Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1910 — Verdi and Bismarck on Titles. [ARTICLE]

Verdi and Bismarck on Titles.

The composer Verdi was offered a title of nobility b/ King Victor. Emmanuel. It was intended that he should be created Marquis or Comte de Busset o, after the estate upon which he lived. The composer refused the offer energetically. He considered that Verdi was somebody and that the Marquis de Busseto would be nobody. Even Bismarck was unable to parry a blow of this character. When the young emperor broke with him he conferred upon, him the title of Duke of Lauenbourg. Bismarck received the parchment with this exclamation : - “A pretty name'! It will be handy for traveling Incognito.” Some days after a parcel arrived at Varzln, bearing the address, Mm. ela Duchesse de Lauenbourg.” Bismarck, to whom it was delivered, being then nt table, arose and, offering the Tetter to his wife, remarked ironically: "Duchess, enchanted to make your —«*— — ' If the present rush for benefiting people by legislation keeps up, we look for a law prohibiting the planting of potatoes in the dark of the moo»