Reminiscences Of Revolutionary Times

We íind among ïeuiiniseences of Revolutionair times an ainusing sketch of Admiral Sandais. ''For a Freiichnian he was a good sailor." Myuncle, , serted that Sandais errad, not through any defect of bravery, but mercly from hls desire to approaoh his cneiny scientlflcally, by bearing down apon the hypothenuse of the precise riht-an;eil triuiiule, preseribed in the 37th' "nwna'uvre"oi' his old tesL-book. But as the naval connnitt.ee of Congresa uniortunately understood ueither mathematica nor French, they did not uuderstand his explauations, and ho was tlirown out of service. An unexpected dividend of prixe money, earned at the besrinnlng ot' the Revolutionary War, gave Jiim ui annnity of Olie liundred and tour dollars - or rathcr, I tliink, ot' one hundred and live, lor I remember ho told me he had two dollars a week on whlch to subnist, and au odd dollar lor eharity at the end of the yoar. lie subáis ted with the utmost, Ludependence op this scanty ineomc, feftwing all presente, evoa the most trifling. He was a man of most punctilious and chivalric honor, and at the sanie time l'ull of tliat instinctive kindness of heart, and thai nice gense of propriety, wlüofa shrinks trova doing a íude thing to any body on any occasiou. Kven wben he mot, his bittercst euemy, as he did shortly alter he carne to Novr York, the man whose accusation had destroyed his repiftation and blighted his prospecta, vvhom ho had determined to insult and punish, ho could not bring' himself to offer hiin any insult unbecoming a gentleman, but deliberately spitting on the payeluent, desired his adversary to consider Unit pavemeut his lace aud to prooeed accordingly. In proud and honorable poverty lived Pierre de Banda!; lor some forty yeare, until, in the eighty-seventh year of his aye, he disappeareu from this lile.