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Audacity a Means of Success. 



What may have been the cause of attributing a high degree 

 of ferocity to the tiger, is its incredible audacity. In this it 

 differs from the lion, for when hungry no obstacle, not even the 

 most certain danger, will arrest it. Nor does it delay nor 

 employ artifice to entrap its prey, nor will it abandon it if 

 too powerful; neither does it wait to be reduced by hunger 

 to the last extremity before it braves every obstacle. No ; it 

 throws itself without hesitation on the first object that presents, 

 whether man or animal, and will face death a thousand times 

 in order to carry it off. This temerity is frequently crowned 

 with success. Not only is it so in the case of tigers, but it is 

 so also in regard to men. The French people consider that the 

 success of the men who imposed the first French Kepublic upon 

 the reluctant nation was due to their acting up to " the maxim of 

 one of their grand prototypes of 1 793, de I'audace, encore, I'audace, 

 toujour de I'audace." Whether this estimate be correct or not, 

 certain it is that many of the vast things of history owe their 

 accomplishment to the exhibition of that same quality which 

 distinguishes the tiger " audacity, always audacity." M. 



Posthumous Mischief of Immoral Authors. 



It is a remarkable fact, and is proved by Dr. Bell (in his 

 " History of British Insects "), that the poison of the rattlesnake 

 is even secreted after death. Dr. Bell, in his dissections of the 

 rattlesnakes which have been dead many hours, has found 

 that the poison continued to be secreted so fast as to require to 

 be dried up occasionally with sponge or rag. The immoral 

 author, like these rattlesnakes, not only poisons during his life- 

 time, but after death : because his books possess the subtle 

 power of secreting the venom to a horrible degree. A moral 

 sponge is constantly called into requisition to obliterate his 

 poison for many years after he himself has been dead. RE. 



The Jealousy of Autocrats. 



Autocrats, whether elected or usurping, are all more or less 

 jealous. The female autocrat is in some respects worse than the 

 male. Two queen bees will not live together in the same hive. 



