Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-11-07
An EMrER0R'S LOST HEART.
A GmStly Story About Napoleon the
Great.
Philadelphia Bulletin,

nNhuVlHhla hhiNllu,
At pleVastcl, in Britanuy, there is liv.
ing an English physician named Thorn
"a Cartwell aged 81 years, who tells
travellers strange .story. in which he
SAYS he figured ~ principal actor.
On the 9th OF May, lS2l, Napoleon
the Great died at liongwood. st. Hele.
mn, after causing Sir Hudson Lowe SO
much unhappiness that IN went CRAZY,
and returning 10 England lost all his
fortune in cXtravaSant speculation in
stocks. The e,nperor's last compan-
ions Bertrand, Montholon, Gourgmud,
and Las Cases, immediately made y
demand for physician expert in the
se,cueo of emhalming, Sir Hudson
| Lowe, who shruuk from no expense.
sent n physician, IN Italian named An
tomNrchi, who had attended tho empe-
ror when he was troubled with sty ON
the eye. The doctor fastened to his
work, but certain Instruments were
needed. He required at lenst two as-
sistAnts, etc Sir Hudson Lowe made
haste to supply all his demands. lilo
sent boat To mn Eaglish frivate ut an
ohor III the oiling, with request for
two naval surgeons, supplied with I'VE.
rything required fer the emhaming
process.
One OF the two persons sent was
youth of 20 years, well educated and
iull Of ambition, and he was received on
tho island M assistant surgeon Thomas
Cartwoll, Ho and his comrado hast.
on,d to assist DIR. Antomarehi. About
o'clock in the afternoon of May 8 the
work was begun. The corpse OF Napo-
leon |. was hItcd from the little bed
whore he had died and placed ON n long
marble.top table, which wns still intact
when, in 1858, Napoleon Ill, bought
with government funds the small house
IN which Ind died the man whom he
persisted in making the public believe
had been his uncle. The process of
emhalming was not finished when night
came and interrupted H. Antomarchi
and his assistants agreed that the com
pletion of II must 10 postponed until
the next morning, They determined To
20 to bed and resume work az daybroak.
First they covered the emporer's body
with white cloth, which they sprinkled
aud saturated with certain liquids to
prevent putreiaetion. The various in
ternal organs that had been removed
were placed in metal cups on the ope-
rating table. Then the three operators
went to their rooms and slept pro.
foundly.
They Ind hardly been asleep mn hour
when Marchand. tie valet of the dead
emperor, knocked ut ChrtwelPa door,
calling out: Come down, sir, quick
A great misfortune has just happened"
I"What IL ~" said tho young surgeon,
appearing in his uniform. "Oh, sir, the
emperors heart has been eaten up with
rats' IL was truO. The island was in
fested with rats. They we're ~ thick
~ the English. While Marchand WAS
ont OF tho room some rats had rushed
IN, and, finding the heart Of the conquer
or OF Austerlilz in basin had made
mouthiul OF It. The valet, on returning
TO tho room had seen them scamper
away, and all no could do WAS to an
nounce the irreparabe loss.
What was now To be doneg The ply
sicians met and consulted. II was inn
possible 10 conceal the absence Of the
organ that had been eaten up, the ope-
ration Of onbalming having been be-
Eun hllltHhtH WIN Iliku HttU lts
10 confess the accident was to expose
Marchand to severe rebuke, and the
poor fellow was already wretched
enough If we could only get sleeps
heart" ho suggested TO Antomarchi
with excessive caution. All the four per-
Sons looked mt one another nervously,
hesitated and then began 10 laugh to-
gether like four Roman augurs. They
understood one another. Marchand ran
10 u neighboring farm, killed sheep,
and brought back It's heart, still warm
and palpitaling
On the next day, the 9Th OF May, An
tomaichi and his assistants, in the pres
ence OF Gen. Bertrand and NJ. DC Mon
emperor, without any person among his
suit in the least suspectlng the extraor-
binary performance on the night before.
II the story is true, and il the old retired
English exsurgeon OF Plogastel ia not a
Joker, the heart Of the sheep OF 81. Hell
ena has been resting for thirty three
years under the dome Of tho Inyalides'
| ~s -
When the old gentleman comes home
and finds bis daughters have got his
slippers and the easy chair, and the
evening paper ready for him, he real
ICES that Il il the season for n fall open
ing Of his pocketbook.
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Some women are very absent-mind-
ed, and frequently forget where they
left the dish.pan after using il, but the
world hasn't yet produced u woman who
ever forgot where she hung her false
hair before retiring.
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II you want to sleep quietly, dop't
uraisp another woman while y0ur wtfe