fills a considering brother mortal with sorrow and despair,
as this innate tendency of the common crowd in regard to its Great Men,
whensoever, or almost whensoever, the Heavens do, at long intervals,
vouchsafe us, as their all-including blessing, anything of such!
Practical "BLASPHEMY," is it not, if you reflect? Strangely possible
that sin, even now. And ought to be religiously abhorred by every soul
that has the least piety or nobleness. Act not the mutinous flunky, my
friend; though there be great wages going in that line.

4. That in these circumstances, and taking into view the otherwise known
qualities of this high Fellow-Creature, the present Editor does not,
for his own share, value the rumor at a pin's fee. And leaves it, and
recommends his readers to leave it, hanging by its own head, in the sad
subterranean regions,--till (probably not for a long while yet) it drop
to a far Deeper and dolefuler Region, out of our way altogether.

"Lamentable, yes," comments Diogenes; "and especially so, that the idle
public has a hankering for such things! But are there no obscene details
at all, then? grumbles the disappointed idle public to itself, something
of reproach in its tone. A public idle-minded; much depraved in every
way. Thus, too, you will observe of dogs: two dogs, at meeting, run,
first of all, to the shameful parts of the constitution; institute a
strict examination, more or less satisfactory, in that department. That
once settled, their interest in ulterior matters seems pretty much
to die away, and they are ready to part again, as from a problem
done."--Enough, oh, enough!

Practically we are getting no good of our Demon;--and will dismiss him,
after a taste or two more.

This Demon Newswriter has, evidently, never been to Potsdam; which
he figures as the abode of horrid cruelty, a kind of Tartarus on
Earth;--where there is a dreadful scarcity of women, for one item;
lamentable to one's moral feelings. Scarcity nothing like so great, even
among the soldier-classes, as the Demon Newswriter imagines to himself;
nor productive of the results lamented. Prussian soldiers are not
encouraged to marry, if it will hurt the service; nor do their wives
march with the Regiment except in such proportions as there may be
sewing, washing and the like women's work fairly wanted in their
respective Companies: the Potsdam First Battalion, I understand, is
hardly permitted to marry at all. And in regard to lamentable res