rcVcr-
ence, and his name is Herr Carlyle"
"Mr Carlyle, why, he's an old friend
ot mine. | saw him the last time | was
in England. am clad you admire
him"
"Did you, mcin Herr! did you real
ly ?" says the old man, with unmi-taka-
bic interest. Tell me all about him, |
bcSeech you; lac is great man-worthy
to have been LOrn German"
And Tor nearly twenty minutes we sit
in judgment upon the biographer ui Fred
erick the Great, till the strokes of seven,
booming from the town below, warn the
professor that it is time to be going home
"lUu must come with me mcin Herr"
says hc, rising from his seat mo cx-
cuScs, | beg OF you. 1t shall never bc
SAID that AuStus " risseubart mct with a
friend o! the Herr Carlyle, without max
ing him welcome; and, besides, I've got
something 10 show yCu which think
will interest you
The old mans hearty manner was not
To hc resisted and quarter of An hour
later | stood before the door ct a tall,
grim looking stone house at the corner Of
the Market Plat, the curiously carved
front Of which showed tlat it had seen
more than one century. But If it out
side was stern and unpromi-ng, lis inside
was comfortable in the highest degree
and 50 | thought when | found myself
seated over substantial German supper
in the professors little snuggcry, and
heard the old mans checry voice bidding
me 'iall TO and spare nothing
While eating, | found time to .Iancr
round the room, which (savc for lis an
tiIue furniture and heavy cross-bcam< of
dark oak, } differed but little from the
countless other laboratories that | had
seen in various towns Of southern Ger
many; but one object arrested my atten-
tion-a human skeleton planted upri.ht
in corner. presenting Il pistol menac-
lngly with lis fleshlcss hand. The pro-
iessor noticed the direction u! my eyes,
and smiled Significantly.
That's the curiosity was speaking
OF, said he; lit has Il history of ill., own,
which is worth hearing. When we have
finished supper I'll tell it TO you."
And, accordingly, rs soon rs our meal
was ended, Herr WciSscnbart settled
himself comfortably in his great easy
chair, lighted an enormous German pipe
which the most scasonc,. fox in the
university would have found it hard to
smoke out, and began as follows
AT the lime that bought this house,
mein Herr, | bad just entered upon the
lapplcst period OF my whole life | lad
at length attained the modest competence
for which | had LONG labored in vain,
and could say to myself, when | sat down
i'll my easy chair in the evening and lit
my pipe: Now, Justus Weissenbart. |
thou hast done all that the earthly and
corporal part of thee demands for It's sus.
tenancc; hencctorth thou art free 10
serve the cause OF science, ana it may he,
even TO add Il little grain of knowledge
to the sum OF human learning went
to work with all earncStness. | fl!cl
my house with rare plants, rare fossils,
rare minerals. paid high for curiusl-
lies of every kind. Once | paid Il hanI-
full of thalcrs ior tie carcass ot donkey
which exhibited singular malfurmaton
of the spinal column. Its dissection led
me 10 one of the most interesting dis
coveries which | have ever made All,
mein lIerrl You, who are IL man OF
and adventure, cannot iathom
the delight | felt in cutting up that glori-
Gus donkey. But once before in my
whole life did | experience the same
pleasure, and that was when was called
in, little while after first came here,
10 treat patient whose case exhibited
some very unusual and perplcxing symp-
IONS. | examined him | reflected the
truth flashed upon me. flung my hat
on the ground, and, embracing the scl,
man with ranturp rripl uui Il c,n |
5ratula!c you, my friend. You have re
reived Il disease which has been unknown
Tor the last six centuries 20