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Show Soldier True to Training. ' During the period of the "second empire" in France the "Cent Garde3" j were one of its sights at the Tuil-j Tuil-j crWa. It was hard to distinguish them i from statues. Their commander, Cpl. Verly, once declared to Empress Eugenie Eu-genie that "nothing" could make, one of his men move when on duty. The empress laid a wager that she would make one of the giants stir; so, with her characteristic impetuosity she went up to one of the guards and boxed his ears. Not a musc'o inovea fhe empress then acknowledged that Col. Yerly had won the bet, and sent a solatium to the soldier, who, how-lever; how-lever; proudly refused it, saying that j he had been sufficiently compensated I by the lienor of having had his sovereign sov-ereign lady's hand laid on his cheek. |