Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — A Cartful of Kings. [ARTICLE]

A Cartful of Kings.

An amusing incident is told by a Ger man correspondent es having occurred during an imperial hunt at Hubertustock. The hounds had just been called off, and the guests were dispersing, when the Emperor William, feeling slightly unwell, proposed to return to the castle on foot. The King of Saxony and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg accompanied him. But, when the august party were about half way to the castle, the Emperor became fatigued, and a peasant, driving a cart in the direction of Hubertustock, happening to pass by, they asked him to give them a lift, which he willingly did. On the way, however, the good man’s curiosity was excited by the appearance of his passengers, and he said, turning to one of them : “ And who may you be ?” “ I am the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. ” “ Oh, indeed 1” returned the peasant, with a wink. “And who may you be?” he inquired of the next. “ I am the King of Saxony.” “Better and better I” cried the carter. “And you ?” accosting the third member of the party. “I am the Emperor of Germany.” “ Well, then,” said the countryman, in high humor, “1 shall tell you who I am. lam the Shah of Persia, and can hoax people as well as you. ” But when he drove up to the Castle of Hubertustock the honest fellow found that of all the potentates in the cart he was the only one whose claim could not be made good.

Beecheb says “we pray too much.” This explains why the average newspaper man’s breeches always bag at the knees, — Titusville Sunday World.