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

o new science It's croWnlng perfection.
no can spend hours in chasing butterflies, or
he can pass lifetime in celebrating favor
lie theory, and in digging into the mysteries
of dry ind complex subject. He is the
gaTest man on the globe. anu the likeliest to
send pistol ball through his own brain
the most tickle of men, and the most obsti-
maze; the politest. and the most irascble ;
the devoutest, aud the most atheistic a
and lose with straw the IN ost pregnant OF
takers, and the most diEfuse all orator who,
as DR. Donne said of Lady Anne, can glide at
once "f-om predest'nation to slea-sild," OF
as De Quincy said OF Bishop Berkeley, 'pass
with the utmost ease and speed from tar.
water to the Trinity-irom a moleheap to
the thrones OF GOd-head." He will wear,
without shame, the sbaobiest clothes, yet
stop in the street before locking glass to
curl his moustachA and adjust his cravat ,
hewill fight ike tiger for republic. yet
lie meek as spaniel nnder an empire, In
short, to the casual observer, Frenchman
is riddle that defies soluthon-a ply schoIog
ical puzzle. He is a compound of parodoxes'
a harmony of differences being born uu.
der the contending influences of Mercury
and Saturn.
But, lest we should seem to be aiming at
antithesis rather than at truth, let Us cite
the authority ola late French writer, who,
perhaps, better than any other, understood
haf oh onto e &c
flied for every pursuit." says Alexis Ne Toe
queville, but exCelling in no hing but
war, more prone to worship chance, force,
success, eclat, noise, than real glory en-
dowel with more heroism than virtue, more
genius than common sense better adapted
to the conception of grand designs than the
mplishment oF great enterprises; the
most brilliant and the most dangerous ma
ton of Europe AID the one that is surest to
inspire admiration. hatred, terror, or pity,
but ne0er indifference THE French exhibit
4 he bizarre union of the most opposite quail
tiles the harmonious juxtaposition of APP
parently the most ahtagOnistic elements OF
life, OF nature, and of character.
1t is unfortunate that in judging of The
French our estimates are unconsciously
more or less effected by The impressions de-
rived from English literature. Nothing can
be more ludIcrous or more untrue than
caricatures wAich most English tours have
given to the world as photographs of the
French people. TIL lately it has seYmed hard
IS possible for all Euglishman to write about
his neighbors across the channel without
dipping his pen in gall and just as the :, irst
and the 360th degrees OF the circle are the
taTthest apart. though the nearest together,
so these two peoples, though but twenty
miles apart, have understood each Other as
little as though living on opposite sides o!
he globe. Judging by many OF these libeis,
one would suppose that one of Natures
journeymen had made the Frenchmen, and
net made him we'll An English historian
edmIts that, till few years ago, the French
manswas regarded by John Bull with utter
contempt lie was a lean, haif-straved
lankey- legged creature, looking in hopeless
despair, and with watery mouth and beared
eyes at round OF English beef His til
tuae was grotesque his langu .ge even be-
came immensely amusing. because be did
not speak English with the slang of a hack
and the pronunciation of
Cockney. He Was nicknamed Jack Frog, be-
cause he was supposed To feed on those in-
animals, which were also fancied
to he the exact image of himself in happiness
nd e. i,;,
he was an arrant coward, as well as n mere
physical ghost of a man, and one Engiish
III Al could fog hal ~I-dOZen "mOunseers" as
easily as a Yank G could fix the whole sew
en- And all this was believed, in spite OF
the fact that the French nation, from the
earliest period of history, has been the lead
ing nation Of Europe. It's original races
long disputed the supremacy OF The else all
conquering Romans. They gave to Roman
literature some of its most ccompiished ora
tors, and some of its most elegant writer's
Cicero learned eloquence from one Of their
teachers, aud Caesar acquired in G,ul new
ars ct war. All Through the IN ddle ages, in
the Cru~ades, in the great national wars, in
the ligious connections Of the six;eenL IN
century, their galIantry was the Conspicuous
spiend0r OF the times Their writers have
since electrified human thought their brave
deeds have revoutionized modern politics /;
their more elegant arts have been the Dies
pair Of all other peoples, and their manners
he standard of whatever was polished. cour
locus graceful, and pleasing in address Ia
spite ct all these fats. to many English.
mer, as hey look across the strAits Lhroug Oh
the fogs by which they are surrounded til,
Frepctm%n is either dancing master of a
nuffpon, grimaclng and Struggling his should
Els more ike monkey than man.
Dlsat using our minds then, 80 far as posi-