The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-06
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 Apropos of the erase for Napoleonic literature which the Panorama has ex cited among the PlAsiS siA<asr eassaas, would suggest for their enicyMens q pe. rasAl of" Thaekerays Second Funeral of Napoleon"
 With all its whimsical sarcasm, h con. tains some 6pe passages. Particularly vivid Is the description of the csuwd which lined the streets of Paris on the bitterly cold day when the dead AeroS body was brought back from St, Helena. once knew an old Preach lady whose hands were tsoten while watching the procession on that famous day. (HaM a dozen persons were frozen to death la the crowd1 She never recovered the feeling in the tips of two of her 6ngers but as she was passionate Bonaparsis, she re- garded the misfortune more as mark oi distinction than otherwise,
 rhackerayS delightful sketch. 1t Is a revel oi imagination in which the author fan nics that Napoleon Is enjoying living and not dead triumph:
 Then you saw horse and foot, jack boots and beaEskin, euirass and bayones, national guard and line, marshals and generals ali over gold, smart aid.de-camp galloping abou, like mad, and high In the midst of all, riding on his golden buck. Ter, Solomon in all his glory, forsooth -- Imperial Cesar, with his ctowu over his head, lAurels and standards waving about his gorgeous chariot, and a million oi people looking on in wonder and awe.
 His majesty, tho emperor and king, .eclined on his shield, with his head a little elevated. Ills msiestys skull is voluminous, his forehead broad and large. We remarked that his imperial ms jesty' s brow was of q yellowish color, which ap- pearance was also visible about the or. bits of the eyes He kept his eyeiida cansiansly closed. by which we had the opportunity of observing that the upper lids were garnished with eyelashes. Years and climate have effected upon the face of this great monarch only a uifiing al- iteration we may say, indeed. that T,me has touched his imperial and royal mai esty with the lightest feather in his wing ln the nose of the conqucror of Auster- litI we remarked very little alteration it is of the beautiful shape which we re. member 1t possessed Hve-sHd.;wes.y years since, ere unfortunate circumstances induced him to leave US for awhile. The nostril and the tube of the nose appear to have undergone some slight alteration, but in examining beloved object, the eye of affection IS perhaps too critical. Vive rEmpcTeur The soldier of Ma rengo is among us again. His lips arc thinner, perhaps, than they were be.o.e How white his teeth are You can jus, see three of them pressing his under lip and pray remark the fullpess of his cheeks and the round contour ol his chin. Ob, those beautiful white hands many a time have they patted the cheek of poor Jo- sephine and played with the black ring lets of her hair. She Is dead now, and cold, poor creature and 90 are Hoftense and bold Eugene, than whom the world never saw curtier knight as was said of king Arthur's Sir Lanceiot. What . day would it have been for those three could they but have lived until now and seen their hero returningl Where's Ney His wife sits looking out from M. Fla. hauts window youder, but the bravess of the brave Is not with her. Murat, too, Is absent; honest Joachim loves the eni. pcTOf at heArt, anu Fepcuth tnN nc Whn not at Waterloo who knows but at the sight of this handsome swordsman those stubborn English 'canaille would have given awayS A king, sire, ts, you know the greatest Of slaves-state affairs of con. sequence-his majesty, the king of Ma pies, is detained, no doubt When we last saw the king, however, and hi. high. ness the p,ince Of Elchingen they looked to have as good health as ever they had m their lives, and we heard each of them calling out Fire as they had done in numberiess battles before.
 "Is 1t possiblef Can the emperor tor. get2 We don't like to break 1t ts him. but has he forgotten all about the farm ., Pho and the garden of the observatory Yes, truly there he lies in his golden shield, never stirring, never co much al lifting his eyeiids or opening his lips any wider.
 70 vasffaI vasifafSmP Here is oul sovereign in all his glory, and they fired a thousand guns al Cherbourg and nevs' woke him l"