Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-03-11

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The TRUE GENTLEMAN.-Sir Walter Scott
in one of his letters to his son, offered very
proper rebuke to phrase which is in common
USE when he told him never to offer an apollo
gy for anything inconsistent with the character
of gentleman, on the plea of being ''disgus-
ed with wine, since it should rather be con-
sidered that he was disguised when he was So
Der, if, when he ceases to be so, he no longer
acts part but forgets himself, and falls into
his natural character. Another phrase is like
unto it, namely, that such one ''can be gen
tleman when he pleases" Tyrone Power once
animadverted with just severity upon this
common but very absurd remark, saying He
who can be gentleman when he pleas
es, never peases to be anything. else.
Circumstances may and do everyday IN
life throw men of cultivated minds and
refined habits into society of their interiors
but while, with the tact and readiness that is
their especial prerogative, they make themsel
yes welcome among those with whom they
have few if any sympathes in common, yet
never do they derogate from the innate stand
ard which makes them gentlemen. So, on the
other hand, the man of vul gar tastes and coarse
prupensities may simulate if he be able, the
outward habtudes of society, speaking with
practised intonation and bowling with we'll
studied grace yet he is no more a gen tleman
in his thought and feeling, than the tinselled
actor who struts the boards is the monarch his
costume would bespeak him. This being the
gentleman when he likes is the mere perfor
nance of the character. 1t has all the orange
peel and fnot-lights about it, and can never be
mistaken by one who knows the world And he
ht how odd taI th1t will
thin varnsh of gentleman ever deceives HIM
self He knows he is a sham, and the fact Is
his ample punishment. t.-L1nchturg NearS
SINGULAR BEoUEsT. During the last week
the last will and testament of an old citizen of
Richmond was admitted to record in the Chan
Gerry Court of that city, In it occurs the follow
ing passages. which are surely curiosity in
will literature:
80 my daughter -, who has done so
much to ALLEVIATE my affections, but who still
deeply and tepderly love- | give as an evidence
of the beauties of her doctrines of seces-
sion and rebellion doctrines and aims which
have reduced me FROM affluence to beggary,
and as she yet thinks, perhaps, that The
Lost Cause will be regained, she may think
my bequest as valuable, more so possibly, than
the same amount given in Yankee securities,
give her the following, viz :-25 Confederate
bonds of K, p & Co., $4,000; Is servants
emancipated by secession, $4,000; insurance
and bank stocks, $4,000; all my claims against
the so-caed Confederate government, for the
wanton, cruel, and wicked destruction of my
property on the Sd OF April 1865, 100000. |
could continue the list to the extent OF more
than half million of dollars. but the above will
suffice She will see what the effect of secession
hoo, h,,tfo r-bioh T onuH ha ayal loft oil NV
children handsome competency.
ApPLEs-With us the value of the apnles
as an article Of food is far underrated. Be-
sides containing large amount OF sugar, mucl-
lage, and other nutrtive matter, apples con-
tain vegetable acids, aromatic qualities, etc.,
which act powerfully in the capacity OF retrlger-
ants tonics and antseptics, and when freely
us,d at the season of mellow ripeness they pre-
vent debility, indigestion, and avert without
doubt many of the ''ills which flesh is heir to. ="
The operators of Cornwall, England, consider
the apple nearly as nourishing as bread. and
far more so than potatoes. ln the year iSOl-
which was year of much scarcity-apples, In
stead of being converted into cider; were sold to
the poor, and the laborers asserted that they
could "staud their work on baked apples
without meat or some other substantial nutrl-
ment The French and Germans use apples
extensively; so do the inhabitants of all Euro
pean nations The laborers depend upon them
as an article of food, and frequently make
dinner of sliced apples and bread There no
fruit cooked in as many different ways in our
country as apples, nor is there any fruit whose
value, as an article of nutriment, is as great
and so little appreciated Water Cure jour.
How THE SKULL PROTECTS THE BRAIN.-A
child bears knocks which would be fatal In old
age. This is owing to the skull being thin, unl-
form in texture, and elastic IN childhood, and
to the brain being of corresponding structure.
The brain is at this age soft to degree that
would be unnatural in mature years. This re-
siliency of the skull and yielding quality of the
brain, explain how the child IS unlnJured by
blows which would be attended with fatal con-
cussion in after-life. But there is also pro-
vision in adults for moderating the effects OF
such accidents. Ip proportion as the BRAIN ac-
quires 6rmness during growth, gradual change
takes place in the structure of the bones OF the
head; the protecting Uranium is not SIMPLY
STRENGTHENED; it is not merely thickened; the
fiat bones which surround the brain are split
into layers an external and an internal one,
Those layers have each different density, and
softer substance than either is lnterposed be-
tween them, the effect OF which is to interrupt
that vibration which would otherwise ,nng.
around the skull. and reach every molecule OF
the brain chronological Journal
THE New GovENoR GENERAL OF INDIA.
Lord Northbrook is to succeed the late Lord
Mayo as Governor General OF India Lord
Northbrook is member of the celebrated fam
i,y of Barings, and is now forty-ssix years old.
In 1857, When only thirty years of age, he be-
came lord of the admiralty. In 1861 he cutter
ed the war department as under secretary.
Soon after he was appointed under secretary
Tor India, and for more than three years !, LOOK
prominent part in the management OF Eng
lands vast dependency. From this depart
ment he passed to the home department, re-
manning there from 1864 to 1866, when ne be-
came secretary Of the admiralty. Afterwards s