People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1894 — His Years Were Safe. [ARTICLE]

His Years Were Safe.

Napoleon, in the course of his Italian campaign, took a Hungarian battalion prisoners. The colonel, an old man, complained bitterly of the French mode of fighting, by rapid and desultory attack on the flank, the rear, the lines of communication, etc., concluding by saying that he fought in the army of Maria Theresa. “You must be old,” said Napoleon. “Yes, lam either sixty or seventy,” was the reply. “Why, colonel,” remarked the Corsican, “you have certainly lived long enough to know how to count years a little more closely?” .“General,” said the Hungarian, “I reckon my money, my shirts, and my horses) but as for my years, I know nobody Mill want to steal them, and that ,1 shall never lose one of them.’’—Chf •ego Tribune.