Arizona republican., 1904-01-26

know that Napoleon Bonaparte spent all the time he wasn't busy making his tory in jumping out of bed onto a chair, out of the chair into a different bed and out of the different bed onto different chair? Surprising, isn't it? And yet the number of pieces of Elm pire furniture now on sale that were in personal use by the great Corsican leaves us no doubt in the matter.
 Tn the same way we find that George Washington's two great hobbies were collecting favorite body servants and eating breakfasts before import ant battles. Washington's favorite body servants have been dying at the rate of two year for the last cen- tury, which shows that the father of his country had at least 200 of them.
 'As to the breakfast habit which so enslaved him, there is not the slight est question. In the neighborhood of every revolutionary battlefield there are at least six houses at which he snatched a last mouthful before en- tering into action, while as for the Jersey campaign, judging from the surviving housese which furnished him with morning meals just prior to the Trenton, Stony Brook and Princeton
  | knowledge that the immortal George must have fairly gorged himself. Speaking of Princeton, it is inter esting to note that the first crew that lever represented Princeton college rowed in trireme, two oars to a seat ! This we know from the number of varying lengths of first crew oars now ! hanging on the walls of Princetons students rooms. The last unofficial census revealed fifty-four of 'em.
 "The largest ship ever built was the | Maine and it was blown up in Hav- ana harbor. If all the small pieces of the Maine now treasuered as souve- mfrs were put together the result would 1 be so large a ship that the Great East ern would look insignificant if swung | from her decks as a life boat. And you must remember, too, that in all | proba ability there were a few small | splinters of the Maine that were never found.
 When I say that the Maine was the largest ship ever built, I mean the largest that we positively know of | Certain New England statisticans claim the honor for the Mayfiower and point to the number of people whose ancestors came over upon her.
 But while Improbable. it is not inn | possible that the descendants of each original Pilgrim increased seventy-two fold every generation, and in that case the Mayfiower would not have had to | have a passenger capacity of much over 17,0O0. Therefore, think, it's safe | to say that the honor rests with the | Maine.
 For the same reason take no stock in the alleged proofs that William the Conqueror was a Mormon. What if 3S,694, I'll people do trace descent from him? Think of the number of people who refer to Pocahontas as at-great-great-great grandma, and surely she wasn't Mormon. ~f But getting back to facts and fig ures, did you ever reflect upon the popularity of ring-around-a-rosy in revolutionary times? what? Why. there's not the slightest question of it.
 Consider the Daughters of the Rev. olution, the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, the Colonial Danes and the like Did you ever meet one among them whose great-grandmothe didn't at some time or other have the honor of dancing with the Marquis de Lafayette?
 Well. divide the plumber of great grandmothers into the length of the distinguished Marquis's visit, and