The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-03-11

. No matter how much each man WINS,
! You will at last the spade turn up,
And dig the players grave. ~ :"
PARVENU GENEALOGIEs.
g.f1 RI, [From the London Standard.l
Among the less authentic anecdotes
him as tearing up the genealogy which
obsequious heralds had prepared for
him, on the ground that. he was ssthe
first of the Bonapartes." Yet it is per-
fectly certain that the parvenu en-
peror indited u book of elaborate cere-
monial, and was as careful to chronic
clio the roll of his ancestral sscittfdini"
as he was to postdate his birth by one
year, 30 that he could claim to have
been born while Corsica was a part of
France. After Soachim Murat had
ssaspired to descend to the throne of
Naples, an array of brand-new ances-
tors appeared In the Ltbro iD'Cro, and
henceforth only disagreeable people re-
been garcon in Partisan care.
Bernadotte, when he became Prince
of Ponte CorvO, displayed q tendency
to silence regarding his father the no.
tary, VINO, when his son assembled the
Swedish throne, Suddenly acquired a
convfently noble lineage Beaumar-
chais, after he became u courtier, osten-
tatiously spoke of the days when he
was a watchlnaker's apprentice. But
at the same time he took good care to
let fall the timepiece of tho sneering
noble, who begged him to see what
was wrong with it,. Lord Campbell
was the son Of humble Fifeshire
minister. Yet, by the time he was a
20 I'M k>rrn - 10
about his arms and ancestors, and soon
afterward he had acquired Il touching
belief in his descent from some of those
Scottish kings whom M. De Witt has
portrayed. s3 F ii lEt
We have all heard the story of the
Highland chief who was indignant
when a fiatterer hintcd that his auces-
tors had entered the ark with Noah,
sfar the Mactavishes always had a
boat of their own" In a Welsh gem
eaolyy of prodigious length there is
this casual remark in the middle of il:
"About this time came the fiood''-a
claim as modest as that of Rabelai's
Pantagruel, or of the Spanish family
In whose gallery there is IA picture Of
Noah ushering into his vessel gentle
man with a bag wig and sword, with a
bundle of papers under his arm esten-
tatiously labelled ssThe title deeds of
of the Quiros Estates"
Republicanism is no barrier to the
pursuit. A "Knickerbocker familyn
in New York looks down from an
aristocratic height on the descendants
of the Jucobean Adventures; while
there is not Il wider gulf between the
lineal representatives ola Saxon Thegn
and the last City Baronet than there
is between the Bostoner who olives on
the family homestead and the Irish
immigrant who has just been landed
from the Cunarier's steerage. .r,.
To have "coachman with u bug
on his hat'' is the pride of Fifth
Avenue aristocrat; and ttBoss Tweed"
when he started a carriage, displayed
on its panels the arms Of the Marquis
of Tweeddale. Genealogy in Itself is
an agreeable study when 1t deals with
sages, warriors and statesmen. 1t is
only when it lands us near Newgate or
New South Wales that the science be-
comes embarrassing. DIR. johnson
politely begged Mrs. Porter not to be
distressed simply because "one of her
uncles had been hanged, for he had
several who ought to have been - and
Sydney Smith, when 4uestioned about
his grandfather, quietly observed that
all he knew was that che disappeared
about Assize time, and the family had
asked Tor no particulars"
An ant, apparently sick, went STUN
ping along the dome of nest with its
ieelers hanging loosely. Several other
ants approached 1t aud touched it with
their feelers. AT last II was taken up
by them and carried to some water
near BY, aud many times dipped In it.
and with care brought back to the ant
hill.
Major Pond, Henry Ward Beecher's
featuring agent, is trying to be di-
vorced from his wife, who is a profess
sionai~ musician known as Isabella
Stone. -.fsst.
Pigs and elephants are the latest do.
signs in mems scarf pins.