Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-03-14

of SEQ, OOO sGS5GS 81 ana sent the whole ram
lily into exile.
IL Mr.. Grenville had not carried, in
1865, his memorable resolution as TO the
expediency Of charging stamp duties on
the plantations of America, the western
world might still have been under Brit
ish rule. In connection with this mat
ter, there is another slight, albeit re-
markable. circumstance, which may he
told in Thackeray's own words. ut
was strange" says he. ~that, in a savage
forest of Pennsylvania. a young Virgin
ian officer should fire a shot, and waken
up a var which was TO last for sixty
years, which was to owe his own country
and pass into Europe, to cost France her
American colonies, to sever our from us
and create the great western republic; TO
rage over the old world when extin-
guished in the new; and of all the myr-
lads engaged in the vast contest, to leave
the prize of the greatest fame with him
who struck the first blow
Ii the nose Of Cleopatra had been
shorter, says Pascal, the condition of the
world would have been different. His
meaning is, that if Cleopatra had had a
nose short to deformity she would have
failed to attract Antony, who would not
have been drawn into the conduct which
eliminated in iIe loss of the battle of
Actium, which loss made way for the
close of the Roman republic in the .inau-
guration of the Roman empire.
Dyspepsia has been the cause Of many
momentuous crisis. A leg of mutton is
said TO have controlled the tide of Leip.
sizes battle: and the consequences Of the
indigestion of n certain duchess are pro-
verbal.
The great failure Of the potato crop in
Ireland cannot he called a slight circum-
stance, yet it was comparatively slight
compared with the momentous changes
which it brought about; for the repeal of
the corn laws was FASTENED by the potato
famine. AS Lord Bcaconstield has OBJ
served: This mysterious but universal
sickness of q single root changed the his
tory of the world"
Many men have been drawn 10 their
destiny by the most trivial occurrences.
Fcnimore Cooper became a novelist
through his wife's challenge. One even
ing, while reading a novel. he threw il
down. saying: Il believe | could write a
better book mySrlf. ''Lct me see YOU
do it," said his wife. with n smile. In a
few days be- had written several charters
NJ ''i'rcraEtiUT, which, when finished.
he published At biz, own expense. The
novel attracted lt'lc attention; but it
gave Cuoprr an mixing of his capacity
for story writing. and the spy" his
next novel. appealed so strongly to the
patriotic sympJthies Of his couutrymen
that it lecame a great success. Haw-
thorne, too, was induced 10 write the
''Scarlet Letter by a remark Of his
wife.
If Cowlev had not found the ''Faery
Queen in his mothers parlor it is Just
possible that he would never have been a
poet. Giottn one Of the early Florentine
painters. might have remained a rude
shepherd hoy il a sheep drawn by him
upon a stone had not attracted the notice
Of Cimabue. Opie might have persisted
in ~obscurity if he had not looked oyerthe
shoulder of his companion. Mark Oates.
while. he was drawing a butterfly. Had
his friend and companion escaped the
thunderstorm at Erfurt, Luther might
have been a lawyer. -Chambers' Jour-
nal.