Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-10-10
A French Lady Knight.
In the correspondence of the London Times.
we find the fnllnMinr rnrnnrn hln M rati,,n.

we find the following remarkable narrative:
At the head fthe lists of Knights of the Le-
gion of Honor, lately created bv the President Of
the Republic, figures the widow Rrulon, born in
I'LL, at present an officer in the Inyades. where
she has lived for the last So years ENJOYING the
esteem and yeneration Of her old companions in
glory. The widow Brulon was the daughter
/ sister, and wife Of military men, who died in
active service in The army of Italy Her father
| served 50 years without interruption from 1857
10 1888: her two brothers were killed on the
held OF battle in Italy, and her husband died at
AJaccln in 1901, after years service InI792.
at the age of 81, she entered the AID Regiment
OF Infantry, in witch her husband died, and
where her father still served, and made herself
| so remarkable BY her honorable conduct, both as
! a woman and soldier that she was permitted to
continue IN the service notwithstanding her sex.
she was attached to that regiment for years
(trom 1892 to 1892 and performed seven cam
palTnS, unutI lie lHs d. "a, err Of iilertc' as
private soldier, corporal, sergeant aud sergeant
MAJOR. On several occasions. and particularly
at the defence of the For'of Gcsco, in cXtraor-
binary courage. Among the numerous anthem
tic certificate of her brilliant deeds are the fol-
lowing:
We, the undersigned, corporal and soldiers of
the detachment of the 42d regiment in garrison
at Cavi, certify and attest that on the 9Th Prari-
al, year H., the cheyenne Marie AnceIioue Io-
sephe Duchemin, widow Of Brulon. discharging
the functions OF sergeant, commanded rs atthe
attack Of the fort of Gesco-that she fought with
the courage of a heroine-that the Corsican re-
bels and the English having attempted to storm
the fort, we obliged to fight with side-arms
that she received a cut of a sword in the right
arm, and, a moment afterwards, a stab from
stiletto in the left arm-that, seeing us in want
of ammunition, at midnight she set out for Cal
Vi, distance OF half a league, and displaying the
zeal and courage of real republican, she in
duced sixty women to rise cut of their beds and
carry supply Of ammunition to the iort.---
She escorted the party with four men. We
were thus enabled to repuse and maintain our
ground.
Later at the scige of CaIvi, she directed the
fire of al6.pounder in one of the bastIous, and
was seriously wounded in the leg by the bursting
OF q shell. This last wound rendered her inca
Dabe of continuing in the service, and She was
admitted, on the oath Frimare, year VII, in the
Hotel des Invads. On the I'd of October, 1922,
she was promoted to the rank of Ensign. Gen.
Latour Maub0urg announced her promotion in
the following terms:
Madame Brulon, nlitarie inra'de who held
the rank Of scarrent before entering the Hotel,
honorary rank OF ensign. She will be recooniZ-
cd in that capacity on parade. The Governor
hasteus to make known this new favor confer
red by His Majesty ona person who las proved
herself worthy of her excellent principles, her
good sentiments, and the consideration she en-
Joy, in the Hotel
The teats Of courage and the irreproachabIe
life Of Ibis extraordinary woman, are altestcd by
all the general officers under whose orders She
served, and one of them, General Lacombe St.
Michel, described her in letter written on the
10Th Fr,marc, year NV. to Marshal Scrrurier,
then Governor of the uyadcs, as having rem
dercd herself worthy, by qualities above her sex,
to participate in the rewards reserved for the
brave. Marshal Jerome Bonapa-,o and General
Random concurred in that opinion, and their prop
ositnn in favor of the widow Brulon was sane
tioncdb by the President of the Republic.
a MYSTERY ExPLAEED.-1Iany innocent
and unsophistlcated people, who have never
watched the operations of lawyers very narrow
", or had the bitter experience of " secinp the
elephant" are puzzled to perceive how the dense
thronT of attorneys and counscors that fin out
c2u!trooma can all find employment Goldsmith,
we think, clears up the mystery pretty cnlctual-
ly in his Citizen of the world
Bless me, cried a stranger, on entering
courtroom, now many lawyers have you how
is it possible that half this number can find en-
p.oyment? Nothing so easily conceived said
a by-s;andcr: they live by watching each other.
Iconceive SAID the stranger, how the case stands
The catchpole watches the culprit, the attorney,
the solicitor and the counselor. You put me
in mind, says the by-standcr, of fable read
when was at school, which was this
"a gras~hoPPer, wet with dew, was mc7riIy
singing under a leaf; wangam that eats grass
hopPcrs was Just stretched fourth to dcvour it ::
snake that eats wangamS lay coiIed up ready
to fa>ten upon the wangam; tie hawk that
eats snakes had just stopped from above to sicze
the snake; all quietly inten! upon their prey.
aud unmindtul Of danger. Just at the same
moment the wangam cat the grasshoppar, the
snake eat the waugam. the hawk eat the snake.
when soaring from on high, vuIture gobbcd
up the hawk, snake, wangam, grasshoPpcr and
ALL"