The Daily Empire, 1867-07-09

of cure per Some lellow, who had been jilted, should judge, and brought to grief some fair one, thus avenges his wrongs "Eve did not know as much as daughters of tlie present day. Had thev been in her place, instead of being de ceived, they would have deceived the devil." A countryman bringing his daughter town, said, for all she wasbrought in. the country, she was a girl of sense 'Yes,' replied a pretty female, 'country seuse.' 'Why,, fajth, Madam,' replied the gentleman, 'country sense is some times better than city impudence.' Au Indian chief being asked his opinion of a cask of Maderia wine presented an officer, said ha thought it a juice ex tracied iroiu women lungue ana lions f- ( hearts, for after he had drank a bottle an tlij 1 . Tnv Tnv-j - j Tnv-j Ituji, u id o. nut nut-ill - ill nut-ill I. (It, ciHuh Iroin ?ltl' KKL al riqua it ho said he could talk for over and fight the devil. A yonnstor while perusing a chapter in tjrencsis, turning loins tnotner, quired if the people in those days used to do their sums on toe ground: . It was discovered he had been reading the pas sage, 'And the sons of man multiplied on the (ace of the earth. A widower who was accused of never having shed a tear On the occasion his wile a death aud burial, defended h conduct on the ground that she causea him to shed so many before deAth that the briny foantaiu waa teily dry. Pride is as cruel a beggar as want, and a good deal more saucy. When you have bought one lino thing you must buy more, that your appearance may be ot niece. It is easier to suppress the desire, than to satisfy all that follow It is observed that the most censorious aro generally tho least judicious; jho. having nothing to commend themselves, will be finding fault with others. mn envies the merit of another that has any of his own. "They say cotton is declining," an old lady, as she renvrved spectacles and laid down her paper, thought so,' she continued, 'for the thread X used was very feeble.'

A correspondent of the New York Her Herald - ald Herald speaking of Maximilian! bearing during liis imprisonment, aayi : Maxiinilian'icliief companion i Prince Saliu-Salra, o well remernberpd in the army of the Cumberland, and who piov piov-rd - rd piov-rd himself during the eiege one of the bmt ami bravest officer in the whole imperial service. Together ther it ami play eearlt, or dmcuia with vivid inter interest, - est, interest, not their own probable fate, hut the politics of Germany and America. With all the viacissitndc of his fortune the archduke luxes non of liis warm Sympa Sympathy - thy Sympathy for the United Staled. Anything aud everything Ameriiii has a xtrange at traction lor him. He listens to Prince Salm-Salm's reminiscence of the. great war with rapt attention; and hearing the story of Chickaniauga, Atlanta and Vicksburg often expresses his longing to visit the scenes of such memorable event. Then, the subject changing, German pol itics will coino upon tho carpet, ami Maximilian, with grave deprecatory face, will bemoan the khortsighleilness and re re-actionaiy - actionaiy re-actionaiy tendencies of his brother, tho Austviun emperor, advancing utaWmenta on his own part broad and liberal enough for any fourth of July oration. A ftrsngc picture is it nut? Maximilian, tall and erect still, his blue eyes kindling and his great blonde beard quivering with excite, ment, while Salin-Salm, from whose eye the inevitable eye-glass has fallen in the earnestness of the moment, speaks '. some of the leading episodes of the American war, and with the modesty of true bravei v claims for himself only spectator's part in the actioim he so vividly describes. A aiexican auuguou eiicirums them the while and a court martial com nosed, thev sar. of three captains and I leuteuant colonel, only waits tue woru oi lunn-eand Escobedo, tho ex-mule driver to condemn them to death.