Coolness Of Our Soldiers Under Fire

History is full of anoedotes of the rcmarkable nerve and indifferencedisplayed bv soldiers of different nations when under fire. It is to be hoped tliat the future historian of the present war will not omit to clironiclo, among otlier inoidents, the following paragraph Ilustrativo of the qualities referred to : " We asked an officer f the loss of life had been great from rebel shell. ' No,' said ho, ' we take them as a joke ; thire will be one along directly and you can see - Whut time is it, Ben ? Just fifteen minutes sinee tho last - time is up - hero she comes - bello, old fellow!' Flash! and the shell buried itself in the ground, throwing the dirt over the tent, and some of the pieces falling within rcaeh of us - the hole only twenty fret from the door. They laughed lieartily, why, ho could not teil ; it was anything hut aniusinjr to us. We were about to bid tliem good day, when they kindly invitod us to stay and sec another. ■ It will not be long, gentlemen, there will be another in fifteen minutes; don't hurry.' We did bol see il in tliat liglit, and, sped en our adventurous way. Had the ground been hard or rocky, tho shell would in a!l probability have exploded on the surftice, and thon tliere would havo bceD two enlighteners shot." gl'' Why are la'lics the biggesi thieves in existence ? Beoaiue they steel their pettiecats, bone their stnys, and crib their babies. Yee, and bools thsir eyes, too."