Quand La Bruyère se présente, ("When La Bruyère presented himself, why object? To make up the number forty was not a zero necessary?'') A more elaborate form of the same kind of drollery is presented in the following story. There was at Amadan a celebrated Academy whose first rule was framed in these words: "The members of this Academy shall think much, write little, and be as silent as they can." A candidate offered himself. He was too late the vacancy had been filled. His merit was recognized, and all lamented their own disappointment in lamenting his. The president asked that the candidate should be introduced. His simple and modest air was in his favor. The president rose and presented him with a cup of pure water, so full that a single drop more would have made it overflow. Not a word did he add to this emblematical hint, but his countenance betrayed his emotion. The candidate understood that he could not be received because the number was complete. But, casting about him for a method of reply, he observed at his feet a rose. Picking it up, he detached a single petal, which he laid so gently on the surface of the water that not a drop escaped. The applause was universal. Every one recognized that he meant to imply that a supernumerary member would displace nothing, and would make no essential difference in the rule they had prescribed. He was at once presented with the register whereon successful candidates wrote their names. He wrote his name; then, as a delicate way of presenting thanks, he wrote on the slate the figures 100, representing the number of his new associates; then, putting a cipher before the 1, he wrote, "Their value will be the same,-0100." The courteous and ingenious president was not to be baffled. He took the slate in his turn, substituted the figure 1 for the added zero, and wrote, "They will have eleven times the value they had,-1100." Zouaves, a famous French military corps. The word is corrupted from Zouaoua, a terrible welter of vowels, proudly borne as the name of a warlike Kabyle tribe in Africa. These had always maintained a practical independence. They made excellent mercenaries, selling valor and fidelity to their buyers at reasonable market rates. The first levy of Zouaouas was raised in 1830, by General Clausel. It consisted of two battalions, and was originally composed of native African soldiers, with French officers and soldiers. Gradually roving adventurers from Paris and other large cities crowded out the native soldiers. Finally all the European members of the corps other than French were removed from the Zouaves and were formed into the Foreign Legion. Later still, at the summons of Abd-el-Kader, large numbers of the native Zouaves deserted from the colors and joined the ranks of their compatriots; in consequence of which the proportion of Frenchmen in the corps was greatly increased. In 1841 a third battalion was raised, the corps was entirely remodelled, and it was decreed that thereafter there should be only one company of African natives in each battalion. From that time even that reduced proportion of natives steadily decreased, until in the end the Zouaves consisted of Frenchmen only. INDEX OF CROSS-REFERENCES. All men have their price, 946. All my eye, 352. Allured to brighter worlds, 916. Alone, so heaven has willed, we die, 567. Ambiguity in epitaphs, 330. Another and the same, 986. Anticipation, 913. Ape, to, 334. Ape of humankind, 310. Apella, credat Judæus, 196. Aprés nous le déluge, 228. Arithmetical curiosities, 824. Armed, thrice is he, 187. Ashes may be made, from his, 1077. Aspiring youth, 348. Ass, Buridan's, 134. Ass, who would not see an, 311. Assume a virtue, 437. Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren, 66. Augustine, St., and the child, 153. Avarice, a good old gentlemanly vice, 565. B. Back seat, take a, 1045. Bacon shined, think how, 1092. 1096 Badger State, 1039. Baptism of fire, the, 370. Baseless fabric of this vision, 1000. Battalions, heaviest, 419. Bear licks her cubs, 631. Beautiful Snow controversy, 165 Beauty draws us with a single hair, 438. Bed, we laugh in, 534. Bell the cat, 140. Ben trovato, 991. Berkeley said, when Bishop, 718. Berners Street hoax, 475. Best, corruption of the, 192. Better the day better the deed, 215. Bifrons atque custos, 305. Billet, 123. Bill-posting, 24. Bird that fouls its own nest, ill, 215, 239 Birth, crying at, 208, 305. Birth nothing but death begun, 195. Black Maria, 691. Blasted with excess of light, 635. Blazing ubiquities, 416. Blessings brighten as they take their flight Cadmus and the alphabet, 41. Calumet, 891. Cambridge, books to, 530. Canossa, we are not going to, 775. Care to our coffin adds a nail, 616. Carolina, governors of, 426. Carthage, how built, 141. Carthago, delenda est, 268. Castle, man's house is his, 496. Cat will jump, how, 365 Cat's away, mice will play, 345. Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte, 920. Centos, 744- C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre, 684. Chamouni at sunrise, 894. Chanty, 1001. Charbonnier est maltre chez soi, 496. Cheer but not inebriate, 209. Cheshire cat, 432. Chess, life like a game of, 1032. Chiffre indéchiffrable, 159. Childhood's hour, 'twas ever thus from, 738. Children run to lisp their sire's return, 588. Chillon, prisoner of, 464. Chimæra bombinans in vacuo, 938. China to Peru, 837. Christ was the word, 528. Christian, judge, and poet, 312. Church, little, around the corner, 650. Ci-git ma femme 309 315. Clarence, Dukes of, 173. Cobbler and his last, 793. Cocked hat, 591. Cockney school, 609. Columbus and the eclipse, 465. Come what may, I have been blessed, 651. Comets, come every day and stay a year, Delays have dangerous ends, 921. Delaware and Blue Hen's chickens, 108, Delenda est Carthago, 268. Dénicheur de merles, 351. Desert of the mind, 1074. Despotism tempered by assassination, 985 Devil builds a chapel there, 156. Devil catch the hindmost, 345. Devil, Death, and Sin, 309. Diamonds, nine of, 805. Diamonds, valley of, 337. Dido dumb, 539. Err, to, is human, 498. Esprit can a German have, 413. Eve, fairest of her daughters, 125. Eye, light my pipe at your, 890. F. Faber est quisque fortunæ suæ, 67. Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall, 528. Fair, fat, and forty, 395. Fair maid, you need not take the hint, 537 Fairest things foulest by foul deeds, 193. Faith and credulity, 146. Faith, for modes of, 916. Father and child, 152. Fathers and fathers, 356. Fatti maschi, parole femine, 14. Fears his fate too much, 961. Feu, 398. Fico for the phrase, 368. Fiction, real people in, 949. Fights and runs away, 239. Figurate poems, 270. Figures, curiosities of, 824. Finger, to be pointed out by the, 237. Fire, walking on, 541. Fish, pretty kettle of, 582. Five, blocks of, 106. Five, its mystic qualities, 828. Floundering and foundering, 696. Flowers growing from corpses, 1078. Folly as it flies, 1006. Folly at full length, 530. Fool hath said, There is no God, 70. Fool thinks he is wise, 592. Fool with judges, 1093. Foot of the table, 454. Footprints on the sands of time, 988. Forgiveness, 168, 391. Forked radish, 505. Formosa, 767. Fortsas catalogue, 474- Fortunatam natam me consule Romam, 999 Fought on, nor knew that he was dead, 756. Four, its mystic qualities, 828. Fowls of the air, behold the, 637. Free and equal, 706. Garter, pricking the, 361. Gases will have the honor of combining, 182. Gazelle, I never nursed a dear, 738. Gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne, 442. German emperor, 518. German traits, 789. Germans fear God, 418. Gladstone's accent, 461. Glorious uncertainty of law, 617. God erects a house of prayer, 156. God would destroy, whom, 937. Godlike, unmoved, 351. Golden chain of love, 917. Golden mean, 792. Golden rule, 996. Gonin, Maitre, 685. Good frend, for Jesus sake forbeare, 315. Good interred with his bones, 348. Good man never dies, 315. Good name in man or woman, 960. Goodness in things evil, 499. Grace was in all her steps, 457. Grammar, I am above, 1041. Grammar in rhyme, 702. Grapple them to thy soul, 400. Grave, one foot in the, 382. Grease, stew in their own, 1034. Great First Cause, 145. Great wits are sure to madness, 410. Greatly thought, he nobly dared, 213. Green be the turf above thee, 591. Grin so merry draws one out, every, 616. Guinea and the gallows, 36. Gunter, according to, 169. Gustibus, de, 147. Gutenberg Bible, 98. Happy son whose father went to hell, 523. Happy the man, 689. Hard cider, 655 Hare, catch your, 371. Harmony and discord, 239. Hatched a cherubin, 324. He either fears his fate too much, 961. He that will not, 1054. Heads I win, tails you lose, 491. Hearts, two, two souls, 399. Heaven to mankind impartial, 629. Heaving or lifting, 635. Hélas, madame! 600. Hell, better to reign in, 372. Hell it is in suing long, 490. Hell on earth, 256. Here I stand, 582. Hermit hoar in solemn cell, 531. Herring, never a barrel better, 1014. Hi! Hi! ignorant people call me, 602. Himself his worst enemy, 283. Hoch! 501. Home, first best country ever is at, 193. Hope, anchor a symbol of, 61. Horse starves while grass grows, 429. How's your poor feet? 364. Husband is the wife is, as the, 494. |