Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — WHAT A HICCOUGH MEANT. [ARTICLE]

WHAT A HICCOUGH MEANT.

to a Gallant Yoang Man It Brought Title and Lands. One es the grandest houses of tin Austrian nobility is indebted for iti princely dignity to a piece of courtier-like loyalty, performed by one of its members during the reign of Empress Marla Theresa. The august lady, during the midst ot some function, had had the misfortune to hlcgough in a peculiarly loud and aggressive'manner, not altogether Lr keeping with the laws of polite society, but which in Japan or Oriental countries would, of course, have been regarded as a piece of lofty breeding. Perceiving that her majesty showed traces of embarrassment—for even empresses are human—a young Austrian nobleman stepped forward, and, with a most clever assumption of intense mortification and humility, craved her pardon for his gross breach of manners. The empress received his apologies, not only graciously, but also gratefully, and from that time forth the Mung man’s fortune was made, and versre the empress died he had been promoted, uot only to the rank of count, but airy to that of prince, besides being genes ously endowed by his imperial benefactress with metves to support hit titles.-— Voston Harald