, 1873-02-13
Tho Death Of tho ox-Emporor Napo-
lc0n---Elcct Of tho Intel.
ligonco.
A Comparative Study Of the Three
Greatest Battles Of the
Present Time,
Tie Failure Of Bowlcs Brothers
g. Co.---A Card from Mrs.
Selaver.


for, despite nil tho events OF TO- III '72 tia
oorpao Mt Chiaolhurnt Ii still to Fronchrnen's
minds tho Emperor. The unexpected intcln-
gonco burst on tho National Assembly In tho
mdat of m impnssionod debate on education,
and nobody listened to tho debnters. II mado
doop Impression everywhere in Pnris. Tho lowcr
clnsses Of tho population, who bud never, In all
their lives before, farod half 30 we'll Al during
tho sunny yohrs Of the Empire (when they nood
novor havo known what 1t WAS to want oocupa-
tion), oxprosnod delight at Badinquota'' doAtl1.
French1non lato pooplo above them, and
fool TINT to pull down their suporiorB
Ia to rniso up themselves, Educated tpeoplo
generally were shocked by tile suldennoaa of
tho catastrophe. Tho medical attendants cried,
hour after hour, "A1l's vol ! " and, before tho
cheering word had motod into air. tl,oro roso tie
wail, "The Emperor 10 dying THE Emperor
Is load +" It was shocking. Tho first thought
raisod WAS retrospect Of tho lifo juat ondod
thon attempt was made to dofond it's sequences.
6omo Of them woro ut onco apparent. Napoleon
III. gono, the Bonspartist party is collapsed
at 1eRst for many yearb. Ono less mon
arohtcal party Strengthens tho other mon-
erchical parties, the Orloantsts more
particularly; for no Donarnrtist could accept
tho abs,,rditicH Of tho Logtimist creed, or con-
eont to exchange tho tri-color for tho Whito flag
epangled with lilcs. Tho Orleans Princes havo,
howevor, slightly damaged their cauBo Already ;
they won't to the Grand Opera the night intelli-
CONGO OF Napoleon 11I.'s death roached liore.
Good taste, no loss than good policy, would hnyo
engaged them to stay ut home.
The Emperor's death before his Goth birthday
reminds poople here Of
THE EARLY AGE
a.
disappeared from life. 1larslala St. Arnaud,
Doaquot, Forey, woro not GO; Duke
do Nlorny Count Walowskl, General Vaudry,
Mocquard (privato Secretary, do PerBgny,
Baciocchi, Achille Fou1d Delanglo, Gonoral
Espinasse, Darocho, General Cayaignac, General
Bcdeau, Goneral LanaQriciore, Preyoat-Paradol,
=. s. proudhon, Sainto-Bouye, oil died before GO,
and tie majority of thom soon after co.. Bos-
quot, Proyost-parRdol Espinasse mot tragic
deaths. WaloHski md Cagaignac dropped dead.
Fould and Lamoriciero wero found dead in bed
Tho newspapers here pretend That the
intelligence OF tito Emperor's death made
no impression. On tho boulovards there
ia d constant crowd; everybody has q
newspaper in hand. English newspapers
arc eagerly sought; all Of them arc bought in
ndyance; and tho newspapor-vendora on tho
| boulevard (wllore the Times and Telegraph arc
dsily on aale) only distribute thom to purchasers
who orderod and paid for them i'll tho morning.
Bonapartiat nowspnpers have reached salo
| EXCEEDING ANY EDITION
recorded In the annals OF the French preHs.
| Ono Of them has sold 180, 900 copies a day, an
othor 2o0,o0o Le Petit Journal, iu tue time Of
| its greatest prosperity, when it had sort Of
monopoly boing the only one-cent newspaper sr
then published)), mover sold moro than $4,000
copies q day. Photographers, too. aro making q
great aoal Of money; aome people say $4,000
worth ,, Of ,Napgoleon, gaa ~; nls photographs hays
teles, nud SOC, 600 rosottes for tho buttonholo,
made with centre-picco bearing this inscription
in English, 10 our regretted sovereign and
been ordered for England alone; aud, in all tho
| florists shops here, ! 500 hugo garlandB made Of
violets with inscriptions in white violots; al
these garlands havo beon ordered by Bonapnrt-
lists for tho Emperor's funeral. Germany alone
has sent to one photographer hero orders for
10000 photographs Of Napoleon III.
:, There are SO many people going to London
that paasengora are refused night and u!2 morning
them. who leave here aro obliged to
take the slow trains. Special trims at low rates
arc to be run for tho funeral, to enable all per-
sons to 60 over. Mourning have
| LITERALLY BEEN CLEARED
Of all their stock. Iailors, mantua-makers, and
1nillinorg have quadrupled their hands, and work
| day and night. Registers llayo been oponea at
i Mons. KOunerG To8ldC1cG 1Of peopl6 WHO SYM
I pathizo WITH the Imperial family, to record thei1
narrlos 10000 mines lnyo already been regis'
| torod and tho stream Of viaitorn continues to
flow without abatolnont. The Bonapnstists have
reaolYed to woar mourning for three months
The Radical preBs assais the Emporor's memory
/ WITH GREAT coARsENEss.
Hero il ono example "a telegram announces
to uB that the Bandit OF Decomber md Sedan
died yesterday ut hnlf-paBt II III. Morality il
avenged; the public conscience feels relioi
| upon being told TINT tho monster who wns dir.
tied by impurities Of all soYta Las ceased to live
national honor raiaos ita hoad again ut merely
thinking that the author OF all our interior ant
foreign dBgrace8 can never again inault public
dcconcy. What pleasure ia given by tho poruAa
Of thoao briof aud ,snont conHolatory sentences
criminal who over wont unhung! Awake
In your shrouds, beloved dead, sen
by lin to dcudy slrinea Riso from
your graves, 80 martyrs Of Cayenne and OF Lam
beu3a, to shura with ils tlo pungont pleasure o
insulting thia grnvo.'
Tho Emperor's death llas suggested this
SINGULAR CALCULATION,
which, il had timo I should apply to tho his
tory Of Engliah Kings, to zoe what general value
it ins: "Napoleon !. was born on Tho 1ath oi
August, 17G0; whom lie mounted tho throne, tlat
18th of May, 1904, ho was 80 yours months, Ba,
417 montha, old. He died on tho 9Th Of Amy
months, old. Napoleon III. was born on tht
throno tho 2lst Of Docomber 1869. ho was 4;
yeara and months, soy 528 months, old. Cal
the duration Of Napoleon Ills lilo +, no Bhal
then layo tho following EQUATION:
At months-523 months.
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