The Bossier banner., 1882-11-23
THE STORY OF A NEWSPAPER.

All oud chance enables me to lift the
curtain on a scene century and three
years old, and from the glimpses of real
lie IN dumb show on the stage YOU can
make tragedies and romances enough.
unearthed the other day half dozen
volumes from a dusty bookshelf. which
proved to be the Journal Politique, pub
lished weekly in Geneva, in I779s bv
Michael Lambert. The leaves -thumbed
by how many readers when WASHINGTON
was President here in PHILADELPHIA
thin and torn and coffee-colored. but ont
OF them that dead generation starts up
alive and real. M. Lambert had a sys-
tenn OF dividing his newspaper into com
partments, one being allotted to each
country in the world, and through these
compartments now we have glimpses, as
.hroIgh long unopened windows, into
the daily life of Marie Antoinette, or
queen Charlotte, or Catherine in Peters
oourg Gas they called it them, or even
Of OF Son Excellence G. Washington a
fIhliiadelphie.n t Watched from day to
uay IN this way, these historic person.
agessuddenly cease to be the articulated
skeletons that we have studied in books
since our school days; they are flesh and
blood talk and walk in full sight. We
crltlcise the clothes they wear and look
alter their health each morning.
ihls week the good Madame Elizabeth
is innoculated, and we 90 with all Paris
70 mass to pray for her every day before
breakfast, and then read the bulletins
posted up concerning her progress; and.
month later, S. M. Louis XVI. takes a
cold In his head when out driving on a
camp day, and we are all anxious until we
near That Monsieur has found assuaee-
nlene to the infinite relief of the Royal
famlly and of his devoted France. De-
Voted France that had already planned
. certain cure for all colds in that
royal head! ,'''
ihat Incompatible monster, Russian
SIalharlne, parades every week in M.
hamoerts columns as the benionant
mother OF her people. Intellectually she
was century older than they. That is
stsr, .ssi A good many of our very latest
aaVanceS, at which we are all vet still
uapplng our hands, were projected a
Tuh'1ty u ago by this clear Drained. gross
u'ooued w woman, and We're sneered at bv
~ h9fope as visionary absurdities. She
~ nseu 'h The Importance of opening China
|" the world, not for the sake of trade.
uss mat "the arts of the East might be |
|u.oaght to Europe" She proposed |
s,enalng twenty sons of Russian Boyards
VI -. eking to study Oriental art, and in
ao hseu the Emperor in return to allow |
Sepalalion Se!l of as many noble Chinese
IUe!ns ;,a. TO visit Petersburg to study civil
20. ~aa..,on-heaven save the mark!
4 ut w originated precisely the same plan
n'uh ~ IS under consideration this winter
Sh s9I 'ne exploration of the Arctic Sea.
by s oegan to establish trading-posts
ne,a lse,a the mouth of the Lena to the Persian
~ aI ITO form base of operation on land
pa ,or vessels seeking a passage through
nsaatring Straits.'T Her ukase on this
saolect is almost identical in idea and
co colas with Mr.. Benefits letter to the
a'1ngnefnment " dated February, 1882.
|. Ine parbaric splendor of the great
r. .ight OF the North reminds us of the
,an. aaiuu tables of the magnificent, malig-
,a1I ,dls kakshas. She literally showers
S.S and priceless jewels about her on
l. nhh and discomfort of her court; a
sign S.s visitor amuses her by witty re-
~, ~ anu she sends him a casket crusted
Il IN lsil saillamonds; penniless Tartar from
.esteppes tickles her humor, and he
s.elyes !. l.1e that day leaden box contain
llesa to castle, estate and four
Ousand serfs. One can imagine how
iSsS1 and Tartar, being shrewd fellows, |