The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-07-11


sian Marshal saygron display, btUer thau
whole pages of description, tHc wonderful
Way De eauB.vcl to adapt himself % Csc
sp.rls with whom ho bad 10 8eal. With.
gul losing mg laJ oG his authority Nha,
NaHelgou wss TO the Erurh army, >uygr-
oN was 90 tmt el Russia NOW testing
witha soldier, and now rehukua a gcu.
eai; oga dag sharing O. ration oi black
bread beside o biyouao Care, aud thc cncst
speaking as au equal to princes and pa,
tcuiates.
IL must be owned however, that iu bis
own peculiar vein OF pleasantly the old
marshal more than once met with bis
match, One Of bis tayor,tc Jokes was to
confuse @ mau hy asking him uuexpco-
tedIy, How many stars are there in the
sky;
On one occasion be put this question to
one Of the seutrics on a bitter January
night such as only Russia can pro-
duce. The soldier. not d whit disturbed,
answered, cooly, Wait little, aud TN
tell you; aud be deliberately hcgaa to
count one, two, three, etc. In this way
he went grayely on TO "a hundred, at which
point Suyorol, who was already half FRO
zen, thought IT high .ime 20 ride Oh, not,
however, without iuquiring the name OF
this ready reckoner. Tho next day the
latter found himself promoted aud the
story (wieh suvoron told with great glcc
to his staG) speedily made It's way thro
the whole army.
On another occasion one of his generals
Of division sent him sergeant with dis
patches, at the same time recommending
the bearer to Suyoroll7s notice, The mar
shal, as usual, proceeded to test him by a
series Of Whimsical questions; but the
oateehumon was equal TO the oocasicu.
How far is it to the moon, asked suver-
of.
Two of your cxcelency's forced mar
ches, answered the soldier.
supposing you were blogkaded, and no
provisions left, how would you supply
yourself2
From the enemy.
How many fish are there in the seaI
As many as have not been caught.
Aud so the examination went on, till
Suvorofi finding his new acquaintance
armed at all points, at length asked him,
as o final poser, What Is the difference be
tween Your colonel and myself
The difference is this, replied the sol
die, coolly; my colonel cannot make me
a captain, but you cxcelency has only TO
say the word
Suyoron, struck by his shrewduess,
kept his eye upon the man, aud in no long
time after actually give him the specified
promotion,
The anecdotes OF the great marshaPs &C.
centricities his habits of wandering
about the camp in disguise, his whim Of
giving the signal for assault by growing
Ikea cock, his astounding endurance Of
heat aud cold, his savage disregard of per-
sonal comfort and neatness-are beyond
calculation; but perhaps the most chaac-
teristic Of all was his appearance in 1888
at the Austrian court--then one OF the
most brilliant in Europe. On being
shown to the room prepared for him Ga
splendid apartment, filed with costly
mirrors and rich furniture) this modern
Diogenes said, simply, Turn out all that
rubbish and shake me down some straw.
An Austrian grandee who came to visit
him startled at these preparations,and still
more so at the first sight of tho marshaPs
baggage, which consisted Of two coarse
shirts and tattered cloak tied up IN a
bundle.
/ Is that enough for winter? asked the
astounded visitor.
/ The winters the father Of Russians,
answered SuvaroG, with grin; besides
/ you don't feel the cold when YOU are RI
ding full gallop.
But when you're tired Of riding, what
1 do you do!
/ Walk
+ Aud when you're tired Of walkingt
/ Ran.
/ And do YOU never sleep3 asked the
prctifed questioncr.
Sometimes, when I've nothing better
/ to do, replied Suyoroh, carelcssIyi and
when want TO have a very luxurious
nap, ! take on one ofmy spurs.
The thunderstruck Austrian bowed and
retired, doubtless very much enlightened
in bis ideas Of Russian general
! 1t is worth while TO chronicle (howeyer
out Of place it may appear in q collection
Of icsts) one more story Of suryoroh.-
that tells how the grim veteran, already
far on the road to the bloodiest OF bis
campaigns, rode back for miles through
the binding storm to take one last look
at his sleeping children, kissed aud bless
ed them with passionate cauestness, and
then rushed away ike whirIwind upon
bis mission Of destruction. Such q man
deserved more mercilul judgement than
the singing epitaph written upon him
by wit Of the nation which wrought his
downfall; a good soldier, but "A bad
general; a good servant, but a bad eour
tier a good Russian, bat bad Europe.
an.
Russian Ladies,
The ladies Ia Russia are very auXiou,
To get married, because they have no lib
ertN before marriage. IheY are kcnt CON