Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — Some Noted Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Some Noted Sayings.

A letter to. an English paper from the grandson of me of Nelson’s aids at the battle of Trafalgar, give* the true origin of his famous order to his squadron. The Admiral gave the order to telegraph to the whole fleet, “Nelson expects every man to do-2ms duty to-day.” It was found that the word “Nelson” would require six sets of flags to be; displayed in success!®®. Time passed. A Lieut. Browne* looking ever the code-book, found thafc “England” could be sent up with but one flag;, and suggested that the order should run, “England expects every man to- do his duty ;* to which Nelson heartily consented. Hence the el©r quent touch which thrilled all Britain to the heart, was due to a deficiency in the signal-code. Many of the finest sayings recorded of great *nen owe their origin to accident. Goejhe’h dying words, “Morelight !” are said only to have referred’ tothe opening of a window?, and not to any prophetic dawn in the world of German thought. Webster’s triumphant “I still live!” in the light of cold fact, appears, to have been spoken in consequence of the physician’s order to “give him the medicine at a oertain hour, if be still lived.” It was with a gesture toward the cup that. Webster used the words so long misunderstood and memorable as Ms last. Another sentence which beiame the rallying cry for defenders of the Union during the civil war originated in a joke. In 1832 the followers of Calhoun, incensed at the public demonstrations on Washington’s birthday, issued invitations for a state banquet on the birthiday of Jefferson, Gen. Andrew Jackson, on opening

his invitation, dryly remarked that the meeting apparently was intended to celebrate not the memory of Jefferson, but the glory of Calhoun and his pel hobby of nullification. “I’d like,” ht added, chuckling, “to send a broadside into him.” After a moment’s thought, laying down his pipe, he wrote a cou - teous note of refusal, and begged leave, according to custom, to send a toast It was, “The Federal Union. It must and shall be preserved.” The toast Having been sent by the President, could not be ignored. It was read, and the shonts of applause with which it was received, and ol laughter from those who appreciated the President’s grim joke, fixed it in the memory of the public, by whom it was made a household word," until the civil war gave it new and terrible significance.—Youth's Companion.