The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-11-01
WOMAN.

| Eternal joy and everlasting love,
| -Otray.
| Woman dear woman, thou'rt still the same
| While beauty breathes through soul or frame;
While man possesses heart or eyes,
| Woman's bright empire never dies.
Moore.
The bleakest rock upon the loneliest heath
| Feels in its barrenness some touch of spring,
| And in the April dew or beam Of May
| Its moss and Ichen freshen and revive;
And thus the heart most scared to human pleasure,
| Melts at the tear-joys in the smile-of woman.
| Beaumont.
| Oh, womani in our hours Of ease
| Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
| And variable as the shade
By the light, quivering aspen made:
When pain and anguish wiring the brow.
A ministering angel thou!
Scott.
| Poetic lays of ancient times were won't
to tell how the bold warrior returning
from the fight would doff his plumed
helmet and, reposing from his tolls, lay
bare his weary limbs that woman's hand
might pour into their wounds the healing
balm. But never a wearied knight or
warrior, covered with the dust of bat
tle-feld, was more in need of woman's
soothing power than are those careworn
sons of mental or physical toll who
| struggle for the bread of life in our more
peaceful and enlightened days. And
still, though the romance of the castle,
the helmet, the waving plume, and the
Clarion wild and high,
may all have vanished from the scene,
the charm of woman's influence lives as
brightly in the picture of domestic Joy
as when she placed the wreath of victory
on the hero's brow. Nay, more so, for
there are deeper sensibilities at work,
thoughts more profound and passions
more intense in our great theater of in
tellectual and moral strife, than where
the contest was for martial fame, and
force of arms procured tor each COM
petitor his share of glory or of wealth.
Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, was a
woman of the greatest beauty and the
first genius. She taught him his refined
maxims OF policy, his lofty imperial elo-
quence-nay, even composed the
speeches on which SO great a share of
his reputation WAS founded. The best
men in Athens frcquented her house and
brought their wives to receive lessons of
economy and right department. Socra-
ties himself was her pupil.
Guyot, the statesman and historian,
owed much of his success to his wife's
cooperation.
The wife of Louis Galvani daughter
of Prof. Galezzi, under whom he had
studied anatomy, being woman Of
quick observation, noticed that the leg
of frog, placed under an electrical ma
chine, became convulsed when touched
with knife, and series of experiments
out of this led to the discovery of new
system of physiology, ever since called
"Galvanism.
The wife of Lavoisier, the French
chemist, not only could perform his sci
entlfc experiments, but even engraved
the plates which illustrated his "Ele
ments."
Huber, the blind man, who wrote the
best book on bees, derived his knowl
edge of their habits and instincts from
the observations of his wife.
Mary Cunitz, one of the creates
geniuses in the sixteenth century, wa,
born in Silesia. She learned language
with amazing facility, and understoo,
German, French, Polish, italian, Latin
Greek and Hebrew. She attained
knowledge of the sciences wi b equa
ease; she was skilled in history, physic
poetry, painting, music and playing upo1
instruments; and yet they we're only 81
amusement. She more particularly ap
piled herself to mathematics, and es
pecially to astronomy, which she mad
her principal study, and was ranked il
the number of the most able astrono
mers of her time. Her Astronomical
tables acquired her prodigious reputa
ton.
The wife of Alphonse de Lamartine
the French poet, was mistress of man,
languages, and excelled both in must
and painting, and was also brillian
writer.
In the stormy days of 1913 her bus
band wrote diligently to free himsel
from debt. She suffered acuteIy TO
him, whose honor and fortune the,
seemed trembling in the balance. TIL
delicate face became wrinkled and tn
sweet voice was often tremulous witt
anxiety. Madame Lamartine was ofte1
the amanuensis and proof-reader of he
husband.
ABOUT C4BLE TELEGR4PHING
The cable battery contains dozel
cells. Ineed hardly say that the metho,
used in cable practice differs from
ordinary telegraphy. The term applied
, to this method is " induction" I hay
not space for its explanation, but one O
its features is the reflection of tn
needle. The cheapest message on tn,
cable is rs cents, and is limited to on,