The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-11-13
Table Talk Of Napoleon.

Table Talk Of Napoleon.
The following sections are from a neat little
volume for sale 10y Barkalow Bros entitled
Table Talk of Napoleon" They embrace
sayings that are familiar to many but as they
ARE from the most remarkable man in history,
they will be read with interest by all.
Il frankly DECLARE said Napoleon, "that
If l were compelled to choose between the old
monarchy and Jacobin msrule, / should in
tnitely choose the former"
During the siege of Toulon, one of the
agents OF the convention ventured To criticise
the position of gun which Napoleon SUI
perintending. do you" he tartly replied,
attend TO your business as national commits
sioners, and l will be answerable for mine with
my head"
Napoleon had great contempt for the ef-
Terminate young men of his time. lie cx.
claimed one day, "Can II be that upon such
creatures Fortune is willing To lavish her fa-
yors! How contemplate is human nature
81. IL impossible" said an officer ut Lodi,
that any men can force their way across that
marrow bridge, i'll the face of such an nnnihi-
lating storm of balls as must bo encountered"
How! impossbe" exclaimed Napoleon,
that word is not French"
Different matters are arranged in my
head, said Napoleon, las i'll drawers; / open
one drawer and close another Us | wish.
| have never been KEEP. awake 10y AN involun-
tnry pre-occupatiun Of the mind. II desire
q
| have always slept when | wanted rest, and
almost nt will
Napoleon had no tendencies 10 gallantry.
Madam de Stacl sad to him, at il reported
that you are not very partial to the ladies"
II am very fond of my wife, madnn," was
his lnConic reply.
Lady Of rank once said to him, What is
life worth If one cannot be General Bonn
Iurtc?' Napoleon answered her wisely:
Madam, may bc II dutiful wife, and the
I good mother of q fnrTily!''
IL conquer provinces, said Nnpoleoni "but
Josephine wins hearts
81 worked all day" snid man To Napolc-
on as an apology for not having completed
his assigned duty. "IIut had you not the
night also?" Napoleon suggested.
Now, sir, said hc to another, ''usc dis
| patch; remember that the world only took six
! days to create. Ask Inc for whatever you
please, except time; that il the only thing which
Is beyond my power"
Victory, said Napoleon, belongs to the
most pcrscvering."
My young friends" said Napoleon once
| to the pnpils Of n school hc was visiting,
every hour of time IL chance of misfOr-
| tune for future life"
at is not written on high that I am to per-
| ish by the hands of the Arabs" said Napoleon,
after escape from n troop of Arab horse
| men.
| IL never passed the desert" said Napoleon
| some time after, without experiencing very
! painful emotions. IL was the image of I'M
mcnsity to my thoughts. 1t showed no lin.
! its. 1t had neither beginning nor end. /,
! was an ocean for the foot of man."
On board ship, in the midst of party oi
athoistcal officers, Napoleon suddenly stopped
before them and said, in tones of great digni.
ty, "Geutlcmen, your arguments ARE very
fine, but who madc all those worlds, bcaming
So g!oriously above us. Can you tell Inc
! that"
~ want more head and less tongue" said
Napoleon when filling the varied departments
of State.
IL did not usurp the crown" snid Nnpo
lean, proudly. "lt was lying in the mire
picked it mp. Tho people plnced it on my
mead"
As Napoleon bchcld tho melancholy pro
cCssion of the wounded, after the battle o
Mnrongo he exclaimed, ave can but regrc
not being wounded like these unhappy men
that we might share their sufferings."
"To n father" said Napoleon, "who losel
his children, victory has no charms. Whei
the heart speaks, glory itself is nm illusion.
During the battle nt Fricdland, young sol
dier iustinctivoly lodged as n cannon bal
came whistling over his head. Napoleon
smiled, aud said to him. .'Aiy friend, if thn
ball were destined for you IL would be sure I,
! find you, though you were to burrow n hun
dred feet under ground.
+ "a woman turns the head of the autocrat o
all the Russins," Napoleon said referring I,
Emperor Alexander. "All the women in tn
/ world would not make me lose an hour. Con
tnuc to acquaint me of everything. Let m
know tho smallest details. The private lif
Of man is mirror in which he may see man,
useful lessons reflected"
'rhe fate of war;" Napoleon said to Mu
D rat, sis to bc exalted in the morning and 10,
/. enough mt night. There IL but ono step fror
= triumph 10 rlnn."
, Josephine, my own good Josephine" M
polcon said To her on the last Of November
, 1909. "You know how have loved you.
r is to you alone that owe the only few mt
mcnts of happiness in the world. Josephin,
@ my destiny is stronger than my will My dca
h est affections must yield to tho welfare I
u France"
II "Not even tho fiotions of tho burning
/. Troy" said Napoleon, Though heightened L
q all the powers Of poetry, could have oqualC
Y the reality of tho destruction Of Moscow"
y '"rhoy may call me what they please; The
o cannot prevent me from being myself"
o In baltic with the allies of Montcrcan,
t. little town sixty miles southeast OF Paris, N
"a poloon was re iostcd TO retire from the fic
/. 10 place Of safety. Courage" my friont