Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — Ignorance In High Place. [ARTICLE]

Ignorance In High Place.

Funny stories are current of high officials in England at the present day. Grant DufT answers, for one. School boys ought tp know that there Is a town on the Persian Gulf called Busbire, once great and still of high importahce strategically. A personage was sent there frcftn India on diplomatic business. In due time he forwarded the Itemß of his expense at Bushire to the foreign office, along with others incurred. The amount was transmitted to him with these latter deducted. On inquiry he was told that the foreign office could not recognize ’bus hire. May one dare to impute ignorance to Charles Darwin? Certainly he was the first to laugh if, in after years, he recollected advising Sir Joseph Hoofler to write to “Wien," ••that unknown place—where—they—publish—so—many books. Where la it, by-the-by?” When his fame was already worldwide, Darwin did not know that Wien is Vienna.