Two Stories Of Thiers

M. Thiers, the president of the French republio, once fought a duel over a girl of Aix, whose father had come to the conclusión that young Thiers, then a student, ought to marry her. "I deemed it wiser, " Thiers says, "to spend a few minutes with a weapon about which I knew nothing thart to spend a lifetime with a woman about whom I knew a great deal too much. ' ' And so the meeting came off, the opponents standing at 20 paces. Thiers' bullet went nobody knew where; that of the irate parent passed through his hat, an inch abore his head. Referring to the circumstance, Cham, in Le Petite Presse, afterward remarked, "If Thiers had not been so little, he would never have bccome so great. "-