NEWS OF THE WEEK.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut, on the
morning of the 21st, two burglars
broke into the store of Benjamin Betts,
and one of them was passing goods out
to his companion, when Mr, Betts, who
bad been aroused by a burglar counect-
Ing the store with his residence, ap-
peared on the scene with a neighbor
named Hayes, The burglars warned
them to keep away, on penalty of have
ing their heads blown off, and at the
the same time commenced throwing
articles within reach at Betts and his
friend. The two latter discharged shot
guns at the burglars, and one of them,
being wounded in the head and neck,
and beaten on the head with the butt
of a gnn, wes captured. The other es-
caped, The captured burglar gave the
name of William Carey.
—Forty-three new cases of yellow
fever and one death were reported on
the 22d, in Jacksonville, making a
total to date of 3839 cases and 332
deaths, Of the new cases, only six
were white, One new case and two
deaths are reported in Decatur, Ala-
bama. The Board of Health of Col-
umbus, Georgia, on the 224, raised the
yellow fever quarantine against all
points.
--All the persons arrested on suspl-
cion of having murdered Paymaster
McClure and Flanagan, his assistant,
near Wilkesbarre, Penna., on Friday
last, bave been released. Suspicion
has been directed to several persons,
and rumor says that arrests will be
made, A reward of $2000 has been
offered, and an effort will be made to
increase this sum to $5000 by popular
subscription.
—There was a heavy snow storm in
northern Minnesota on the 21st. At
Tower the snow 18 1J inches deep, and
in the woods back of
inches on the level, There was no
wind and no drifting, In
Towa there were slight
ported more than two inches, and that
1s melting, Some snow fell In central
Minnesota and northern Dakota on the
20th, but it melted
it fell. A light
Nebraska, on the afternoon
ing of the 21st, At no time was the
ground covered, as the particles melted
as as they fell.
points along the Missourl
that the storm was
¥
soon
river
general, At
braska City the fall was heavy. A
tornado on the 22d devastated the Fe-
licite plantation in St. James 1'arish,
Louisiana. A house on the plantation
was demolished.
+
—A despatch: from St. Louis says
under arrest for desertion, escaped on
the evening of the 20th, after making
and Welch. The deserters
Thomas F. Lynch and a recruit named
McCurdy. Sentry Kennedy
down with an axe in
Lynch, while McCurdy beat Welch
a revolver,
will die, It has just been discovered
in Fort Ripley, Minnesota, that a Ger
man named Zeigler, who lived near
years, who had a
Zeigler,
~Two colored men were discovered
by policemen in Washington, about 3
o'clock on the morning of the 224,
carrying a bag between them. As soon
as they saw the policemen they dropped
the bag and fled, their flight being has-
tened by several bullets fired after
them. When the bag was opened it
was found to contain the body of
Charles I. Nolen, a well-known colored
barber, who was buried on the 17th.
ing on the main track of the Barling-
ton Railroad at Kenesaw, Nebraska,
on the 22d, the engine of another
freight train crushed into the caboose,
the engine of the second, and instantly
killing George A, I'ritchard. of Den-
ver, and RBobert Bean, of Meeker,
~—Henry Shaffer, his sons Henry and
Percival, and his stepson David Ni
mik, were killed by a locomotive while
crossing a railroad in a wagon near
Omaha, on the evening of the 21st,
Thomas Rowe and A. McLenlg, who
gerous, if not fatal, injuries, Albert
16 years, were killed in a freight wreck
near Altoona, Penna,, on the 234. A
strain on the Boston and Albany Rall.
road struck and killed Elliott Walker,
aged 65 years, at West Natick, Maasa-
chusetts, on the 231, Noah Jagoe, on
the 224, fatally shot Miss Ells Green.
in Owensboro, Kentucky, to whom
he was engaged to be married, He
claims that it was an accident, “From
the fact that he tried to stab her a
short t ime ago, and had been quarrel-
ling with her about receiving other
company, he Is suspected of shooting
with intent to kill.”
— Engineers Cook and Major, Con-
ductors Terry and Keithline and James
Hannigan, a brakeman, who were
found guilty of negligence by the
Coroner's jury investigating the Mud
Run disaster, were arrested in Wilkes.
barre, Pa., on the 23d, on a charge of
manslaughter, and were taken to
Mauch Chunk, Warrants have also
been issued for the arrest of John
Mulhearn and Joseph Pobl, lookouts,
The Coroner’s jury which investigated
the recent railroad accident at Wash.
ington, Penna., piaced the nisi
bility for the disaster upon Conductor
Heck, of the shifting engine, and
charged him with involuntary mane
slaughter in causing the deaths of En-
gineer Noonan and Fireman McAu-
liffe. The testimony showed that he
had ordered the switch to be opened,
and then failed to see that it was
closed, Edward dicen, he new switch
-), OU, Lomsdalen, one of the best
known farmers in the vicinity of Fer-
gus Falls, Minnesota, has left the
country. His liabilities are estimated
at $50,000, He disposed of all his grain
and live stock at a sacrifice prior to ns
departure, Albeit A. Bhaver, ex-
Treasurer of Clare county, Michigan,
has been arrested on the charge of
appropriating about 81800 of the
county funds, during his term of office
in 1884. On the night of May 14, 1884,
Shaver was found bound and gagged
in his office, and he declared he had
been robbed of $4000, His story was
not generally believed, and the present
arrest 1s the result of Imvestigations
that have since been made. A whole-
sale system of frelght robbery Las been
discovered on the Mexican Central
Rallroad, and it 18 belleved the loss to
the company will reach $50,000,
~The sufferers in Ramsey county,
Dakota, are Polish Jews, who, two
years ago, formed a settlement about
18 miles from Devil's Lake. The sel.
tlement comprises 70 families, num-
bering 238 souls, Thelr crops were en
tirely destroyed by an untimely frost
in August, and they are now without
food, shelter, clothing or fuel. ‘Many
cases are described of naked women
and children existing in frost and
snow.” Food, clothing and money are
urgently asked for,
~I1. G. Farnham, traveling sales-
man for a Philadelphia clothing house,
was arrested in North Adams, Massa-
chusetts, on the charge of attempting
to pass a forged check for $35.
—A fast freight traln on the Erie
lailroad ran into the rear of another
freight near Ottsville, New York, on
the morning of the 24th, George
McMullen, a brakeman, was killed,
and three other trainmen were badly
injured, Before a fagman could be
sent forward a passenger train dashed
into the wreck, Two engines and a
dozen frelght-cars were demolished,
| No passengers were hurt. An express
switched uj a slde-lrack
land Station, Massachusett
morning of the 24th, and co
a train standing on the siding.
persons were slightly hurt, aud
nes wore wrecked,
8, Ou
Pp
Two
sig
eri
gi
—dohin
| mitted suicide at lis
| burne, Massachuse
f the 234. Atl
was married to a
answer
en
Welsman, aged 28 years, com-
on the
six mor
Philadelphiis
0 an advertisement.
was Emma Craven,
stated that her parents did
to the marriage. Mrs, We
that her husband got o
the night, saying that |
shoot a cat. She after
open 8 window down siairs,
shot and later found him dead
| Sappington, a f and
| manufacturer { fayette,
wommitted iC the morning of
the 2400. scribed as the
use,
#4 yes vs tas 0
is, evening
out iths ago he
2 girl In
Tue girl's
and it is
not consent
name
heard a
Stephen
ner
1il healt
{i CA
— Mrs, Julia Therkeles, aged 30, and
| her daughter, aged 14 years, were
| burned to death by a fire in a shanty,
Missouri, on
The house of ¥reder-
{ick Mast, near Michigan City, Indi
| ana, was burned on the 224, and his
| young son perished in the Names. Mrs,
Mast was badly burned, as was also an
ufant which she rescued.
| at Lexington,
ing of the 23d.
-- Robert Elder, who shot and killed
his father in
sey, last August, was on the 24th con-
victed of murder in the first degrees,
John Downey shot and killed William
Moore in Elizabethtown, Illinois, on
the 234. They quarrelled over a game
of cards. John Schaller and his wife
were found in their home in Cincinnati
on the evening of the 24th with their
throats cut,
| Jealousy is the supposed cause,
| =On the 234 yellow fever report
| from Jacksonville shows 33 new cases
tand 1 death. Fourteen new
yellow fever are reported in Fernan-
dina. One new cass was reported on
the 23d, in Decatur, Alabama.
~Thirty-one new cases of
| fever and four deaths were reported on
the 24th, in Jacksonville. Twenty
| deaths, and there are now six cases of
| the disease there, There were 14 new
| cases of yellow fever at Fernandina on
| the 24tn. There was one death from
| yellow fever, but no new cases in
| Decatur, Alabama, on the 24th, °
| =A despatch from San Francisco
i says that while Joaquin Miller was
shooting quail on the 224, his horse
jumped and a bullet went through his
left hand, It missed the bones and
only made a flesh wound.
danger is from’lockjaw. George John-
ston and William Akin were killed by
the fall of a large stone in a quarry at
Elliottsvilie, Indiana, on tha 221,
—J, R. Rambo, the missing ex-Reg-
ister of Wills, of Norristown, has been
in Haarisbug since the 224, He returned
home on the 25th, He is said to be
mentally unsound, W. H. English, a
trusted employe of the St. Lous Steel
Range Company, in 8t Louis, has
been arrested for embezzlement. The
amount known to have been taken 18
£600, English, who bad access to the
mail, opened letters containing money
and checks from customers, appropri
ating the funds and forwarding re-
ceipt¢’. The mall pouch which left
Boston on the 234 and arrived in Chi.
cago on the evening of the 24th, over
the Michigan Southern Railroad, was
robbed of all the firskclass mail mat.
ter it contained, The stolen package
consisted of registered letters and the
supposition is that the thief obtained a
large amount of money,
~It in said that wolves and coyotes
are doing great damage In Northern
Montana, having killed in the last few
days many hundred of sheep und colts,
besides attacking travellers, The Ter.
ritorial Veterinarian, Mr. Parsons, who
has just returned to Helena from
Cheautan county, reports that Charles
Adams was compelled to fly from the
beasts on the evening of the 224, when
they destroyed 80 of his thoroughbred
bucks. On the evening of the 150
sheep were killed in one flock, and also
~All Carlisle, Penna., on the 25th,
the Coronec’s jury in the case of the
recent collision on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, near Shippensburg,
by which one person was kiiled and
fifteen others were injured, rendered
the following verdict: “That the death
of Charles Bitner was due to the in-
juries he received on October 18, 1888,
by the east and west bound trains, Nos,
9 and 14, colliding on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad one and one-half miles
east of Shippensburg; that sald disaster
was caused by the forgetfulness, re-
fusal or neglect of Conductor George
W. Bowman and Engineer
burg for further orders and in their
failure so to observe the rules and reg-
ulations of sud railroad company in
proceeding on their way contrary to
orders received from the Superintend-
ent’s office at Chambersburg.”
—Seventy-one new cases of yellow
fever and two deaths were reported on
the 25th In Jacksonville, There are
nine sick at Enterprise, six of them in
a critical condition. There were 10
new cases of yellow fever at Fernan-
dina on the 25th, but no deaths,
Thomas Douglass Hoxsey,
master in the United States Navy.
committed suicide on the evening of
the 24th, in Paterson, New Jersey, by
shooting himself in the head. About
two years ago his wife died,
then he had been despondent.
tives and friends think the
was accidental,
24th, Mrs, Margaret Brown
home in Boston with
child, aged 18 months, leaving word
that she intended to make away with
herself and baby. She has not been
heard of since,
- Baggage )
Pay-
lela-
left her
aster Sanborn, who on
at Howlands Station, Massachusetts,
went to the Old Colony station, in
Boston, on the 25th, and told the Maas-
caused
by being shouted at,
-It was reported In
Penna,, on the 25th, th
bad found MeClure’
woods, near the
murdered, C
Wilkesbarre,
at school boys
in
he was
satchel the
spol where
mtaiped some 8
me of
evening
ian shot
Charles Davis, a
murdered man, killed
hatchet. As
ing along Lhe road near
ia, on the evening of
for Harrison, 8
cnown persons drove up behind
and opened fire, kill
y, Thomas Wat a al
Mexican, murdered Maggie
and then committed
na, on the
be living
At Robinson's circus
Yernon, Kentucky, on
26th, Joha Proctor put on a Marshal's
ribbon and attempted to enter the
show, The Chief Marshal, Willlam
Parker, informed the doorkeeper. An
#%
iYEer,
cards in
brother to
treorge
ing hii
ng hi
ntl son,
breed
Smith sulcide,
"he ie had
and quarreled,
: Afe
in
#3 Be
i ug together
.
the
knives were used, Parker was fatally
i eut in the right side, Jobin Bremen was
shot in the head, James Jones, Sheriff.
was shot through the right
{ shoulder, and several specialors were
wounded by bullets, [Proctor is under
arrest,
~ David Veator,
fax, Wyoming Territory, shot
killed his wife on the evening of
25th, and then killed himself,
iousy was the cause of the
David Sellers and wife, living pear
Mount Gilead, Ohio, were murdered
jon the morning of the 26th, and the
house fired to hide the evidence of the
Sellers was known (0 carry
large sums of money on his person.
‘here is no clue to the murderer,
Ephraim Mayes was hanged on the
26th, at Elgefieid, South Carolina, for
the murder, in December last, of Jacob
Burt, an aged deal mute. fla con-
fessed his crime on the scaffold. Burl's
| wife and daughter were implicated in
ithe crime, and was sentenced to be
{ hanged with Mayes, but the Governor
and commu.
to imprison-
Col-
and
the
Jeal-
tragedy.
a bartender In
| pardoned the daughter,
ted the wife's sentence
ment for life.
-A passenger {train on the Ken-
i tucky Central Railroad jumped the
| track near Paris, Kentucky, on the
| 20th.
{and was fatall
| Elmer D. Ryan, a passenger, who was
| on the platform. John Ryar and J. J.
Allen, both train hands, were badly
{ hurt,
Jose, Illinels, on the 25th,
Baum was killed and Engineer Foote
badly hurt. Both locomotives and 17
cars were destroyed,
— Miss Mazie Mount, 21 years old,
| committed suicide at the Conservatory
{ of Music in Cincinnati on the 26th, A
‘dose of morphine was unsuccessful,
owing to prompt medical attendance,
80 she cut her throat with a razor,
love affair is supposed to have been the
cause of the act,
~Dr. Robert leonard, of Carbon
county, Penna., was killed on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, near Glen
Onoko, on the evening of the 25th.
He was on his way home from a visit
toa patient, and itis supposed that
while walking on the track he stepped
out of the way of one train directly in
front of another, His dead body was
found by a brakeman between the
tracks, his cane, broken in two, being
near by. Dr, Leonard was 65 years of
age. He was a member of the Carbon
Medical Association, National Medieal
Association of the Unitsa States, and
one of the consulting surgeons of St
Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem,
~=A family of eight persons sat down
to a supper in celebration of & wedding
of George Martin, in Misneapolis, on
the evening of the 25ih, After swal-
lowing a few morsels sank to the
floor, with systoms of polsoning. the
vietinos includibg the groom and bride.
It is supposed a rival of Martin pol
soned the food. At last accounts all
are dangerouly sick,
cases
«There were 23 new and 2
deaths from yellow fever li Jacksonville
on the 26th, The number
fs 3007. and deaths 341. There
one new case of yellow fever and
death in Decatur, Alabama op
—~— Mrs, Henrietta BSpere, aged 78
years, and Mrs, Martha Deckel, aged
65, were found suffocated to death on
the morning of the 26th, in their room
in the German Home for the Aged, in
Baltimore. It is supposed Mrs, Becks!
who was 1znorant of its use, blew out
tha gas.
—Albert D, Btickney was found
Troy, New York, on the 20th, It
thought he had been dead two days
when found, Death was caused by
hemorrhage of the lungs.
i —-——— ——
HE WAS ASEA CAPTAIN.
Natural Hallucination of a Man
“Was Half Seas Over.”
“Can't a feller wait for his ship?”
sald a man with red eyes and seedy
clothes, as he steadied himself against
{ one of the stone posts on the sea wall
along the Battery in New York, He
addressed a policeman who was wateh-
ing him closely. *'Can’t he wait till
his ship is ready Lo pull out?”
“Yes,” sald the officer, in a tone as
if it depended on circumstances,
“Can’t he linger where
{ dash high, till the tide 1s right to h’ist
| his ship over the break water?”
| **Yes, if he's quiet about it.”
| **Can’t the captain of & big eight.
irest In your park till they send the
starboard schooner to take him off?”
“You are a captain of a
{ then?”
**Yesser, that’s it,
| over there toward that ‘ere big statute,
| See the masts on her, and the fo'castle
| sticking up’p the air like a church
| sieeple? That's my ship. I'm
| on L' her jest a8 83000 as they
take me off iz the bulkhead,
| rest in your park tili y pull
Coie 0
lemme
up here
for’ard
1i the
to this stone sidewalk wilh the
| bulkhead.”
| *+All right; but you mustn't holler,
“Nary yell—"tain’t the way of se
ye
“a
THE JAPNESE AMMA.
Who Kneads
the Muscles.
Ag 1 am sitting in 1
comes to wy ears sound o
The Artist and Habs
room there |
shrill pipe,
sounding not unlike a fife, The travel. |
er in Japan, go where Lhe may, almost |
| invariably hears the sound at night, |
| and will be told in answer to Lis inquir-
ies that the performance 18 a |
sional shampooer or amma. Many 0
these people are blind, and at night |
pass up and down the streets, feeling
ny
§
La
el
+ 3
§
thelr way with long stic) which they |
| bold in one hand, while with the other |
{ hand they play upon the bamboo pipe,
CHB,
{ which seeras to notify the world of their
| presence,
{ The amma is not a shampooer in the
| American sense of the term, He does
| not confine his operations to the head
it and hair,
| by the French as the massage, His art
| the body and bringing them into play,
| and he is regarded as a useful function.
| physiclan as a healer of physicial dis-
| orders, The artis practiced not only
| most every inn where I
| among the first |
services have
have stopped
been the Only
ANIMAS,
to allow my body to be treated like
h, aud that was
{ birt, Jjmmediately after
from Fujl. Tired and acl
severe exertion of
uggestion
| piece of doug a 10A8~
3 110
As
lighter
Me
28 hey
we will
ems 1
forty years, podner.
TOW me
weigh Le
BOON
if it's
“How long did 3
a salior?’ asted the
**I've trod the deck for
Give me a wel sheel and
and a wind that fo
ff the bdeclothes are
and the piller comfortable
there ain't 0 muskeeters, 1 can sleep
till breakfast every time. 1 remember
wee when | was my good ship
of 10S with
01 EAY
Mare fact
ters fast,
Test (
dr
¥ ana
¥ +3
i Lhe coast
$ all arcu
1
.
1
Fire ut im
(ing at us and
a
*
pavigalor in
have the equator
‘Boll up them
"says I in thondenin®
terror of the hardy
regions whee they
and all su
wet; furl
compass
g and ligh
the hold down
“i
»
mainmast ’ it gets
barometer, 5x up the
heave overboard the |
the ship a litle; lower
the batch anys before—
“Come, tial wil do—move oni”
an
(y
to port, and’
“Move op!”
“Then 1 joes along for
fiyin’ j1bbotm, and"?
Gti"
C—O 5355 MOA
3
ard
Cider In Various Formas,
Here
“Sweet dder?
A four was sj
primitive New
quired at Qe village inn
that
‘
wnding a day ina
hamiet, aud in-
for a glass of
famom Jersey beverage.
That's good, Just made, w
Jersey
. «4
Ash 8
ir
“TLemmésee, John, when was this
cider made?’
John replied from tl
wg
| two years ago.
“Guess your right, John,”
the innkeeper,
you put it ¥p yourself,”
“How dd vou manage
| sweet so long?’
**Easy etough, I put into a barrel of
returned
to keep it
seed—and Kx eggs. Mix them all up
| together abd pour them in the barrel,
{ Cider will keep sweet that way for a
| half a doze years. I think it gets bet.
| ter and sweeter the longer you Keep it,
| I have another kind of cider you may
| want to taste,
| The tourbt did want to taste it, and
{ the innkeeper fished out from
gloomy and cobwebby depth of a sub-
made the mouth of an epicurean wine-
bibber water with anticipated delight,
The cork came out with a mighty pop,
aud a fine spray filled the air with mist
and the aromatic fragrance of cham.
pagne,
“Try a glass of that,” said the ion.
keeper, as he filled two glasses with the
sparkling fliid, The tourist needed no
urging.
“Why, that dosn’t taste like cider,
neither is it champagne, exactly, What
do you call ity’
“Cider,”
“How did you make it?”
“1 bottled it three days ago, If was
fresh, sweet, strained cider then. 1
put in each fottle a couple of raising
and a small lump of rock candy, and if
you can find kny champagne that will
t that I will buy a thousand cases
of it,”
“I should think it could be sold in
some country places for champagne?’’
“I've sold a good many hundred bot.
ties of it.”
“In what country town?" asked the
tourist,
“In New York city,”
A tomato should not only be
sound
good
and solid, but also plump and
Juley, : 4
kneading
round ball of boxwood,
ma to whose
1
vend only }
igh the ai
itted emple J i
| and knuckles, The arms and che
i as the legs, and th
is turned over face downward, and the
and back are punched and
until the breath almost for-
sakes the body, The entire perfor
ance ends with a vigorous rubbing of
the neck, which, in my case, seemed to
| threaten the dislocation of the cervical
vertebrie, The amount of strength in
{ fingers and wrists displayed by the am-
ma is quite remarkable, Our amma
shampooed four persons in succession
the evening we engaged her, consum-
four in the task, during
51 are
| treat en the patient
shoulder
i kneaded
11
i
5
11
Aad
ing hours
| might almost constantly, only stopping
to wipe off the perspiration which flow-
| ed from her face,
The result of the experiment, fo far
i as 1 personally was concerned, was, 1
{ think, such as 10 werrant the repeti-
{ tion of the treatment under like cir-
| cumstances, 1 awoke on the morrow
| feeling far jess tired and sore than I
| had reason to believe my mountain
climbing would have left me.
The art of the amma appears likely
| to live for a long time in Japan, as it is
| in some respects founded upon rational
| principles, This is not, however, the
| case with the medical practitioner of
| the old Chinese school, whose practice
| is swiftly and surely dwindling away as
more recognized. The old style of prac-
titioner, with his nostrums and enchant.
ments, his mixtures of villainous herbs
and minerals, his powders made of dried
snake skins and bird dung, is still in
the numerical majority when a sensus
of the medical practitioners of Japan is
taken, but the young men, graduates
of the university at Tokio, are rapidly
absorbing the entire practice among
the wealihier and more Intelligent
classes, The mwedieal department at
the Imperial university at Tokio is un-
der the care of German professors, men
of thorough ability and experience, and
the results achieved during later years
have been most marked and most bene
ficial to the country as a whole, It is
the feeling of nota few Europeans resi-
dent in Japan that, while always pre-
ferring the services of a European or
American practitioner, the graduate of
the university at Tokio may generally
be trusted to treat a patient carefuliy
and well,
——————
Contagiounsness of Disoases.,
Scarlet fever is a specific poison
which emanates from the person of the
patient, rnd can be caused by no other
means, Diphthena Is contagious, but
may arise from fermenting Aith, ete,
Typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera are
not directly communicable from person
to person, but are spread by the dejec-
hy
THE TRAVELING HOG.
How ft Behiaves Liself When Bharing
Its Bed with a Fellow fravelor,
I { lanly
DE pen
Fig usd
bh SRILA
¥ hb
yd stubs
est gol
£43
§ =
inquired, :
“Nice gentl
short, fle
H, #limg man,’
oy
'
I'm rather long
there's i
space when it
I followed the bell
and in response to his 1
door, 1 heard emphatic
“OY
VITA
»
the bed
reason Lo believe they
1
me,
got back to bed, whet
5
He was snoring loud)
{ Dio
m 1
intentions o
leaving hi
thnidly In on
the covers with
was tired, and
BCIOUS B18
grasp weaken,
gentle sl
b :
n
eler was hut
wide of
! RaAS-10
was
al some body else U
how a hog slept
na———————
Counterfeiting Napoleon
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Boucher, a famous
s:ngular
countenance and
at St, Petersburg be play
where the czar, Alexander 1,, was pres-
ent.
“Monsieur Boucher,” said the «
as the violinist was presented to
“JI have a favor to ask of you
an affair,”” he continued, as Bo
bowed, *“‘uncoubected with your
fession,”
“1 am wholly 3
Lal,
him,
It is
icher
Pro-
3
your majesty s ser-
he violinist
“Well, come to the palace to-morrow
at 12 precisely. You shall
my cabinet, and I will
then tell you the nature of the favor,
which, if vou will grant, will greatly
oblige me."
The next day Boucher, on present.
Je
into the czar’s private cabinet. The
czar immediately led him into an ad-
joining apartment where be saw on a
sofa a small, threecornered hat, a
“I will explain the favor [ have to
All those objects you see
I have frequently
heard of your resembiance to Napo-
leon, but I did not expect to find the
likeness so strong as it is. My mother
otten regrets that she never saw Napo-
leon, and what I wish vou todo is to
put on this dress and 1 will present
you to her.”
The czar withdrew and lef! Boucher
to array himself in Napoleon's uni-
form, When be had dressed he was
led to the apartment of the empress.
mother, The czar assured his mother
that the illusion was complete, and
that she might say she bad seen “‘the
great man,”
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