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ger, filed with soup. The monks were armed
with wooden spoon, with which they helped
themselves at pleasure to beans OF to soup.

WILL d Htoutu 6poou, Will WHICH they uelIEu
themselves at pleasure to beans OF to soup.
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
In 1868, Napoleon III. was at Biarritz. He
was deeply in debt and obliged to live rather
plainly. The enormous expenses to which he
year Of the Exhibition) to entertain al
the sovereigns Of Europe, had burdenea
the Civil List, and, during its laborions e1tr1-
cation, Napoleon III. was glad to i've iar
away from Paris, from st: Cloud from Fon1aln
bleau, and their inevitable expenses. While at
Biarritz be determined to make, short e1cur7
sion in the Pyrenees. He ordered the local
post-horses to be harnessed to one OF his breaks,
and he ordered the local postllhons to drive
then came the descent. lou Know what that
is,-how the horses go at fall speed, and how
the vehicle presses upon them, despite the drag,
goading them to still greater speed. 1t is ezc!t-
ing, but it is dangerous Let horse stumble
dies the spectator who but peers into it. Ma
poleon Ill, without limiting his intention,
1oosened the drag, The postil1ion instantly OBJ
eerved it, and ehrieked, in the angriest manner:
:tWhat id jackass has been fool enough TO
and said: eco ahead for all that! You are
not scared, eh?" ''As for being scared, that Is
not in my nature; but must Say. q man mnst
be q d-d fool to medd!e With L. the drag
reached the bottom safely. The Emperor went
up to the postil1ion as he WAS taking out the
horses, and said, as he slipped twenty francs ia
to his hand: 'Neu. after all, you see no dam
don't deny it, but a man must be natural born
fool to meddle with the drag over such ground
as that
PRINCE DoLGoRoU6ow.
Speaking OF Napoleon III. reminds me tnat
the following letter has been published for the
BRUSSELS, Feb. 8, 1853.
II the Emperor Napoteon mr.:
scith yourself ,-Messrs. de Morny. Mocquard, De"
Iengle, Chalk dEst-Ange, Derienne Beno- -chalnpy,-
drove me last year Of France. sought refuge IN
Belgium. Tbs honest and honorable Belgian nation
have, from conjunction Of circumstances, co"ardty
Ministry now; Ministry careless Of the naTona ;o q,e
istry has brought up contemplate cnicanes agsinst
me- and their sole object now is to cast me into
days in Holland, and then shall 50 to England.
where I am sure I shall, before may
It vii not not be long ere The French nation ysu
rightly by extrudinR you from France. Surely, yLu
don't loof on the Bonapartes as a dynasty? That
would be too funny! The Bonapartes are nothing but
race Of crowned policemen, whose business is TO
demonstrate to the French nation the immense in
portance Of those political liberties which the race Of
Bonapartes steal from them, and whose possession
they recover the day the Bonaparcs are showed GEL ot
France.
spred By your virtues and By your unparalleled bon
esty. PRINCE PIERRE DoLGououkc".
MARTYR.
A few days since, tug. while 6teamfg
shove the city, brought up from the bed Of thc
river a nondescrpt-looking object, which, when
it first appeared above water. nobody cou1a maize
out what it WIS. Drawn on deck and examined
more closely, it proved to be the armor rec:nt!y
Invented for divers to remain under water as
long as they pleased. It was opened, and in it u
dead body was found It contained. too. 1ln
case which held dispatches from tile GoSer..-
ment Of Tours to the Government Of Pats.
These DISPATCHES showed the corpse to be that
OF Captain Legrand, of the Engineer Corps Of the
Army Of the Loire, who had undertaken to bear
dispatches from Tours to Paris, and to
Introduce them into the beleagured
city. He WAS resident Of
village on the banks Of the Seine, just above
Paris, and reckoned on his knowledge Of tie
The topography Of the neighboThood to effect his
entrance into Paris. Several balls in the helmet
of the armor revealed how he had been disap-
pointed and had met an untlmely end. He had
thought himself in the French lines. and risen
nboye the water. The Germans had detected
him, and had fred at him with deadly effect.
The dispatches found on him were sent to the
Government, and his body was Rent to the
Morgue. The Government made arrangements
to give this martyr honorable funeral, and de-
puted Admiral TuRres to make speech a. the
grave. FoscoLo-