Splendid Motions

Everyone has read oí the "action, action, action" of Demosthenes, and what a variety of emotions and passions Roscius could express by mere jestures. An anecdote told of Wiliam C. Preston, of South Carolina, il.ustrates the power of this form of art in an amusing way. A gentleman who was one of an audience held spellbound by a splendid tiarangue of Preston's from the stump one day noticed beside him a man whom he knew to be very deaf, but who seemed to be listening with breathless attention, and who apparently caught every word that feil from the orator's lips. Kow tears of delight rolled down his cheoks, and again he would shout out applause in ungovernable ecstasy. At last, when a particxüarly splendid passage had been delivered, with the effect of raising a storm of applause from the audience, the deaf man, as if he could contain himself no longer, bawled into the ear of his neighbor: "Who's that a-speakin'?" "YUlliam C. Preston!" shouted the g-entleman at the top of his lungs. "Who?" roared the deaf man, still lóuder than before. "William C. Preston, of South Carolina!" roared the gentleman in return, with an effort which rasped his throat for some moments af ter. "Welll well!" exelaimed the deaf man, his face working with excitement. "It don't make no difference. I can't hear a word he or you are sayin', not a word; but my stars! don't he do the motions splendid?"