Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1911 — DANGER IN MERE SOUNDS [ARTICLE]

DANGER IN MERE SOUNDS

French Actress Thought She Was Being Insulted When Russian Asked for Cloak.

A Russian who, although he has been some time in Paris, knows little or nothing of the French language, has just been sentenced to a month’s Imprisonment for having assaulted a policeman. He had also been accused of having insulted the agent of the law, but he was acquitted on that count after an explanation from his counsel that the word which the policeman regarded as objectionable was also a Russian word, and perfectly innocent By way of emphasizing his argument Maitre Longuet related an amusing anecdote. A few months ago a Parisian actress, who was performing at a St. Petersburg theater, was Invited to dejeuner by a grand duke. On hearing a furious exclamation, followed by the noise of a couple of slaps a moment after her arrival he rushed into the hall to see what waa going on. - “What is the matter?” he asked. "Your servant is an impudent fellow," she replied; “he ran up to me when I came in and called me horrid | names.” “What did he say?” the grand duke inquired, considerably puzzled. Then she repeated a couple of words which are dreadfully abusive In French. The unlucky man had simply asked her for her cloak in his own tongue, and the sounds were so very similar that she imagined she was being insulted, and resented this in a spirited 1 manner. The judge was greatly amused, and the counsel gained his point