The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-06-19
A THREE-ATLAS BRAIN.
COmprehensiveness of the Mind
of the Grent NannIenn.

| surprising Comprehensiveness of the Mind
of the Grent Napoleon.
In his Les Origines de la France
Contemporaries, NJ. Taine gives a num-
per of anecdotes illustrating the mar
yelous intellectual grasp and mental
power of the first Napoleon. The his
;orian says that Napoleon had in his
mind three aliases, each of large pro-
portions, distinct and kept carefully up
20 date. The first, of a military char
acter, containing an enormous collection
Of maps on the minutest scale, with
plan of all fortresses, on which were
marked the positions of all his forces by
sea and land his regiments batteries,
irsenals, magazines and all appliances
Of war.
THE second contained a complete &C.
count of all the finances of the empire,
receipts and expenditures, together
with his whole administrative staff,
senator's deputies, ministers, projects,
bishops, professors and judges. The
third was gigantic biographical and
moral dictionary, in which the lives and
characters of all those with whom he
mad or was likely to come into contact
were carefully described" While he
was concluding a peace with Austria at
Schoenbrunn he was writing at the
same time on the Waicheren expedition.
the right of the state to public lands,
on naval expeditions to the colonies. on
the number of arms in the public arsen-
ais, on composing treatises on the art
of war and the history of the papal see,
about minute ecclesiastical arrange
ments."
While at Schoenbrunn, too. he SUPER
intended THE course of public works in
France and Italy turning his attention
At one time to the dykes of the Par
meSan, at another to the bridges and
luays of Lyons
Segur once made careful report of
the condition of all the Notifications on
the north coast of France. Il have
read your accounts" said Napoleon:
they are exact. Nevertheless you
have forgotten two four-pounders at
Ostend; they are on the high road be-
hind the town.
When he was consul he frequently
presided over committees of the home
office from ten at night till five in the
morning. Should anyone fall asleep
Napoleon would arouse him by shaking
aim and calling out: Come. Come.
citizen, wake up. 1t is only two o'clock!
We must earn the money which the
French people give us
In 1909 Napoleon said to Roederer:
81 am always at work, reflect great
zeal. If | seem always ready to an
swer every question and to meet every
difficulty it is because before undertake
ing anything have reflected long over
it. = | am always at work-at
Inner and at the theatre. At night |
get up to work. Last night ! got up at
two, sat down in an arm chair before
the fire and read my army returns
which the minister of war sent me yes
terday evening. | found twenty mis-
takes the whole of which l have sent
10 the minister, who is now occupied in
correcting them
A writer in the Atheneum tells of
how he once crossed the Great st. Ber-
nard in company with a peasant who,
as a boy of fifteen, had led Murat's
horse across the pass. This peasant re-
membered Napoleon well-his small
stature, his little black cooked hat, and
his gray overcoat. But what most
struck him was that from the appear
ance of the great general on the scene
all disorder ceased, plumber came to an
end, acquisitions were paid for and all
operations resumed the guise of regu-
larity and order
As tinarcier Napoleon seems never
to have had an equal. Before 1889
Frcnchman paid IA per cent. of his
revenue to his lord, the same proper
ton to his priest and So per cent to the
state, keeping only IS or 10 per cent.
for himself. But after 1900 he paid
nothing to the clergy or to his lord.
only 21 per cent. for imperial and local
taxation, while he kept 10 per cent. in
his own pocket.-N. y. Journal.