The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-05-29
JUNE MAGAZINES.
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Bohemianism The Latin Quarter, we are
told is thus named,
Recausc, several hundred years ago, the
nuniI was ordered to speak Latin as soon as
he entered the Sorbonne or any OF the other
colleges situated therein. la class and out OF
class his duty was to talk Latin; first incon-
grous Latin, then amclioratcd Latin, otherwise
Called eongruous. HIS Latin went with HIM
into the street and the cabaret A common
language was necessary to the University,
embracing several colleges where students
came from different parts of the civilized
world,--and 1t was Latin. In the beginning
it was kitchen Latin, and IN time It was
purified to the requirements OF the professor
Col Waring's paper on Dutch Farming
gives some charming and suggestive pic
lures of the cleanliness and thrift OF that
strange scabound people. Mr.. A. B.Johnson'
secretary of the late Charles Sumner tells
some Characteristic anecdotes about the sen
sto,, one of the most amusing of which refers
to the scare for Summers safety at the time
of the Lincoln assassination, and when The
lite of secretary Seward and others was threat
ened. It will be remembered the newspa-
pers at the time stated that two rufiians on
the same evening had called twice at the
residence of Senator Sumner but each time,
happily, he was not at home. No subsequent
investigation ever revealed any clue as to
who these rufiians were, until now, for the
first time, Mr. johnson clears up the mystery,
as follows: .
4 r. Al, ataIfO mi pc
of affairs until after the Senator'S death, when
accidentally came upon the trail which lea
TO the discovery of the identity Of the suspi-
cious characters, and received from their
own lps, they having little idea Of the com
motion their course had caused, on account
of their visit to Mr.. Summers house on that
eventful night. They were Members OF the
Massachusetts Delegation 10 Congress,-one
the late Chairman OF the Committee of Ways
and Means, now Mr.. Summers successor in
the Senate, Henry l.. Dawes and the other
his friend Mr.. Gooch.
The facts were thus detailed; Mr.. Dawes
and Mr.. Gooch had been to Richmond, anu
returning to Washington, had made tour
of the battle. fields about Manassas, reaching
Washing ton on the night Of the fourteenth Of
April, 1855, about sunset After supper they
started out for a walk, Joking each other rs
to their appearance. And well they might.
Their clothing was rough, travelworn, dusty,
and even ud.stained. Their hands, faces
and necks were much sun.burned, in spite OF
the wide brimmed hats they wore. Each car
ried a stick or, rather a cudgel, cut as sow
enr on some battle field, and the hair and
beard of each were longer than usual Thus
accoutred, they concluded to call on Mr..
Sumner. He then had chambers at the cor
ner of + and Thirteenth streets; they knew
the house well, so, without ringing, they
mounted the stairs and raped at his door,
using their sticks When 1t appeared that
The Senator was out they left his house, and,
passing on, concluded to call on the lresi-
dent, There again they were disappointed,
for 1t appeared, when they rung at the White
House, that Mr.. Lincoln had gone with some
friends to the theatre. On their way back to
the hotel, they stopped again at Mr.. Sumaers
lodgings, and again went up to his rooms,
and raped at his door The noise they
made brought seivan: to the foot Of the
stairs They leaned over the balustrade and
her When did the Senator go out
Did he say when he should return Would
It, they querled between themselves, be worth
while to wait? And then they laughed at the
evident fear the servant had OF two such
rough looking customers. AS they were
quite fatigucd, they went back to their hotel,
and In the morning woke to learn that While
they were last at Mr. Sum ner's lodgings, the
shot had been fired that took the life Of Mr..
Lincoln.
One of the most amusing papers Of the
number is Clarence Cooks, on household at
fairs, with many pretty illustrations, Seven.
oaks" moves along rapidly and erandly.
Frank Vincent relates visit to Benarcs, with
incidents like the following
One morning two snake-charmers called at
the hotel Around their nccks huge boa Con
s,riciors were twined and each carried jars
of smaller snakes, and one of scorpions. The
performance consisted in taking the veno-
nous SHAKES from the jars in which they lay
coilcd, and, in picking them up, the men
placing their fingers in the reptiles mouths
l-tantalizing them to a frenzy, and then wrap
ping the whole about their heads and neeks,
where the Kissing, writing mass presented u
! frightful spectacle.
| A cobra bit the finger OF one of the men
! twice, and each time hc immediately made
use Of various charms-placed a small round
stone over the cut flesh, smelt of a piece OF
wood resembling flag.roo,, and then used IL
for marking circle about his wrist. This
he told me would etiectually prevent the alb
: sorption Of the poison into the system. The
stone draws out the blood, and with it, OF
course, the virus. 1t Is generally supposed
however, and with much reason, that the poi
son glands of the cobra have been removed
in the first instance By the crafty snake-charm
ers Several times the corbras advanced TN
Ill within foot OF my char, but turned bac'
AT comnand o! their masters. During III
5 entertainment one of the men played at IN
c ,ervals upon sort of fiagcolet. The scorpion
advertisement consisted in stringlng number
of them together las the Whips OF the Furie
are made) which the men ihcn hung upol
their lips, nose and ears.
p Li;ieu'> Living Age.
d Following are the contents o. the Me- H.
c May 18th and 22d
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