Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — A Connt Who Was a Good Sleeper. [ARTICLE]

A Connt Who Was a Good Sleeper.

Count Napoleon Bertrand, son of the companion of Nappjeon I.at St. Helena died recently in Paris. The count was a very eccentric man, and every year he used to hire a room in a hotel and go to bed for three months, after having given orders for fowl to be brought to him once a day and not a word to be spoken, by the servant. He was asleep during the si?ge of Paris. One day the bread was soabrmnible that he flew into a rage and forced the waiter to tell him the reason, which was that the city was besieged by the Prussians. Count Bertrand was stupefied fora moment. At last he got up and wandered about the hotel fora time, saying to himself, “Paris besieged? besieged. What oughta Bertrand -to do?" And after a few minutes reflection he said, “I will go to bed.” And he went to bed and slept out the siege. He was an assiduous attendant at the Bonapartist masses. _ I John Sheppard, an infidel of Oria‘n‘ Neß., built a platform alongside a Methodist camp meeting ground, and made daily speeches against the doctrines preached by the Methodist minis ters. He was a great annoyance to the Christians, and they tried bard to convert him, ,bnt all in vaih. One day an impulsive clergyman prayed, that if; Sheppard could ba silenced in other way, he might be removed by death. That evening the infidel died very suddenly, and it would be difficult to convince the people there about that he was not killed in direct answer Co the prayer.