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Chit Chat.
distribute twenty-five per cent of his current annual expenditure in unostentatious charity . The loss sustained by the recipients of his bounty by his sudden demise may therefore be better conceived than described . Mr . Cohen had also rendered himself conspicuous for assisting unfortunate members of the Stock Exchange when their conduct merited such support ; and many individuals owe their success in life to the interest he took in their welfare . Mr . Cohen sat down to dinner with his family in apparent good health , when he was suddenly seized with an apopletic fit , ancl survived only a few hours .
THE JEWS . — The Berlin Jews have made an appeal to the Jews of Europe generally , in order to raise a fund by shares for the foundation of a Jewish colony in America . THE TWO BAPTISMS . —We find the following affecting incident in a Hamburgh paper : — " A few months ago we were informed by some papers of the baptism of a company of Russian soldiers , Israelites by birthinto the Russo-Greek Churchon which occasion the neophytes
, , were marched into the river , near which the regiment was encamped , and were thus converted as one man , with all the prompt precision of a military exercise . Here is another instance of a Russian baptism , as copied from the Grenzbote , a German periodical :- ' At a naval review , lately honoured by the presence of the Emperor himself , two sailors evinced so much skill and boldness in the execution of various nautical manoeuvres that his Majesty on the spot raised one to the rank of
captain , ancl gave the other a lieutenancy . The rear-admiral in command hereupon modestly dropped the remark , that the two honoured subjects were both Jews . The Emperor , unwilling to retract his word , now called on the two seamen to enter the Greek Church ; but no reply being made , the Czar addressed them harshly ; whereupon the seamen having previously contrived to interchange a few words unintelligible to those around , requested leave of their sovereign to exhibit another and still more astonishing feat of seamanship , in which they
fancied themselves most expert . A sign of approbation having been vouchsafed , the two Israelites grasped each other firmly round the waist , made a sudden plunge into the Baltic , ancl were seen no more . '" THE PAWNBROKER ' WINDOW . —There is more philosophy of life to be learned at a pawnbroker ' s window than in all the libraries in the world . The maxims and dogmas which wise men have chronicled disturb the mind for a momentas the breeze ruffles the surface of the deep still
, stream , and passes away ; but there is something in the melancholy grouping of a pawnbroker ' s window , which , like a record of ruin , sinks into the heart . The household goods—the cherished relics—the sacred possessions affection bestowed , or eyes now closed in death had once looked upon as their own—are , as it were , profaned ; the associations of dear old times are here violated ; the family hearth is here outraged ; the ties of love , kindred , rank , all that the heart clings to , are
broken here . It it a sad picture , for , spite of the glittering show , its associations are sombre . There hangs the watch , the old chased repeater , that hung above the head of the dying parent , when bestowing his trembling blessings on the poor outcast , who parted with it for bread ; the widow's wedding-ring is here , the last and dearest of all her possessions ; the trinket , die pledge of one now dead , the only relic of the heart ' s fondest memories : silver that graced the holiday feast ; the giltframed miniature that used to hang over the quiet mantel-shelf ; the
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Chit Chat.
distribute twenty-five per cent of his current annual expenditure in unostentatious charity . The loss sustained by the recipients of his bounty by his sudden demise may therefore be better conceived than described . Mr . Cohen had also rendered himself conspicuous for assisting unfortunate members of the Stock Exchange when their conduct merited such support ; and many individuals owe their success in life to the interest he took in their welfare . Mr . Cohen sat down to dinner with his family in apparent good health , when he was suddenly seized with an apopletic fit , ancl survived only a few hours .
THE JEWS . — The Berlin Jews have made an appeal to the Jews of Europe generally , in order to raise a fund by shares for the foundation of a Jewish colony in America . THE TWO BAPTISMS . —We find the following affecting incident in a Hamburgh paper : — " A few months ago we were informed by some papers of the baptism of a company of Russian soldiers , Israelites by birthinto the Russo-Greek Churchon which occasion the neophytes
, , were marched into the river , near which the regiment was encamped , and were thus converted as one man , with all the prompt precision of a military exercise . Here is another instance of a Russian baptism , as copied from the Grenzbote , a German periodical :- ' At a naval review , lately honoured by the presence of the Emperor himself , two sailors evinced so much skill and boldness in the execution of various nautical manoeuvres that his Majesty on the spot raised one to the rank of
captain , ancl gave the other a lieutenancy . The rear-admiral in command hereupon modestly dropped the remark , that the two honoured subjects were both Jews . The Emperor , unwilling to retract his word , now called on the two seamen to enter the Greek Church ; but no reply being made , the Czar addressed them harshly ; whereupon the seamen having previously contrived to interchange a few words unintelligible to those around , requested leave of their sovereign to exhibit another and still more astonishing feat of seamanship , in which they
fancied themselves most expert . A sign of approbation having been vouchsafed , the two Israelites grasped each other firmly round the waist , made a sudden plunge into the Baltic , ancl were seen no more . '" THE PAWNBROKER ' WINDOW . —There is more philosophy of life to be learned at a pawnbroker ' s window than in all the libraries in the world . The maxims and dogmas which wise men have chronicled disturb the mind for a momentas the breeze ruffles the surface of the deep still
, stream , and passes away ; but there is something in the melancholy grouping of a pawnbroker ' s window , which , like a record of ruin , sinks into the heart . The household goods—the cherished relics—the sacred possessions affection bestowed , or eyes now closed in death had once looked upon as their own—are , as it were , profaned ; the associations of dear old times are here violated ; the family hearth is here outraged ; the ties of love , kindred , rank , all that the heart clings to , are
broken here . It it a sad picture , for , spite of the glittering show , its associations are sombre . There hangs the watch , the old chased repeater , that hung above the head of the dying parent , when bestowing his trembling blessings on the poor outcast , who parted with it for bread ; the widow's wedding-ring is here , the last and dearest of all her possessions ; the trinket , die pledge of one now dead , the only relic of the heart ' s fondest memories : silver that graced the holiday feast ; the giltframed miniature that used to hang over the quiet mantel-shelf ; the