Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1894 — Good subject for a Museum. [ARTICLE]

Good subject for a Museum.

It was M. Pouyer-Quertier who settled with Prince Bismarck the conditions for the payment of the 5,000,000,000 francs which France, after the war, had to pay over to Germany. The story is told that one day while the two plenipotentiaries were discussing at table the details of those conditions Prince Bismarck conceived the Idea of trying to make M. PouyerQuertier drink too much. The latter had scarcely emptied hie glass when the Prince replenished it, and the French plenipotentiary tossed it off Immediately. Prince Bismarck, however, had to keep up with him and drink in his turn, so that after an hour the great Chancellor felt his head grow rather heavy. He gave up the bout and said to M. Pouyer-Quertier: “I see that the wine has no effect upon you.” “Oh, ’ replied the other, who had noticed Bismarck’s attempt to fuddle him, “I can absorb almost any quantity; I can even swallow the glass itself.” And suiting the action to the word he ground Prinoe Bismarck’s crystal glass between his teeth without even cutting his lips.