The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-06-04

temptation was, doubtless, the snug little
house-the house, in fact, for he was all
alone in the world hers only, imagine,
sudden fancy to have an especial claim
on somebody. A year afterward she OBJ
served to me: "My dear, / never knew
what happiness was before"
A month later and the husband was
wldower, and sole heir to the little Aunt
Debby had to leave.
The other case was that of ridiculous |
old colorcd brother, away down South,
so old and infirm that he could only
crawlsaround in sunny weather. was
much surprised one day by receiving
from him modest request to make him q
wedding cake, as he was going to be
married to Aunt Silvy, almost as old as
himself, who had done his little bit of
housekeeping for some time.
"Why, Primis!" exclaimed, ''what in
the world do you want 70 get married
for2"
"Well, you see, missus, . he replied, 81
has two fust-rate reasons. One is, dat de
neighbors might begin to talk curious,
SEEM silvy working round my house,
and me widderer, and would wish to
spare Silvy's repatriation. Its my dooty
to spare it. Then again, now,I has to pay
Silvy for every trifllng thing she does for
me; wharas, if ! marry her, she's got to
do all my cooking and washin' and wash
in and mendin', and at the end of the
year kin give her caliker dress and
she's satisfied" --,a-
The reasoning was conclusive, and l
said no more. d, o.
. In the pretty palace of the Elysce
Bourbon, occupied by Louis Napoleon
before the coup d'etat which obliged him
: to move to grander quarters in the Tuile=
ries, there was one room decorated with
portraits of the first Napoleon's fayorite
= staff officers The first time visited the
: room stood long time before a port
raft named in the catalogue as that of
I'm. Bernhard, physician-in-chief during
the two consulates and until after the bat
e tie of Austerlitz, aged one hundred
l. years." But for the statement, would
c have said the portrait was that of re-
: markably we'll preserved man of rs. The
II face was full, the color good, wrinkles
r few, the eyes full Of intelligence, and, If
l. fact, none of the marks of extreme ole
le age apparent in the least. When I re
If turned to my hotel, spoke Of the picture
8, to my landlady.
ts "Come with me-" she said, "this after
l. noon, to Ivry, where he died, and wher
le one of his daughters still lives, and yo1
&c shall hear his history from her."
~ Ivry is small village, within walking
Sc distance of Paris, and I readily consente'
pc to make the visit. We. found Mile
ut Bernhard occupying quite a pretentiou
house for the place, and living alone wit
an old servant She looked about Isl
b. but was, she assured me, only73.
ssBut she added, ~ always looked ole
! When was very little child they Gale
me little old woman" ,s>.s... ".
From her I learned the following IT
! markable facts concerning her father
+ He was already SO when Napoleon pal
him the compliment of naming him HI
chief physician. For so years he ha
~ practised medicine in the provinces, frol
OF whence he was transferred to the hosp
of tails of Paris, where the first consul foun
Id him. He had never been married, an
It? was wonderfully hale, hearty, vlgorou
ht old man. He had then never lost
a. tooth, and could read qnite comfortabl
n without spectacles. He had no rheums
tn tism, no govt, and slept like child ever
= night. This physical condition he a
ill lcribed, first, to the inheritance of an e.
en- cellent constitution; next to the good Cal
lat he had always taken of himself. H
&c, whole habits Of living had been perfect
DIV regular. He had never used tobacco
nd any form or drank anything strong
zen than native wine He ate nothing b
use what he had found by experience to agr
W. with his constitution, and never ate to e
I'm cess. In fact, for more than twenty-6
IT, years he had carried with him always
en-, pair of pocket scales, and never failed
rs? weigh his food just so many ounces
ian bread and so many OF meat, few veget
on bles, no dainties Of any kind except
Dv. small amount of fresh fruit in season, a
,ter taken az naturel. He never missed
wn daily bath, and slept just 50 many no.
of out of the twenty four. If he was d
to turbed at night, as Of course frequent
happened, he calculated accurately I
The amount of sleep of which he had been
in prived, and made it up during the d.
lar Late hours and excuses of every XII
axe physical or mental, he had careful
nth avoided, and the consequence was Il
nly wheh he joined Napoleon's househo
"A IS he babe fair to ss-zs. .,... .s.-s. .-.. ..-
81 OUTLINE MANY OF HIS COMPANIONS
ids. his Junior by half century. He pas
has the Great st. Bernard with Napole
are and was with him at the battle of Mar
att go. When 1OS years old, he was ira,
So, ing from scissors to Paris, when his {
be rage broke down and the doctor '
.~. thrown out, spraining his foot so ba
,uch that he could not walk The coachm
no the only person with him, made his m
the ter comfortable by the side of the re
nty, and then mounting one of the horses, r
7 for to little hamlet mile 9 ana nan
mug proposing to find some vehicle to con