Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1912 — Losing a King. [ARTICLE]

Losing a King.

One of our naval officer* tell* of an incident that occurred when an American war vessel was lying at anchor in a European port, on wMch occasion it was visited by a monarch and hi* suite.. One of the member* of this suite, •*in ■ ii*tf.aifl_mn.t- In orzl/1 Im/m ar»4 ' tion*, with a big sword at Ms side and ■porting a huge mustache, wa* exploring the ship, and, being ignorant of _ things nautical, had leaned against the main-hatch windsall, mistaking it for a mast. Of what ensued the officer of the deck was informed by the boatswain's mate, who had smb the catastrophe and who broke the new* of it thus: “You will excuse me, sir, but ! think on* of them kings ha* foil down the main hatch, sir."—Harper's Magazine.