Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — Rochefort and His Children. [ARTICLE]

Rochefort and His Children.

Rochefort was the dry nurse of his own children, and brought up the oldest with a sucking-bottle of his own invention. He was then a clerk at _ the Hotel de Ville, with a salary of 1,000 francs a year, and living in a garret The child remained by herself when he was at his office, and he used to take her out in his arms to give her airings at night when the sbabbiness of bet clothes wonld not be seen by the neighborhood. There is no better authority on the usual diseases of infancy than Rochefort, who Las studied them in his children and grandchildren. He spoils the latter as he spoiled the former. There is nothing he would not do for them except think of their future.— Par in tetier in London Truth.