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Review Of Literature, The|Drama, &C.
gun-room and many a cabin . The immense superiority , in point of force , of the slaver , adds the victory to the thousand other extraordinary conquests won—and to be won—by the flag " that braves the battle and the breeze . "
Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
The Cedar of Lebanon . —Like all great creations of antiquity , the cedar has its history and tradition . Mothers have told it to mothers , and these again have told it to us , that the traveller Jussieu , who first introduced it in France , conveyed it from Lebanon in the crown of his hat . The passage was boisterous and long , fresh water , that mother ' s milk to the ocean ' s child , grew scarce . Water was measured to everybod Two lasses to the captainone a-piece to the sailorsand half
y . g , , a glass to each of the passengers . The savant , to whom the cedar belonged , was a passenger ; he , too , had his half g lass . The cedar was not accounted a passenger , it had nothing ; but the cedar was the protege of the savant ; he placed it close by his cabin and warmed it with his breath ; he gave it half of his half allowance of water , and kept it in health during the voyage . The savant drank so little , and the cedar so muchthat they were debarked at the portthe one in a dying
, , condition , the other tall and superb—full six inches high . At the douane , the officer insisted on searching the hat , pretending that diamonds lace , and everything , in short , that a custom-house lynx could bethink himself of , were concealed in a hat . In his zeal , nothing would serve but to drag the poor cedar up by the root , on the lying pretext of some contraband traffic . Upon this the savant wept
bitterly . He spoke of the cedar in terms so affecting , quoted his Bible so well , with many fine passages—where the cedar is seen at the birthp lace of Moses ; among the choice relics perfumed with myrrh of the fair Queen of Sheba ; in the dressing up of the ark ; and , lastly , amidst the ornaments and rites of the tabernacle—that the man of exactions was moved with compassion , and took only twenty-five louis , leaving the cedar unharmed in its border of felt . Released , like a smuggled
concern , or a bundle of Silva ' s cigars , it was once more placed in the earth . Here it was screened by a tile , and to keep it from being too nearly , approached , they placed an inscription behind it in the Latin of the Jardin des Plantes , a sort of verbiage rhetoric , that even plants must submit to while in their noviciate . By and by it became so tall that they removed both the tile and the Latin . Afterwards it grew higher than a professor , and threw so much shadow around , that a
nurse and her bantling could find shelter under its branches . The child and the nurse ( meanwhile the tree having waxed strong ) called other children and nurses about them ; these last , in their turn , made acquaintance , and the children formed friendships . So much for civilization ; the rudiments of ivhich may be seen to have root , and to spring from u hat . N ' abattes pas la cedre du Liban . Reverence the cedar of Lebanon .
Duel Extraordinary . —A lieutenant in the navy , while ascending the river in a steam-boat , became involved in a quarrel with three persons from Arkansas , two of them brothers . He was challenged by one of the brothers , and endeavoured to " back out , " but the other party insisted upon a fight , and a gentleman volunteering to be second for the officer , they ivent ashore to settle their difference . At the first fire the VOL . in . It
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Review Of Literature, The|Drama, &C.
gun-room and many a cabin . The immense superiority , in point of force , of the slaver , adds the victory to the thousand other extraordinary conquests won—and to be won—by the flag " that braves the battle and the breeze . "
Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
The Cedar of Lebanon . —Like all great creations of antiquity , the cedar has its history and tradition . Mothers have told it to mothers , and these again have told it to us , that the traveller Jussieu , who first introduced it in France , conveyed it from Lebanon in the crown of his hat . The passage was boisterous and long , fresh water , that mother ' s milk to the ocean ' s child , grew scarce . Water was measured to everybod Two lasses to the captainone a-piece to the sailorsand half
y . g , , a glass to each of the passengers . The savant , to whom the cedar belonged , was a passenger ; he , too , had his half g lass . The cedar was not accounted a passenger , it had nothing ; but the cedar was the protege of the savant ; he placed it close by his cabin and warmed it with his breath ; he gave it half of his half allowance of water , and kept it in health during the voyage . The savant drank so little , and the cedar so muchthat they were debarked at the portthe one in a dying
, , condition , the other tall and superb—full six inches high . At the douane , the officer insisted on searching the hat , pretending that diamonds lace , and everything , in short , that a custom-house lynx could bethink himself of , were concealed in a hat . In his zeal , nothing would serve but to drag the poor cedar up by the root , on the lying pretext of some contraband traffic . Upon this the savant wept
bitterly . He spoke of the cedar in terms so affecting , quoted his Bible so well , with many fine passages—where the cedar is seen at the birthp lace of Moses ; among the choice relics perfumed with myrrh of the fair Queen of Sheba ; in the dressing up of the ark ; and , lastly , amidst the ornaments and rites of the tabernacle—that the man of exactions was moved with compassion , and took only twenty-five louis , leaving the cedar unharmed in its border of felt . Released , like a smuggled
concern , or a bundle of Silva ' s cigars , it was once more placed in the earth . Here it was screened by a tile , and to keep it from being too nearly , approached , they placed an inscription behind it in the Latin of the Jardin des Plantes , a sort of verbiage rhetoric , that even plants must submit to while in their noviciate . By and by it became so tall that they removed both the tile and the Latin . Afterwards it grew higher than a professor , and threw so much shadow around , that a
nurse and her bantling could find shelter under its branches . The child and the nurse ( meanwhile the tree having waxed strong ) called other children and nurses about them ; these last , in their turn , made acquaintance , and the children formed friendships . So much for civilization ; the rudiments of ivhich may be seen to have root , and to spring from u hat . N ' abattes pas la cedre du Liban . Reverence the cedar of Lebanon .
Duel Extraordinary . —A lieutenant in the navy , while ascending the river in a steam-boat , became involved in a quarrel with three persons from Arkansas , two of them brothers . He was challenged by one of the brothers , and endeavoured to " back out , " but the other party insisted upon a fight , and a gentleman volunteering to be second for the officer , they ivent ashore to settle their difference . At the first fire the VOL . in . It