The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-12-04

| AM da's de bes' ov reasons.
| The Southern, BiUoMac.
CONCEIT OF GENIUS.
The Sublime EEotism Of Napoleon
Rousseau, DanlOn, Mirabeau and
| Other Famous Men.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont has JUS
published an interesting book, entitled
uSelf Consciousness of Noted Persons
1t is a book new to the public, and
contains some unique and interesting
anecdotes of men famous in all coun'
| tries AMI ali ages. Here are some
specimen bricks;
Napoleon once said, 'tThere is noih-
iDy in war 1 cannot do with my own
hands" "An4r all that have done" "
ne exclaimed, one day, as If to stop
he mouth IF Il tlatterer, sis II anything
compared with what Christ has done e.
He told Las Casas that it was after
slorming the bridge at Lods "that ne
first conceived he WAS to do great
things" Said Napoleon Que day, when
returning from parade, "Bourienne, do
you hear those acclanations which stu
continue? They are as sweet to me ~
the voice of Josephine" Continued
success made Napoleon excessively
vain. A courtier once said that God
made Napoleon, and rested" Bona
parte, it is said, did not think the
utterance blasphemOus nor even ex-
aggerative.
John G. SAKE, one of the wittiest OF
modern poets, met friend some years
ago just AS tie WAS coming out OF the
sanctun, of the Boston Post. 81 have
lust left with Colonel Greene the finest
sonnet tnat has been written since the
day of Sir John SuckIing."
James Russell Lowell in his younger
days gave utterance TO the following
There's Lowell. who's striving Parnassus
to climb,
With a whole bale Of ssnss tied together with
He might get on alone spite of bramles and
But he can't with that bundle he has on his
shoulders.
The top of the hill he will never come ni8h
reaching
Till he learns the distinction between
singing and preaching.
His Tyre has some chords that would ring
pretty we'll.
But he would rather by half make drum
of the shell,
And rattle away till he's AS old AS Methusa-
lem,
At the head of a march to the last New
Jerusalem"
or Mirabeau, ChnieaubriaDd relates
that when a young nan ne met and sal
next him at dinner, when the converse
ton turned upon the subject of Mira
beau's enemies. Being II young man I,
he had not uttered a word; but Mira-
beau, he says, "iooked me full in the
face with his eyes of wickedness aud
genius, and, taying his brosd hand 90
my shoulders, said: They will never
forgive me my superiority.
Richeiieu WAS as vain as he was
ambitious. Upon his personal activity
he especially prided himself. A noble
man of the house of Grammont one
day found him employed in jumping,
and with S0uOir fare, Frenchman and
cour,ier, offered to jump against him.
He suffered tho cardinal I" jump
higher, and soon found himself re-
ward, Il by An appointment.
At TITS tttai DantoH, IN reply to The
ordinary cour, query, said' "My
name is Danlon-a name 'OierabIy well
known in the revolution my abode
VIII soon be annihilatiuD, but l shall
live in the pantheon of history"
In his song to "My Dear Love' the
MARQUIS of Montrose wrote:
.I'n make thee famous by my pen
And ,torious by my sword"
Montaigne told the King OF France
when the latter informed him he liked
his essays, "Then your Majesty must
needs like noe my book is myself
When asked how many great writer's
| there were in the age of Louis XIV,
Boii.au answered, / only know three
Corueille, Mollpre ami myself
Walt Whitman once wrote: Divine
am I, inside and out. / make holy
whatever / touch or atH touched from.
When Louis XIV, died Roussehu
sadly observed, "Thsre were two deg
pised men in France, the King and l.
| am now alone"
Judge Emory Speer disclosed al
dinner party this week quaint char
scier he met while campaigning fo'
| Congress in the Georgia mountains
Among the stories told of the noun
| taineer were these: He WAS asked ny
Judge Speer il he was not wounded
! during the war eyes" ne said 81
| were shot in the leg at Nicksburg
and / bain't found out to this day wht
il were that shot me nor what he sho
me fur" At another time he fell int
a mining pit and was very neari!
killed.. He was extrica'ed by a friend
who said to him; "You must have feI
full thirty feet" Yes, / did, and
the hole had a been deeper I'd fel
furder."