The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-05-08

precision of thought; and their physical PEI
culiarities In promptness o: action and ex-
IRENE nervous excitability. 1t is this intel
lectual and sensitive organism which has
fitted them for the part they have played in
the worlds history, whether in the realm of
matter or OF mind. The ancient Gauls were
like a frebrand in the midst OF Europe, set
ting everything about them IN a blaze and
the modern French have been equally sue
cessful in their Efforts to disturb the peace Of
nations. Whether LED by Chariemagpe or
Francis l., by Gutenberg or q Napoleon,
they have burst like a tempest upon the
phleamati people OF the North, and, until
the slower energies of their Gothic foes were
reused, have swept all before them. The
one crowning quality of greatness which they
have lacked, is patience. They could carry
their victorious eagles over the burning sands
Of Syria, or through the chilling SHOWS OF
Russia but they could never have stovd all
day in one place, and been moved down by
an enemy's artillery. or cut down by his cav
airy, as did Welllngton's troops at Waterloo.
They could build road over the Alps under
the leadership of Napoleon, willie another
people would have frozrn in despair but in
executing internal improvements which re-.
quire long and anxious deliberatlon to plan
and years to complete, they have Jagged be-
hind other nations, especially the English.
Another striking popularity in the French
is what may be called the histrfonic element
their fondness for the theatrical. Every
Frenchman is born actor. Life is TO him
a stage, and all his plans and acts have more
Or less refere zee to stage effect. French hu-
man nature is not like English or German
human nature 1t is human nature elabora,-
ed and adorned by art. Hence the matches
excellence of the French vandevilles, which
are so many photographs Of the national
manners and hence, also, the insIptdity OF
French tragedy, which, scorning to be nat
ural, and striving to be classical. neither sat-
lefes the Judgment For grapples with the
heart The proofs of this peculiarly are
seen every where in Paris in the open street
aud In he brilliant salon; in the House OF
Parliament and in the judicial halls in the
artist aud in the author IN he garcon and
IN the raybeard from the Prime Minister
down TO the gamin. No occasion Is too sol.
emn, no scene too impressive, no object too
beautiful, to check this love OF display.
Where but In France do men twist the grace
fuI forms of vegetable life into artificial
IhaVn p.ah \
gates, and pronounce rhetorical panegyrics
over The fresh graves of their 'ritn ds In
what other city than Paris is notorIely, even
when scandalous, as sure u passport to Dclai
distinction or birth, beauty, or fame Where
Use, when SdOd.t dies, do students drag
he hearse and scatter flowers over his grave?
Where else would soldier commit suicide
by Casting himself from a lofty monument,
or maiden and her lover make their exit
tom lies stage with a last embrace ana the
tunes Of charcoal? In what other count ry
would a mechanic. in praising II Tavorite liv-
ing aui hor, exclairn, did u Partisan in cx-
tollIpg Beranger: What a man hat sub
lime virtue! how is he beloved Could !
but live TO see his funeral ! Qgelle sps, tacle !
Quete grande emo tiOnl - In what English.
American or German cemetery can one find
sorrowing affection expressed as at Mont
martre-viz by a tonlbstone with colossa
Lear carved on it, and underneath the words,
Judge how we loved HIM - In what city
but Paris, when triumphant enemy Was
LAUNDERING at the gates, would the news
papers, as lately in the French Capital, Pub
fish lists Of citizens who swear to die rather
than surrender? A correspondent of she
New York Tribune, writing rom Paris during
the late seige, tells us that The bourgeois
when he vert TO the rampar s, embraced his
wife IN public, and assumed "a martial stru,
AS tn Iugh he we're very Curtius OH The wa,
to the pit Jules was perpe ualIy embrac
ing Auguste, and raving about THE altar of
our country" which he intended to noun: .
while every girl who tripped along tancied
she was a maid of Saragossa
Pneumatic tubesl are being put down in
Paris take the piace.of to teIegraphIc wires
r. mi nj Il tnh.