Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1887 — Neither Was Posted. [ARTICLE]

Neither Was Posted.

A fair American was a guest in Berlin at a ball given by the officers of the Emperor’s body guard and met there an accomplished German lady, who asked her something about Cuzco. She replied that she didn’t happen to know anything about Cuzco; that it must be some small town, and there were so many small towns in the United States that it was impossible for one to know the names of them all. “Oh, dear,” was the reply; “how dreadfully ignorant of the rudiments you Americans are!” The American lady was piqued at the contemptuous way in which this was spoken, and determined to find the whereabouts of Cuzco. After searching an atlas and a gazetteer she discovered that it was not in the United States at all, but in South America. Meeting her German acquaintance again a few days afterward she told the latter of her discovery, confidently expecting an apology. The Berlin lady simply replied: “Oh, dear! I thought that the feeling between the North and the South had all died out.” —Argonaut. Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything. It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude.