The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-07
ESTRAYS.
Model of bill to he presented to an Ameri-
can visitor to the Exposition:
Francs.

The victim may complain that this IS rather
high, in which case he should be informed
that the towers OF NOtre Dame are higher
still.
OF Lord Beaconsfield innumerable mOts are
Just now current Here is one: "a Conserva-
tive peer was expressing to the Premier the
anxiety with which he looked forward to his
prolonged absence from England. 1t won't
be long business, was the reassuring reply;
and after short pause, Lord Beaeonsfield
added, we mean to carry the position by a
kOo oil mang coup de mann. The peer in
question moved away, muttering as he went,
They may say what they like about his be-
ing foreigner about his character being I'M
English; but, at any rate, there is one thing
that is Enthusiastically British and that is
his French
tChcago Tribune London letter.
The American matron in Westminster
Abbey moves along corridors and over the
bones of the mighty departed in a state of
badly suppressed dismay Used to walking
reverently around the grave of even the hum
blest mortality, to see herself and brood
actually treadtng upon the most majestic OF
tombs is more to her than paganism. On a
second tour of the Abbey l was in the train
of such q dame-a fairly-read, intelligent
lady, brimfull of reverence, and who at home
worships her minister and pays regular
respectful Sunday evening visits to the local
cemetery She will forget her jaunt through
Westminster. Her running fire Of horror
came out In undertones in this wise: "Anna
dear, you are standing right on Ben JOnSOn !"
flames, my son, don't straddle over Macau-
Law in that heather fashion" "Mr Jones,
you ought to be ashamed to step on poor
Charles Dickens" Mercy on me, here am
walking across Dryden" and the miserable
woman sat square down on bench above the
bones of the first Archbishop Of Canterbury,
and gave up trying to be even half way
respectful in a minister whose every passing
stone is slab covering somebody who once
made the world wonder and tremble.
| AN INCIDENT OF BULL RUN.-A well known
Judge in one Of Pennsylvania counties was
| in Washington at the outbreak of our civil
war At the time Of the first battle of Bull
Run when Northern politicians generally
placed implicit faith in Stewards sanguine
| prophecy concerning the shortness of the re-
| tom went down to see the fun of our ''firSt
and decisive victory" ~ over the COnfederacy.
| The Pennsylvania judge was among the num-
| Der, and rode upon his horse to the scene Of
action Having dismounted to view the bat
tie he became separated from his horse
When the panic seized the Northern army,
some more agile and more fortunate specta-
tor took possession of the judges animal and
hastily sped back to Washington; and the
Judge, who was corpulent and, as BELTS a
Judge, dign1fied in bearing, was compelled tC
loot it. Putting and blowing, and swinging
and wringing his hands, his Honor was left
far behind by multitudinous light weights
But all who passed him he greeted with the
same agitated, GREATNESS queries: Cam
somebody stop this fight Can't this afTail
be compromised p
The judges neighbors have not yet forgot
ten his questions, or the length of time re
quired to answer them; and they often to thi'
day have laugh at his expense.