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were wrecked completely. Napoleon es-
capped unhurt, The match had not been
timed accurately, and to this cfrcun-
stance the greatest soldier that ever
lived owed HE life In giving his ac-
count of the affair Napoleon said that
he had had a busy day, and had fallen
asleep after dinner. 81 fell asleep, he
added, latter 1 was in my carriage. AT
| the moment when the explosion took
| place l was dreaming of the danger l
| had undergone some years before In
| crossing the Tagliamento at midnight by
the light Of torches during flood.
! Awakened by the explosion, he instantly
exclaimed: I'VE are blown up" and
with great presence of mind and prompt
| itude, he gave orders to the coachman
to drive as fast as possible.
ERA OF INTERNAL MACHINES.
This was the beginning of the era of as
sassination by means of the Internal ma
chine, and it was subsequently improved
upon by an assassin named Orsini, who
made an attempt to kill Napoleon III. as
/ he, with his wife, was on the way to the
opera. This affair occurred on the 18th
/ day of January, 1858, and the means en-
! ployed was a number of bombs, which in
ficted no less than 800 wounds, many Of
them proving fatal The shells of these
destructive little missiles were made in
| Birmingham, England, by manufacturer
| who was left in ignorance as to what use
! they were to be applied Having model
supplied to him he made six small iron
cases shaped like a pear, the larger end
being made heavy, in order that the bomb
would fall foremost when thrown from
the hand. On the larger end Of each shell
were % nipples, large enough to fit an
| ordinary percussion cap. When complet-
ed these mysterious little arrangements
were given in charge of a Frenchman
! in London, whose part of the programme
was to fill them with the most violent
explosive known to science at that time
-Four men-Orsini, Pierri, Gomez and Ru-
dio-were the prime movers in this plot,
and armed with the bombs they placed
! themselves on the route the emperor and
his wife We're to take their way to
the opera house. Three terrific explo-
sions soon followed, and when the smoke
cleared away it was found that Orsfni
himself w&s wounded, the imperial car
horses killed, two footmen who had stood
Immediately behind the emperor were
wounded, but the intended victim and
his wife escaped without a scratch.
BORE A CHARMED LIFE.
If any one can be said to bear
charmed life' that distinction belongs
to Louis Philippe king Of France, whose
life was so often sought by assassins that
!
the sensation The first attempt was
made to kill him in 1895, the next a year
later. The third was made by DamienS
in 1910, and SIX years later two attempts
were made to put him out Of the way,
one by Lecompte and the other by Henri.
The first trial, by an ingenious and muir
derous rascal named Fieschi, was worthy
Of satan himself. In 1885 this man, who
presumably was an Italian, rented a front
r.oo on ~ CT In paris
through which King Louis Philippe was
occasionally seen riding or driving. Be
hind the blinds of his window Fieschi,
determined apparently to succeed in his
evil work, erected a murderous machine
consisting of "a gun barrels placed in po-
/ stion like the ribs of fan. Mounting
these on a stone frame with their muz-
zles pointed to the street below, he so
arranged them, some a little higher than
others, that he was enabled to rake the
entire width of the somewhat narrow
street, or surely as much as the king
would use as he passed along. Loading
these instruments with powder and four
balls each, he connected the touch-holes
with a train of powder 1t was a fete
day. The people were commemorating
the kings accession to the throne, and
procession came marching along the
boulevard Gu Temple. All at once Fieschi
raised his blinds, paced a match to his
train of powder, and the Is gun barrels,
each With four balls, poured their deadly
fire into the crowd. The kings horse
received a ball in the neck, and the king
himself was slightly grazed on the face
by another, Tut beyond this he escaped
all injury, while about 40 people fell
around Kim, killed or wounded.
THE MURDER OF CARNoT.
It was an Italian who stabbed to death
&C. aY1f ~ INT~oTO Tod No.
whom it has been said that If there was
ever man Of whom one could say, con-
sderiag the whole current of his life,
that ne was not destined to a violent end
and that he would not perish under the
stroke Of political hate, surely that man
was M. Carnot. Loyal, just and moder-
geance, but he represented the principle
Of authority, and this was what caused
his assassination on the evening of June
"a 1894 (the anniversary of the battle of
Solfernio, by the way, soon after he had
attended brilliane festival at Lyons,
and a little later was on his way to
billed in his honor. While on his way he
was stabbed in his carriage by an Italian
youth, Cesare Santo, not twenty years
old.
AGAIN THE ITALIAN.
Again we behold the zine italian hand
that put an abrupt end to the happy, but
somewhat eccentric, existence of the En-
press Elizabeth of Austria His name is
huCCuSL11J anu ne Is Ill dVOW6Q Ill
archist, The empress had been stopping
some days in Geneva, travelling incognito
with small suite, and was about to take
lake steamer for Montreaux. Shortly
after noon, on Saturday, Sept. 10, 1885, as
she was walking from the hotel to the
boat landing, Luccheni rushed upon her
and thrust a stilletto into her breast. The
attack was so sudden no one had time to
interfere. The murderer fed, but was
overtaken by the crowd and handed over
to the police He boasted of his coward
ly crime and cheered for anarchy Tia
empress staggered, but was able to reach
the boat She did not realize that she
had been stabbed, thinking she had only
been struck by the mans fist. But grow
ing faint her ladies in waiting unfastened
her waist and found that she was bleetl-
ing internally from a deep wound. The
boat at once put back to Geneva, the
empress was carried to the hotel and
medical aid summoned, but the empress
died almost Immediately.