Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-12-05
HERE and THERE.
Imagine NV Surnrisse.

Imagine MY Surprise.
saw maid with soulful eyes;
We met upon the street
She slipped ana fell-the trencherous Ice
Ihelped her 10 her feet.
was in love, way down in Iovs;
Ny heart was all aglow.
She was the farest being that
I'd ever seen, you know.
She blushed ard thought to thank me, bus
Ny Cesar. when she said,
1.-THE next time. sir, I'd thank you much
To4urn your horrid headl''
CoNGREss has met. and still the country 10
not happy.
TIE Chicago girl always foOts the bills of
the household
A JEALOUS politician is said TO be contin-
ually strewing banana eels in the path of
his adversary.
IF villain dangled from every tree in
the land the inadoquacy OF the American
forest would still be terribly felt.
TORONTO, Canada, has sent US an abscond-
ed bank cashier. Unless he shall prove as
good some we have teadered Canada,
Uncle Sam should refuse the present.
WHEN great ruler dies in Europe some
one calls in his ear three times. Here in
Kentucky one cali is considered sufficient A
friend steps reverently to the couch Of the
deceased and whispers-not necessarily loud
Let's take drink If he makes no re-
ply then he is dead beyond peradventure. and
the funeral is proceeded with.
ssDo YoU know" said Col Wallace Gruelle
to me. 'tthat placed Gen. John A. Logan
in nomination for Congress the first time he
ever rana' Being solicited to narrats the
incidents connected with the event, the vet
eran editor continued: at was before the
war down in the district of Illinois known as
Egypt This Congressional district contained
thirty eight counties, and included the whole
Southern end of the State. An almost unan-
imous pro-slavery sentiment dominated the
people, as that portion of the State had been
settled by people from Kentucky. Vir-
GINA and Tennessee, and in the southern
extremity slavery practically existed. I
had been employed to edit = party paper at
Marshall called True Democracy, and the
convention before which Logan was a Demo-
cratic candidate net in that town. Black
Jack not only reflected the views of his con.
stltuents at that time, but in his private and
public utterances went beyond even the
most Jealous of them. When the conven-
tion met | was chosen to make the nominate
ing speech and was seconded by Gen.
Anthony Thornton, q relation, il mistake
not, of GEN. Singleton. Logan was present,
and made speech accepting the nomination.
''Out of about 43, 900 votes in the district
Logan's opponent, Charley Constable, who
was running on the Union ticket, only got
/, 100. being defeated by Q majority of over
49, Johns grammar. which has caused
90 much fun. was just as bad then as now,
but he also knew what he wanted to say rs
well then as LATER
KING THEBAw. the recently depossd mon
arch of Burmah, is only &c years old. His
name had become familiar 10 the world
rather through force of circumstance than
on account Of any unusual merit in himself,
but the fact is suggestive of the many in
stances in which men have left the imprint
of their individuality on the world at an age
which finds the average individual in OBJ
security. The Emperor Nero died at
30. Bichat, the French anatomist,
whom Buckle adjudges to have been
the greatest intellect the world had seen
after Aristotle, was only 81 when 8 fever,
contracted by intense and perssvering APP
plication in dissecting-room, cut short his
career. And Buckle himself, than whom no
writer Of the nineteenth century had more
comprehensive mind, dad at1t41. Charles
Dickens had written s'Pickwfck. " 'Oliver
Twist" and nicholas Nickleby'' before
he had finished his twenty-seventh year,
which three books would have placed
him in the first rank Of English
novelists. Schubert, whose position among
the great musical composers is secure, was
thirty-one at mis- death, and the case of
Thomas Chatterten, the young English poet
of the last century, and his unfortunate end
at the age of eighteen, Gre familiar to all.
Marlowe, who had he lived would have
rivsled the great Shakespeare himself. only
thirty-one when Austerlitz was fought.
OF course the case of William Pitt,
who was Chancellor Of the British Ex-
chequer at twenty -three. and Prime Minis
ter sc 20, will rise to every readers miad.
These are few of the giant minds which
stand ont like bold mountain psaks from the
general level Of the race, but many more
less striking careers could be named. There
is one induction almost irresistible from these
facts: Genius is Unborn. That something
which grasps and elevates q man or woman
high and clear into the focus OF the general
gaze is above and beyond the sublime. Is is
not definable, but iu is no less distinct and
positive, ana never lacks recognition.