Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-22
INTERESTING ITEMS.
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Fifteen Great Mistakes.

1t isa great mistake to set ur
our. own standard Of the right and
wrong ana Judge people according.
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Il is great mistake to ncasure
the enjoyment 0: othem by our
own,
To expect uniformity Of opinion
in this world.
To look for judgment and eape-
,ricnce in youth.
TO endeayor to mould all dispo-
sit:ons alike. q.
Not to yield to immaterial tri-
fss.
To look for perfection in our own
actions.
To worry ourselves and others
with what cannot be remedied.
Not to alleviate all that needs al
deviation, as far as lies in our
power.
No. to make allowance for the
infirmities of others.
To consider everything impossi-
bic which you cannot perform.
To believe only what our finite
minds can grasp.
To expect to be able to under
stand everything.
The greatest of all mistakes is to
live only for time, when any mo-
lnent may launch rs into eternity.
E-The Mississippi River is
26lG miles in length, and is 1850
feet above tho level of the Gulf at its
utmost source. At st. Paul it is go
feet above the Gulf level, at the
head Of Rock Island rapids sos feet,
at St. Louis 4OS feet, at Cairo 1922
feet, at Memphis 221 feet, at Nat
chez &C feet, at New Orleans Is feet,
and at the head Of the Passes 2
feet 0 inches.
cJ-It was m Irishm m who
wanted to find place where there
was no death. that he might 60 and
end his days there. 1t was an Irish
editor that exclaimed, when speak
ing Of the wrongs of Ireland, Her
cup of misery has been for ages
Overlooking, and is rot yet full =
1t was an Irish newspaper that said
of Robespierre that she left no
children behind him except a brother
who was killed at the same time. >
II was an Irish coroner who, when
asked how lie accounted for an OK
traordinary mortality in Limerick,
replied, sadly, Il cannot tell. There
are people dying this year that
never died before" 1t was an Irish
handful that announced, with
boundless liberality, in reference to f.
a great political demonstration in !
the ROtunda, that 'ladies without
distinction of sex, would be wei |
conc"
~The New York Sun in Sc,
TENDER last gave n tabular state
ment of the amount of real estate
owned in New York City by Richard
B. Connolly, William NJ. Tweed, |
and Peter B. Sweeny, respectively !
assigning $354,9OO to the first, |
$2,364, 800 to tho second, and
1888 900 to the third aud also in
forming the public that the mem
bers Of the Tammany Ring "were
Offering their real estate at q dis
count Of twenty-five per cent, from
the prices that ruled a fortnight
ago" This looks as though the
Tammany millionaires were slight
]y alarmed.
ga- Prof. Hitchcock has recent
~ cited the distribution of maritime
plants about the shores of the Great
Lakes of North America as u proof
OF oceanic submergence in the
Champlain period--i. e., that follow
ing the glacial. 1t has been object
ed by Prof. Dana, in the american
Journat Of Science, that, considering
the much greater number of shells
and of other kinds of marine ami
NAL life that must have existed in
those Champlain seas, their absence
from the same regions oil over the
United States beyond a height of
300 to 600 feet above the tide level
in the more northeastern portions
is a better proof that the sea did
not cover the continent in that !
period. It is hard to believe that
there could have been thousands of
miles OF ses-beaches across the con-
tinent, or hundreds Of thousands
Of square miles of sea-bottom, in an
era o. ABUNDANT marine life, and yet
allEwith the exceptions along the
borders of the Atlantic, along the
River then gulf of ST. Lawrence,