NAPOLEON’S CORONATION.
A Gorgeous and Dramatic Cere-
monial in.Notre Dame. '
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Mme. Mere stayed with Lucien in Rome
and Would Not Be Present—Crowned ’
with His Own Bands—An Im-
pressive Scene.
The morning of Sunday, December 2,
1804, was cold and cloudy as the gor-
geous procession passed from the Tuil-
cries to Notre Dame. The streets were
lined and the houses decorated; but the
people of Paris, sated with ceremonials,
were, in spite of self-interest, silent and
critical. On the other hand, the pres-
ence of the German princes in the train,
and the glittering costumes of the court,
‘ threw the provincial deputations, and
the throngs of officeholders who had
come up from all France, into a delirium
of enthusiasm, The irreverent tittered
when the papal Chamberlain ambled
by on a mule at the head of his holiness’
court but immediately fell on their
knees and received the papal blessing.
Clergy and choristers intoned the hymn
“Tu es Petrus” as the pontiff entered
the majestic cathedral from the'tranr
sept, and proceeded to his throne in the
center of the choir to the right of the
,high altar. ' .
After an interval of an hour or’more
appeared the . emperor’s attendants,
Murat leading at the head of 20 squad-
rons of cavalry. Then followed the im-
perial chariot, surmounted by a crown,
and-drawn by eight superb and richly
caparisoned steeds. Facing the emperor
and empress sat Joseph and Louis; the
other brothers were in temporarydis-
grace, and Mme. Mere remained stub-
bornly with Lucien at Rome. Then, as
the artillery salvos resounded, there ad-
vanced 18 six-horse carriages with the
court, all moving to the sound of tri-
umphal music. Passing in a burst of
sunshine to the archiepiscopal palace,
and entering the vestry, the emperor
donned his coronation robes and a
crown of laurel leaves. Thence, with
the empress at his side, he proceeded
in state ,to the palace prepared for them
in the lofty nave, facing the high altar.
Joseph, Louis, Cambaceres and Lebrun ‘
were his pages, and supported the train
of his mantle, heavy with gold and em-
broidery. The yet empty throne had
been erected in the heart of the choir.
From 20,000 throats burst the cry:
“Long live the emperor!” as the slow
and stately march proceeded.
At last the entrance of the choir was
reached, and the pope, descending from
his chair, began to intone, amid the
deep silence of the throng, the majestic
chant of “Veni, Creator.” This ended,
the personages of the court found their
appointed seats, the regalia were laid
011 the altar, and Pius, holding out a
copy of the Scriptures, demanded in
the Latin tongue whether the emperor
would use all his powers to have law, .
justice and peace reign supreme in the
church and among his people. 9 The em-
peror laid both his hands on the book,
and “Profiteor” came the solumn an-
swer. Pope, cardinals, archbishops
and bishops began the litany, and the
sovereigns kneeled. As the closing
strains sounded forth, the imperial '
pair advanced under priestly conduct
to the steps of the high altar, and
kneeled again. The pope, pronounc-
ing the customary but long-disused
prayer, then solemnly anointed‘bofh in
turn with the triple unction on head
and hands. Returning to their chairs,
the two chief actors seated hemselves,
and high mass began.
Midway in its solemn course there
was a pause; the emperor stepped for-
ward to the altar as if to be invested at
the papal hands with all the insigna of
power—ring, mantle and crown. The
last of the consecrated baubles to be
lifted was the crown. At the pregnant
instant, just as the holy father, doubt-
, ing but hoping, lifted it aloft, the? em-
peror advanced two paces downward,
and, firmly seizing it in his two hands,
set it on his oWn brow. Without a
movement of hesitancy he then crowned
the empress, and the two, stepping up,-
ward, seated themselves in the great
throne of the empire. The pope recov-
ered his self-control if, indeed, he had
momentarily lost it, and saidr “May
God confirm you on this throne, and
may Christ give you to rule with Him
in His Eternal Kingdom.” Then, giv-
ing Napoleon the kiss Of peace, he cried:
“Vivat imperator in aeternum!” The
throng shouted in antiphony with
deafening acclaim. Then the ritual
proceeded, and the religious ceremonial
was soon ended.
At its close the presidents of the
great assemblages of the states ad-
vanced. The emperor, with his hands
on the Bible, said: “I swear to main-
tain the principles of the revolution,
the integrity of French territory, and
to govern for the welfare, happiness
and glory of the French people.” Other
particulars, equally radical in their na-
ture, were added according to consti- '
tutional requirement. The hierarchical
clergy must have shuddered. as they '
, listened. Then the chief of the heralds’
college stood forth and cried: “The
thrice glorious and thrice august Em-
peror Napoleon is crowned and en-
throned. Long live the emperor!” At
this moment the cannon outside pro-
claimed the consummation of the cere-
mony.———Prof. W. M. Sloane, in Century.
More Than Specified.
“I have put a luncheon of bread and
roast chicken in your valise,” said the
good wife as she bade her husband fare-
well. “I ‘do not think the food they
provide on the trains is healthy.”
The following day she received a let-
ter containing the following:
“My dear, the luncheon was excellent,
but I was greatly surprised to find that
the chicken had laid two hard-boiled
eggs on the way.”—N. Y.’ Sun. ,
Mental Athletics.
Paresis—Doctor tells me I ought to
take more exercise. a
Saidso—Why don’t you stand on your
, head, and ride some of your wheels ?—-
N. Y. World.
_,The Relations Betvvcen Pius VI. and Na.-
HOUSE FURNISHING.
Small Things to Make the Furniture Look
Attractive.
The woman ,of small means and es-
thetic tastes who grows restless under
her pecuniary limitations, especially in
the direction of house furnishing, may
at least comfort herself with the re-
flection that she can now achieve re-'
sults which a few years ago would have
been possible only to a plethoric purse.
._ For instance, a worn and shabby sofa
may renew, and often greatly increase,
its youthful \charm by the addition of
aBagdad cover and a pile of cushions
which give a luxuriously eastern effect
at a comparatively small cost. The
Bagdad may cost anywhere from two
dollars up. For ten dollars a very hand-
some one alike on both sides may be
bought. Then, almost every house-
keeper has at least one unused feather
bed up in the garret which she can
turn into a goodly array of big square
cushions, covered with silkaliuc and
denim in Shades harmonizing with the
couch cover. Thirty-five cents’ worth
of silkoline covers a good-sized cushion
and adorns it with a _broad double
ruffle. The breadths of a passe India
silk gown will serve for two or three
of the pillows, giving a touch of ele-
gance and artfully making it appear,
that thecheaper materials were chosen .
simply because their owner happened
to fancy their patterns. If the sofa it-
self for these modern plenishings be
lacking, a. narrow cot-bed, furnished
with a‘ woven wire spring and a mat-
tress which need not be of the best
curled hair to insure comfort, makes
as luxurious and charming a couch as
one need desire.
If it happens to be an upholstered
chair that has seen its best days and
needs rejuvenating, almost any woman
with enough ambition to desire im-
provement can successfully recoverit
herself, providing she does not attgmpt
tailing, which requires quite too much
skill for an amateur. Neither should
she attempt to remove the old cover-
ing, but have the chair thoroughly
beaten and brushed, and after the wood-
work has received a fresh coat of _
varnish or enamel proceed to tack on ,
the new covering, not cutting the ma- .
terial till it is tightly drawn and tacked
in place.
Nothing is prettier and more durable ;
for this purpose than corduroy, which ,
comes in all sorts of desirable shades
and in both fine and heavy cord. Ifa
cheaper covering is required,heavy linen
or crash simply embroidered in out-
line stitch with a darker shade of the ‘
same color is pretty. The edges of the '
material must of course be concealed '
with gimp.
Horsehair furniture is a dispensation
under which even Christian fortitude
staggers, and when .ihe affliction
amounts to an entire “set” endurance
ceases to be a virtue. The mitigating
circumstances are the almost universal
excellence of the framework and the
fact that the horsehair surfaces are so
smooth that new coverings are easily
adjusted.
Happily the heavy carpets which used
to devour such an alarming proportion i
of the sum apportioned to house fur-
nishing are no longer even desired. The
new woman scns1bly prefers hardwood
floors and next to those stained and
varnished borders and rug centerpieces.
—St. Louis Republic.
POPE AND EMPEROR.
poleon After Austerlitz.
As to the pope, the question was very
knotty. Pius was in a curious frame of
mind. He had gone to the coronation,
it will be remembered, without condi-
tions, hoping to secure his end by the
exercise of his personal influence. He
had returned with empty hands, though
partly under the fascination of Napo-
leon; but removed from the emperOr’s
presence, he had become disposed to
self-assertion. Jerome Bonaparte re-
turned in 1805 to France, and professed
repentance for his American marriage.
Although Napoleon had asked the sov-
ereign pontiff to pronounce a divorce,
the request had been firmly refused-’5
Throughout the last campaign the
pope had asserted his absolute neutral-
ity and had given no cause for offense.
But, nevertheless, as if in contempt for
the pontiff’s claims of feudal suzerainty,
Bernadotte was made prince of Ponto
Corvo and Talleyrand prince of Bene-
ventum; the French soldiers seized and
held Ancona on the plea that its sover—
eign was not strong enough to main-
tain it against the English and Turks
(heretics and pagans); and immedi-
ately after, the cap-stone of imperious—
ness was added by orders to close the
Roman ports to all enemies of France.
The pope was plainly to be regarded
as having no longer any politics; he
was, to be sure, the sovereign of Rome,
but Napoleon, as the inheritor of
.Charles the Great, on whose enlarge-
ment and confirmation of Pepin’s gift
the pope’s temporal power rested, was
its emperor, and would protect it
against the world. A chronicler of the
times declares that the victor of Auster-
litz had actually in mind theproject of
being crowned western emperor in St.
Peter’s, but relinquished it when he
learned that the cardinals would rather
suffer death than such disgrace.
Whether or not this be true, he de-
manded recognition as emperor of
Rome, and exacted the expulsion of
Russians, English and Sardinians from
the papal states. The pope pleaded
that for the emperor .of the French to be
recognized as Roman emperor Would
destroy the papal power in all other
lands, and obtained a respite of two
years by dismissing from his Office as
secretary of state Consalvi, who headed
the opposition—Prof. W. M. Sloane, in
Century. I
Maybe He Was Dissatisfied.
“Did the murderer make any confes-
sion ?” asked the city editor of the exe-
cution reporter.
“Not a word.”
“Was he resigned to his fate ‘2”
“He appeared to be at first, but to-
vward the last he did considerable kick-
ing.”—Texas Siftings; .
THE EVENlNC GAZETTE: I’m ]”IAj"imv,
unéxpécTemv UNDERSTOOD.
A Telegraph Operator in Mexico Tries to
. , Hire a Horse.
“It’s, strange how contrary things go
sometimes,” said a telegraph operator
who has traveled and seen many things.
“Some years back, when I was roaming
around in the southwest, I went down
to Old Mexico with a man named Clem-
ents. We didn’t have any particular
business down there, but it was not
difficult to get a job at telegraphing in
those days, and we worked our» way
around from one place to another to see
the country. . ’
“We found the climate agreeable and
everything lovely except the eatables.
The fact is, the eatables were all right.
too,but we couldn’t get them. ‘Tamales’
was the only thing we could say in the ‘
greaser language when we wanted some-
thing to eat, and tamales was all we
could get. These tamales that the Mex-
icans make, you know, are one-eighth
corn husk, one-eightlglmeat and corn
meal and the remainder red pepper
that tastes like concentrated extract of
future damnation. Now, tamales are
good things by way of relish in small
quantities, but as a. steady diet they
pall on a person’s appetite, more or less.
But, as I remarked, the only thing we
could call for was ‘tamales.’ That’s
just to show that we couldn’t be under-
stood when it was desirable.
“Well, one day we proposed taking a
ride, and went to a stable to engage
some horses. There were horses in
plenty, but the fool ,people couldn’t un-
derstand that we wanted to hire them.
Clements had a little red book with
some common expressions in the greas-
er language for ready reference, but it
either wasn’t printed correctly or Clem-
. ents didn’t have the correct pronuncia«
tion, for the stable folks didn’t sabe his
talk worth a cent. Clements then tried
a sort of sign language, and they be-
came suspicions that he was crazy, and
when he attempted to saddle a horse
they threatened to shoot him.
“While Clements was in the midst of
these demonstrations a man dressed in
the height of Mexican style rode in. His
sombrero and saddle carried enough sil—
ver to buy a mine. He entered the court—
yard, said a few words in Spanish to an
attendant, and, seating himself near us,
began rolling a cigarette. It vexed
’ Clements to see how readily this greaser
could communicate with the people,
while he couldn’t make himself under-
’ stood.
“ ‘Look at that yellow—faced rustlerl
See how easy it is for him to talk! ’ said
Clements. His experience had shown
him that there was no danger of being
understood by anyone but me, and he
spoke freely. ‘Perhaps that blamed
l bow~legged horse thief can understand
me,’ he added. Then, turning to the
stranger and bowing deferentially,
Clements pulled out his little red book,
and, following the text with his finger,
began to read in Spanish that he wanted
a horse. He had only begun when the
man who looked like a greaser said, in
good English:
"' ‘I gather from what you have been
saying to your friend that you desire to
hire two horses. Am I correct?’
“He was correct, but Clements was so
frightened that some time elapsed be-
fore he could answer and make a few
necessary explanations to the hidalgo,
who proved to be a Mexicanized Ameri-
can, who owned a mine down there.
“That was an instance where we were
understood when we didn’t expect it."-—
Washington Star.
WILY SCHOOLMASTER.
The Mayor of the Town Was Subjected to
an Indignity.
An extraordinary misadventure re-
cently befell a French mayor, who had
contrived to quarrel with the village
schoolmaster, who, as is very usual in
country districts, acted as his score-
tary. The mayor was seated one fine
afternoon in one of the rooms of the
town hall with his new secretary, when
the schoolmaster entered the building
stealthily and noiselessly turned the
key of the door, locking up the pair.
It was some time ere the mayor and
his secretary realized the strange posi-
tioil in which they had been placed,
and then for two mortal hours they
cried and shouted, implored and threat-
ened, but in vain, for the vindictive
schoolmaster remained deaf to their
appeals: Finally, the prisoners were
released by the gend‘armes, Who, horror-
stricken at this act of profanity, drew
up a flaming report of the affair. The
schoolmaster, hOwever, had not yet
done with the mayor. Revenge is
sweet, and his thirst for it having been
stimulated by one success he resolved
On going in for another. Having
locked in the mayor, he resolved on
locking him out, and 2-? the present
moment the door of the in 11 ball is so
securely fastened that the. unlucky
functionary is unable to effect an en-
trance. ‘
The baffled mayor telegraphed to the
minister of public instruction, lodging
a formal complaint against the school—
master. “I wish to inform you,” he
said, “that I, as well as the new secre-
tary, have been sequestrated by him for
two hours in the hall of the Mairie;
that he refused to open the apartment
in spite of numerous injunctions; and
‘that the intervention of_ the' gender-
merie was required to enable us to
effect an exit at ten O’clock in the even-
ing. I beg you to arrive at a. prompt
decision, as it is impossible for me to
enter the town hall, where the archives
are.” This is a pretty state of things,
and the interference of a minister is
needed to enable the mayor to return
to his town hall andhis archives—Kan-
sas City Star.
Nothing Else.
A 'tourist had arrived unannounced
at a crowded village inn. It was already
late in the evening, and there was no
spare bed. The traveler grew impa-
tient. “Haven’t you at least a bundle of
hay you can give me ?” he demanded of
the landlady. That worthy was also
getting impatient. “There isn’t a thing
left,” she answered, “exceflir a bit of cold
roast beef.”—Youth’s ”symposium.
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$48,597,430 51
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Assets.
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Total Paid Policy holders .in 1895,
lusurance and Annuities in force. $899,074,453 78
Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645 36 ,
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actually issued and paid fair in cash is included. 2 0 V misleading, and only Insurance
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
. ‘ CHARLES A. PRELLER,fAuditor.
Report of the Examining Committee. .'
“muse ul'lhe Mutual Uié insurance company of New York,
February 11, 1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of
Deoember last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual .
Statement for-the year ending: December 3lst, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company. - i -
The Committee have carefully performed the dutyr assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are. in possession of the Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of ,
the investments (f the Company and express their'approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted.
Robert Clyphan/t,
'Wm. P. Dixon,
J. H. Herrick.
H. C. Von Post,
Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Committee
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
' HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., 001:. Secy.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Seoy.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. ' . _
IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. 1 JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treag
WILLIAM F. SANDS, Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier.
EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, Jni, Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
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