Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-04-18
,lrya GAZETTE & VIRGINIA ADVERTIS
rsow 10 They Find the Way?

rIllucDUafu OF lTaSCllluS vi tilc way, dI tIlc
rate of nearly hundred miles each day.
An old horse, purchased Of farme: iu Yer
mont macy years since, was shipped at Sea-
brook Conn, with others, to the West Indies,
for grinding cane. A storm occurred 10 Long
Island Sound, the deck horses were washed
overheard and supposed to have been lost.
The old Yermonter, however, reached land in
the darkness of stormy uight and finally was
found standing at the barn door of his old
home. The horse had never been far from the
town till sold, therefore could not have been
familiar with the way.
Horses, mules, dogs, cats, aud all the MI
grating birds, fud there way as unerriugy us
the carrier pigeon does; but how they do it is
beyond our ken. Some imagined birds see
tcescopically one or two hundred miles when
high in the air, aud over the tops Of the noun
taus. But the theory throws no light upon
the movements Of the mule that found his home
in Brazil hundreds Of miles over region
where man could hardly move, having neither
path to follow nor companion to lead the
way Science, therefore, has something more
to do to clear up this mystery.
A writer in the Quarterly Review advances
the theory that they have certain sense ofthe
magnetic currents, sufhcing to afford them a
sort of internal mariner compass marking the
direction in which they travel We know that
the magnetic currents affect the needle, aud
the hypothesis that they may also effect living
frames with special organizations seems no way
Incredible; while the fact that a dog, who can
hud his own way for a hundred miles in the
open country, may lose it in five hundred yards
in Il town, seems to point to the multitude ct
streets turning at light angles as the cause of
confusion to sense which simply ind icates a
straight direction
PAUL MoRPnY.-Of Paul Morphy, the
gv~a, chess player, New Orleans letter says :
''He has turned out no lawycr-not even a
commission merchant lie is at present doiug
nothing Once u while the solitary athlete
eau be induced to show that his power is only
in at,yance. | saw him at a private seance,
just before left, beat simultaneously, in two
and three-quarter hours sixteen of the most
accomplished amateurs in New Orleans. His
strength has never been fully tested, and will
probably never be fully developed Paul
Morphy is poor Unlike Yankee. he finds it
impossible to live on his talent Opportunities
there are iD abundance rich offers for public
exhibitions Of himself as delicate as those
rraSncd at by men who pretend to more honor.
llc stcadaStly refuses them. He was morbid
ly sensitive to misjudgmen:, lest he be taken
tor one who travels on his muscle, and, on
all his journeys betrayed his own, expenses,
and always played in the presence oply of Sc
lcct companies, to which no money could gain
access. There seems to me to be certain at
traction in this fine delicacy, which one would
not encounter elsewhere among us, than ln the
halt foreign society of New Orleans, amid
which Mr. Morphy was reared. 1t IS dearer to
hun than wealth or renown, or the strange gltt
by which he must get his daily bread or 60
without it,
\ Coop NATURED EX-kING. The best
naturcd fellow we have heard of for long
time is Amadeus, after his abdication. Arriv-
Ing in Portugal he abandoned himself to royal
sports and simple rccreatious with all the zest
Of boy out of school, He declared that he
t,"k counsel with nobody regarding his abdlca-
tlon, and didn't even tell his wife till it was too
late to rctract, knowing that she would make
arow" He found that his own fortune was
Insufficient to pleet his expenses, and that the
Queen was running 10 debt Notwithstanding
her royal dover of S200,OO a year. The
] >IanlAl Treasury wasn't flush, and the. royal
Iar had 20 spend no small sum in quietlDg
Iat'lsts and other troublesome people. Then,
j lie says, the insurance companies demanded
N reu,ums on their lives, and the parents never
81 Nt their children without kissing them fare
RA Spanish officer to observe that they took
M away nothing that had been bought IN Madrid,
f even with their own moneys Another officer
Es1 I> entrusted With the settlement OF all bills,
Eg @ nn"n to the small private pensions Amadeus
M '"'S II all seems now like horrid nightmare.
ia -H"mAhcld Republican.
nan ,",'iESEsS "; OF GREAT MEN.-The geatest
II G,o ~ ''S World have teen noted for their po-
81 n.u'Ss Indeed, maiuly to their popular man
nI's' ,InS Tnlch induced the pcople whom they
tbs;r ,,uo ~ give them an opportunity to show
nut uIEy years ago, the GRAND boy employed by
r,ror,rn E'''s rs n"uSe In great city was sent to
bIp If, bo@, IRON ON Edward Everett, theproofsheets
NrentoNS! oN S!'lcn he had been examining. The
Gr5 r. ,nl lear and trembling the vast library.
u aw, ow "e hoof TO ceiling with books. He stood
ucst L;n '"S famous man, and dreaded to
d the drSt "iln ,., But Mr. Everett, turning from
lad WIN "nefe ne was writing, received the
down Jn oh !e,aSSurlng courtesy, bade him sit
sss ,IS,a and asked, shall nut a paper round
sT Ie iOr you? as politely as # his visitor were
r"mt n tireSIdent. The boy denarted in a yerv
in IS';;oraole \; state of mind; be had been raised
lie h, h.. esteem by Mr.. Everett's kindness, aud
"'> never forgotten the lesson it taught him.
iry.IIau. ARLERs AT NEWSPAPERS. Horace
lers f, ,f,,l' N speaking of grumblers at newspa-
ii; ;,us hltS the nail on the head: .; +
lers. WS'Fange how close men read the pa
dont Hre ill., never say anything that any body
body rr.' rs' out we soon hear of it and every
shiie sas WI IT., Us of it. If, however, once in a
hear Of, Fl happen to say good thing, we never
pay Soma as, nobody seems TO notice that. We
na S u lvzcn pus and he tabea IL al as a1
does L," =" Ills greatness, and he never thinks it
things Il; ;aoy good. But if we happen to say
aginr<is" i",> man don'tlike, or something he inn
how unn 'ySh"c'lou on him OF his character, see
All our n ar, he flares up and gets mad about it.
neyer annas mus ale duly charged to US, but We
Ncd do. ''"'ent'y, get any credit for what good