Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1884 — Napoleous’s Savagery. [ARTICLE]

Napoleous’s Savagery.

Madame de Bourrienne, speaking of the character of Bonaparte, as it dis played itself in the early part of his career, says: “His smile was hypocritical and often life fe-~ turn from Toulon, he was telling us that, being before that place, where he commanded the artillery during the siege, one of liis officers was- visited by his wife, to whom he had been but a short time married, and whom he tenderly loved. A few days after, orders were giyen for another attack upon the town, in which this officer was engaged. His wife eame to General Bonaparte, and, with tears in her eyes, entreated him to dispense with her husband’s, services.during that day. The General was inexorable, as he himself told us, with a sort of savage exultation. The moment of the attack, the officer, though a very brave man, as Bonaparte himself assured us, felt a presentment of his approaching death. He turned pale.and trembled. He was stationed beside the General, and during an interval, when the firing from the town was very strong, Bonaparte eall out to him, ‘Take care, there is a bombshell coming!’ The officer, instead of moving to one side, stooped down, and was literally severed in two. Bonaparte laughed loudly, while ho described the event with horrible minuteness.” The trustees of tlie old part of the roof of the Basilica of St. Paul, in Rome, a contemporary remarks, were framed so far back as the year 816, and were found to be perfectly sound and good in 1814, after the lapSfi of nearly a thousand years. These trusses ate made of fir. The timber work of the external domes of the Church of St. Mark, in Venice, is more than 840 years ol‘d, and it is still in a good state of preservation. Timber under favorable circumstances lasts very long. Bound logs, for instance, are dug out of bogs from time to time from places where they have lain for an indefinite period. Samuel Mackey, oi new South Wales, has a farm of 5,000,000 acres