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their friends at home, receiving and
dispatching: letters as regularly and
i nsilv as tliev could in times of peace,
The "field-post, according: to an article
In Youth's Companion, was a traveling
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office clerks and soldiers
whose duty was to attend to and de
fend it from the attacks of the enemy.
Wherever the army marched, the field
mist followed it. Never during the
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oy special express.
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gain, after the battle of Vionville
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cards were blown away aud had to be
based and brought buck. The field
post gave a glimpse of busy, peaceful
work amid all the horrors of war.
The field post had very little rest;
henever the signal to march sounded
it had to go to new work. It was al-
ays the first to arrive aud the last to
part; frequently it did not leave au
nemy's town till all the other troops
had gone, and had to protect itself from
an attack.
It was hard and rough work for the
field post officials when rain poured
down, and the carriages were up to the
axles in mud, and no shelter could be
found, and attacks from francs tireurs
threatened from the forests. Thev had
to make marches from seven in the
morning till midnight, under torrents
of rain, among the forests of the Ar
dennes, when the carriages had to be
drawn by six horses. Among the
passes of the Vosges the field post car
riages had to be dragged through deep
snow and over slippery ice, where there
was constant danger of rolling over
precipices. And whY T !rN.they
tniQale oi ine nigni, clerks, letter far
riers and postilions had often to pass
the night on their letter bags in mis
erable cellars, packed together as In a
slave ship, unless, as was frequently
the case, they had to bivouac out in
the rain.
The field posts were often attacked
by the enemy, the letter bags robbed,
and the brave soldiers and postilions
who defended them left dead on the
field.
The number of letters sent to the
army from home inr exceeaea mose
dispatched by the soldiers. From Ber
lin alone three hundred inousana let
ters and parcels were daily sent off by
the field post. The good people often
wranned their parcels in turn paper
or tied them with weak string, so that
when many of these packets arrived
at Berlin such a little distance on
their way the covers were torn and
the contents visible.
In one would be chocolate; in an
other bread and butter, and in another
a pair of stockings in which the good
wishes of the mother or the betrothed
were interwoven. All this the good
natured post brought into order as
well as it could.
The letters and packets of the army
of the Moselle alone used daily to fill
seven large wagons. During the siege
of Paris the largest field post depot
was at Lagny, which distributed a mil
lion packets to the troops, lin the eve
of Christmas, 1870, nearly every Ger
man soldier in France received some
parcel or letter from his home.
From July 10, 1870, to March 81, 1871,
there were dispatched to and from the
German army over eiglity-Bix million
letters and post cards, two million
packets, and two and a half million
money orders, and more than two mil
lion newspapers.
The Uses of Superstition.
Superstition is not without its uses.
During the prevalence of the recent
drought in Italy the children of one of
the landed proprietors of the province
of Kalerno had a dream in which the
Madonna appeared to them and said
that rain would fall as soon as an
image of herself buried in a certain
field could be dug up. Many peasants
acting on the supernatural "tip" began
at once to dig for the image. After
several days' lubor they unearthed two
tncient tombs decorated with mural
paintings, and some valuable vases.
Near by them they uncovered an an
tique house, in one of the rooms of
which was a clumsy representation of
a human figure. This the peasants de
clared to be the Image designated in
the dream, and it has been an object
of adoration to the thousands of visit
ing enthusiasts. An energetic priest
has established an altar there, and as
every pilgrim leaves some money when
he visits it there has been a rain of
gold if not of wn.tpr.
LAST OF THE DRUIDS.
Strang. Welsh Character Who Bald to
Druid flltes and Beliefs.
We regret to announce the death of
the high priest of the sun, at the ripe
age of ninety-two, says the rail Mall
Budget. To the eye of faith he was
the lost of the druids; the profane
knew him only as Dr. William Price, of
Llantrissant, m Glamorganshire, anil
characterized him as "a most eccentric
man." It must be admitted that they
were not altogether without excuse for
this opinion, lie attempted to imitate
the pontifical raiment of his predeces
sors in the priesthood, wearing a whole
fox skin on his bead, a light green coat
bwder
with trousers to match, and a scarlet
waistcoat. As a reproduction of druidlc
costume the profane may perhaps be
again excused for thinking this a little
unconvincing. Even high priests of
the sun are not without human weak
nesses, and Dr. Price signalized this
truth at the age of eighty-one by mar
rying his housekeeper, a girl of nine
teen. One must allow that this step ia
a touch of prose in such a character,
but he redeemed it shortly afterward
by attempting to burn the body of his
child on a funeral pyre which he erected
in a neighboring field. The druid could
hardly take account oi the constable.
Curtailed by state Lines.
At a recent club dinner in Boston
(says the Harvard Lampoon), a visitor
from Rhode Island had occasion to re
fer in his speech to "Demostheens," as
he pronounced it. "DemosthenM." cor
rected the toastmaster. "In our shtate,"
said the Rhode Islander, firmly, who
knew good wine when he tasted it, "we
shay Demostheens." "You're very wise,"
retorted the toastmaster; "your state
couldn't accommodate the extra syl
lable." VARIOUS PEOPLE.
Bib Edwin Arnold has abandoned his
proposed spring trip to this country, and
for the present will remain in England,
working up his claims for the poet lau
reateship. Dr. Roberts Bartholow, the emi
nent professor of Jefferson college,
Philadelphia, who became insane some
two years ago from hard study and
overwork, has recovered his mental bal
ance. Mrs. Sarah Kipplk, of Scranton, Pa..
still persists in smoking, after seventy-
nine years experience of the noxious
and deadly weed. As she is only ninety
nine years old there is, however, time
for her to reform.
Rubinstein says that he would be-
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Field, "but I am also a republican, and
America is the land for those that love
liberty."
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
It is said the city of Pittsburgh now
stands on ground once given in ex
change for a violin.
Tannino is done in this country in
about one-quarter of the time usually
allowed in Europe.
Thk origin rff the geysers at Sonoma,
Cal., is supposed to be a volcanic crater
filled by a landslide.
The earliest chest was merely the
trunk of an oak tree, scooped out and
cut down the center, one-half serving as
a lid, which was first kept shut by a
strip of leather, and later by a strip
made of iron.
One gets an idea of the loneliness of
the Pacific when learning that the City
of Pekin, so long overdue, having
broken, her shaft and taken to wing,
covered 1,240 miles without seeing a
sail. She went out of her way In the
hope of meeting a sister ship and re
ceiving aid.
THE BRITISH ISLES.
Enoland has eighty miles of tunnels.
At Norwich, Eng., a tl-irty-flve ton
weight stone has been quarried. It is
the largest on record.
English women who devote them
selves to the Somerset hunts have un
qualifiedly adopted the men's saddle
and don divided skirts, mannish hats
and blouses. Some appear in long rid
ing coats and boots. Englishmen are
said to favor this Innovation on long
established customs.
A proposition has been made to con
nect Scotland and Ireland by a tunnel
under the north channel of the Irish
sea at its narrowest part between
County Antrim in Ireland and Wigton
in Scotland. The length oi the tunnel
would be twenty-seven miles, and
eminent engineers have pronounced
the project entirely feasible.
REMINISCENCES OF NAPOLEON.
The (ireat Man Was Furious Over the
Alarriage of Ills llrother.
1 never snw Bonaparte in such wrath
as when he learned that his brother
l.ucien had married at Senlis the
widow of Jonberthon, a Paris broker.
He ordered me, says a writer in Cen
tury, to send for the notary and tell
him to bring his register. When the
notary arrived I took him to St. Cloud
at nine in the morning. Here is word
for word the dialogue between the
first consul and the notary: "Was it
you, sir, who registered my brother's
marriage?'' "Yes, citizen first consuL"
"Were you unaware, then, that he was
my brother?" "No, citizen first con
sul." "Did you not know that my con
sent was necessary to the validity of
the act?" "I do not think so. Your
brother has long been of age, he has
filled high posts, he has been a minis
ter and ambassador, he has no father,
he is free to marry." "But he has a
mother whose consent was necessary?"
"No; he Is of age anda widower." "But
1 am a sovereign, and as such my con
sent was necessary." "You are a sov
ereign only for ten years, and your
family is not bound to you." "Show me
the marriage register?" "Here it is."
The first consul rend it, and In shut
ting the book wns very near tearing
the page. "I shall annul it." "That
will le difficult, for it is carefully
drawn up." "He off with you." The
notary retired without having for a
moment lost his composure. -
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