The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-20
The Antl-MonopOlist.

plorations in 1875, ninety years ago. He
was pupil Of David, who has been half
century in his grave. He was with
Napoleon in Egypt, with Lord
Cochrane in Chill; he travel
ed in Central America and
Mexico when those countries we're little
known to Europeans, and as long as 1870
the Government gave him an annuity OF
two thousand francs for some OF his pic |
lures, rather than pay him forty thou
sand francs, which was thought too high
a price. 1t was not only. the Director OF
the Ecole des Beaux Arts, by the way.
that Waldeck got the better OF; ne ma
seat at the opera which he had bought Tor
the rest Of his life, and which he occu-
pied for about two ordinary lifetlmes, to
the infinite chagrin of the management.
Indeed, people who invested on the
chances Of poor one, land he used to say
of himselft that, as he had long survived
the period when men usually die, and
kept his faculties unimpaired, there was
no apparent reason why he should not
live forever. He kept on painting pic
lures and writing elaborate works on
archaeology almost to the day OF his
death, while the young men who grew up
about him were gathered into their
graves. Only think Of man who had
known Marie Antoinette before her mar
riage: who had seen her glory and her
fall: who had walked and talked with
Danton Robesperre and Murat; who had
served with Napoleon; who, from his
studio in Pals, had seen pass before his
ewes the First Empire, Louis XVIII, and
the monarchy Of July, the revolution of
:: February, and the Second Empire. the
, 4th of September, the Commune and M.
Theirs: and who waited with the same in
! difference to see MacMahon also pass
away. 81 am the only phenomenon OF my
kind he said; like Buddha, l contem'
0 plate myself alone.' 1t would need the
pen of Hawthorne to do justice to such
history; but it is not history. that
: one can covet, though old Waldeck ap'
;. pears to have found very little of the sad
ness in it that Hawthorne would have
dwelt upon. But Waldeck was Partisan
and a cosmopolite.
Moving Day.
e Saws the Danbury News: One of thu
y , most disastrous elements in moving is {
small boy with an inspiring disposition
y If he carries anything. it must be chair
l. which he takes on his head with the bacl
to the front, so as to prevent him from
= seeing where he is going, and, with tn
erect legs in range of the chandelier ant
&c upper door castings. Thus equipped, h
g strikes military step, impriovising hi
: mouth into trumpet, and starts out. II
less than a quarter Of an hour he has tina
u chair safely on the cart where it is no
wanted, and is hurrying back after an
n other. Before the carman has returne
, for the second load, the one boy had de
&c veloped into eight, each boy with chair
: each boy under feet, and each boy max
ing as much noise as a planning mill on
nc damp day. If a boy can't get chair
carry he wants two bed posts. lie want
- two SO he can carry one under each arm
Then he starts down stairs. First tn
~ ~ posts cross each other at tee front an
Id nearly throw him down, then they eros
at the back, the front ends fly off at
cd tangent, one of them digging into the ca
no cimined wall, and the other entangling
tn the banis:ers. But he won't let one
co them 60, but hangs on to both with exa
perating obstinacy. In the meantime II
at carman, who is working by the load an
rai not by the day, is waiting at the foot
the stairs, and wishing that he had tn
Ter bow back Of the Rocky mountains #
about fifteen minutes; and the anxio'
iot father, with q straw bed in his arms al
ers his ewes full of dust is at the head OF Il
are stairs waiting to come down. and vocife
rts atinS at the top of his voice. until Il
res dust from the tick gets into his thro
mo and precipitates him into violent tit
ler coughing. By the time the third load
on the way, the novelty Of helping car
at furniture is worn off to the boy, and
and his companions are firing rubbi
er. from the garnet at each other. or fooli
I'd. with the horse just as some heavy obJe
the is being lifted into the cart. The b'
md plan for moving family that has b
one is to get him half bushel Of frozen +
tatoes to throw, and set him out IN t
up, suburbs until the affair is over.
ice. It is singular the influence q s.ove-pl
Ike. has upon q married man. There is not
air, inc in this world he respects SO much.
sks, passing load Of furniture may, IN its g
ell eral appearance. be so grotesque as
Ill call forth the merriment of the thoug
less young. but if there is piece OF sto
out pipe in it no longer than hat ne
laugh. We don't care who the man
lok- how he has been brought up, what IS
nm. position, wealth or influence, there
lied that about length Of stove-pipe VIII
Sed takes hold upon his very soul with
five forca no l. helnless to resist. And
Its married man who can stand within rea
wing ing distance Of stove-pipe without +
he'd. ing his heart throb, his hands clineh,
and hair rise, and his throat grow dry
per- husky. is an anomaly which does not
ist. Stove-pipe has only one ingredi'
i me and that is contrariness. 1t is the m