The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-09-19
Napoleon's Tale of America.

Arsene HOuSsaye IN his recently
published recollections says that he
heard the late Napoleon III. relate the
following to King Jerome and Prince
Murat:
'When | vas in New York dined at
a table d'hote beside poor devil who
had no shirt to his back, but who fas-
cinated me by the daring of his
schemes. 1t was extravagant, but
sublime. That high-toned, penniless
| fellow, who in France would have died
a tax collector or a quill-driver in an
administrative department., possessed,
one year later, S12 100000 in cash.
And he had not stolen the money,
either. One day he was hour late at
the table d'hote, so he said to us by
way of apology, You see, have made
er obviously, for he had not yet
bought shirt, he spread upon the
table roll OF paper upon which he
had drawn the plan of a city OF 90
900 inhabitants, with churches, fOun-
tains, squares and stock exchange
not being forgotten, of course. All
| this was fairy life, but reasoned out to
perfection; it was a real city of the fu-
! ture, such as we shall have some day
in France. My man had not confined
! himself to designing the town. but had
purchased the ground upon which to
| build it, and made his contracts with
masons and gardeners. They were
| about to lay the foundations and
make the streets. And your city will
rise like Thebes, when Amphion played
upon the lyre?' Yes, and they will
| not build as in Europe, one house at
time; all will be commenced on the
same day and completed at the same
time And, after a pause, What |
tell you now, continued Napoleon Ill,
sounds like tale, but our fellow
| diner was in earnest; he had secured
the refusal of the site, and shown the
! contracts to bankers, who perceived
! that there was a fortune in the affair
for themselves Us well as for him; all of
them took the bit in their teeth, and
| thus the country reckoned an addi-
| tIonal state. On that day promised
myself that on my return to Paris-a
thing | never doubted-I should re-
| build the capital of capitals
He Couldn't Leave the Game.
| From the Cleveland Leader
| "The late Senator Nesmith made a
national reputation" said an Oregon
man, "while he was in the Senate
The world roared with laughter at his
speech opposing Sumner in the pur-
chase OF Winnie Ream's statue of Lin
coin, even as it wept when, years after,
he spoke his noted eulogy over Sum-
ner's dead body. He might have been
returned to the Senate had he been
| more OF a politician and less Dwell,
less of Jim Nesmith. The caucus was
all ready to elect him, the cards had
been fixed, and a party OF the ring
! leaders had come to have him make a
rousing speech to the caucus. The del
| egation found him engaged in playing a
| Ettlegame ofseven-up. They told him
what they wanted, and he replied that
! he could not leave. They could make
| him senator if they wanted to. II
they didn't they could 90 to the devil.
The delegation went off angry. They
reported Nesm!5h's remarks, and by q
| little exaggeration reused up such a
sentiment against him that Grover
was elected, and he was left at home.
| A year or so after this Nesmith was
appointed minister to Austria, but the
Senate did not confirm him. He was
a member OF the Forty second Con-
gress, and after this service he went
back to his farm in Oregon"
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y PEA-sHELLING machine has been
invented which can do as much work
as several hundred women in the
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