People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — A Great Matchmaker. [ARTICLE]

A Great Matchmaker.

The first Napoleon was the greatest matchmaker that ever lived. After repeated refusals the doughty little soldier himself finally won th 6 hand of Josephine, and devoted his matrimonial instincts to the affairs of others. No excuse was admitted from a bachelor. Two officers who pleaded that they might be killed in battle he answered: “The more reason fol haste.” To those who urged that they could not find a wife: “Be that my care,” he said, and the same evening the affair would be arranged. Th* poor received dowries and trousseaux. Cine day by decree the emperor married off six thousand soldiers at onca. Another day his great court dignitaries were obliged en masse to marry.