Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — What He Said. [ARTICLE]

What He Said.

In Russia, a young diplomatist was at a court ball not long before the death of the Czar Nicholas. The young man was dancing, and, it seems, danced badly. The Czar liked to have things done smartly at his balls; and, walking up to the yoang man, he said: “When one does not know how to dance, one does not dance at all.” It was a most unusual thing for the great autocrat to address a remark to anybody, and Russian society, crowding about the young man asked what the Czar had said. The young diplomat had the wit to reply: “His Majesty’s most gracious words being for myself alone, Ido not feel at liberty to repeat them.” On the strength of this, he became a great social success.