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HE CAUGHT THE SMILE.
An Artist’s Psthstic Expsrlsnos on ths
Field of Battls.
M. Edouard Detaille, the famous
French artist, served in the Franco
PrusEian war and had the soldier’s
experience to re-enforce the artist’s
imagination. A touching anecdote
of his army days has been publish
ed in the French newspapers.
In a lull, after a half day of hard
fighting, the young Detaille heard
a faint voice calling to him.
“Comrade! Comrade Detaille!”
it called.
Detaille crawled across and in
inquired compassionately whfit he
could do for the sufferer, a splendid
ly built, blue eyed young fellow,
who was frightfully wounded.
“It was you, was it not,” was
the reply, “who drew those comical
pictures* of the Prussians — you
know—the other night”—
Detaille remembered some cari
catures that a few nights before had
aroused the merriment of his com
pany. “Yes, my poor friend, it was
I,” he admitted. “But what can I
do for you ?”
“Have you a pencil and a scrap of
paper in your pockets?” asked the
wounded man. Detaille felt and
found that he had.
“Then draw me—I beg you will
draw me,” said the young soldier,
and he gave the name and address
of his sweetheart, for whom he
wished the sketch to be made. She
had asked for a picture of him be
fore he left for the front, but in
the haste, of getting off it had not
been taken.
“Now it is all she will have, the
picture, and if you do not draw me
6he will have nothing.”
Of course Detaille complied. But
it was hard, for the poor fellow was
racked by convulsions of agony, and
the artist was almost unmanned by
sympathy. Yet, between the spasms,
the boy kept his face calm. But he
was troubled that he could not
wholly control himself.
“It is not like this I wish her to
see me,” he gasped. “But you will
draw my face between times, when
I can smile ? I cannot smile all the
time, but you will draw me then?
Not the other times. Only when 1
am smiling.”
“Only when you are smiling, my
brave friend,” promised the artist.
And presently he showed him the
sketch. “See! 1 have the smile—
there is nothing to frighten her.”
Then the battle broke forth again,
Detaille swept forward with the
charging ranks, and only after sev
eral hours could he return to where
the young hero lay. He found him
quite dead, smiling in death.
When Gas Was New.
After the invention of illuminat
ing gas early in the last century it
was a long time before English peo
ple felt really at home with it. The
authorities at Windsor castle are
said to have been under the impres
sion that the gas was on fire all the
way along the pipes. And the
Times of July 12, 1830, contained
this item: “The Duke of Wel
lington, when at Windsor a few days
ago, directed that the gas might be
cut off from the interior of the
castle by the desire of the queen,
who, we understand, entertained
apprehensions lest an accident
might be caused by explosion. Her
majesty’s wishes will, of course, be
immediately complied with, and di
rections have already been given to
the gas company for the purpose.”
A Flavor of Mustard In the Honey.
An Irishman who had offended
against the strict rule of parliament
that members should always ad
dress the house only through Mr.
Speaker, and not directly, tendered
an apology with a pungent flavor.
“Gentlemen,” he had begun on ris
ing and had been stopped instantly
by cries of “Order!” from political
opponents. For a moment he paus
ed, then resumed. “Mr. Speaker,
eor, 1 recognize that in beginning
my speech with the word gentlemen
I made a mistake, for which I am
deeply sorry, and I promise that if
the house will forgive me I will
’endeavor not to repeat the error!”
H« Was All Right.
As an express train was going
through a station one of the passen
gers leaned too far out of the win
dow, overbalanced and fell out. He
fortunately landed on a sand heap,
so that he did himself no great in
jury, but with torn clothes and not
a few bruises said to a porter who
was standing by:
“What shall I do?”
“You’re all right, mister,” said
the porter. “Your ticket allows
you to stop off.”—Exchange.
Larger Ways of Business.
“What made you take down that,
sign, ‘No Agents op Solicitors Al
lowed In This Building ?’ ”
“It*/ po use any more,” replied
the janitor. "Anybody who wants
to take down the pnblio’s spue
change nowadays gets out a pros
pectus and uses postage stamps.”—
Chicago News.
OLD CONVICT SHIPS.
Punishments of Criminals Who War*
Consigned to ths Hulk*.
When Great Britain finally aban
doned the transportation of crimi
nals in 1868 the convict ship Suc
cess was sunk in Sydney harbor.
Before long, however, she was rais
ed, and, proving as seaworthy as
ever, went back into the service of
commerce. For some years the old
ship has been on exhibition.
The cells, irons, ball and chains,
flogging whips, anklets and other
means of correction that were used
in the old cruel days are still to be
seen. There is an authentic his
tory of the vessel compiled from
prison records, from which it ap- j
pears that all prisoners confined on
board had to wear leg irons, some
of which weighed fifty-six pounds.
Even the “good” men, who were
taken from the ship daily to work
in the quarries, wore fourteen
pound irons. These men were kept
below decks at night in cells that
were seven feet in each dimension.
The only light and ventilation came
in over a barrel slit at the top,
about six inches wide.
The worst criminals were confin
ed in a still lower tier, in cells only
four feet by seven, partly below
the water line. Here perpetual
damp and darkness reigned, and
the mortality from consumption
alone was fearful. The prisoners in
this inferno—hot, dark and damp—
were allowed to see daylight for
only one hour in the twenty-four,
when they were taken on the main
deck for exercise.
If they attempted to communi
cate with one another they were
fastened in a stooping position to a
railing that ran along the narrow
corridor between the cells. A hoop
of iron that encircled the neck kept
the head always bent down, and
iron straps bound the feet. The
hands were twisted together in a
handcuff shaped like the figure
eight. The victim remained in this
torturing position, unable to move
any part of his body, until he gave
signs of utter collapse.
The real terror of this lower
deck, however, was • the “black
hole,” a small space near the bow
only two feet eight inches across.
When a man was put in there no
one heeded whether he lived or
died.
The vessels were anchored nearly
two miles out at sea, and the rec
ords of the Success show that not
a single prisoner ever made his es
cape from her.—London Globe.
Napoleon III.
Louis Napoleon was once in this
country. After his tilt with Louis
Philippe in 183G and his conse
quent imprisonment the young as
pirant for royal honors was 6ent to
America, Louis Philippe thinking
that that was the best disposition to
make of his troublesome subject.
In the United States Louis Napo
leon remained only a few months,
however. His mother, being ill in
Switzerland, requested him to re
turn to her, and he obeyed the sum
mons, reaching her bedside about
Oct. 1, 1837. Louis Napoleon was
never in the United States after
this brief visit of 1836-7.
Pisa’s Leaning Tower.
The leaning tower of Pisa is
cylindrical in form, 197 feet high
and forty feet in diameter, divided
into eight stories, each having a
projecting gallery, the summit be
ing reached by 390 steps. It is
about thirty feet out of the per
pendicular. The fault was discov
ered before it was completed, and
the upper galleries were then shap
ed so as to counteract the deflec
tion, whilst the chime of seven bells
at the top, the largest of which
weighs 12,000 pounds, are placed so
as to counterbalance the leaning of
the tower.
A 8<mple Correction.
The following sentence was writ
ten by a teacher on the blackboard
in one of the local schools the other
day: “The toast was drank in si
lence.”
The teacher asked the pupils if
any one could tell her what the mis
take in this sentence was. The
class remained silent for a few min
utes. Then a little boy held up his
hand and at a nod from the teach
er went to the blackboard and wrote
the following correction:
“The toast was ate in silence.”—
Louisville Times.
Strength of Granite.
Granite is two and two-thirds
times as heavy as water. Its specific
gravity is 2.663. The strength of
granite is tremendous, although the
different granites vary greatly. Poor
granites will withstand a pressure
of 18,000 pounds to the square inch.
Good, close grained granite will
withstand 30,000 pounds, but cer
tain Wisconsin granites have with
stood a crushing pressure of 43,973
pounds to the square inch—twenty
two ton* weight resting on ,e tiny
cube of stone not much huger than
a lump of anger.
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