Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1887 — PRINCE NICHOLAS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRINCE NICHOLAS.

One of the Aspirants to the Bulgarian Throne. Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia, whose name has been conspicuously mentioned in connection with the Bulgarian throne, is

an ex-Caucasian Chief, who for twenty years has been a dependant upon the Russian Court. Born on Dec. 23, 1846, he inherited the quasi sovereignty of the Principality of Mingrelia, a district now in-; eluded in Russian Transcaucasia, and lying between the Black Sea on the west and the Caucasus on the north. . “Which is the bettof weather ieii feM-; business,” was a question put to a downtown bartender, “hot or cold?” “It doesn't "make much difference,” Le replied; “in hot weather they take a little something to cool ’em off, and in cold weather they take a little something to warm ’em up.”’ Sam Small says it takes more money to paint a nose red than it does to paint the Capitol at Washington with the best white lead in the world. There is nothing mysterious about this. They don't paint noses red with white lead. When a man's nose is “as red as a beet,” he usually is one. j